Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-06-10
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULlED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.

During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.
1t is reported that the marquis of
Salisbury is seriously i'll.
The Baptist church in Byron, Mimi,
was blown up by dynamite recently.
The handsome new capitol building,
erected at cost of 100000 at Jack
son, Miss, was formally dedicated re-
Gently.
The business portion Of the town Of
New Lisbon, Wis, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire recently. LOSS ap-
100000.
Two Santa Fe trains collided head
on, one mile north Of Stilwell, Kan,
recently and nine persons are dead and
Is said to be injured.
Dissatisfied with the wage scale, 300
men belonging to a loading gang of
Armour & CO.'S plant at the stockyards
in Chicago have gone on strike.
McChesney, the VESTS greatest thor
oughbred, won the Harlem National
handicap at Chicago recently. At
every turn in the race he was a winner.
Both the illinois and Michigan Cen.
lral railroads have granted their
freight handlers at Chicago the same
increase in wages as conceded by Other
roads.
President Wilson says Grand Trunk
negotiations for the purchase Of the
Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk
Pacific have temporarily stopped, but
he hopes they will be renewed later on.
The bronze statue Of Carrot A. Ho.
bart, erected at Paterson, N. j., in his
nonor, was unveiled recently. The ora
Tor of the day was John w. Griggs, at
torney general in McKinley's cabinet
The Middlesex lawn tennis tourna
ment at London for the championship
IS finished. In the final of the gentle
mems open doubles Hobart and Ma
honey beat Glenny and Morley, 81,
81, rs.
Joseph H. Choate, United States am
bassador to Great Britain; Robert s.
Mccormick, ambassador to Russia, and
Charles Tower, ambassador to Ger
many, have returned to the United
States for a short visit.
A six day race for the cycle cham
pionship of America was concluded re-
Gently at Providence, r. l., with the
team of Frank Kramer and Charles
Hadfield in the lead. The distance COW
cred in the six days was 512 miles.
The federal grand jury returned a
true bill against A. w. Machen, former
superintendent of the free delivery
service of the postoffice department,
charging him with having accepted
brides in connection with department
contracts.
There was sensation at Lincoln,
ILL.,, recently, over the discovery of a
satchel full Of dynamite hidden near
the Chicago & Alton tracks in Lincoln.
This was located within few feet
from the point where President Roose-
welt left the train.
sions in the history of the province of
British Columbia the legislature has
peen prorogued by Lieutenant Cover.
nor Jolly. This ends the life of the
ninth parliament, although the formal
proclamation of dissolution will not be
issued for time yet.
Mrs. Kate Taylor has been sentenced
by Judge Wesley D. Howard to die
in the electric chair, at Dannemora
prison, N. Y, during the week begin
ming July 5. Mrs. Taylor, on the night
of Jan. 26 last, shot and killed her
husband and burned his body in the
kitchen stove during the three days
following.
1t is thought John Bell is the man
whom the fisherman saw shoot himself
on the Powell street wharf in San
Francisco recently and then disappear
beneath the waters of the bay. Bell is
secretary of the Pacific Coast Marine
Fishermen's union, whose headQuar-
tiers is in San Francisco and with a
branch agency in Seattle.
Coming close on the heels Of a long
report from hear Admiral Evans, COM
mander in chief of the Asiatic squad
ron, concerning the grave internal sit
uation in China, the assembling of his
squadron in Chinese waters is regard
ed as significant. The battleships Ken
lucky and Oregon and the cruiser New
Orleans have arrived at Chefoo, the
monitor Monterey and the collier Pom
peii at Shanghai.
A. e. Ames & Co., brokers who failed
in Toronto, Ont, recently, have handed
out a statement in which they state
that the firms liabilities at the end of
last month were $10,140,000, with a
book surplus in the business Of ST.
10000. To this surplus is to be add
ed the surplus Of individual members
of the firm, outside of money en-
ployed as capital in the business. With
the savings deposits Of $4,000 added,
the liabilities are reduced in round fig.
ures to $7,50O,O00. The firm hopes to
pay all creditors in full.