The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-09-29
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ances that the disease will be stamped
out before the proposed date of the trip,
October "a
Following are the official figures with
regard TO the yellow fever situation at
New Orleans up to 6 p. m. today: New
cases; 46; total, 2S0S. Deaths, 6; total,
800. Gases under treatment, 80 Cases
discharged, 2133.
A decision against Col. j. F. Gaynor
and Capt. B. d. Greene, the contractors
wanted in the United States on the
charge OF defrauding the government,
was handed down by Judge Ouinett to-
day in the court of kings bench.
Harry L. Hillman, Jr., of the 18th
regiment, N. g. n. Y, running in the
colors of the New York Athletic club at
New York today, established a new
worlds record in 800 yard hurdle race,
the time being "a seconds.
September wheat closed at S5c at
Chicago today.
Sunday, September..24l
The police records of Kansas City,
Mo-, show, since Sunday closing went
into effect under Gov. Folk g lid" order,
that there has been an increase of Ii per
cent in drunkenness.
Des MOines, To-, is reveing in murder
sensations which tend to the mysterious
and the police and populace of the city
are at fever heat. Today the body OF
Frank Callahan was found in the Des
MOines river. The body had been
robbed. An ugly bruise in the temple
showed the manner Of death This is
the second body so found and the third
murder in week
Three miners employed at the Glad
stone mine near Reading, Cal, we're
crushed to death this morning. The
men were working in the bottom of
double compartment shaft, $50 feet
below the main shaft for the tunnel One
of the cages broke it's cable and fell to
the bottom, mashing the men into an
undistinguishabie mass.
In it's fort to down organized labor
the Manufacturers association has
succeeded in getting some of it's
New York members in the meshes of the
law. Alter eight weeks careful prepar
alton the u. s. district attorney will
cause the arrest OF large manufacture 8
OF that city on warrants charging them
with violating the contract labor law
The penalty is a foe of from 81 900 to
$IO,oOO or two years imprisonment.
The following is the official report of
the yellow fever at New Orleans 10 to
6 pm. today: New cases, "a; total,
1881; deaths 2; total deaths 367; under
treatment, 2S8; discharged, 2l76
Within sight of 20 young women work.
ing in the same room Carlo Colombo was
literally cut into mince meat at
macaroni factory in Cleveland today.
The belt operating dough mixer was
running on the loose pulley when Colombo
attempted to repair one of the knives
which chops and mixes the dough His
foot slipped and showed the belt onto
the other pully and started the machine,
the whirling knives cutting him until
hardly a semblance of a human being
was left.
Monday Sept 25.
An anti-wife desertion society is being
organized IN New York. The object of
the society is to trace faithess husbands
and arrest them under New York's new
desertion law, which soon goes into effect,
and makes wife desertion felony.
A three story building being construct
ed at Buffalo collapsed today and car
ried 80 masons and laborers, who we're
working on top OF the building. down
with it. A score of men were injured, 8
of them seriously.
The Marshall Oil company OF Marshall,
To-, operating refneries in Pennsylvania,
complained today to the Inter State
commerce commission that rates granted
on car loads of oil uDjustly Disseminated
in favor of the Standard Oil concern.
Six western railroads are defendants.
The limited express on the Penninsyl-
vania railroad ran into a local passen-
ger standing at the Paoli station, near
Philadelphia, tJday and five occupants OF
General Manager Atterbury's private
car were killed outright. Twenty others
on the train were more or less seriously
injured.
Five city councilmen OF Omaha were
today sentenced to 80 days in jail and
to pay the costs of an injunction suit for
violating the provisions of which they
were sentenced.
Sept, wheat closed at S4h cents at
Chicago today.