Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-02-18
AORLD'$ NEWS SUMMARY
:ULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
\ Review Of Happeninos In soti
Eastern and Western hemispheret
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Terseiy Told.

Evente TerseIy Told.
Mont Pelee Is active again.
Susan B. Anthony IS eighty-thre'
years old.
The Odd Eellows' Temple compan!
Of Cincinnati has assigned.
A terrific lubricant visited Budapes
recently and. did enormous damage.
Secretary Wilson entertained thu
president at q cabinet dinner recently
The weather has been extremely
cold at Dawson for the past Is days
the thermometer going az low as 81
degrees below zero.
In the senate recently the law legal
izing professional Sunday baseball In
all cities in Indiana Of 10000 popula
ton and over was killed.
Seventeen letter carriers have beer
suspended from the San Francisco
postoffice for alleged political activity
during the November campaign.
President Palma IL ready to sign the
naval coaling stations agreement on
receipt Of President Roosevelt's ap
proval Of certain minor changes.
After being ont for 4S hours. the jury
in the case Of DR.. J. G. Alexander.
charge with grave robbing in Indian
apolis. failed to reach an agreement
and was discharged.
The New York Evening Telegram
prints an interview with William J.
Bryan in which Mr.. Bryan said he
would not be candidate for the dem
ocratic nomination next year.
Governor Mcbride has aligned the
bill giving King county. Wash, q fifth
superior judgship and Immediately op-
pointed R. B. Albertson. ex-speaker of
the legislature. to fill the newly Great
ed position.
Plate glass window fronts of four
Of the finest Kansas avenue saloons
and two drug stores. In Topeka, Kan,
were smashed recently with an axe by
Miss Blanche Boise, q disciple of Mrs.
Carrie Nation,
In duel at resort ut Gaiena. Kan.
Charles Tr0tter and Earl Gent emp
tied their revolvers at each other.
Trotter was hit In tho neck and shoul.
der and fatally wounded and Gent was
shot in the leg.
The most successful winter carnival
of the six given In Rossland. B. c.,
concluded Saturday night Nelson
won the hockey championship In
bitterly contested match with the Vic
torias of Rossland.
The blizzard which has been raging
over southern Wyoming for the past
three days Is over, but has been fol-
lowed by weather SO intensely cold
that stockmen. especially sheepmen.
are very apprehensive.
One person was cremated. two fatal
ly hurt, two others seriously injured
and seven buildings totally destroyed
BY fire in Tarentum. a village IL miles
north of Pittsburg recently. Ray
Craig. aged 13, was cremated while
his father was trying to rescue him.
An immense crowd was attracted to
the senate recently to hear the invo.
cation of General William Booth. foun.
der and commander in chief Of the
Salvation Army. Among the occu.
pants Of the galleries were Booth
Tucker, the generals chief assistant
and son in law, and a large number Of
Salvationists.
The great prevalence Of smallpox
In the coke region near Uniontown,
Pa. has prompted the officials Of the
H. c. Frick Coke company to issue an
order calling for the free vaccination
of all its employees and their families.
AS the Frick company has about 50.-
900 men on its pay rolls. this order
will affect about 100000 persons.
Senator Turner has been selected
one Of the subcommittee of the COM
mittee on interoceanic canals to &C.
lect permanent quarters for the 18th
milan canal commission in Washington,
and also on the subcommittee charged
with fixing the salaries Of the COM
missioners. The other members of
the subcommittee are Kittridge OF
South Dakota and Miilard of Nebraska.
Mackenzie & Mann. promoters of the
Canadian Northern railway. one Of the
new transcontinental lines being con-
structed in Canada, north of the ter
ritory covered by the Northern Pacific.
have concluded . deal whereby they
become owners Of the Great Northern
railway of Canada, q line in operation
from Hawkesbury to Quebec, with con-
nections which afford an entrance to
the American Atlantic seaboard.
The New York World says that from
evidence brought In the United States
circuit court 1t appears that Emperor
Williams sudden and mysterious re-
call Of Baron Won Holleben. German
ambassador at Washington. closely fol.
lowed charges that he had used his
Official position to advertise q certain
wine. This wine had been urged in
vain by the embassy for use In the
christening of.the emperor's yacht,
Meteor. by Miss Alice Roosevelt.
Denis J. Swenie. Chicago's veteran
fireman and former chief Of the hre
department. Ia dead.
Martin Mason Haxeltine. the vet
eran pioneer photographer of the Pa
cinc coast Is dead 1t Baker City.
Ore.
Vic Langley Of Wallace put Jack
Overdorf OF Wardner. Idaho, out in
the second round of q mill Monday
night.
The senate has confirmed the nomi.
uafion ~ CoOruo n NortoIvo, 70 h>