Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-11-15
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week iu This and For
eivn LanLs-Summarixed From the
Latest Dispatches.

The transport st. Paul has reached San
Francisco, after a rough passage of Il
days from Nagasaki. She had but IL
passengers, including several discharged
soldiers.
Sunday school teachers of the Missis-
sippi valley states recently had confer
ence to teach the children lessons from the
Bible.
The tenth annual meeting of the Iowa
Library Association met in Cedar Rapids,
Ia, with about 100 librarians in attend
ance, representing all the large Libraries
in the state.
The bark Katie F. Troop is loading l.,
100000 feet of specially selected timber
at Vancouver, B. c., for the Cramps Of
Philadelphia, to be used in building Unit
ed States ships.
The board of trustees of the home for
children and aged women, Minneapolis
Mimi, has received from Ex-Governor and
Mrs. John S. Pillsbury the sum of $780,.
600, to be invested in permanent fund
the interest to be spent towards the main
tenance of the institution.
The Russians are marching toward
the Afghan frontier.
The general arbitration treaty be.
tween Paraguay and Argentina has
been signed.
George w. Kern, of Allentown, Pa.
proprietor of hotel, shot himself and
wife in fit of anger.
R. M. Robinson, a prominent mer
chant of Dunlap, Tenn, was shot re
Gently and robbed Of $500.
Jack Moffat, the Chicago middle
weight, won an easy victory in Chi
cago over Frank Purcell Of California
Dave Sullivan and Joe Bernstein
fought 25-round draw tonight at thu
Broadway Athletic club last week il
New York.
Chester La We're and Kid McCloskey
fought before the Butte Athletic Club
La We're had the best of it from thu
start and got the decision.
mysterious Billy" Smith defeated
Charley McKeever of Philadelphia in {
20-round bout at catch weights at thu
Broadway Athletic Club, New York.
Colonel Arthur L. Wagner, adjutan
general of the department Of the Da
kotas, has left for the Philippines
where he has been detailed for ser
vice.
The president has appointed forme
Governor Joseph w. Fifer Of Illinois tt
be a member of the interstate com
merce commission, vice w. J. Calhoun
resigned.
The whaling bark Anna Hicks ha!
arrived at San Francisco from the Ok
hotsk sea with $500 pounds of whale
bone, 615 barrels of whale oil and Al
barrels of sperm oil.
Communication with the eastern
parts of Jamaica, particularly the sec
ton beyond the line from Morant ba!
to Port Antonio, inclusive, was recent!
visited by hurricane.
At Plano, Cal, Reese Martin wa!
shot and killed by his 19-year-old son
Frederick. The young man accused hi'
father of striking his mother. HI
claims that he acted in self-defense.
Brass bullets are being used by thu
Filipinos against the Americans. Tha
fact was discovered when bullet with
brass casing was extracted from the
leg Of a soldier at the Polytechnic hos
pital in New York recently.
Brigham H. Roberts of Utah is to sill
as member of the house of represent
atives in congress, but only for g
month, and he is not to be unseated
because he is polygamist. He is te
resign after being sworn in.
The safe and office furniture of the
Melvern bank of Melvern, Kan, was de
molished by an explosion of dynamite
touched off by robbers, who then loot
ed the place, securing 5000 in money
and several thousand dollars in notes
and checks. They escaped, leaving nc
clue.
AS the result of an Investigation
conducted by an anti-Quay newspaper
five men, all residents of the city of
Washington, are held in bail for court
| on charges Of repeating, impersonat.
ing election officers and making fraud
ulent returns.
The Italian bark Salvatore has ar
rived at Gloucester from Trapani, Italy.
with Capt. A. T. Dyer and the ship
wrecked crew of seven men of the
schooner William e. Downes, of New