Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-02-12
NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings in both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past WeeI<--NatiOnaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded. .at

Fire at Elberton, Ca, recently de-
stroyed nearly all of the business sec
ton, doing damage estimated at
100000.
Tommy Ryan has announced that he
had signed articles to fight Charles
Golf of Spokane, Wash, at Rossland,
B. c., for a purse of $4,000 early in
March. ....... ...,,, ..... .,
At Los Angeles, CAL, Nine. Schell,
lion tanner at the Chutes, was dragged
out Of a cage, torn and bleeding, in
the middle of the performance, re-
Gently. .1. .t. s,..'-.'s. p
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation of the Potomac post, G. A.
r., which is to give dinner in Wash
ington to Gen. Torrance, the command
err in chief, on February II.
Senior Lerema, the newly elected
governor of Bataan province. in the
Philippines, fled after his election,
when he was called upon to account
for $4,000 insurgent funds. He is still
missing. .r.'
Captain Crossman, of Vienna, who
started to walk down the Danube from
Linz to Vienna, distance of 100 miles,
with his newly invented walking shoes,
has covered 20 miles of the distance.
He is towing his wife in small boat
At Manila the American merchants
complain Of the action of the consular
purchasing agent in making the ma
jority Of his purchases at Hong Kong,
where materials are cheaper, on ac-
count of Hong Kong being free
port. '-''.-,
According. to the Calcutta CORE
spondent of the London Daily Mail the
indian Medical Gazette announces
that DR.. Rost of the Indian medical
service has successfully cultivated
cancer and has infected a guinea pig
with his culture.
Safeblowers forced the vaults of the
Lemon Banking company, at Ack-
worth, Ca, recently, securing $4,000
in gold, a $4,000 Georgia state bond
and large amount of stock certifi-
Gates. Between $4,000 and $50 900
| in notes, stock certificates and bonds
we're hopelessly mutilated.
Captains Boiler and Bulger of San
Francisco, United States inspectors OF
steam vessels, have filed their report
in the matter of the loss of the steam.
ship Walla Walla. The blame is placed
| on the faulty lookout Kept on the
Walla Walla by the officer in charge OF
the bridge, who was in the charthouse
and the men on the lookout, one OF
whom, Wilson, was not at his post OF
| duty. Captain Hall and Second Office,
| Lupp are eXonerated .t:
A north bound freight train from
Seattle, Wash, ran into huge land.
Tide at Lake station, fifteen miles
forth. Charles Fietz, the firman, was
:aught between the boiler of the en-;
zine and one of the five box cars
| which had piled on top of it, and was
burned to death. He begged the crew
% cut off his arm. by which he was
held, but before he could be released
he was dead. 1t is believed that the
Earring Of the train started the slide.
which buried the train under thous.
ands of tons of dirt and rock The
train ran into it and the engine was
precipitated into Lake Washington.
Fietz was the only one of the crew
injured.
An early morning fire destroyed the
Empire hotel, a large three story
lwelling house at 2700 and 2702 Olive
street, st. Louis, occupied by men ex-
clusively, and caused the death of
eleven persons-ten men and one wo.
mainland dangerously injured seven
others. A dozen or more who had
narrow escapes from death received
!ess serious injuries or were frost
bitten. 1t is estimated that there were
! between thirty-five and forty persons
in the building, and it is believed all
have been accounted for. The inan-
cial loss is nominal. 1t is thought that
100000 will cover the damage to the
building and contents, which were to,
tally DESTROYED. .