The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-08-05

to the exposition up to date have been
5,657,577
The group of four buildings of the
Ornamental Terra Gotta Works at Phil
adelphia have been destroyed by fire.
Loss $150,0O0.
Over 1000 more non n-union men have
been added to the rolls in the Chicago
packing houses. Nearly $4,000 men are
now employed.
Fifty passengers were injured, ii of
them seriously and one fatally, in head
on collision between trolly cars in New
York City.
Fire has destroyed the establishment
of the Hilbert Mercantile Company in
San Francisco. Loss 1926, 900.
Twenty three persons we're injured as
a result Of rear end collision between
two trOlly ears in Cleveland, Ohio.
Unless the members Of the union who
are responsible for the strike in the New
York subway adjust matters promptly a
general lockout may be ordered by the
Building Trades Employers Association,
to be followed by an attempt to estab-
llsh an open shop.
Monday, August 4.
Four highwaymen, all heavily armed,
held up the passengers on an Illinois
Central express train. about % miles
from Chicago, The robbers secured all
the money and valuables carried by
about 80 passengers in the two Pull
man sleepers. About | 900 was secured
The Michigan Central elevator at
Toledo, Ohio, has been totally destroyed
a. - "a ~
bushels of corn and oats. Loss 5000 900.
The Building Trades Alliance, of New
York, made up of II unions, has de-
Clared strike against the George A.
Muller Construction Company OF that
city. This strike will tie up the work on
almost every large building in New York
City.
Many of the packing house strikers in
the various cities of the country are tir-
ing of the strike and are returning to
work. More men are now employed in
the large plants than at any time since
the strike was inaugursted.
Considerable damage was done in
widely separated parts OF New York City
during an electrical storm. During the
45 minutes the storm lasted nearly two
inches of water fell.
A strike of all telegraph operators on
the Missouri, Kansas < Texas Railroad
has been ordered. A new wage schedule
and shorter hours are asked.
Fully 500 men have surrounded Cedar
swamp near Portage, Pa, surrounding
the men who killed driver Chas. Hays
and seriously wounded Paymaster Camp
bell last Saturday. The bandits robbed
Campbell of $4,000 in cash.
Tuesday. August 2.
The officials of the Illinois Central
railroad have decided to increase the re
ward of $1,000 for the arrest and con
viction OF the bandits who held up an
express train near Chicago, to $4,000, a
reward of $1,000 being placed upon the
head of each robber.
The democrats and popuIists of Kan
sas are going to endeavOr to nominate
fusion ticket Conventions OF both par
ties are in session in Topeka.
The meat packers, whose union em.
pIOyes are on a strike throughout the
country, now claim to be in a better pO-
sitiun than at any time since the struggle
began. More men are at work and
more live stock are being killed.
Two masked men compelled Post
master Jerome Vldovich of Ida, New,
to open his safe, both robbers holding
guns at his head. The bandits secured
about $500.
Mrs. Nelson A. Miles, wife of General
Nelson A Miles, is dead at West Point,
n. Y, where she was visiting her son
Sherman who is attending the West
Point Military Academy.
Members Of the meat drivers union of
East st. Louis have stopped work in
sympathy with the butchers and meat
cutters.