Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-10-24
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
I Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.


son died suddenly Wednesday at Lexing-
ton, Va.
Ex-Secretary of State John Sherman,
whose health has not been very good OF
late, is quite i'll.
Eight thousand five hundred and one
voters are registered in Tacoma a gain of
1920 over two years ago.
Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
Radcliffe, librarian at Oxford university
since 1851, is dead, aged So.
The surrender of Tunis Botha, brother
of Commandant General Botha, at Volks-
rust, October ID, is reported.
Joe Pazen, proprietor of the Pazen The
atrical exchange in Chicago, was shot in
the abdomen by Zorah Card, an actress.
Kruger has postponed his departure for
Europe until October 20. He will sail on
the Dutch cruiser Gelderland and land at
Marseilles.
The Colby mine at Bessemer, Mich, has
been shut down and 300 men thrown out
Of employment. The Dunn & Tobin mines
near Crystal Falls have also closed.
Lord Salisbury, according to the Daily
Express, has offered the portfolio of war
in the reconstructed cabinet to Lord Bal
four of Burleigh, secretary for Scotland.
The night shift men of the Rockdale
plant of the American Steel & Wire COM
pany at Joliet, ILL.,, have been laid off in
definitely. About 400 men are affected.
Among the passengers on the Empress
of Japan, which has arrived i'll Victoria,
were Baroness Won Ketteler DR.. W. a. p.
Martin and several Others who went
through the siege of the legations in Pekin
John Hughes, postmaster at Cambria,
near Wilkesbare, Pa, shot and killed one
of two burglars who broke into his office.
When Hughes fired they ran. Later one
of their dead bodies was found by the
roadside His identity is unknown.
Passengers who arrived from the Orient
on the Empress of Japan say that resi-
dences and stores at Tientsin and Pekin
were looted by soldiers, correspondents and
missionaries. An immense amount OF sill
yer and valuables were taken.
The westbound fast mail was wrecked
at Topaz, 80 miles from Pocatello, result
ing from rear-end collision with freight
train occupying the main line. Engineer
Alex Bleckman and Fireman Oswald Short
both of Montpelier, are badly injured. Bert
Emerson, a tramp, was killed.
The total number of paid admissions to
the Spokane industrial fair was l09,959
which is grand record for Is days. Dur
ing the same period last year 1913 people
paid to enter the exposition, so the in
crease this year is 34,776.
The steamship Humboldt has arrived in
Seattle from Skagway, bringing in Klon-
dixie treasure and 200 passengers, includ-
ing a number of prominent mining OPP
orators. OF the gold the Canadian Bank
of Commerce owned a consignment of
$5O6,292.s5, sent to the local assay office.
j. Z. McAlpin is owner of $4,000 and the
remainder is distributed among a number
OF the passengers.
The population OF Arizona, as officially
announced, is l22,l42, against $500 in
1890; an increase of 62,592, or l04.9 per
cent.
Major Matt r. Peterson, United States
volunteers, died of yellow fever at Las
Animas October II. Mrs. Peterson, his
wife, killed herself an hour later
The isthmian canal commission is at
work on its report, but it is evident that
it will find it impossible to do more than
submit preliminary statement to con
gress when the session begins.
DIR. Alfred C. Girard, the commanding
officer at the Preside general hospital,
has received promotion to the Office of
deputy surgeon general of the army, with
the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The steamer Lane brings from Nome
the news that $4,000 in gold dust was
stolen from the Alaska Commercial COM
pany's warehouse September IA. 1t was
the entire output of claim No. on Anvil
creek, and belonged to DIR. A. N. Kittleson
1t was in five boxes, weighing l05 pounds,
and only awaited the departure of some re-
liable boat.
Seattle, Oct. lS.-The oriental liner En-
press brings advices that the Japanese
steamer Ise Maru, bound from Yokohama
to Nagasaki, and the Russian steamer Ca
lsnda, bound from Nagasaki to Port Al
bert, collided in mid ocean October 5. Both
steamers sank. Forty-two Europeans and
large number of orientals persisted A
few survivors reached Japan in small
boats.
When in full running order the
Homestead mills of Pennsylvania en-
ploy 1000 men. At least twelve or fif-
teen men are injured every day. This
includes all kinds of accidents from
the tearing of thumb nail to the sew
ering Of leg. At this rate about
1920 men are injured yearly in the
great iron works.
The Steel and Wire Trust has opened
one department of its factory at. An
derson, Ind, with z per cent reduc-
tion of wages and a blacklist On all
the men who went on strike last April. |
The men are now receiving less wages
than In 1898, and the trust has more
than doubled the price of the nails It
manufactures.
The Iron and Steel Trust, after keep
ing its mills idle since June, has sue
ceeded in starving its skilled workmen |
into accepting reduction of wages. |
cents per ton, and finishers' wages cut
per cent. Sixty thousand men are
involved. The trust will at once open
its mills, especially through Ohio and
Indiana. The men have been starved /