Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-08-20
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
4 Review of Happenings I'm Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely ENpOundeL.

The viceroy of SEE Chuan reports
that imperial troops attacked the rebel
headquarters at Inchawan August 12
One thousand rebels were killed and
their leader, Tong Lu Hung, was cap
tured and executed.
The decomposed body of Mrs. Jessie
Tuman was found 100 yards from her
home near Muscatine Iowa. Her hus
band, unconscious and mortally wound
ed, was found on the floor in the house
which showed signs Of a desperate
struggle.
The state department has received
dispatch from T. S. Sharetts. the
treasury expert who was commissioned
by the state department to negotiate a
tariff treaty between the United States
and China, stating that the treaty was
signed on the 18th instant and that he
would sail for the United States on the
first steamer.
While fishing in the Hudson river.
Gustav Grunwald, Jr., 13 years of age,
was killed in remarkable manner.
He was with his father and his brother
when a fisherman standing near them
made a sweeping cast with long line
to which was attached a heavy lead
sinker. The sinker struck young Grun-
wald Just behind the left ear and
knocked him off the string piece on
which he was seated. He was dead
when picked up, having been killed in
stantly. The angler disappeared be-
fore he could be arrested.
At st. Louis, Mo-, Sunday wagon
containing picnic party Of IS young
persons was struck by Page avenue
streetcar and overturned. Harry King,
IS years old, was killed; Harry Brown,
Is years old probably fatally injured,
and Patrick Brown, aged 16, seriously
hurt. The others received minor in
juries.
Westbound passenger train No. 8
crashed into a helper in the yards at
Wadsworth, New. Both locomotives
were badly damaged. and Frank Nolan,
engineer of the helper. was killed.
Traffic was blocked for several hours.
Colonel William Arnold Hemphill,
manager of the Atlanta Constitution,
Is dead at his residence in that city Of
founder and for many years business
Apoplexy.
Disappointment over broken matrl.
monial engagement is believed to have
been the cause of the suicide by shoot
ing at Newport, r. l., Of Robert X.
Remington Of New York.
Calvin b. Potter, an attorney Of Salt
Lake, and at one time prominent in
Michigan state politics, committed sui
eide by taking enough morphine to kill
a dozen men.
One of the most disastrous fires
which has ever occurred in West Koot
enay Is now raging about Ymir and
has already done vast amount OF
damage to mining property In this sec
tion.
The dead body OF Peter Anderson,
known as the hermit prospector of
Park City, has been found in his lonely
cabin near the Anchor mill in the Park
City mining district, Utah. Anderson
had evidently been dead for weeks.
The rate on carload shipments OF
apples from the Inland Empire to st.
Paul. Minneapolis and Missouri river
terminals has been reduced to GO cents
per 100 pounds. The rate to Chicago
will be reduced to about 73 or "A cents.
Governor Richard Yates Of Illinois is
threatened with impeachment at the
next session of the legislature because
Of alleged participation In the collec-
ton of a so-called corruption fund
from employees Of state institutions.
The charge is openly made by Senator
w. f. MaSon.
At Salt Lake George Gardner Of
Lowell, Mass, decisively defeated Jack
Root of Chicago, who defeated him
several months ago in San Francisco,
by knocking him out in the seven
teenth round of fight remarkable for
It's speed and gameness under punish
ment shown by both men.
Word has been received from Wash
ington that the secretary OF the in
terror has reversed the commissioners
decision in the case Of Robert ]. Little
VS.. John w. Bradbury, at Lewiston,
Idaho. This is the case in which 1t
was alleged that Mr.. Bradbury made
and filed a timber and stone entry in
the local land Office after the hour of
closing on the 18th day of last January,
which was Saturday. Monday morn.
ing s. J. MacFarland offered scrip ap-
plication for the same land embraced
in Bradbury's entry; the register OF
the local Office rejected the scrip ap-
plication as being in conflict with the
entry made by Bradbury