Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-11-26
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
CUllED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Expounded.

James Harvey, a Northern Pacific
telegraph lineman, was run down by q
passenger train east of Pasco recently
and killed. His body was ground to
pieces.
A fire lasting three days has de.
stroyed the town Of Resht, in Persia.
Fifteen hundred houses and many
warehouses were wiped out and 200
people perished.
Queen Helen has been accouched of
a daughter. The mother and child are
announced to be doing well. The new
princess will be named "Mafaloa."
Dave Lee, Andrew Hoard and Bur.
den Bates, negroes of Prattville, Ala,
charged with setting fire to and burn,
ing the dwelling Of Samuel P. Steele
last July, were tried, convicted and
sentenced to be hanged.
Martin Sargsson, who claimed to be
a nephew of President Kruger of the
former Transvaal republic, and his Is
year old wife had a short dream of
bliss at Glendive, Mont. Mrs. Sarg-
sson, after single days welded life,
returned to her home in Miles City.
In the American Federation of La
Dor a resolution condemning the re-
cent reported utterances of President
Eliot of Harvard college in favor of
"scab" workingmen was reported upon
favorably by the committee, and it's
action was indorsed by the conven-
tion.
The Idaho pardon board has granted
a pardon to John Walker, sentenced
in 1901 in Washington county to four
years for horse stealing, and John H..
Long Of Owyhee county, June, 1891, Is
years for murder in second degree,
parole granted on recommendation of
Warden Ballard and ex-Warden Ar
ney.
The body Of girl baby, evidently
about 2 days old and very small, was
found in the Chehalis river, about a
mile above Aberdeen, Wash, by John
Kane, a logger, recently. That it had
been Intentionally drowned was evil
dent from the fact that it had a large
stone tied by buckskin thong around
its neck.
The new Pacific cable to Australia
will be open for the dispatch of bust,
ness on December s.
The right Rev. John Stariha has
been formally installed as Catholic
bishop for the Black Hills diocese.
The senate and chamber at Buenos
Ayres has passed bill which author
eigners.
At Denver, Col, the entire plant of
the Colorado Paving company was de-
stroyed by fire recently. which origin
ated from an explosion of boiling as
phalt. Loss $50,000.
The management of the National
Railroad Of Mexico has decided to at
once construct the proposed road ex-
tending from the main line to Mata-
moras.
At Noblesville. Ind. Antonio Migasi
died recently, aged so years. Migasi
was the moving spirit In Antonio
Bros circus, famous before the civil
war, and was widely known acrobat.
Richard Stockton Emmett, aged SO
years. died recently at his home in
New Rochelle, N. Y. Mr.. Emmett
was related to the family of Robert
Emmett, the Irish patriot. He was
one of the Oldest active members Of
the New York bar.
With the approval Of the minister
Of the interior. the Austrian league to
combat the white slave traffic will es-
tablish branches in all the important
towns and frontier stations of Austria
and take active means to suppress the
traffic.
The Telluride Miners union has
adopted resolutions condemning "the
cowardly assassination" Of Arthur l..
Collins, general manager of the Snug
gler-Union Mining company, "as be-
ing wholly opposed to the policy and
spirit of organized labor"
A trainman was killed and seven
others seriously injured by the ex.
plosion of locomotive boiler at
Thompson, on the Monongahela di.
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad
recently. OF the injured, all are rail