Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-02
LATE telegraph BREVET|ES
cUlLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-NatIonaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Terseiy Told.

Senator Hanna is still sick in bed.
The New,York glass workers are on
strike. They refuse to sign slips
telling Of their previous employment.
General Robert Shaw Oliver of New
York, the new assistant secretary of
war, has entered upon the duties Of his
office.
A Wabash train carrying the st.
Louis and Cleveland base ball teams
was wrecked recently at Napoleon. o.
Several Of the players were hurt.
The navy department has received
a cablegram from Rear Admiral Cot
ton, saying that the Brooklyn and San
Francisco have sailed from Genoa for
Beirut.
Cleveland, O.-Mrs. Alexander Win
ton, wife Of the president of the Win
ton Automobile company, committed
suicide recently by throwing herself
into the lake.
Facing his divorced wife, Herbert
R. Shaffer of Chicago lifted q vial of
carbolic acid to his lips and said:
ut is your fault, Minnie. Goodby,"
then swallowed the acid.
Joseph Haworth, aged 48, the well
known actor. was found dead recently
in a room in the Kingsley hotel at
Willoughby. O., a small village few
miles east Of Cleveland.
Bids for the delivery Of feed at Port
land, San Francisco. Tacoma and Sc
attic have been asked by the gorvern-
ment for the army in the Philippines.
The quantity asked is 3700 tons Of oats
and 5000 tons of hay.
The third section Of the Barnum &
Bailey circus train. composed almost
entirely of sleeping cars for the per-
formers, was wrecked at Wildwood,
Pa, recently. and serious accident
was narrowly averted.
An envelope said to contain govern
ment bonds and copper mining stock
valued at 81, 500, 900, which Joseph Pi-
card says he placed in q vault at the
Minnesota state capitol 16 years ago
for safe keeping, cannot be found.
The transport Texas has sailed from
Oakland, CAL. with 600 miles Of the
submarine cable which is to be laid in
Alaskan waters. The cable now on the
Texas will be transferred at Seattle
to the United States cableship Burn.
side.
Rev. DR.. c. Farris. aged II years,
former pastor of the North Presbyte-
rian church and well known through
out the southern Presbyterian church.
is dead at his home in st. Louis. For
many years he was editor Of the st.
Louis Presbyterian church.
President Roosevelt has announced
that Henry c. Ide, at present a men,
ber Of the Philippine commission,
would be designated as vice governor
Of the Philippines in succession to
General Luke Wright when the latter
assumes the ofice of governor general.
Word has been received from Moore
croft, Wyo., that the most disastrous
cloudburst in the history Of that Sec
ton occurred there recently. Two
large bridges on the Burlington rail-
road, with a considerable amount OF
trackage, was washed out and de-
stroyed.
Sir Thomas Upton, aboard the Erin,
declared after losing the second race
in an interview. that he would never
challenge again for the Americas cup.
until man had been found in Eng
land who equaled Nat Herreshoff in
yacht building. The baronet admitted
his disappointment at his failure. and
frankly said that he had no hope OF
winning even a single race.
OF the lumber export in the last fis-
per cent. The increase in eastbound
lumber shipments from Washington by
the Great Northern. Northern Pacific
and Canadian Pacific is an interesting
feature. The first six months of this
year shows about S30000.0 900 feet Of
lumber, an increase Of 20 per cent over
the same time last year. Shingles in
creased rs per cent.
General Frederick Funston, accom-
panied by his aide de camp. Lieuten.
ant Mitchell. has arrived in Seattle
ON his return from an inspection Of
the forts Of Alaska. General Funston,
as commander of the department Of
the Columbia, has Alaska under his
Jurisdiction, and the trip which he
has just completed was for the pur-
pose Of making the regular inspection
which the government requires to be
made Of all its property.
Los Angeles.-An electric car on
the San Pedro-Los Angeles line of the
California Pacific railway was held up
at the crossing of the Santa Fe rail-
road, about two miles south of the
city limits, at . o'clock at night and
the crew and five passengers robbed.
The highwaymen secured about SIS
to 500 in cash and several watches.
There was no resistance on the part
Of the crew or passengers and no
shooting by the highwaymen.
DR.. Krause. the former governor Of
johannesburg. who was sentenced In
London. January IS. 1902. to two years
Imprisonment, after having been con-
victed on the charge Of melting Cor
nelius Broecksmann, the former public
prosecutor Of johannesburg. to murder
John Douglas Foster, an English law
yer who was on the stan of Lord Rob-
erts. has been released from Benton
vile prison. He expects to return to