Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-03
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatiOnal,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely ENpOunded.

The democratic and silver parties in
Nevada have agreed to fuse.
The greater part of the town of Ka-
ra Hassar, in Asia Minor, has been
destroyed by fire.
Representative Reese G. DeGraffenreid
of Texas is dead of apoplexy at Wash
ington.
Nearly half million dollars in
new gifts to the University of Chicago
are announced by President Harper.
1t is reported that 30, 900 Navajo In
dams are actually at the point of
starvation in southern Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona.
The annual report of the labor de-
partment of the board of trade records
decline in the wages of the United
Kingdom for the first time since 1855.
According to the military comman-
ders, all of the troops with the excep-
ton of the legation guards will be with
drawn from China next spring.
The betrothal ceremony of Prince
Nicholas of Greece and Grand Duchess
Helene occurred recently. The mar
riage was held later in the palace
church.
Two persons We're killed and three
injured in an automobile accident at
the park avenue bridge, over the New
York & Long Branch railroad tracks at
Long Beach, N. j.
The village of Limbo, so miles north
of Port An Prince, has been attacked
government. Limbo was in the poss-
ession of the Firminite soldiers.
The epidemic of cholera is reaching
a arming proportions on the other side
of the Pacific, the outbreak extending
further and having more victims than
ever before.
The annual report of the auditor of
the department shows that the dis
bursements from the appropriations fo1
army pensions for the year ending
June 80, 1902, amounted to $133, $780,
039.
At Oakland, California, P. E. Bar
ker, San Francisco man, shot Mrs.
M. j. Moss in her departments at the
Platter block and then committed sui
eide. Barker was jealous of Mrs.
Moss. She will recover.
At Everett, Wash, Ben Lewis, d
egro, employed in a logging camp at
Robe, was found dead recently. 1t is
thought he was murdered, as revol-
yer was found near the body. Wounds
We're found in leg and in the abdomen.
The mills of the Cameron Lumber
company, situated at Harrison, Idaho,
were destroyed by fire last Wednesday,
together with nearly 100000 feet of
choice lumber. The estimated loss is
between $50 900 and 500, 900, with but
$50, 900 insurance.
The international match between r.
f. Doherty of England and M. d.
| Whitman of America in the final round
| of the national lawn tennis champion
ship at Newport, RI, was won by the
former in three sets to one, and by
scores of 6-1, So, Ga, 60.
The golden star of the Klondike is on
the wane, according to the report Off
cial of George H. Hees, who recently
was sent to Dawson by the Canadian
Manufacturers association to make a
thorough examination into the business
prospects of the Yukon territory.
Major B. E. Thompson, acting chief
of the signal Office of the war depart
ment has received word that the army
telegraph line between Fort Liscum
and Fort Egbert, at Eagle City Alask y,
which has been in course of construc-
ton for nearly two and one half years,
has been opened.