Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-05-22

SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

al ID anu Will uOl return 10 AuleTlct
before next June.
Adjutant General Hoffman of the
New York national guard dropped
dead recently while in consultation
with Major General Roe.
OF 100 cases of bubonic plague in
Hong Kong since January 1, 112 have
died, including one victim bitten by
a rat, who expired in IL hours.
The steamer Owensboro, a towboat
owned by the Green River Coal Trans.
portation company of Evansville, Ind,
was burned to the waters edge at
Calhoun. KY, recently and four lives
were lost.
1t is now definitely known that not
more than five lives were lost in the
wreck Of the steamer City of Paducah
at Brunkhorst Landing. ILL.,, Sunday
night, and even this number may be
reduced to four.
Edward Rice, the Shoshone county,
Idaho, murderer who was sentenced
to death for the killing of Matt Malley
at Wallace, and who now has an ap
peal pending in the supreme court
has developed symptoms of insanity
After lying unconscious for 20 hours
from the effect of a blow received
during an alteration with Charles
Anderson, Charles C. Elms proprietor
of the Chicago saloon died in Seattle
Tuesday. Anderson is under arrest
and will be tried for murder.
A combination Of outside steel con
Germs with capital Of $200,0OO 900
is said to be in progress of promotion
by John w. Gates, John Lambert and
Isaac l.. Ellwood, the promoters and
organizers of the American Steel &
Wire company.
There Is report from Tientsin
that 10000 insurgents have assembled
at Lang-liu-tsang and that they are
lndulging in all kinds of excesses, VIC
lating women, robbing houses and
plundering tax collectors and declar
ing their intention of setting up a
new emperor.
The works at East Helena Of the
American Smelling & Refining com.
pany. which were closed down re.
Gently owing to the differences be
tween the employees and management
growing out of new wage scale, in
cident to the eight hour law, will be
reopened at once. The men have
agreed to go to work at the new
schedule, which is little lower than
the old.
Philip Schumacher, paying teller of
the Teutonia bank, state institution
of New Orleans, was shot in the calf
of the leg while at work in the bank
counting cash previous to meeting
OF the finance committee. An exam
lnation of the banks books seems to
point to shortage Of $4,000. AL
though the wound of Schumacher IL
not dangerous, he is delirious tonight
and his doctor said he. spoke of being
attacked.
Every gambling house In Montana
was closed last Tuesday, Attorney
General Donovan having instructed
every county attorney to see that they
were closed. II Is the most radical
reform step ever taken In Montana
and the first time since the discovery
of gold that faro has not been dealt
In the state. The attorney general
threatened to proceed against county
attorneys who failed to enforce the
law.
double suicide occurred at La
conner, SkagIt county, recently. John
Fay was employed by the Seattle
Bridge company, and his Is year old
son assitsed him In his duties. The
boy committed some trivial offense
for which his father corrected him
This wounded the boys feelings sc
deeply that he stole out of the room
secured a gun and shot himself in
the head. Hearing the report the
father hastened to the scene and saw
his son writhing in the agonies OF
death. He grabbed the gun and blew
out his own brains.
The Anaconda Mining company and
the Great Northern railroad announce
that the mining company machine
shops at Anaconda and the railroad
machine shops at Great Falls, which
have been closed for some time OF
account of labor troubles, will remain
closed permanently and the machin
cry transported elsewhere. The Great
Northern hereafter will have all Its
work done at Spokane or st. Paul
According to the officials, frequent ef
forts to treat with the strikers at both
places have proved unavailing, and as
the trouble is constantly occurring
1t is proposed in this way to put an
end to 1t.
The Chinese peace plenipotentiaries
have agreed to the demands of the pow
ers for concessions to be used for lega
tion sites.
General Mascardo, with 1928 men. has
surrendered to Captain O'Neil Of the
Twenty-fifth infantry at San Antonia
Zambales province.
At st. John, N. b., the chimney OF
Jewetts sawmill collapsed today and
three men were killed and others were
injured. The dead: William J. Price
John McCloskey. Charles Wilson.
At Colorado Springs, Col, the Port.
land mine, employing TOO men, was
closed down indefinitely recently owing
to the trouble between the company and
six miners unions over the employ
ment of non-union men.
Judge C. d. Emery. pioneer lawyer
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