Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-04-06
NEWS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD
Items of Information Gathered From
= Wide Area-POlit1cal Happen
inas and Industrial NOtes-Crimes
and Accidents.

Spanish agents have purchased 600
mules in Kansas City for their govern
ment.
The work of putting the New Jersey
militia on war footing is being success
fully pushed.
tro-Hungary is said to be negotiat-
ing for the sale of war vessel to Spain.
General Butterfeld's old regiment, the
Twelfth New York, has rendered its SER
vices.
Riciotti Garibaldi says if the United
States will defray their expenses he will
engage to send 10000 Garibaldians to
Cuba.
A large number of Bellevue hospital
physicians and surgeons have rendered
their services to the government in case
of war.
Four moonshiners have been arrested,
and their illicit still confscated, in eel
lar in New York city.
Threatened by tramp, Mrs. Gesella
Bond of Chicago clapped pan of dough
on his head and the vagmnt fed in terror.
English newspapers hint that the French
navy mobilization may be in connection
with the impending rupture between the
United States and Spain.
Because of the unprecedented drouth,
stockraisers at Fresno, CAL, have petition
ed the president to permit grazing on GER
tain portions of Yosemite Park reserva-
ton the coming season.
The equal taxation committee of the St.
Louis Single Tax League claims to have
evidence that "more than $350,O00,O0
worth in actual cash value of real estate
and franchises in st. Louis goes untaxed."
alive. Roll call followed amidst greatest
confusion. The parties were solidly
aligned as in the standing vote. On roll
call the appeal was laid on the table, l79
to 1879.
Eugene Saulsby, prominent politician
of indianapolis, has been stricken with to.
tai blindness.
The attorney general of Texas has ruled
that in consequence of the careless draft.
ing of resolutions in the legislature there
will have to be two state .lections in Tex.
as this year. The regular election of state
officers will be on the second Tuesday in
November, and a special election will have
to be held the first Tuesday, which is the
first day of November, to pass on some
constitutional amendments submitted by
the last legislature, to he voteo on this
year.
1t is understood that Frances demand.
in China include the cession of Yang tse
valley.
The troops at Fort Sheridan, Chicago
are to join the troops at the New York
harbor defenses.
Five small children of Pottsville. Pa.
ate wild parsnips, and will probably die
from the poison.
Two government engineers have ar
rived at Portsmouth, N. H., to arrange O
signal service on that coast to be used
in case of war with Spain.
Anticipating that Chile will sell the
man OF war Encalada to the United
States, Commander NJ. Symmonds, com
handing the gunboat Marietta, has been
ordered to proceed at once from Callao
to Valparaiso, where he will hoist the
American flag on board the vessel.
The British government is massing O
powerful fleet in Chinese waters.
Jesse r. Horton of Sherman, Texas has
rendered Secretary of War Alger the
services of $4,000 men for active service
in defense of American honor and for the
freedom of Cuba. Thousands of these men
wore the blue and gray in the civil wal
and come from Oklahoma, Indian terri
tory and the plains of Texas Adjutant
west Texas division United Confederate
Veterans, has also offered the president
his services in case Of war with Spain.
The Russian government is construct
ing an ice crusher, said to be capable Of
reaching the north pole.
The deaths from the black plague in
Bombay, India, now average 100 weekly
English tourists report remarkable
demand for American goods in China and
Japan.
A bill prohibiting saloon to be opened
within 800 feet of any church has beer
enacted by the New Jersey legislature.
Judge Campbell of San Francisco has
decided that a cat is not domestic ami
NAL and can not therefore be claimed as
the property of any one.
San Diego, Cal, will soon be safe from
attack. Forty thousand pounds of ammu
milton have arrived there for the big guns
being mounted on the Notifications.
At Huntington, Pa, Robert X. Mills, a
colored barber and veteran of the late
war, has organized a colored mems mill.
tary company for service in case of wal
with Spain.
DIR. G. w. Evans, an ex-Union soldier
and prominent physician of Richmond
KY, is raising a company of volunteers
for the war with Spain. Every man in his