The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-06-10
BETWEEN THb OCEANS
Concise Summary Of the Wired
News of a Week.
important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country
Wednesday, June 1.

Wednesday, June 1.
Norman Williams, convicted at The
Dalles, Oregon, of the murder of Alma
Nesbitt and her mo- her, has been sent
enced to be hanged.
-Four companies of militia have been
ordered to Hanging Rock, Ohio, trouble
having resulted from the attempt of the
hanging Rock Iron Company to sup
ply the places of strikers with nOnunion
men.
Floods in the Green River valley in
Wyoming have cost several lives and
considerable damage to property.
The gates of the Yellowstone National
Park are now open to the public for the
season OF 1904, and tourist traffic is
very heavy.
All southern Kansas has been visited
by heavy rain, followed by a hail
storm, which did much damage to grow
ing crops.
Seven people have died from the effects
OF poisoned water, which they drank in
Las Vegas. N. Nj. 1t has been discovered
had been taken had formerly been used
W "a ShChliSu iCSCi FOIls
The Nebraska democratic state con-
ventiOn unanimously elected w. j.
Bryan to head the delegation to the
national convention to be held at st.
Louis.
Elmer Dover, secretary and A. E.
Fisher, a member Of the republican ma
tional committee, are in Chicago ar
ranging for the national republican con
ventiOn.
Railroad men in Chicago are at work
revising the Spokane freight schedule.
They are unable to say when they will
finish it.
Thursday, June 2.
|. NJ. Myers, the murderer Of George
BrOwnlee, was taken from the sheriff Of
Grangeville, Idaho, by mob of 80 men
and hanged.
Orders have been issued by several cot
ten mill managers in Boston instructing
agents to curtail production on account
Of the depression in the taxtile industry
About $4,000 men will work shorter
hours.
The rivers and streams Of kaneas are
on a rampage, the result OF the heaviest
rain this year. Several clOudbursts
have occurred.
lockout against about 10000 brick
layers, hOdcarriers and teamsters has
begun in Buffalo, n. Y. The trouble re-
suits from the stOnemasOns strike which
occurred May /. There is no difference
between employers and bricklayers, but
the latter were sympathising with the
masOns.
One man is dead and two mortally
wounded as the result of a bloody fight
in a restaurant at Knoxville, Tenn The
trouble was between white and black
men.
COlored residents of Newark, n j.,
have formed an association, through
which they are planning the emigration
of a number Of families to Liberia, in
Africa More than 10000 cOlOred peO-
pie are ready to leave the cotton belt
and make their homes on the African
continent.
Friday, June 3.
Bv making a combination with Chas
s. Deneen and several others, Governor
Yates broke the deadlock in the Hi
nOis republican convention which has
lasted "a days, and brought about the
nomination Of Deneen for governor.
The heavy rains of the last few days
throughout southern Kansas have
flooded all of the lOwlands and many
rivers look like large lakes. Thousands
OF dollars damage to crops have re
suited. Several lives have also been
lost.
tornado at Dallas, Texas, caused
considerable damage by unrOOfng
houses and Overturning frail structures.
The storm extended into Oklahoma and
Kansas.
Nine persons we're killed and many in
jured in collision of passenger trains
on the Missouri Pacific railway, 1 5 miles
south of Kansas City.
John Simms, prominent white
planter OF Trail Lake, Miss, and William
Cato, his manager, have been killed by
negroes. The negroes escaped, but
posses are in pursuit and they will be
lynched if captured.
Hundreds of prOspectOrs and miners
have taken locations within the past few
days on Nipple mountain, about IL
miles south of Cripple Greek. Colo, where
q great gold bearing dyke has been dis
covered.
Saturday, June
Ten men we're burned to death and
six seriously injured in an explosion and
fire that destroyed the Corning Distillery
COmpany's plant at Peoria, Ill. About
10000 barrels of whiskey in a ware
house burned and the liquor flowed to-
ward the river in streams engulhDg the
cattle pens where 5000 steers were