The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-05-20
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, May IL.

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| Fourteen people we're injured in a
COLLISION between a Santa Fe passenger
| train and an electric car near Los
Angeles, Cal. 1t is thought several will
die
The coroners' jury investigating the
death OF Edward l.. Wentz, the young
| Philadelphia millionaire who was lost in
the mountains of West Virginia last
October, rendered verdict of death by
the accidental discharge of his own
pistol.
The 31st general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church is still ia
session in Los Angeles. Interest in the
meetings continue and great crowds at
tend every day.
| A strike is threatened in st. Louis bv
the Hotel and Restaurant EMPLOYEES
Union, which is taking advantage Of the
exposition crowds to demand an in
crease in wages
Six men were killed and a large mum
Der burned as the result Of a powder ex
plosiOn in Shaft No. Z, OF the Big Muddy
Coal Iron Company mines near Herrin,
Ill.
Stock quotations on the New York
markets remain steady. There is not
much trading. This result is attributed
TO the large movements Of gold in the
Panama payments.
The semiannual meeting Of the execu-
tive board of the Western Federation Of
Miners is in session in Denver Vice
President j. c. Williams presided in the
absence Of President G. H. Mover, who
is a military prisoner at Telluride, Colo.
The sixth biennial session of the Inter
national Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers is being held in Los Angeles
Calf. and between 600 and 700 dele
gates are present.
Thursday, May IL
The Moro village at the st. Louis ex
position is in a state of excitement be-
cause Of the fact that two Sultan's in
the Philippines have ordered IA feast on
human flesh. The natives at st. Louis
however, will have to content themselves
with chicken and rice. Extra guards are
stationed around the village.
The appellate court in Chicago has az
tiTmed the sentence tining II members
of the Illinois Soft Coal Association $500
for participation in an illegal cOmbina-
ton. The purpose of the mbination
was to fix the price at which coal should
be sold.
The officials OF the worlds fair at st
Louis have made tour Of inspeCtian Of
the exhibit palaces, and were well
pleased with the advanced state Of con-
pletOn found.
The steamer Doric, arriving at San
Francisco from the Orient, brought s.,
25O,OOO in gold from Japan.
Rev. J. B. Cranfll fired two shots at
Rev. S. L. Haden on a Texas Pacific
train near Texarkana, Texas. Both
men were enroute to the Baptist cOnven-
tiOn at Nashville, Tenn. No cause for
the trouble is known.
The body of 6 year old Josephine
McCahiIl, who has been missing from her
New York home since May 2, has been
found in chimney at her home. Re
wards aggregating $3.50 were offered.
The parents thought the child had been
kidnapped. The condition of the body
indicates that perhaps the child had been
playing upon the roof and fell into the
chimney accidentally.
Friday, May IL.
The battleship Missouri has returned
from Hampton Roads after a most sue
cessful trial trip. This was the final &C
ceptance tfiai ana Cne snip returned TO
Newport News navy yard to receive
finishing touches.
The entire business section and many
residences in the town of Steelvillr, Mo,
have been destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of 100000.
By order of the Boot and Shoe Manu-
facturers' Association, six San Fran
cisco factories and one at Petauma,
Calf, are closed, locking out nearly 600
employees.
Ernest A. Roeber, a butcher in Col
wyn, Pa, has received check for $25.-
600 from the estate of Mrs Martha
Dobbs. wealthy resident of Pittsburg,
Pa. Roeber saved Mrs. Dobbs' life in
runaway accident 10 years ago.
For the first time since January /,
officials of the health department OF
New York City have been able to report
letup in new cases of pneumonia.
The secretary of the interior has
ordered the withdrawal from entry OF
322. 900 acres of land in Montana for
addition to the West Little Belt forest