The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-05-12
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
aGreat Country
Wednesday, May 3


Three persons we're killed and six in
Iured through the collapse of the 3 story
building at the corner of Tenth and
Gray streets, Omaha, Neb., today. The
collapse OF the building was due to heavy
wind.
The third and probably last trial OF
Nan Patterson was brought 70 q close at
New York today when the jury failed to
agree on a verdict. Miss Patterson
tented when the jury " as sent back to the
jury room the irst time and ins tructed
to bring in verdict, but on the second
similar report, the court accepted the
disagreement and the girl was remand
ed to jail. She will now probably be re-
leased on nominal bail or on her own
recognizance and the indictment event
ually quashed.
According to a story from Annoy,
China, 1t has been the custom to SNUG
gle morphia into that section. Recently
a number OF boxes of the drug were SNUG
gled inside shipment of -four. In some
manner the b xes broke and the stuff
mixed with the -four. 1t is estimated
tbat SO people died from the effects of
the poison.
The case of Chauncey Dewey, million
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him in killing the Berry family, ranchers,
In northwestern Kansas was ended in
the district court at Norton, Kan, to
day when the Judge dismissed the de-
fendants without trial, the prosecution
failed to put in an appearance.
With two life sentences reversed and
| the verdict also reversed, Caleb Powers
accused OF conspiracy before the fact to
1 m 4
| application to the supreme court of the
country to have his case transferred to
the United States district court OF Ken
| tucky.
A. B. Spear, cashier of the Chadwicked
| Citizens bank of Oberin, O., today in the
district court at Cleveland entered plea
OF guilty to one count of the indictment
| charging him with making false entries
in the bank books. Judge Taylor at
once sentenced Spear to seven years i'm
| prisonment in the Ohio penitentiary.
May wheat closed at 92c at Chicago
| today.
Thursday. May 4
The caucus of the republican legiela-
| ture, in session at Hartford, Conn, on
| the 37th ballot agreed on Congressman
| F. H. Brundege as the republican nomi-
| nee for the United States Senate to sue
| ceed the late Senator 0. IL. Platt. This
| is equivalent to an election.
A fight is on between the Portland
| Cordage company and the Tubbs Cor
| dage company on one side and the In
| ternatiOnal Harvester company on the
other. The fight is caused by the Inter
national company endeavoring to gain
control of the other company's trade. II
persisted in long enough the wheat rails
ers may get their due when the harvest
begins.
A Chicago special says that polite So
| ciety is again hOrried over q pink tea
| given at a swell home in Benton HarbOr.
ring was pitched on the canvas cover
ed floor Of the parlor and Tommy Ryan,
middleweight champion, and Johnnie
| Morrison of St. Joe, Mo-, went through
ratting 3-rOund bout in ring attire. The
affair was presided over as referee by one
OF the lady guests. The bout was pro-
nounced ''iust lovely" and the principals
we're given three cheers at the finish.
| President Roosevelt has been elected
| to honorary membership in the Denver
Press club and on his arrival there Mon
day from the hunt, will be presented
with a solid gold membership card.
May wheat closed at 91B in Chicago
today.
Friday, May
Pat Grove, the alleged kidnaper Of
Eddie Cudahy, walked into the World
Herald office at Omaha, Neb., today and
was clOseted for an hour with represen-
tatives of that paper. Grove says he
served through the Boer war and has
since lived in Chicago. He is tired OF
| roaming and wants to be among friends
even if the penitentiary is staring him in
the face.
The cerebro spinal meningitis commits
sion of New York has concluded that the
best treatment for the disease is
thorough system of fresh air and SUD-
light Serums and antitoxins have been
valueless.
Jimmy Britt is now champion light
fighter of the world, having defeated
Jabez White, English champion, in the
goth round of q rattling 20 round fight
at San Francisco.
In the treaty signed at Havana today
between Cuba and Great Britain the fav-
ored nation clause had been eAounged,
the Cubans desiring to remain free to
enter any new reciprocal relations with
United States and to avoid them with
other powers.
A severe thunder and wind storm
swept over st. Louis today and resulted
in the death of two persons and the in
jury Of eight Others, with heavy dam
ages to property.
The Allan line steamer Victorian, from
| Liverpool to Montreal, with 1900 pas
sengers on board, is stuck in an ice foe
one mile off Cape Ray, at the entrance
| of the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
! Judge Foster, in the court Of general
sessions, today quashed the indictments
charging conspiracy against j Morgan
Smith and wife, sister of Nan Patterson
According to the Chicago Construction
News, the issue of building permits
throughout the country is still on the
increase Official reports for 20 of tbs
o principal cities OF the country show that
J. during April 9160 permits were taken
q out involving an expenditure of $40,
o 993,8 1888 as against S577 permits, and
> $50, ,443,068 expenditures for April
: 1904.
J May Wheat closed at 91kc in Chicago
today.