The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-09-11
Alb 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, September 2.

OF New York, Franklin Edison, at his ap.
partments in New York shot and in
stantly killed Mrs. Fannie Pullen, and
then killed himself. The deed was com.
m!tted IN the presence of a number oil
relatives OF both parties. Edison was
considered insane over love for Mrs.
PulIen.
There seems to be a likelihood that
the state troops of Colorado will be
ordered to Cripple creek. to protect the
business men of that district from the
strikers.
A. b. Brown, well known race horse
man of Iowa, shot and killed himself at
Creston because his horse had lost a
race and he had lost 500 which he had
bet.
President D. M. Parry OF the National
Manufacturers association, who lives at
| indianapolis, Ind, is the recipient of
many threatening letters warning him
TO cease bis attacks on organized labor.
lie has been threatened by men stating
that they would abduct his children.
Henry Weilbrenner was arrested at
| Sycamore Hill while making a persist
ent effort to see President Roosevelt.
| The man was armed with a revolver
| tuily loaded. He is a lunatic and said
| he wanted to see the president about his
marriage to Miss Alice Roosevelt
A bronze statue OF President McKin-
| ley, which was cast in New York, has
been shipped to Toledo, Ohio, where it
will be unveiled September IA, the ami
versary OF President McKinley's death
The Standard mill at Colorado City,
| owned by the United States Reduction &
Refining company has been closed down
for an indefinite period. It's workmen
will receive one-thir5 pay during idle
| ness.
Thursday, September 3.
Reliance, the American cup defender,
won the third and final race and the
series for that famous sea trophy, the
Americas cup.
Mrs. Rhodes, who lived eight miles
lightning while milking and instantly
Killed. The bolt also killed two cows
and calf.
I A dispatch from Kansas City saws
that James Mooney, the district leader
Who is responsible for the Missouri coal
miners strike, is said to be holding
against President John Mitchell of the
United MineWOrkers of America to fur
fher his alleged ASPIRATIONS for the presi-
dency OF that organization.
Six persons were killed and 25 injured,
one fatally and two seriously, in a
wreck on the Southern railway near
Yorkville, S. C.
In the mountain section of Montana
through which the Great Northern passes
are to be found scores of detectives,
deputy sheriff's, etc, all guarding the
treasure trains, for fear of a robbery by
Kid Curry and his gang.
President Roosevelt is receiving many
kilograms cOngratulating him on his
escape from the hands Henry Weilbren-
ler, the insane farmer. Owing to the
large number of these messages he viii
be unable to answer them, but appre-
ciates the spirit in which they were sent.
Alfred A. Knapp, known as the
stranger, has been taken from Hamilton
to Columbus, Ohio, to await his pxecu-
tiOn in the electrOcutiOn chair Decem-
Der l.
Friday, September 4.
Governor Peabody of Colorado has
decided to dispatch troops to the Cripple
Creek gold camp. Brigadier General
John Chase will be in command of the
force, which will number 1000.
Seventeen cotton manufacturing con-
Germs of Fall River, Mass, will shut down
until September IA, throwing out of
work nearly $4,000 hands, operating
100000 spindles.
The United States cruisers Brooklyn
| and San Francisco have arrived at Bier
hut, Syria.
Governor Sparks of Nevada has stated
that the two Folsom convicts captured
in his state will not be returned to Cali
| fornia until that state has paid the re-
wards which it offers He did not in
tend. he said, that the officers who made
the capture be compelled to sue for their
money.
An unknown negro was caught in the
act OF assaulting Mrs. NJ. Garahn of
Armourdale, Kans. He fed, chased by
crowd, and when he realized that es-
cape was impossible, drowned himself in
| the Kansas river.
United States District Attorney Dean
at Topeka has announced that he would
start proceedings against the alleged
| AoAbOc COciI u i HC nave
been ordered before a federal grand Jury
to testify.
Four convicts were shot at Pratt
mines prison, Birmingham, Ala, in an
attempt to escape. All were white and
were serving terms ranging from two
to twenty years.
Saturday, September 5.
Commander Robert E. Peary, q. S. n,
the well-known Arctic explorer, will make
another dash for the North Pole. Leave
OF absence for three years has been
granted him, with permission of the
president.
The final session of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles has been held in New
York. Baltimore has been selected as
the next place for the convention in
1904
Nine of mixed picnic party OF Chris
tian Endeavorers are confined to their
beds in Topeka, Kansas, with serious
cases OF typhoid fever and Miss Mabe
Rice is dead. 1t is charged that germs
in the water at Vinewoood park caused
the death OF Miss Rice and the illness o.
the others.
Three men lost their lives in a well al
Neshannock, Pa. The well is 80 feet
deep and had been drained except few