Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-05-18
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, PoiiIical and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

The last statement of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance. $175..
277,140; gold, $7S.500.537.
The entire business section and
many dwellings were destroyed by
ire at Steelville, Mo. The loss Is esti-
mated at 100000.
Fire has destroyed rs houses in the
,endi. Montreal, render.
ng three families homeless and desti-
tute. Loss. $75,O0O.
At a recent auction in London a
Holbein miniature of Frances How
ard, duchess of Norfolk, realized the
unprecedented sum Of $13,750.
A binding snow storm ragged
throughout the copper country of nor
thern Michigan last Saturday. Three
inches of snow fell at Calumet.
The hundred rulers and forwarders
in the GO printing shops Of the Chi.
cago Typothetae have gone on strike
in sympathy with the bookbinders.
The United States squadron has
sailed for the Canary Islands. the
Brooklyn and Castine for Teneriffe
and the Atlanta and Marietta for Las
Palmas.
1t is officially announced that Vice
roy Alexieff has demanded that the
Chinese administration and the Tartar
general be compelled to leave Muk.
den.
At Pittsburg Fred Schuetz. son Of
Henry Schuetz. shot and seriously in
jured Mrs. Minnie Mccormick and
then fatally shot himself. It was a
love affair.
Rear Admiral Kennedy, retired, for.
merly paymaster general of the navy,
it is stated at the navy department,
has been selected as treasurer of the
Panama canal commission.
The president has signed the proc
lamation opening the Rosebud, N. D.,
reservation to settlement. The reser-
vation contains 10000 acres and will
be opened at 9 a. M, August 8.
Miss Clara Barton has resigned the
presidency Of the American Red Cross
and was succeeded by Mrs. General
John A. Logan, who has heretofore oc-
cupied the office of vice president.
Samuel Enrich, a Denver, Col, de-
tective, has been convicted of murder
In the second degree for the murder
Of William Malone. a saloonkeeper,
on the night Of February 23. 1904.
BY order of the boot and shoe man.
ufacturers' association. six San Fran.
cisco shoe factories and one in Peta-
luna are closed. locking out nearly
900 employees. 1t is labor trouble.
Because of a strike of laborers, en-
gineers. firemen and winchmen at the
Callao docks and the laborers on the
Central railway, which broke on May
6, traffic on the English railway has
stopped.
The shipping strike at Marseilles is
virtually over. The Captains, engi.
neers and other officers Of the mer.
chant marine have agreed to resume
their duties on the shipping company's
conditions.
The long pending and bitter legal
fight between the Burns-Hicks and the
Hays factions of the hnignts of La
Dor has been decided in favor of the
former by Justice Anderson Of the
district equity court.
Damage exceeding $4,000 was done
when fire destroyed Haslam's saw and
shingle mills at Nanaimo, B. c. The
machinery was worth nearly 500, 900.
Insurance to the amount of $4,000
only was carried. The origin of the
fire Is q mystery.
The Chicago Great Western Rail.
way company has adopted a novel plan
for protecting its right of way from
drifting SHOWS which so frequently
impede train operations. The COM
pany has ordered several hundred
thousand evergreen trees from an
Iowa nursery. and will plant them
thickly along the right of way on all
main tracks Of the company.
According to Lord Dundonald's rec.
concentrations. the Notifications will
be located on Point Grey and Point
Atkinson. two prominent and opposite
points Of land. which command the
entrance to Vancouver harbor, and
which would cover a wide range Of wa
ter. Lord Dundonald says that in the
event of war In India, Vancouver
would be an important base of sup
plies in transit to the orient.
Captain Peary, u. 8. NJ, the Arctic
explorer, is negotiating for the seal.
Ing schooner Eagle. to convey him
and a preliminary expedition to Lit.
tleton island, in the Greenland seas
during the present summer.
Two thousand Khamba warriors are
marching to join the army in the Gy.
angtse fort. The bombardment of the
camp continues. The Tibetans have
found the range Of every building in
the camp, but the British are well un
der cover and communication with the
rear is still open.
France-Cereal crops are said to be
progressing as well as could be de