Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-11-16

copper deposits along the south shore of
Lake Superior, celebrated his oath birth
day in Cleveland, O.. the other day. In
the early forties he landed at Copper Har'
Dor, and with two Indians as guides went
on foot to Milwaukee. prospecting as he
went. Ii was in lS41 that he opened the
first mines.
Emperor William is expected TO visit
Cadiz on or about November 20.
David kahnweiler, inventor OF the cork
jacket life preserver, died in New York.
Japan is expected 10 prohibit seal ani
otter hunting along its coast next year.
Mary Alexander died in st. Louis last
Wednesday AT the remarkable age Of ll3
years.
The Bank OF Spain has advanced to the
treasury 60,000,000 pesetas for current ex-
penses.
The outbreak of yellow fever in Havana
is causing great anxiety among American
officials there.
T. b. Potter, the founder OF the Golden
Club, the once famous free trade organi.
cation, died in London.
Daniel r. Kennedy, OF Lynn, Ma S., VINO
was supposed to have been murdered in
Portland, Me-, has turned up alive.
Germany, it is stated, will not show her
hand in the Philippine controversy until
the negotiations take more definite form.
The Venezuelan arbitration court has
received over 220O documents in English,
Spanish and Dutch, covering four centur,
les.
The critical political and military stua-
tion in Europe has caused sharp advance
in prices OF provisions in all the markets
of the world.
Douglass Island, Alaska, now has sew
eral gold stamp mills with an aggregate
capacity for the reduction of $500 tons OF
ore per day.
The Turkish troops at Retimo, Island OF
Crete, having refused to leave peaceably,
nave been forcibly removed by the Rus
sian admiral.
1t is believed by many well-informed
persons in Manila that conflict between
the Americans and Filipinos is ultimate.
ly unavoidable.
Benjamin Smith and wife, aged 90 years
respectively, Travelled on foot all the way
from Whitehall, Greene County, ILL.,, to
Chillicothe, o.
At religious meeting in Kansas City
Mrs. Jennie Walker expressed desire to
die and had hardly finished when she sank
to the floor dead.
In the Rogue district in Cuba heavy
| floods have ruined sugar cane and fruit
crops which have just been planted for
the first time in three years.
At North Grafton, Mass, a posse of citi-
zens surrounded three burglars who had
broken into the postotiice and captured
two and killed one Of them.
Jamaica negroes are invading Cuba in
large numbers. They are vicious, lazy and
a!iftless people and add TO the number OF
destitute to be rescued from starvation by
| the United States government:
The navy department has decided to re
woke the contracts for the construction OF
fDur single-turret monitors and make new
contracts for building four doirble- turret
monitors capable Of going to sea.
A species of elk, with enormous antlers
has been discovered in the Olympic noun
ts,ins. OF the state OF Washington, by Pro.
fessor Elliott Of the Field Columbia Muse.
INN, Chicago, and named Roosevelt"
A tale of fearful suffering is told by the
captain and crew Of the schooner Jennie
+. Wiley, which wac wrecked in recent
West Indian storm. They drifted about
| for three weeks with nothing 10 eat but
| raw fish.
The damage by fire, smoke and water TO
the capitol buildings in Washington is not
SO great as at first supposed, and it is be-
lieved the repairs will not cost more than
$40, 900 and can be made before congress
reassemblcs.
A negro lynched two years ago at Mays
| field, 5 C., for murder, is said to have left
a written statement, which has just been
found, confessing that he murdered the
Voolfolk family, for which Thomas Wool
folk, the eldest son, was hanged, protest
ing his innocence.
The torpedo boat destroyer Farragut
during her trial trip at San Francisco, had
made 80 miles an hour when the air pump
broke down. For AZ minutes she made
l.30 knots an hour. The contract re.
quirements call for a speed Of 80 knots au
hour.
Nancy Sweeney, aged Is years, the old
| est woman in Louisville on the state oi
Kentucky, is passing away peacefully Al
the Home for the Aged and Infm in
Louisville. She is sinking quietly to resi-
because the vital organs and the life forces
| have become exhausted.