Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-07-06
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
MINOR NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The business ProGress-Fscts for
the Curious-Accidents and Crime
Notes of Persons-Churches and
Religious News.

Revised estimates on the losses of the
Letter wheat deal place the net sum at
s5.50O,00O.
Dullness in the -four trade in Milwau
kee, Wis, has led to the closing of four
large mills.
The government internal revenue col
lections for May increased $3,2sl ,225 over
May last year.
Mrs. John p. Sawyer of Mobile, Kan,
was shot and killed by her husband, who
says he mistook her for burglar.
Many prominent army officers think
that 100000 more men will be needed to
make the war against Spain short and
decisive.
The war department is making ar,
rangements to send 600-bed field hos
pital to the Philippines under charge OF
the United States navy as needed.
Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia is reported
to be organizing an expedition to Cuba
to nurse sick and wounded Americans and
Spaniards,
1t is reported that the people OF Japan
are strongly in favor of triple alliance
consisting of Great Britain, the United
States and Japan.
Mr.. Gladstone at the time of his death
was a member of the Royal Academy OF
Great Britain, holding the sinecure of.
flee of professor of ancient history.
For the third time in six months the
Shideler pOstoffice, eight miles north of
Muncie, Indiana, was robbed last Monday
day night. The booty amounted to $50.
Gen. Weyler says that instead Of send
ing Ceren's squadron to Cuba to be
bottled up at Santiago, it should have
been sent to destroy eastern coast cities
of the United States.
Two hundred girls belonging to local
No. 81, of the United Garment workers,
at Wappinger Falls, New York, have con-
tributed several truck loads of provisions
to starving Cubans.
David Ferris, retired New York gro
Ger, driven to frenzy by the constant
nagging of his mother-in law, shot and
killed her and then turned the weapon
on himself with fatal results.
Minneapolis tailors are taking steps TO
abolish sweat shops and to organize the
women and girls engaged in the tailoring
business so that they can obtain fair
wages for their labor.
Frank Shafter, a railroad man of Nor
walk, o., has recovered verdict of $5,-
600 against the Nickel Plate Railroad,
by which he was formerly employed. for
having black listed him.
Sixteen.year.old Jessie Low. of DAYTON.
O., was awakened from a nan on A couch
down stairs in her home by dream that
a certain upstairs room was on fire. She
ran IN stairs and found il lust as il an.
peared in the dream, and she put out
the fire.
Patrick Fav, a Boston waiter. 80 wears
old. who died at a hospital recently In
supposed poverty, left $50. 900 to Boston
charities. The money was saved frora
tins received from guests Mt hotels where
he worked from 1850 to 1850.
The special committee of the United
States senate on the Nicaragua canal has
agreed to report a bill providing for its
construction, the stock to be held ex.
clusively by the governments Of the Unit
ed States, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
A. q. Waite, of waverly, Lafayette
county, Mo-, is the tallest man in the
state. lie is six feet eight inches in his
socks, and is one Of a family OF ten, the
tallest of whom was seven feet eight
inches. His smallest sister is six feet
eight inches tall The Waites are rela-
tives Of the late Chief Justice Waite.
Drouth has made sheep fodder 80 scarce
in Australia that thousands Of men are
being employed in the various districts
cutting the boughs Of oak, apple and
other trees for food for the starving ami.
mails, and in skinning the sheep that per-
ish in the mud at the failing water holes.
Count Cassini, new Russian ambassador
al Washington, saws that events of the
war can not affect the long standing
friendship between Russia and the United
States.
The rudder frame for the battle. ship
Illinois has arrived at the Newport News
ship ward from the Cleveland Iron Forge
Works. The weight Of this frame is 32,-
300 pounds.
A. J. and w. J. BRYANT OF Tippecanoe
county, Ind. have lust completed this sea.
sons wool clip, Welding nearly $500
pounds from 900 sheep, an average of
nearly 4 pounds to the fleece.
Lieut.. w. w. Harris. who was injured