The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-07-27
TELEGRAPHIC TOUCHES
Wirings of a Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
Summary Of Interesting News and
Events From ali Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, July IS.

Wednesday, July IS.
| lgnatz Krewseyp, a deaf and dumb
maniac, ran amuck at the Hillside home
| for the insane. near Scranton, Pa, and
| killed two women patients and mOrtally
wounded one Of the keepers. He stabbed
all OF his victims with an amputating
knife.
A clOudburst occurred near Carlsbad,
n. NJ and three inches Of rain fell in an
hour All streams and canyons are
! OverfOwing and there will be much dam
| age to crops and fields.
Earthquake shocks numbering between
80 and 60 have practically made a ruin
of the town of SOcOrrO, 160 miles north
Of I'll PasO. Texas The courthouse is a
mass OF ruins and practically all the
houses in town are damaged. There is
a crater of an extinct volcano eight
| miles from SOcOrrO, and the inhabitants
| think that the volcano has something to
do with the series Of shocks.
Philadelphia has been chosen by the
grand lodge of the Benevolent Order of
Elks as the convention city for next
year.
Thursday, July 10.
Action Of greatest importance to labor
circles is contemplated in a direction
given by the president to officers in
charge OF the public works, at the in
| stance of Secretary Taft. This is to en-
! plOy the governments officers to punish
violations of the law of 1902, providing
| that work on government buildings,
| ships and other properties shall be linn
tied to eight hours each day for each
workman.
Five hundred men, women and chill
dren took part in riot in the east side,
| New York, during which they made a
raid on wagon load of ice intended for
free distribution among them and took
every pound in the wagon.
The statue of Liberty on Beil0e's is
land is to be painted. The goddess is to
receive coat within as we'll as without
In the - years during which she bas
borne aloft her torch she has been expos
ed to the salt winds of the Atlantic and
their action has begun to affect her
bronze plates.
The bureau Of insular affairs has com
pleted arrangements for sending back to
their native land the IgOrrOtes, who have
been exhibiting at fairs and other places
Of amusement about the country since
the st. Louis fair.
The United Railroads OF San Francisco
are preparing to combat the demands of
it's striking electricians for an eight hour
day. The company is bringing in men
to take the places Of those who have
walked out. Cots for the strikPbreakers
are being placed in the car barns and
supplies and provisions stored Hnder the
care OF armed guards.
Friday, July 20.
President Roosevelt has been elected
an honorary member Of the g. A. r., of
Mount Vernon, n. 7. A committee will
visit the president at Oyster Bay and
present to him badge denOting his
honorary mem mbership OF the post. In
order to elect the president, the post had
to amend it's by laws Some time ago
President Roosevelt expressed regret
that be was not eligible to membership
in the Grand Army.
At Concord, Winston Churchill, novel
ist, formally opened his campaign for
the nomination as governor of New
Hampshire.
Americans are Fastening across the
border into Texas, fearing to remain in
Mexico under the present critical cOndi-
tiOns. The cry of revolution is in the
air. Under the surface of strikes, riots
| and hasty assembling OF guns, there is
sinister threat to rid the country OF all
the hated gringOes on Mexican Inde
pendence Day, September 16
Attorneys for J. B. Gossage of San
| Francisco have served notice of applica
| tiOn 10 the district court of Des MOines,
| Iowa, for a receiver for the Brotherhood
of American 4eOmen, a fraternal insur
aGce order covering many western
states, with headquarters in Des MOines.
Plans for the republican congressional
campaign are to be formulated at Saga
more Hill Monday. President Roose-
welt has invited Speaker Cannon, Chair,
man Sherman OF the campaign commit
| tee, Secretary LOudenslager and Treas
urer Mckinley of that committee, to
luncheon on Monday.
Saturday, July II.
New York's department OF health will
give series of moving pictures called a
"tubercular exhibition" beginning next
week. These shows, planned by DR.. Darl-
ingtOn, president of the department, are
designed to instruct the people in simple
| preventives for the "White plague" and
in how TO care for those suffering with
the disease. There will be four or five
performances each week from now until
September. They will be held in the
parks and on recreation piers.
One hundred union workmen quit re-
pair work at Stanford university a1d
will not return until nine nonunion car
penters employed are removed or made
to join the union. The commissioner il
charge Of rebuilding refuses to make any
discrimination between union and nom
union labor and the situation is at {
deadlock. 1t will be impossible to com
pete repairs for holding classes in Au
gust unless the difficulty is adjusted.
Proceedings were begun in st. Loui
against the Polar Wave Ice & Fuel com
pany to compel forfeiture of it
charter on account of the alleged unlaW