Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-04-17

THE telegraph SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review OF the Events of
the Fast Week-In This and For
eiRn Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

is OIL, against S2.l last year.
The excitement over the discovery OF
rich placers on Santa creek, tributary OF
St. Maries river, continues.
The state department has received a
cablegram from Consul Long at Cairo,
Egypt, announcing that plague has broken
out at Alexandria.
At Richmond, Va, the large retail store
of Julius Meyers Sons was destroyed by
fire recently. The stock and fixtures are
insured for about $lSUOOO.
Reports of an outbreak of fresh rebel
lion in China are not confirmed and are at
tributed to Earl LIS disconsolate reflection
that everything will go wrong since his ad
vice has not been needed.
The family of James Smith, consisting OF
the father and mother and four children,
were instantly killed in their home re-
Gently by the sliding of the huge dump of
the Granite mine, in Cripple Creek dis
trict.
The river Rhine has risen considerably
above the normal stage. 1t is announced
that at Cologne the river rose to Is feet
in one day, and that on the Swiss border
villages are flooded and the people have
fed from their houses.
At Santa Cruz an explosion occurred al
the powder works whereby Chester Shep-
ard, aged about 20 years, was killed and
Phil Curtis severely burned. The building
caught fire and was destroyed. The cause
Of the accident is unknown.
Deputy United States Marshal Hans,
who is also special agent for the Fremont,
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad, recent
ly shot and killed David o. Luse near
Ainsworth, Neb., while the latter was re
sisting arrest. The railroad officials au-
thorized the statement that the mission OF
Detective Hans to AinswOrth was to pre-
vent q well planned train holdup. The man
killed is said to have been the terror OF
Brown county.
The largest sale yet consummated in the
Beaumont, Texas, oil district was made
recently, when 81 100000 was paid for the
property of the Texas Western Oil com
pany, formerly the Southwestern Oil com
pany OF Corsicana. The buyers got the
Beatty gusher, which has a producing ca
pacity OF 1000 barrels per day. The sale
was effected by Charles d. Pullen of New
York city for capitalists headed by r. L.
Henry Of Chicago.
The Denver manager of the smelter
trust has announced tnat the selling price
for lead has been reduced from $4 TO $3.50,
and mine operators look for still fur
ther reduction. The price is fixed arbi'
tnrily by the trust. The 81 rate has been
in effect for over a year. The mineowners
entered into an agreement with the trust
to accept the 81 rate, regardless of the
market price OF lead, which at that time
was above 81. The agreement expired
January /, and the trust now claims that
on account OF overproduction it is unable
to maintain the 81 rate.
President c. s. Mellen authorized the
announcement that the Northern Pa
cific will this season expend $10,25O, 900
on betterments.
At Weatherford. o. T.. Thomas II.
Pemberton, aged 65 years. was killed.
Six suspects we're arrested and held
for investigation.
A letter received by an officer Of Hall
fax, N. s., station from England, states
that General Butler will be offered the
command of the British troops In
North America, which command Is now
vacant.
A dispatch from General Kitchener.
says General Monroe. mounted infan-
try, after two hours of hard fighting
captured so prisoners, including Com
mandant Bresla, at Lietfindeyeue, near
Dewetsworp.
George @. Cannon Of Salt Lake died
at Monterey, Cal, recently. The pa
tient breathed his last without strug-
gle. The body was shipped to San
Francisco to be embalmed and reship-
ped to Salt Lake City. where interment
will take place.
A huge avalanche. sweeping every
thing before 1t, came down Italian
mountain, In Taylor park, about 40
miles west of Buena Vista, Col, and
several lives were lost. On this noun
tain several mines have been In opera
tion all winter, employing about 300
men,
OF special interest to officers of the
navy Is an order recently issued by
Secretary Long announcing their rela-
tive positions on the naval register.
Admiral Dewey, by the order, Is the
ranking officer of the navy. John Ad-
ans Howell is the senior rear admiral,
w. s. Schley is No. and William T.
Sampson is No. Z on the list Of senior
rear admirals. Frank Wilde is the
ranking captain.
Secret service agents Of New York
went to the headquarters of the coun-
terfeiters, John A. Skoog and Emil Mo
bert, in Brooklyn. They found guam
tity of English and foreign money
which the men used as copies to make
counterfeits from. 1t was reported that
from $4,000 to $4,000 in good English
money was found, besides about $4,000
of foreign notes. A lot Of chemicals,
o large camera. lot of prepared pa
per with silk fibres running through
1t, and a milling machine to make IS
Indian head bills we're also found.
At Pittsburg Thomas d. Kahne. a
Mount Washington grocer. was shot
and killed In his own home by three
burglars while defending his wife, who
was being chloroformed. A few hours
later the rendezvous of the alleged fel-
ons was discovered. In a desperate
fight which followed City Detective
Patrick e. Fitzgerald was instantly
killed and one Of the supposed robbers.