Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-01-01
WORLDS NEWS BR|EFLYTO TOLD.
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
4 Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy ExpOunded.

Rear Admiral Francis Asbury Roe, L.
s. N, retired, is dead.
John Corbett, a brother of ex- Champion
| Corbett was found dead in Seattle re-
Gently.
The shoe shipments the past year have
been the largest in the history of Brock
ton, Mass.
Senator and Mrs. Depew will sail for
New York on the st. Louis from Cher
bourg January 4.
Yale won the intercollegiate chess tour
nament Columbia was second, Harvard
third and Princeton fourth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Thebaud of Mad
ison avenue, New York City, were
robbed Sunday of jewelry worth $780,
900.
The Bell-Nelson mill and the Everett
shipyard and the Bell-NelsOn Logging
company at Everett, Wash, have been
sold to the Weyerhauser syndicate for
$2sO,OOO.
Tom LeMack, alias Joseph LeMack, an
Indian, who has been hunted all through
| the northwest as the murderer of three
men in Canada, was arrested at Butte
recently.
The strife now going on in Ohio
between the respective forces of
Senator Foraker and Hanna for con-
troll of the legislature has extended to
fractional circles over the entire state.
Captain Lucien Young and Mrs.
Young have sailed from Havana for the
United States. They held farewell re-,
ception. at which 5000 persons were pres
ent, including prominent Cuban and
Spanish families.
According to the New York World
there is an excellent prospect that Rob-
ert Fitzsimmons will once more recon-
slider his determination to retire from the
pugilistic ring and will make a match
with James j. Jeffries.
The most daring robbery that has
happened in Spokane for years oc-
Cured Saturday night, when thieves
stole furs worth $500 from the windows
of the Spokane Cloak and Suit house,
S19-S21 Riverside avenue.
John Pinover, a young wholesale
liquor dealer of Middleton, N. Y, Sun
day jumped from the Brooklyn bridge.
He is still alive at hospital. Pinover
told the doctor he simply wanted to
see if he could make the jump and live.
Victoria and Vancouver island are
completely cut off from telegraphic
communication, all cables to the island
having been broken by the numerous
vessels which dragged anchor during
the Christmas night storm, and 1t will
be some time before the cables can be
repaired.
At La Crosse, Wis, Mrs. Elsie Gile
Scott, daughter of the late millionaire
lumberman, Abner Gile, was secretly di-
vorced from her husband, Robert Scott,
recently. Incompatibility Of temper is
the charge. Mrs. Scott is reputed to be
worth million, and is prominent club
woman. Mr.. Scott is xpostmaster, ex-
sheriff and prominent in secret fraternal
and political circles.
At Newport News, Va, the battleship
Missouri was launched at the shipyarI
last week. Fully $4,000 people saw the
| big defender go over. The launching
passed off without hitch and none pret-
tier or more successful was ever accom-
plished Miss Mary Cockrell, daughter
of Senator +. NJ. Cockrell of Missouri,
was sponsor for the ship and she per-
formed the duty assigned her with the
traditional bottle Of champagne, using
a bottle Of Missouri product for the pur-
pose.
With the finding of a 3S-caliber re-
volver not far from the scene of the
crime, the police of Salt Lake have in
their possession what Is believed to
be the last element necessary to clear
up the mystery of James r. Hays
murder on the night of December 16.
The weapon was found buried in the
mud near the corner Of Thirteenth
South and State streets and has been
traced by the police to the second hand
store where it was bought short time
before the murder by a man answer
ing the description of Peter Morten-
sen. the contractor, who is being held
on the charge of having committed the
crime.
Many Filipinos who accept service
under American rule are visited by
awful vengeance by their fellow coun-
trymen. The records Of a case have
been received at the war department
in which three native policement who
had been sent from Loag to San Mich
olas, Ilocos North, for duty at the lat
ter port, were seized and bound by an
armed band of Filipino outlaws, taken
before a priest to be confessed, and
then flung alive into well, after being
hacked with bolos. Their assailants
then filed up the we'll with loose earth.
One of the band, Wencelslao Resales,
who was brought to trial. was SEN
fenced to be hanged.