Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-10-15

Russell Sage is i'll at his home at
attack of bronchitis.
A delegation of Chicago clergymen
and business men called on Governor
Stone of Pennsylvania recently and
urged on him to take prompt action to
settle the coal strike.
Governor Taft is going to Cavite
shortly for the purpose of meeting the
municipal presidents of the province
to discuss with them methods for the
SUPPRESSION of the ladrones.
Another destructive fire, the second
within month, has swept over a
portion of Beaumont, Tex. causing one
probable fatality and entailing pro-
perty loss roughly estimated at $780,
900.
The gunboat Bogota, the vessel of
the Columbian government (which has
been fitting out at San Francisco for
some time, has sailed for southern
waters. She is manned almost entirely
by Americans.
Samuel Renshaw, a mail carrier of
Portland, Ore. jumped from the rail-
road bridge into the Willamette river
and was drowned. Overwork and
worry are thought to have unbalanced
his mind. The body was recovered.
The street railway of New Orleans
tried to obey the order of the mayor to
run passenger cars, but with almost
the entire force of city police concen-
trated at the scene of action the four
cars started got no farther than five
squares from the canal street barn,
and the attempt was abandoned.
General j. T. Stewart of Pennsyl-
vania has been elected commander
in chief of the G. A. r. for the next
year. The next encampment will be
held in San Francisco, California.
At Altoona, small town near the
North Dakota line, ]. J. Toews, a
school teacher, who had some trouble
with the school trustees, meeting them
on the road while going to school, drew
a revolver and shot A. Rempel, J.
Hiebert and p. Keller. Toews then
returned to the schoolhouse and shot
three pupils, two of them daughters Of
Mr.. Rempel. He then turned the re-
volver ON himself and will die. Hem
pei, Hiebert and two of the gilrs are
also fatally wounded.
While laboring under mental aberra-
ton, the result of strain of perfecting
an appliance for patent on an air brake
which is pending in Washington,
Charles Cawley,1 years old, of Home
stead, Pa, recently killed his mother
and one sister and fatally injured four
other children. He also tried to kill
his two older brothers, but was detect
ed, overpowered and turned over to
the police. The weapon used was an
AK, with which he crushed and hacked
his victims beyond recognition.
Major M. ID. G. Wright, who held a
position ON the board of review in the
United States pension office, is dead,
aged go years
]. p. Morgan says he can do nothing
to end the trike and could do nothing
toward bring it to settlement.
General Deschamps, the former gov
ernor Of Porto Plata, Santo Domingo,
has taken up arms against the provis-
ional government of Santo Domingo
and risings have occurred in Monte
Christi, Dajadajon, Savanette and
Guayabin
The Paris Jockey club has with
drawn the licenses of the American
jockeys, Milton Henry and J. Reiff,
excluding them from riding on any
French race course.
This action is the outcome of very
careful Investigation made by the de-
tective department, which secured
proof that Henry and Reiff upon sew
eral occasions have prevented favorites
from winning.
With no apparent motive Evangelo
Derigo, shoemaker, 10 years old, has
shot and instantly killed Alphonse Sal
grone, brother of the the dead man,
and Joseph Dirute, at Rockville Center,
L. l.
What is said by physicians at the
Bellevue and New York postgraduate
hospitals to be the smallest living child
ever born has been placed in an incuba-
tor at the latter institution. The child
is boy and weighs one pound and
seven ounces.
A severe windmstorm and a deluge
of rain struck Layfayette, Ind. recent
ly. South of the city many barns and
outbuildings were blown down. The
cyit streets are flooded and signs and
decorations of the fall festival were
destroyed.
Major John +. o 'Brien, we'll known
business man and confederate veteran,
is dead, aged 81. While he was lieu
tenant of engineers in the confederate
army, station d at Charleston, S. G. .,
he designed and constructed the battery
from which the first shot of the great
civil war was fired.
Edward 7. Krantz, aged 65 years,
was found dead in the belfry,.of Trinity
Methodist church in Washington He
was hanging by a rope around his neck
that had cen fastened to a ladder.
George H. Cooper. aged 81, also
committed suicide at his home by
hanging himself to closet door. Mr..
Cooper was a clerk in the treasury de-
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