Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-02-24
NEWS ITEMS.

phtTOu oI llSut harness racing ana as
yachtsman, died recently at Milton,
Mass.
The sale Of the British tramp steamer
Tytton to the japanese government is
announced. She will likely be used as
transport.
Jonathan Tryon Hughes Edwards,
sixth in line of direct descendants of
Jonathan Edwards. is dead at his home
in New York.
w. S. Sallers, fireman at the Iro-
quoise theatre at Chicago at the time
of the big fire, held by the coroner's
jury has been exonorated.
Martial law has come to an end in
San Miguel county, Colorado.
Lieutenant MacRae and six privates
of the constabulary, have been killed
by a bolo rush of 500 fanatics, while
patroling the east coast of the Island
Of Samar, also Private Salamon of the
Fourteenth cavalry, stationed at Iolo.
Attended by excitement not often
equaled, wheat advanced Friday, at
Chicago nearly four cents bushel.
May delivery sold as high as $l.03 a
bushel.
A short time ago the senate voted
against the passage of the bill to pay
ex-Queen Liliuokalani Sl50,00O, vote
being tie, but motion to reconsider
has been made and it is quite probable
that the ex-sovereign of Hawaii will
get the relief for which she has been
petiticning for several years.
The United States cruisers Newark
and Columbia have. says a New York
Herald dispatch from st. Thomas, d.
W., been forced to fire on the Dominic
can rebels outside the city of Domingo
because the insurgents fired on an
American mail steamship.
The coroner's jury at Victoria in
quiring into the cause Of the loss of the
steamer Clallam and "a lives on JAN
uary 8, have delivered their verdict,
finding Captain Roberts guilty fo man
slaughter, and Chief Engineer DeLau-
nay criminally culpable. DeLaunay
is severely censured for negligence and
incompetency. Captain Roberts is now
in southern California.
Glence Bays, a negro, was burned at
the stake near Crosset, Ark, on the
charge Of numbering J. d. Stevens of
Ashley.
Tom Reynolds, n nephew of Post
master j. e. Reynolds of Redding, Cali.
fornia, opened over 500 letters and ex-
tracted what coin and paper money he
found in them during the past three
months while employed as utility clerk
in the postofiiec. He made confess
sion.
Billy Melody OF Boston knocked out
Otto Sielof Of Chicago in the fourth
round Of six round contest at Chic
ago.
President Roosevelt has signed the
urgent deficiency bill.
Recently George Gardner of Lowell,
Mass, defeated Kid Carter Of Brook
lyn in six round bout before the Mil
waukee Boxing club.
M. Kurino, until recently japanese
minister at st. Peretsburg. and who is
now minister Of Japan to Sweden aud
Nor"ay, has arrived at Stockholm,
Sweden.
Fire has destroyed the paint works
Of +. w. DeVoe and G. I. Reyonlds com
pany in Brooklyn. Loss, 5000, 900.
Mrs. Hartwell, 80 years old, n law.
yer Of Cincinnati, Ohio, shot herself to
death because of the apprehension that
her suffering from the grip would de-
velope into consumption.
Fire has destroyed the building of
the Greensboro female college Ninety
pupils and the faculty escaped with
most of thier personal effects. Loss,
$125, 900; insurance $40, 900.
The interstate commerce commission
announces that rs result of its inves-
legations Of the feasibility of requiring
railroads to publish tariffs for the move
ment of export and import traffic, it
has been decided to leave the matter in
abey ance for the time.
The last rites over the body of Sena.
tor Marcus A. Hanna were held Friday
afternoon at st. Paul's Episcopal
church at Cleveland Ohio. During this
solemn occasion Cleveland was silent.
Nearly all business was suspended.
Street railways and steam road traffic
on every line in the city was stopped
for five minutes, from to 1:05 O'Clock.
People generally in all parts of the
city bowed their heads in reverence for
a brief space Of time ut that hour.
Twenty.four persons were killed and
I2 badly injured by the explosion of
carload Of dynamite, caused by head
on collision at Jackson. a telegraph
station on the Ogden-Lucin cutoff OF
the Southern Pacific company ,85 miles
west Of Ogden. Eight of the dead and
five Of the injured are Americans, the
others being Greeks. The collision oc-
CURED between two extra trains, and
was caused it is said, by the airbrake
apparatus on one trains failing to oper-
ate. The explosion which followed the
collision was terrific, every thing with
in radius Of half mile being
wrecked.
The steamer Lyra OF the Boston
Steamship company. has arrived at
Victoria from Yokohama. after the
toughest passage ever made by her
across the Pacific. The steamship
battled with fierce hurricanes all the
way. The Lyra brings the most valu-