The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-11-25
Sunday, November 20.

Sunday, November 20.
Marcus NJ Marks. a leading clothing
merchant of New York, is said to BE-
slated for the position OF postmaster o
New York city.I
A syndicate of capitalists headed by
Marshall Field OF Chicago and j. p Nor,
gan OF New York are to purchase tine
Chicago City railway for thirty six mil.
lions OF dollars.
An oceanic line steamer, Prince Sc-
lian, was grounded ou the Long Island
New York, shore, No lives were lost
The Star Works Of the American Tin
Plate company at Pittsburg, which
have been idle for several months, will
resume operations next week.
No clew has been found to the mystery
surrounding the murder OF William Bate
whOss body was found in an automobile
Saturday, at lonely spot in the sub
urbs Of Chicago.
Monday, November Fl.
Thomas Wackford accidentally stepped
on a lady's skirts at San Francisco and
was struck on the head by her escort.
WacktOrd died as a result of the blow.
The assailant has escaped.
John Vancise, living on the lake shore
10 miles west of Cleveland, Ohio, clung
to the slippery rocks at the foot of an
so foot cliff all night with the dead BODY
of his daughter in his arms to prevent
the waves washing the corps out into
Lake Erie.
The Philadelphia Presbytery by a
vote OF 81 to 46 decided in favor of the
affiliatiOn of the Cumberland Presby-
terian church with the Presbyterian
church OF the United States.
The prospect of a mob which had
formed on the outskirts OF the city of
Lexington, KY, attacking the jail in
which Ed Taylor, Garfield Smith and
John Taylor are confined was so pro-
nOunced that County Jndge Bullock
advised that the militia be called out
An unknown boy about II years of
age was found tied to the rails on the
Southampton branch of the Grand
Trunk road, one mile north of Harris
ton, Ont, this afternoon He was
securely tied with his hands behind his
back just few minutes before the $50
express from the north was due.
Owing to the lack of corn huskers in
Paris, ILL.,, Judge kimbrough adjourned
court until November 2S, to give Jurors,
litigants and witnesses a chance to
harvest the corn crop.
A freight car attached to the end OF
Santa Fe work train tipped over into
the ditch near LOwemont, Kan, killing
Frank Nelson and Brakeman w. T.
Noyes.
The home OF + E. Thomas at Omaha,
Neb., was wrecked by dynamite. Mr..
Thomas was president of the Civic Fed
Grafton and had been active in enforc-
ing the anti saloon ordinances.
Tuesday, November 22
William Holden, farm hand, entered
the Platt Valley bank at Platt Center,
Neb., and demanded the cash. On the
refusal OF the cashier, B. Schroeder, to
surrender it, Holden shot him in the
breast. The wound is not fatal. The
rObber was captured and is in jail.
A. E. Schwan, proprietor of a job
printing office at Butte, Mont, was shot
and killed by John Evans, an 18 year
old boy. Schwan had trouble with his
wife over the employment of one w. +.
Myers, foreman OF the office, and had
followed his wife, begging that she give
him a revolver to kill Myers. The boy
Evans, claims that he fired his gun to
scare Schwan away. One of his shots
took effect.
The original Rough Rider regiment,
which was mustered in at San Antonio,
Texas, before the Spanish war, is to hold
a reunion at Washington, D. c., March
f. General Bell of Colorado announces
that the 200 surviving members OF that
organization will move on the White
House, inauguration day, and ''the
hobbled horses OF the regiment will crop
on the herbage."
While adjusting a signal in the under
ground railroad in New York City, VIM
Il. McMillin was instantly killed by a
train rushing upon him.
A moral spasm has seized Ell Paso,
Texas. The managers and other
officials of the brewing plants are under
arrest, charged with violating the Sun
day closing law.