The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-09-11

1908.
feet OF water. The theory is that blacl
damp overcame them before they couC
receive assistance
1t is again announced that the Sante
! Re shGpmen at La Junta have gone ont
| on strike. This time they made a de
mand upon the company to reinstste 4
union man who had been discharged.
Big Joe" Grimes of Cincinnati. said
to have been the largest man in the
world, is dead. Grimes weighed s54
pounds and was 81 years old. He was
. feet inches in height and his BODY
and limbs were OF ponderous proper.
tiOns.
Sunday, September 6.
A new worlds record for long distance
running has been made by a passenger
TRAIN on the Baltimore 4 Ohio. A stretch
OF I2S miles was covered in 125 minutes
NO stops were made. The distance ira.
versed was between Chicago Junction.
Ohio, and Garret, Ind. During the run
a speed OF 80 miles an hour was reached
President Roosevelt has left Saga
more hill for Syracuse, n. Z. where he
Will open formally the New York state
fair and deliver labor day address.
Sergeant l.. G. Brys0n of the Second
company coast artillery, stationed at a
fort on Fishers island, Conn, was killed
at the post, having been shot by a
sentry. The guard who did the shoot
ing was Private Price. Guards are re-
quired to carry five blank and FIVE load
ed shells and it is supposed Price secured
a loaded cartridge by mistake for a
blank. BrysOn failed to answer orders
to halt.
While passing Greenville, ILL.,, at full
speed, the boiler of the locomotive pull
ing the Kansas City freight train on the
Chicago 4 Alton railway, exploded, kill
ing the engineer and probably fatally
lnJurIng the fireman and one brakeman.
Two men attempted to assassinate
Mayor Charles l.. McMasters OF TuscOla,
ILL.,, as he was entering his barn to put
up his horse after a drive. The assail-
ants were hid in the barn and attacked
the mayor with bricks, falling him to
the floor.
Monday, September Z.
President Roosevelt was accorded a
magnificent reception by the people OF
Syracuse, n. Y, where he opened the
state fair and delivered a Labor day
address. lt is estimated that $4,000
people heard the president speak.
j. }. Thornton, proprietor of ware
house and van company in Chicago was
assaulted during the labor parade be-
cause he was driving one of his own
teams without having a union card in
his possession.
During a severe wind storm at An
thOny, Kansas, the tent OF RObinsOn's
circus, which was exhibiting there, was
blown down. One hundred people were
hurt, OF whom so required medical at
tentiOn.
A fire which broke out in the large
stables of the Allegheny Cab company
of Pittsburg, Pa, resulted in loss OF
$2O0,0OO
No action has been taken in the Mis-
sOuri coal strike situation. A confer
ence between President John Mitchell
and other officers of the MinewOrkers'
and representative coal miners is to be
held. The miners say they do not want
arbitration.
Seven bodies have been washed ashore
between Port Jefferson and Wading
River, Long Island. 1t is supposed that
they are those of sailors who were lost
from the schooner which was capsized in
the storm of August %.
Tuesday, September 8.
Cooperation, backed by $1OO,OOO.OOO
capital, is the plan proposed by Joint
meeting of farmers and their representa-
tives, by which the producers OF the
country are to protect their interests.
An association having this as it's basic
principle is in process OF organization in
Chicago.
The American Mining congress is in
session at DeadwoOd, South Dakota.
There are about 500 delegates present.
Rushing in front Of her husband to
protect him from an attack of an armed
man, Mrs. Ida Reckstein of Chicago, re.
ceived a bullet in her right side and
physicians say she will die.
Judge Hazen of Topeka has sentenced
Mine Operators John Jack and John
Bell to jail until such time as they might
conclude to answer the questions of the
attorneys in the Kansas coal trust in
quiry. The prisoners will appeal to the
supreme court.
After celebrating several weeks over
mass of documents submitted by the
postoffice inspectors, the federal grand
jury in Washington City returned seven
indictments in postal cases, involving
six different persons.
The grandstand erected on knoll on
the Fort Leavenworth reservation gave
way, iDjuring "a persons. None we're
killed, but it is feared three may die.
Many of those injured received broken
legs. Over 1900 people were witnessing
a sham battle.
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