Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-05-15

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.

| English miners have decided to
await the operation of the new tax.
| A steamer with smallpox on board
was not allowed to land, and was sent
back from Juneau.
The Great Northern repair shops at
Great Falls have been ordered closed
on account of the strike of 40 men
for better wages. The company re-
fused to grant the demand.
The treasury department is prepar-
ing a letter to the postoffice depart
ment asking that fraud order be
issued against parties representing
themselves as interested in the Durkee
claim.
The board of overseers of Harvard
university at the regular meeting here
| have voted to grant the degree of Doc
tor Of Laws to President Mckinley.
| The degree will be conferred at COM
| mencement in June.
Sebastian Martinelli. titular arch.
bishop Of Ephesus and cardinal elect
of the Church of Rome. has received.
at the hands Of Cardinal Gibbons, the
red berretta and donned the robes
which will hereafter mark his rank.
A search party which has returned
from New Guinea discovered the half
eaten remains of the Rev. James Chal-
mers and the Rev. Oliver Tompkins
Of the London Missionary society and
| their followers, who were massacred In
April by natives of Flytiver, New
Guinea, after a tribal fight.
The Marshall block in Seattle,
owned by w. l.. Smith Of Syracuse, N.
Y. and the Walker block were recently
gutted by fire, which started in Mitch
ell. Lewis & Staver's implement store.
Cause unknown. Damage will amount
to about 100000, probably three-fifths
Of which is covered by insurance. The
Migliavacci Wine company's stock was
badly damaged
The New York stock market was
utterly demoraliZed recently by the de-
velopments in Northern Pacific. What
were rumors became assertions of fact
later. that the Hartman interests, in
retaliation for the recent attempt to
secure control of the Union Pacific.
had turned upon the Morgan-Hill in
terests and wrested from them the con-
troll of the Northern Pacific.
Three persons are reported to have
been lost in the fire that totally de-
stroyed the five story apartment build
Ing at the southwest corner of Six
tieth street and Lexington avenue, in
New York city. Others were injured.
some so seriously that they may die.
The damage to property is placed
at $4,000.
Moulton Needham, secretary and
treasurer of the Washington Baseball
Club, Is dead.
At Nelson, B. c., last week. Jimmie
Burns and Charlie Goff fought twenty
rounds to draw.
Omaha has resumed its normal wide
open condition, Mayor Moore's blue law
enforcement having been abolished.
The boiler at Reilly's sawmill, near
Stroud, o. T.. blew up recently, killing
Oscar McAlly. engineer, and fatally
scalding Solomon Reilly.
Fully 10000 men and boys ran riot
In the streets OF Detroit for more than
three hours one day last week and a
continual running fight with police
men, both mounted and on foot. caused
great excitement in the heart of the
city.
A set OF boilers at the Highland hoist,
operated by the Homestake Mining
company at Lead, s. ID. blew UP with
terrific force recently. The engineer
was killed and two helpers seriously
injured. The Homestake company will
be badly crippled until the hoist and
saWmill can be repaired