Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-04-04
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
4 Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week in This and For-
eign Lands-summarised From the
Latest Dispatches.

Otis suggests that the Philippines be
districted and to have four governors.
President Mckinley says the republi.
cans of Kentucky are entitled to hold the
offices.
Admirals Reney and Kempff have sail
ed on the Maru for China and the Phil
ippines.
Seventeen concerns yield in Cleveland
and the machinists will now obtain a
nine-hour day.
England long ago explained the Ma.
crum matter and says she opened the
mail by mistake.
A private dispatch received here con.
firms the report that British missionary
has been killed at Kaiping.
Trouble at Chesaw, Wash, over town
site matter cause l.. L. Patrick's resi-.
dence to be blown up by dynamite.
Senator Clark's foes accuse him of lavish
bribery in their brief, and counsel for
the senator in turn abuse Marcus DAILY
saying their client is pure.
The war department has recognized
Honolulu as an open port by ordering the
transports soon TO sail from San Fran.
cisco to call there en- route to Manila.
Turkey courts conflict over Asia Mi.
nor and special dispatch from Odessa says
that quarter of million of Russia q
troops have been mobilized for active ser.
vice. Tension grows daily.
Joseph NJ. Cotter, a brother Of John
W. Cotter, shot and killed himself al
Butte, Mont. The dead man was 81
years of age and was well and popularity
known here. Inc coroner's jury return.
ed verdict Of accidental death.
Vito Paoletto, the Italian saloonkeeper
of Chicago who lost the power of speech
soon after the murder of his partner, Mi
chael Giavito, with which he is charged
made two attempts to commit suicide
He failed, but the method employed
which was putting the end Of his crutch
in his mouth and jumping on it, restored
his voice.
Turkey has prohibited imports of Am
erican pork on the ground that 1t is In
furious.
Jeffriese will not fight in Chicago, al
he insisted upon three opponents oil
none at all.
George Webster was hung In Spo
kane Friday for the murder of Mrs
Aspland, near Cheney.
A court-martial has been ordered fol-
Capt. Deming at San Francisco. He IL
said to be short in his accounts.
By the premature explosion of q
blast at Spokane, along the Great Nor
thern right Of way. an Italian was kill
ed and several others injured.
France Is willing to waive her rights
and says she values our friendship
more highly than claims In the West
Indies.
A dispatch from Kobe. Japan. an
ounces that Russia has demanded leave
to land troops near Mazanpho. Korea
The dispatch says Japan wants no out
side interference.
The French steamer Georges Croise
bound to Cuba with cattle and 80 pas
sengers, sank outside the port of Santt
Domingo. The steamer New York rem
dered valuable assistance. It ia moi
known how many lives were saved.
The harbor of Guam will be made one
Of the most important naval bases
Millions will be spent for breakwaters
coaling sheds and wharves. 1t will
shorten the time to Manila, as vessels
are now unable to make the trip ex
cept by maintaining low rate Of speed
Neil Salmon was shot and instantly
killed at Spokane in Company KS ar
mory on Washington street. Accounts
differ as to how the accident occurred
There were only two witnesses to the
tragedy. One of these, P. A. Morss, IL
now detained at the police sation under
suspicion. The other witness was VIII
lie c. Cole.
San Francisco Ito establish big com
mercial' museum, to be permanent.
The petition by Chief Joseph to have
his tribe removed to Oregon will probably
be refused.
Hans 'Hartell, a hardware clerk al
Greenwood, B. c., shot himself with sui
cidal intent recently.
Mine owners in Nelson and Ymir dis
tricts make concessions, and the silver
lead mines are to start.
Alfred Plaw of the University of Cali
forna smashed all American intercollegiate
records for the l6-pound hammer throw
Saturday. He sent it l58 feet inches
Midshipman w. w. Silleman, an Amer
lean youth of IL, was recently mentioned
in South African dispatches for gallantry
Ex-United States Senator Gibson Oi
Maryland is dead.
The Chinese general, Pana, who has
been terrorizing and devastating the prov.
ince Of Panay, has surrendered at Logaspl
to Brigadier General Kobbe, who is bring
ing him to Manila.
The Light Blues won the annual race
between Oxford and Cambridge college
boat crews. 1t was a poor contest. a
procession from the start, with Oxford
beaten before the oars touched the water
.he Hamburg American Line steamship
Phoenicis, which recently arrived from
Hamburg and Boulogne, brought 203s
steerage passengers, the largest number Of
immigrants arriving by any steamer in
many years.
Signor Alberti, vice president OF the
house, took the chair at the opening ol
the chamber of deputies Saturday at Rome
and announced that Signor Colombo had
resigned the presidency and that other
officials attached to the presidency had
also resigned.
Lord Roberts reports the death at Moor