Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-02-09
ALL AROUND.
wv. n HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of InS arma tiOn Gathered From
Wide Area-POlitical Happen
ings and Industrial NOtes-Crimes
and Accidents.

ii. u. Gay has been confirmed by the
senate as United States attorney for the
district of Washington.
The burning of the McIntire block in
Winnipeg caused a loss of 100000.
A Toxic paper states that there are
some GOOOO troops in Vladivostock ready
TO take the field at Il moments notice.
The Rt. Rev. Ethe'bert Talbot, d. d..
L. d.. former missionary bishop of Idaho
and Wyoming. has been enthroned as
bishop of the central Pennsylvania dio-
cese of the Protestant Episcopal church.
On December "a, the japanese merchant
steamer Nara Maru ran on a hidden rock
of the Pescadore group and sank imme-
dately. OF her so passengers and crew
seven only reached the shore. The drown
ed were all japanese.
According to the statistics o: the Jap
anese customs authorities, lG foreign seal
ing schooners, IL British and four Amer
lean entered Hakodate and Yokohama
during the year 1897. Their aggregate
catches were 1852. decreae of 1854 com
pared with that of 1896.
Harry Albury, IS years old, is dead in
the hospital at Brooklyn, n. V, of lep-
rosy. He died of tubercular leprosy, and
it is said that there are not more than
half dozen such cases in the country.
Thousands of sheep are reported to have
perished from cold and starvation in west
crn Wyoming. The cold has been intense
for 60 days and old-timers say that it is
the hardest winter they have seen for 10
years. Carbon county has 100000 sheep,
and flockmasters there fear the loss will
cattle will not be so heavy, as owners had
been preparing for several years to feed
theil stock during severe weather.
The Sawyer and Goodman sawmill at
Marionette, Wis, was destroyed by fire
Thursday. The plant was valued at
$l5O,O0O
The First Presbyterian church at New
Albany, Ind, the largest in the city was
destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss.
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The Cherokee Lanyan Spelter Company S
large plant at Rich Hill, Mo-, was de
stroyed by fire. The plant was valued at
$l50,000.
A revolution has broken out at Sam
Jose, Costa Rica.
The japanese government is seriously
considering the retention of Wei Hal Wei
for an indefinite period, even aften China
pays the war indemnity.
A COW derailed the north bound Texas
special ON the Iron Mountain road, 80
miles south of st. Louis, resulting in the
death of the engineer and fireman and
slight injury to two passengers.
II is reported that the Cross river ex-
pedition, composed of Niger coast protec-
torate troops, was massacred while de,
stroying towns about Assay creek. The
Royal Niger company has sent force of
constabulary to rescue the prisoners.
Six firemen, including a district chief,
a captain and lieutenant, were killed
at Boston fire, which burned out the
interior of five-story building on Mer-
rimac street, occupied by G. w. Bent &
Co., manufacturers of beds, bedding, etc.
An order reducing the shop forces be-
tween Omaha and Ogden has been issued
by the Union Pacific. Two hundred and
seventy-fve men are dismissed from the
shops at Omaha, Grand Island, North
Platte, Sidney, Cheyenne, Laramie and
Ogden. One hundred of these come from
Omaha. The officers of the road decline
to say how long the reduction will be
in force. The Omaha shops worked 1000
men 40 hours during the week.
The United States canal company is
about completing its examination of the
western division, including Lake Nicar-
aqua and westward to the Pacific, on
Monday next. The commissioners have
examined the ground several hundred feet
deep by boring. The commissioners will
travel on foot from Ocha to the Caribbean
sea at the rate of about three miles o
day, examining both sides of the route
and wading 90 miles through the swamp
a cablegram received at the war de-
partment from DIR. jackson at Alton
Sweden, announces that the Manitoban
chartered by Lieutenant Devore for the
government, had just sailed from that
port tor New York with $50 reindeer and
7S Iaplanders 10 care for the animals and
drive them. The war department is now
making arrangements for the transporta
ton of the deer across che continent from
New York to Seattle.
The war department las recalled tn,
attention of congress to The need of ad
ditional military protection in Alaska
and in this connection SAYS: "Informa
ton received at this department indicate.
the necessity of legislation to provide ef
fective means for controlling the disor
derly element among the large number
of naonla now fockinp to Alaska and fol