Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-22
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULlED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.
William Stine of Walla Walla
Wash, died of heart trouble recently
after brief illness.
The opening game of the Inland
Empire league will be played April 81
with Dayton in Walla Walla and Col.
fax at Pendleton.
Government experts will come to
western Montana this spring to inves.
tigate the spotted fever scourge which
for dozen or more years has made its
appearance each season in the Bitter
Root valley, the seat Of the late Mar.
Gus Daly's stock and grazing farm.
Rev. J. Barr Harris a minister OF
the Methodist Episcopal church. South,
at Bozeman, Mont, has been arrested
on the charge of seduction under a
promise of marriage and on the charge
Of intimacy. The complaining witness
is Miss Abbie Hardenbrook, a mem.
Der of his congregation.
Fire at Nelson, B. c.. recently de-
stroyed the factory of the Kootenay
River Lumber company.
The steel trust is satisfied with the
ore properties already acquired in the
Mesaba district, except what 1t may
secure from Hill.
The typhoid fever epidemic contin-
ues to spread among the students of
the university campus and the resi-
dents of Palo Alto, Cal.
Stanford won the 18th intercollegi-
ate field try by narrow margin. The
final score stood: Stanford university
So 1-3, University Of California, So 2-3.
Every window glass factory in the
United States is out of blost, and 20,-
600 skilled laborers leave the factories
with no idea when they will return to
work.
Sam Martin, the first to be tried of
the band of negro grave robbers under
arrest at Indianapolis, was found
guilty.
The strike of the iron workers
against the American Bridge company
Is settled.
Premier Balfour, in letter to an in
quirer, emphatically repudiates any in
tention on the part Of the government
of giving home rule to Ireland.
In a battle following an unsuccess-
full attempt to rob the First National
bank Of Wampum, Pa, one robber was
killed and citizen seriously wounded.
Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons, wife Of
the heavyweight pugilist, died at her
home in Brooklyn recently. Mrs.
Fitzsimmons had been i'll with typhoid
pneumonia.
The largest cargo carrier in the
world, to ply between Puget sound
ports and the orient, was recently
at Croton in the presence Of
thousands of spectators.
James A. Gillette, a prominent law
yer Of Hope county, Ark, has pleaded
guilty in the federal court to the
charge Of acknowledging false home
stead claims Of federal soldiers in his
as notary public.
During a. thunderstorm near West
Point. Neb., recently lightning struck
the farm house of Fred Sendigriff.
All the occupants, father. mother and
four children. were badly burned and
rendered unconscious. One child was
burned up.
The pope was gratifed when in
formed that President Roosevelt, on
the celebration of the papal jubilee.
had forwarded to the pontiff. through
Cardinal Gibbons, the volumes contain
ing all the messages and official docu-
ments of the presidents Of the United
States.
Senator Hanna attended the banquet
of the Amalgamated association at Co.
lumbus and made an address. taking
for his subject the recent utterance Of
President Parry of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers at New Or
leans, in which Mr.. Parry is quoted as
severely criticizing labor unions. Mr..
Hanna defended the unions.
Hover H. Haycock, formerly a spe-
cial policeman in Denver, and his wife.
Eva Haycock, were found dead, each
with a 3S caliber pistol wound in their
heads. From the position Of the bod
les it would seem that the woman had
shot the man and then turned the
weapon on herself. as she had the re-
volver in her hand when found. They
came from Segundo. Col.
James ]. Hill claims the steamship
Minnesota will carry five extra car.
goes, with the cost Of operation only
that of one extra cargo, making the
net cost Of six cargoes no more than
two ordinary cargoes on ordinary
boats. He expects to handle freight at
one-third of the net cost per ton now
prevailing. He sees large profit at IS
per ton from the Mississippi valley to
the orient on -four. steel rails and pro.
visions, which is one-half the lowest
existing rates.
Senator w. A. Clark states he has
purchased for the San Pedro, Los An
geles & Salt Lake Railroad company
all the lines and the equipment OF the
Oregon Short Line company lying
south Of Salt Lake in Utah and Ne
vada, including the bennington cutoff
Senator Clark also states that he has
obtained a 80 wear lease on the ter.