The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-01-09

AOAOA 1 JAN y AR4 y, |!
ton of Mont Pelee, has been organized
IN Washington City.
tank containing 1000 barrels OF
naptha exploded from some unknown
cause at Point Richmond, Calf, and
caused $4,000 damage.
Sunday, January
At Coney Island several hundred
spectators witnessed the execution by
electricity of "Topsy," an elephant who
mad killed three men and had recently
become unmanageable. A current of
5000 volts was turned on through
copper plates, on whicn the animal
stood. The beast fell almost instantly
and was dead in 10 seconds.
A fire causing a loss OF over 100000
has occurred in Honolulu. The fire
broke out in the general merchandise
store of l.. B. Kerr & Co.
The torpedo boat DESTROYER Mac
Donough, built by the Fore River Ship
and Engine company at Quincy, Mass
has. been successfully speeded. She ex-
ceeded her contract requirement of %
knots.
One dead, one fatally and five seri-
ously burned, four OF whom may die, is
the result of a fire in lodging house at
Thirteenth and Blake streets, Denver.
From the present outlook Colorado
VIII also enjoy spectacular and per
haps lasting senatorial fight. when q
successor is chosen for the place occu-
pied by Henry NJ. Teller
No complete program is mapped out
for congress for the first week of the new
year. The leaders are very anxious to
force the appropriation bills ahead as
rapidly as possible. The Indian bill is
on the calendar and headway is making
in committee with the postoffice, dipI0-
matte, ,cOnsulOr and District OF Columbia
bills.
Monday, January S.
Rivals Of the famens Ormsky quartet
have been born in Toledo, Ohio, and
Mrs. Stanislus SpychaIsky is the mother
OF the infants. The mother and her quar-
tet are doing we'll and are strong.
Lieutenant Perkins, Fourth Cavalry.
Stationed at Fort Levenworth, promi-
nent in army and social circles, lett last
Tuesday for four days leave OF absence
and has not been heard Of since. Every
effort will be made to find him.
The extensive tin plate mill operated
at Cumberland, Md, has been closed
down indefinitely. Over 5000 men and
women were employed in the mill. The
high price of coal is said to be the
trouble.
The Police of Anaconda, Mont, have
arrested Joseph Smith, who is suspected
OF being the man who held up the North
ern Pacific train at BearmOuth on
October 23 and killed Engineer Dan
O. Neil.
The New York mail and Express.
which has heretofore sold for cents,
now appears as l cent paper.
Freight rates on all commodities
transported by western railroads are to
be materially raised during the next 80
days and ii the scale at present cOntem-
dated goes into effect, the revenues Of
roads will be increased during 1903 by
at least 5 100, 900, 900. The roads
claim that costs of transportation has
increased.
Tuesday, January 6.
A furious blizzard is raging in Iowa.
The wind blows at the rate of about 80
miles per hour. The storm extends
west ward into the Dakotas.
1t is stated by railroad official high
in railroad circles that the request OF the
committee Of trainmen OF western sys-
TENS for an increase in wages of 20 per
cent has been decisively refused by all
the roads in st. Louis.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Philadel-
phia a million and d half dollars toward
the extension of it's free library system.
Three of the biggest coal companies
in the United States have formed an
alliance which, for all practical purposes
will be combination, They are the
Consolidated Coal Company of Mary
land, the FairmOunt coal company of
West Virginia and the Somerset coal
company of Pennsylvania. The com
bined cOpital stock OF the companies is
$31, 100000.
Cole Younger has applied to the state
board of pardons of Minnesota for q
full pardon. The purpose of this appli-
cation is to enable Younger to return to
his old home in Missouri.
Inc trial OF InOmas ii. Wllllams, DR.,
and Truxton Beale, on charge of assault
ing F. Marriott is ended in San Fran
cisco The jury brought in a verdict of
not guilty.
William H. Bradley, a we'll known
multi millionaire OF Milwaukee, has just
married Miss Marie Hannemeyer. Mr..
Bradley is So years of age and has been
in failing health for some weeks. The
bride has been Mr. Bradley's private
secretary for many years.
Caution
This is not a gentle word-but when
you think how liable you are not to pur-
chase the only remedy universally known