Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-09-28
The WORLDS NEWS NOTES!
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Actor Joseph Jefferson is not dying
as reported.
Archer Brown, well known iron
merchant, is dead at his home in East
Orange. N. j., from heart disease.
Hardy B. Durham, we'll known
horse owner and trainer, has dropped
dead at Sheepshead Bay race track.
The main building of the University
Of Minnesota was destroyed by fire,
entailing loss of $125,OOO, fully in
sured.
Carrie Nation has issued a long ap.
peal to the mothers, wives and daught.
ers of Kansas to join her in a cru
sade.
A successful operation has been per.
formed upon Lady Curzon at London,
and it is announced that her condition
is grave, but that the outlook is more
hopeful.
st. Augustine's parochial school in
South Boston, a brick structure, was
burned recently. Several firemen were
injured when the roof fell. Loss es-
timated at $150,O0O.
Three masked robbers broke in the
house of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Glib.
bons, residing near Bosburg, Pa, and
tortured the aged couple in an effort
to find hidden money.
The largest fire since 1899 occurred
at Dawson. The loss is estimated at
quarter Of a million dollars, with no
insurance. The fire originated in the
kitchen Of the Cecil hotel.
The Stanford varsity football eleven
won the second preliminary game of
the season Saturday from the Pensa-
cola naval cadets from Goat Island.
The final score was "a to 0.
Fire has completely destroyed the
structural building at the Bethlehem
Steel works, in Pennsylvania, togeth.
er with the paint, car, carpenter and
pattern shops. Loss probably $780,.
900.
Major Thomas r. Adams of the ar
tillery corps, United States army, ana
assistant inspector of the department
of the Pacific, was struck by a San
Francisco street car and fatally in
jured.
A sad incident in connection with
the visit to Washington, D. c., of the
members Of the interparliamentary
union was the death of Hector Van
doersaler, clerk of the house Of depu-
ties of Belgium.
The sovereign grand lodge Of Odd
Fellows has completed the work of its
annual session by installing the officers
elected, with the exception Of Grand
Sire r. e. Wright, who was installed
at his residence in Allentown, Pa.
Announcement of the winners of the
cash prize drills of cantons attending
the sovereign grand lodge. Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows. has been
made. The first prize of $1,000 was
won by the Washington, D. c., can
ton.
The fruit crop in the Grand Forks,
B. c., valley this year is the best in
years. Potatoes are selling at 2 cents
per pound, and the price Is expected
to reach cents when the cold wealth
er comes. as this crop is almost total
failure.
At Cohn's printing establishment in
Cincinnati, while the men were going
to work, Harry Geeman was killed
and Louis Heintzelman and Charles
Snyder were seriously injured by the
elevator falling from the seventh floor
to the basement.
Having declared that he would not
live more than year after the death
of his wife, Mary, who was murdered
for her money in her home by Louis
Pezant on September IS, 1908, John
Spilka of Chicago, on the first ami.
versary of the murder committed sui
eide by strangling himself with hand
kerchief.
The cruisers Olympia, Cleveland and
Des Moines Of the United States Euro
pean squadron have arrived at Graves
end, England. The Olympia will re
main three weeks and the other two
cruisers two weeks, all the vessels
after their stay proceeding for the
Mediterranean to take part in maneu.
vers there.
J. T. Mitchell, the man arrested by
the San Francisco police Friday on
suspicion Of having held up two clerks
of the Central Grain & Stock ex.
change, has made complete confes
sion. Two thousand dollars Of the
$4,000 has been recovered. Mitchell
says his accomplice has the remain
der of the stolen money.
A number of bishops from abroad
who will participate actively in the
proceedings in the triennial genera
convention of the Episcopal church
to be held in Boston October 5-26, have
arrived in the United States. The
greater number will attend the nation
al convention of the Brotherhood oil