Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-29
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cUlLED FROM DISPATCHER OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
\ Review Of happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

George B. Cortelyou has been chos
en- chairman of the republican national
committee.
1t is announced that the republican
campaign would be formally opened
on August 1.
Glass day, the greatest festival OF
the year at Harvard university, was
observed Friday.
A congress of Indian educators was
held at the st. Louis exposition from
June 27 to July /.
A strike of the New York carriage
and wagon workers union, for a new
wage scale, has been declared off.
II. E. Huntington has rendered his
resignation as vice president Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad company.
The Canadian transcontinental rail.
road bill has been read third time
in the senate and passed by vote OF
26 to 13.
Hon. James A. Mckenzie, former
congressman from Kentucky, is dead
He was known everywhere as "Qui.
nine Jim"
Lord Brilliant, the famous show
horse owned by w. T. White Of Cleve.
land, Ohio, has been purchased by
John Gerken Of New York.
Commander A. G. Kellogg fell from
a fourth story window in the Monroe
hotel in Portsmouth to the sidewalk,
sustaining injuries from which he died.
Marcus Graham of Providence, r. l.,
has plead guilty to printing and pass
ing counterfeit bills, and was sentenc-
ed to Is years hard labor at Atlanta,
Ga.
Secretary Francis OF the transmits
sissippi commercial congress has is
sued the call for the annual conven-
tion to be held In St. Louis September
fO-17.
The American Federation of Labor
has taken up the fight of the Western
Federation of Miners in Colorado and
will give it financial and moral sup
port.
The striking Indian salmon fisher
men remain firm in their refusal to
fish in the Skeena this season unless
the Gamers grant them 10 cents per
fish on lays instead of cents.
Seth Elds, at one time the union
reform candidate for president, and
master OF the national and Ohio gran
ges. fell from cherry tree on his
farm at Waynesville, Ohio, and died.
A fearful disaster marked the con-
test among sailing cutters from the
German warships In the regatta. A
sudden gale sprung up and capsized
over 100 of the contestiDg craft II Is
believed that five of the crews were
drowned.
Judge Winchester. Of Ottawa, Ont,
under the provision of the alien act.
has recommended the deportation OF
certain employees engaged on the sur
veys of the Grand Trunk Pacific. These
persons are now returning to the Unit
ed States.
Secretary Taft has issued an order
making the terms of the Dingley act
as TO tariff rates applicable to the
canal strip on the Isthmus Of Panama.
He also issued an order providing for
the establishment of postal Offices on
the canal strip.
One passenger was fatally injured
and a dozen more or less seriously in
jured in a collision between a Lima
city streetcar and a Western Ohio
special. The dead: Lorena Nichols
kipling. or kippens, OF Spokane
Wash. aged eight years.
Fearful of the results Of an opera
ton for appendicitis. Rev. Charles
Montgomery Hodge, aged II years, a
native of Arkansas and the Episcopal
minister in charge of King City and
Jolon districts, Cal, committed sui.
eide by blowing out his brains.
The swift. sure current Of public
opinion for the second time in the his
tory Of republican conventions resulted
in the selection of a national ticket
without a dissenting vote. Theodore
Roosevelt for president and Charles
w. Fairbanks for vice president receiv,
ed every vote In the convention.
William Miles, who confessed that
he killed John Edwards in Montana
nearly 20 years ago, has been releas-
ed by the Kansas City police and has
disappeared. He said that the hOmi.
eide was justifiable and that he would
be acquitted on trial. He will make no
further effort to be tried, however.
Charles Swayze. employed by a life
insurance company and formerly as.
sistant superintendent Of the Detroit
house OF correction, recently shot Miss
Efie Alvord twice while the couple
were in a private office In the COM
pany's suite on the 18th floor Of the
Chamber OF Commerce building, and
then jumped from the window him
SELF He was picked up and died as
he was carried into the lobby Of the
building. Miss Alvord was shot in the
neck and wrist, but not seriously hurt
Must Not Raise the Prices.
Vladivostok.-The commandant Ol
the port has issued a notice warning
the local merchants not to arbitrarily
raise the prices OF the necessaries, as