The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-06-12
ard nearly to death. Hardee escaped
once before but was quickly retaken.

| ONN oS'OiC uut was quickly roCaken.
W: L. Wyatt, negro school teacher
was hanged By a mob at Belleville. III
because OF the fact that he had shot anC
fatally wounded County Superintendent
hertel. The superintendent had refused
to renew Wyatt's certificrte and the ne
gro went to his office and attacked him
Two hundred people in the village O
Black Walnut, on the north bank OF tbf
missouri river northeast of st. Louis
are surrounded by rapidly rising water
Ihelr lives are in great danger. A river
steamer cannot pass under the bridge &C
as to reach them.
One man was killed, two persons
fatally and several Others badly injured
III an accident on an electric car at San
Jose, Gal. An unattached trailer, loaded
with passengers, got away and started
| doWn the grade The car managed to
keep the track for great distance be.
lore 1t was derailed. Those who were
hurt are being cared for by the com.
| pany.
Sunday. June Z.
The two hundred persons imprisOned
at Black Walnut, Mo-, by high water
have been rescued after numerous at.
| tempts to land a steamer at that place.
A levee gave way which made an omen
ing through which the boat was able to
pass to the stricken people.
The great food in South Carolina il
recedlng and it is estimated that fully
80 people have lost their lives and that
property to the value of So, SOC, 900 has
been destroyed. The heaviest losses
IL
valley occupied by the food.
Temporary peace may come to the
restausant war in Chicago. A committee
OF restaurant keepers have met with
representatives of the employers union
and the latter have agreed to the prOpo
sltlons of the proprietors.
The working committee of the Central
Textile union of Philadelphia, which has
had $4,000 persons out on strike since
April, has issued circular to the public
tnat the strike was called because of
sanitary reasons; that it was necessary
because the health of the men, women
and children employed was at stake.
Kansas has suffered as the result of
the recent Hoods more than any other
state. No exact figures of the loss sus
tanned can, OF course be given, but the
damage in the principal towns and cities
VIII total close to $17,OO0,O00. The
lowest estimate that can be made OF the
loss to crops is $5,O0O,0OU.
Monday, June 8.
While the Monitor Nevada was at
target practice off Newport News an ex-
plosion OF one of the big guns tore up
the turret, intiicting considerable dam
age. The boat will be sent to the navy
yard for repairs.
George O'Brien, who killed John Flynn
at RexfOrd, Mont, on June l, has been
captured at Tobacco Plains. With him
was arrested John O'Neill, who is wanted
at Fernie, B. c.. for murder.
William Hardee and the other pris-
oners who escaped from the Glasgow,
Mont, jail by killing Deputy Sheriff
Williams, have not as yet been captured.
They are headed for the bad lands and
it is thought that if they succeed in
reaching that country that it will be al
most impossible TO find them, as there
are many fugitives from justice in that
country.
Five persons lost their lives at Frazier,
Iowa, by being drowned in the Des
MOines river. All but two are Italians
and they were employed in the Frazier
coal mines.
All of the negroes living at Forrest,
Miss, have been ordered to leave that
place. The white citizens are up in arms
because OF number of crimes which
have been committed in that vicinity re-
Gently. There have been four negro men
and one negro woman killed and about
10 wounded since the trouble com
menced.
A great many OF the strikes all over
the country are being settled and many
men, women and children are again go.
ing to work. In most cases the strikers
have won some OF the points for which
they were cOntending, while in Others
the strikers have accepted the old scales.
Tuesday, June 9.
Advices from Montana say that the
authorities have captured one of the
escaped convicts from the Glasgow.
Mont, jail. The man said he left the
other members OF his party because he
was sure there would be hard fighting if
the posse came upon them.
Twenty people we're drowned by
clOudburst near Clifton, Arizona. A wall
OF water eight feet high rushed down
Chase creek wichOut giving the inhabit-
ants any warning. Wires are all down
to Clifton.
The jury to try Curtis Jett and Tom
White at Jackson, KY, has been secured
and the indications are that the taking
OF testimony will commence very soon.
These men are charged with the
assassination OF ]. B. Marcum.
Memphis, Tenn, is commencing to feel
uneasy about the food indications. AS
the the rivers to the north and west re-
cede the Mississippi is raising and serious
deluges are feared. There has already
been great damage by the overflow and
number of lives have been lost.
During a storm at BrookviIle, ILL.,,
Corsica academy was struck by bolt
OF lightning and two girls were killed
outright, while three others and a
teacher were badly hurt. The bolt
struck the belfry, descended through
the ceiling, ran along a blackboard, at
which two students we're at work and
hurled them to the floor.
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