Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-02-02
A LOOK ALL AROUND.
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of Informa ton Gathered From
Wide Area-POlitical Happen
ings and Industrial NOtes-Crimes
and Accidents.


district attorney of Napa county, Cal.
and of six other witnesses, George Willard
Clark has confessed that he was the muir
derer of his brother, w. A. Clark, at st.
Helena.
McComas has been elected United
States senator. The tenth and last ballot
of the Maryland legislature was: Nc
Comas 62, German ~, Shaw 5.
The president has sent to the senate
the nomination of David A. Dunno to be
collector of internal revenue for the dis
trict of Oregon.
Thomas +. Watson will be the populist
candidate for governor of Georgia. The
state convention meets on March 8, and
majority of the delegates already elected
are said to favor Watson for governor.
Surgeon General Wyman has received
a dispatch dated the Goth inst, from DR..
Stewart, at Memphis, stating that the Sec
rotary of the Mississippi state board of
health has reported one and possibly three
cases of yellow fever near Edwards, Miss.
The second week of the big cotton mill
strike in New England opened at the
principal cities with both sides apparently
as determined to hold out as at the in
auguration of the contest. No attempt
was made to open the gates of the big
corporation mills at New Bedford, Mass,
Biddeford or Lewiston, Me.
The will of the late Henry Barnhart,
one of the wealthiest pioneers of Califor-
mia, consists of only Is words, and says
simply: Il direct that my property shall
be disposed of according to the laws of
the State of California"
Should public business permit President
Mckinley will probably visit the Pacific
coast states during the coming summer
1t is understood the president will, after
visiting Yellowstone, go to Butte and
then visit Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma
Portland will be given a day and then
California will be traversed from Shasta
to San Diego.
The Oregon Central Eastern railroad,
AL miles in length, extending from va.
quina bay to the Cascade mountains, has
been transferred to the new corporation
the Corvallis & Eastern. j. X. Weather
ford of Albany, is president of the new
company. 1t is stated that mortgage
has been executed bonding the road for
the sum Of $4,000 per mile, and that the
money will be used in extending the road
eastward.
The following semi-official announce
ment has been made at Berlin: The state
ments regarding Germans intention 10
open the port of Kiao Chau to the COM
merce of the world are practically cor
rect. Germany desires its policy in China
should be of liberal character, not inter-
fering with the commerce of other ma
tions.
An effort has been made in Scotland to
check the sale of American beef
1t was necessary to call out troops to
suppress an anti-Hbrew riot at MIalo,
France.
Miss Mary w. Boord of Metuchen, N
into the wilds of Alaska.
Russia will soon demand of Turkey pay
ment of the whole balance Of her indem-
nifty of the Russo-Turkish war
The Italian government has found it
necessary to call out portion of its army
reserves to suppress the bread riots.
Trustees of Euphrates college, at Kar
poot, Turkey, have asked President Nc
Kinley for an assurance of protection.
John d. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnate, proposes to spend 100000 in
improving the roads of Westchester coun-
ty, New York.