The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-04-08
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Sunday, April 8.

SUNDAY, april S.
As result of playing with powder
and matches three boys will die and one
will be crippled for life. The boys were
enjoying an outing in the Provo, Utah,
canyon.
Several companies of the Colorado
Militia have been ordered home from the
Telluride mining district, leaving only
100 troops to guard the disturbed sec.
tions.
An explosion in the Citizens National
bank building at Abba, Iowa, resulted
IN three persons being killed and several
wounded.
Postmaster General Payne's condition
is so much improved that he is now able
to walk about his house
Z H. Hartman, Winslow Pierce and
the Oregon Short Line Railway Com
pany have begun suit against the North
ern Securities Company to secure certain
stock of the Northern Pacific Railway
Company.
The grand jury in Milwaukee, Wis.
has returned indictments against 10 per-
sons for alleged illegal work on county
hospitals. The estimated cost OF the
buildings was $4,000, while the actual
cost has been $175, 900 and the build
ings are still incomplete.
The 54th annual conference of the
Mormon church has opened in the taber-
nacle at Salt Lake, Utah, and is at
tended by more than 10000 church
members.
Monday. April 4.
Receivers have been appointed for the
Union Trust Company OF B ston which
closed its doors last Thursday. The
trust company's liabilities are placed at
$1,600,000.
All the streams in Southern Indiana
are subsiding rapidly. A fair estimate
oil the property and crop loss along the
Wabash and White rivers is 100000.
Receivers have been appointed for the
Monumental Insurance Company of Bal
timOre. Liabilities are about SOS, 300
in excess OF the assets.
Burlington passenger train, north
bound, was wrecked near Cuba, Kansas,
several cars going into the ditch.
Secretary Hay has instructed Ambass
adOr Mccormick at st. Petersburg and
Minister COnger at Pekin to take i'm
mediate steps to secure the release OF the
two American newspaper correspondents
now held by the Russians at Newchwang.
The nail department of the American
Steel and Wire Company at Rankin,
Pa, has burned, causing loss of from
$175, 900 to 100000. There we're $50
nail machines Of an exceedingly cOmpli-
Gated character in the building DESTROYED
Postmaster General Payne has decided
20 90 to Old Point Comfort, Va, to re-
cuperate from his protracted illness.
Hundreds of children OF all cOlors and
conditions, took part in the Easter Mon
day egg rolling festival on the White
House grounds ia Washington City.
Tuesday, April g.
EYe persona, all members of a pleas
ure party from the Florida Methodist
College at Sutherland, were drowned in
the Gulf of Mexico by the capsizing OF a
boat.
The voters of Chicago by vote OF
142 ,434 against 30, l04 decided that the
municipality should take over and own
all street railways. and provide means
for their operation.
The Pacific Steel Company of San
Diego, Calf, has purchased 10000 acres
Of coal land on Controller bay, Alaska q,
paying therefor 81 100000.
In riot at the plant of the Diesel
branch of the American Can Company
in Chicago, growing out of an attempt
to reopen the factory one man was shot.
On account of the coal strike in lowe
the railroads Of that state have laid off
500 men. Churches and schools in Des
Moines are closed because fuel cannot be
obtained.
The strike of the Chicago iron bed
stead makers and moulders has been
settled.
The cases of W. S. Taylor, John
Powers and Charles Finley, charged with
| completely in the murder of William
Goebel, have been called in the Frank
fort court and passed to the next term