Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-03-04
TELEGRAPH NEWS Summary
cUILED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-Nationai,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

| A gaze OF almost unprecedented VlO-
Ience swept Great Britain recently.
AL Wade Of Toledo, O., has confess
ed to the murder two years ago OF
Kate Sullivan.
Frank E. Ward is now general man
ager Of the Great Northern road, sue.
ceeding John F. Stevens. resigned.
Harvard beat Yale in the first game
Of the finals for the intercollegiate
hockey championship by score Of 6
to 2.
Colonists and homeseekers to the
Pacific northwest will be given until
June Is to come under the special
| rates.
President Palma has signed the sol.
diers' pay loan bill. which authorizes
the issuance of bonds to the amount
Of $35.0O0.OoO.
Miss Darice Justice. who has been
found asphyxiated in a San Francisco
boarding house, lived in Salt Lake foi
nearly three years.
The Santa Fe has reached an agree
ment with the conductors and train.
men regarding a scale of wages. 1t Is
understood that the advance will be
Is per cent.
At the Duquesne garden, Morris
Woods OF Verona Lake. N. Y. became
champion of the United States and
Canada by defeating the best skaters
of the two countries.
e. T. Burdick. president Of the Buff
falo Envelope works, was found dead
in his room recently. with his skull
crushed. The indications are that 1t
was the work Of burglars.
A dispatch received from Gros
Morne announces the complete de
5truction of Port de Paix. Hayti, by
Are. Only the vessels belonging to the
Haytien company were saved.
The Chinese commission to the Jap
anese Industrial exposition at Asaka.
Japan, headed by Prince Tsai Chen,
has been ordered to inquire into the
gold standard sentiment In Japan.
The large shortage in the hog sup
ply throughout the entire country Is
causing the packed meat market to
increase its present firmness and ad'
YApces all along the lima axe expected
within Q short time.
After making the astounding confes-
sion that he has murdered no less than
Ave human beings, Albert Knapp Is
covering in his cell at Hamilton. O..
and begging the officers Of the law to
protect him from lynching.
An Vancouver, B. c.. the clerks en-
ployed In the freight. passenger and
telegraph departments Of the Cana
dian Pacific railway went ON strike
recently to enforce recognition Of the
United Brotherhood Of Railway Em-
ployes.
The fast passenger train. Chattanoo.
ga to Salisbury. leaving Chattanooga
over the Southern track. was wrecked
by spreading rails about three miles
west OF Ienoir City, Tenn. recently
Three persons were killed outright
and "a injured.
1t is announced at the law ONCE Of
Henderson. Lincoln. Hurd & kiesel
that Speaker Henderson has retired
from the firm. Although not officially
announced. It was stated that Hender-
son will enter q New York law flrm as
successor to ex-Speaker Reed.
A peculiar postal robbery has just
come 70 light at Vancouver. b. G. A
registered mail sack, containing at
least $1,000 in bank bills, besides doc
uments Of value was opened. the con-
tents abstracted, the sack locked up
again. and the thief escaped. leaving
no clue. The robbery took place be-
tween the postofice on Van Anda ISL
and, British Columbia, and the Van
couver Office. and the sack was rihed
of It's contents on the night Of Febru-
ary II or the morning Of the day fol-
lowing.
Charles Efinger. confidential man.
and cashier for the Fisher Mercantile
company, son Of prominent Missoula
people and for years . man Of exem
plary habits. is now q self confessed
embezzler.
One man was killed and Is other
persons more or less seriously injured
In an accident on the Chicago & North.
western railroad near Athol. s. d.
Fred A. Bopp. vice president Of bank
at Hawkeye. Iowa. is dead.
Rather than 90 to tho Philippines,
to which his troop had been ordered.
Private Mcdonald OF g troop. Thir.
teenth cavalry at Fort Keogh. Mont
committed suicide BY shooting him
self through the heart with . - call
ber revolver. the deed being committed
In the barracks.
The marriage Of Miss Irma Cody, .
daughter Of Colonel William p. Cody
Buffalo Bill). and Lieutenant Clar.
ence Armstrong stott Of the Twelfth
cavalry. stationed at Fort Clark,
Texas. was solemnized recently.
John A. Manly Of Grand Forks. b.
c., who has returned from trip east.
announces that he has been success
ful in interesting Chicago and Kansas
City capital in q big mining. smelling
and railway project, involving the cree
ton Of a 1000 ton smeltsr at Grand
Forks and the expenditure Of $4,000.
900 in the Boundary district and Wash
ington.
President Roosevelt has signed the
agreement drawn up under the terms
Of the Plat amendment providing for
the acquisition by the United States
NJ a naval atatiOn at Guantanamo and