Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-07-03
RITZVILLE, WASHINGTON, JULY 3, 1901.
SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
Jews 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.

ment of 1902.
The bodies of Frank c. Forrest and
Louise T.. Strothoff were found in the road
five miles from Quincy, ILL.,, recently. Each
had been shot.
AT Rochester, N. Y, one thousand
striking laborers had brisk encounter
with the police, in which II policemen and
20 rioters were injured. The rioters set
out, as before, to drive off the Ia
borers working on street improvements.
At Mill and Commercial streets they en-.
countered so hborers employed by the
Rochester Gas 4 Electric company in dig,
ging trench, and drove them from the
trench.
At Williamson, Va. there is no
longer any doubt that the list of dead,
the result of the recent food, will ex
ceed 100.
At Vinita, I. T., George Williams.
lying on his deathbed. confessed to
be an accomplice in the murder last
September, at Pryor Creek, of T. E.
Smith and Green Smith Of Sweden,
I. +.
Senator Hanna has given $4,000 to
Kenyon college in Ohio for a new
dormitory, which, at his request, will
be called the Politicians Barracks
During the past year a 100000 en-.
dowmen for the college has been
raised.
J. p. Jones. a leading builder and
contractor of Walla Walla. was al
most instantly killed recently by fall
ing from a high scaffold. His fellow
workman. Robert Zeidler. went
through the scaffold also, but caught
plank just In time to save himself
At :he Yale alumni dinner recently
It was announced that the $4,000, ,000
fixed as the amount Of the big cen
tennial fund has all been provided
the principal new pledgers being
Frederick Vanderbilt and James j.
Hill of New York and Matthew Bor
den of Fall River.
kNhi tht i'uSi
charged with postofiice robbery in
Idaho, who with two other prisoners
one of them Peter Dempsey, the con.
demned murderer. escaped from the
county Jail at Butte. on Sunday, was
captured at Dillon. Dempsey and
Healey are still at large.
Jessie Morrison was found guilty OF
manslaughter in the second degree.
The attention of the navy depart
ment has been formally called to what
appears to be an unsatisfactory condi-
tlon of affairs in Guam.
Comptroller Dawes ordered the clos.
ing OF the Seventh National Bank Of
New York, and appointed Forest Ray
nor. bank examiner. temporary re-
ceiver.
Heavy storms are reported all over
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the
property loss will run into the thou
sands. while a number of persons have
been injured and many head of live
stock killed.
In a race never excelled on the
Thames. Yale's varsity crew won from
Harvard the great inter-uniyersity
rowing event OF the year in the last
half mile Of the four-mile course, by a
scant two lengths.
After making n careful canvass of
the northwest territory and preparing
conservative estimates upon conditions
found throughout the grain belt traffic
officials OF several railroads are agreed
that the grain yield for 1901 will be the
largest ever harvested.
The forthcoming statement of the
coinage executed at the mints Of the
United States for the fiscal year ending
June 20, 1901, will show the total coin
age to have been $136,34O,7S1, as fol
lows: Gold. $99.O65,715; silver, $35,
265, ,498; minor coins, $2,0O9 ,56S.
As the result of the breaking OF the
temporary platform built on a scaffold
ing and bridging the top OF a mon
strous tank in the eastern elevator al
Buffalo, N. Y, six men fell a distance
Of 80 feet and four were killed. The
dead: John Keefe, jr., W. Krause
John Cortsett, jr., Petro Krotinger.
Samuel Gompers. president OF the
American Federation OF Labor, Is SUI
fering from possible fracture OF thu
skull. While his condition Is critical
his physician says he Will probably re
cover. He was injured as he was aiignt
Ing from car on which lie mad Deer
taking his two children Tor an outing.