Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-12-11
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Complete Review of happenings In
Both Eastern Rnd Western Hemis-
al, Historical, Political and Per-
sonaI Events TerseIy Expounded.

The tests of the new dynamite gun
a. Hiltonhead, s. c., under the auspices
OF a board of army officers, is believed
to have been satisfactory.
Rev. ]. w. Bradford, Methodist min
lister at Brookside, Ala, was shot by r.
d. Coffman, justice of the peace, Sun.
day afternoon, and died two hours
later. The minister had said Coffman
lied aout him.
Thirty-nne prisoners, serving SEN
tences for minor crimes, escaped from
the south side Birmingham, Ala, Jail
Sunday afternoon by digging through u
16-inch brick wall with pocket knives.
Five Of them were captured.
At Denver the jury in the case of
John X. Barr, formerly a prominent
merchant and manufacturer of Denver.
on trial charged with robbing Mrs.
Mary Belts of $1,000 worth of dia-
monds, returned a verdict Of guilty af-
ter being out twenty-five hours. The
penalty for the crime lis from one to
fourteen years in the penitentiary.
Native scouts from Bangabon, pro-
vince of Nueva Ecija, have killed the
American negro. David Fagin, desert
er from the Twenty-fourth infantry
(colored), who for more than two
years has been leading Filiplnos
against the American troops. The ma
tive scouts decapitated their prisoner.
The mans head. however was recog-
nized as that of Fagin. They also Sc
cured his commission in the insurgent
army.
James Jeffries, champion pugllist of
the world, will box four three minute
rounds with Jack Jeffries on Thursday
next at Elks' hall, Spokane. There will
be five round boxing bouts between 10
cal amateurs, a wrestling bout and q
hypnotism exhibit. The Spokane ANA
teur Athletic club will conduct the af-
fair.
The most remarkable smallpox re-
cord ever seen in Eastern Oregon came
to light recently when 1t was discovered
that in the family of James Powers,
who lives eleven miles from Pendleton,
there had been eleven cases since No
vomber l. Powers himself now has the
disease and has 1T badly. He Is the
last, the epidemic having run all
and the mother. This has been going
on for nearly six weeks, several having
the disease at once sometimes.
Bud Wilson, the convict who killed
II. H. Naylor, guard Of the Yell coun-
ty convict camp, last September, was
hanged recently at Danville, Arkan
sas. The trap was sprung at 9:45
o'clock and at 10:45 the body was low
cred into a coffin. Before the lid was
placed upon the coffin the body began
moving about. Wilson opened his eyes
and his whole frame shook with ire
mors. He was taken from the coffin
by deputies and carried up the stairs to
the scaffold for the purpose Of hanging
him over again. When the platform
was reached the body became rigid and
became limp. Wilson was examined
carefully by the physicians, who finally
pronounced him dead, death having
been caused by strangulation.
At Red Lodge, Mont, because her
lover did not return, Fannie HuDdley
swallowed a whole bottle of strychnine
dying in terrible agony twenty minutes
later. Her sweetheart was Rumsey
Chance.
Tho william Mckinley Memorial
Arch association has determined to
change its plan OF operation and to ap-
peal to congress instead of to the pub
lie for the erection of the proposed me-
mortal arch at Washington.
Had Admiral Van Reypen not been
reappointed Monday he would have re-
tired within year in the grade Of
captain. On December 2S next, how
ever, he will have served forty years in
the army and navy, and SO may retire
as an admiral.
Austin Craig, of Sumpter, Ore, gen
eral mine and real estate promoter, rep
resentative OF the Bank of Sumpter.
stage agent, city recorder and postmas.
ter of the town of Whitney, was arrest
cd recently on the charge Of larceny by
bailee for the alleged embezzlement OF
funds entrusted to him for another pur-
pose.
President Roosevelt has received a
letter from Andrew Carnegie in which
the latter offers to make a donation of
$40 000, 900 to the United States. The
letter will be referred to congress by
the president in a special message. Mr..
Carnegie's gift is for the establishment
OF university Of higher education in
the city of Washington.
Recently the engine of northbound
freight train and a southbound extra
freight on the Southern Pacific met In
head end collision on THE Mill creek
bridge, 400 feet north of the passenger
station in Salem, Ore. The pilots OF
both engines were wrecked, and the en-
gine of the extra freight was badly
damaged. No one was hurt.