The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-01-29
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country,
Wednesday. January 20

Cotton prices in New York and New
Orleans have reached the highest figures
since the civil war. The advances were
attended by considerable activity and
excitement on the markets.
An immense steam pipe over the en-
CINE 10 the boiler OF No. 2 mill of the
/ Cambria Steel Company at Johnston.
/ Pa, exploded, bringing down the whole
+ section Of the roof, About 15 men we're
scelded and burned to death.
/ A socaiistic resolution introduced in
I the convention OF the United Mnework-
J ers OF America at Indianapolis, Ind,
I providing for miners owning mines and
railroads, etc, was laughed down by
( the convention as q huge joke.
/ Nearly 1000 men have been thrown
out Of employment in Sosth Chicago by
the closing Of the IrOquOis Furnace Com
pany'e plant. No explanation was given
for the shut down.
/ The United States Steel CORPORATION
at Shelby. Ohio, has sustained a So
/ 600, 900 loss by fire, which started from
a detective electric wire The IRE lasted
only an hour, but was intense in heat
and destruction.
Fire in rhe Grand Palace hotel of Chi
cago caused q great panic among 200
theatrical people housed there 1t was
with great difficulty that the frightened
men and women were assisted from the
building.
Thursday. January Fl.
Severe rain and electric storms prevail
throughout the central southern and
southwestern states, gripping telegraph
lines and swelling streams out of their
banks. Snow drifts are 10 feet high in
the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
f. A. Earier, a banker of New York,
says that mystic influences are at work
on hiGu through the agency of his stom-
ach, bidding him kill President RoOee-
welt. He is probably ineane and will be
taken to hospital.
Train robbers stole an iron safe from
the express ear Of the Sunset limited
near San Luis Obispo, Calf, and secured
a large amount OF treasure, the sum be
ing placed at $50. 900 No clue has been
obtained to the robbers.
Owing TO an unexpected discovery of
gold, the Widest excitement prevails
around Tucumcari, n. NJ. Business men
have closed their stores and are fiocking
to the placer fields on RevuIetO creek.
The formation is black sand and mug
gets are found everywhere in the neigh
bOrhOod as large as wheat grains. Gold
IS f0und in every pan.
Friday, January %.
. disastrous tornado swept over
MOundvile, Ala, town OF 300 inhabit-
ants, and 81 persons were killed and
more than 100 injured. Every business
house with the exception of one small
store was destroyed. The tornado
moved path quarter OF mile wide
through the town and practically wiped
it from the map.
All rivers Of the central states are
rising rapidly as a result OF the heavy
storms that have been sweeping over
the country and the repetition of last
years floods 10 the Mississippi valley is
feared.
Charles Sweeney, president Of the
Federal Mining & Smelling Company.
has purchased the Daily West and Silver
King mines in Utah, paying therefor
SO. 900, 600
The Hall & MunsOn factories at Bay
Mills, Mich, have been destroyed by fire.
Loss $1,000
Long Island sound is a compact ice
field from shore to shore and from He'll
Gate TO New Haven, Conn Hundreds
OF sailing vessels and big ocean going
tugs are frozen in the ice with their tows.
Saturday, January 23.
Having So, 100000 to their credit in
Chicago banks, trade unions of that
city have started movement for q
trades union bank, with the union label
over the door. All earnings will be ap-
piled to promotion OF union causes. 1t
is proposed to have every depOsitOr
bring a union card and the union label
shall appear on every check and draft.
The food danger in the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys is passed and rivers
| are receding rapidly. Much damage has
been sustained by property in all of the
! Hooded sections of the central and
southern states.
| Upon the management and builders of
the lroquols theater has been placed the
responsibility of the Chicago fire horror,
after the careful examination of more
| than 100 witnesses. 1t was found that
| the building was opened before it was
completed. A monument will be erected
/ " lbC IhCuloly vi IuG NlcblLUS OF UUe
! holocaust.
| For the third time in the last two
| weeks fire has attacked the Grand Pa
! cific hotel in Chicago. One of the strange
! features noted in each instance is that
| the flames we're discovered before thev
! had made much headway, and that all
/ the fires occurred at about the same
hour.
/ Ex-Governor William Il. Taft of the
/ Philippines has arrived in San Francisco
/ from COrea. He was accompanied by
his wife aud two children, F. ". Car
/ penter, his private secretary and Carson
Taylor, secretary of the Philippine St.
Louis exposition commission.
Sunday, January "a.
Extreme cold weather is reported in
various sections of the north and west.
/ Temperature at Chicago, IL belaw zero;
at Omaha. u below; Detroit, 6 below:
( Kansas City, 8 below; st. Paul, maxi
mum, D below, minimum, 80 below:
Superior, Wis, 36 below; La Crosse, "a
below; Milwaukee, Is below.
A special grand jury will be called
after next Saturday to continue the
coroner's investigation OF the Irouuois
theater fire in Chicago.