The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-22


ical Union of New York are fined and
ordered committed for contempt OF
court.
Held indirectly responsible for the
death of William Hamlin, a prisoner
at the Pontiac Qll.) reformatory.
Disciplinarian A. j. Renoe and Capt,
J. W. Rogers of the institution were
discharged by the board of trustees.
Undaunted by his defeat in the Ohio
primaries, at which Taft delegates to
the state convention were chosen, Sen.
ator Foraker will carry on his fight in
the congressional districts of the state
which will choose their delegates tc
the convention.
Fifteen American miners were blown
through the roof and sides of their
boarding house at the Santa Rosa mine
in Sonora, Mex, 20 miles south OF
Douglas, Ariz., when Mexicans explod
ed several sticks of dynamite beneath
the structure and at the same time
made an attempt to kill every AmerI
can connected with the mine.
In a double explosion at Furnace
No. 1. of the Monongahela plant OF
the National Tube Company, two men
were burned, perhaps fatally, three
others badly scorched, and many
thousand dollars worth os property
damaged within a radius OF mile.
One thousand coal miners in the EN-.
ploy of the Crerar-Clinch Coal Com
pany of Chicago went on strike fol
lowing a conference between miners
and operators. The trouble original
ed over the grade of powder which the
company has been furnishing.
Though the St. Petersburg press is
not permitted to publish the fact. it is
positively known through official
channels that the czarina is suffering
from Authorizations and that her
physicians have warned her husband
of the necessity for her removal from
Russia.
patches tell the story of thousands OF
workers returning to their accus-
toned tasks, and seem to mark an end
of the depression following the recent
financial furry.
The first step in the action to annul
her marriage to Arthur Osborne, the
young broker, has been taken by
Helen Maloney, daughter of Martin
AaIoraxv thc x,,,,1t;x,;J1;ov,a;r 1 <root;oc
magnate of Philadelphia.
Flossie Ford, years OLD, killed her
3-year-old brother with a pistol at
Whitestown, Ind The father, Quincy
Ford, was so shocked by the news OF
the tragedy that he became raving
maniac.
Seven persons we're injured, two
probably fatally, at West Homestead,
Pa, when a car of the Pittsburg &
Homestead Street Railway Co
plunged over a 15-foot embankment.
The accident is attributed to slippery
rails.
Gladstone Dowie. the "unkissed"
son of John Alexander Dowie, may &C
into court in an effort to recover the
famous sable overcoat his father
bought for $3.50 in England and wore
on special occasions in the United
States.
What Is believed to have been a
deliberate plot to wreck the Santa Fe
fast mail. carrying two coach loads of
United States soldiers from Chicago
to Kansas City, failed through the
mistake of the train wreckers in plac-
ing the obstruction on the track used
by the eastbound instead of the west
bound trains.
Six thousand members of the Unit
ed Societies, representing. they claim,
100000 voters, held demonstration
in Chicago in protest against the at
tempt to enforce "a blue and obso
lete law" providing for Sunday clos
ing of saloons.
New York harbor is practically ice
bound. Not in years have the bay
and rivers been so clogged with ice
as at the present time. With con-
tinued cold weather, traffic may
be stopped. except to all but ocean
liners.
Brodie L. Duke, son of a million
aire tobacco man of New York. came
to Pittsburg and in Is hours is said
to have spent $4,000 on pleasure. He
gave the orchestra leader Of a cafe
$25 to change his program. scattered
about tips ranging from IS to $25.
and paid . $1,000 dinner check for
friends.
Alvin Newly, at Valley View. KY.
shot and killed his bridge and then
turned his revolver upon himself. FIR
ing bullet into his head. When
neishbOrs. attracted by tho shooting