Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-11-09
BRIEF ITEMS OF THE WORLD
Happenings of All Kinds From All
Parts of the Globe.

Hannah West and Abraham Huffman
are under arrest at Washington Court
House, O., on the woman's confession, for
having beheaded Louis Ball II years ago
with razor.
The president has approved of the
court martial sentence dismissing from the
navy Chaplain Mcintyre, OF the battle
ship Oregon, who reflected on Admiral
Sampson in lecture.
A number of vessels are stranded on
sandbars in the Yukon river and frozen
in, and when the ice breaks up next
spring they will go to pieces.
Colonel Warning, who died Of yellow fc-
yer in New York, had planned a system CT
drainage for Havana. which lie believed
would Danish yellow fever.
Z 1t is reported in London that King
George of Greece will abdicate next spring
in favor of the Crown Prince Constantine,
and will settle permanently in Denmark.
The United tSates supreme court, in o
decision, has sustained the constitutions
atty OF the tax laws of New York, levying
a tax on foreign corporations doing bust
ness in that state. .
Late advices from China state that the
overflow of the Yellow river has caused
the most appalling disaster OF modern
times in central China. Villages were
swept away by hundreds, 1000 people
were drowned, and 100000 people are ru-
ined and homeless.
Professor A. G. Crcham and Lieutenant
Colonel George o. Squier, of the signal
service, have devised new system of tel
egraphy, by which speed of 5000 words
a minute can be attained on ocean cables
and land lines. This is interesting but
the practical utility of the new system is
extremely doubtful.
The force of the recent severe storm was
felt as far south as the Gull of Mexico.
At Abilene, Tex, the temperature fell "a
degrees in few hours. All through the
middle west the temperature ranged
around the freezing point, and Wisconsin
suffered greatly from the storm.
While in Hawaii with her father, Con-
gresham Berry, Miss Anna Berry, Of
Newport, KY, received as gift from
President Dole the royal flag which was
lowered when Queen Lluokalani was de-
throned. The throneless monarch now
wants Miss Berry to return the flag, but
the Kentucky girl refuses to grant the
request, although Iiliuokalani pleads that
the banner is private property.
The navy department, after receiving a
careful report of the firing of our ships at
Santiago in the battle with Cervera, esti-
mates the cost in projectiles and power,
aside from the ordinary injury to the
guns, at about $4,000. The value CT
the Spanish ships destroyed il put down
at $l00OO,O00.
Orange Judd Farmer says: "'rhe season
has been an ideal one for the seeding OF
winter wheat, and while sowing still con.
tinues in the more southern nelt, it is evi.
dent that the area already planted east ID
the Rocky mountains exceeds that har.
vested last year by 10 per cent or more
The appearance of the crop is far above
an average for this date, in fact, growth
is rather too rank, and pasturing the fields
is being practieed to a considerable ex-
tent. Hessian fly is reported from many
localities, with strong possibility of ser.
ious damage. Seeding is beginning on the
Pacific coast under fairly favorable con.
ditions."