Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-10-01
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
4 Review of happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely ExpOunded.

Father McKinnon of Manila is dead
from dysentery and debility.
President Roosevelt is again in
Washington.
A. S. McGilils, passenger from
Skagwag on the steamer Topeka, com.
mitted suicide by jumping overheard.
Major William Davenport, one of
Montana's pioneers, widely known
throughout the stats is dead.
Any day may bring the announce
ment that the British minister at Car
acas has been given his passports, with
corresponding action toward the Vene-
zuelan representative in London.
Attorney General Knox has returned
to Washington after his trip to Paris,
where he conferred with officials re-
garding the sale of the Panama canal
property to the United States.
A onew worlds record at wing shoot
ing with rifles has been established by
Adolph Toepperwein, of San Antonio
Texas. He broke $50 out of 1000 clay
targets thrown from traps.
Unless an eight hour working day is
granted in the flour mills of Minnea-
polls strike will go into effect Sep
tember 30. The mills of Minneapolis
produce $4,000, 900 barrels of flour or
nearly two fifths of the total output of
the country, yearly.
For water to seep through two inches
Of solid cast irn seems to be an imposs-
ibility, yet frightful accident that
occurred at the Willamette Iron works
in Portland recently in which two men
lost their arms and third was blown
from the door of the blacksmith shop
to the opposite side of the street, can
only be explained on this supposition.
The doner of the $4,000 sent to
General Botha for the relief of the des-
titute Beers was Henry Phipps, an
American, and not Arthur White"
as anouncned by the general at Rotter-
dam, recently.
The Chicago Tribune says the COM
bination of the great packing houses of
the country, which has been in process
of actual formation for the past six
months, has been abandoned, and that
the decision not to complete the COM
bination is due in a large degree to the
attitude of the national administration
towards trusts, as outlined by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his recent speeches.
President Roosevelt has signed the
order providing for the taking the
census of the. Philippines.
General Alger has been endorsed by
the republicans of Michigan for SEN
ator.
A gang of burglars recently blew the
safe of the Beechwood Improvement
company of South Sharon, Pa, and
secured $400 in cash. -.
The project to consolidate 60 per cent
of the spinning and weaving mills in
the south under the control of holding
corporation has finally materalized.
The Golden Eagle hotel at Washing
ton was dynamited recently by Frank
McKie, one Of the Guests, who subse-
quently committed suicide. p.
A dispatch received from Taskenta,
capital of Russian Turkestan, reports a
terrible earthquake August 22, the
shocks continuing until September 3.
One hundred persons were killed at
Kashgar, in eastern Turkestan; 400
in the village of Astyne, 20 at Jagni,
while the town of Aksuksitche was
completely destroyed.
The president has granted full and
unconditional pardon to William Dim
kela, convicted in 1880 before the
United States consular court in Japan
for the murder of Charles H. Abbott,
Judge b. p. Birdsall Of Calrion,
Iowa has been nominated for congress
by the Third district republican con-
vention. The third district is at pre-
sent represented by the speaker Of the
national house, Hon. d. b. Henderson.
Brigadier General Funston, in his
annual report of the department. of
Colorado, declares that the recent an
ti-canteen legislation of congress has
lowered the discipline of the army ruin
ed scores of good soldiers, and enriched
saloonkeepers, gamblers and dissolute
women. :