Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-03-15
.DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
HEws OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented In q
Condensed Form Cuiied from the Tel.
eigraph Reports.

Ex x-Congrcssman Edmonds Is dead.
The Bank of Paso Robles, Cal, has
failed.
The heaviest snow storm of the Mich.
igan snow belt prevailed last week.
An effort has been made to consolidate
builders Of pipe organs into a combine.
Khalifa Abdullah, the Dervish ruler
in the soudan, e suffering from leprosy.
Rollin M. Squire, formerly commission.
er of public works of New York, is dead.
Frank Guilfort, one Of the Guilfort
Bros, well known circus gymnasts, is
dead.
Rev. w. C. Dickinson, d. d., well
known Presbyterian minister of Chicago,
is dead.
Captain Morton Levy Phillips, comman.
der Of the United States revenue cutter
Boutwell,, is dead.
Throughout the Wisconsin valley dis.
trict- the snow is from one to four feet
deep on the level.
A movement is on foot to form a com.
bination OF plain and decorated lamp
chimney manufacturers.
NJ. Secretan, founder of the Society des
Metaux, and chief agent in the great cop
per ring Of 1888 is dead.
Thomas Officer, a Council Bluffs bank.
er, lost roll of bills containing 5000 in
the streets OF Omaha recently.
Johnny Griffin, the Braintree lad, in
his day one of the cleverest feather
weight fighters in the world, is dead.
John Kelly and j. Burns have been ar
rested on the suspicion OF being implicat.
ed in the Amherst bank robber in Wis
consin.
Fire at Chenoa, H., resulted in the
death of an unknown printer and the loss
of seven brick business blocks with their
contents.
Five persons were killed and forty in.
jured in a collision between two exeur.
sion trains last week near Rakata, on
Rakata river.
The Rev. DIR. Byron Sunderland has
been appointed pastor of the First Pres
byterian church in Washington, TO sue
ceed Rev. T. De Witt Talmage.
Almost the entire plant of the Cum
mer Lumber Company, situated on the
st. Johns river, four miles north of Jack
sonville, Fla, was destroyed by fire.
Adviees have just been received that
on February Is half block OF the busi-
ness portion Of Dawson, Alaska, was de.
stroyed by fire, the loss aggregating $780,
600.
The will OF Herbert Stewart, wealthy
New York engineer and contractor, be-
queaths $4,000 10 establish the Herbert
Stewart scientific fund at Yale univeri
sity.
Marquis Villamejor, who in the latter
part of 1887 offered Senior Sagasta, then
premier, fl0,000 to start national sub
scription for the increase of the fleet, is
dead.
The Union Club Of Malta, gave lunch
con to the officers commanding the Amer.
lean troops on board the United States
transport, Sheridan, on their arrival en-
route TO Manila.
The American Missionary Association
has voted OF establish in Puerto Rico at
once Christian schools like those il has
established in this country for the ne.
gfoes IN the Soutn.
William Abb, the Italian murderer OF
James Lacey is under arrest in Spokane.
The blizzard that swept over the coun-
try east of Omaha, Nebraska, last week,
was the worst ever experianced.
The committee OF the Granite Manu-:
| facturer's Association and the Cutters
Union, reached an agreement and the
strike which has been in progress for two
weeks, has been declared off.
The demand Of the foreign government
for concession of San Nun bay init
mates that stronger measures than the
ultimatum of Signor Martino the Italian
minister at Pekin, will be necessary.
| VIM. A. Douchette, % years OF age
was arrested In St. Cecilia church, Boston
on the charge Of embezzling $4,000 from
the collection box. Marked bills placed
in the collection box were found in his
possession.
The following statement has been is
sued showing the total number Of deaths
reported to the adjutant generals office
between May LIST, 1899, and February 2S
1890: Killed in action 329; died oI
wounds, l25; died Of disease, SIT; total
573i.
Mrs. cornelia Poirier and Samuel Par
slow were hanged at st. Scholastique
Que, last week. Life was declared ex
tinct in eight minutes. The necks Of
both were broken.