The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-04-03

and continue until all business has beer
completed.
K. d. Lacridge, a member of the track
team OF the University OF Indiana. wa,
accidentally killed at Louisville, Ky.. on
the high school grounds, being strucE
on the head by II pound hammer
thrown by j. R. Horn, the University O
Indiana coach.
Electricity, generated 80 miles ayay
has been turned on in the shaft of thu
Consolidated California and Virginia
mine and the great pumps which are tC
uh"ater the Comstock lode down to the
lowest depths are started on their work
Inese great machines will run without
cessation until all the accumulated
water has disappeared. The three
pumps draw $500 gallons of water eacI
minute.
1t is alleged that A. G. Staten has dis
covered rich anthracite coal min,
ABOUT 10 miles south of Havre, Mont.
Inc VEIN stands vertical and is abou-
iour feet thick and runs into one of the
highest peaks in the chain of Bear Paw
mountains.
Sunday, March 20.
A hre has been raging for some dave
on Mount Pisgan in Clay county. West
virginia, and assuming such a tremend
Gus nature that the people in that local
lty are praying for rain. The village OF
| Clay ls reported to be in great danger oI
destruction.
| According to officers of the Interna.
tlonal association of Bridge and Struc
tural iron Workers there is a possibility
| that the strike OF the workers against
the American Bridge company NAV
eventually throw 100000 persons out Of
employment in different parts of the
country.
There is excellent authority for stat.
ing that j. F. Morgan is planning to
Oulld splendid art museum and pre-
sent 1t to the American nation. The
most OF his treasures are now abroad,
scattered over continental Europe and
England
The backwater from LaGrange ere
Vass is rising slowly and the city OF Green.
Vile, Miss, is entirely inundated. Busi-
ness is paralyzed and people are moving
out IN skiffs. Relief parties with boats
are busy rescuing people and the refugees
are being cared for.
Structural iron workers, the men who
build the frame work of modern sky-
scrapers, threaten to tie up building
operations in Chicago with a general
strlke because the contractors have re-
FUSED to sign an agreement allowing
them an increase of 10 per cent in wages.
At meeting at Mahoney City, Pa,
representatives OF the u breweries com
prlsIng the anthracite brewers assOcia-
ton 1T was decided to fight the strike OF
the brewery workers for higher wages to
finish
Monday, March 80.
Alter an all night session, representa-
tives OF the Chicago carriage and wagon
makers association and the striking
union WOrkmen practically settled their
dlf1erences. 1t was decided by the strik-
ers to seek a settlement through arbi-
tration.
President Theodore Roosevelt is re-
celVlng very few visitors, his time being
occupied with clearing up routine busi-
ness preparatory to starting on his
western trip.
Il. ii. Patterson visited his divorced
vile near Durango, Col, to see his six
year-Old daughter and while the child
was sitting on his lap, drew a pistol and
shot her through the heart and then
killed himself.
The Erie railroads fast Cleveland
train was wrecked near Concord, Pa,
and Mrs. G. [, Hennese of New York, an
occupant of the cafe car, was seriously
injured.
A double header west bound freight on
the Southern Pacific jumped a switch
while pulling into the yards at Fenelon,
New, and as a result traffic has been
completely blocked since then. Both
engines went into the ditch and hall q
dozen cars piled on top.
Noah Raby will be 131 years old on
April l. He was born at EatontOwn, N.
j., on April l, 1772 He lived in Piscat-
way township for S5 years and for the
last 80 years has been an inmate of the
poorhouse OF Middlesex county, New
Jersey.
Tuesday, March 81.
By an accident at blast furnace No. l
OF the Edgar Thompson plant of the
Carnegie Steel company at Braddock
Pa, six men we're killed and 10 are in
the hospital and are not expected to
recover. -Four other injured men went
to their homes and are suffering from
painful burns.
With leveled pistols, three robbers, in
sight OF a Chicago saloon, held up and
robbed Alderman Nathan Branner OF
$500, took ring from the finger of his
companion, Jacob Kessner, and Ieaping
into buggy drove off unmolested.
The strike at Colorado City, which has
been in progress since February IA, and
the strike in the mines of the Cripple
Creek district shipping to the United
States Reduction & Refining company Z
| plant has been declared of by President
Meyer of the Western Federation oi
Miners.
II. w. Corbett. the millionaire banker
and former United States senator from
Oregon, is dead at his home in Portland
| aged 76 years. Senator Corbett had
lived in Portland 54 years.
The Mississippi river is falling steadily
at New Orleans and lower river points
and it is now thought that all danger is
past. Much suffering has followed in
the wake OF food this year. The waters
were the highest they have been for elk
| years.
All points OF difference between the
Oregon Railway 4 Navigation company
and it's train and engine crews have been
settled. The trainmen yielded the ques-