Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-10
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRE
I CompIete Review of the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-suu,msrixed From the Latest
Dispatches.


Cleveland, o., Monday.
South Dakota prairie fires have done
much damage in that state. Losses are
heavy.
After nine weeks of enforced idlcness,
the plate glass factory resumed operations
in Alexandria, Ind.
Howell T. Morgan, returning frJm Port
valdes, Alaska, to Bayonne, N. j., killed
himself on the train in InGilnl.
Charles Mccullough, fran laborer, was
shot and killed Monday by Mrs. Eunice
Brown, at her farm south of Canton,
S. d.
Great Britain has already taken steps
to counteract the efforts of the Russian
expedition in Asiatic Turkey.
Oscar Gardner, the renowned Omaha
KID received the decision over Tommy
Hogan, the crack New York feather
weight Thursday in 20-round but.
! Spain is collecting evidence with view
of claiming a cession OF land in China as
indemnity from the Chinese government
for permitting the steamer Abbey TO leave
Canton last August with arms for the
Philippines.
Olin r. Welborn, ex.collector of in
ternal revenue in San Francisco has been
arrested by United States Marshal Shine
at the Presidio, where he was serving as
an army private under the name OF o. IL.
Redhall.
The rebels have retired from their fortl-
fcations at Nailele, Samoa, which they
demolished together with other forts along
the coast.
The following customs and taxes were
collected at the ports mentioned during
April: Manila, $457 0G2; Iloilo, $45,534
Cebu, S3O,757; total, $633,293.
Ten of the Ia republican members OF
congress of Illinois have decided unani-
mously to support Congressman Albert
Hopkins, of Aurora, for speaker of the
national house of rrp: esentatives
There were fifteen members Of
the yorktown party captuled by the FIJI
pinos at Baler, and Admiral Dewey ae-
counts for five that have been killed,
They probably were killed or fatally
wounded in the original assault upon the
landing party at Baler.
The monthly statement OF the public
debt today shows, at the close Of business
April 80, 1899, the debt less cash in the
treasury amounted to $l,l72,5S1 ,26i, an
increase during the month of $43 0ol,70l.
This is accounted for by the payment OF
$2O,O00,0O0 to Spain in settlement OF
treaty obligations.
The latest estimates of the hlondlke
gold yield this season range from twelve
to twenty millions.
A peculiar tragedy occurred in Stock
ton, CAL, Tuesday night. The bodies OF
Mrs. William Hickman and Mrs. II. A.
Hassal, clasped in Ioving embrace, but
both dead, were found room OF a
lodging house, a bullet having ended the
life Of each.
As a result of General Torres oppres-
sive conduct toward American merchants
trading at BlueGelds, Nicaragua, this gov
ernment has determined 10 require the
Nicaraguan government to relieve HIM
from duty at that point.
Formal announcement of the organiza-
ton of the American Hide & Leather Com
pany is made.
Henry B. Hyde, president of the Eqni-
table Life Assurance Society Of the United
States is dead.
Peter Maher and Gus Rubin, the
"Akron giant" fought to a 2O-round draw
before the Lenox Athletic Club Tuesday
night.
General T. NJ. Anderson has been as
signed to the command OF the depart
ment OF the lakes with headquarters at
Chicago
Paymaster General Stewart, U. s. n,
has been informed OF the intention OF the
navy department to retire him on May
for age.
The police board denied a license to the
Coney Island Sporting Club, under whose
auspices the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries fight
was scheduled to take place.
Great Britain has officially demanded
of the Chinese government satisfaction for
the recent attacks made by the rebels
upon the British authorities in the Kau
Lang extension Of Hong Kong.
The dead bodies of 252 United States
dead, brought from the battlefields OF
Cuba and Puerto Rico by the steamer
Crook were inferred at Arlington ceme-
tery Tuesday with military honors.
Tuesday, Eugene Bette, of joplin, Mo-,
shot and mortally wounded Sanford Dor
tvs mistaking him for brother, Fieldon
Dortys, whom he had sworn TO kill for
marrying his daughter.
The heaviest rain of the season visited
Illinois Wednesday.
Edward n. Welton formerly a we'll
known publisher Of New York, is dead.
Mrs. George Dehaven, OF Walla Walla,
committed suicide by drowning Wednes-
day.
Rev. Bishop Christie, of Vancouver
island, has been appointed archbishop of
Oregon.
Julius Clay, now consul at Windsor,
Ont, has been appointed consul at Baree-
Iona, Spain.
The Chapman Slate Company, in Penn,
have announced 10 to 20 per cent ad-
vance in wages
The American Sugar Refining Company
has advanced the price of all refined
sugars one-eightR1sent per pound.
w. A. Brandes, of Oakland, Cal, has
been sentenced to life imprisonment at
San Quentin for the murder of his dangh-
ter.
hs corpse nj isasph Miller, boy 10
years old, was poip rope
to Ne limb ',v~.
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