The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-08-26
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of q Week.
important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
q Great Country.
Wednesday, August ~.

| Wheat jumped 5% cents in Chicago
/ amid tumultuOus scenes in the pit. Il
was bedlam turned loose and fortunes
were made and lost in minutes.
The most sensational incident in thu
| great building trades strike, which ha,
thrown nearly $4,000 workmen into
idleness in New York City, came wher
/ Phillip Weinseimer, president anC
organizer Of the Building Trades ALI
ance, was arrested on the charge of ex
| tOrtiOn
Every union workingman and woman
in the country, about 5000, 900, &C
cording to leaders Of organized labor, il
TO be asked to contribute to the support
OF the packing house strikers.
Race riots are in progress at States
boro, Ga, and in the surrounding coun
try. The white planters declare they
will drive all obnoxious negroes out oil
the country.
-Four persons were killed, another
fatally hurt and % slightly injured, in a
collision between an express train on the
Chicago Western Railroad and train
Of three trolley cars bound for the Haw-
thorn race track near Chicago.
The farmhouse of B. A. Dowling, near
Perth, Okla, was struck by lightning
and burned. Four members OF the
family we're burned to death in the
house.
Henry G. Davis has been notified of
his nomination for vice president upon
the democratic ticket by a committee
that called at his home at White Sui
phur Springs, West Virginia.
Thursday. August 49,
The itinerary for Secretary Shaw's
western campaign has been completed
by the republican national committee,
and is as follows: Helena, Mont, Aug.
"a; Spokane, Aug 26; Seattle, Aug. 20;
Portland, Ore, Aug, 81; San Francisco,
Sept. 3 and 5; Los Angeles, Sept. z;
Denver, Sept. II; Pueblo, Sept. 13; Fort
Scott, Kansas, Sept. II.
Twenty-Five persons attending the
meeting of the Piedmont Baptist Asso-
citation were poisoned at Pleasant View,
Amherst county, Va, by eating ice
cream.
The iercest riot of the stockyards
strike occurred in Chicago when hungry
dwelers of the packing house district
sought to capture and kill eight steers
that had escaped from the yards. The
mob numbered 1000 persons. 1t re-
quired 12O policemen to quell the rioters,
many OF whom we're clubbed.
Reports from 70 points in Minnesota
and North Dakota and few in Mani
toba Indicate that the injury to the
wheat crop done by rust is very great.
1t will amount to 40 per cent in the Red
River valley, and in North Dakota it
will run as high as so per cent.
General Wilman BIackmar of Boston
was chosen commander in chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the
closing session of the national encamp-
ment in that city.
Seven trainmen were injured in head
on collision between a construction train
and relief train at Calientes, Neb.
Some were injured quite seriously.
Friday, August 10.
A tornado of extreme fury swept
down upon the residence portion of
North st. Louis, resulting in the death
OF one person and the injury OF so
others. The damage to property is
estimated at 100000.
George Rice of Marietta, Ohio, has
commenced suit in the United States cir
Cuib Couib az 1ICuOOu, ~. C., tOT %C,-
100000 damages against the STANDARD
Oil Company, for the alleged running of
his business.
One person was killed and 10 injured
by tornado that swept over Venice,
Ill. A number Of buildings we're blown
to pieces.
Fire has destroyed two brick blocks In
the center of Martinez, Calf. IT, e loss
is estimated at $150,O0O.
Forest fires are raging in arious
parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana,
Idaho, Washington, Oregon. Utah, Ne
vada and California. Much valuable
standing timber is being destroyed.
Rains On wheat fields ready fer the
reaper shot prices up cents a sbushel
on the Chicago market. Wheat f5r Sep
tember delivery went to $11Of, De-
crmber went to $1.12h and May to
81 14X
A herd Of steers escaped from tie Chi
cago stockyards and employees and