Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-08-07
SUMMARY TELEGRAPH NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
1 Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and FOr-
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

has approved the bill suspending martial
law. President Roca will promulgate the
bill today.
Edward H. Teneyck, the worlds cham
pion amateur sculler, announced that he
had retired from racing forever. He re-
tires champion who has never been beat
EN- in q race.
According to a widespread rumor in cir
cles of organized labor general strike OF
all unions, which will be as fatal to bust
ness interests us has been the San Francisco
walkout, is imminent in Seattle.
Mark l.. Wilsoi., theatrical manager,
aged about 40 years, committed suicide in
Philadelphia by inhaling Illuminating gas.
In one of Wilson's pockets was badge OF
the Order of Elks, issued by lodge ia, Of
Tacoma.
Maria Pia, queen dowager of Portugal
and mother of the present King Carlos,
had a narrow escape from assassination
recently. Her majesty was taking a course
of baths at AK, but was so perturbed by
the attack upon her that she left hastily
for Rome.
M. Demars, Frenchman working
claim in the Canadian Forty Mile, has paid
royalty showing his cleanup to be $l6,OOO
1t was taken from claim on Miller. This
is the only claim on Miller which has paid
royalty. The Forty Mile district is very
quiet this season.
Lieutenant Croft of the Nineteenth in
fantry, with mounted detachment of
Cebu scouts, has had an encounter with 60
insurgents. Seven of the rebels were killed
and 10 taken prisoners. OF Lieutenant
Croft's force two were killed and three
slightly wounded.
A boom across the mouth of a convenient
slough at the Patterson logging camp, four
miles above Selkirk, gave way, liberating
100000 feet of logs, which are now sailing
toward the mouth of the Yukon. The
amount lost was about equal to four big
RATS, and was valued at $4,000.
A pet cat overturned kerosene lamp
in the home of James Mccoy, in Brooklyn.
In the fire that resulted James Mccoy and
his two children-William, aged l6, and
Edna, aged l4-were burned to DEATH and
Mrs. Mary Mccoy, the mother, was prob
ably fatally hurt by falling from a win
dow to the ground.
Mrs. R. b. Price, aged 3S, leaped from the
Proctor street bridge, in Tacoma, and was
dashed to death against the rocks in the
gulch 95 feet below. She was well known
in social circles and had been i'll for several
months. 1t is believed dependency, result
ing from the condition of her health, was
responsible for her act
A lively tornado around Kilmer, 10 miles
northeast of Topeka, did much damage re-
Gently. Several buildings were unroofed,
windmills destroyed and one farmers bug
gy was carried through the air 200 yards
and landed upside down on a wire fence.
Orchards and crops suffered. People in the
path OF the storm fled to their cellars and
caves and escaped injury. After the wind
two and one half inches of rain fell.
The decision of the umpires with regard
to the sham naval action off the Scilly
isles, near London, indicates that the en-
counter used up cruisers at such rate
that it was feared the maneuvers might
come to an untimely end for want of ships.
OF the Is cruisers knocked out nine have
been released to continue the proceedings.
The bulletin issued from Naples regard
ing Signor Crispi announces that he has
suffered relapse and is weaker. His ter
rible struggle for breath can be heard even
in the roadway of the street where his
rasiHanna Glands Tho ,Iar sc 60,
lily and his two secretaries surround the
deathbed. 1t is said that the family have
refused priestly offices. The last words
pronounced by Signor Crispi before he be-
came so feeble were, on hearing the tele-
grams from King Victor Emmanuel and
Dowager Queen Margharita: "Oh, good
king, good queen"
The Baltimore Ohio passenger train
from the east, which was due to arrive in
the Grand Central station, Chicago, at 0
o'clock Wednesday night, was held up by
five masked men between Edgemere and
Grand Calumet Heights, Ind, 81 miles out
from Chicago. One of the mail cars, which
contained no money, was dynamited and
wrecked. The attempt at robbery was
made after the two mail cars had been de-
tached from the train and run quarter of
mile ahead. The failure of the robbers
to make rich haul was due to the fact
that the express car, which contained the
trains treasure, was in an unusual place.
1t was the fourth car in the train. After
wrecking the mail car and obtaining no
booty, the men disappeared in the dark
ness without attempting to rectify their
mistake. The only loot that they carried
away with them as a result of their ad.
venture was the gold watch of the en-
gineer.
Cadillac Of Detroit has been officially
selected to defend the Canada's cup
against the Canadian challenger.
According to Seattle newspaper, a
good deal Of money is being invested
In Seattle real estate by Butte men.
At Seattle Ralph L. Ross, deputy col.
lector of United States internal reve-
nue., Is short in his accounts nearly
$4,000.
Cresceus added more laurels to his
fame recently by trotting a mile in
2:02M, reducing by half a second his
week old record of 2:0234.
W. s. Cooper of Sherman county,
Oregon, recently sold ranch near the
town of Wasco for $16,50O that he
bought last fall for $1,000.
Alexander Stonewitch, an Austrian
miner from Rossland, fell from the
passenper train receivinu