Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-12-18
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
JULLED FROM DISPATCHES
complete Review of Happenings In
Both Eastern and Western Hemis-
al, Historical, Political and Per-
sonaI Events Tersely Expounded.

| At Troy, Idaho, recently, w. H.
Mann, brakeman on an extra train, was
run over by an engine and instantly
killed.
Mr.. Hanna on ship subsidies, in 4
speech before Bostonians at a banquet.
pointed out to the merchants that
America pays yearly into the pockets of
foreign ship owners 100000, 900. Wat
terson of Kentucky also spoke.
A handcar containing three Italian
laborers was struck by a Northern Pa
cific freight train on curve near Shir-
ley, Montana. One of the men was
torn to fragments, but the other two es-
capped uninjured.
Jacob Schaefer holds championship
of world at billiards. In New York he
defeated George Slosson in a 400-point
game by a margin of 35 points. The
contest was mediocre and brilliant by
turns. Schaefer also defeated Morn
ingstar.
Mr.. Lawson, of Boston, says that con-
troll of the United States Metal Selling
company had changed, and was now
owned jointly by the Amalgamated
Copper Company, the Rothschilds and
the Calumet & Hecla Mining company.
He declared that the Metal Selling COM
pany had contracted to buy for five
years from January l the product Of
the Amalgamated, the Calumet & Hec-
la and the Rio Tintos mines.
The Democrats completely over
whelmed the Republicans in the recent
Boston elections, Gen Patrick A. Col
Inns being elected mayor over Mayor
Hart by the largest plurality in quar-
ter of century. The Democrats like
of the city government, elected their
street commissioners and practically
all their candidates for the school COM
mission. AS usual the city voted
strongly in favor Of license.
John Hay has been selected as the
orator for the memorial service in
honor of the late President Mex nley,
to be held by both houses of congress.
The jury in the trial of Mrs. Lola
Ida Bonine, accused of the murder OF
James Seymour Ayres, Jr., the young
census clerk killed in the Kenmore ho-
tel last spring, returned a verdict of
not guilty" after being out about four
hours.
F. d. Elliott, representing the Great
Northern railroad, called at the Four
Courts, st. Louis, and announced that
one-thlrd of the $1,000 offered by his
company would be awarded the six de-
tectives who arrested Fitzpatrick, the
Montana train robber suspect.
Members of the executive committee
OF the national council of the G. A. r.
at meeting in Chicago decided to hold
the next annual encampment of the
organization at Washington, d. G. 1t
has been directed that the encampment
be held in the fall, although the exact
date will not be selected until tomor.
row.
Laura Bullion, the female companion
of Ben Fitzpatrick, the Montana train
robber suspect, who was convicted of
having in his possession forged ma
tional bank notes, was today sentenced
by United States District Judge Adams
to five years Imprisonment in ths
federal prison at LeavenwOrth, Kan.
Fitzpatrick received a sentence of fif-
teen years Imprisonment at Jefferson
City.
Fire recently destroyed the large
factory of the Brooklyn Cooperative
company in Williamsburgh, N. Y. Loss
$500, 900.
John Swinton, for many years an
editorial writer on the New York daily
papers, died recently at his home in
Brooklyn, aged so years.
There is a general strike of iron
workers at Barcelona. near Madrid.
Nine thousand men are affected. II
ras been proved that the recent ba-
kers' riots at Cadiz were fomented by
anarchists
At Chicago the total destruction of
the Lincoln avenue car barn of the
Chicago Traction company resulted
from fire. All the cars and trailers
used on the Lincoln avenue line were
destroyed. Loss 100000.
The Brussels Independence Beige
saws that Dr. Sylvester, formerly an
American, but now a naturalized
French physician. has invented a
spectrograph which enables users OF
the telephone to see each other.
| At Haverhill Mass, Mark Knipe, a
shoe manufacturer Of national repute
prominent ornithologist and taxider-
mist and pioneer. is dead, aged rs
years. Mr.. Knipe's private collection
of birds is one of the most valuable in
the United States.
| A rumor is current in Vienna that
Count Golouchowski. the Austro-Hun
garian minister of foreign affairs, is
about to resign, owing to the refusal
of Emperor Francis Joseph to sanction
his arbitrary proposition to satisfy
German complaints arising from the
anti-German demonstrations in Galicia
A freight train on the Philadelphia
and Erie division of the Pennsylvania
went through the bridge spanning
lLycoming creek between Williams
port and Newberrry at o'clock Sun
day morning Three lives were lost
The dead John Martz. engineer;
Frederick Glass. fireman; George Har
ley, brakeman, all residents of viii
Transport.