The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-09-22
BBTWRBN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
aGreat Country.
Wednesday, Sept. 18,

Eiemere Thomas Wise, a 7-year-Old
school boy OF Oakland, Cal, died today
frOra lockja resulting from vaccination
enforced by the school board.
TIE following is the official report OF
the yellow fever plague at New Orleans
up 20 p. m. today: New cases, 43:
total to date, 241S. Deaths, 4; total,
323. Gases under treatment, 303.
Large orders for steel rails have been
booked by Pittsburg iron firms for 1905
delivery, many OF which are from the
west. The orders aggregate / 100000
tons 80 far and do not include 800, 900
tons contracted for this years delivery
which will have to go over to 1906.
Three young civil engineers were
killed on the Delaware, Lackawana &
Western while returning to Courtland,
N. T., on hand car.
President James b. Angel of the Uni
versity OF Michigan, in his annual report
made public today, lays upon the should
ers of the general public large share of
responsibility for the increasing craze for
athletic games, and says the public are
as crazy about football as the students
are.
Sept. wheat closed at S29sc at Chicago
TODAY.
Thursday September IA.
The motOrman was instantly killed
and so passengers seriously injured in
an electric road wreck at Livingston,
Staten Island, today. The car ran into
an open switch, striking the power house.
Alice Roosevelt and party are in Pekin,
China, and on September Is they were
at the summer palace of the Chinese en-
press, where they spent the night.
The republican state convention OF
Nebraska today adopted a platform
endorsing President Roosevelt. praising
him for bringing about peace. The fol-
lowing were nominated, c. B Letton,
justice OF the superior court; U. g. Ty-
ford and Frederick Abbott, regents of
the state university.
Ia carrying out her part OF a suicide
compact entered into with her chum,
Cleo Messler, who committed suicide at
Muncie, Ind, month ago, Miss Chloe
Thompson, aged IL, today swallowed
quantity Oi arsenic, death resulting to-
night.
| 1t took only seven minutes to secure a
jury at Winchester, by, to hear evidence,
render verdict and the Judge to pass
sentence OF death upon Samuel Hillse,
negro, who criminally assaulted Mrs.
| Mollie Case.
| September wheat closed at see at
Chicago today.
Friday, September
| Baron Komura, Japanese peace pleni-
potentiary, who is now i'll at Washing
ton. according to Takashita, an educat
ed Jap now at Sioux City, Ia, will never
recover. TakashiTa claims that when
the message informed komura his
countrymen we're preparing to welcome
him home with funeral rites, there was
but one thing for him to do in order to
regain his standing, and that was to
commit suicide. TakaAhita claims the
peace envoy is doing this by means of
drugs known only to educated Japanese.
Nan Patterson bridged over tbe inter-
vening years OF Der acquaintance with
Caesar Young at Washington today
when she remarked Leon C.. Martin
| Martin was hotel clerk at San Fran
| cisco when Young first met his wife and
fu nj he'd her with funds to procure di-
vorce. During her imprisonment in the
tombs Nan told other women prisoners
there was man ready to marry her.
This man was Martin, who was constant
throughout ali of Mans recent mad
career.
| In panic caused by an explosion and
| fire in the Climax Fuse company plant at
Avon, Mass, seven persons were killed
and several others seriously injured.
The flames spread so rapidly that it
was impossible to remove the dead and
| they we're cremated.
| An unusually heavy rainstorm, accom-
panied by high wind, caused serious
damage to property and loss of four
lives in eastern Kansas.
| David E. Sherrick, ex-audtor of the
state OF Indiana, was arrested and jailed
| at Indianapolis today on a charge of
embezZling state funds. He waived ex-
animation and will probably be bound
over to the grand jury under heavy
bonds.
The Keep commission engaged in in
vestigating departmental methods at
the nations capital, has discovered diff
ferences in the prices of supplies ranging
from 80 to 100 per cent. The commits
sion will recommend the establish ment
of a central supply office to purchase
supplies for all departments.
Il September wheat closed at S3&c at
Chicago today.
Saturday, September 10.
E. P. Bacon, chairman of the executive
committee of the interstate commerce
commission, Issued a formal call today
for convention, the object of which is
to impress upon congress the persistence
of the peoples demand for railroad rate
legislation az outlined in President
RoOsevelt's last annual message.
The body Of George R. Griswold, state
manager OF the State Mutual Life As
sociation of Worcester, Mass, was found
in the Raccoon river, near Des Moines,
Iowa, today. 1t is supposed that Girls
void was murdered and the body thrown
in the river. Robbery was the object.
By the EXPLOSION of defective boiler
in the stone mill of Edward Jennings at
Pennconning, Mich, five men were killed
aud ten injured. The mill was com.
pletely destroyed.
The Empress liner reaching Victoria
from JanaD on October will Iand