Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-07-11
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
L Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For-
eiGn Lands-Taken From the Lat
est Dispatches.

accofuliiB W uispMtch Tom Nip'
Town, President Kruger is reported t,
have moved to Nelspruit, the Transvaa
station for I.ydenburg.
A car on the Webster 4 Dudley stree
railway and a car on the Worcester
Webster road came together on dow
grade at East Webster, Mass. Nearly ;
score Of persons were injured, three o
whom 1t is feared may die.
The dead: j. II. Hamilton, genera. su
perintendent; Bradley Reeves, engineer
Edward Shannon, telegraph operator
Yardnaster Carr, Master Mechanic La
lime and Conductor Bradford.
Quartermaster Captain Chas. I. Bake
of the U. S. A. transport Summer will
shortly appear before San Francisco su
perior judges to show cause why he SHOULD
not be compelled to pay $1,000 damages
for assaulting and imprisoning John Cal
way, formerly chief steward of the samt
vessel.
A complaint has been filed IN which
Galway alleges that on June 0 Baker as
saulted and imprisoned him in a compart
ment six feet square. Here, he says, he
was kept on bread and water for two days
and nights in temperature which varied
from 20 to l2O degrees. The complaint /;
backed by several afiidavits.
On the Fourth in New York
city in the search for victims of the
North German Lloyd fire three bodies
were found off Fourth street. One was
identified as that of longshoremai
named Henry Kunz. The two others were
charred beyond recognition. A fourth
body was taken from the river at the foot
of Bay street, Jersey City. 1t was that
of q painter on the .Saale.
At the Ohio River railroad shops in
Parkersburg, w. Va, yard engine run
ming at good rate of speed went through
an accidentally opened switch and struck
a large train of gasoline cars. One o
the tanks took nre. A cannon ball was
fired through the remaining tanks OF oil te
let the fluid out. Instantly after the shot
was fired one tank exploded. The smoke
rose hundreds of feet into the air, and
after it had cleared away dead bodies
were scattered here and mere and injured
were lying all over the surrounding terri
tory.
Charles Wesley Dickinson, inventor o.
the geometry q lathe, which made sue
cessful counterfeiting Of bank notes i'm
possible, is dead at his home in Belleville
n. j., aged II. He manufactured ma
chimes for bann note engraving for 'th'
United States and many foreign govern
ments.
The Cruciblc Steel Company OF America
is proceeding rapidly toward its lorna
ton. On Monday the directors of the
BENJAMIN Atha & Illingsworth Company
of harrison, N. j., which was the last o
the important companies to hold out, mel
in Newark and decided to grant the pro
moters an option on their crucible and
open hearth plant and cast their fortunes
with the other concerns. The new com
many will have an authorized capital oi
$50, 100000.
Women Of Iowa can not vote is the ue
cision handed down by the court, but il
NAV be appealed.
As a result of the celebration of lnde'
pendence day with firearms, toy cannon
giant crackers and other forms Of explo
siyes 80 persons were killed and 1925
wounded, according to reports received
from I25 cities. The toy pistol and the
toy cannon are shown to have done Al
deadly execution as sometimes has beer
done in war, as those loaded with bullets
and aimed to kill. Skyrockets and powder
explosions, the premature discharge o
Fourth of July cannon help to complete
the list of mishaps. In several instances
persons were killed through runaway ac
cidents due directly to fireworks.
A fire loss of $lz5,0OO was caused by thu
fireworks.
In Chicago boy was killed. There wer'
no costly fires in the city Frankfort, Ky.
alone suffered a fire loss of 100000 due y
irecrackers. Other cities also suffered
heavily. Out of this total of 1926 people
hurt, 442 can attribute their injuries to
crackers and dynamite torpedoes. The
deadly cannon irecrackers did most Of the
execution. Out of l52 injuries by firearms
in 81 cities the toy pistol caused loo.
Franklin McLeary, the Canadian
actor. died recently brain fever.
In the athletic tournament at London
the Americans captured the lions share
of the prizes
Twelve persons at Chicago succom
bed to the excessive hot weather one
day last week.
Senator Jones of Arkansas has beer
ra- a-alacted national chairman of the