The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-07-24


more or less injured and 100 Others
severely shocked. passenger train was
gong at full speed past the magazine
when it exploded
The 200 outside laborers OF the Inter.
national Paper cOmpany's mills at
Corlnth, N. T., threatened a strike, but
the union extended the ultimatum. A
httie while later the compaDy's plant
VdIuen at S3OO,OOO, had narrow es-
cape from destruction by fire.
Henry c. Moffatt's brewery at Buffalo.
n. l., has been destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at 800, 900. There
was partial insurance on the property.
Sunday. July 10.
The jail at Brooklin, Ill.,, a suburb Of
East st. Louis, was broken open by a
mob OF negroes, whose desire it was to
| lynch one OF their own color for an at
tempted assault upon a negro woman.
| The prisoner was saved by the marshal.
\ renewal of the feud troubles ia brew.
ing at jackson, Ky. The special grand
| jury which has been called will convene
within few days and it is feared that
trouble will break out when this bodv
starts to work.
One OF the heaviest hail storms ever
witnessed IN Colorado has been exppr-
fenced at Vineland. The haiIstones were
as large as walnuts and the ground was
| covered to depth of three inches.
| Fruit trees were stripped Of their fruit.
President Roosevelt spent the day
| quietly ut his summer home on Saga.
more hill in company with his old friend.
| President Nicholas Murry Butler OF
Columbia university and DR.. Lambert.
his old family physician and friend.
The seventh International convention
OF the EpwOrth League has concluded
| it's sessions at Detroit, Mich, after one
| OF the most successful gatherings in its
history. The next meeting will be i'm
Denver, Colorado.
Two were fatally injured and 10 seri
ously hurt in "a collision OF a freight
train with passenger near Cincinnati.
The passenger train was an excursion
and was filled with people.
Monday, July 20.
Three masked men held up Captain
Myrick of the Conner creek mine ON
Snake river, Is miles from Huntington.
and compelled him to open the Office
sale. The robbers secured in the neigh
borhoOd OF $4,000, which was in bul-
lion.
The most destructive hail storm that
ever visited Luverne, Mimi, has swept
over that country, covering an erea 20
miles wide and 40 miles long. Ii il re-
ported that hardly q straw has been lett
standing.
The Legislature OF Colorado has con
vened IN extra session to pass an apprO-
prlatiOn bill, the measure which passed
at the closing OF the regular session hav-
ing been declared unconstitutional. Both
houses have retained their old OrganiZa-
ton.
George Wilson, an old resident of
Rochester, n. T., who was pronounced
dead by bis attendants Saturday night.
has come to life. When the undertaken
arrived Wilson's body was stiff and cold.
Preparations were being made for en-
balming when the supposed corpse sud
denly jumped up and swore at the under
taker for handling him 80 roughly. The
coroner has forbidden embalmng until
II hours after certified death.
In an explosion that occurred at blast
furnace II" at the Minnequa steel works
at Pueblo, Col, five men we're burned.
two OF whom will probably die. The
men we're opening the trap to allow the
molten metal to run out when the ex-
plOsiOn occurred.
As result Of an automobile accident,
which occurred near Schenectady, n. Y,
W. F. Steers and A. f. Knight have
sustained injuries which will prObaIy re-
suit in the death OF Steers and the MAIN
ing for life OF Knight.
Tuesday, July ri.
There is likely to be a range war in the
Big Horn basin of Wyoming between
the cattle and sheep men. The creation
OF forest reserves in that country has
been the cause of the trouble.
The worst storm of the season has
passed over Chicago. Torrents Of rain
fell, accompanied by high wind and a
terrific precipitation OF hail stones, which
crashed through skylightH and windows
and pelted horses in the streets. boz
ems OF runaways resulted.
One of the largest fresh water pearls
on record, pure white and measuring
l l6 OF an inch in diameter, was found
by boy at Genoa, Wis. 1t was sold to
local dealer for $2675, which is many
times it's real value.
LII ID UdJJlc DeLWctu JIe Guy mAFBQhI
OF Eddyville, Iowa, and horse traders,
one man was fatally wounded and three
Others seriously injured. About 20 shots
were exchanged.
Word has been received from New Bed
ford, Mass that Mary, Nellie and Annie
Collins, three poor mill operatives, have
become the sole heirs to $500, 900, which
was left by the death of their brother,
George Collins, a mining man of Mon
tana.
Because his promised bride did not
come from Holland and marry him, Jan
Hunenga, a Little Holland rancher,
hanged himself at his farm in the Gala
tin valley, Mont. Her letter, in which
she refused to be his wife, was found in
his stiffened fingers when the body was
discovered.
BrutalIy Tortured.
A case came to light that for persist