The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-01-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS BY WIRE

augurated the official social season in
the nations capital with n brilliant re.
eeption at the White House.
The National rolling mill of the United
States Steel Corporation at McKees
port, Pa, has resumed operations and
the tube aud pipe mills will soon start
Ihe resumption will furnish employment
fOr 5000 men.
| Saturday, January 2.
Nineteen theaters in Chicago are dark
and Will remain closed until their man.
| ayers have complied with every ordip-
ance regulating playhouses. Mayor
Harrison has issued very sweeping
orders.
| The navy department at WASHINGTON
has not as yet received any information
regarding the alleged sinking of the Co
lomoIan war ship by an American war
vessel
The national convention of the So
clallsts will be held in Chicago, Nav 1 !.
| I9U4, at which time candidates for ma
tlonal offices will be put in nomination.
Horace q. Burt, president OF the Union
Pacltc Railroad, has handed his resigna
| tlon to the directors. 1t is thought that
A. l.. MOhler, president OF the o. r. & \.
Is slated for Mr.. Burt's position.
WI. Davis and Harry Powers. pro
prletors and managers of the Irodnois
theater IN Chicago and George Williams.
clty building inspector, have been ar
rested on the charge of granddaughter.
The underwriting syndieates have
raised the rates on ell vessels sailing
east OF Singapore, China, which seems
TO indicate that war between Russia and
Japan is imminent,
All the supply departments of the
army have made arrangements for the
supplying OF all necessary food and
armamenta for shipment to the isthmus
IN case they are to be needed.
General James Longstreet, soldier
statesman and diplomat, and the last
lieutenant general Of the confederacv.
with the exception OF General Gordon, is
dead at Gainesville, Ga, aged "a years.
A severe blizzard is raging along the
Atlantic seabOard and is extending to
the middle eastern states.
Much interest is manifested bv officers
OF the government at Washington re-
garding the situation in Mancburia and
war is inevitable.
Sunday, January 3
Sunday Is sad day for Chicago. The
nndertakers and liverymen are unable
to furnish enough heArses and carriages
to carry on the tack Of burying the dead
OF the lroquOis disaster
The middle and eastern states are still
IN the grasp OF blizzard. Many cities
are experiencing the coldest weather of
the season
The coroner's jury in Chicago will
commence it's investigation into the
cause OF the Iroquois theater fire to-
morrow.
RiOtOus scenes mark the streetcar
strike In Bloomington, Ill. Windows in
six cars were smashed by missiles
thrown by strike sympathizers. Two
men were dragged from a car and Sc
verely beaten.
The plants of the Union Drawn Steel
works of the American Axe and Tool
Company, the Meyers Shovel Works and
the Cooperative Glass Works, at Beaver
Falls, Pa, have resumed work, affect |
ing 1900 men.
Several important changes are being
made in the divisions OF the United |
States army, especially in the Pacific |
coast department.
Between rs and 100 school girls at |
st. GATHERINGS Academy near Spring
field, KY, were compelled to desert their |
rooms in the dOrmitOry on account OF a |
fire which destroyed the structure Many |
ESCAPED only in their night robes and |
were compelled to walk a mile over the
snow almost barefOOted
The cruiser Dixie has arrived at Colon.
Panama, and the marines will be landed |
as sQon as General Elliott finishes his
inspection OF the railroad.
Governor Peabody of Colorado has
declared modified form OF martial law
in Telluride and that city will be placed |
under the same restrictions as prevail at |
Cripple Creek.
The trial of United States Senator
Chas. H. Dietrich, for alleged miscon- |
duct in accepting a bribe, will begin in |
Omaha this week.
Monday, January 4
Fire gutted the northwestern wing of |
the state capitol building at Des Moines, |
Iowa, causing an approximate loss OF |
half a million dollars.
President Theodore Roosevelt has |
sent a special message to congress when
it convened after the holidays. The |
message deals solely with the Panama |
situation and is considered a very able |
paper.
Isaac Gravelle, convicted in Helena,
Mont, for sending threatening letters |
through the mail to the Northern Pa |
citic, has been given a sentence of ten |
years.
Twenty-six men arrested at Telluride, |
Colo, by the military authorities, were |
placed on board north bound train |
and taken beyond the boundaries Of |
San Miguel county under military guard. |
They will not be allowed to return while |
martial law is in effect.
The senate's first session following the |
holiday recess was devoted entirely to |
Panama. Discussion continued through !
out the day, speeches being made both |
in defense of and against the policy |
which has been pursued.
The senate committee on military |
affairs has voted eight to two in favor
of the confirmation of Leonard Wood |
as major general.
Reports at the state department in J
dicate that there is a great deal OF un- |
rest in China and that the celestial EN-.
miro iG likely tn iOin with TaDan a0ainst |