The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-07-28
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Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, July 10

wednesday, July 10
Judge Smith Mcpherson, in the federal
court at st. Louis, handed down a
decision today upbolding the fraud order
issued by Postmaster General Cortelyou
against the Peoples United States Bank
and denying the application for an in
Junction restraining the postmas ter al
st Louis from carrying out his in
structions.
Edward GOttschalk, who murdered
Christian Schindeldecke. in ST. Paul,
Mimi, last February, hanged himself in
the county jail in that city today.
Five miners were blown TO pieces at
Moines, Iowa, today, by the explosion of
20 pounds Of dynamite in storage
powder house. Lightning struck a tree
near the building and ignited the
dynamite, as well as two kegs OF powder,
E. II. Funstan, father of Gen Funstan,
who was charged with assault and
carrying concealed weapons, was fined
IS on each charge and the costs of the
suit were charged to him, making a total
OF $3l 50. in the police court at lola,
Kan, today.
The Farmers Bank Of Spring Valley,
o., a private institution, closed it's doors
today. The failure was caused by the
recent failure of the Yellow Springs Bank
The assets are SIG, 900.
July wheat closed at SIX at Chicago
today.
Thursday July 20
The strike which the teamsters of
Chicago have carried on, for the past
three months was called off tonight,
and the men ordered to seek their old
positions.
A clOudburst near Joplin, Mo-, this
morning, caused Spring river to raise 1S
feet in few hours. Many residents Of
the Wlands were driven to the hills,
and damage to the amount of $50, 900
was done. One man was drowned.
T. b. Thueson, a rancher of Wheat
land, Wyo., was robbed of over $1,000 at
Salt Lake City Utah, today by gang
of bunco men. They worked the bogus
policeman game on him.
The City National Bank of Kansas
City, Mo, failed to open it's doors today
The failure was the direct result of the
failure of the Topeka National Bank.
Ruth Bruffy, Il year old girl, was
gored to death by a bull while milking
cows at her home near Livingston,
Mont, today. She attempted to drive
the animal away when it turned upon
her and inflicted injuries from which she
died.
With maximum temperature of sc
degrees there was a general relief in New
York city today. Although considerably
cooler % deaths were reported.
July wheat closed at 90Ac at Chicago
today.
Friday, July Fl
The excursion steamer Sirius carrying
a Sunday school picnic party, today,
stove in her side on a rock near where
the SlOcum foundered last year in New
York harbOr. The steamer was run
aground off North Brother island and
the passengers landed with the aid OF
small boats.
John Gales, who was sentenced to be
hanged March "a, 1882, is now in the
Joliet, ILL.,, penitentiary and no one
knows why the death sentence was not
carried out. The death warrant is now
void and Gales is asking for release in
habeas corpus proceedings.
Forester Pinchot left Washington, d.
O., today for the west, where he will in
spect the various forest reserves in that
section of the country.
By an explosion OF boiler in the U S
battleship Bennington which was lying
in the bay at San Diego, Cal, the lives
of 80 men were lost and over 70 men
we're seriously injured. Some of the in
jured are so badly hurt that they cannot
Il Nhn Of ho MI ic
unknown and cannot be determined for
some time.
July wheat closed at 9OAc at Chicago
today.
Saturday, July q
Miss Lucy Monroe, of South Haven,
Mich, committed suicide today by
her clothing with gasoline
and setting them on fire. Disappoint
ment at her failure to marry an English
nobleman is the theory advanced for her
self destruction.
Fifteen persons were injured, three OF
them probably fatally, in collision
between two electric cars at Portsmouth,
N. H., today.
The body of Admiral John Paul Jones,
recently found III Paris, passed through
the virginia capes TO-DAY On tne cruiser
Brooklyn.
F. W. Nutting was fatally injured by a
pistol shot in in his room in Salt Lake
City, Utah, today. Before his death
Nutting said he had been shot by Mrs
D. j. Quinn, who has been arrested.
A big blast, containing 45 tons Of
dynamite. was exploded today at Ports
mouth. N. H., removing Henderson's
point from the Piscataqua river. The
explosion was complete success. This
is said to be the largest amount of
dynamite ever exploded at one time in
this country.
Alton Parker Hall, grandson of Judge
Alton B. Parker, had a narrow escape
from drowning while swimming in the
Hudson river today with his grand
father at Esopus, N. Y. He was rescued
by Edward Fritz of Poughkeepsie.
Sunday .InIv O2