Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-09
NEWS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of Information Gathered From
Wide Area-Poiitical Happen
ings and Industrial Notes-Crimes
and Accidents.

Fire has destroyed the large flour mill
of Cargill and Fall at Houston, MINI. The
capacity of the mill was $50 barrels day.
A large quantity of wheat, -four and other
mill stuffs was destroyed. Several Mil
waukee and st. Paul cars on the track
were burned.
Edward T. Price, aged Al, prominent
and wealthy business man of Lexington,
KY, committed suicide by shooting him.
self in the forehead. He was respondent
over i'll health.
The latest election returns in Ontario
show the liberal government has been sus.
tanned by majority of three. The fig
ures are 4S liberals, 43 conservatives, one
patron and one independent. There is
one constituency yet to hear from.
Augustus St. Gaudens has deserted
America for Europe. His studio in New
York city, which he has occupied for Is
years, is for rent in the future, and
the famous sculptor will make his home
in Paris.
The largest mortgage ever filed in Ell
Paso county, COL, has been placed on rec
ord in the county clerks Office at Colo
RADIO Springs. 1t was filed by the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railroad and is for
the sum of $l0O.OOO,000 in favor of the
Central Trust company of New York, to
secure the payment of certain bonds The
mortgage is on the railroad and its equip
ment.
San Francisco reports that the fear If
drought and failure of the crops, which
had given gloomy color to reports from
the interior during the latter end of win
ter, have been in great part dispersed
by the recent rains. So opportune were
they that now far from feeling apprehen-
sion the agriculturalists of California are
in most optimistic frame of mind, and
save in few localities are contented with
the outlook.
Fred Moore, the murderer of Tom An
derson, was taken from the county Jail
at Senatobia, Miss. and shot to death by
a mob of so persons. Anderson and Moore
quarreled about some trivial matter.
Moore followed the man and shot him five
times, afterward placing the body on the
railroad track to hide the crime.
Bradstreet's says: February bank clear
to an immense volume of business done
in the country during the past month. The
total clearances, though naturally smaller
than January's record in totals, are evil
IDENTIFY so only because of February being
a short month. The total clearances,
though naturally smaller than January's
records in totals, were evidently so only
because of holiday still further curtail-
ing the time available for business trans
actions, for the reason that the average
daily elearanees were larger than those
of January, and the monthly total was
heavier, not only than for any previous
February on record, but larger than most
months of normal years.
The machine shops of the Union Pacific
at Laramie, Wyo., have been closed, and
all the employees discharged.
A 10 per cent reduction in wages has
gone into effect at the Boston Company's
cotton mills at'Waltham, Mass.
The Indian commissioners, in their an
nual report, say that there is evidence of
steady progress in industrial pursuits and
education among the Indians.
All of the ranches and cattle of Beatty
Bros. in Kansas and Oklahoma, have
been sold to the Bryce-Bryce Cattle Com
pany of Montana for $35O,000.
Superintendent Gayle of the Indiana Oil
Company has discovered process Of OBJ
tanning gas from wells which have been
drowned out by water, and is buying in
old abandoned wells.
The house committee on pensions has
reported favorably the Gibson bill. ex-
tending the benefits of the pension laws to
ex-eonfederates who enlisted in the union
army before September l. 1864.
Father Isadore, who was in charge of
the Catholic mission at Anadarco, Okla,
killed Father Placadius by the accidental
discharge of gun while hunting.
In the case of bequest to the Smith
sonian Institution the supreme court of
the United States has decided that man
can bequeath property the title to which
is in his wife, where she holds it simply
as trustee for him.
Peter Christensen, wealthy and &C.
centric farmer living near Sacramento,
Cal, died few weeks ago. 1t develops
that he left a will which was in the custo-
dy of San Francisco lawyer. who has
since died. The lawyers executors mail
ed the will to Christensen, and it is now
in the dead letter office, whence it will be
reclaimed and probated.
The executive committee of the repub-
lican congressional committee is announc-
ed as follows: Representatives Hull of
Iowa, Cannon of Illinois, Mercer of Ne
hraaka Seuators Proctor of Varmnnt