Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-07-17
RITZVILLE, WASHINGTON, JULY II, 1901.
SUMMARY TELEGRAPH NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past week-In This and For
eiGn Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

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thermometers on the streets were from
two to four degrees hotter.
The Minnesota state pardon board has
approved the parole of Cole and James
Younger, who have been in the saltwater
penitentiary for the past % years for com
plicity in the robbery and murder at the
time of the raid on the Mortified, Mimi.
bank.
The town of Port La Vica, Calhoun
county, Texas, was swept away recently
by storm. Nearly all the houses were
blown away and large number OF boats
were wrecked. No lives are reported lost
Port La Vica is On the Gulf OF Mexico, on
La Vica bay. q
Glasgow, Mont. July ll.-Sheriir Griffith
has arrived for reinforcements and brought
the first authentic news OF the where
abouts of the bandits who held up the
Great Northern express near Malta. He is
confident that he has the outlaws cornered
80 miles south of the railroad on the north
side of the Missouri river and between
the river and the Little Rockies.
The state department has received the
amount of the American idemnity claims
against Turkey-$95, 5,0O0-through the
American legation at Constantinopie. The
money was paid by the Turkish govern
ment to Mr.. Leishman, our minister al
Constantinople, and was by him placed in
the Ottoman Imperial bank and drafts re
mitted for the amount. These drafts have
mat rea cbad NVaahinutnn
Fire destroyed the O'Brien boiler
works at st. Joseph, Mo. Loss esti'
mated at 100000.
Kansas grain Is burning up in the
worst heated spell since the summer Of
1860. Corn also is failure.
Sunday was the hottest day of the
season In southern Kansas, the ther
mometer registering as high as 118 in
thu sun.
e. H. Conger, United States minister
to China, will sail Wednesday from
on the steamer Nippon Maru, en- route
to Pekin.
Six persons we're drowned while surf
bathing at a picnic Of the Hebrew Ga.
mahl Hazad, at Daufskie beach, near
Savannah, Ga.
Nine. Melba is suffering from an at
tack of laryngitis and her physicians
have advised her not to sing at Covent
Garden for week.
Coleman and James Younger, who
were granted conditional parole by
the board Of pardons on Wednesday,
last, have been released from the Still.
water penitentiary.
At Springfield, o., Paul Hague,
known as Prof Zeno, an aeronaut, was
fatally injured Sunday afternoon at
Island Park, falling 200 feet. His para
chute failed to open.
With capitalization of between ST.
000. 900 and 100000, IL OF the chief
vaudeville theaters between Chicago
and the Pacific coast are about to be
merged into a single property.
At Dennison, Texas, the worst drouth
ever experienced was broken Sunday
afternoon by terrific rainfall Of over
two hours duration, the volume OF rain
being almost equal to cloudburst.
At Niagara Falls. N. Y, Carlisle Ora
ham Sunday afternoon made his fifth
successful voyage through the Whlrl
pool rapids In barrel. The start was
made from the Maid OF the Mist land
ing, below the falls.
Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson
hopes that the corn crop Of the western
states has not yet been ruined by. the
drought. He Is disposed TO believe the
reports as to the damage have been ex-
aggerated.
The steamer John 8. Kimball. July
from Nome. has arrived In Seattle
with 20 passengers and 81, 900 In gold
from the district, consigned principally
to a local bank. She reports that st.
Michael, as regards the discharge OF
freight from steamers, was still Ice,
blocked July 8.
M. Santos Dumoit's cigar shaped bal
loon, driven by a motor, had a trial re-
Gently from st. Cloud, across Paris,
around the Eiffel tower and back to st.
Cloud. The papers say the trip was
quite successful and that the balloon
ascended and descended apparently at
the will Of the aeronaut-
In all parts OF France Sunday. the
national fete day, the anniversary OF
the fall of the Bastile. was celebrated
with much enthusiasm and without
disorder. There were reviews at all
naval and military stations. followed
by illuminations, fireworks and balls
IN the evening. The Parisians partici
pated with their usual zest.
Up to within a week the outlook for
the harvest In the middle west was IA
vorable. Wheat was doing well in Min
nesota and the Dakatas, but 1t Is now
believed that drouth In some sections
and floods in others will reduce the fig
ures below the estimates made earlier
In the year. What effect the present
torrid wave will have on the crop can
not now be foretold.
Major Putnam B. Strone quarter
masters department, u. s. A.. has an
nounced that he had resigned from the
army for personal and financial reas
ons and that his resignation had been
accepted by Secretary Root. The res
ignation followed the publication OF an
escapade In San Francisco In which
Strong and Lady Francis Hope. former
ly May Yohe. are the principals.
The departure from Pekin OF Prince
Chun. younger brother OF Emperor
Kwang Su. who has been selected form
ally to apologize at Berlin for the mur