The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-03-17
Sunday. March IL.

According to Commissioner Barting
ton over 40 persons a week die from til
effects OF spotted fever" cerebro spna
meningitis, in New York. Reports from
surrounding states show that Pennsyl
vania is not alone in fighting this di
sease. which kills so per cent OF thos
attacked by it.
Since her conviction at Cleveland, Mrs
Chadwick has been indulging in numerou,
felnting spells, but late accounts state
that the unrespOnsive chillinPss OF hel
cell is exertiDg a Quieting effect and thai
her nerves are quieter. 1t is the inten
ton OF counsel for Mrs. Chadwick &c
carry the case up on the ground that
the verdict was not according to the
terms OF the Indictment
A family fned at Denver, Col, caused
the death of three persons and the
serious wounding of three Others. George
Schistler, mad with rage because of his
| defeat in law suit in which his bitterest
enemy was victorious, armed himself
with rifle proceeded to the home o
K. Fill and shot him in his doorstep, az
the wife come to her husband, she too
was shot dead. Then Schistler set fire
to the house, and it is supposed burned
a son OF the Fills. Schistler then re.
turned home and barricaded himself,
and in the battle which followed with
| the police three of them we're wounded
| before he was struck by the rain OF
bullets pouring into his retreat. Mrs.
| Schistler was away when her husband
| started on his killing tour, and when
appraised OF the terrible tragedy fell
PROSTATE. 1t is thought she too will
die from the shock.
Permission has been granted labor
leaders to organize all government EN-
plOyes who may wish to become mem
bers Of labor unions. President
Roosevelt today gave consent for
government employees for the purpose
OF organizing them, but no force is to
be used.
Monday, March 13
The Tenth street bridge at Los
Angeles fell today, carrying with it II
or II people who were on the bridge.
Two Of these we're drowned, while several
were more or less seriously injured.
The charred remains OF Mrs. Joseph
Nance were found today in the ashes of
her home in the outskirts of Marysyille,
Cal. The husband OF the dead woman
is under arrest pending investigation.
May wheat closed at $1.13 at Chicago
today.
According to the Chicago Daily News,
independent meat packers have raised q
fund of $3,500,0O0 to fight the meat
trust.
E. w. Burdick, treasurer OF Jefferson
county, Montana, said to be short in his
accounts, was found dead ia his room
at Butte. 1t is believed to be case of
suicide.
The famous trotter, Commando owned
by j. R. Keene, and valued at 100000,
died of lockiaw at Lexington, KY.
The supreme court of Colorado hand.
ed down decision that the joint legis-
lative convention must seat either
Adams or Peabody, and that Mcdonald
cannot be put into the Office Of governor.
Tuesday, March Il
The department of commerce and
labor is informed today that through the
efforts of French and German chemists
for the past $50 years an artificial silk
has at last been produced from col
lodium. Human hair is also manu-
factured out of the same material said
to excel the natural article for the use
of wigs, etc. Factories will soon be
started in the United States for the
manufacture of these articles from
cOllOdium.
The Nevada legislature adjourned to-
day and nothing startling has been dis
covered as result of their deliberations
except that in the excitment OF the
session all the laws against gambling
and liquor selling were repealed, the
prize6ght law excepted, and nothing
enacted to take their places.
Nineteen republicans in Colorado re-
fuse to act with the majority in an
endeavOr to give the contested COVER
norship to Peabody. This, if persisted
in until adjournment, will permit Adams
to retain the Office which he now holds.
The south furnishes the usual batch OF
news today. From Lake Village, Ark
battle was fought today between
blacks and whites. Two blacks dead,
one escaped to the woods and blood
hounds are on his trail. From Selma,
Ala-Ed and Will Portmey, colored,
were today taken by a mob and lynched.
From Long View Texas Julius Stevens,
colored, who yesterday gave Carl Ander-
son, white, a good thrashing, was shot
to death in his cell.
May wheat closed at $1.13B at
Chicago today.
Penned in by flames, with fire escapes
made useless by piles of rubbish, hun
dreds OF people in a New York tenement
suffered the tortures OF abaddon in a
fire there today. By heroic efforts fire.
men succeeded in rescuing many of them,
but it is estimated that 20 victims are
in the ruins.
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