Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-12

chief surgeon at Santiago, In which
he says that the city and department
Of Santiago are in generally good sani
tary condition.
Charles Wilkerson, yard conductor
Of the Chesapeake & Ohio. was shot
and seriously wounded last week in q
fight. with Ben Bates, a bugler at Fort
Monroe.
The United States cruiser Raleigh
has arrived at Bermuda.
A fierce battle occurred at Highland
Falls last week between candidates
for admission to West Point as cadets
on the one side and boys of the village
on the other.
William Whist. well known In news.
lie circles in the west, is dead.
DR.. George A. Rawson, who figured
in a sensational divorce case in Sc.
attic few years ago, committed sui.
eide at the insane hospital at Indian
apolis last week by hanging.
hC lUitoWotohC tuuotu
er damage to life and property this
year than ever before. Four persons,
Mrs. r. w. Snyder, her brother, Eu-
gene F. O'Conner, her niece, Miss Mel
lie Reagan. and a visitor. Miss Rose
Wybrecht, lost their lives last week.
An attempt has been made to as
sassinate the czar's aide-de-camp, Gen
eral Mauseoy. He was stabbed in the
throat by servant, but the would-be
assassin was overpowered. The gen.
erals wounds are not serious.
John II. Sullivan, former member
and one OF the most prominent poll
ticians In Boston, killed himself by
shooting last week.
Frank Griffin, editor of the Daily Re-
view in Marysville, Mo-, was shot and
wounded last week by C. G. Jasse.
Returns received from the Irish
council elections show that 300 ma
tionalists, SO unionists, one labor can
didate and one liberal have been re-
turned.
Major General Shafter, accompanied
by his aide, arrived In Washington
last week from California to testify
before the army court of inquiry into
the beef charges, having been sum-
moned there for that purpose.
News has reached London that the
Danish steamer Nordfarer, Captain
Brunnich. from Galveston for Ham
burg, via Norfolk, took off 26 men from
the French fishing schooner Engenee,
which foundered at sea.
Justice Stephen J. Field of the Unit
ed States supreme court is dead.
Gross railroad earnings in 1898 on
163.lS1 miles of road aggregated ST.
112,417,900 in 1897. This is an increase
Of per cent over very large totals
for the previous year and amounts to
over $1,000 per mile. Operating ex.
penses on the same roads increased
only So per cent. thus leaving for net
earnings an increase OF 6.2 per cent.
The strike of the members OF the
Journeymen Bricklayers' association
at Philadelphia has been adjusted.
The steamer Del Norte has sailed
from San Francisco for Unalaska with
the first crowd OF Klondikers for the
Yukon this season.
Charles Gotchy was shot and prob
ably mortally wounded last week at
Blaine, Wash. by George W. Smell.
Fire broke out one day last week In
the five story dwelling at No 2 East
Sixty-seventh street. the home of Wal.
lace Andrews and the five story brown.
stone house of Alfred Adams, No. 3
East Sixty-ninth street. The houses
are In the heart OF the district occu.
pied by the homes OF New York's rich.
est millionaires. The Andrews home
was totally destroyed and 13 lives lost.
Private Albert l.. Knudson of Com.
pany !, First Washington volunteer In.
fantry, is appointed as chaplain OF the
regiment. to fill the vacancy occasion.
ed by the death OF Chaplain Thomp-
son.
The gigantic mill trust just organ.
lied under the name of the Republic
Iron and Steel company is in full op.
Grafton.
Frank Wade and Ernest Cleverer
murderers, and George Wilson and b
B. Stockton, indicted for criminal as
sault, have escaped from jail at Lib
erty, Mo.
The Massachusetts, has sailed from
the Brooklyn navy yard to Join Samp
sons quadron at Trinidad. On the ar
rival Of the Massachusetts, the squad
ron will proceed to Southampton
England.