The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-01-01
Wednesday, December 2s.

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between Pittsburg and New York ran
into pile OF lumber.
The entire plant OF the Illinois Steel
Company at South Chicago has been
closed for an indefinite period. The
shut down will probably last three weeks
and will affect $500 men.
Typhoid fever at Pittsburg. Pa.
threatens to take on the character of an
epidemic similar to that of Butler. Pc.
For the first % days of December there
were 4lO cases and during the last "a
nours ~ new ones were reported. The
dlsease is vlrulent and a large propor-
Ilon OF those taken sick are dying.
The dead in the city of Chicago cannot
De buried because OF strike of the
livery drivers union, which ties I'D the
hverymens' and undertakers' associa-
ton. An injunction will be asked to
prevent the union from interfering with
the5assOciations' business.
l.. FL. Mott, convicted at MissouIa on
the charge OF numbering his wife several
months ago, has received notice that he
must hang unless the govern nNr will
grant pardon, which is not probable
The supreme court has refused to grant
a new trial.
Thursday, December "a
MERRY Christmas, from vour EN-
ployer," was the gladstone message re-
ceived by thousands of toiIers in Chica
go Accompanying every message was
more substantial token of apprecIa
tlon OF services. In The aggregate, it is
estimated, Chicago workmen received
100000 in cash gifts.
Mary Peters, l l years old, committed
suicide at her home in Provo, Utah, by
taking strychnine mixed with salts. be-
cause her teacher had repremanded her.
Application for the removal OF William
J. Bryan as executor Of the will of Phi!o
5. Bennett at New Haven, Conn, has
been made by Mrs. Bennett and other
residuary legatees.
The wreck of the Duquasne Limited on
the Baltimore and Ohio at Laurel Run,
Pa, has disclosed the fact that So per
sons are dead.
P. c. Donaleche and f. Green, were
suspended from the race track at Ingle-
side, Calf, pending investigation into
certain races in which their horses par
ticipated. Green is the big Spokane
gambling man.
A charter has been granted in New
Jersey to the Manufacturers Window
Glass Company, with capital stock OF
VI, ,OO0,OOO. This is a combination OF
several glass industries.
Friday, December 25.
A severely cold wave struck the middle
western states and a bright Christmas
morning was succeeded by a blighting
storm II the afternoon. In many places
the mercury fell 40 degrees ID very lew
hours.
Brooding over his inability to pur-
chase Christmas gifts for his three
motherless children, Joseph Phillips, a
HOllOwville, n. Y, farmer, murdered the
children and then hanged himself in a
barn.
In race war at Lockland, Ohio, one
negro was shot and seriously wounded.
The trouble was the result of a dozen
encounters which the white residents
have had with the negroes within the
past week.
One man dead, another fatally wound
ed and a woman badly bruised about
the head and face, is the result of a row
which took place at Finn Hail. Eureka,
Utah.
Eleven passengers we're more or less
seriously injured by the collision of
westbOund Glover Leaf passenger train,
loaded with Christmas passengers, and
a Panhandle freight engine at a crossing
in KOkomo, Ind.
All children of Dowieites will be ex-
cluded from the public schools of Chica
go by January 4, by order OF the health
DOwieites do not believe
in vaccination.
Christmas at the White House was
quiet day, The distribution of the num-
erOus presents to the children took place
Immediately after breakfast.
Saturday, December 26.
Eighteen persons are dead and thirty
one injured, several OF them fatally, as
the result of a collision of two passenger
trains near East Paris, Mich.
The lawless spirit has again made it's
appearance in Jackson, KY. A crowd
stood in front OF Hargis Bros store and
fired hundreds OF shots into the ground,
the store and courthouse.
The cold wave which struck the middle
states Christmas day has extended to
the Atlantic coast. The storm is ac-
companied by heavy winds and binding
SHOWS.
Five hundred children were the guests
of Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House
between 4 and $50 o'clock p. N. Mrs
Roosevelt was assisted by the ladies OF
the cabinet circle and Mrs. Loeb, Mrs.
COWes and Miss Hapner
Threats OF another strike on the line
OF the Chicago City Railway Company
have been made by the business agents
OF the organizations that are endeavor-
ing to secure new agreements with the
traction company.
War department officials admit that
a number of vessels at the various navy
yards are being placed in readiness for
active service.
Sunday, December 27.
Preparatory to leaving for Australia,
John Alexander Dowie bade farewell to
his Chicago followers at a meeting in
the Auditorium.
More hearses are in use by the Chi
cagO undertakers than at any time since
the livery drivers went on a strike. In
several cases policemen rode with the
drivers to the cemeteries, to prevent
interference by the strikers.
The death list resulting from the rail-
way collision at East Paris, Mich, yes
terday, stands %, with 29 persons in
iured, several of them fatally,