The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-06-12
ALL OVER THB Union
Fhe important News of a Week
In Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters OF Interest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, June 8.

| conditions in the flooded districts oI
the central states are improving rapidly
as the waters are falling. Militia and
spegs.a' police still guard all approaches
| 70 hooded portions of the cities
ooIa1of the street car lines are resum-
| iN operations and many business
| NJ g have again opened their doors.
dfaat forest fires are raging in the
pine belt of Maine and thousands 81
doliars worth of property will be de-
stroyed. There is hardly section OF
m 6ne state where fires are not to be found.
ane connagration is extending into
Canada.
The u. d. & Q. passenger train which
vas lost between Chicago and Kansas
Caty during the food was found to be
safe. 1t had been cut off from COM
munlcatlon at point near Liberty.
MO, the telegraph and telephone lines
being washed out at the same time the
tracks were destroyed.
President Roosevelt is in Illinois. His
train stopped at several cities in that
state and the president made speeches.
lie will soon be at the end of the longest
trip ever made by a president of the
United States during term in Office.
The machinist strike on the Union Pa
cItc, which has lasted for over a year.
has been settled at a conference between
President Burt and a committee repre-
senting the strikers. By the terms of
the settlement piece work will be
abolished and every striking machinist
VIII be reinstated upon his own applica-
ton within sixty days. An increase of
per cent in wages was also granted.
A satchel full of dynamite was dis
covered near the Chicago & Alton rail.
road tracks at Lincoln, Neb. It was To-
Gated within a few feet of the point
where President Roosevelt was to speak
A thorough investigation is now in
progress
Thursday, June 4
President Roosevelt is spending the
day IN the state of Indiana and made
bis last speech on this trip at Indian
apolis. Tomorrow his long Journey will
end. There have been no accidents to
mar the pleasure OF the chief executive
during his travels.
Two Santa Fe trains collided near
Stillwell, Kansas, and as a result nine
persons are dead and number injured
The trains came together head-on. The
wreck appears to have been caused by
confusion of orders.
The list of known dead has reached II
II 1orth Topeka. Scores of people are
still reported missing and there seems to
De no way to locate them. North To-
peka is total wreck and the water still
remains over large portion of the CITY,
Ex-Congressman Willis Sweet of Idaho
recently appointed attorney general for
Porto Rico, has left Washington City
for New York, from which place he will
sail to his new post.
The republicans OF Ohio have nomi-
mated Myron T. Herrick for governor
W. q. Harding for secretary of state
Walter D. Guilbert for auditor, W. s
Mckinnon for treasurer and Wade
Hampton Ellis for attorney general.
Miss Anna Ross, a white woman of
San Francisco, has confessed that she
was in company with negro ex-soldier
named Walker when he visited Mrs.
Elizabeth Leroy, aged 80 years, in Oak
land, and that Mrs. Leroy exhibited $40
in coin which aroused Walkers cupidity
to the extent that he murdered the old
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Friday, June
Rear Admiral Evans, commander Of
the Asiatic squadron, is assembling his
fleet IN Chinese waters and the matter is
considered significant, inasmuch as
there is trouble in that part of the
world. The battleships Kentucky and
Oregon and the cruiser New Orleans are
at Chefoo and the monitor Monterey
and the collier POmpeii at Shanghai.
great mass meeting of the citizens
OF Washington City has been held to
consider and denOunce the outrages per-
petrated upon the Jews by the Russians.
The meeting was not official in it's char
acter, representing only the citizens of
the national capital.
Hereafter the executive board of the
western Federation Of Miners will have
fuil power to direct the movements of
local unions in cases of difficulty. An
amendment to the constitution which
made that possible was passed by the
convention in session in Denver.
The big levees along the Mississippi
river south of st. Louis are beginning
to give away owing to the foods which
are sweeping down from the tributaries
OF the great river. Hundreds OF farms
are in immediate danger of inundation
and much loss OF property and life is
feared.
John Dennis, a negro, was taken from
jail at Greenville, Miss, and lynched by
a mob of 200 men. The negro had at
tempted a criminal assault upon a we'll
known young woman of that town.
Both the Illinois and the Michigan
Central railroads have granted their
freight handlers the same increase in
wages as conceded by the Lake Shore
and six other roads recently.
Mrs. Addie Lyons OF kilion, Ind, was
shot and killed by her stepson. The
young man escaped and a search is be-
ing made for him. Ee recently returned
from long stay in California. No cause
is known for the crime.
Saturday, June 6.
A torential rainstorm has visited the
section OF country around Spartenburg,
S. C., resulting in general devastation
and destruction of life and property.
Many people we're drowned by the rag
ing torrent and great cotton mills car
ried away.
William Hardee, a murderer under
sentence OF death at Glasgow, Mont and
three prisoners in for burglary, have es-
capped jail by killing the death watch,
! Jack Williams, and beating Sheriff Dill.