The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-04-22
Sunday, April Il.

One person was killed. five seriously
injured and several bruised during a fire
at st. tincent's hospital in Indianapolis,
Ind.
Three persons were killed bv a Read
ing railroad train near Allentown, Pa
They we're walking home from church on
the railroad track.
The lroquois theater in Chicago has
been sold to Birch & Harris of New York
ahd Boston. The playhouse will be re
constructed, refurnished and opened as a
vaudeville theater under another name.
-Four men came to sudden deaths in
San Francisco within few minutes OF
each other, but in different parts OF the
city. Two were asphyxiated by gas and
two committed suicide.
The bursting OF a large gas main in
Mount Vernon, \. Y, has placed the
people OF the city in great peril. The
gas went out for time and started up
again, pouring its poisonous fumes in
homes when nine tenths of the residents
were asleep.
New York democrats are gathering at
Albany for their state convention. The
newspapers are looking for a hot time.
Monday, April IS.
The New York state democratic con-
ventiOn elected delegates to the nation
al convention and instructed them to
vote for the nomination of Alton B.
Parker for president.
The trouble between the Streetcar
Mems Union and the United Railways Of
San Francisco has reached critical
stage. The men demand increase of
"a and thn A
strike will probably result.
Work in the extensive yards of the
Fore River Ship & Engine Company at
Quincy, Mass, is tied up by strike of
2600 men over question of hours.
Arrangements have been completed for
the ceremony at the White House incl
dent to the opening of the Worlds Fair.
On Saturday, April 80, at one o'clock,
President Roosevelt will press the KEY
that will start the fair, in the presence
of an assemblage of cabinet officers,
diplomats and prominent men OF the ma
ton.
Peter Neidermier, one of the Chicago
car bandits sentenced to be hanged,
attempted to commit suicide in his cell
by opening an artery in his left arm
When discovered the prisoner was un-
conscious from loss Of blood and may
not recover.
The American Federation OF Labor is
in annual convention in Denver, Colo
The membership of the Federation has
now reached 1,S26,l14.
Tuesday. April 10.
In many parts Of New York, Connect
cut and Massachusetts there has been a
heavy fall of snow and in places the
storm has reached the proportions Of
blizzard.
County Physician Mcnamara of Chi
cago says that Peter Neidermeir the
bandit, will live to die on the gallows
Friday. He can take no solid food, but
aurishment is given in every spoonful Of
medicine.
A report that J. P. Morgan had died
suddenly in Europe caused drop in all
stocks in which Morgan has an interest,
and the New York exchange was in great
excitement.
The most important matter consider
ed at today's cabinet meeting, was that
looking to control by the government OF
wireless telegraphy. No action was
taken, but it is quite likely that in the
near future some means will be provided
for proper government supervision.
The United States circuit court sitting
in st. Paul has denied the application of
Hartman, Pierce and the 0. r. & n.
Railway Company, for leave to inter
vene in the case of the United States
against the Northern Securities Com
pany.