The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-07-01


q wreck on the Serrie Railroad near
Sonora, Calf. A work train crashed
INTO passenger train.
The American Federation of labor has
taken up the fight of be Western FEEDER
alton OF Miners in Colorado and will
give it financial and moral support.
Colonial Girl, by Medder- Springtide,
? years old, owned by Otto Stifel Of st.
Louis, running under the name Of q +.
Rowe Co., won the $4,000 worlds
lair handicap, one and One-fourth miles,
IN 2:O9h The eastern champion, Hermis,
was second, three lengths behind
Two inches of rain has fallen through
out central Kansas Considerable dam
age to wheat has resulted and harvest
will be delayed.
John Alexander Dowie has arrived in
New York from Europe and will go to
Zion City, completing bis journey around
the world.
During the parade OF circus at Find
lay, Ohio, four spectators were over
come by heat. Twelve horses in the pro-
cessiOn fell and seven of the animals died
Eleven persons were seriously injured
and many more were slightly hurt in a
collision of two street cars 10 Chicago.
Sunday, June 20.
Threatened with starvation and her
husband hOpelessy insane, Mrs. Anna
kelsdzick of Chicago gave up the strug-
gle for existence, killing her three chill
dren and then ending her own life
Illuminating gas was the means Of de-
structiOn.
One hundred and eleven cases of pros
tratiOn have been reported in New York
City as the result Of one days excessive
heat.
The attendance at the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition during the week just
closed was SAC, O,4S5, an increase Of 65,-
29S over the preceding week.
Christopher Frese, an ex-city council
man, and bis wife, both over so years
Of age, were struck by Lake Shore
electric car in Cleveland, Ohio, and
killed.
A meeting of the National Educa-
tiOnal Council will convene in st. Louis
this week This is the forty-third an
nual convention. 1t is estimated that
more than 1000 noted educators are
present.
Monday, June 81.
Four thousand men will be discharged
from the Baldwin Locomotive Works at
Philadelphia within the next few days
Six thousand have already been dropped
from the cOmpany's service This ac-
tiOn is due to lack Of orders for lOcOmO
tives
Santos DumOnt, who will probably be
the first contestant for the 500, 600
airship prize offered by the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, is assembling the
parts of his machine at the fair grounds
in St. Louis.
Two persons we're seriously injured in
wreck of Burlington & Missouri
River passenger train near New Castle,
Wyo. The train ran into an open switch
and collided with train OF stock cars
Two hundred members Of the Elevator
Constructors Union, who have been on
strike in Boston for two weeks, have re
turned to work, having reached an
agreement with the employers.
The First National Bank of Saratoga,
New York, has been closed by order of
the comptroller of the currency. The
institution was capitalized for 500, 900,
and carried $S90,0OO deposits. 1t has
assets amounting to $1,10S, 900 and
will probably reopen its doors.
Three men were drowned by the cap
sizing Of boat on the Illinois river, at
Joliet.
Tuesday, June 2S.
The inquiry conducted by Coroner
Berry and Jury into the General SlO
cum steamship disaster, has resulted in
verdict which holds the directors of
the KnckerbOcker Steamboat Company,
Captain Van Schaick OF the SlOcum, Cap
tain Pease, the commodore OF the com
pany's fleet, and others, criminally re
spOnsibIe. Warrants for their arrest
have been issued.
A tornado near HClemsville, Neb,
killed two persons, fatally injured a
third, and caused the severe injury OF
five others.
The bureau of labor is making an in
vestigatiOn of the labor difficulties in
Colorado, under the organic act OF the
bureau, which charges the commissioners
of labor to investigate the causes and
facts relating to controversies between
employers and employees.
Some time during the night the bag
of SantOs-DumOnt' airship at the St.
Louis Exposition grounds was cut and
slashed in such manner as to preclude
all possibility of its being repaired in
time to allow an ascension on July 4.