Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-06-29
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
MINOR NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The Business PrOgress-Fncts for
the Curious-Accldents and Crime
Notes of PersOns-Churches and
Religious News.

important art sale, the pictures in the
Kums museum having been sold for
l,350OOO francs, about $4,000.
The island of Key West is of coral for
nation, contains about 1000 acres and
has population of some 25,0OO-Amer-
leans, Cubans, negroes and Chinese.
A cabinetmaker at Frankenberg, IN
Saxony, now "a years of age, boasts that
he helped build Goethe's coffin in 1882,
and saw the poets body laid away in it.
Signals used by ships at sea date from
1865. They were invented by the duke
of York, afterward James III.
"Llanfair-pwllgwyngyll' is the name
of village in Wales that enjoys the
privilege of being counted as one word in
kilograms.
In Palestine the swallows are allowed
the freedom not only of the houses and
living rooms, but of the mosques and
tombs, where they build their nests and
rear their young.
The common soldier in Russia receives
three rubles per annum-about $2 25 The
day rations consist of two pounds of such
ary, which is very coarse kind of bread
made of cracked rye, baked hard at first
then cut into small pieces and further
dried in heated oven; a small quantity
of salt and some soup.
A centrifugal gun, discharging 10000
bullets minute, has been invented by
an English engineer. The bullets are
poured into a case from a hopper and
guided into a disk, three feet in diam
eter, revolving in the case at the rate of
$4,000 revolutions a minute They are
discharged from the edge of the disk.
DIR. Chan, Chinese physician of Cleve-
land, Ohio, offers to organize in this
country regiment of Cinnamon and to
convert the Chinese of the Philippines in
to allies of the United States.
The value of agricultural products ex-
ported from the United States for the
year ending with this month is larger
than for any previous year in the history
of the country. 1t amounts to over
$S00,00O,00O.
The president has authorized canned
salmon to be added as one of the army
rations. Fresh beef will be issued to the
troops six days in ten, salt meats three
days in ten and canned salmon one day
in ten.
The miners of Colorado are changing
the names of many of their mines to those
of famous men of the present war. One
of the best-paying copper mines is called
Sigsbee.- 1t is claimed that it never paid
until now.
Geronimo, the noted Apache chief, who
has caused the government so much
trouble in his time, is 80 years old. He
is still physically active, and his favorite
amusement is hunting, in which he in
dulges whenever he can get permission
to leave the reservation.
According to the Financial Chronicle,
this years cotton acreage is practically
the same as last year, insuring low
prices. Government estimate, however, Is
of 6S per cent reduction in acreage and
correspondngly higher prices.
A report that wild dogs are creating
havoc among cattle and sheep along the
border of Arizona and New Mexico is re-
ceiving good deal of attention. 1t is
corroborated by the deputy sheriff Of
Navajo county, who recently returned
from an extended trip through the noun
tains along the border.
Testimony in a contest to annul the
will of a deceased Maryland farmer has
developed the fact that he was in the
habit of digging holes on his farm for
the purpose of filling them with water
of the Atlantic, so that he might empty
the ocean and enable the farmers to plant
potatoes on the dry bottom.
The price of beer has been advanced 81
barrel and ice 25 cents a hundred
pounds in Chicago.
There has been sharp advance in the
wholesale price of cheap teas, on account
of the war tax.
The queen regent of Spain has offered
to abdicate, if such step will allay pop
ular discomfort.
The British government is preparing to
store 100000 tons of coal at Esquimalt,
British Columbia.
Lord Wolseley, commander in chief Of
the British army, has been offered the
governor generalship of Canada
An English traveller. reports 100000
acres of marvelously rich unimproved
farm land in the Philippine islands.
There is treasury deficit SO far this
month of $1,000, 600, owing to war and
navy department expenditures.
The navy department has reliable in
formation that the Spanish feet at Cadiz,
Spain, under command Of Admiral Ca
mana, is totally unfit for sea-
The senate has passed bill authoriz-
ing the appointment Of non partisan in
dustrial commission, to recommend laws
needed by laboring, agricultural and cap
ital interests
A Chicago doctor claims to have cured
consumption by COMPRISING the lungs
with nitrogen, permitting selfhealing.
The state department Is now issuing
only about 60 passports day, which
shows that the tide Of foreign travel from
the United States is very low.
Fearing that congress viii not make al
appropriation for the Paris exposition
France is now loudly protesting hei
friendship for the United States.
The United States furnished one-hal
the imports Of Mexico last year; Englant
one-sixth, France one-fifth, Germany one
tenth and Spain about one-fourteenth.
Ir poo,a n Ia admitted that the philin