The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-09-04
ALL OVER THB union
The Important News OF a Week
in Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters of Interest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, August 20.

The presidents of seven internationa
building trades organizations, having q
/ combined membership OF 65O,OOO work
men, are in meeting at Indianapoli5
ind. The gathering may result in a
national organization of trades for the
purpose OF supporting each other.
The Chicago fire department has been
worked almost to it's limit, there having
been more fires burning at one time
Jnan Tor the last 10 days put together
, ihere were seven fires burning at one
time.
Two cloudbursts have destroyed hun.
dreds OF thousands of dollars worth OF
property at Council Bluffs, Iowa. The
storm turned the streets into raging
torrents and it was with difficulty that
people were removed from their homes
IN the lower part of the city. All rail
road and street car traffic has been sus-
pended.
Henry friedrich of New York has sue
ceeded in breaking the record for circling
the globe. He left New York July / and
made the trip around the world in "a
days, seven hours and 20 minutes.
The announcement is made that the
special board OF the ordinance depart
ment of the United States government,
Will recommend the discarding of the
krag Jorgensen rife and also recon
mend the use of the Springfield. A long
series OF tests have been made. The new
Springfield weighs seven pounds, while
the Kreg Jorgeusen weighs nine. The
latter will be distributed to the militia
OF the several states.
A severe electrical storm which swept
over st. Louis resulted in heavy proper
ty damage. Fires we're started in MANY
different portions Of the city bv light
ming. Within two hours 1872 inches of
rain fell.
Thursday, August ~
1t has been reported that United
States Consul Megelssen, while riding in
his carriage at Beirhut, Syria, was as
sassinated. The United States Minister
has demanded satisfaction of Turkey.
and the president has ordered the Euro
pean squadron TO Beirhut to enforce the
demands.
With Reliance less than a third OF a
mile from the finish and Shamrock Ill
hull down on the horizon, fully two
miles astern of the gallant defender. the
fourth race OF the present series of the
Americas cup has been declared off be-
cause OF the expiration of the time
limit.
Ralph Pulitzer, son OF tha proprietor
u Tie New York WGyld, 9as ~t1ee.eae
rested in Montana charged with killing
mountain sheep out of season, which in
that state is felony.
A curious method of committing sui
eide was revealed at Salinas, Cal, in the
case of William Mortimer, serving time
for vagrancy in the county jail The
prisoner swallowed an open safety pin
and it stuck in his throat. An officer
tried to get the pin out, but it soon
passed into the stomach.
A terrific storm has done much dam
age south OF MarshalltOwn, Iowa. The
corn crop is practically ruined. Rail-
road traffic is greatly interferred with,
owing to washOuts.
Reliable advices from Leech Lake
reserve, Minnesota, state that an out
break of the Pillagers and Bear Island
tribes is imminent, and that agency
officials have begun to remove their
household effects and families to Walker.
the nearest railroad town. War dances
are in progress.
Friday, August %.
President Roosevelt has received word
through the state department that the
report of the assassination OF Vice Con-
sui Megelssen at Beirhut, Syria, was an
error. The consul was shot at, but was
not hit. In view of the fact that there is
trouble in that part of the world, the
orders to the European squadron have
not been changed.
Ralph Pulitzer,so OF the proprietor OF
the New York World, has been bound
over to the district court in Choteau.
Mont. for killing mountain sheep and
will have his trial September z.
An electric car on the San Pedro Los
Angeles line was held up at the cross
ing OF the Santa Fe railroad near Los
Angeles by three masked men, who
robbed the conductor, motorman and
passengers of about 800 in cash. There
was no resistance on the part of the
passengers and no shooting by the high
waymen.
All the lower portions OF Council Bluffs,
Iowa, are under water, which has
reached the ground floors of many
homes. Street car service has been
abandoned and row boats are used in
the business districts. Three deaths are
reported as a result of the high water at
Omaha.
Sir Thos. Upton has declared in New
York that he would never again chal-
lenge for Americas cup, until England
could produce a man the equal of Nat
Herreshoff, the American yacht builder.
Six masked men held up bunch of
railroad men at Mcfarland, Kansas, re-
Iieved them of their valuables and
ransacked the depot and station lunch
counter and finally marched six Rock
Island employees to a refrigerator car
and locked them in. The robbers then
made their escape.
Saturday. August 20.
Two hundred and sixty OF the 300
employees of the American Smelling &
Refining company at Durango, Colo.
have struck for an eight hour day. The
general manager of the smelter declares
he will run the plant at all odds.
What is supposed to have been an at:
tempt to hold up the west bound flyer
of the Great Northern by Kid Curry and
his gang, occurred near Malta, Mont,
and was frustrated only by detectives
riding on the engine The railroad COM
pany had received previous warning.
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