Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-08-15
anize a national society at the reunion

ganize a national society at the reunion
at Denver.
The Indian famine relief fund at New
York has reached the $2O0,OOO mark, the
contributions received amounting to $780,
O20.
Secretary Root says the latest reports
from General Macarthur show the sick
Hess in the Philippines as 8 per cent,
which he considers remarkably good
showing.
The Union Metallic Cartridge company
of Connecticut is working night and day
to ill orders from several governments
for ammunition.
Eleven person died one day last week
In New York. from the excessive heat.
1t is persistently rumored in Lorenzo
Marquee that President Steyn has com.
mitted suicide.
The Catholic Journal announces new
massacres and disaster to the missions
in the southeast province of Chilli, China.
1t says that five priests have been killed.
The wife of DIR. A. c. Macdonald West
water OF Lao Yang, Manchuria, COM
mitted suicide at Armia, in consequence
OF mental depression caused by her eX-
citing experiences at New Chwang just
before her departure from China.
The grape growers and wine men are
now at war in California. The wine men
have called in their buyers and say that
they will buy no more grapes, as the grow
ers are holding them too high. They are
asking SIS for black grapes and SIS a ton
for muscats.
The following dispatch from Lord Rob-
erts has been received at the war office:
"As Warren has pacifed the western dis
tricts OF Cape Colony, am allowing 1im
to return home and am replacing the
whole of the troops in the colony under
forestiar- Walker."
After two years flight, in which they
almost circled the globe and outwitted
the police in score of European and
American cities, Mr.. and Mrs. Abraham
Weinberg were arrested in their apart
ments ON State street, Chicago. They
are charged in Kansas City with embezllc'
ment.
Three steamers from Cape Nome have
arrived in Seattle, all bringing gold and a
large number of passengers. The Oregon
brought $345,0O0, the largest consign-
ment of Nome gold since the discovery
OF treasure in that district; the San Pedro
brought about $l5O,0OO, and the Charles
d. Lane $50,0U0.
Paul Jansen, who was arrested at Fast
~ a..
charged with counterfeiting, hanged him
self in his cell in tine hudson county jail,
New York. lie tore his coat into strips,
which he twisted into a rope and fastened
to the bars of his cell door. Then, tying
the end about his neck, he threw his
weight on the cord and was slowly
strangled to death.
The allotment of f5,000,0OO OF the
AI0,O0O,00O English war loan to the
United States is received in the higher
financial world as a good thing for Lon
don in the present position Of the English
banks. The brokers and small investors
severely, almost passionately criticize the
chancellor of the eXchequer, Sir Michael
hicks-Beach, for privately arranging for
half of the so-called public loan and allow
ing the investment plum to go out OF
the country.
While there has been a noticeable alb
sence of earthquakes in the last fortnight,
volcanic eruption has taken place near
where, 10 years ago, the greater part OF
Mount Bandaison was hurled into the all.
Azuma Yama was ,ne scene OF an awful
explosion last week, a sulphur factory
employing about 100 hands being sud
denly annihilated by subterranean ex-
plosion. Only 20 OF the hands escaped.
The fall Of debris covered the ground two
feet deep at a distance of four miles from
the center Of the disturbance.