The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-01-15
SUMMARY OF NEWS By WIRE

New York bay are more troublesome to
navigation than for many years, river
craIt being swept from their moorings
In numerous cases.
A renewal OF the strike of the Chicago
livery drivers, which so interfered with
funerals and pleasure parties before the
lroquois heater fire, has been decided
on by the union.
Cashier J. E MARCEL of the Bank of
highland, Kansas, has looted that in
| stltutlon OF 100000. He has been
captured and is in jail awaiting trial.
United States Senator Charles II
Dietrich OF Nebraska has been found not
guilty OF bribery in the Hastings, Neb.,
postOttice scandal.
Saturday, January o.
A volcano on Sugar Loaf mountain.
IN Rowan county, KY, is assuming
alarming proportions. There are five
assures on the side of the mountain
from which smoke pours in considerable
volume, accompanied by a deep rum
| bling noise.
Lieutenant General John Brown Cor
don is dead at his winter home near
Miami, Fla. He was one of the most
prominent of the confederate leaders
and the last surviving officer OF high
rank. lie was soldier OF great ability.
at one time United States senator and
once elected governor of Georgia.
Orders just posted at Joliet, H.. an
nounce the resumption of work Monday,
IN all the important departments OF the
JoIet plant of the Hin Iis Steel Com,
pany. Nearly 1000 men are recalled.
The Boston 4 Montana Mining Com
pany OF the AmaIgamated Copper
| group at Butte offers a reward Of $4,000
Tor information which will lead to the
conviction OF those guilty of dynamit
ing the mines.
reception has been rendered Mr..
BrJ an in New York upon his return from
MS EurOuean trip. The distinguished
democrat says he does not favor a more
powerful navy.
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah has sub
mItted his answer to the protest against
his retention of a seat in the United
States senate.
Property in the residence district of
New York, owned by Columbia uDiver-
sity and valued at SO, 600, 900. is to be
sold. For many years it has formed
one Of the university's largest sources of
income.
A shipment Of 100000 pounds of
mess beef has been shipped from San
Francisco on Japanese steamship
bound for Yokohama.
Blanche Boise, a follower OF Carrie
Nation, has been arrested in TOpeka for
smashing with an ak a picture of Gus
ter's Last Charge" in the historical
rooms OF the state house. She objected
to line underneath the painting which
said that it was the gift of St. Lonis
beer firm.
Sunday, January 10.
Filled with remOrse and broken in
spirit by the persistent questioning of
the police, John NJ. ShockleY has made a
tull confession of the murder Of Motor
man Gleason and Conductor Brighton
at s 4lt Lake
The Chicago theaters that will agree
to conform to the new regulations to be
passed by the board OF aldermen of that
city will be permitted to reOpen under
certain restrictions and with the under
standing that they comply with every
provision OF the new regulations before
October /.
The phenomenon Of a midwinter
thunder storm, accompanied by heavy
snow, bas been experienced in Salt Lake,
Utah. Vivid flashes of lightning were
accompanied by heavy thunder. A gale
which came with the thunderstorm
reached velocity OF 30 miles per hour.
According TO press dispatches, LAWYERS
who have watched the progress Of the
Northern Sureties cases in the supreme
court Of the United States are inclined
to believe that the court will hold in the
action brought by the state of Mime
sofa that it has no Jurisdiction.
The officers and members of the ex-
Fcutive committee of the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners are holding a meeting
in Colorado City, Colo. 1t is understood
that the question under discussion il the
quick settlement OF the Colorado coal
strike.
The remains of General John B. Cor
don, who died at his winter home at
Miami Florida, have reached Atlanta.
Ga, where the funeral will occur
Agnes Holland, a beautiful 16 year
old girl, committed suicide by shooting
herself through the head, after being
taken from a ballroom at Butte, Mont, |
by one of the sheriff's officers and being
threatened with term in the girls re-
formatory. The girl was said to be of
a wayward disposition and beyond the
control Of her parents.
4 movement is on foot to make Den
yer, Colo, the permanent meeting place
of the National Live Stock Association.
Monday, January II
f. II. Hartman is believed to be
paving the way for a big holding com
pany or combine into which the South
ern Pacific, Union Pacific, Oregon Short
Line and Oregon Railway & Navigation
! Company will be thrown in event OF the
! United States supreme court declaring
/ legal the Northern Sureties Company OF
J. J. Hill and j. Pierpont Morgan.
Witnesses in the inquiry into the Iro-
! quois theater disaster in Chicago testify
| that they believe that hundreds of peo-
/ pie could have escaped from the building
unharmed had not the exit doors been
/ locked.
/ Bills have been introduced in congress
/ looking to the establishment of a ma
tioual arbitration tribunal which will
/ have before it all disputes between capi-
/ tai and labor.
The convention of the National Wool
| Growers Association is in session at
Portland, Oregon The convention is
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