Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-10-10
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A COmpiete Review of the Eyents of
the Past Week-In This and For-
eign Landr-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

ernor. '.
Killed between Pavia and Santa Barba-
rs, Panay, October l, Second Lieutenant
Max Wagner, Twenty Sixth regiment. y.
5. V. infantry. ..f ,f..- 81.
Sixteen thousand striking coal miners
marched in the Wilkesbarre labor parade.
After the parade President Mitchell ad-
dressed crowd estimated at 10000. 10
George II. Blanchard, formerly vice
president OF the Erie railroad and later
commissioner of the Central Traffic l.
Joint Traffic association, is seriously III at
New York from a complication of diseases.
A. II. Atherton, stranger in Spokane,
Wash, died Wednesday as the result OF u
heavy dose of mdtphine and stryehmine
taken with suicidal intent. .,a3l1 a|HI
The census bureau has announced off
cially the population of Arkansas, the
first of the states to be enumerated. The
population is 1871 ,584, an increase over
the population of 1890 Of ls3,3s5, or l6.-
50 per cent. ".. .Hag.I
" Nillismsport, Pa, experienced the most
disastrous fire in its history recently. The
biz four-story shoe factory of j. f.. Dayton
& Co., occupying almost an entire square,
with its great stock of finished goods and
raw material, was entirely destroyed.
A four-horse team driven by S. Leep,
near Carson, Ore, ran away recently. The
wagon, loaded with sawlogs, was overturn,
ed and Leep and two of the horses were
killed. Near Copper Butte recently Aiar,
tim Marut was killed in u runaway acci.
dent t- f' i..'I .t'U'ii'
1t has become known to the public that
thieves have entered the vatican at Rome,
forced safe and carried off securities
worth 81 900 lire and 5000 lire in silver.
I'be safe, situated on the second floor, be-
longs TO the management OF the apostolic
palace, which looks after the horses and
arriages and decorations Of st, Peters
cathedral. Evidently the burglars were
well acquainted with the apartment and
prepared for the theft. Thus far investi
CATIONS by the vatican police have been
without result. ..rn. .5t.....
The plague has broken out again at
Townsville. New South Wales. Five
cases are reported, with two fatalities.
Mark Hanna was a target for ten
pound chunk OF Ice. IL missed him
only few inches. The senator was in
the speakers stand In q tent at Chi
cago, and the missile was dropped from
a hole above. 1t was a narrow escape
for the republican leader.
Five men perlshed in the snow fields
at Mount Arrasmith, Tasmania, Aug.
10th, where ten days before another
man perished. The cold wind was so
intense that a rescue party almost
shared the same fate. the cold affecting
the men SO badly that blood ozed from
their hands and faces. ,fr. , M
The steamer Miowera, from Sydney,
brings news Of the wreck Of the Jap
anese mail boat Futima Maru. which
struck rock on Mindora island In q
gale and became total loss, being bro
ken into. The loss Of ship and cargo
are placed at $1,500,000. The passen-
gers and crew, numbering 150, were
saved.
The policy of Great Britain is right
In line with that of the United States.
At Skagway J. Soloman OF 1888 SUIT
ter street, San Francisco. was acci-
dentally burned to death.
Roosevelt has been worked almost
beyond powers of endurance and his
voice Is failing him. He may cancel
few dates.
The navy department has detached
the island of Guam from the Asiatic