Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-16
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DlePATcHEo o
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of HappsnInes In bo.h
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

sealers from Japan says the Japanese
sealing schooner Seikotu Maru mas
been lost with all hands.
Colombian troops suffer some severe
hardships on the Atrato river. Four
thousand more warriors started out,
Lnen returned to Bogota.
Lord Abinger died In the Lariboisie
hospital at Paris recently from heart
failure brought on by the shock OF a
.all down the stairs Of a restaurant.
The state department has been in
formed that final steps have been TAX
en- for the formation of permanent
republican form of government in Pan
anna.
Sunday, for the first time this win
ter, the transportation facilities on
the Chicago railroad systems were
more or less crippled by heavy fall
Of snow.
Serious charges against Consul Gen.
eral Oliver J. hughes at Coburg, Ger.
many, have been brought to the at
tention of the state department a.
Washington.
President Roosevelt recently enter
tanned at luncheon the officers Of the
National League Of Republican clubs
and prominent league workers from
various parts Of the country.
United States Minister Squiers, OF
Havana, sailed for New York, whence
he will 60 Immediately to Washing
ton. 1t is said the Cuban government
has granted all his requests.
A drowning accident occurred re-
Gently Of Crawforu bay. near Nelson.
B. c., when J. Brown Of Fernie lost
his life. Deceased was employed as q
deckhand on the steamer Valhalla.
Beginning with the new year the
railroads Of the west will adopt very
stringent rules about issuing passes.
1t will be a pretty hard matter for
people to get favors Of that sort after
January /.
The last statement of the treasury
balances in the general fnund, exclu-
sive Of the $150,000, 900 gold reserve
in the division Of redemption, shows:
Available cash balance $220,559,591 !;
gold, $11S,030,122.
Senator Hanna has decided to re.
quest the senate committee on mill
tary affairs to subpoena General Wood
to answer some Of the charges made
against him by opponents of his con-
firmation as major general.
The president has sent the following
nominations to the senate: Assistant
treasurer, 1nomas J. Adkins, of st.
Louis. Mo. Envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Panama.
William I. Buchanan Of New York.
Norman Wolf, Jack McGovern, Jas.
Burns and Jas. Smith were killed and
several other men injured by a boiler
explosion recently at Montgomery &
Palmers sawmill, IL miles from So
Iona, Colo, at the head Of Onion creek.
Ben G. Aylor, the Webb City. NO..
mineowner, who shot Gordon Allen, q
wealthy Joplin man, two months ago.
was acquitted by jury In the circuit
court. The jury was out only eight
minutes. Aylor's plea was self de.
tense.
Altoona, Pa.-Orders have been is-
sued for the employees In the Pennsyl.
vania shops to work 10 hours a day.
with overtime when necessary, to get
out the work. Between 1000 and 5000
additional men will be given employ.
ment.
According to computations made by
State Insurance Commissioner Host,
Wisconsin may recover from $150.000
to 100000 in back taxes from Isl fire
insurance companies operating at pres.
ent and from forty that have operated
here for 80 years.
1t is reported that the Northern Sc
curities company mas disposed Of $685.
100000 Of the total of $96,000,000 of
Great Northern preferred stock for.
merly held in its treasury in order to
defeat the government suit in the
United States supreme court.
The Westminster abbey authorities
have declined to permit the ashes of
Herbert Spencer to be sepulchered in
the British Valhalla, according to q
N. Y. World dispatch from London.
They were informally approached, but
expressed regret that it was impossi.
BILE.
No change will be made In the name
Of the Protestant Episcopal church
in the immediate future and the next
triennial council of the church will
take no action on the movement which
has been on foot for q change Of name
of the church to the Catholic Church
of America.
Word has been received from Love.
lock. New, to the effect that P. H.
Cook, travelling freight agent for the
Union Pacific, while showing an auto
matte revolver to J. W. Walters, agent
at Lovelocks. accidentally discharged
lue weapon and killed Walters instant.
ly.: A coroner's jury has acquitted
Cook Of any blame.
Nat c. Goodwin, the comedian. has
narrowly escaped death in an auto.
mobile accident on the Brooklyn
bridge recently. He was thrown from
the machine, struck against the iron
railing and fell back into the road
way. An artery in his temple waa
severed, and only his presence Of mind
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