The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-07-31
souri, and the southwest.

race war broke out at DanviIIe. IN
While a mob OF 600 men was on it's way
to lynch James Wilson, a Bloomington
negro who had confessed to assaulting n
woman, negro shot and killed Henry
Waterman, member of the mob. The
mob Immediately lynched him and pro-
ceeded in its work at the county iaiI
Grave trouble is feared.
Thirteen persons, ,one probably fatally,
we're injured in a collision between cars
OF the st. Louis Transit company. A
new motorman's ignorance of crossing
caused the accident.
The work of recovering the bodies Of
the Hanna, Wyo., mine accident is pro-
crossing. Fifty-seven OF the l69 vic
TINS have been recovered since the ex-
plosion.
Sunday, July 20.
Two trains met in a headon collision
on the Chicago Great Western near st.
Paul, and the result ia four men killed
and twenty-five to thirty passengers
injured.
The United States battleship Kear-
sarge has arrived at Bar Harbor, Me-.
IN good fighting trim, having crossed
the Atlantic in nine days. She was met by
heavy head winds during almost all of
the trip. She maintained a speed of
1916 miles an hour.
An accommodation train on the Van
dalia road ran into a we'll filled electric
car at East st. Louis, killing three per
sons and iniuring a score.
Two we're killed and six wounded, four
OF them fatally, as the result of row at
negro church at Camak. Ga, in which
pistols and razors played a deadly part.
Jennie Speer, negress, was lynched
at shreveport, La, for administering
poison to Jennie DOlan, a beautiful 16-
year-old white girl, who died in great
agony.
A ten year old boy was blown to
pieces by the explosion of a tank of
gasoline at Stockton, Cal. Several bows
we're playing around the explosive and
one OF them dropped lighted match in
to the tank.
Monday, July II.
Mrs. BridgeG Hurley of New JERSEY.
who has been i'll and demented for long
time, fell from the window on the third
floor OF her home. When her BODY
struck the pavement below everyone
thought that she would receive injuries.
but when she regained consciousness the
physicians found that she was rational
and that the shock had returned her
faculties.
The boiler of a threshing machine en-
gine exploded at BrocktOn, Ill.,, instant
ly killing two men, the engineer and fire.
man.
A number of new men from Cleveland
were introduced into the McKeesport
tin plate plant and the officers claim
that their ten mills were running full
turns.
One hundred Italians bent on ven
geance, have searched the woods around
New Rochelle, n. Y, in an endeavor to
locate one of their countrymen who fed
after fatally stabbing man with whom
ne was playing cards
Arrangements have been completed
for the formation of the National Coal
4 Coke company at Pittsburg, Pa, with
a capital of $5,000,000, which will take
the place OF the Frick Coal company in
the general coking business.
One man was fatally shot and another
seriously wounded in fight near Rolla,
Mo, which was the outcome OF feud of
long standing.
In the federal court at Montgomery.
Ala, James Todd and Anderson Hardy
pleaded guilty to charges of peOnage,
and we're sentenced to pay a fine OF
$1,000 each.
Tuesday, July %.