Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-08-26
LATE telegraph BREVET|ES
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemtspheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Events TerseIy Told.
A son was born Wednesday to Mrs.
c. Oliver Iselin, wife Of the managing
owner of the Reliance, defender Of the
Americas cup.
The Wabash Bridge & Iron company
has assigned for the benefit of credi-
tors. Liabilities are estimated at
100000, assets at 100000, which is
capital stock.
Edna Folla, servant girl for Mrs.
Gillin, residing two miles below Mil
ton, Ore, committed suicide recently
by taking a heavy dose Of strychnine.
Dependency is given as the cause.
Reports from New York tell of plans
for consolidating the new Federal Min
ing & Smelling company with the
American Smelling & Refining COM
pany. or the smelter trust.
Hesse Langsdorf, cashier of the Sal
mon City Qdaho) bank. was taken
to Salt Lake recently to be treated
for two dangerous gunshot wounds re-
ceived while camping out on the Sal
mon river, in Idaho. A shotgun was
accidentally discharged, a portion Of
the load striking him in the right
eye, destroying that organ, and the
rest of the charge making a dangerous
wound in the thigh.
The veterans of the Spanish-Ameri.
can war and the Philippine insurrec-
ton held largely attended reunion
at San Francisco and campfire at their
armory on Ellis street recently. The
election of officers was held with the
following result: Commander in
chief, General Owen Summers of Ore
gon; senior vice commander, Major
B. T. Slime, of California; junior vice
commander, Colonel ]. J. McClintock
Of Arizona; judge advocate general,
General w. P. Metcalf of Kansas; sur
geon general, Major Elmer s. Brown
Of Washington; chaplain general, Rev.
Joseph s. Woolley. of Rhode Island;
officer of the day, Lieutenant L. Hart
man Of Idaho.
about 1000 textile workers of Grim
itzchau, Saxony, district have struck
for shorter hours of labor.
The Swiss arbitrator may not serve
on the Venezuelan arbitration COM
mission.
John Ellsler, father of Effie Ellsler,
the actress, and himself veteran
octor opd theatrical mono cor diod of
heart disease at his home in New
York recently, aged 50.
The villages of Bouf, Bakoro and Ar
mesko, near Florina, have been bom-
barded and their insurgent garrisons
annihilated. At Boufi alone 500 Bull
garians were reported to have been
killed. During another fight near OK
rida 2l7 Bulgarians were killed.
Rumors are again current relative
to the abdication Of Emperor Franz
josef of Austria, because he is tired
of the continuous political struggle.
An immense throng saw Africander
beat Heno and Water Boy for the
Saratoga purse Of $4,000 recently, and
in doing so made new worlds rec
ord for a mile and three-quarters. He
set mark Of 2:5S. the previous rec.
ord being 1858 2-5. held by Latson.
Jane Anna Longland, who as a child
danced with the duke of Wellington,
who saw the coronation Of Queen Vic.
toria, and was friendly with the chill.
dren Of Don Carlos, the pretender to
the Spanish throne, is dead at her
home in Brooklyn. She was "a years
old. Her father was an interpreter in
the royal navy. The children of Don
Carlos lived in his home for some
time while he acted as their tutor.
Major Samuel Reber, signal corps
general staff officer, has been detailed
as secretary Of the army college. He
is the son-in-law of Lieut.. Gen. Miles,
retired, and formerly was his military
secretary.
Secretary of War Root has sailed
for Liverpool. He goes to England to
act with Senator Lodge and former
Senator Turner Of Washington, as the
United States representatives on the
Alaskan boundary dispute.
The death knell of the Pacific Ma
tional league is ringing. After proba-
bly, the most expensive warfare in
minor league history, Harry Hart has
thrown up the sponge in California,
and the league has come to its death
there. The season will be finished
with Butte, Salt Lake, Seattle and
Spokane playing.
Prince Ching had informed Minister
Conger that in the treaty to be signed
on October s provision would be made
for opening two ports in Manchuria to
the United States.
A special from Sour Lake, Tex, says
the oil field fire which started there
is still burning. Not derrick is stand.
ing in the Shoestring district. The
loss is now estimated at $1,500.0 900.
After saturating her clothes with
kerosene and setting 1t on fire in an
effort to commit suicide. Mrs. Mabel
Lathey, aged "a years, Of Chicago, fell
upon the floor Of the hallway in her
home and awaited death recently.
An occasion which will be memora.
BILE in the history Of Pennsylvania
transpired recently. when the giant
armored cruiser Pennsylvania, named