The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-08
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, April %.

Wednesday, April %.
Twenty-Five million dollars have been
subscribed for stock to a cooperative
company by members of the National
Livestock association to fight the bee
trust In the event the latter carries
through the merger of the Chicago pack
ing houses and allied interests. The
president OF the association has been
quoted as saying that they mean busi
ness and have the money to carry out
their project.
President Roosevelt is in st. Louis
and has addressed the good roads con.
Vention and will participate in the dedi
cation ceremonies of the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition. Thousands and thou
sands OF people were upon the streets to
greet the president and his party as
they passed down the thoroughfares.
All of the union men employed BY the
Los Angeles railway system were called
out on a strike. The effort to tie up
the system was unsuccessful. Only a
dozen crews obeyed the order to desert
their cars and new men we're quickly Sc
cured to take their places.
After 1000 employees OF the Deering
branch of the International Harvester
company had yielded to the strike order
the remainder of the employees walked
| out and there are now over $500 men
and women idle in the Chicago works of
| that company.
| Walter n Dimmick, former emplOye
OF the San Francisco branch OF the
| United States mint, who was recently
| convicted of stealing $4,000 from the
vault OF the government building, has
been sentenced to five years imprison-
ment at hard labor in addition to the
| former sentence OF four.
Considerable damage to crops and
| livestock is expected to result from the
| snowstOrm which is prevailing in Colo
rado and Wyoming. The mercury
dropped degrees below freezing point
during the night.
Thursday, April 80.
The buildings of the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition have been dedicated to
their purpose with all possible pomp and
ceremony. In every way save one the
exercises were an uneQuivocal success
and that one circumstance was the
weather. The great crowd is estimated
at l45, 900 people who attended on the
opening day.
The extensive plant of the Crescent
Powder company at Gainstock, Pa, has
been wrecked by four explosions Of the
30 employees nine were killed outright
and the others were badly injured by be-
ing blown about the buildings IL which
they were employed.
The worst forest fire in the history OF
Braddock, Pa, is in progress. Property
worth $1,000,O00 has been destroyed.
The forests have been ablaze for the past
week, but the fires were kept under con
troll until recently by large gangs OF men,
Several small villages are reported as
being destroyed.
Both sides are firm in the Western
Union Strike at Butte, Mont. The new
city officials take their places Monday
and il the authorities guarantee perma-
nent protection to the company they
will consider the matter of reopening
their Office which has been closed.
Fifty walters, men, women and girls,
who are among the 800 members of the
union who are striking for increased
wages and a recognition of their union
in Kansas City, have been arrested for
distributing circulars requesting patrons
to boycott their employees. The circula-
tion of boycott circulars is in violation
OF the city statutes.
The jury in the case of James Howard,
on trial for the murder of William
Goebel at Lexington, KY, has just found
the defendant guilty and fixed the pun
ishment at life imprisonment. This is a
part OF the famous case in Kentucky
where Governor Goebel was assassinated.
Friday, May 1.
President Roosevelt is in sunny Kan
sas. He made two speeches at Topeka
before the Y. NJ. c. A. One was at the
dedication of building and the other
was before the International convention.
Michigan's great fruit belt, which sup
plies grapes, peaches, strawberries and
apples to north central states during the
summer, has been blasted by blizzard.
The damage will foot up in the millions
and there will be q serious fruit famine
all season.
Thirty thousand Italian laborers on
the New York subway are on strike.
They ask 81 day for all men, expert
enced and inexperienced, while the con-
tractors say they can pay this to ex-
perienced men only.
More than 1000 men in the Phila-
delphia building trades have gone on
strike for increased wages. This action
directly affects 1000 additional work
men and should the strike continue
week, building operations will cease and
oyer 40, 900 men will be rendered idle.
While on the triple grade crossing at
One Hundredth street and L avenue,
Chicago, a Calumet electric car was
struck by Lake Shore express train,
hurled from the track and demolished
and six passengers we're injured, two Of
them seriously.
Over two blocks OF buildings at West
Point, Va, are in ashes, as the result of
fire OF unknown origin. West Point is
the York river terminus of the Southern
railway. The loss is estimated at about
$125,0O0.
Saturday, May 2.
Indications in Philadelphia are that
the strike of the carpenters in that city
will soon be widely extended, and work
men in many surrounding districts will
then become involved. All subordinate
unions have been notified that no mem.
Der will be allowed to work for the Phila.
delphia contractors until such contrac.
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