Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-23
Late News Notes.

his recent Illness.
During the past two months, 1t Is
said. $12. 100000 in gold has left Japan.
Henry Richardson, for many years
editor of the Atlanta Journal, and
widely known as speaker, is dead.
Andrew Carnegie, with his wife and
daughter, have sailed for Cherbourg.
Mr.. Carnegie expects to be absent un.
til next fall.
A prairie fire south Of Hemingford.
Neb., is burning fiercely and can be
seen for 20 miles moving northeast of
Alliance toward Lakeside.
Thomas Lawrence Forrest, pioneer
banker and the last Of four brothers
who were identified with the CONNER.
cial life Of Chicago, is dead, aged SIS
years.
Ralph Rose, Michigan's freshman
shot putteI recently broke the world s
record for the IL pound shot by send.
ing the ball distance Of Sc feet three
inches.
Major Theodore Bingham, of the
United States engineer corps, was bad
Iy injured recently while superintend-
ing the hoisting of a launch in the
3uffalo. N. Y. harbor. -
Lieutenant Governor James H. Till
man, recently acquitted of murder for
the killing of Editor N. G. Gonzales of
columbia, S. c.. has announced his can
iidacy for congress.
Chauncey Dewey and his two cow
boys, Clyde Wilson and William j.
Mcbride, were acquitted Of the charge
of numbering Durchard Berry, by a
Jury at norton. Kan.
One man was killed, several more or
less seriously injured and one white
woman wounded in a fight between
negroes and deputy sheriffs about two
miles west Of Bessemer. Ala.
Charged with embezzlement, Fran.
els B. Wright, cashier of the First Ma.
tional bank of Dundee, ILL.,, has been
indicted by the federal grand jury.
He is alleged to have embezzled $54,-
900.
Administrators Of the estate of the
late George Francis Gilman, the mil
ionaire merchant of New York. have
fully settled the claim of Helen Potts
Hall for 100000. They paid her $780,
200 in cash and $4,000 in securities.
Robbers blow the First National
bank building at Firth, Neb.. to pieces
in an attempt to loot the safe. but
failed to secure the treasure. They
were scared away by citizens without
securing any booty.
Cashier Atkinson of the Miami bank
1t Atchison, Indiana, was shot in the
head by burglars and seriously wound.
ed. The burglars had blown out the
front wall of the building when Chas.
Warren and Atkinson attacked them
and caused them to fee. The robbers
failed to obtain any Of the $4,000 in
the banks vaults.
D. c. CorDin's offer to buiid a rail-
road to connect Spokane directly with
the Canadian Pacific railroad is receiv.
ed favorably by the financiers and bus
mess men Of Spokane and its tribu-
tary districts, and many Of them have
expressed their willingness to aid In
procuring him the right of way and
terminals asked for within the city lin
its.
|. British submarine boat No. AL was
run down and sunk of the Nab light
ship by Donald Currie liner and IL
persons were drowned, including Lieu.
tenant Mansergh. the senior officer en-
gagged in the submarine work. The
liner passed on and reported that she
had struck torpedo. At the time she
was struck the submarine boat was of
the lightship engaged In the maneu.
vers. and was lying in seven fathoms
Of water waiting the approach Of a
battleship.