The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-09-15

Nelson at San Francisco today in tn,
18TH round OF fight which will Ions
stand in class of it's own. 1t is said tt
be the fiercest fought and most scien
tine contest In the annals of ring contests
Five persons were killed and rs injured
IN collision between passenger and
freight trolley cars on the York & Dallas
| town electric railway about 6 miles from
York, Pa, today.
Following is the official figures with
regard to the yellow fever at New
Orleans md are up to o m. today:
Deaths !; total to date, 1862. Number OF
cases unuer treatment, 30S; cases dis.
charged, 2373
Because she feared the, body of her 49,
months Old baby would be taken away
from her, Mrs Abraham Coulter, clasped
the dead baby in her arms until she
reached the end OF her jour- ey at Stock
ton, Cal. The baby died while en- route
and the mother eattnded to the wants
Of her other two children, not lying the
corps down during her ride on the train
from Reno, New.
The death of Captain Fenger by sui
eide and the loss OF eight men by going
estray in log was reported by the re
naming members of the crew of the Bos-
ton fishing schooner Joseph II. Cromwell,
who brought the vessel into port today.
The Santa Fe elevator, containing S54,
oUO Bushels OF grain, was destroyed at
Chicago today. Loss $725, 900, fully
insured. The fire is thought to have
been cansed by spontaneous combustion.
Sunday, September 10
Since the recent heavy earthquake at
Calabria, Italy, many shocks OF minor
character occur daily. Mt. Vesuvius is
active and the ancient crater on the is
land OF StrombOli is in violent eruption.
All OF the historical and picturesque vii
lagos on the coast OF st. Eufomia, facing
the Island OF StrOmboli, are totally
ruined and will not be rebuilt, as the
inhabitants declare they will emigrate
to the United States.
The Church of England in the Domin-
ion OF Canada has come out fat footed
against the marriage OF divorced couples,
although the question OF the Innocent
being compelled to suffer along with the
guilty caused two days of argument,
some claiming the innocent party should
be allowed to remarry. Hereafter no
Ane Lean clergyman n Canada will be
permitted to marry Darby to another
while Joan is sti on terra frma.
1t is announced from Los Angeles that
another long buried secret of the ancients
has been resurected. This time it is the
discovery OF hardning copper, gold and
kindred metals to the consistency OF
steel, which 2 f. Vaughen claims to be
able to accomplish after 10 years exper
mintiDg.
Lawrence Brown, inspector for the
interior department, has been dismissed
Brown and number of other young
men gave a dinner at Guthrie, Okla, to
the chorus girls belonging to the Irma
Opera company at che Windup of which
Brown and one of the girls were married,
The department held that Seeley dinners
and marriages after an hours acquaint-
ance would not add dignity to the service,
hence Browns removal
A tornado passed over the vicinity of
Walter, south of Lawton, Okla, killing
Two people and seriously u iniuring nine
Others Several houses we're blown down
and other property damage done.
The following is the official report of
yellow fever in New Orleans up to 6 pm
today: New cases, 25; total to date.
229S. Deaths, z; total, 3l6. Number
OF cases under treatment 256.
Monday. Sept Ii.
In collision Of passenger trains on
the Canadian Pacific, 20 miles west of
Ottawa, five persons we're seriously if
not fatally injured and many Others cut
aud bruised.
Following is the official report OF vel
low fever at New Orleans up to 6 o. M
today: New cases, 3S; total to date,
2327. Deaths, 0; total, 316; under treat
ment. 300
The monthly bulletin issued by the
agricultural department gives the condi-
tiOn OF spring wheat at S7.3; corn, 80 5;
oats, 9O.S; barley, 81 8; rye, 922.
A car on the New York elevated road
jumped the track and fell to the street
below. Twelve people were killed and 40
Others more or less seriously hurt. The
accident was caused by broken coup
ling.
Mrs. William Frost blew the top off OF
her husbands head at Butte, Mont, to
day, after Frost had made strenuous
attempts to cut her throat with a razor.
Frost was suffering from too frequent
libations in the flowing bowl.
September. wheat closed at S2% at Chi