The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-10-02
ALL OVER THB UNION
The Important News of a Week
In Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest
Reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, September 23.

Ihe Atlantic express on the o. X. / n.
was held up by four masked men at Cor
oett, oregon, II miles east of Portland.
One OF the robbers was shot and fatally
wounded by the express messenger, and
tne engineer was seriously wounded by
the same shot
The United States Steel corporation
may close all OF ita sheet steel plants in
tne near future unless the amalgamated
association will consent to wage ad-
lustment. The reason for this attitude
is an overstocked market.
Officials of the Burlington railroad
and Adams express company have an
nounced a reward of $4,000 for the
arrest and conviction of the gang that
held up and robbed the Portland ex-
press near st. Joseph, Mo.
All OF the Minneapolis -four mills are
closed indefinitely. All quit work at
one time, excepting few who remained
a short time to allow the rolls to run
clean. The strike involves about 700
men.
The controversy between the engineers
and fremen and the Great Northern
railroad has been settled. Each side
OF the agreement are to be secret.
In freight wreck at Norwich, Ohio.
on the Baltimore & Ohio road, two tank
cars cOllided and exploded. There was
terrific report and the flame rose 100
feet into the air and spread on all sides.
-Four houses on the side OF the track
caught fire and were consumed in few
minutes. The occupants had narrow
escapes and lost everything.
Notices have been posted at the
cOlleries OF the Delaware & Hudson Canal
4 Coal company in Pennsylvania that
the miners will work FIVE hours hereafter
instead of nine. The companies wish to
reduce the coal output.
Thursday, September "a.
At least four lives we're lost in a fire
which consumed the New Brunswick
hotel at Rochester, n Y The bodies
were taken from the third floor and are
not identified.
Another attempt has been made by
dynamiters to wreck a Northern Pa
cifc train in Montana. This is the
fourth attempt in two weeks to blow up
trains on that division.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president Of the southern cOnfpderacy, is
seriously ill at Castle Inn, Buffalo, N. Y.
The orders for a restriction of the
hard coal output in Pennsylvania has
affected nearly every colliery in that
state.
Announcement has been made at New
castle, Pa, that the ShenangO tin mill
the largest Of its kind in the world, will
close down indefinitely. Needed repairs
will necessitate the closing of the mill for
at least one month.
More than $4,000 stolen, business
houses IN every part of the United States
vlctlmlzed, a bank created, waiter ad-
vanced from poverty to affiuence, and
an ex convict again placed behind bars
these are the features in the metenric
career of at least one of two men now
under arrest in Chicago. Postoffice in
spectOrs made the capture and the pris-
oners are swindlers.
Instead of laying off men in the North
ern Pacific shops when work is light, the
officials have decided to reduce the work
ing hours by one hour a day. This will
enable all men to continue work at the
same outlay as if a part of them were
laid off
Friday, September 25.
A murder and robbery occurred on
the Middleton road. Is miles from
Washington City. s T. Ferguson was
killed and his secretary fatally Injured
They we're carrying a satchel containing
$4,000 in cash with which to pay off
gang of construction men. Dynamite
was placed IN the road and an explosion
occurred when they drove over it, The
money is missing. Two men are under
arrest.
Miss Agnes Travis, a young woman of
good family, cut the throat of Milton
Carley with razor and then wounded
herself in a like manner The deed oc-
Cured at Marion, KY. jealousy is sup
posed to have been the cause of the
crime.
After noisy street demonstrations the
400 day messenger boys OF the Illinois
District Telegraph company have ended
their strike in Chicago by accepting a
new wage scale from their employers.
The efforts of organizers for the
American Federation of Labor to form
the farm hands o. Indiana into unions,
with the avOwed purpose of increasing
farm wages and systematizing the work
done by the members, have been attend
ed with success.
Cornell university at Ithica, n. Y, has
opened with a largely increased attend
ance. President Schurman announces
that 2342 students are registered.
The striking boilermakers and helpers
OF the Big Four road at Indianapolis,
Ind, have returned to work pending a
settlement of the wage question.
Four out of the II Touring mills in
Minneapolis are running The strikers
pickets have succeeded in turning many
new men away. The mills are endeavor-
ing to secure a night shift among the
university students.
Saturday September 26.
Three employees of big sawmiI at
McCloud, Calf, met death in a horrible
manner. Two men were pitching logs
or placing them in position. One man
slipped and two heavy logs rolled down,
crushing both laborers to death. A few
minutes later a man working at the
edger machine was struck by knot and
instantly killed.
/ Because the Northern Pacific Railway
! company refused to comply with the de-
mands of gang of dynamiters to de-
I posit $5O, 900 at point between Garri-
son and Missoula. Mont, four attempts
have been made during the past two