Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-06-08
GLANCE OVER THE WORLD
NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS.
Business Pointers-Personal Notes
Curious Facts-Record of Crimes
and Casualties-Progress of Manu-
Observation-Disclosures Notes.

fact0rfen-Re1fGtOus NOtes.
The government has expended 81 ,OOO,-
600 for army mules.
Z. w. Knight, correspondent Of the Lon.
don Times, has reached Havana.
A son of Brigham Young, the great
Mormon prophet, has failed for 81 &c.,
4l0. -'--ss''l--s I
Mrs. Betsy Barker, of North Grafton,
Miss, has just celebrated her Tooth birth
day.
Days of grace, customary in banking
methods, have been abolished in Rhode
Island.
In broad daylight, at Dover, N. H.,
tramps boldly walked into livery stable
and stole horse.
In all the seacoast cities there is great
demand for insurance against loss by
bombardment.
All the large breweries in Cleveland, O.,
except two, are to be consolidated into
one corporation.
Forty Krupp guns have been smuggled
from Germany through France into Spain
as kitchen furniture
Count Eugene A. Van Waldick, of Hol-
land, has enlisted in the United States
army at Cleveland, Ohio.
The government has accepted the offer
of battery by John Jacob Astor, of New
York. 1t will be equipped for mountain
service.
Shocked by the undraped figures in the
statuary hall Of the Omaha exposition
Miss Dorothy Manar took an AK and
chopped a number Of groups to pieces.
OF the 100000 population of Spain
about 100000 can not read or write,
100000 have no visible means of sup
port, and more than 81 900 are profes-
sional beggars.
The number of foreigners in Japan is
only S246, of which 3842 are Chinese,
1878 English, l022 Americans, 493 Ger
mans, 39l French, 222 Russians, l27 Port
uguese and so Dutch.
Horse meat has become a staple article
of food in Manila. None but the wealthy
can afford to buy beef, which now sells
for 81 per pound. Potatoes are sold by
weight, at so cents a pound.
The widow of George NJ. Pullman, the
Chicago millionaire car builder, has re-
nouced the will Of her husband and ac-
cepted her dover right, which enables her
to provide for her sons.
The French government has issued an
official denial of the rumors of the occu-
patton, cession or sale Of any Spanish
territory to France. Cuba and the Phil
ippines were mentioned in the rumor.
Senior de Castro, at Tampa, Fla, just
from Matanzas, says that il the United
States does not aid the Cuban recon-
centrados within three weeks nearly all
Of them will die of starvation.
The rainy season is just beginning in
Cuba.
Tampa, Fla, is now secure against hos
tile attacks.
France and the United States have
signed reciprocity trade agreement.
The black plague is making frightful
headway at Hong Kong, China.
The production of California sweet
wines from August to May was 7,OOO,.
900 gallons. .Is SO. t-
Train loads of walnut logs are constant.
ly arriving at Philadelphia for shipment
to Europe.
Governor Leedy OF Kansas has refused
to commission Jerry Simpson to raise a
regiment of volunteers.
The Hamburg American steamer Bra
silla is loading at Baltimore 800, 600 bush
els Of grain for Germany.
Guadaur and r. NJ. johnson will row
for the worlds sculling championship at
Vancouver harbor July l.
The three Spanish spies who attempted
to blow up Fort Taylor, at Key West, es-
capped to sea in a small boat,
Weyler is represented as being anxious
to go to Cuba, and il sent he declares he
will invade the United States.
At the suggestion of General Wheeler,
the cavalry which will invade Cuba will
be provided with Gatling guns.
A list of Spanish spies in the United
States has been secured by United States
secret service detectives at Montreal.
The Philadelphia common council has
passed bill appropriating $ll 100000 for
new city buildings and improvements.
The postofiiee department will allow
natural history specimens to pass through
the mails as samples of merchandise"
1t is reported that United States Am
bassador White is much pleased at evil
dences Of strict neutrality on the part of
Germany.
William Meehan, pioneer gold hunter
on the Yukon river, WAS shot from am
bush by Indians near Skaguay, Alaska,
and instantly killed,
Senator Lodge Of Massachusetts has in
troduced in the senate bill for the an.
nexation of Hawaii, as an amendment to
the war revenue bill.
The postal clerk force at Chickamauga
Park has been increased and is now equal
to that required by community of $780,
900 population in other places.
Fire destroyed nearly 100000 worth
Of property in the best business portion Of
Dallas, Tex, Friday, and J. Walter Cow
an, a collector, was burned to death.
Senior CASTELAR, advises Spin to be rec
onciled to isolation by being compelled to
fight unaided, but adds that "the Yankees
can blockade our islands, but not our hon
or"
y" ,ited States hosp al relief ship,
now Undergoing transforr alton at the
Brooklyn navy yard, will, when finished,
be the first boat Of the ind ever put
afoat.
General Roy Stone, Of he division Of