The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-08-21
ALL OVER THE union
Inc important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters of Irterest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, August IL.

0eheFat nelson A. Miles stODDed off at
colorado Springs on his way to the G..
A II. encampment at San Francisco and
was rendered reception. One speaker
spoke OF him as "our next democratic
president"
Inc Silver Spray, a fishing boat
owned in Erie, Pa, came into that port
III badly shattered condition. due to
an encounter in midlake with the Ca
madam cutter Petrol. The Silver Spray
was supposed to be fishing in Canadian
waters.
While leaving Bar Harbor. Me, dur
ing thick fog, in company with other
vessels of the North Atlantic euuadron.
the oattleship Massachusetts sustained
considerable damage by striking on a
ieoge OF rock in the channel.
About 90 persons were made violently
III Dy eating canned beef at a cattle sale
near Ashburn, Va. The cause of the i'll
ness was said to be ptomOine poisoning.
Il. b. johnson. bnokkeeper of the
Commercial Backing company of Duluth,
Mimi, has been arrested, charged with
embezzling $4,000 of the bank 3
money. johnson has admitted his
guilt.
Kentucky distillers are making pre.
parations for the expectation of 90
900 barrels OF whisky to Hamberg and
Bremen. This is the first time ia the
history of Kentucky that anv large
amount of 'forty rod' has been sent to
Europe before maturing,
The banks of Manila have begun to
issue the subsidiary coin, DELAYED in
shipment. This will relieve the en-
barrassment which has prevailed for
sometime past among the mercantile
houses with regard to small change.
Thursday, August IS.
Nelson, Morris & Co. will erect O So
800, 900 packing plant at Kansas CITY.
Mo, and Armour & Co, will erect one
at st. Joseph which will cost 81 900, 900.
Three masked men entered the Miners
CABIN saloon at Baker City, Oregon. and
robbed the gaming tables in the back
room and the cash register in the front
room OF $3.50 in cash.
Boon Potter, the notorious desperado
wanted in North Carolina for the murder
of two deputy sheriffs, who was cap
tured 10 days ago and landed in the
Sheridan, Wyo., jail, has made his es-
cape.
Thousands of dollars have been Sc
cured from the negroes of Georgia and
Florida by a northern negro named
Dlt he'll, who claimed that he had been
employed by Senator Mark Hanna 10
collect money to be used in passing the
Ohio senator's bill to pension the ex-
slaves OF the south.
The engine, mail car and baggage car
OF the Texas Express on the Rock Island
railroad, went through a bridge near
Alma, Kansas, killing the fireman and
InIuring several others.
At meeting of the mine owners OF
the Cripple Greek district, a date was
fixed on or before which the miners, who
are now out on strike, may return to
work at the union scale. The time has
not been made public. There are 1000
men idle in the district.
Friday, August IA
Jeffries won the prize fight with Cor
bett at San Francisco, knocking him
out in the tenth round. The fight was
said to be a clean one, Jeffries being
much the better man of the two.
The latest trust is the Tailoring trust
and Charles NJ. Schwab, the steel king.
is said to be behind it. The trust under
the name of the United Tailors, will be-
gin operations August % in New York
City, opening seven stores simultan-
eously.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
OF Montgomery, Ala, has not opened
for business for two days and the where
abouts OF B. A. Brainerd, the cashier, is
unknown to the depOsitOrs. The liabii-
ties are estimated at $150,000.
1t is reported that the fishermen on
Lake Erie will arm their boats and that
should the Canadian revenue cutter
Petrel attempt to carry out similar
tactics as those used against the Silver
Spray, that shot will be fired for shot
and that battle will be fought upon
the lake.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will
attend the irrigation congress which will
meet in Ogden, Utah, next month. A
large number of forest and irrigation
experts will also be present.
The battleship Massachusetts. which
went on the rocks at Bar Harbor, Me.
is not damaged as much as was at first
anticipated. Repairs can be made which
will take her to the navy yard.
Saturday, August 15.
A terrific cloudburst occurred on the
Kansas Nebraska state line eight miles
from Fairbury. The water fell in sheets
and Hooded the entire country, sweep
ing away crops, barns, stock and trees.
The streets of Renwood, w. Va, have
been the scene of wild riot. The trouble
was between the strikers and nonunion
machinists put to work in the Riverside
plant of the National Tube company.
Fully 1000 shots we're fired, but onIy
two men were wounded by the flying
bullets.
There are many trains en- route from
the east to San Francisco bearing the
old soldiers to the G. A. r. encampment.
The city presents splendid appearance
being dressed for the occasion in the pa
tiOnal colors.
Owing to the curtailment in the cot
ton mills at Fall River, Mass, next week
IA mills will be idle and 5000 operatives
affected.
Corbett is so sore that he can hardly
be touched by his trainers or seconds.
His body is so badly bruised as the re-
suit OF his fight with Jeffries that the ex-
champion does not like to wear cloth
ing.
The fortv-ninth animal sass;o, ~ A. .