The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-10-23
ALL OVER THB union
The important News of a Week
In Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, October IA

The Illinois State Federation of Labor
convention has refused to adopt a reso-
luton boycotting the state militia.
James Lynch, the condemned prisoner,
who. with Nick Hayworth, escaped from
the Utah prison on October 8, was cap
tured at Woods Cross, a small village
IL miles from Salt Lake.
General John Chase of the Colorado
militia, who has been relieved from the
command OF troops in the Cripple Creek
district. has been arrested, charged with
gross Irregularities
-Four robbers entered the Farmers
StaCe Bank at Berwick, Ill.,, by picking
the lock. They then drilled the door to
the vault and forced the combination
and secured $2800.
A running tight between residents of
the town and eight burglars, followed
| the robbing Of the DOstOffice at COlum-
bus Grove, Ohio. No one was hurt.
Michael Donnelly, president of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butchers
| Workmen OF Chicago, is the victim Of a
vicious assault, alleged to have been
committed by labor agitators.
Thursday, October 15.
JoHtpulhe medde. student OF the
University Of California, was shot and
killed by Paul Schmidt, aged 25, at San
Francisco, who afterwards committed
suicide.
Missouri Pacific freight train No. 80,
was wrecked near Langley, Kansas.
-Four men were killed. They are sup
posed to be harvest hands who were
stealing ride.
James Little Plume, an Indian, has
confessed that he killed the seven Indi-
ans in drunken row on the BlackfoOt
reservation in Montana last week.
Miss Helen Kelly, aged IS, was shot
and killed in her room in the Dakota
block, Butte, Mont, by Albert Beckman,
Jllted lover. Beckman fired six shots,
four OF which took effect The murderer
made his escape.
James H. TiIlman, who was charged
with the murder of n. g. Gonzales,
editor OF the state in Columbia, S. c., on
January IA last, has been acquitted by
Jury, after being out 20 hours.
President Roosevelt made Il speech at
the unveiling in Washington Citv. Of q
monument to Gen. ". T. Sherman.
Friday, October 18
Albert Beckman, who killed Helen
Kelly, former sweetheart at Butte,
Mont, has been captured at MeIrose,
Beckman was escaping on a handcar,
when a rifle brought him to halt.
Lynching is feared.
All five leaders OF the Fort Leavpn-
worth, Kansas, prison mutiny of No
vember, 1901 charged with killing Guard
Waldrupe, have been found guilty of
murder by jury in the U. S. court and
will receive lie sentences.
Herbert Hall, IA year old bov living
at Springfield, Ohio, returned from q
theater and found his mother and sis
ter and the latter's sweetheart eating
candy. Alter eating several pieces young
Hall pulled a revolver, shot his mother
and sisters sweetheart and fired three
shots at his sister. after which he turned
the weapon on himself and died instant
ly he had just recovered from typhoid
fever and is supposed to have been
mentally unbalanced.
Alexander Dowie's restoration host"
is arriving in New York from Chicago.
Dowie will attempt to drive the devil
out OF New York City and will hold his
meetings in Madison Square garden
Mrs. DOwie was robbed of $1,000 worth
OF diamonds and a pearl brooch upon
her arrival in New York.
Saturday, October II.
DR.. }. E. Jay, prominent physician
residing near Ashvile. N. c., killed his
three children, aged 2, and years,
using hammer as a weapon. He then
set fire to his home. The flames were
extinguished by neighbors.
Albert JoerDdt, a Chicago letter car
rier, is in Jail awaiting arraignment
charged with opening letters and steal
ing money they contained. Joerndt was
an officer in the National Association of.
Letter Carriers and twice has been a
| delegate to the conventions OF that
| body.
The Ohio plant of the Carnegie steel
company at Youngstown has shut down
Tor week, on account of the condition
of the iron market. Over $500 men
are thrown out of employment.
Careful estimates of the amount of oil
storage in the Beaumont, Sour Lake
and Saratoga fields in Texas, show 49,
500, 600 barrels in those intervening
sections.
Miss Pansy Ballard, freshman stud
ent in the University of Nebraska at
Lincoln, took a large dose of carboic
acid while standing in front of st,
Mary's Cathedral. She then staggered
into the church and knelt in q pew and
died while muttering prayer.
Six masked men robbed the Farnrm
Neb., state bank, securing $4,000. One
man was arrested and officers and blood
hounds are on the trail of the others.
Sunday, October 1S
Isaac Gravelle is in jail in Helena,
Mont, charged with being the ring
leader in the gang OF dynamiters who
have been attempting to destroy North
ern Pacific property. Gravelle is an ex-
convict.
1t is five days since E. L. Wentz, the
young Philadelphia millionaire so mys-
teriOusly disappeared in the mountains
of Wise county, Va. party of 1000
men have been securing the country and
no clue obtained. reward of $25 900
is offered. provided the missing man is
returned alive.
There are. still large number of yel