The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-11-17
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday. Nov. 8.

A cable to the Chicago Daily News
from st. Petersburg SAYS: The number
of killed and wounded in the recent riots
exceeds $4,000, the majority being Jews
TWenty-eight cities have been scenes of
terrible outbreaks and many thousands
are rU0fiess. Homes, shops, offices and
synagogues we're piIlaged and burned.
bitter fight will be waged in the
courts Of New York to decide whether
George B. Mcclellan or William r Hearst
Il to be mayor Of Greater New
York for the next four wears. The
complete returns give Mcclellan a plur
ality Of 34S5 votes, the smallest ever
recorded for successful mayoralitv can
didate, and a result which might readily
be reversed by a recount OF the ballots
At meeting of the chapel Of printers
in the composing room of the Baltimore
News office today Prince Louis of Bat.
tenburg was elected as member. it hav-
ing been developed during his visit to
the office of that paper last night that
bis highness learned the printing art
when a young man.
William Brown, alias Harris, alias
Golden, sent to the Kansas state prison
from WyandOtt county, Kansas, March
u, 1898, has been identified as one of
the three men who escaped from the
Utah state prison eight years ago with
Harry Tracy, the bandit who terrorized
the northwest few years ago.
A four story building on Converse at /,
San Francisco, occupied by five families,
was burned late last night. Several per-
sOns we're rescued by firemen at the risk
Of their lives.
December wheat closed at 95Ac at
Chicago today.
Thursday, November 8.
At noon today six British warships in
the Hudson river, in unison with double
that number of American men OF war.
fred national salute of 21 guns in
honor of King Edward, who celebrated
today his Gath birthday.
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany suffered a bad wreck about two
miles west of Missoula Monday morning
at 500 O'Clock when eastbouDd passen
ger train No. 4 ran into the helper of a
| freight train in a dense fog. No lives
were lost, although a brakeman and two
engineers were seriously injured and a
score of Others badly shaken up.
The first regular passenger train over
| the extension of the Sumpter VALLEY
| railway to Austin station was run yes
| terday. immediately preceding was a
special in charge of Joseph Barton, gen
eral passf nger and freight agent, tear
ing delegation Of representative Sump.
ter business men, the guests Of President
David Eccles Of the Sumpter Valley
I railway.
The apartments of Vice President H
| r. Miller OF the Chicago & Eastern. at
New York. were entered by burglars to-
! day Alter locking a servant in her
room, the robbers transacted the rooms
and escaped with $4,000 worth OF jewelry
| Foreign certificates to the yalue o.
500, 900, consigned to the Tradesman's
| National bank of Philadelphia. have beer
lost by special delivery boy in the EN-
pley of the local pOstOffice. 1t is said
the certificates are of value only to the
bank. They are always issued in dupli
cate, and the first set, which reached
here yesterday, are now on their way
abroad.
RollO Carlisle Palmer of Charlottesville
has been dismissed from the naval acad
emy for marrying while on leave thii
summer. He was a member of tht
second class and is % years old.
December wheat closed at S3Bc al
Chicago today.
Friday, November 10.
CONSERVATION and alarm are wide
spread over rumors that a general mas
sacre of Jews and intelectuals, more
terrible than those already accomp
} lished, is planned by the mobs of st
. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa and othe
cities of Russia. It is declared that al
houses containing Jews are marked will
a red cross.