The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-07-22

capslzing OF skiff in the Blue river at
Sheffield, near Kansas City.
Three deaths and a score of prostra-
tions occurred in Chicago. as a result OF
the excessive heat. The maximum tenn
perature was "a degrees.
The big packing plants at Chicago,
Kansas City, st. Louis, Omaha and
Sioux City are all working more men at
TINS time than at any period since the
butchers strike commenced.
The Homestead Steel Works at Pitts
burg, Pa. have started operations. run
ming night and day shift Over 1000
men are employed.
A dozen passengers were injured by
the derailment of a north bound pass
enger train on the Gulf. Colorado &
Santa Fee Railroad near Dallas, Texas.
Several will probably die
Two hundred persons we're hurled to
the ground by the collapse of stand at
Brighton park, Cleveland, Ohio, during
the progress OF an amateur baseball
game. A number sustained broken legs
and arms
Monday. July Is.
Violence has broken out in Chicago as
result of the packing house strike
One man is dying in a hospital from in
luries received by being set upon and
beaten by dozen strikers, who demand
ed that he join their ranks.
The new salary schedule for rural mail
carriers has been completed. 1t applies
from July l. the last congress having
raised the maximum salary to 800 a
year from $500.
Six death and 20 prostrations in Chi
cagO; five deaths and Is prOstrations in
Pittsburg, Pa; two deaths and num-
Der OF prOstratiOns in Omaha; four pros
trations in Milwaukee and one death
and four prostratiOns in Cleveland, is
the record of the third day of the pres
ent heated term in the cities of the
middle west.
The gigantic land rush at Yankton,
:. D., develops into almost a stampede.
Thirty-three thousand have registered
and over 5000 are still in line.
Owing to the lack of demand all the
coal mines in the Eighth Ohio district
have been put on half time. Eight
thousand men are affested by the cur
tailment of operations.
Two thousand miners at Springfield,
Ill. held mass meeting and adopted
resolutions denOuncing Governor Pea
body of Colorado and asking President
Roosevelt to intervene in the Colorado
strike.
A special meeting of the Southern Pa
cifc Railway officials will be held
Wednesday at Louisville, Ky, to vote
on the question of issuing 100000. 900
OF preferred stock The road is Ken
tucky corporation.
Tuesday. July 10.
President Roosevelt has received
committee at Sycamore Hill, appointed
by the coal miners of Wilkesbarre, Pa
They presented a petition regarding the
labor troubles in Colorado.
1t is thought that the crisis in the
Chicago stOckyards strike will be reach
ed soon. There is no rioting and both
sides claim they will win.
Weary of turmoil and hardships en-
countered while struggling for a living
in the face of strikes and lOckouts, 81
families of strikers have left Chicago to
return to Austria Hungary.
The total registration at the Yankton,
s. d., land office is now over 40,0 900 and
will reach 10000 before closing Satur-
day evening. Forty-six clerks are EN-
pioyed.
Between 5000 and 5000 carpenters
have been locked out by order of the
Building Trades Association in New
York. Work on every large building in
the city is tied up.
The strike which tied up the trolly
lines of Newberg, n. l., has been settled
and the men have returned to their pO-
sitiOns. The company recognizes the
union and wages will be settled by arbi-
tratiOn.
Five miners we're overcome by gas in
the tunnel leading to the Union mine
near Virginia City, New. The mine was
recently destroyed by fire.