Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-07-24
SUMMARY TELEGRAPH NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and FOr-
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

20. MT. lhonidS LlptOn lnlnkS sne is tne
fastest racing yacht afloat.
Marshall, Mo-, town OF 5000 people, ON
the Chicago & Alton road, 30 miles east
of Kansas City, is reported burned.
There is an almost complete cessation of
mining operations in the Lackawanna val
ley because OF the strike OF stationary fire.
men.
The strike in the National Steel com.
pany's furnace ut Niles, Ohio, has been
settled, and $50 men have returned to
work.
With threatening curses and at the point
of guns two masked men held up {. b..
Clemmer and Con Reagan on the east
bridge across the Umatilla at Pendleton.
An explosion occurred recently at the
Gyttorp Powder works at Nora, province
of 0rebro, wrecking seven buildings. -Four
persons were killed and number injured.
Leigh S. J. Hunt, the Korean million
aire, is very i'll at Nagasaki, and has been
compelled to give up his project of starting
an opposition paper TO the Post t-lntcllgen
Ger OF Seattle.
The steel strike in America is attracting
much attention in England generally, and
while long articles are being printed in
the newspapers on the subject, no com
ment is made in the editorial columns.
The contract for the construction OF an
electric railroad between Seattle and Ia
coma, distance of % miles, has been let
to Hale & Smith of Portland. The con
tract price is not given out.
The mobilization of two fleets at Ports
mouth and Devonport, England, for naval
maneuvers of exceptional interest serves
to divert public attention from the inglor
ious and protracted war in South Africa
During operations with military bal
loon near Schlusselburg, on an island in
the Neva, 2i miles east of st. Petersburg
the balloon exploded. One person was
killed and 20 were injured, several fatally.
Billy Madden, manager OF Gus Rnhlin,
the heavyweight pugilist, who was in
Butte, states that he had been offered II
purse of $20,OOO for meeting between
Rubin and Jefiries by the Olympic club
of Butte.
Official announcement has been made
by J. Pierpont Morgan that he had select
ed James j. Hill, h. III. Hartman William
Rockefeller, IL. Mex. Twombley and sam
uel Rea to fill vacancies to he created in
the directorate of the Northern Pacific rail
road.
At Rochester, n. Y, after nearly nine
weeks idleness. the striking laborers en-.
oaoed in the municipal contract work have
resumed work. The men are granted 20
cents an hour for an eight hour day and
time and a half for overtime and double
time ON HOLIDAYS
Al Vienna Denutv .Bakman has been
Inv the representatives of the
hoot and sbo. tr,de IN auest;on the staath.
al,er In tho lower Austrian house as to
what that hodv intends TO do with regard
"a tho ,hroatened ;nv,s;on of the vienna
market NV an American syndicate. legal
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Nortbern pacific was killed recently
In Tacoma nv falling from the gravity
bunkers to the deck of collier.
Earl RusselI arraIpned AT the har Of
the bouee ~ lords for trial ON the
charge ~ bioamv n,eaded guiItv after
Iengtbv argnments against The iurls.
aict,on ~ tbo court
Mater Tames O,Nejl ono NJ the old.
oct n;onaers q, tba paciec nortbwes,
and for many vears denutv clerk Of
the limited states circuit and district
courts died at Snokane sunday
an ia oesc;a,Iv ranorted IN sbano.
hal" saws the Shanghai corresnondent