Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-24
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
Complete Review of tho Events for
the Past Week in This and Foreign
Lands-summArised From the Latest
Dispatches.

Souitiailut EtnIluSey pioneer On fuget
sound, is dead.
George d. Scott committed suicide at
Tarytown, n. Y, Monday, by shooting
himself in the head.
Wizard Jake Schaefer of Chicago beat
George Sosson, the Student in an ex-
citing game of ls-inch balk line billiards
at the Lenox Lyceum in New York on
Monday.
Jack Root of Chicago was given the
decision over "Australan" Jimmy Ryan
at the end of 20 0round contest Monday
in Louisville, Ky.
The Lone Pine, Surprise and Pearl claims
in Republic, Wash, have been consolidated
under one company and will be developed
as one big mine.
Secretary Alger has ordered that the
Washington volunteers, when sent home,
return directly to Puget sound without
stopping at San Francisco.
Charles w. Nordstrom, who was con-
victed about eight years ago Of the murder
of William Mason, is sentenced to be
hanged August IL, in Seattle.
II. N. Halliday, president of the Will.
Evansville, Greenville & st. Louis railroad,
was shot and killed at Willamsvile Mon
day, by Monroe johnson, prominent
lumberman.
Champion George Dixon added another
TO his long list of victories in the r.ng by
winning from kid" Broad of Cleveland
in 20 rounds in the Olympic club in Buff
falo, N. Y, Monday.
j. L. Hamilton, printer who was EN-
ployed in the sugar factory in Santa Ma
ria, Cal, attacked his wife with knife,
cutting her throat and killing her. He
then cut his own throat.
Sunday evening Hon. j. A. Hunter, one
of the most prominent men in Wallowa
county, Oregon, was shot and instantly
killed by Mrs. Elliott, neighbor, who
then committed suicide by taking poison
The river steamer Hasalo, on trial in
Portland steamed for half an hour at q
speed of 25 miles an hour, and during a
short spurt Of two miles, speeded up to
20 3-4 miles per hour, making her the
fastest stern wheeler in the world. The
Hasalo is the first stern wheeler built in
the northwest with Steeple compound en-
gines.
Princeton students and Pawnee Bills
Wild West employees INDUCED in a pitched
battle Monday. For so years II has been
an unwritten law of Princeton that no
circus parade must pass through the
streets. Pawnee Bills Wild West com.
binaton violated traditions and paraded.
The result was the fiercest battle Prince
ton has seen in many years.
General Lawton's column has driven the
Filipinos from San lsidor, the rebel capi.
tai.
Count Badini, the former prime minis.
ter of Austria, recently tried to commit
suicide.
Admiral Dewey says that he will ar.
rive in Hong Kong on the Olympia on
May 25.
japanese Buddhist priests who are pros
elyting in Annoy have already made over
1000 converts.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas NJ. Smith,
Tenth infantry, has been retired, after 80
years service.
Ht btdtt toDlDtlilNt hiiIl Va
uniform rank, Knights Of P.'thias, was
won by Spokane corps.
Two hundred and ninety members Of
the Sec nd Uni ed Siaes regiment voun-
leer engn ers wee mustered ont Tu sday
at the Presidio.
Ex-Governor OF Washington John H.
McGraw, and General L. NJ. Carr Of Seat.
tie are meeting with great success in min-
ing, On Little Manook, Alaska.
The Russians are prosecuting work
night and day at Port Arthur. The har'
Dor has been dredged to accommodate
ships drawing 20 feet Of water.
Congressman Cushman Of Washington
has appointed Darrell Palmer Wickersham
of Tacoma as cadet at Annapolis, and
Fred j. Whitaker Of Palouse alternate.
1t is reported among influential Chinese
that secret treaty has been signed
whereby Japan promises the aid OF troops
to China should Germany seize Shan
Tung.
Two japanese engineers surveying in
Annoy were set upon by Roman Catholic
natives, dragged to Catholic church and
treated with indignity in the presence Of
Spanish padre.
An urgent telegram has been received
from Governor Jao Of Kashgaria stating
that Russian emissaries have been caught
smuggling firearms to the Mohammed1n
rebels. The governor asks for $4,000 men
Francis Smith Edwards. aged 81
years. is dead.
Addison Parker. aged So, a well
known turfman, is dead.
James G. Harris, ex-treasurer OF the
Union Pacific railroad, is dead.
The Cheyennes on the reservation
are again becoming restless and ugly.
The Nineteenth Illinois volunteers,
Colonel Campbell, were mustered out
last week.
The feet OF revenue cutters which
will patrol Bering sea this summer has
received orders.
The reported death of Eugenie. for
mer empress OF France, is entirely
without foundation.
Laborers unearthed a box OF bones
which were pronounced to be from a
human body. in st. Louis.
A building in the course OF con-
struction at Creefeldt, Prussia, col
lapsed, killing IL workmen.
General Arolas. former Spanish mil
itary governor OF Havana, is suffering
from an apopleptic stroke.
After the July quarter only half of
the laborers imported into the Ha-
waiian islands may be Japanese.