Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-04-20
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND.
CONDENSED NEWS OF WORLD
Crimes and Casualties in All Lands
Paragraphs About Prominent
PersOns-Business Conditions in
Brief-Peculfar Incidents He.
corded by Many Observers.

corded by Many Observers.
The recent cold weather has done great
damage to fruits and vegetables through
out Georgia.
Rapid work is going on to transform
the vessels at the Brooklyn navy yard in
to auxiliary cruisers.
At Commercial, Ky, the 3-year- son
of Nat Corbin, while playing about fire
in the yard, was burned to death.
The Uncompahgre and Ute Indians are
said to be ugly over the dilatory tactics
of the land allotment commissioners
Diphtheria at Waverly, Mo-, has put a
stop to all church and social gatherings
Everything is being done to check the
contagion.
The total output of coal in the United
States in 1897 Appropriated l9s,25O,O 900
short tons, with an aggregate value of
$l9s, 100000.
Postal Clerk Hart, arrested in Chicago
on a charge Of theft, gave as an excuse for
the crime that he could not live on SIP a
week.
Fire in Toxic, Japan, destroyed over
100 houses and rendered ii, 900 people
homeless.
Masked white men tarred and feathered
Mrs. Charles Saunders and HALLS Atwood
and rode them on rail out of South Lin
coin, Neb.
A man in Wabash, Ind, has built up a
paying business in rabbit breeding, hav-
,nrr con,,ra1 lysnI that oI.bla In
mer as we'll as winter
Captain j. E. Bernier of Quebec is en-
deavoring to induce the Canadian gov
eminent to give him financial aid for his
proposed expedition to the north pole.
A system of improvement of the public
highways has been inaugurated in Pettis
county, Missouri. The county court has
ordered an election on Tuesday, April 26,
to vote upon proposition to establish a
six-mile road district. with Sedalia as
the center.
After pretty tight contest, in which
the Canadian Pacific railway lobbied with
great persistence and effect, the Corbin
railway bill was defeated in the house Of
commons at Ottawa by a to Ga. The
French Canadian members from Quebec
opposed the bill almost unanimously.
Great excitement prevails in the Ha-
waiian islands about the threatened erup-
ton of the great volcano Muna Loa. The
cooled lava has dropped down the mount
ain side 1000 feet, the great volumes of
smoke are issuing from the crater. There
had been constant earthquakes and heavy
rainfall for two weeks previous to the
sailing of the Alameda, which brought
the news to San Francisco last Thursday.
The American squadron at Hong Kong,
China, has completed arrangements for
putting to sea.
Thomas H. Tongue was renominated
for congress by the republicans of the
First congressional district of Oregon.
The Cincinnati chamber of commerce
has passed resolution in favor of re-
ciprocity with Canada and Newfoundland.
The number of lives lost in the snow
slideat Chilkoot Pass, Klondike, will
reach 100. Sixty-nine bodies have been
found.
The postoffice department has prepared
information for the postoffice employees
and postmasters who enlist. Their places
will be reserved for them.
Having been surprised by the police,
burglar at Montreal Canada, jumped
40 feet from window into snow bank
and escaped, apparently uninjured.
A cablegram from London says that Mr..
Gladstone may not survive longer than
sixty days. That is the opinion of his
physician after having carefully dag
nosed his condition.
In 1877 Falcon island, in the Friendly
group, began as a smoking shoal. Ten
years later it was volcanic island 800
feet high and over one and half miles
long. Now it is disappearing.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, says
that the Carnegie Steel Company has re-
ceived an order for the steel plates and
material for 100 torpedo boats from the
government. The work can be done in
two weeks.
The governor of Michigan has sent to
the legislature a message recommending
authorization of war loan of 100000.
A scene of enthusiasm followed the read
ing OF the message, and the bill was
passed within half an hour.
A company has been chartered at To-
peka, Kan, with capital stock of 49,
100000, to colonize land grant of 4,00O,.
600 acres in the central part of Mexico
with $4,000 Indians of the five civilized
tribes who are dissatisfied with the Dawes
treaty.
The Illionis butterine law has been de-
clared unconstitutional by the state SUI
preme court. The judges decided that
manufacturers have constitutional
right to color butterine or oleomargarine
yellow or imitation, which was prohib-
tied under the terms of the law.
ROOSEVELT TO 60 TO FRONT.