Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-09-14
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
The Minor Happenings of the Day
I'm All Parts of the WOrld-The
Aftermath Of the War-Business
Features-Crimes and Accidents
Facts of Interest.


as the result of the terrific storms of
last week.
General Brooke is in command of Amer
lean troops in Puerto Rico during the
absence of General Miles.
The customs receipts at San Francisco
in August were $685., 273, the largest on
record for any single month.
The State of Kansas produced this year
one bushel of wheat for every man,
woman and child in the United States.
French papers hitherto hostile to Drey.
fus are now strenuously urging the
French government to grant him a new
trial.
Sixteen thousand dollars of hidden
treasure, left by William H. Ferris, who
died recently at Mount Vernon, N. Y,
has been found.
During the past four years the San
Francisco mint coined $l53.69 1874, of
which $l25,OOO.000 was gold of Pacific
coast production.
The present population of the United
States exceeds that of Germany by about
22,000,0OO, and that of Great Britain by
"a, OO0,O 900.
The population of Palestine is increas-
ing rapidly. Ten years ago there were
only $4,000 residents in Jaffa. Today
there are nearly 10000.
Dawson City now has two newspapers
The Yukon Midnight Sun and the
Klondike Nugget. Both are weeklies and
are sold at so cents per copy.
Col. I. C. Upper, a veteran of the
civil and Indian wars, is dead in Cleve-
land, o. He fought in forty-seven battles,
and was never wounded.
The Spanish officials at Havana have
required Miss Clara Barton to pay duties
and fines upon Red Cross supplies which
she took to that port.
An insurgent hospital has been estab-
lished on the outskirts of Eavana City,
where Cuban and Spanish soldiers meet
on the most friendly terms.
Policeman John Bootheny of New York
rescued from drowning twelve young men
who were thrown into the water by the
breaking of gang plank.
An interesting point regarding the
black plague in India is its increasing
virulence-from So per cent of fatal cases
in the first week of April to so per cent
five weeks later.
An historic landmark in Railway, N.
j., the, Bridge street bridge, over which
General Lafayette rode into the old town,
is being torn away to give place to a
new structure.
Philadelphia physicians are greatly in
terested in the case of Harry Gibson,
who lived for weeks after his ascending
jugular vein was severed.
General Polavieja, who is regarded as
the possible dictator of Spain, says the
Spanish people are thoroughly disguised
with the present leaders.
Superintendent Andrews of the Chi
cago schools proposes teaching Spanish
to enable the boys who SO desire to fit
themselves for business in our new ter
ritories.
Chinese and Japanese merchants have
been defrauding the British Columbian
customs department out of thousands Of
dollars with double sets of invoices.
An excursion train returning from San
Sebastian to Bordeaux, France, was sur
rounded by flames in burning forest,
and had narrow escape from destruc-
ton.
Explorer Lerner's expedition in search
of Andrce. the missing arctic aeronaut,
has returned to Hammerfest, without
having found any traces of the balloon or
its occupants.
The United States gunboat Nashville
received the first news of the signing of
the peace protocol from the Spanish
cruiser Jnfanta Isabel. which put into
Gibara, on the north coast of Santiago
province, Cuba, when the Nashville was
lying there.
Many of the big milk dealers who sup
II ply New York, Philadelphia and seaside
resorts are said to be using chemicals to
keep the milk sweet, and these preserv-
atives are pronounced very injurious, par
ticularly to children and invalids.
Among the passengers Of the auxiliary
cruiser Resolute. just arrived at Mon
tauk point, Long Island, from Santiago,
are the marines who made the first land
ing in Cuba, at Guantanamo bay, and
held Fort McCalla against the repeated
attacks of the Spaniards.
Georgia's cotton crop will be 10 to 20
per cent short over last year.
Gen. Blanco has ordered the liberation
of l44 Cuban political prisoners from
the Isle of Pines.