The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-08

land, Ohio. Thus far four DersOns ar
dead, while 27 others are living in hospi
tails, some fatally and others more OF
less seriously injured.
The poll OF the Great Northern train
men thus far made shows a vote of Q:
per cent Tor standing by the committe,
ana gong out on strike. General Man
ager ward insists that the double head
ers shall not be abolished, and ]. J Hi
says that Mr.. Ward ia master of the sit
uation and that be will not interfere.
The General Managers Association O
chicago has decided that the time hal
arrived when halt must be called or
the demands of labor organizations. II
was stated at the meeting that many o
Uhe railroads we're entertaining as higf
as oO demands for increased wages aHC
that a large proportion of these de
mands come from a class OF labor which
mas been settled within a few month.
previously.
Under the law the socialist mayor
treasurer and police Judge of Anaconda
should have filed their oaths and quail
hed on Thursday. They failed to do 40.
Inc present officials, who are republicans
VIII refuse to surrender their offices on
MONDAY when the new men ask for them
ana long legal fight is possibility.
Sunday, May 8.
Women and men fought hand to hand
with each other and then fought hand in
hand against the police in the Salvonic
roman Catholic church of Joliet, Ill.
NO one knows exactly how the trouble
started. Many arrests have been made.
james j. German has been convicted
at Cody, WyO., of murder in the tirst de-
gree in killing his brother, Tom German.
lt was his second trial. In his first he
was convicted OF manslaughter. The
convicted man was infatuated with his
brothers wife. He killed his brother
and was making his way out OF the
| country when he was captured.
Miss Evelyn Hodge, Miss |. Minge and
Samuel Williams, three prominent Young
people of Shreveport, La, we're drowned
AT that place. They rOwed up near a
dam and we're drawn down the falls bv
the eddy.
Two negroes have been lynched near
Vlcksburg, Miss, for the murder OF a
farmer living near that place. 1t is
stated that one of them made COMES
sion and implicated another negro. A
mob OF 1000 farmers hung the two men
to bridge.
mass meeting of rock miners was
held in Wilkesbarre, Pa, to take action
on the 10 per cent advance by the COM
mission, which the men claim they are
not receiving. This class Of miners are
now all members of the United Mine
workers union, but as they work for
individual contractors they have not re-
celved the advance given to the other
miners.
The war which the Chicago negro
preachers are waging on "policy" cul-
minated in an attempt to dynamite the
institutional church in that city. The
explosion broke all of the windows in
the building and blew a great hole in
the wall. No one was hurt.
Monday, May 4.
The strike of the Italian rock drilIers
in New York has taken a more serious
turn and so policemen were sent to keep
order along the excavation for water
mains, where men are at work in strik-
ers' places.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has affirmed ruling OF the late Judge
Arnold, in which the latter refused to
charter Christian Science association.
The charter was refused on the ground
that lit would be injurious to the COM
munlty to incorporate a group OF citi-
zens who would preach the doctrine that
there is no such thing as q contagious
disease or any disease, and practice the
art OF curing what are called contagious
diseases by inaudible prayer, whether in
the presence of the sick or at a distance"
Twenty thousand people warmly vel
coined President Roosevelt at Colorado
Springs. The president met several
former members of his Rough Rider
troop and held reception.
The police authorities OF Stamford.
Conn.,, are patrolling all OF the roads
leading into that town in an effort to
capture party OF tramps who, it is be-
lieved, attempted to wreck two trains.
Very little hope is held out by the
physicians that Ira D. Sankey, the sing.
ing evangelist who was associated with
Dwight L. Moody for many years, will
recover his sight.
The controversy between the opera
tives and cotton mill managers at
Lowell, Mass, involving $4,000 hands,
has entered upon it's sixth week. An
estimate places the loss in wages at
nearly 100000. The city is losing in
population every day.
Tuesday, May 8.
Chinese are focking to Chicago to
take advantage of the golden oppor-
tunity to engage in the laundry busi-
ness, there being a great strike OF the
laundry workers in that city. They are
coming direct from Hip Lung, the king
OF Chinatown, San Francisco, and re.
porting to Sam Lee, to be distributed
by him among the 27 laundries which he
controls in Chicago.
President Roosevelt is in New Mexico
on his western trip. He spoke at AL
buquerque upon the subject of irrigation
and his reception by the people of the
southwest was most cordial. At Santa
Fe the president was shown the his
toric spots and made a speech to the
children.
William Patterson, a member OF one
OF the prominent and wealthy families
of Muncie, Ind, has been shot and fatal
ly wounded. The tragedy is shrouded
in mystery and the police are guarding
the house.
Four persons we're injured, a damage
of $4,000 caused and a panic among
so boarders resulted when the Deering
hotel in Chicago was destroyed by fire.