Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-06-07

Rapids, Iowa, Sunday.
Several pipe manufacturers report
the trust unorganized.
Rear Admiral Schley has left for
New York accompanied by Mrs. Schley.
The st. Charles theatre at New Or
leans was burned to the ground Sun
day.
A tornado a mile wide swept the
country west of Dyersville, Iowa, Sun
day evening.
The robbers who held up the Globe
and Florence stage in Arizona have
been captured.
The most intense heat for this time
of year in many years prevailed in the
eastern states Sunday.
A combination of manufacturers Of
printing inks is being formed the capi-
tai stock to be $25, 100000
Yale defeated the Princeton baseball
nine by the score of s to in the first
championship game OF the series.
A heavy wind storm swept over Gen.
tral Kansas last week. George w.
Reiter was killed and two of his family
injured.
At least fifty boats have capsized on
Great Slave lake, Alaska, since last
summer and many prospectors were
drowned.
The Italian steamer Minerva foun-
dered June LIST and her crew are miss
ing. Her master and second engineer
were saved
Senator Fairbanks is on his way to
Seattle, Wash, thence to Alaska, on a
six weeks pleasure trip on the cutter
McCulloch.
The mystery of the disappearance of
$4,000 from the specie tank of the
steamer Alameda on her voyage from
Sydney to San Francisco, Is still un-
solved.
The French cabinet council has de-
cided that the French cruiser Sfax
should proceed Immediately and bring
Dreyfus from the Isle of Devils back
to France.
Congressman David b. Henderson of
Iowa has received enough pledges to
elect him speaker of the house of rep
resentatives.
The steamer Orizaba from Skagway
reports the mysterious disappearance
of J. G. Ellis, chief engineer of the tug
Golden Gate.
An Italian laborer named Paste Is
sentenced to be hanged on August 10th
at Nelson, b. G. He shot Terence Ry-
an at Cranbrook the evening Of April
9th.
John Flanagan, worlds champion
hammer thrower, wearing the N. Y. A.
c. colors, won new fame by throwing a
hammer 164 feet 10 inches and making
q new record.
A thousand employees of the Tennes-
see Coal, Iron & Railroad Company,
have received an advance of 21a cents
per ton. This is the fourth advance
within few months.
In view of the continued publication
of inflammatory memorials in the San
tiago press, General Brooke has issued
an order directing the appointment of
press censor there.
Mrs. Johanna s. Schllllng, of New
York, aged 35, with her two daughters.
Gertrude and Edna, were found dead
in tenement. All had been axphyxi-
ated by gas doubtless turned on by the
mother.
Admiral Dewey's health is still i'm
proving. He will not visit England on
his homeward journey, but will proceed
straight to Gibralter and thence to
New York, where he expects to arrive
at the beginning of October.
1t was premeditated riot that took
place Sunday in Paris on the weigh
ing ground OF the Autiel race course
The object Of the rioters was to insult
President Loubet and perhaps in the
heat of action and fight, to get rid of
him.
M. Emile Zola, who has returned to
Paris, has written asking the public
prosecutor to send notification of the
sentence which the Versailles court
passed upon him in the libel action
growing out Of the charges he brought
against the officers who conducted the
Esterhazy courtmartial.
Sheriff Bradbury, Of Kootenai coun-
ty, has sent official notices to the su-
perintendents Of the railroads inform
ing them Of their infringement OF the
anti-alien laws of the state of Idaho
and warning them that unless the law
is complied with and they discharge
all employees Immediately whose en-
ployment is forbidden by law, arrests
and prosecution will follow.