The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-06-26
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of the Country.
WednesdAY. June II.

Three men were killed and four injured
as the result of a collision of a Rock
island passenger train at Elmira, Iowa.
The accident was caused by the failure
OF the gravel train to clear the track be-
lore the passenger arrived.
Ten thousand employees of the George
Fuller CONSTRUCTION company of New
York have been thrown out of work by
order OF the company, thus making the
lockout in the building trades complete.
There are now 10000 men idle in New
York city.
Governor Bailey of Kansas has called
an extra session of the legislature of that
state to pass the laws which will be
necessary to the counties and municipal
lties to enable them to begin at once
the construction of the bridges where
they are needed, a great many of those
structures having gone out in the floods.
Thearguments in the trial of Jett and
White at Jackson, KY, are in progress
The reign of terror in that region still
continues night and day. Threats have
been openly made that these witnesses
will be murdered.
Robert A. Ammon has been convicted
in New York for felOnously receiving
stolen money, the proceeds of the 500
per cent Franklin syndicate. The
amount specifically stated in the indict-
ment was 100000. The jury was out
just 81 minutes.
Thursday, June 1S.
All of the freight handlers employed
by the freight 1epots in Kansas City are
out on strike because the companies
refuse to grant their demands for 25
per cent increase in wages. The demands
OF the men were made before the recent
floods rendered all work in the yards
impossible, and the freight houses are
cOngested to their utmost capacity with
freight of all kinds.
After twenty seven years behind prison
bars Mrs. Emma Wimple is free, through
the pardon granted her by Governor
Odel of New York. Mrs Wimple was
sentenced to life imprisonment for poison
ing her husband. She entered Sing Sing
pretty girl of IS and emerged to lib
erty gray haired woman OF 45.
Captain Even, who was the states
witness in the trial of Jett and White in
Jackson, KY, who are charged with the
murder of j. B. Marcum, and who had
bis hotel burned down by the thugs, has
been escorted to the Elk's hall at Lex
ington and given an ovation.
The Rio Grande river in New Mexico ia
row on rampage and much damage ie
being done by the waters. The rich
farms and stock ranches are flooded and
irrigation bitches are being put out of
business by the rapidly rising waters.
William Hardee, who was sentenced to
be hanged at Glasgow, Mont, on June
25. and who escaped from the Glasgow
Jail on the 9th inst, was killed by the
posse that has been on his trail for the
past 10 days. Charles r. Hill, one of
the posse, was killed by Hardee.
The sheepmen and miners of southern
Wyoming are now having their annual
trouble over the ranging of sheep in the
mountains, and it is feared that at least
one man has been killed. Several are
known to be wounded. The feeling ap-
pears to be stronger this year between
the parties than it has been any previous
season.