Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-10-22

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The Kansas Equal Suffrage association
elected Miss Helen Kimber of Parsons
president.
Fire recently destroyed five stores at
N. b. Loss is estimated at
300, 900.
Forty horses were burned to death
and three men had narrow escapes from
a like fate in fire in New York re-
Gently.
Great damage was done to various
ports on the Mexican and Central Am
erican coast by an earthquake and tidal
wave recently.
The arbitration court in the Plus
fund case has condemned Mexico to
pay the United States 81, 100000 in
Mexican currency.
The Chicago box makers are still on
a strike. They refuse to accept the
proposition of the manufacturers to pay
by piece work.
Henry L. Wilson, of Spokane, WASH
ington, now minister to Chill, is to be
made minister to Greece in place of
Charles Francis, resigned.
President Palma of Cuba has denied
in emphatic terms reports that the Gu
bans are displaying ingratitude toward
the United States, or that they are in
different to the outcome of the recipro-
city question.
Orders will soon be issued by the war
department ordering that the regular
army be reduced to the minimum auth
orized by law-59, 900 men. With the
practical cessation of outbreaks in the
Philippines it is believed that this can
be done safely. The present size of the
army is about $1,000. The cavalry and
artillery regiments will be reduced to
the minimum basis, except around Fort
Leavenworth, where the commands
will be kept to full size for educational
reasons.
Colonel John G. Moore, a newspaper
writer of San Diago, Cal, is dead.
+ New York is to have a magnificent
new race track to surpass anything of
its kind IN the world.
The Tillamook, Ore. stage was held
recently by three masked men. The
robbers secured 5000 from the passen-
gers and then escaped.
Yellow fever and smallpox have
broken out among the forces of the
Columians at Colon, and there are ten
deaths daily from these diseases among
the soldiers there.
The sudden and unexpected death of
Jhon Lathrum, republican nominee for
states senator in the ninth district,
caused general sorrow throughout Whit
man county, Wn. where he has been
a resident for nearly 20 years.
1t is stated in Liverpool that the
steamship service between Boston and
Manchester under the International
Mercantile Marine company will be
started in few weeks by the Leyland
line.
The finding in the inquest following
the accident in which President Roose-
velt's body guard, William Craig, was
killed last September, has finished, says
that the unlawful acts of James T..
Kelly, conductor, and Euclid Madden,
motorman," of the electric car which
ran into the president S carriage, ICON
tributed" to the death of Mr.. Craig.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
has gone on record as strike breaker
when by almost an unanimous vote of
the delegateds the strikgin members of
the Wholesale grocer employees union
were ordered to return to work pending
he settlement of their troubles by ar
bitration. Five large stores has been
tied up and two more had been threat
ened.
A committee, headed by B H. War
ner, chairman of the citizens executive
committee of the recent national en-
campment of the G. A. R. and Hon.
j. HI. Brigham, assistant secretary of
agriculture, called at the White House
recently and presented to President
Roosevelt G. A. R. badge commeror-
ative of the national encampment. The
badge is of solid gold, handsomely en-
bossed and engraved.
The body of Arson Cook of Kettle
Falls, Wash, was found in the mount
aims recently. He came to his death
by gun shot wounds inflicted last De-
cember.
Marion Nolan, young woman who
became famous ON the Pacific coast in
1898 as the California Venus, was shot
and killed recently by Edward March
utz, who then sent bullet through his
own head.
Frank Hall, the 8 year old son of J.
f. Hall, barber of Kaslo, B. G. was
drowned recently.
Charles Young, a negro, charged
with assaulting and afterwards muir
dering Mrs. Ed Lewis, a white woman,
was burned recently by mob of infur-
lated citizens of Forest City Arkansas.
The bank at Summit, S. d. was re-
Gently blown up by robbers and the
vaults robbed. The loss is estimated at
from $40, 200 to $40, 900.
Mrs. Rene Arnsbach shot and killed
her husband at Everett, Wash. recently
and then killed herself.
The plant of the American Glue com
pany, located in Springdale, Pa, was
destroyed by fire recently, entailing a
loss of $4,000, which is covered by
insurance. Two hundred men are
thrown out of employ
The Girl Graduate.