Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-06-14
RITZVILLE, WASHINGTON, JUNE IA, 1899.

The Hartman party of scientists
have arrievd in Juneau, Alaska After
brief stop the steamer sailed for the
head Of the Lynn canal.
| A desperate attempt was made in
Oakland, Cal, to murder H. X. Belden,
San Francisco manager of the Hart.
ford Insurance company.
H. M. S. Egeria, of Vancouver, r. c.,
is making final preparations for her
work on the all-British cable project
from Vancouver to Sydney.
Thirteen well trained "peds" start.
ed in the first relay of the big six-day
| go-as-you-please race at Madison
Square Garden on Sunday.
Twenty-Five hundred children's jack
ct makers employed by manufacturers
or middle men in the East side sweat
shops, New York, have struck.
Bellamy Storer, United States min.
lister, Mrs. Storer, Stanton Sickles, sec
retary Of the legation, and their SER
wants, have arrived in Madrid
Count Christiana will, it is announc-
ed, make a full apology to President
Loubet of France, when he is placed on
trial for assaulting the president.
The Indians living in the neighbor-
hood of the upper waters of the Stew
art river are in a most deplorable con-
dition. A terrible famine prevails.
A tornado struck two miles southeast
of the little town of Salix, 16 miles
from Sioux City, Iowa, and killed three
people outright, and one more will die.
A telegram received at the navy de-
partment from Admiral Kautz, from
Honolulu via San Francisco, states he
was to arrive at San Francisco on
June 22nd.
The Pacific coast Great Northern
Flyer jumped the track near st. Mich
aels, Mimi, and rolled down an EN-
bankment into the soft mud. No one
was injured.
The Hole in the WALL" near Casper,
Wyo., for years the refuge of outlaws,
promises to be cleansed of its desper-
ate inhabitants by a determined raid
by the authorities.
Roland b. Molineux, of New York,
has been released on $1,000 bail. He
was Immediately re-arrested on a war
rant charging him with the murder of
Katharine ]. Adams.
J. G. Murphree walked into the post
office at Mansfield, Texas, and without
warning shot and killed Sherman Goul-
den. assistant postmaster, and wound
ed r. S. Goulden, the postmaster.
At the arena of the Coney Island
Athletic Club James j. Jeffries defeat
ed Robert Fitzsimmons, worlds cham
pion in two classes-middleweig and
heavyweight-in IL rounds of whirl-
wind fighting.
The report that 2S men were killed
at Ross Hollow, in northern Arkansas
yesterday afternoon is denied by the
contractors. Several men from the
camp are at Little Rock, and report no
accident having occurred.
All the Japanese immigrants exam
ined bw Major Walker in Tacoma on
the steamship Tacoma passed muster
and were admitted, but 16 who left the
ship at Victoria, will return across the
international boundary line.
The British government has consent
ed to reconsider its attitude toward the
Pacific cable project as the result of
urgent representations from Canada
and the colonies and Is now inclined to
utilize British credit in providing the
necessary capital.
The steamer Auguste Victoria, which
has arrived in New York from Ham
burg, Southampton and Cherburg. re-
ports the death and burial at sea OF
Lieutenant Commander Wainwright
Kellogg, U. s. N, who was a passenger
on the vessel.
In the Minnesota House, 242 Main
avenue, Spokane, Corporal VIM. Wilson
(colored) of Company M, Twenty
fourth infantry, shot Charles Dix
through the right lung, inflicting q
wound which the doctors believe will
prove fatal; and shot brother soldier,
Corporal Beverly Williams.
The Savage Club in London gave a
banquet to Mark Twain Samuel l..
Clemens) last week. 1t was one of the
most brilliant gatherings given under
the auspices Of the club since the IA
nous banquet Of the Savages to Henry
M. Stanley.
Serious riots have broken out in the
Tinnevelley district of Madras presi.
dency between the Marivars and Ku-
lars on the one hand and the Shanari
on the other at Sivikasi. Several vii.
lagos have been attacked and plunder-
ed and a number of houses burned and
several lives lost