Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-17
RITZVILLE, WASHINGTON, MAY II, 1899.

work under way now is the mounting
of the second battery of l6 mortars on
the bluffs above and back of old Fort
Winfield Scott. Eight huge pieces OF ord
nance are already in position and the
others are being mounted by men from
the Third artillery.
Vice President Hobart is getting
stronger daily.
The grain shovelers have returned to
work at Buffalo, N. Y.
Sir Henry Irving is seriously i'll with
an affection of the throat.
The Allan Line steamship Gallia
went ashore recently in Lake st. Peter.
The total number of dead, as a result
of the recent wreck near Reading, Pa,
is 80.
Oliver Moody Hidden. of Vancouver,
B. c., dropped dead in San Jose, Cal,
Sunday.
The report of an impending issue of
bonds in the United States is without
foundation.
King Humbert has approved the Sc
lections for the reconstructed cabinet
made by General Pellieux.
The sixth annual 100-mle relay BIZ
cycle race around San Francisco bay,
was won by the Olympic club.
Company L, Twenty-fourth Infantry,
colored, from Vancouver barracks, will
leave for Alaska on the 18th inst.
A consolidated traction car struck
and horribly mangled Katie Three, a
Polish child. in Pittsburg Sundey.
Governor Rogers, of Washington, has
authorized the announcement of his
candidacy for denomination in 1900.
The flooded area of the Leadville
basin, in Colorado, is now practically
unwatered. The mines will resume
work after ten years rest.
Admiral Dewey's coming by way of
the Mediterranean is likely to give oc-
casion for distinguished honors from
the navies of Europe.
The Manitou Park hotel and casino,
at Manitou Park, Colo, which were to
have been opened for the season June
list, have been destroyed by fire.
1t took IL innings for st. Louis to
defeat Cincinnati Sunday. The at.
tendance was the largest on record,
$4,000 being present. Score to 5.
Anson M. Stratton. known as the
pioneer of Coney Island" is dead. He
left a fortune of 100000, acquired by
early investments at Coney Island.
Tho nalponpt mill Ton mill anJ
the Labelle mill, of Wheeling. w. Va,
and the Benwood blast furnace of Mar
tins Ferry, O., have advanced wages
10 per cent.
Donald Mclean, a western railroad
promoter, fell over the balustrade on
the fourth floor of the Palmer house,
in Chicago, Sunday, and received fatal
injuries.
Mayor Taggart, of Indianapolis, who
went down to Chandelier island to
view the body of the young lady found
buried there, identified 1t as his daugh-
ter, lost in the wreck of the Paul Jones,
The schooner Nelson. deeply laden
with cargo of coal, foundered in Lake
Superior off Grand Marais Sunday, and
carried down all hands. So far as
known only one man, Captain Hagney.
escaped.
The managers of Mayor Jones, of To-
ledo, Ohio, have made arrangements
to run two special trains to Columbus,
on May 3lst, at which time Mayor
Jones will speak before the laboring
men of the state.
Henry Reitz was struck fatal blow
by one of his companions recently in
Chicago. Reitz was the father of ii.
p. Reitz. second baseman of the Pitts
burg ball cluD, and of Edward ID. Reitz,
second baseman OF the Sacramento
club
The Tsung Ii Yamen replied to De
Giers, the Russian minister at Pekin,
that the government is unable to ac-
cede to the Russian demand made for
a new railway concession connecting
Pekin with Russia's present system in
Manchuria.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail,
from st. Petersburg. says: According
to the program prepared for the forth
coming conference at The Hague, one
vote will be permitted to each delega-
tion on every proposal submitted to
ballot, and votes will be cast by the
chief executive of each country.
The state department has been in
formally advised that claims aggregat-
ing a considerable amount have been
made by British and German residents
in Cuba during the recent insurrection,
and that these ultimately will be press
ed against the United States govern
ment