The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-04-28

| safeguard OF society, OF lie and property,
is to maintain the supremacy OF the law.
whether it be challenged by corporation,
by capital or by labor"
Bail was not offered for Mrs. Chad wick
today, although the women declares she
is ready to furnish the So, 900 at.any
time.
Mississippi iuries sometimes do strange
things and today at Jackson a jury
broke the record of the state when it
found Stewart Jewell, colored, not guilty
Of the charge of assault and turned him
loose. Jewell, however, was advised to
make himself scarce and he got out of
town on the first train.
Thirty-ive people were seriously in
| iured today in a wreck on the Chicago
and Milwaukee railway at Wilmette, a
suburb OF Chicago.
A general advance OF 10 per cent was
announced today by the Manufacturer 8
Association Of Pittsburg, Pa, to become
effective June l. The advance will affect
over 5000 workmen.
Chicago had a most exciting time
in the wheat pit today, and the din
raised by the excited gamblers drowned
| the clatter of horses hoofs on the street
below. Wheat dropped liz cents, and
closed at 81.
Sunday, April %.
United States Senator Russell A. Alger
lies seriously ill at his home in Detroit.
Twenty-seven officers and 725 men,
composing the Ninth Rgiment are in
| Syracuse tonight, en- route from Sack.
etts harbor to their new post in the
Philippines.
Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor
who made rip Van Winkle" famous,
died at his home at Plain Beach, Fla,
today, after lingering illness of some
weeks.
1t is reported at Chicago that the feet
OF ten whalebacks, which has been in the
iron trade on the great lakes, have been
purchased by syndicate and will haul
grain from the United States to Europe
Captain O'Sbea, whose divorced wife
married Charles Stewart Parnell, died at
Brighton, England, Saturday night.
Monday, April "a.
After seven years service in the Phil
| ippines the Fourteenth Infantry was
| landed at Vancouver Barracks, Wash,
| today.
Mrs. Capt. Bradley Strong, nee Lady
Francis Hope, nee May YOhe, and her
| captain are doing a speciality turn in q
variety theater in New York. Strong
was formerly a captain in the United
| States army and is son of eX-Mayor
Strong of New York.
Congressman J. M. Pinckney of Texas,
his brother Tom, and three other prom
inent citizens OF Hampstead, Tex, were
| killed in a shooting scrape at that place
today. The trouble arose during a
meeting called for the purpose of petition
ing the governor to send rangers there
to inforce the local option law.
In the divorce granted Mrs. Emma
| Thompson at st. Louis today, strange
story is revealed. Twenty four years
| ago the ThompsOn's were married and
lived happily together until 1886 when
| Thompson disappeared. After IL years
they were accidentally reunited, and his
second wife having died, they were again
married. Thompson again disappeared
and the suit and divorce resulted.
Agitation is strong in the city OF Chi
cago at the present time for the city's
ownership of the different gas companies
and will soon become question to be
settled at the polls.
| Frank q. BlgelOw. ex-president OF the
First National Bank of Milwaukee, was
! today placed under arrest charged with
embezzIing over million dollars from
| the bank.
Five thousand employees of the
| National Tube Works, at McKeesport,
Pa, we're surprised when they drew their
pay envelopes today to find therein 5
or 10 per cent increase in their pay.
Three men gained entrance to the
residence of Mrs D. Gilmore at Chicago,
representing themselves as front office
men with search warrant. At the point
of revolver they forced the woman and
male occupant of the house into a small
closet and locked them in After steal
ing 50, 500 worth OF diamonds they de-
parted overlooking over 5000 worth
OF jewelry,
Suits aggregating over q million dol
lars in damages have been begun in state
and federal courts OF Colorado against
the Western Federation of Miners as a
result of the strikes in that state the
| past year.
May wheat closed at..92% cents at
Chicago today.
Tuesday, April 25.
| The highest water mark for wool was
reached last night Wnen boston nrm
bought 100000 pounds at Lewiston,
Mont, at something above "a cents.
The available wheat supply, according
| to Bradstreets, shows the following:
United States and Canada, east of the
Rockies, decreased 1,614,0OO bushels;
afoat for and in Europe, decreased
2.SOO, 900 bushels; total supply, decreas-
ed 4 414,OOO bushels.
An electric motor, in test run on the
| New York Central between CrOton and
New York, broke all previous records to-
day by attaining a speed OF 63 miles an
hour.
According to DR.. Groedel, Berlin's cele-
brated heart specialist, Secretary Hay
can never again expect to return to
active business or political life. His sui
fering is aggravated by a combination
OF heart trouble, nervous collapse and
anaemia The specialist is not willing
to go SO far as to pronounce Mr.. Hay {
case hopeless, but is quoted as regarding
his condition as extremely dangerous.