The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-07-31
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, July %.

eunesOay, July %.
The grand lodge of Benevolent and
Protective Order OF Elks is being held in
baltimore. The delegates have spent
the day IN secret session. 1t is under.
stood that the ritual has been altered
and that questions Of vital Importance
10 the lodge are under discussion.
Bertha Willis, IA 4.year-old somnam-
6ullst, whose home is in Indianapolis
Ind, fell from a train near Pocatello
Idaho, while it was running at the rate
OF 90 miles an hour When found, the
girl was lying beside the track aslse D.
| and aside from numerous scratches was
uniniured.
Hon. Cassius NJ Clay, the "sage OF
whitehall" former minister to Russia
and widely known Kentuckyan, is dead
at his home near Richmond, KY, after a
short illness.
In tornado at Patterson, N. j., two
! persons were killed and at least three
score more or less seriously injured. One
| house was blown down and more than a
| score unrOofed. The monetary loss il
estimated at 100000.
Reports from various parts OF Indi.
ana say that the crops in certain parts
OF the state have been totally DESTROYED
by hail storms. The loss ia estimated
at 100000.
John Stubblefield has been arrested at
Marion, ILL.,, charged with numbering his
son, W. h. Stubblefeld, aged 21 years,
with club. Father and son quarrelled
while working at their home. The
father says the boy was disobedient.
Thursday, July 23.
The troubles of the Kentucky authori-
ties have commenced again. The new
trial of Jett and White, charged with
the assassination of j. B. Marcum has
commenced again in the courts. The
witnesses for the state are guarded bv
state troops to prevent them being
killed.
Dennis and Martinez, said to be two
OF the most expert safeblowers and bank
robbers in the country have escaped from
the jail at Waukesha, Wis, through the
cleverness OF three women accomplices.
They sawed their way out of JAIL
Judge Ryan will on Monday pass sen.
tence on Emil Hartman convicted of
bribery in connection with the st. Louis
city lighting deal. 1t is understood that
Hartman will receive six years in the
..enitentiary. Others in connection with
other bribery charges have been con-
Vlcted and will go to the pen.
+ Warrants have been issued for the ar
rest OF twenty New York Central bill
clerks in connection with the robbine of
freight cars. Six clerks were arrested
some time ago and five plead guilty.
q An hou .-e
alton leading to additional warrants.
The trial of Lawrence Murphy for en-
bezzling $4,000 from the New York
Journeymen Stonecutters' association is
in progress. Murphy was the treasurer
OF that association.
Nearly 500 men, practically the entire
working force of the Buffalo IN, w
Union Furnace company, have struck.
The strike was caused by the discharge
OF John Manning, secretary of the blast
furnace and smelters' association. The
men demanded his reinstatement.
Friday, July "a
At meeting OF the board OF directors
OF the Lewis and Clark exposition Fl. ". .
Scott, editor of the Portland Oregonian,
was elected president to succeed the late
ex-senator Corbett. H. W. Goode, gen
eral manager OF the Portland General
Electric company, was chosen general
manager.
Claud OBrien and Earl E. Whitney,
boys in years and whose faces Indicated
nothing of the criminal, we're hanged at
Lexington, KY, for the murder of A. B.
Chinn, wealthy merchant. There was
not tremor on their lips when thew
went to the scaffold.
Former United States Senator George
Turner of Washington, member of the
Alaska boundary commission, has
sailed from New York for London, He
is accompanied by Mrs. Turner.
The buildings of the Omaha Packing
company, Chicago. have been destroyed
by fire, which it is believed resulted from
combustion in the lard refining plant,
which was consumed. The loss is $780,.
900.
Mrs. Anna Bailey and Mrs. Mary
Woods were shot from ambush near
Lake City, Col, and Mrs. Woods hus-
band, who had quarrelled with her pre-
viously, has been arrested. Both wo-
men are in serious condition and NAV
not recover.
The will of Mrs. James G.. Blaine has
been filed for probate. No inventory of
the estate has been made, but it is esti-
mated at half million dollars, and d.
vided between the children and grand
children.
Saturday, July 20.
The big wooden structure, built in the
style OF a German castle by Adolph
Sutro, % years ago, on the summit OF
Telegraph Hill. San Francisco. has been
almost totally destroyed by fire. The
blaze was started presumably by small
boys playing with matches.
The official call of the eleventh nation
al irrigation congress, which will be held
in Ogden, Utah, September Is to Is, has
been issued. This will be one of the i'm.
portant gatherings of the year.
1t is understood that Governor Hunt
OF Porto Rico has indicated his intention
OF relinquishing the island governorship
When his resignation will take effect is
not definitely known.
Internal revenue officers have found in
the center of Philadelphia a complete
outfit for distilling whisky. Moses Sill
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