The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-07-17

freight houses OF Chicago is imminent.
unless all of the railroads entering that
CITY refuse to handle the freight of the
chicago L Alton railroad. There ia no
sign that the other roads will agree IN
such procedure.
Sunday, July IL.
BY collision of a Missouri Pacific
last mail and an excursion train at
dead mans curve" near Kansas Cty
three persons we're killed and fifty in.
Iured. Most of these injured were on
the excursion train and were negroes.
John Terrill, farmer living near Pc
troleum, Ind, killed his son-in-law. M
Vol, tiring'the charges of both barrels
OF shotgun into his head while he Law
upon an operating table in hospital.
A severe rain and thunder storm ac.
companied by wind followed very hot
day IN Baltimore. Fifty houses were
unroofed by the gale and much damage
done to property. One man was killed
and number injured by a bolt of light
nlng which struck a bOathouse on the
Patomdc river.
frightened because he had set fire to
his fathers barn, Abner Carpenter, Jr.,
3 years old, hid himself in the hay NOW
and was consumed by the flames.
Four thousand millmen of Ashland.
ky. and lrontOn, Ohio, who have been
on strike Tor six months, will return to
work. concessions have been made by
both parties to the controversy.
The police of Leavenworth, Kansas.
saved two negroes from being hung by
soldiers. The police managed to rescue
the negroes about the time the plans
we're completed for the lynching. There
had been trouble between the negroes
and the soldiers.
Mondays July 18.
The big tent at Denver, where the
Christian Endeavor convention has been
holding it's sessions, was blown over
while about 5000 people were attending
the proceedings. The injured number
nearly scOre,bu fortunately none were
seriously hurt.
The 1900 wood workers empIoyed in
the bar fixture factory in Chicago. who
went on a strike 10 days ago for a uni
form wage of 25 and % cents an hour.
will return to work, their demands hav
ing been granted.
-Four conventions are in session in
Pittsburg, Kansas. They are the inter
state convention of miners, miners dis
trlct convention, joint conference con-
ventlOn and operators convention. All
are executive sessions, and the discus
sion OF the scale was the principal topic
in all four.
At conference between President
Roosevelt and Secretary Root it was de-
clded to appoint Robert Shaw Oliver of
Albany, N. Y, to be assistant secretary
OF war, vice William Carey Sanger, re
signed. Mr.. Sanger has decided to re-
tire owing to i'll health.
Gen. John Q. Lane OF Philadelphia is
dead at the home of his son-in.law at
Atlantic City, N. j. Gen. Lane had a re-
markable career during the civil war.
The jury in the case OF the United
States vs.. Fletcher Turner, charged with
holding Glennie Helms, a negro, in a
condition OF peOnage, reported that they
could not agree and were discharged.
The case has been postponed until an
other term.
Tuesday, July IA.
The heat in Kansas is intense, 1O4 de.
grees being reported at Hutchinson, 1O3
at Great Bend and 80 at Wichita. But
lew prostratiOns OF harvest hands have
been reported, notwithstanding the fact
that many OF them are green hands.
A tornado passed near Cozad, Neb.,
killing Samuel Henry, a farmer, and in
iuring three persons. The storm de-
vastated strip of country three miles
wide and 10 miles long, wrecking many
houses and barns and destroying crops. |
An important conference has been held |
by President Roosevelt with prominent |
Jewish citizens of the United States at |
Oyster Bay. They discussed the peti
ton which is to be handed to the Rus |
sian government regarding the persecu-
ton of the Russian Jews.
After a series of negotiations lasting |
over three months, the conductors and |
brakemen of the Illinois Central railroad |
have been granted an increase in wages
that will add over 100000.
Roland B. Molineux has appealed for
B mandamus to compel the state prison
authorities of New York to return to
him photographs, Bertillion measure
ments and other personal records. He
claims that as he was acquitted of the
charge of murder that he shouId not an