Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-06-14
DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
In Interesting Collection Of Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented in =
Condensed Form-Oulled from tho Tel
s1graph Reports.

sylvania milroad, is dead.
The steamer Pelican was lost while er
route from Puget Sound to China.
Brigadier General Charles King Of the
Philippines has been honorably discharged
Joe Corbett, the baseball player ant
brother of the ex-Pugilist, was married
Wednesday.
Julius +. Edson, who is engaged in the
engraving and publishing business in Chi
cago, has failed.
DR.. W. E. Moore, one Of the oldest and
best known Presbyterian divines in the
country, is dead.
The First Bank of Skagway has closed
its doors and j. G. Price has been ap
pointed receiver.
The American Academy of Medicine ha;
elected DR.. G. H. Hudson Makuen OF Phil
adelphia president.
L. G. Hastings, assistant treasurer Of
the Rock Island railway, in Topeka, com
mitted suicide Sunday.
The dominion government has disal
lowed the anti-Japanese law passed by the
last provincial legislature.
The British ship Puritan has arrived in
Victoria, b. c., l07 days from Cardiff
This lowers the sailing record one day
Imports of wheat into Liverpool for the
week: From Atlantic ports, 60,9OO quar-.
ters; Pacific ports, nonej other ports,
AZ, 900.
Joseph LABerga, notorious agent Of
General Weyler, who outraged defense
less women and killed children, was lynch.
ed Tuesday in Cuba.
Commissioner Hermann of the general
land office, has decided to refuse the re-
quest Of the woolgrowers of Utah and Wy
oming for a modification OF the former or.
der prohibiting the grazing of sheep on
the Uintah reservation in Utah.
Two boys on May IA found on the
north coast of Iceland a small cork case
containing a slip Of paper, dated July H.
1897, signed "Andree, Strindberg and
Fraencekel, and bearing the words: "All
we'll. Thrown out about longitude 81, lat
itude unknown"
Joseph Myers, the travelling representa-
tive in Asia of the Pabst Brewing Com.
pany, met horrible death in the harboI
of Hong Kong. While in the act OF visit
ing some naval officers aboard the United
States cruiser Charleston he was crushed
and instantly killed by boat which fell
from the warship.
Sheep are dying by thousands in New
Mexico.
There has been a second attempt to
burn the Episcopal and Catholic churches
in Carson, New, recently.
The record of the hottest day in New
York since the establishment of the wea-
ther bureau was reached Tuesday.
The question Of transportation for the
troops destined for the Philippines is wor-
rying the military authorities greatly.
Mrs. Belle Marshal Robson, wife of r.
w. Robson Of Chicago, for 25 years prom
inent and wealthy member Of the board Of
trade committed suicide at her home
Tuesday.
A terrible railroad accident which re-
suited in the instant killing Of Charles Es-
pey and his fourhorse team occurred at
the crossing of the o. X. & N, one mile
east Of Garfield, Wash.
Chief OF Police Claire OF Hamilton, D.
while with his wife and daughter Marga-
ret in a carriage, attempted to cross the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad
four miles south OF there. A locomotive
struck the carriage and all were killed.
Two babies, children Of Mrs. Carl Dett'
lof of Poplar Grove, Ill.,were instantly
killed Tuesday. The mother left the cab on
the depot platform while she stepped into
the station. A gust of wind blew it in
front of a fast incoming freight train
which mangled both children.
Will Hill, an alleged accomplice in the
murder of Rufus Hubbard in Bibb county
Ala, has been captured. The posse
left for Centerville to place the negro in
Jail, but had not reached there up to noor
Tuesday and it is believed Hill wa'
lynched. Hubbard died Of his wounds.
A second battle with the dynamiters o.
the Union Pacific express train has beer
fought in the mountains 40 miles north O.
Casper, Wyoming, by the sheriffs poss'
which has been in pursuit since Sunday
morning, and as a result one man ant
probably more lie dead. The first battl'
was fought Sunday on Teapot crek, 81
miles north of Casper. No one was wound
ed during this engagement but severa
horses were killed.
Richard P. Bland was slightly bettel
on Monday.
Lieutenant Colonel Picquart has
been Professionally released from Gus
tody in Paris.
Thomas Gardiner, one of the Oldest
and best known publishers on the coast
died at San Diego.
Hon. Timothy Guy Phelps, chairman
of the board Of regents Of the Universi
ty of California, is dead.
The American line steamer Paris
which ran on the rocks off the Mana
cles May 21st, is now known to be lost
The Grand Prix de Paris in the Paris
races yres won Sunday by Perth, with
Velasquez second and Alhambra third
s. Clark, Of Armour, s. D., shot and
fatally wounded his wife and 15-year
old daughter near Belmont, and then
disappeared.
1t is stated in official circles In the
South African Republic that President
Kruger will advise the abolition of the
dynamite monopNy.
The strike FPrchitectural iron
workers inaug, q several days ago
in lSt. Louis is on. with f-'A>er
out a Z -, 'nsed.