Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-03-01

tin, the former being brother to Tod
Sloan.
The directory of the Greater American
exposition has just elected these officers:
DIR. George L. Miller, president; Frank
Murphy, treasurer; and Dudley Smith,
secretary.
According to reports received by the
steamer Miowera, the situation in the
New Hebrides is serious.
The annual meeting of the Congression-
al Temperance Society at the Vermont
Avenue Christian church, Washington,
was memorable one, in honor of the late
Representative Dingley OF Maine, who
was for Is years president OF the organ.
ization.
L. ID. Broughton, Jr., received letter
from the universities OF Oxford and
Cambridge on the matter of chess
match by cable with the American uni.
versities OF Columbia, Harvard, Yale and
Princeton.
p. S. Carr, .ate captain of Company l.,
First Kentucky regiment, was shot
through the left arm at the elbow by
Harry Price, young lawyer of Cattle
burg, who was private in Carr's com
pany.
Eugcnio Casselli, the South American
racquet and handball player, played a
series of racquet games with Instructor
II. Boakes of the Chicago Athletic club
and for the first time since coming to the
United States Casselli met defeat.
The conferees on the census bill have
agreed and will make their report in the
week. The census will be nominally un-
der the direction of the secretary of the
interior, but all appointments in the cen.
sus bureau will be made by the director
OF the census.
At Crawford, Neb., three miles from
Fort Robinson, City Marshal Frank ID.
Mooney was probably fatally wounded by
Louis Grossman, late trumpeter of Com
pany C, First U. s. cavalry.
The honors of the tournament of the
second annual meet of the national skat
congress of America at Indianapolis, were
won by John Ulrich of st. Louis.
A tornado passed over Evansville, Ind,
last week. The Evansville Brick com.
pany's plant, the Diamond Commercial
company's building and one residence
We're destroyed and many private homes
unroofed. Other minor casualties were
reported. The loss will be heavy.
Texas is passing through an alarming
epidemic of meningitis. Many schools
have been closed on account Of the raw
ages of the disease.
David Holland, who is receiving bids
for the contest between Bob Fitzsimmons
and Jim Jeffries, today received an offer
OF S2l 600 from the Triangle cub, located
on Stoney Island avenue, Chicago.
Representative Levi Maish, Of Penn.
sylvania, is dead.
The club offers to pay all expenses OF
the principals and their trainers TO the
battle-ground and deposit the purse 10
days prior TO the day of the fight, or
earlier, If desired, when the articles OF
agreement are signed. -
An appeal has been received by the
chamber Of commerce OF San Francisco on
behalf OF the flood sufferers of the Shan
Tung province in China.
fresident Ieiayas army has captured
Gill mountain and Aguas Calientes, thus
virtually terminating the Bluefields revo-
luton.
There are 30 cases Of typhoid fever in
the Second division hospital in Major
General Lees camp at Havana.
Two iceboats going at high rate Of
speed came together on Hamilton bay,
Ontario. VIM. Holtham was killed and
several others severely injured.
Thirty Spaniards arrived on the Gun.
ard liner Umbria, at New York recently.
Most of them are laborers and are able TO
read and write. All Of them are going to
different mining towns of the west.
The bodies OF letter carrier Fred Marty,
his wife and two-year child, who 10
days ago persisted in the fire at the Ar.
lington fiat building, in Chicago, were
found under a pile OF debris.
II is learned that ex-President Cleve.
land has signified his intention OF attend.
ing the dinner to be given at Delmonico's
on March End in honor Of Carl Schurz.
Representative Grosvenor of Ohio has
introduced a bill directing that govern.
ment publications bear the imprint Of the
International Typographical Union.
The transport Sherman, New York for
Manila, has arrived at Port Said.