Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-11-13
WORLD D'SNEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Complete Review of happenings in
Both Eastern and Western Hemis-
pheres for the Past Week-Natton-
al, Historical, Political and Per-
sOnaI Events Tersely Expounded.

MdhchuIidh treaty, appearS 10 nave
been the immediate cause of the death
of Ii Hung Chang.
At Baltimore, Md. Peter Maher put
a sudden stop to the championship as
pirations of Jim Jeffords of California
recently in the second round of what
was to have been a ten-round contest.
At Omaha, Neb., the jury in the case
Of James Callahan, after being out
thirty-six hours. brought in a verdict
finding the defendant not guilty This
is the last echo in the Cudahy kidnap-
ing case, and Callahan is acquitted of
the kidnapping charge.
Minister Conger at Pekin has in.
formed the state department that Yuan
Shi Kai has been appointed to sue
ceed LII Hung Chang as viceroy of Chi
LII, and that Wang Wen Shao has been
appointed deputy viceroy of the same
province. Yuen Is the present viceroy
Of Shan Tung province
At New York Mrs. Archibald S.
White, 40 years old, wife of the presi-
dent Of the National Salt company, was
dence on Eighty-sixth street recently.
A slip on the floor of the bathroom
caused her to fall backward, her head
striking the edge of marble basin,
fracturing her skull.
President James J. Hill will be the
dominating influence in new corpor-
alton which is to take in the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific. A
large number of the reorganized board
Of directors of the Burlington, probably
half. will. 1t is understood, represent
the Union Pacific directly. and that
company will in any event have half
voting interest in Burlington affairs.
There will, of course, be no extension
to Salt Lake to meet Senator Clark's
road, or to any other point not fully
countenanced by the Union Pacific rep
resentatives in the Burlington's board.
The democratic party has adopted
General Bartholomew Masso as its
candidate for the presidency OF Cuba
1t Is asserted that the brigands have
recently been treating Miss Stone with
more severity in order to exercise
pressure and to compel a more ready
acceptance of their conditions.
Fire broke out in mine No. of the
Pacific Coast company at Franklin
near Seattle, and one miner, Jacol
Rose, is missing. The other members
OF the shift reached safety without
difficulty.
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located to death, ]. w. Russell was
scalded to death and James Mcmahon
and w. B. Hoover were each badly
scalded at the Kansas City packing
house Of Schwarschild e. Sulzeberger.
while attempting to repair some pump.
ing machinery below ground.
The French foreign Office has an
nounced that the sultan has signed
an trade for the execution OF his en-
gagements with the French govern
ment and that the Franco Turkish dis
Iute IL at an end.
At Valley City, N. d., while an omni.
bus was on its way to North City. IL
was held up by masked men. Half of
the IS passengers aboard were robbed
Of money and other valuables to the
amount Of about $400.
lrelands hopes and aims were told
In dramatic language to 5000 men and
| women In Mechanics hall, Boston,
Sunday by the Irish envoys. John p
Redmond NJ. A. McHugh and Thomas
O'Donnell The president of the even
ing was William Lloyd Garrison. His
address was in keeping with the sen.
timent of the evening.
A striking illustration of the growth
o; the American navy is presented in
single sta tement in the report of
Rear Admiral r. B. Bradford. chief
of the equipment bureau of the navy.
that he spent $2,227,111 the last fiscal
year for 32410S tons of coal at an
average cost of $7.01 per ton. The
report says that this was nearly 95.Sl3
more tons of coal than was used dur.
ing the preceding fiscal year.
The corpse sent to Little Rock, Ark,
from Jeffersonville. Ind, as that of
Newell c. Rathbun, United States re.
cruiting officer, who was reported to
have died in Jeffersonville hotel re-
Gently, is not the body of Rathbun,
according to the statement of Man
ager Samuel Russell of the New York
Life Insurance company, which com
pany carried life insurance on Rath-
buns life. Mrs. ]. C. Watkins, with
whom Rathbun boarded up to short
time ago, and others, also, say the
body is not that Of Rathbun.
At st. Petersburg the ministry of
agriculture has presented its annual
report for the crop of European Rus.
sia. The crop was below average, 1t
| is said, and in some parts of the east
and south there were bad places
very bad" The staple grain, rye was
particularly deficient Winter wheat
was bad" in the Don province. Po-
land, and the Baltic provinces and
good only In the southwest. All sum
mer grains were below average and
ranged from bad to very bad" in the
east and southeast, summer wheat and
oats being notably deficient.
Henry William Saxton, aged s. was
fatally shot recently at the home of his
paernts near American Lake, Wn.
Returns from forty counties In Ala
bama indicate that the new constitu-
tion will be ratified by $4,000 majority.
At Wenatchee. Wash. r. T. Murdock
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