Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-02-19
NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES
Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-Nntional
Historical, Political and Persona,
Everts TerseIy Expounded.

signed the treaty of friendship with
the United States.
Mrs. Virginia Suret, aged 55, wa,
burned to death Sunday evening in he
apartments. Her apron caught fir,
from the kitchen stove.
AT San Francisco a heavy south
wester, which sprung up Sunday af
ternoon, gave vessels at anchor in the
harbor a severe shaking up.
Four lives were lost in head-on col
lision on the Iowa Central railroac
near Clifford. Iowa, a light engine
crashing into a passenger train.
Albert O'Klein Oh Chicago, a student
of the University of Michigan, com
mitted suicide at Ann Arbor, Mich, b!
taking prussic acid. No reason fol
O'Klein's act is known.
Thirteen young men have been con
victed of the murder of Jack Osborne
in Russell county, Virginia, last Christ
mas, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for from 1 to Is years each.
! Pittsburg will get the new school
for the education of engineers to be
established by the French government
The French school of political science
will be located In New York city.
| General ]. Franklin Bell has prac
tically cleaned up the insurrection ir
Batangas province, in Philippines, tho
troops under his command havins
made a clean sweep of the district.
| Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, me
with disaster at Monaco recently ana
had narrow escape from death. His
! airship Is total wreck, while tonigh
his motor lies at the bottom of the ba,
at Monaco.
The Hindoo twin named Dordica
which was separated from Radica by
an operation February 8. died sudden
| ly in commissions due to the advanced
| stage of tuberculosis from whicn she
suffered.
1t Is reported from Baku, trans-C eau
rasia, that thousands OF persons were
killed by the earthquake In the Shama
ka district and that the towns and vii
liages for 20 versts around Shamaka
| suffered severely.
The first annual memorial service
| for those who lost their lives on the
battleship Maine In Havana harbor
was held in Boston Sunday evening un
der the direction of the League o!
| Spanish War Veterans.
The London News dispatch from
st. Petersburg announces that the
large town of Shamaka, Trans-Cau
| casia, has been destroyed by an earth
quake and the earthquake was attend
ed by great loss Of life.
At a late hour Sunday, Annie Ander.
son. a Swedish girl employed as q
domestic at 204 Ashbury street, San
Francisco, was shot and probably ia
tally wounded by masked footpad
who made his escape and is still at
large.
Bad news for the Venezuelan gov
| ernment has been received from the
interior Of the country. There have
been new and numerous uprisings in
the state OF Carabobo, whittier the
government has sent a number of sol
diers.
Seven men were killed and at least
IA seriously injured by huge boulder
weighing Is tons, crashing into the
caboose of a work train on the Choc
taw, Oklahoma & Gulf railway, &c
miles west of Little Rock, Ark, re
Gently.
| Cabling from Constantinople, the
correspondent Of the London Daily
Chronicle declares the Bulgarians are
planning a rising in Macedonia during
the coming spring and that they are
endeavoring to persuade the Greeks to
join them.
| A party Of seven women and men
coasting down hill at Cleveland, O..
lost control of their sled and dashed
| into stone abutment Of the Erie
bridge at the bottom of the hill. All
received injuries and Patrick Fallon's
skull was fractured.
Henry Wilson and Julius Goodwin
notorious negro outlaws, escaped from
jail at Sumpterville, Fla, Sunday after
killing Lee Graham, one of the most
prominent young men In town, and
wounding George Stafford and Willie
Porter, who tried to corral them.
Mrs. p. J. Mcdonald was frightfully
burned at her home in Seattle last
week while trying to kindle fire witt
gasoline. The oil exploded anC
she ran screaming into the street. By
ISLANDERS smothered the flames, but no
until she was seriously burned. She
may die.
Near Springfield, ILL.,, two person'
met death and FIVE were injured In {
rear end collision between a passenger
and freight train on the Illinois Cen
tral. The collision was remarkable II
that the fast passenger train wal
ahead of the freight and both trains
were moving.
Mrs. Sallie Cohn, a descendent o.
the famous Vallejo family of Califor
mia, and formerly one of the bellies o.
the little city OF Monterey. committed
suicide Sunday night In lodgint
house at Seattle. Less than an houi
later Edith Curran. a beautiful 19-year
old girl, who had been employed as &
waitress in hotel restaurant. alst
ended her life. Both took carbolic acid
Dependency was the cause in botl
cases.
! Chairman Mercer of the house pub
lie buildings committee has informe'
Representative Jones that in his opin
ion his committee would favorably re
port the bills recently passed by tn