Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-06-21
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
A Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-summArised From the Latest
Dispatches.


the son of Colonel A. j. Fountain, at Hills
boro, N. NJ.
Thomas Sadler, miner, was convicted
of assault in the first degree on Patrick
= Conner and the punishment fxed as Ave
years imprisonment.
Harry Fisher of Brooklyn stood IL
rounds before Joe Walcott the welter-
weight champion, in Baltimore recently
and then threw up the sponge.
I. Z. Shaughnessy has been elected pres.
ident Of the Canadian Pacific, vice VIM.
Van Horne, resigned. Van Horne becomes
adviser to the board of directors.
Admiral lvashintson of the Russian
navy has reached New York. He is on
private business and will return to Russia
via San Francisco and the Pacific.
The six day walk in New York appears
to have suddenly collapsed. The walkers
have all left the track. 1t is understood
the affair has proved financial failure.
The factory of the Marietta Torpedo
Company blew up, and Cal Harte, aged 45.
married, and Clyde Porter, single, aged Il,
were killed. Two horses and a wagon
were blown to atoms.
The members of the Buffalo and Kan
sas City baseball teams, who were arrested
at the close of Sundays game in Buffalo,
for violating the Sunday law, were ac-
quilted.
Tom Messor, one OF the Lee faction, was
shot down near his home in Middeboro,
KY, by unknown parties. This is the
second murder within two weeks in con-
nection with the feud between the Taylors
and Lees.
Two negroes were lynched at Dunnellon,
Fla, recently by mob Of their own color.
The municipality of Havana has pre-
sented to General Maxine Gomez a GER
tiiicate naming him as an adopted son Of
the city.
Admiral Dewey landed at Singapore
from his flagship to pay visit to the
governor of the Straits Settlement, Sir G.
IL. b. Mitchell, at the government house.
He was received with military honors. On
his return to the Olympia he was visited
by the governor.
The arbitration treaty between the Ar
gentine Republic and Uruguay has been
signed.
The copper miners at Iron Mountain
to the number of 800 are on strike at
Redding, Cal.
Gustave Frey, gambler of San Fran
cisco, dragged his wife into the street and
shot her dead. He then killed himself.
Pnkerton detectives, armed and in uni
form, have been ordered by the chief ol
police 10 keep off the streets of Portland
Admiral Dewey is desrous that the
money collected for him be used for the
esta adjustment OF soldiers and sailors
home.
The Old Dominion steamship Hamilton
ran into the German steamship Macedo
MIA oil Long Branch and it is supposed
that the Macedonia subsequently sank.
The responsibility for the riots Of Apri
20 in the Occur d'Alenes and the murder
of Smith and Cheyne has been placed by
the coroner's jury upon the miners
unions as organizations.
j. Frank Davis, chief deputy collector
of internal revenue for the district of Or
egon, Washington and Alaska, has been
suspended pending the decision of the de
-partment at Washington, ID. 9.
Senator G.. w. Fairbanks Of Indiana
Captain Terry of the battleship Iowa and
James J. Hill, president Of the Great
Northern, were guests OF honor at ban
quet at the Rainier Club in Seattle. Pres
ident Hill acted as POSTMASTER.
The turnout in Butte, Mont, on Min
ers' Union day was the largest in the his
tory of the organization. Fully 5000
miners and smeltermen and other work
ingmen were in line. Edward Boyce
president of the Western Federation oi
Miners, was the orator of the day.
Samuel Simpson Of Portland, poet and
journalist, is dead.
Douglas Martin, the l0year-old son oi
Louis |. Martin Of Spokane, was drowned
Wednesday.
Talks with cabinet officers bring the
belief almost to a certainty that the pres
ident will upon his return from his east
ern trip issue call for volunteers Of at
least 1900 men.
The Masonic grand lodge at Washing
ton has passed resolutions modifying their
action OF last year in extending recogni-
tion to negro lodges. The effect of the
resolutions is to leave recognition of ne
gro Masons with each subordinate lodge.
Wilbur Boyce cf Butte, Mont, commit
ted suicide by taking an overdose Of NOR
phine. He was a sergeant of Rough Rid
ers in Captain stivers' troop, Grigsby'
command, and a son of James II. Boyce,
formerly prominent merchant Of that
city.
A cloudburst occurred in the mountains
north Of Spofford junction, Texas. The
immens volume OF water rushed down the
mountain, side sweeping everything be-
fore it and converting dry arroyas and
small creeks and rivers into raging tor
rents and completely flooding the valley
and level country below. At the sheep
ranch of NJ. L. Butler every living thing
was swept away, and the entire Butler
family were drowned.
Ex.United States Senator Benjamin
Z. Harding OF Oregon, is dead.
The German derby in Berlin was
won by Baron Springer's Galifard.
Rev. DR.. Wood, Of London. former
president of the Wesleyan conference,
is dead.
Lawrence Townsend, the new United
States minister to Belgium, has been
received by King Leopold.
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