Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-01-04

van county, Missouri, has failed for $780,.
600.
Fire recently destroyed several small
stores at Alliance, O., with loss approx.
mating 100000.
Maj. Gen. Green went to Washington
Wednesday to resign his commission and
retire to private life.
Revolutionary forces in Ecuador are
meeting with some success. Tulcan hav.
ing been recently taken by them.
Frederick Chalmers, a partner in the
banking firm of Brown, Shipley & Co.,
died suddenly at London Thursday.
Admiral Sampson spent Christmas day
with his family in Glen Ridge, N. J. He
is uncertain as to his future plans.
The board of directors of the new lin.
seed oil trust has been announced. I'm.
usually large powers are given them.
The large iron plant of the Zennet-Sol.
vey Company at Ensley City, Ala, was
damaged by fire recently to the amount
Of 100000.
1t is officially announced that Germany
has no intention of buying the island
Tornado, South Africa, from the Spanish
government.
The Dallas Terminal railway will ex.
tend its line to Fort Worth and change
its name to the Dallas & Fort Worth &
Gulf Railway Company.
The steamer China arrived at San
Francisco bringing ego cases of opium,
worth $55O,OOO, the largest consignment
which ever reached that port.
NJ Loew, president OF the criminal
chamber of the court of sassation in Par
is has taken the testimony of Premier
Dupuy on the Dreyfus case.
Edward Kelley, well known saloon
keeper of Chicago, accidentally shot and
killed himself by throwing loaded pis.
tol down on the floor for joke.
An Ohio Southwestern switch engine at
Springfield, O., blew out crown sheet
the other morning, injuring five men, the
engineer and fireman seriously.
Miss Olive Harrington Sampson, daugh.
ter of Admiral Sampson, and Henry Har.
rison Scott, of San Francisco, were mar.
ried at Glen Ridge, N. j., Jan. A.
The president has practically decided
that Archbishop Ireland will represent
the United States at the cars peace ju.
bilee.
A bronze tablet in bas relief of Abra.
ham Lincoln will probably adorn the tur.
ret of the battleship Illinois. The state
legislature has been asked for an ap.
preparation.
The heads Of departments Of the Paris
exposition commissioners will confer this
week to decide upon designs for the sew.
eral buildings to be erected by the com.
mission.
King Humbert of Italy has signed de.
cree amnesting or reducing the punish.
ment of the rioters who took part in the
disturbances last spring. All habitual
criminals have been excluded from the
decree.
Tod Sloan, the famous jockey, spent
Christmas with his foster parents, Mr..
and Mrs. D. S. Blouser, in Kokomo, Ind.
This will be the midget's first visit home
in ten years.
An armed Siamese force recently fired
on the French agent in Luang, Prajang
province, causing the latter to retire to q
jungle. Trouble is expected over the in
cident.
Ambassador Hitchcock has cabled the
secretary of state that he has been off.
cially notified that contract for $4,000
tons of rails for the eastern Chinese rail.
road had been awarded to Pennsylvania
and Maryland company.
The governor of Illinois has issued
proclamation forbidding the entry into or
shipment across that state Of cattle from
any of the states where Texas fever is
prevalent.
During Christmas exercises in the Ger.
man Methodist Episcopal church at Pc.
kin, ILL.,, the Christmas tree took fire. The
pastor succeeded in preserving order and
preventing panic, and while the congre.
CATION sang familiar hymn an impro-
vised fire brigade succeeded in smothering
the flames.
The navy department, in order to be in
a position to meet any emergency that
may hereafter arise, has laid in a supply
of nearly 100000 tons of the best steam.
ing coal.
Attorney John R. Parker, of Chicago,
who 80 mysteriously disappeared from
Oakland, CAL, three weeks ago, returned
to that city yesterday. He has been in
Stockton all the time.
Bishop w. E. McLaren, Of the Episco.
pal diocese Of Chicago, will accept the
mission to Porto Rico to investigate the
field there for the promotion of the Epis.
copal conference in Washington.