Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-10-19
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
4 Review Of Happenlnos In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

The II. ]. Heinz company Is award.
ed at the worlds fair the grand prize
for excellence Of its 81 varieties of
pickles and food products.
AL G. Fields, the minstrel, corroDo.
rated the report that he Is about to
close deal for the entire Forepaugh
and Sells shows.
Lester Stowe, aged II years, shot
and killed his sister Rosa, aged II
years, near Whiskeytown, Cal. he
claims he did not know the gun was
loaded, but other members of the fam.
lily allege that the boy had an ungov-
ernable temper and that he killed his
sister while in rage.
News has reached Mexico City that
the town of San Bias, on the Pacific
coast, has suffered severe damage from
a hurricane.
At the st. Louis Exposition, Hunter
Baltimore rye has been awarded the
grand prize for the highest order of
merit in all the elements OF a perfect
whisky.
John G. McWilliams, for many years
one of the leading business men of
Chicago, is dead.
| NJ. Jusserand, the French ambassa-
for. and wife. have returned to Wash
ngton after an absence Of four months
turing which time they visited abroad.
Wilhelmina Masur, 35 years old, the
wife Of John Masur, one Of the Oldest
newspaper men of Pittsburg. has been
stamped to death by a bull in the sta
pie at their home in Allegheny.
Fifteen were injured, two of them
perhaps fatally, in a head-on collision
recently on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, mile and a half west of
Portland. Col.
Three men Of the Eighty-ninth reg
2Ilar coast artillery were killed and
blight injured by the explosion of a
mortar battery at Fort Banks, Win
hrop. Three OF the injured may die.
Former Governor Alonzo b. Cornell.
pf New York, aged ~ years. Is dead.
lie was a son Of Ezra Cornell, the
'ounder of Cornell university.
The Pacific Coast Jobbers & Manu-
,acturers' association reelected II. II.
Ii,oveland. who served the association
last year as president, unanimously.
Mrs. Alice Hogan Rice. the author OF
Mrs. Wigs OF the Cabbage Patch,
and "Lovey Mary" is to contribute the
leading serial to The Century during
the coming year.
The house Of deputies of the Episco-
palian general convention at the close
Of four days debate rejected an
amendment to the divorce canon
which amendment sought to prevent
the remarriage OF divorced persons by
clergymen OF the denomination.
| A monument erected by the late Cy'
rus w. Field at Tappan, N. Y. to the
memory OF Major Andre has been sold
for the nonpayment OF taxes.
The national conference OF charities
ana corrections decided AZ nearly as
possiDie the GATE ior the ahhuai meet
lhg' which III 10 pe heia III ror'ianu'
ore', between July ana 1u'y io' l'oo'
Johh barrett' ohited states MINIS
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Z. whithey' consisting Oh some oV
brood mares ana e'ght s'ai''ons, WIN
Dc disposed Oh at pubic auc''on ="
Madison oquare "arueh' Ne" '"'
on october lO.
Merritt L. Joslyn, who was assistant
secretary OF the interior under Presi-
dent Arthur, is dead at WOODSTOCK,
III.
Democratic Presidential Nominee
Parker went to Kingston, N. T., ana
registered to vote In the Second cleo
tion district OF the Ninth ward. He
makes his voting residence at the
home OF his son In law. Charles Mer'
The Nova Scotian schooner Went.