Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-06-28
WASHINGTON, JUNE Is, 1899.

The strike of 1900 textile workers at
Brunn, Moravia, after lasting two
months, has been settled by compro-
mise.
Fire at Laurel, Del, destroyed prop
erty valued at from $125,000 to $780,
900, including a number of stores and
one hotel.
The minister of marine has assigned
the sum of II, 100000 roubles for dredg-
ing and the construction Of two moles
at Port Arthur.
While Miss Nellie Kendall and C. G.
Batting were walking in Seattle they
were held up by two men, one Of whom
fired at Batting.
The government of the South Afri-
can Republic is ordering large quanti-
ties of rifles from Italian firms for i'm
mediate shipment.
A party of 20 miners, bound for the
Sierra Pinta placers, lost their way In
the desert and wandered around long
time, finally dying of thirst.
The international cycling Grand Prix
in Paris was won by Tommasselli, an
Italian; Meyers of Holland was second
and Mono, Peidmontese, third.
Dutch" Neal, the st. Louis pugilist
who fell unconscious in the ring in a
glove contest with Harry Peppers, the
California middleweight, is dead.
The steamer Apache, plying between
Columbus and Apalachicola, Fla, sunk
in the Chipola river near Wewathicka,
Fla, and four persons were drowned.
The brick-layers' strike in Berlin has
been settled by court Of arbitration,
and men will get advances in wages in
September and December of next year.
The most violent thunder storm in
the recollection of~the Oldest residents
of Spokane. struck that city Sunday
morning. Three buildings were struck
by lightning.
The British armed sloop Buzzard, in
trying to reach the French treaty shore
recently, collided with an iceberg near
st. Johns, N. F.. which stove in her
bows.
Captain Jas. Entwistle of the navy is
to be retired July Sth. Commander
r. Rush. attached to the naval library,
has been ordered before the naval re-
firing board July 1st.
The stock yards strike in Chicago
which at one time threatened to tie up
the packing district, has been settled
by the packers granting the increase Of
25 cents day demanded.
kid" Mccoy has signed a contract
with the Colorado Athletic Club of Den
yer, Colo, to fight any three men who
may volunteer to meet him, one each
on July 10th, 18th and oath.
Nearly 5000 pants.makers have gone
on strike in Manhattan, Brooklyn and
Brownsville, N. Y, throwing 5000 Ital-
ian women and girl finishers out of
work.
The golden jubilee of the North Am
erican Saengerbund will no doubt be
the most largely attended event this
week that was ever known in Cincin-
natl, Ohio.
According to n well defined rumor
the tramways of the Chilcoot Pass
route from Dyea to the Upper Yukon
lakes are to be purchased by the White
Pass G. Yukon Railway Company.
1t Is the intention Of the University
OF Pennsylvania to enter a team next
year in the Olymplan games at the
Paris exposition and also in the Eng
lish championships.
In the suit of the Nevada company
owners of the Nevada Central railroad
against p T. Farnsworth, the Jury rem
dered verdict for the plaintiff on the
second cause for action for s77,122.
Five men embarked In a rude boat of
their own construction on the Yellow
stone at Big Timber. Mont. bound for
Bismarck, Their boat was capsized at
Gray Cliff and w. H. Sullivan of Chi
cago, and w. Lawrence were drowned.
President Timothy Dwight, the ven
cradle retiring president OF Yale, has
preached his last baccalaureate sermon
before the graduating classes Of the
academic and scientific departments.
According to Frank Lewis. Chicago
civil engineer, the Chinese government
contemplates the destruction of the an
cient Chinese wall that separates China
from Chinese Tartary.
The trans-Caspian region of Asiatic
Russia, which Is under the jurisdiction
of the governor-general Of Causasus,
Prince Beriatinski, is threatened with
famine owing to the prolonged drouth
and plague of locusts.
Deserters who have reached the Brit
ish lines say the Khalifa is confined in
a narrow valley by the Tagals, friend
ly body of tribesmen. The latter state
that they have killed 500 Of the Khali-
fa's followers during the recent battle.
The large six-story building on the
corner of Pearl and Purchase streets,
Boston, was swept almost clean by fire,
the owners and numerous occupants.
mostly small publishing concerns, sus-
tanning loss of nearly $180.000.
When the body Of Miss Belle Slavin
was found recently in the National
Bank of Commerce in Wichita, Kansas,
death having resulted from bullet
wound in the head, 1t was supposed she
had committed suicide. Later devel
opments seem to indicate that the
young woman was murdered.
President-elect Arthur Twining Had.
ley delivered his first speech since he
was made the official head Of Yale be-
fore the graduating class Of the Hill
House high school of New Haven,