Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-17
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.

p. z. Prince. prominent Missoula
Mont, lawyer, has been adjudged in
sane and committed to the state asy
lum. His mental vagari,3s consist Of
exaggerated ideas concerning money
matters and are said to be the result
of excessive drinking.
At Fremont, o., the plants of the
Tremmer Extract of Malt company
were destroyed and adjoining build
ings, including the Tschumy Brothers
furniture factory, were damaged by
the fire. Loss, 100000.
At Darlington, N. D., in a fit of jeal
Gus rage Mrs. Kittie Bondurant shot
five times at Thomas Baker, inflicting
wound that will prove fatal. The
woman was arrested. Baker is a wei
known resident and well to do.
The steamer Empress of India
which has arrived at Victoria, bring:
news to the effect that an insurrection
has broken out in the southwest OF
Chi Ii, where large number of rebels
have assembled, carrying banners in.
scribed, kill the officials and save the
people" Troops have been sent
against them.
The most interesting if not the most
important testimony brought out at
a recent session of the coal strike com
mission was to the effect that an al.
legged attempt was made by former
mine foreman to bribe two presidents
of local unions of the miners to have
10 men in each local use their influ-
ence to have a resolution passed send,
ing the men back to work, thus making
serious break in the ranks of the
strikers. Each of the presidents was
to receive $2500 and good positions as
mine foremen and each of the 10 men
was to get from 500 to 5000 The
name of no company was mentioned in
connection with the bribery scheme
and none of the lawyers crossexamined
the witnesses.
The town Of Ventura, Iowa, was
nearly wiped out by fire recently.
General Tasker Bliss has left Ha.
vana for Washington.
The Boer generals, Botha and De,
larey, have sailed from London for
South Africa.
The annual Oxford and Cambridge
football match resulted in a tie, both
sides scoring goal and a touchdown.
The secretary of the treasury has
reappointed the present government
board of tea experts for the next cal.
endar year.
An explosion occurred recently at
the Northfield powder works at Nan.
aimo, b. c. One man was killed and
several injured.
One man is known to be dead and
several others were injured in a col.
lision on the Northern Pacific railroad
near Fridley, seven miles from Mime.
polls.
1t is officially announced that Herr
Hengelmuller Won Hengervan, the
Austro-Hungarian minister at Wash.
ington, has been raised to the rank of
ambassador.
The state of New York from north
to south Is covered with snow, and in
many sections blizzard weather per.
walls, adding to the discomfort occa.
stoned by the shortage of coal
William Chapman, who was dis
patched from England in 1912 by Sir
John Francis to prospect for slate and
discovered the now famous slate belt
in Pennsylvania, died recently of pneu
monia, aged 81 years.
The st. Petersburg police have ar.
rested 40 accomplices and persons who
have been attempting to introduce
revolutionary proclamations into Rus
sia. Among the persons taken into
custody are several influential Nj
hilists.
The bodies of Cooley and Martin
drowned short time ago while cross
ing the Tumwater canyon in a boat
during preliminary survey for a
power plant for Wenatchee, have beer
found in a canyon near their upturned
| boat.
At Lexington, KY, Earl Whitney
aged II, and Claude O'Brien, aged Is
young burglars, who on October 1C
murdered A. B. Chinn, a merchant
in his bed, have been sentenced to be
hanged February 13. Motions for new
trials were overruled.
A special from Mortified, B. C.
says: The Hamilton powder works
separator station blew up recently
The building is an entire wreck, and
James Cloan, the man in charge, was
blown to pieces. How the explosion
occurred is mystery that the coro
ner will endeavor to solve.
Judge John w. Henry died at his
home in Kansas City recently, after a
long illness, aged n years. Judge
Henry was formerly chief justice Of
the state supreme court, and at time
of his death was Judge of division No
2 of the circuit court at Kansas City
He was one of the most widely known
jurists in the west
The Associated Press learns that
Queen Alexandra intends to mark hel
sympathy for the sufferers in the re
cent South African. war by giving g
Christmas dinner to all the widows
and children now in London of those
who fell TN the war. The dinner will
be given on December 81 at the Alex
andra Trust restaurant, of which the
queen is president, and which was
founded in March, 1900, by Sir Thomas
Upton for the benefit of the poor