Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-09-19
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the Lat
est Dispatches.

bloody fights at Huron, Indiana.
Will fight as guerrillas is the decision ar
rived at by council of Boer leaders.
The plague is again increasing at Simli.
Over 1900 deaths are reported 20 have
occurred in India during the last week.
The hard coal syndicate in Silesia and
the Rhine provinces have driven up the
prices of hard coal rs per cent anu soit
coal in Berlin is so per cent higher.
Ii is now said that the otherwise mex
plicable suicide of Arma Senkrah, the
American violinist, formerly Miss Hark-
ness, who married Herr HOLMAN, a
Melmar attorney, was due to anonymous
letter-writers whom the Wemar police are
now endeayoring to trace.
Ihe state department has reeei, ed from
Senor Aspiroz, the Mexican ambassador, u
communication conveying the invitation OF
Mexico to the United States to participate
in the International congress to he held in
the City OF Mexico, beginning October p,
1901.
Battered and damaged by the terrible
gale that swept over Lake Michigan re-
Gently the steamer Flint of the Pere Mar
quette Line arrived in port September II
alter the narrowest escape from disaster
ever experienced by passenger steamer on
the lake. Thirty PASSENGERS were more or
less injured by the trip.
The fight OF President Kruger to Lorenzo
Marques may enable General Botha to
open negotiations with General Butler and
bring the war to a close.
Lord Roberts reports from Machadodorp
that General French was heavily engaged
with the Beers in the hills west of Barber
ton and that General Hutton had gone to
General Frenchs support.
The Givernaud silk mill at Allenston,
Pa, employing 450 hands, is idle. Three
hundred weavers struck against decrease
OF 10 per cent in wages. The superintend-
ent OF the mill said the cut was only tenn
porary.
The strike of the anthracite coal miners
of the Lackawana district is practically
certain, for every mine that is working
/ today is short-handed, and some are en-
tirely shut down. Throughout the upper
valley there was almost complete stoppage.
Eight hundred butchers employed in the
packing houses of the Jacob bold Pack
ing company and Klinck's and DANNY $
packing houses at Buffalo, N. Y, are on Il
strike owins TO the refusal of the Dold
company to discharge two men who refus-
ed to pay their dues to their union.
One Of Minister Conger's dispatches was
in answer to a cabled inquiry from the de-
partment as to the fate Of Missionaries
CORTLAND Van Rensselaer, Hodges and
wife, Elsie Campbell Hodges, who were
killed. The couple were natives OF Phn-
adelphia and belonged to the Presbyterian
mission.
Three attempts were made recently to
wreck Union Pacific trains west of Alb
ilene, Kansas. Ties were pulled ON the
track in front Of the local passenger train
and the flyer westbound, and heavy iron
/ Oh the track before the flyer eastbound.
The distractions were discovered and
trains stopped in time to prevent any dam.
age.
From all parts OF the United States
anu some portions Of England many thou
sands OF dollars are pouring into Houston,
Texas, for the releief of Texas destitute
storm sufferers. Train loads of provisions
and clothing are also hurrying toward
Houston and Galveston and the refugees
who have arrived here are being made as
comfortable as possible.
The general opinion Is that spinners
around Manchester will stop univers.
ally during the first fortnight in Octo-
ber. Some producers are having re-
course to Egyptian and Peruvian cot.
ton to complete their contracts.
Almost record trip from the eastern
coast was made by the large steamer
Bosnia, which arrived in San Francis
co, AZ days and 10 hours from Philadel.
phia. She is chartered by the German
government to carry cavalry horses to
China.
Alice Maud Newlands, formerly of
Forrest, ILL.,, shot herself through the
heart at the Newlands residence at
Galesburg, having previously been ar
rested with her husband. DR.. Freder-
lex Newlands, charged with violating
the postal laws.
Acre after acre of what was beautiful
woodland last week is now q stretch of
blackened, smoky ground over which
dense smoke hangs In clouds. The
brush fires which sprang into activity
with the recent gale have simply dev-
astated a great region of Plymouth
county, Mass.
Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard
4, died OF apoplexy recently at his summer
home at Westernville. Rear Admiral
Sicard had been on the retired list
since September, 1898. At the break
ing out of the Spanish-American war
he was in command of the North At
lantic station, but on account of his Ill
health was relieved by Captain William
T. Sampson.
According to the Lorenzo Marques
correspondent Mr.. Kruger Is virtually
a prisoner in the residence of the dis
trict governor. This is at the instance
of the British consul who protested
against Mr.. Kruger using Portuguese
! territory as base for directing his ex-
ecutive affairs.