The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-09-09

iy score injured in fire in FIVE story
double tenement in New York City The
| dead includes four women, one man and
nine children.
Five persons are dead and an equal
| number seriously injured as the result oi
premature explosion OF quantity oil
nitroglycerin near Upper Sanduskv,
Ohio.
| Special trains bearing Knights Tenn
plars are entering San Francisco. The
city is beautifully decorated and at night
brilliantly lighted in honor of the con-
claye that will be held.
A tented city built under the auspices
OF the Jewish Consumptive Relief society,
where consumptives, regardless OF creed
or financial condition, will be housed
and treated, has been dedicated near
Denver, Colo.
In sudden fit of insanity, Mrs. Min
ME Mckenzie tried to kill her husband
at their home in East Boston, Mass,
then shot and fatally wounded Patrol
man Sturdivant, finally baracading her
sell IN the front room of her tenement,
where she remained more than five hours,
standing off a squad of 10 policemen.
She fired more than so shots into a
crowd on the streets, but none of them
took effect.
1t is reported in New York that Will
lam K. Vanderbilt will soon retire from
the active control of the New York Cen
trail and that Rockefeller interests will
predominant.
The bodies of those persons killed in
the st. Louis street car wreck have all
been identified.
Monday, September s.
As a result OF an attempt to collect a
long standing account by a clerk in a
store at Green Shoals, w. Va, two men
we're killed, one fatally injured and an
other seriously injured. Two men who
escaped and have disappeared, are sup
posed to be injured. The fight may re
suit in another bloody feud being ;.dded
to those already existing in that coun-
try.
Labor Day was observed in all the
large cities OF the country with appro-
pirate ceremonies and public speeches
Large parades we're features of the oc-
casion.
Three persons we're drowned in White
river at Clarendon, Ark, while boating
in gasoline launch.
The indications in Chicago are that
the stockyards strike, begun two months
ago, will be called OFF within "a hours.
Negotiations looking to that end have
been begun through the medium OF
middleman.
A negro who attempted to assault
two white girls near Crossett, Ark, was
taken from the jail in that place and
lynched by mob.
The British ship Drumburton, which
went ashore at Point San Pedro, Calf,
is fast on the rocks and will be total
loss.
Tuesday, September g.
In the state election in Vermont the
republicans elected the entire state ticket
aud control the legislature by large
Charles j Bell was elected
governor by over 10000 majority.
Two men are dead and one seriously
injured by fall of rock in the Winter
Quarters colliery at Scofield, Utah.
Whether the stOckyards strike in Chi
cago ia to be called off or continued
indefinitely will not be known until to-
morrow morning, when the result of the
referendum vote on the proposition will
Wash Bradley. colored, the confessed
murderer Of Mrs. N. Barrow, has been
lynched by a mob and his body riddled
with bullets at Bruson, Florida.
Seven persons we're killed and 80 in
iured in a wreck on the Wabash rail
road near Pendleton. Mo. 1t ia esti-
mated that there were 500 people aboard
the train.
Judge John A. Marshal of the district
court at Denver, Colo, has granted the
application of the Interstate Mercantile
Company for temporary Injunction re-
straining the Citizens Alliance and Mine
owners Association from interfering with
its business in the Cripple Creek district
The local unions of the packing house
trades in Kansas City have voted to
continue the present strike until the
packers should be brought to terms.
The 29th triennial conclave Of the
Order of Knights Templars has been
inaugurated in San Francisco with a
grand parade, which brought into con-
trast the 18th and Goth centuries.