Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-11-18
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES o.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Camille Pissarro, the impressionist
painter, is dead.
The Daughters Of the Confederacy
recently elected Mrs. A. T. Smythe,
Charleston, president. st. Louis was
selected as the next meeting place.
Charles D. Bevington Of Winterset.
a millionaire farmer and politician,
dropped dead at Butler, Mo-. recently.
George w. Carthew, q supposed
tramp, now serving q 80 days sentence
in the county Jail at San Francisco,
for vagrancy, sufficiently resembles
the description Of q man wanted for
mulcting a New York bank out Of
100000 to make his return to that
city to answer to a charge almost
certainty.
The statement Of the gross postal
receipts at SO of the largest postofaces
for October, 1903, as compared with
October, 1902. shows q net increase
of almost per cent.
James J. Hill is quoted as saying:
There is . feeling Of apprehension
that something unfavorable may hap
pen which might tend to disturb tho
general situation. Against such Q de-
velopment western bankers have TAX
en- measures, and western banks are
now in q very sound condition"
Two men recently boarded a rail-
way train as it was ascending the
steep grade between Petersburg and
MUSHROOM, overpowered the guard,
looted the treasure car and made their
escape. The robbers, 1t is said, &C.
cured $4,000, which was consigned
to the Standard bank at Pretoria.
Andrew H. Green. the father of
Greater New York." and one of the
city's Oldest and most remarkable cit
liens, was shot and instantly killed
on the steps of his home in New York,
by Cornelius M. Williams, a negro.
who is believed to be insane.
Senator M. A. Hanna, chairman Of
the republican national committee, has
mailed letter to each member of the
committee. calling them to meet at
the Arlington hotel, Washington. on
Friday, December II.
Because of the high price of wool
and its scarcity, both in this country
and abroad, the carpet manufacturers
declare a general advance in prices Is
absolutely necessary.
Boris Sarafof, the Macedonian lead.
er, in an interview at Kustendiit, Bull
garia, recently, said the insurrenction
in the villayet of Monastir has cost
the lives of 1900 insurgents and that
130 villages have been burned. The
revolutionary organization, he added,
continues In operation.
Adjutant General Sherman Bell Of
Colorado has announced his intention
to resign his position in the Colorado
national guard and accept the man
agement Of a mine in Mexico.
Laredo, Texas.-The official yellow
fever bulletin shows: New cases rs.
deaths l; total cases to date, 866: to-
tai deaths to date. 81.
The nine Sioux Indians who were
arrested for participating in the fight
In which Sheriff Miller and Deputy
Falkenburg Of Converse county were
killed. were given = preliminary hear
ing and we're discharged. The testi-
mony showed that Eagle Feather and
Black Kettle, who were killed, fred
the shots which killed the officers. The
Indians will be returned to the Pine
Ridge agency.
After discussing the Cuban reci-
procity measure for three hours in
caucus the democratic members Of the
house agreed to q resolution BY . vote
of 95 to Is, pledging themselves to
support the bill after efforts have
been made to secure its amendment
by abolishing the differential on re-
fined sugar and eliminating the i've
year clause in the treaty.
Thomas Shaughnessy, for 62 years
a resident of Milwaukee and the "a
ther of Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific railway,
died recently, aged S5 years.
The missionary committee of the
Methodist Episcopal church has ap-
propriated more than 100000 for work
in nearly 80 countries, besides an ap-
preparation of $4,000 distributed
among these same countries for prop
erty interests.
General Maxine Gomez has accept
ed the governments check for the
grant of $4,000 recently voted to him
by congress, but says he will not draw
any of the money until all the veterans
shall have been paid.
Robert Sinclair. a student Of the
Illinois normal school, was probably
fatally injured in a football game at
Pontias recently.
President Charles N. Alexander of
the Velasco, Brazos & Northern rail-
way reports that thieves recently stole
valise from his buggy containing
$260.000 worth of securities Of the
railroad. The entire detective force
Of Dallas, Texas, is at work on the
case.
Prospects are that the special ses-
sion Of congress will end during the
last week Of November.
Practically ali the teachers in the
public schools of Greater New York
have been brought together in q pow
erful organization comparing in a IA.
vorable light numerically with any
| trades union in the city. The organ.