Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-05-25
GLANCE OVER THE WORLD
NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS
Business POinters-Personal Notes
Curious Facts-Rec0rd of Crimes
and CasuaIties-PrOgress of Manu-
Observation-Disclosures Notes.


Observation-Disclosures Notes.
1t will cost 81 100000 to feed the In
dams on the various reservations.
The harbor of San Francisco has been
thoroughly mined during the past two
weeks.
The railroad men in California have
started fund to build battle ship for
the government.
In Havana meat is So pound and cof-
fee % cents cup. First-class restau'
rants are guarded by troops.
A heavy rainfall at Key West has filled
the cisterns and averted wter famine
among the troops.
j. S. Collins, a prominent resident OF
Topeka, Kan, was mysteriously murdered
in bed at his home.
Edward Bellamy, author and humani-
tartan, died Sunday at his home in Chic
opee, Mass, in the 49th year OF his age.
Three hundred persons have been exc
cuted in Puerto Rico on charge of treason.
Many families are fleeing to the interior.
Weyler and the Carlists and Republi-
can leaders are deliberately planning to
bring on a revolt in Spain.
A warning to all local boards of health
in Pennsylvania against the danger OF
smallpox has been sent out by the state
board of health.
Food is getting scarcer every day in
Havana and the insurgents threaten to
cut off the water supply.
The Philippine insurgent chief Aguin-
aldo has issued proclamation to his fol.
lowers at Manila to obey the orders OF
Admiral Dewey.
Spaniards at Manila refuse to submit to
the Americans and Admiral Dewey is I'M
willing to lombard the town. He hopes
to staIve them out.
Great Britain has as many war vessels
in Asiatic waters as France, Russia and
Germany combined, and they are far more
modern and powerful.
Many wealthy Philippine families are
going back to the islands from Hong
Kong and are taking the oath Of allie
glance to the United States.
James G. Longstreet son of General
James A. Longstreet, has just been COM
missioned as second lieutenant in a bat
terry of light artillery at Atlanta, Ga
Joseph Letter, the phenomenal grain
manipulation of chicago, has announced
that he will retire from the business when
he has sold out his cash holdings.
Several decided improvements have been
added to the plans of four new monitors
for our navy which will render them prac-
tically indestructible except by torpedoes.
Correspondence outlining the whole
scheme for revolution in Italy has been
seized by the police at the residence OF
Nine. Kulicieff, the noted Nihilist in
Rome.
The restoration of Independence hall,
Philadelphia, has progressed SO rapidly
that it is expected the formal opening OF
the historic structure can be held on the
Fourth of July.
The Mexican minister ut Washington
has been informed by his government that
Mexico has taken all necessary preeau-
tons to prevent Spanish filibustering ex-
petitions from invading Texas.
Packing and shipping firms Ca Chicago
have asked congress to impose retaliatory
duty against France on account of rates
fixed by that country on lard and sau-
sage from the United States.
The house of representatives has adopt
ed the resolution to submit to the states
proposition to amend the constitution
so as to provide for the election of senators
by direct vote of the people.
Spanish, refugees recently arrived in ia
maica from Havana say that poor people
are dying of starvation in Havana while
even the soldiers are wretchedly fed. Raw
food costs in the market about So per day
for a single person.
A New York dispatch says that in con-
sequence of the lack of greenbacks treas
ury notes and silver certificates the Unit
ed States is paying out gold over the
counter as well as settling its debit bal
ance at the clearing house in gold.
The navy department it is said, will
not send coal to the Philippines, as it is
probable that Dewey has all he needs
1t is known that there was large amount
of coal stored at Manila and this must
have been captured by Dewey.
The Painton electric boat, it is claimed,
will accomplish the feat of crossing the
Atlantic in three days. The speed claimed
is forty knots an hour. The noise Incl
dent to steamship machinery will, it is
said, be done away with, and the saving
in coal be one-half. The ten propellors
will be screws driven by dynamos
According to an old docket in the pos
session of Maine justice of the peace
Admiral Dewey was once fined $25 for
thmshing a drunken marine who had
sought qaurrel with him during a visit
to the navy yard at Portsmouth. Dewey
paid the $25 cheerfully, remarking that it
was worth that much to have had the
pleasure of thrashing such disgrace to
the United States navy.
A cablegram from London states that
the one mile paced record of :35 3-5,
held jointly by Eddie McDuffie of Boston
and j. w. Stocks of England, has been
broken by j. Platt Belts, who but re-
Gently returned from Australia. The new
time is l:35 fat.
AS the result OF recent exchanges be-
tween officials of the state department
at Washington and the French embassy
an agreeable understanding is said to
have been reached which gives assurance
of a continuance of the traditional friend
ship existing between the United States
and France,