The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-09-15
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
Great Country.
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outlaw.
Mrs. D. Wintermeith and baby wer.
fatally burned through the explosion OF 6
lamp which she was lighting Rescuers
were prevented from rendering any aiC
by vicious house dog, which kept them
away until to late.
| +. X. Seventhal and wife OF Eau Clair
Wis, were precipitated from the top o
q Ferris wheel to the ground, distance
OF nearly 100 feet. The woman was in
stantly killed and her husband lived but
a short time after the fall. The seat on
which they were sitting broke.
The British steamship Trapie arrived
at Charleston, s. C., today after voy.
| age lasting three months from Valper.
also, Chill. She grounded during heavy
storm off Cape Peter, but later was
toated with slight damage. Seventeen
men were lost during the storm.
| Commander Robert E. Peary sends q
| message to Herbert l.. Bridgman oil
| Brooklyn, secretary of the Peary Arctic
| club, from Etah, North Greenland, in
which ne states that his ship. the Roose-
| welt, would leave that port on August
| 16, with % Eskimo men and some 200
dogs to establish base at Cape Sabine
for the final dash into the frozen zones
about the pole.
Sept. wheat closed at SO4c at Chicago
TODAY.
Thursday September 2.
The total amount OF money paid for
pensions since the foundation of the
government is $3,32O,S6O.O22, and OF
| this amount $3,144, ,695, ,4O5 has been
paid on account Of the civil war.
With the gas Jet turned on full, the
bodies of Otto Boyer, 81 years old, a
wealthy stOckman from Bliss, Idaho,
and an unidentified man, were found to
day in a room at the Grace hotel, Chi
cagO. 1t is not known whether the two
men entered into a suicide pact or met
an accidental death.
A mob OF $500 people tied Steve
Davis, a negro who confessed to out
raging Mrs. Morris at Waxahashie, Tex,
Sept. 2, to gas pipe, set in the ground
for the purpose, piled fagots around him
and ignited them, burning him to death
This is the third negro that has been
burned in this section of Texas within
short time.
W. A. Howgood OF Cleveland, owner
Of the steamer Iosco, which foundered
during the recent storms on Lake Super
iOr, received a message today stating
that the bodies of four men and one
woman were washed ashore at Pine
River, Wis, with the Iosco's life preserv-
ers attached to them The boat carried
crew of 10, all of whom perished
This makes 40 lives lost during the
storm.
Two persons were killed, one OF them
girl 16 years of age, in a building at
Grand and Mott streets, New York.
The building is said to have been con-
demned two years ago, but had been
permitted to be occupied since.
Gladys Bennett. an 8 year old musi-
cal prodigy, died at San Francisco to
day. The cause OF death was cerebra
spinal meningitis. She first sang in pub
lie at Chicago, when she was only three
years old.
September wheat closed at Sic at
Chicago today.
Friday, September 8.
A terrific storm swept over the west
coast Of Newfoundland today, but no
loss of life. Three schooners were driven
ashore at Cast Cove and were wrecked
Two others were totally destroyed at
Kings Cove and 10 fishing boats are
piled on the rocks in Lower Island cove
President Roosevelt took summary
action today in removing Public Printer
Palmer from Office by telegraph. Palm
er's resignation was requested, to take
effect last Monday, and on it's non re-
ceipt, the gentleman was removed
Foreman Oscar j. Ricketts, received
temporary charge OF the Office, but it is
not known who will receive the perma-
nent appointment.
One hundred monkeys loose on board
chip caused considerable excitement and
made life burden on board the Mont
rose, which arrived at New York from
Yokohama today. Every person on
board suffered. as sleep was impossible
until the monkeys we're starved into sub
mission.
John Hancock, the murderer OF DR..
Engelbrit and man named Edmondsen
on the Nevada desert, was hanged at the
state penitsntiary in Carson City, New.
Chairman Shonts OF the Panama canal
commission announced today that be
had awarded concessions for feeding and
housing the greater part OF the canal
employees to j. E. Markell OF Omaha The
plan embraces line OF hotels where food
can be purchased cooked or uncooked.
Apartments and meals will run from 81
per month to laborers to $35 month to
high salaried artizans or officials
The following is the official report oil
the yellow fever plague at New Orleans
up to 6 p. m. today: New cases, A;
| total to date, 1921. Deaths 4; total
3O8. Cases under treatment, 3O6.
September wheat closed at size at
Chicago today.
Saturday. September 8.
Twenty million dollars is said to be
the sum pret y Mrs. E. R. Whitney will
receive for acting in the role OF an ole
mans darling for exactly four months
On May Miss Anna Bennett, aged %
q telephone girl in New York at SO
week, and E. R. Whitney, aged thre,
sore and ten, a Canadian millionair,
we're married. Whitney died today leav
ing the above amount to bis widow.
James Edward Britt. cbamnion lipht