Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-11-16
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Items-General News OF All Kinds.
Chicago has GAS churches.

| New York City's annual budget is $685.
53O,0s2.
The first troops for Cuba will leave
about November % under Brigadier Geu-
eral Carpenter.
Mrs. George Bear of Kansas City con-
mitted suicide just one week after her
marriage.
Much OF the illness among troops at
Manila is due to their indiscrcet eating
and drinking.
The battlcship Texas is in drydock and
being placed in fighting trim at the Brook
lyn navy yard.
Hypnotism was employed by a New
York hospital surgeon in subduing an ep-
ileptie patient, who had overcome five
policemen.
The diphtheria epidemic in the western
part OF Scioto county, o.. is becoming
alarming.
The ed Kansas regiment, now en- route
TO Manila. will vote on the state election
in mid ocean.
Lord Aberdeen at banquet in Ottawa,
Canada, spoke eloquently in praise of the
United States.
General Blanco will leave Cuba Novem-
Der 20, and Pando VIII be IN command oil
the Spanish forces.
Inhabitants of Bellefontaine, o., are
alarmed over the rapid spread of small
pox, and hundreds OF people are being
vaccinated daily.
\ party Of seven gold hunters from
| California il renorted to have hepn en-.
quilted in qnleksand recently near Lake
Bennett, Alaska,
A new republic was born on November
!, called the United States OF Central
America, composed OF Nicaragua, Sa'vd'
dor and Honduras.
Extraordinary activity prevails IN
British naval and military circles IN hong
Kong. England is ready to hght all Eu-
rope, II necessary
The abode of the Virgin Mary was CIV
en- by the sultan OF Turkey TO the en-
peror OF Germany and by the latter 10
the German Catholics
Moonshiners in Clcburne county. Ark,
are making war on iniormers and the raw
abiding element and troops may be nee
essary to quell the trouble.
| United States Consul Hanna at San
Juan, Puerto Rico. warns Americans To
remain away from the island at present
There is no work for mechanics. clerks
or hborers.
Rear Admiral Miller, VINO holsted the
stars and stripes over Hawaii. advocates
the Nicaragua canal and the cons'ruc-
tion OF large number oi hrst class Ddttie'
ships OF high speed.
party OF boys playing halloween
pranks IN Toledo o.' frightened an ageo
woman, MIS-. sanger, so oadiy that sue
died before the arrlvel oi physician.
The first test OF krupp arlnor plate
was made at hethiehen. "a Ihree shots
were fired from an s-inch gum the pro-
iectile weighing 253 pounds, and the We
loeity ranging from $500 TO 2ooo ieet per
second. The plate was not cracked.
The Grand Army oil the hepnolic Is
formulating plans ior its national en'
campment' "hi'h VIII DC he'u III in,,'ue !,
phia next summer, AZ 'nat meeting u
VIII DE decided whepne, so'uiers VI VI.
spanish American war siah w "u"''''e'
10 the asSoc,"''oh' -
a dispateh irohi ioPeN"' mas 's'
that complaints are pe'"g feeeNeu '"e'e
by the state poaru oi railway eo'''',s'
sionen regarding the scarcity oi gram
cars at many hanSas points me COM
plants say lhat IL Is impo77'p'e 70 gei
cars to handle the gram
a peculiar disease mas oroheh our
among the horses IN tne hor'n Pa'' Vi o','
roll county, ma ahu seVera' nave u'eu'
Inc ahimais unroa'S Deco''e 'nn"''eu %
that they cannot swallow, anu coh7e'
Iquentiy they starre 10 death' Ihe''
seems TO be no remedy ior Tue u'se'se
The transport feru mas arrived at ad "a
Francisco from Manila inefe were i'ns
United States soldiers siek at Mania
when the Peru sailed ana smallpox was
spreading rapidly among the troops Inc
filth poured into the canals py the ohi'
nese is prolific source OF disease
i John Hubbard and William Lamont
who are now serving time in the state
house of correction at Tona, Mich, eoniid'
ed TO three fellow prisoners that year
ago last September they murdered and
robbed Ludwig Herman, a veteran soldier.
They will be held and tried for the crime,
which has hitherto been a mystery.
The remarkably small accumulations
of wheat at the principal shipping points
lead experts TO believe that farmers are