Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-05-09
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
4 Complete Review of the Events OF
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

IN lranSvaal, Dut Will seek new homes.
General Merritt is relieved at his own
request from command of the department
of the east.
Allen has been formally inaugunted as
governor Of Puerto Rico, the American
colony. The entire populace turned out.
Boilermakers to the number of 250 have
gone out on a strike at Chicago, thus com
pletely tying up the % shops in which
they had been employed.
| General Otis will not return from .Ae
reported. He will probably be assigned
to the department of California.
Judge Cantrill Wednesday ordered a
change Of venue to Scott county for the
trial OF Powers, Davis and others charged
with completely in the Goebel murder at
Frankfort, Ky.
Katherine LOTUS. the 14-year-old daugh-
ter of Patrick LOTUS, of Seattle, was 70
seriously burned at her home while light
ing fire, that she died few hours later
from the effects.
Bankers estimate that the American
visitors to the Paris exposition will spend
abroad this year $40,OO0,OOO more than
is usually spent by Americans in Europe
during the vacation season.
1t is feared that Eric Ericsson and Pete
Foss have found their tombs in the Great
Lardo glacier. Their bodies will remain
in their sepulchre of ice till snow meits
in June and they can be given earth to
arfh httr txun
miners.
Andrew Carnegie, who refused to con.
tribute to the Dewey arch, has given
$1,000 to the fund for the widow of Ser.
geant Douglas, who was killed at Croton
Dam during the recent strike. In sending
the check Mr.. Carnegie wrote: Sergeant
Douglas fought not for foreign conquest,
but for peace and order at home"
Robert Wilson, private in the Sixth
United States artillery, was fatally shot
in San Francisco while walking with Mrs.
William Denner, wife of private in Com
pany II, Eighth infantry. The shooting
is generally thought to have been an AT
tempt at murder, though there are some
suggestions at suicide.
Two hundred Klondike miners are
stampeding up White river, Alaska, to the
scene Of the latest gold discovery. The
find was made last winter on nameless
tributary Of the river which empties into
the Yukon, IL miles above the mouth OF
Stewart river. According to reports re-
celved recently at Dawson, the diggings
yield from $40 to $50 per man. but little
is known as to their extent The gold is
coarse and pans give from 10 to so cents
The Standard Oil company, the biggest
dividend payer among American indus
trial corporations, gladdened the hearts
of its stockholders Tuesday by declaring
quarterly dividend of $40 per share, pay.
able on June 10. This makes an aggre.
gate Of $50 per share which the great
trust has placed to the credit Of stock
holders since January !, last John ID.
Rockefeller owns individually 10000
shares Of stock Of the Standard Oil Com
pany. His fortune will therefore be aug
mented by 100000 as O result Of the
action taken by the board Of directors.
Since Jan. j. ID. Rockefeller has drawn
dividends aggregating $l2,400,o00. 1nis
is, however, only a small portion OF the
amount to which Rockefeller has been
entitled by reason OF the earnings OF the
Standard Oil Company. The company
owns only 81 per cent Of its many subsil-
iary companies. Rockefeller owns the
other 40 per cent. His total income there
fore from all sources allied with the
Standard Oil Company has been since
January l, 1900, approximately $24 4,0OG,-
COO.
Democrats OF Iowa indorssd the Chi
cago platform and declared for bimetal.
lism.
Three thousand peasants are in open in
surrection in Bulgaria.
Sugar and tobacco will soon begin to
move again from Puerto Rico.
The belief is growing that Aquinaldo
was killed by the Ygorote tribesmen. AZ
they have no trace of him.
The divorced wife of Deputy Customs
Collector L. 7. Hatch Of Alaska was found
dead at Forest Grove, Ore.
Lieutenant Colonel Eskridge has been
compelled to give up his command as he
was injured at San Juan.
Dismissal from the service is the pun.
ishment of Major Kirkman for conduci
unbecominp an officer at Manila.
Four Americans were killed and re
connoitering party OF the Twenty-sixth In.
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