Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-03-28

Machinists' strike at Chicago will no
be as sweeping as predicted.
Lieutenant Schroeder will succeed Cap
tain Leary as the new governor of the Isle
Of Guam.
Thousands Of deaths from buboni,
plague in the stricken district of Indis
are reported.
Peter Berner is in Jail at Wallace, Ida
ho, charged with the murder Of F. D
Whitney, December, 1897.
A recent fire at Red Lodge, Mont.
burned two big brick blocks, and farm
er by the name of John Davis perished.
John F. Norton. a Northern Pacific
sw witchman at Tacoma, was run over in the
yards and received such injuries that death
followed a few hours later.
Secretary Root has returned from his
brief stay in Cuba and is full Of data and
ideas concerning the natives and their ca
pacity for self-goverment.
Three hours after the shooting of Miss
Annie Strother, cashier of restaurant
in Chicago, recently, Mrs. Charles Smith
wife Of well known saloon-keeper, with
wnom Miss Strother is said to have asso'
ciated, was arrested and made confession
saying she had shot Miss Strother.
The american warship sent to Taku is
intended to participate in the eventual
Joint naval demonstration should China
persist in her refusal to suppress the sects
hostile to the Christians.
j. NJ. Falkner, foreman of the wholesale
| department of Stewart & Holmes, drug
gists at Seattle, jumped from an ascending
elevator at the second story, missed it and
fell to the basement. He died in an hour
Thirty persons were injured by the fall
| ing of freight elevator in the rear Of the
building at 1900 Market street, Chicago
where the victims of the accident were EN-
ployed by the Blakely Printing Company
1t ia thought none of the injured will die
although several were badly hurt. The
accident was caused by the breaking OF the
engine in the basement
| General Osman Pssha, the famous mill
tary leader of the Ottoman empire, il
dead. He was veteran Of two wars, the
latest between Turkey and Greece, wal
one of the best generals in Europe ant
the mainstay of the Turkish army il
times of war. He was famous for hi'
fighting qualities, but his reputation as Q
strategist was also excellent.
General Lew Wallace has written ar
open letter charging that the administra
ton is attempting to make colonies o
Puerto Rico and the Philippines, to b.
governed by the president as q colonia
empire. General Wallace proposes a con
stitutional amendment forbidding legisla
tion or sovereignty over any island, terri
tory or country now foreign, except will
the consent Of the people Of the United
| States.
The steamer Amur, arriving from Skag
way, reports that the bodies OF ClaysoI
and his missing companions, Relfe and oi
sen, have been found under the river ic'
and enough evidence has been obtained t.
convict OBrien The coronsr's jury on th'
bodies Of Burt Horton and wife returned
q verdict of murder by Indiana. Sever
Indians have been arrested at Klukwal
for the murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. Horton
OBrien Is in custody at Tagish.
The authorities now have the plague
well in hand at Honolulu.
Fire wiped out the lttle town OF kus
kanook, B. c., on Kootenay lake.
Fifty thousand people cheered Dewey
the great naval officer, at Savannah.
1 at RnrkleV
Wash, was killed by an unknown man.
Robert Gilchrist, a barber, was shot II
his shop in Chicago by an unknown assas
sin.
After having spent two millions the sol
of Pierre Lorillard declares himself
bankrupt.
James j. Jeffries, through his managers
has contracted to meet three men on
night in Chicago.
Professor Henry Cohn OF the chair
German at the Northwestern university q
Chicago is dead.
The gallant work Of colored man, M
Is. Anderson, in a recent fire in New Yorl
resulted in saving six lives.
More than 1000 cavalry, infantry AM
artillery recruits have just sailed from
New York for the Philippines.
j. r. Allen of New Orleans, an Amer
can speculator, has invested in milliol
tickets to the Paris exposition.
! Smallpox has broken out in the Grea
Northern grading camps near Fort Ben
ton, Mont, where about 1900 men are a
work. Thirty cases have been already re
ported.
The statue for the Paris show of th'
American girl in gold is worth a fortune
in metal. Maude Adams, the actress, wa
the model, and Bessie Potter Vennah wa
the sculptor.
| Jennie Patterson was killed and her sis
ter Maggie was fatally injured by n loco
motive at the crossing Of the Belt rail
way at Twenty-ninth street and Stewar
avenue, Chicago
The house committee on public land
recently directed favorable report on |
bill allowing single woman who locate
homestead entry on unplatted lands Il
complete the entry after her marriage.
Railroads claim the government owe
them nearly sl75,0o0 for carrying troop
to San Francisco en- route to the Philip
pines. Full fare was charged, less th'
land grant deductions. Uncle Sam hold
out.
tifteen hundred machinlsts at Cleve
land have laid down their tools. Presiden
/, OConnell has issued the following state
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