Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-30
NEWS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of Information Gathered From
Wide Area--POlltical Happen
ings and Industrial N0tes-Crfmes
and Accidents.

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have devoted l03,0O0.0O0 yen to the
building of warships Forty-seven have
already been ordered with short terms OF
delivery in England, France, Germany and
the United States.
The schooner General Siglin arrived al
Seattle from Copper river, Alaska. Cap
tain johnson states that 300 people have
crossed the Valdes glacier and are now
making their way into the interior. The
day the Siglin left Copper City, which is
now town of 900 inhabitants, the theft
of quantity of bacon had been discov-
cred. Notices were being posted that the
thief, il caught, would be hanged.
A dispatch received at Berlin from
Dares Salaam, 25 miles south of Zanzi-
bar, Fast Africa, says that last Monday
during severe engagement an expedi.
tiOn of foresters was attacked and three
Germans and many of the native carriers
were massacred.
William NJ. Taggart, editor of Taggart's
Sunday Times, died in Philadelphia.
1t is officially denied that France de-
mands Frenchman as director of the
Chinese postoflice.
Commander Willard II. Brownson, U.
S. N, who is visiting Europe in the in.
terest of the United States navy depart
ment, has started to France to inspect the
ships which are being built at La Seine,
opposit Toulon, on the Mediterranean
for Brazil. concerning which vessels ne
gotiations have been proceeding.
.
Treasurer William II. Holdman of Elk
hart county, Ind, has been convicted of
cmbezzling $4,000 county funds.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
well-known novelist, has instituted suit
for divorce from DR.. S. w. Burnett.
Congressman Joseph Bailey of Texas,
democratic leader in the house of repre-
sentatives, will be a candidate for the
speakership of that body next session.
The central Pennsylvania Methodist
Episcopal conference has voted against
the propositions for equal lay and minis
terial representation in the general con-
ference.
Police Lieutenant w. F. Burke was
shot and killed by Park Haynes. alias
"The Irish Tinker" a maniac, at San
i -.
Francisco, while attempting to arrest him
for disturbance of the peace.
neorge L. Nicholson has been appointed
.rahic manager OF the santa Fe railroad,
10 succeed w. +. Hite' deceased.
The Canadian military expedition to
the Yukon, which is to the number of
zoV men ana oiiicers' VIII leave Victoria
ABOUT the middle OF April.
i'ouisviile, N.Y. dispatch says that
Eugene Leigh IS SAID TO have purchased
Iiaudit' inc iaVorte IN the kentucky
Derby for $2o,0o. lie is believed to
nave aeted Tor an eastern turfman, Phil
iI~yer peihg mentioned as the real pnr'
chaser'
IN accordance Wi'h the plan decided up
U In a' 'Ie 'aSt convention oi thc american
feoe'''t,on ol LABOR, organizers nave
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