The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-07-08
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday. June %.

The prohibition party is holding it's
national convention in Indianapolis.
\ Quite q boom is in progress for Gen.
\ Nelson A. Miles for president.
I The town of New Boston, Arkansas,
25 miles south of Texarkana, has been
wiped out by a tornado and several peo-
/ pie killed.
| The advance guards of delegates to
the national democratic convention are
| gathering in st. Louis. The chances are
/ favorable for a warm time among the
| BOurbOns.
Jacob II. Plain, cashier OF the German
American National Bank of Aurora, ILL.,,
has been arrested charged with the mis-
appropriation Of sos, 900 of the funds
of the bank.
Over 500 homes, business houses and
schools, n short distance from Pittsburg,
Pa, have been inundated by cloud
burst One life is known to have been
lost
Fire has devastated the lower half OF
the village OF Lake Placid, n. Y, we'll
known summer resort. A rainstorm set
in and saved the town from utter de-
structiOn.
Thirty nine men depOrted from Cripple
Creek under military escort, have arrived
in Denver and joined the colony of exiles
already located there. This colony
numbers over 200 men and they have
organized local union affiliated with
the Western Federation of Miners.
Thursday, June 80.
The prohibition party in national con
vention at indianapolis, Ind, has nOmi-
mated Silas c. Swallow of Pennsylvania
| for president and George W. Carroll Of
Texas for vice president.
A saloon at Walkerville, Mont, was
entered by masked men and $1,000 in
money and valuables secured from the
proprietor and inmates. The robbers
escaped.
After trip around the world, John
Alexander DOwie has arrived in Chicago.
Do~ie will now answer in the bankruptcy
court, the proceedings having been
brought before his departure for Aus
tralia.
w. II. Max we'll, superintendent of in
5trnctiOn OF New York City, has been
elected president Of the National Edu-
catiOnal Association which has been in
convention in St. Louis.
The postmaster general has declined
the request of the Louis ( Clark eXposi
tiOn authorities for the issuance of II
special series OF postage stamps com
memOrative OF the exposition.
The steel trust earnings for the June
quarter are over SIS, 100000, ample to
cover in full the preferred dividend.
Friday, July 1.
Two distinct lines of operation have
developed in the preliminary sklrmish
ing OF the democratic national cOnVen-
ti0n in st. Louis. One is a scheme to
rush the nomination of Judge Parker on
the first and second ballot, and the
other il to scatter votes so as to prevent
an early nomination with view OF
naming Cleveland or German.
A fierce forest fire is raging in the
mountains near Tombstone, Arizona.
Much valuable timber and considerable
mining property is being destroyed.
The Fidelity Savings Association Of
Denver, Colo, has gone into the hands
OF q receiver Liabilities are placed at
81, 100000.
Two prominent society and club men
Of Minneapolis, Mimi, have received
fatal injuries and five other persons were
seriously injured by the explosion OF
gasoline launch on Lake Minnetonka,
| near that city.
The census bureau has issued its bulle-
| tin on the negro population. There are
| 9,2O4, 531 negroes in the United States,
| perhaps q larger number than is found
| in any country outside OF Africa.
Seven thousand one hundred miners in
| the employ of the various corporations
in the Birmingham, Ala, district have
| suspended work, pending the adoption
OF a new scale Of wages.
Saturday, July 2.
| President Roosevelt has arrived at
| Oyster Bay, l.. L., and was given
| great reception by his neighbors.
Two women and a man, occupants Of
| an automobile that crashed into
motor train in New York, are badly in
jured. The women will probably die.
Judge Lanning has signed a final de-
cree in the United States circuit court at
Trenton, n j., ordering a sale Of the
United States Shipbuilding Company in
foreclosure proceedings instituted by
the Mercantile Trust Company and the
| New York Security 4 Trust Company.
The two mortgages held by them are
100000 and $1O,OO0,O0O respec-
lively.
Nearly 1900 employees OF the Pullman
Company have been laid off at the Pull
man car shops near Chicago. Officers
OF the company declare that it is neces-
sary to cut down expenses and that the
orders on hand do not require so large
force.
Senator J. r. Burton OF Kansas, con-
victed of accepting money from d com
pany under investigation by the post
office department, has been granted an
appeal to the supreme court by Judge
Z b Adams Of the district court of st.
Louis.
Sunday, July 3.
The Chicago Limited on the Wabash
railroad, half hour late and running
80 miles per hour, was wrecked inside
the city limits of Litchfield. Ill. Twenty
persons are dead and about 40 more or
less seriously injured. The engine ran
into an open switch and struck freight
standing on a siding. The engine and
the first three coaches were piled in a
heap and consumed by fire.
William j. Bryan has arrived at the
Jefferson hotel in St. Louis and is one oil