The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-10-30
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, October Fl.

Ihlrty-one thousand people, accord
ing to the estimate of the police, tried
TO get into Madison Square garden, New
1ork, to hear Alexander Dowie. About
one-third secured admittance
Capt. J. B. Mcintyre of the wrecked
steamship South Portland has been
found criminally negligent in his duties
as master. by a jury which was sum-
moned to look into the death OF some of
the passengers on the i'll fated craft.
There have been three deaths from vel
low lever in San Antonio, Texas, since
Friday afternoon. Thousands of peo-
pie have left the city.
The new battleship Missouri has
proved herself queen of the seas for bat
tleships OF her class, steaming over a
course BIB nautical miles and return at
speed OF 1905 knots per hour. Tidal
conditions were against her, and it is
oelieved the battleship could make Is. %
knots under favorable conditions.
Burglars looted the postOtfice at Sn-
perior, Wis, and secured S15. 500
worth OF stamps and about 500 in
fractional silver The vault was forced
without the use OF explosives.
The Federal National bank of Pitts
burg, Pa, has closed it's doors and ia in
the hands OF a receiver. The president
OF the institution says it will be closed
only temporarily.
Andrew Beard. a negro mechanical
genius who has earned a modest salary
ln the machine shops of the Louisville &,
Nashville railroad at Birmingham. Ala.
Tor 70 years, has sold to the makers Of
the Janey car coupler a patent car
coupler. He gets 100000 and royal
ties for IL years.
Thursday, October %
The theft of a Chicago & Northwestern
locomotive by six desperadoes has
stopped all traffic for 20 miles south of
GAINESVILLE, Wis.
All OF the properties of the Amalga
mated Copper company have been
ordered closed as the result of the hand
ing down of a decision in the Minnie
Healy mine, which gives that property
to +. Augustus Heinze.
The coke trade continues to slump
and each day is adding to the limit OF
ldleness in Pennsylvania The restric
tlon in the coke business means several
months idleness for nearly 10000 coke
workers.
The Burton, Kansas, State Bank has
been blown up with dynamite and about
$4,000 secured. There is no clue to the
robbers
The Acme Harvester Company of
Peoria, Ill, has been forced to place it's
affairs in the hands of a committee
the creditors. The com |
pany enjoyed large trade with South |
America.
Following the suspension of the Fed |
eral National Bank of Pttsburg, Pa |
the First National Bank of Allegheny
has failed to open its doors.
Sam j. Parks, walking delegate of the
hOusesmiths and bridgemen's unions Of
New York, has been taken to the Tombs
prison to serve a two year sentence for
perjury.
Feliz Hall, colored, was hanged at
Ala, for the murder of
Underwood Clark, a white man, When
the drop fell the rope slipped and the
man breathed heavily for 10 minutes, |
when he was hauled up and hanged a
second time.
Friday, October 23
John Alexander Dowie left New York |
at midnight for Boston, carrying ali the |
family and baggage with him in his pri- |
vate car. He declined to indicate when |
be would return to New York.
In fight On the streets of Flushing.