Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-09
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatiOnal,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely ExpOunded.

Inc Strlke OF the IeXaS q racine
machinists has been settled.
At Elmira, N. Y, occurred the great
est rainstorm in years last Sunday.
Marshall j. Williams, chief justice
of the Ohio supreme court, is dead,
aged 65 years.
The federal government of Austria
liza has decided not to become a party
to the Brussels sugar convention.
Miss Jennie Harrison was gored to
death by bull in a pasture at Ode
nah, in Greer county, o. T., recently.
John Stromberg, composer and lead
er of the orchestra of the Weber &
Fields company, is dead, aged AZ
years.
Robert Wilson of Detroit and Ward
Kiser, aged II, of South Bend, Ind,
Mich, while bathing.
At Baltimore five hundred pants.
makers and pressers are on a strike,
tying up 200 small shops, many of
them so called sweatshops.
Fire at Clinton, N. c., destroyed AZ
stores and residences, causing loss
of 100000. on which there was little
insurance. Among the buildings
burned was the Episcopal church.
At Weston, Mass, Dr. Mary Damon
of Minneapolis, a member of a promi-
nent Concord family, committed sui
eide here today at the home of a rela-
tive by cutting her throat.
Milwaukee was visited Sunday by a
fierce wind and rain storm that
wrought much minor damage The
storm is reported as severe in the
northern part of the state, but wires
are down.
A tornado passed just north of Phil
lips, Mich, Saturday night, wrecking
portion of the mammoth tannery of
the United States Leather company.
At GAINESVILLE during storm St. Pat.
rick's Catholic church was struck by
lightning and destroyed.
At Chicago freight handlers to the
number of nearly 5000 men, employed
in the different railway houses and
depots in Chicago, at a special meet
ing have decided to go on strike with,
in 48 hours to enforce their demand
for higher wages and recognition Of
their union.
Among the decorations and gifts
given to the foreign ENJOYS to the cor
onation of King Edward the Most No
BILE Order of the Garter was bestowed
upon the Grand Duke Michael of Rus
STA, the duke of Aosta of Italy, the
crown prince of Portugal and Arch,
duke Franz of Austria.
At Grand Forks, N. D., while their
young son and daughter and several
companions were singing and dancing
in the parlor, Charles }. Mccormick, a
Great Northern conductor, and his
wife lay dying in the bath tub in their
residence, where their bodies were
found some hours later by the son.
Cause not known.
A committee of workmen who have
been dismissed from the state arms
factory at st. Ftienne, near Paris,
have published manifesto to demand
the return of sums of money which
they contributed for pensions while
employed at the factory, and declar-
ing that In the event Of the demand
being refused the men will march on
Paris.
Aguinaldo was told on July that
he was fire. eto go anywhere he pleased,
and General Chaffe asked him If he
had any complaint to make of Ameri-
can discourtesy or harshness. Aguin-
aldo replied that he had no such COM
plant to make. He told General Chat
fee that he was going to visit friends
at his home in Cavite Viejo, in Cavite
province, and inquired what protec-
tion the American authorities would
afford him. He seemed to be afraid
to venture out. General Chaffee re-
piled that Aguinaldo would get the
same protection as any other citizen.
Taking his revenge for a quarrel OF
long standing, Theodore Oefeur, a la.
borer of Chicago, shot and killed his
wife as she lay asleep in bed. He
then shot his baby son and his step
daughter, Lizzie STRAIN, who were
sleeping with his wife, wounding the
| ioihSi, Piouduly ldtdily, anu putting
a bullet in the latter's shoulder. De.
feur also fred at his two stepsons, but
missed them. He then hid in an attic
until the police arrested him.
A terrific wind and rain storm swept
over western New York at an early
hour Sunday. Rivers and creeks rose
rapidly, overlooking their banks and
sweeping away houses and barns and
livestock. The loss will reach into the
hundreds Of thousands of dollars.
Telegraph and telephone wires are
down and communication with small
towns is difficult. This city was not
In the path Of the storm. At Arcade
the flood caused the loss of one life
and did hundred thousand dollars
damage to property. Minnie Loper
who kept bakery on the bank of the
creek, was drowned.
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