Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-17
DO|NGS THROUGH THE week
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
tho Two Hemisphere Presented In =
Condensed Form-Culled from the Tel
slgraph Reports.

Vice-President Hobart is reported to bt
improving slowly.
Fifteen cases of smallpox are reported
at Leclaire, Iowa.
Charles A. Young of Springfield, Ohio
broke 2ll straight hianinNate targets, un
knewn angles, thus breaking the world
record.
w. E. Gooding, a well known rail
road man, and for several years editor O.
the Minneapolis Times, committed sui
eide in Walla Walla Monday.
The private funeral Of former Governor
Richard Oglesby was held in the chape
at Ogleshurst. The interment was made
in the cemetery near the chapel.
The foreign office has received news
from Unyoro that Colonel Evatt attaC ked
Chief Kabarega, on the east bank of the
Nile, on April 0, and completely defeated
him.
General Manning F. Force, commandant
of the Ohio soldiers home, is dead. He
entered the army in 1861 as lieutenant
colonel, was promoted to brigadier in 1863
and breveted major general in 1864.
Admiral Won Diedrichs has been grant
ed leave of absence for six months.
A biscuit, cracker and candy trust OF
this coast has finally been perfected.
Six masked burglars entered the Bava
rian Brewery at Wilmington, Del, and
blew open the safe, securing $l406.
The Hamburg American steamer Bra
lillian has arrived with l400 immigrants
all bound to the Canadian northwest.
Jim X. Wheeler, who claimed to be q
half brother of the famous desperate
Hank Vaughn, killed himself in Pendle
ton Tuesday.
Attempted cures by incantations and
the mysterious ministrations of Christian
Science healers will no longer be tolerated
in and about New York.
The United States and Great Britain
will stand together in the advocacy of the
adoption of scheme for the settlement
of international disputes by arbitration.
A gigantic combination, gathering in
all the -four milling corporations at the
head of the lakes, in New York city
Buffalo and Syracuse, has been effected.
The grain crop statistics whi,h supple
ment the recent winter grain report of the
secretary of agriculture, show the grain
conditions almost everywhere in Europe
are favorable.
Postmaster George A. Mclaughlin, OF
jamestown, o., with some 10Y friends
was putting a "tick tack" on a window at
the home of his friend, Il. f. Ciun. Mr..
CHM fired shot through the window,
killing Mr.. Mclaughlin instantly.
A seat on the stock exchange in N. Y.
was sold for $4,000, the highest sum ever
paid.
President Mckinley proposes to make
tour of the west during his coming sum-
mer vacation.
An attempt is being made to effect
combination of the various glue compan-
les in the country.
Fully 25,000 visitors and Confederate
veterans attended the annual reunion OF
the Confederate Veterans Society at
Charleston, s. @.
The insurgents have assassinated Du-
marais, Frenchman who entered their
lines for the purpose Of negotiating for the
release of the Spanish prisoners.
The big fve-story warehouse OF the
Newby Transfer & Storage Company,
Kansas City, Mo-, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday. Loss, over 100000.
The director Of the Egyptian museum
has discovered the mummy Of Thothmes
Of the eighteenth dynasty, B. c., 1888,
and three other mummies in gilt collins at
Cairo.
ALI. Stanford, a steeple chase jockey,
and A. Nichols, horse trainer and owner,
have been banished from the turf for life
by the board Of stweards OF the Pacific
Coast Jockey Club.
Andrew Carnegie offers to contribute
the last $250,0O0 which Chamberlain Is
trying to raise for the university OF Biz
mingham, provided the scientific school
be made the principal department in the
institution.
Under a decision given by Judge But
Ter in the district court depositors OF the
Peoples Savings bank, which failed in
1898, will recover all the money they had
on deposit at the time OF the banks fail
ure. The stockholders will have to pay it,
Montevideo announces the arrival
there of the cruiser Newark.
A half-block Of business houses were
destroyed by fire at Palestine, Tex, re-
Gently.
Edward Smith, colored, was hanged in
the district Jail at Washington He re-
fused to the last to make any confession.
Claude Branton Of Eugene, Or, was
hanged for the murder Of John Linn.
Branton walked upon the scafrold un-
assisted.
"Kid" Mccoy has forwarded to Tom
my Ryan a formal challenge to fight in
Denver for the middleweight champion
ship of the world.
Forty mules are to be sent to the FIJI
islands from San Francisco on the next
outgoing steamer. They are to be used
on large sugar plantation.
The Hondo coal mine, 100 miles south
Of Eagle Pass, Tex, in Mexico, was Wis
tied Tuesday by terrific tornado deal
ing death and destruction in its path.
Samuel L. Findley, the absconding tax
collector Of San Luis obispo county, CAL
ifornia, has waived extradition proceed
ings at Lima, Peru, and declares that he
will return 10 California voluntarily.
Firemen at work in the ruins of the
American Company's plant at the foot
of Cross street, Baltimof. which was de.