The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-06-03


battlefield Of Gettysburg The pre- siient
will make an address.
The New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railway finds il difficult task to pro
vide board and lodgings for it's non
union freight handlers who have taken
the place OF the strikers.
The Elk City National Bank at Elk
City, Okla, has failed to open its doors.
The cause and extent of the failure have
not been given out.
Matthew Stanley Quay, senior senator
from Pennsylvania, il dead at his home
In Beaver, Pa, after an illness covering
almost year. Senator Quay was 20
years Of age.
-Four men entered a large shoe store
in the heart Of the business section Of
Chicago and at the point Of revolvere
held up SIX clerks and II customers, re-
lieving the cash register Of 1881. The
robbers made their escape and have not
been apprehended
Sunday, May 20.
The general conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church ia session ia Los
Angeles for two weeks has adjourned
after the most memorable gathering in
Tue history OF Jn6 cnurch.
Seven freight and coal piers of the
Delaware, Lackawana < Western Rail
road in Jersey City have been DESTROYED
by fire. Loss over Sl.OO0,OOO.
Fire in the heart of the Wholesale dis.
trct Of New Orleans destroyed the plants
OF the LOnis Rice Saddlery Company
the SimOns Manufacturing company and
the Meig, Bradley X Lincoln Wooden
ware Company. Loss 100000.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair at
st, Louis for the past week was 299 $50
The attendance was nearly $4,000
larger than the previous week
The labor difficulty owing to the strike
Of the freight handlers on the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad grows
every day. The teamsters' unions are
talking Of Joining in sympathy.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Ala,
bama COrdage Company at Montgomery,
Ala. Loss 100000.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland says he
believes that Judge Alton B. Parker will
be the democratic nominee for president.
Monday, May 30.
Mayor Robert 7. Mclean of Balti-
more shot and killed himself at ha resi-
dence No. % West Preston street. His
bride Of less than two weeks was in the
adjoining room at the time Of the
tragedy. No cause is known for the
rash deed, but his friends believe that his
mind had become temporarily deranged
by hard work III endeavOring to direct
the rehabilitation and rebuilding Of the
burned district OF the city.
-Four men we're killed and two fatally
injured in an explosion Of dynamite
which occurred near Warwick Tenn.
The men were at work in a railroad rock
cut.
Decoration day was observed all over
the United States by the usual exercises.
President Roosevelt addressed 10000
people on the battlefield OF Gettysburg.
Four people were plunged to death by
the breaking Of q foot bridge across the
Arkansas river in Riverside Park, Pueblo,
Colo The accident was witnessed by
1000 people who we're attending memOr
ial exercises.
Heavy rains ali over Kansas and Ne
braska have caused the rivers to rise
rapidly and the flood situation is serious
Ottawa, Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas
City are affected
Miss A lice Roosevelt was the guest Of
President Francis and the members Of
his family at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition. The first bail OF rhe expo
sitiOn was given in honor of Miss Roose
welt at the German national pavilion.
Tuesday, May 81.
Joseph w Folk Of ST. Louis has de-
clined TO allow his name to be used in
connection with the temporary chair
manahip Of the democratic national con
vention, to be held in st. Louis.
The 5000 machinists employed in the
companies composing the Metal Trades
Association Of Chicago. have gone On
strike as protest against the 10 hour
day.
The Kansas river is slowly falling at
Topeka. Aside from shutting off the
gas works and street car traffic, the
lower part OF the city has suffered but
little.
disastrous fire destroyed about hall
an acre of buildings in Cleveland, Ohio.
Loss, 100000.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has issued
an order laying off over 800 men on the
Pittsburg division. The officials desire
to cut down expenses while traffic is
light.
The deadlock in the Illinois state re
publican convention still remains IN
broken and no nomination for governor
has been made.
MAY corn on the Omaha grain ex
change exhibited range of 10 cents, as
result of an attempt by a leading
member to corner the delivery.
Judge Purnel in the United States
court at Raleigh, n. u, has fined Jo-
spphus Daniels, editor of the News and
| Observer, $4,000 for cOntemptsof court
by the publication Of editorial utterances
regarding the court
You will "Cough-Not' if YOU use this
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sold at the Elk Drug Store.
ED BURGLAREE.