The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-01
ALL OVER THE union
The Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters of Interest
reported from all Sections
Of the Country.
Wednesday, April 22.

Dy neadOn collision between two
1relght trains at Bearmouth, Mont, or
the Northern Pacific two engines ana
lour cars were wrecked. hobo who
was stealing ride was injured severely
but the crew escaped without scratch
The latest development in the -four
mill situation is the announcement that
Che interstate commerce commission will
| investigate the discrimination against
nour IN the favor of wheat on freight
GarlHs. Mlllers look upon the announce.
ment as the forerunner of relief.
According to the Massachusetts state
board of arbitration textile corpOra-
tions in Lowell involved in the present
strike OF 1900 operatives, with q
single exception, cannot afford to nav
their help the 10 per cent increase in
wages demanded by organized labor.
The first shipment of Philippine coin
Will De made from Francisco About MAY
l. Secretary Root has issued orders to
General Macarthur to have officers de-
tailed to receive the coin from the mint
and place it abOrd the transport for Ma
nila.
-Four highwaymen were chased four
miles along the Baltimore L Ohio rail-
road near Cumberland. Md, by an en-
glne crew while their victim rescued from
almost certain death sat IN the cab and
guided the pursuers. The train crew ar
| rested the men.
An effort to settle the strike of the
glove cutters in Gloverville and Johns.
ton, n. Y, has resulted in disagree
menG. The strike has lasted five weeks
and two thousand men are idle.
Thursday, April 23.
Mayor Thompson of Salt Lake has re
| ceived letter from Secretary Loeb stat
ing that the invitation to the president
to participate in buffalo hunt on Ante.
lOpe island in the Great Salt lake can
not be accepted because OF the limited
time the party will have at that point.
Fire destroyed fully a quarter of the
business section OF the town of Fair
bury, Neb., causing loss estimated at
about 100000. 1t is not known how
the fire started
Three men are dead and a fourth
probably fatally injured as a result OF
an explosion of giant powder in the
Chloride. Bailey mine near Redding. Cal.
One OF the men accidentally dropped a
shook the entire mine.
Al a signal from their business agent
I5t seaf mute electrical workers in the
tsz-s.55atlc Electrical company of Chica-
go inaugurated the first deaf mute strike
on record. Three hours later the plant.
employing over 1000 men, was closed
down.
1t is believed that II persons lost
their lives by an explosion which oc-
Cured at che plant of the Northwestern
Star Oil Company at Minneapolis, Mimi.
No explanation of the cause of the ex-
plosion is available.
Three persons were injured and 16
families driven to the streets by fire
which wrecked a tenement house on
Thirty-tifth street, Chicago. Most of
the tenants we're caught while asleep and
barely had time to reach the streets
| below.
Friday, April "a
President Roosevelt has resumed his
tour of the west after having spent Is
days in the Yellowstone National park.
The president is hearty in his praise OF
| Americas greatest wonderland. He is
enjoying the best of health.
Butte, Mont, is wiped off of the map,
80 far as the Western Union TELEGRAPH
company is concerned. That company
has closed all of it's Butte Offices and
even the leased wires and the associated
press wires have no operator. The
trouble is caused by the demand OF the
A. d. L. messengers that the company
recognize their union, recently organized.
Ten alleged "get rich quick" concerns
have been raided in Chicago and a wag-
onload of stationery, literature, etc.,
taken to the police station. A man by
the name of FL. W. Curtis is said by the
police to have controlled all OF the con-
Germs and he has been arrested.
Passengers on Burlington train No.
Al we're held up and robbed of $1,000 as
the train was leaving the Burlington
union station in Lincoln. Neb. The train
had been robbed three times within 100
miles of Lincoln. The robbery last fall
netted $4,000 to the men who did the
work and no trace of them has ever been
found.
A strike on the Great Northern rail
way is certain unless the company re
ceeds from it's position, is the opinion
OF prominent conductors on that road
Many of the other western roads have
granted demands similar to those OF the
Great Northern employees and it is ex
pected that the trainmen will win out
even if they do come to strike.
The trial OF J. ". Kelly, the Butt,
newspaper man who shot and killed DR.
Cayley some time ago is in progress anC
each side has a sensation to spring every
day. The woman connected in the cas-
will not be allowed to testify in the in
terest of Kelly.
Saturday, April 25.
The strike inaugurated recently b,
the Mexican laborers employed by thI
Electrical Railway company at Los An
geles, has been broken. Nearly 500 me1
have been employed in construction
work.
The Louisville & Nashville train tt
Marysville, KY, was held 10 minutes
while Louis Lunsford, passenger, wh(
got into fight on the train was arrest
ed, taken to station house, tried fined
paid the fine and was allowed to leav
for home.
The armed cruiser Colorado wa
. launched at Cramps shipyard in PhiIa
delphia in the presence of a distinguished
gathering of officials from Washington
! and the state of Colorado. Miss Cor
May Peabody, daughter of the governo