Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-31
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
\ Review Of happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

Twelve persons were injured, two
seriously, in q street car accident al
st. Louis.
Peter Sells, the veteran circusman
who was stricken with paralysis, is
rarely able to recognize the family.
Judge s. H. Wright, for 20 years
district judge of the second district OF
Nevada, died Of heart disease recently
in Salifornia.
The sawmill of White & Wheeless
at Aldens bridge. on the Cotton Belt
railroad, was destroyed by fire recent
ly. Loss 100000.
Two men were killed and two fatal.
ly injured recently by the falling OF
an elevator at the Babbitt soap fac.
tory, in New York.
1t is now confirmed that the Para.
guayan revolutionists have seized a
train carrying stores and number of
government officials.
The Canadian Pacific railway has
called special meeting for October
4 next to authorize an increase of the
capital stock by $5,00O,0O0.
1t is understood that a stringent or
der will be issued by the war depart.
ment shortly, prohibiting the rapidly
growing custom of making gifts to
army officers.
Announcement is made at the navy
department that Surgeon P. A. Liver
ing has been ordered to the naval med
ical school at Washington to assume
the new chair of tropical diseases.
Mrs. Hannah Clapsy, so years old,
has been burned to death in her bed
at her son in laws home at Harlem.
as a result of her fondness for smok-
ing a pipe while in bed.
Four persons were severely injured
in q collision between a Texas & Pa
cific railroad fast passenger train and
several freight cars at Exeter street
bridge, one mile outside of Ft. Worth,
Texas.
The secretary of war has assigned
First Lieutenant j. Decamp Hall, Of
the Twenty-sixth infantry, as aid de
camp on the staff Of Brigadier General
Constant Williams, Vancouver bar
racks, Washington.
At Pasadena, Cal, an autopsy was
held on the body of Mrs. Harriet Ger
trude McVicker widow of the late j.
G. Mcvicker of Chicago, who died
recently, and finding that death was
from natural causes.
The department of state has decid-
ed that this government could not in
terfere with the confiscation Of Amer
lean goods, decided by Russia or Jap
an as contraband, II carried in other
than American ships.
Governor Mickie has named Miss
Mann Mickie to christen the battle
ship Nebraska, which will be launch
ed at Seattle October Z. Miss Mickie
is 22 years of age and is the COVER
nor's second daughter.
Japan has addressed a note to the
powers informing them that unless
Russia forthwith disarms her warships
in Shanghai, Japan will be forced to
take whatever steps she deems neces-
ooiy " PiotCSt uCi ihtCiCoto'
The state health department Of
Texas has been notified Of the break
ing out Of yellow fever in the govern.
ment military post at Brownsville,
Texas. One death has occurred and
several cases are reported to be in ex-
lstence there.
1t is reported that Samsonoff, the
assassin Of Won Plehve, has been SEN
fenced to death, and that the SEN
tence is now before the emperor. The
reports which have been circulated
about Samsonoff having escaped, and
also that he was dead, are declared to
be false.
Major T. E. Merritt. U. s. A.. re-
tired, who entered the army during
the civil war as a private in the Thir-
teenth New York volunteer infantry
and served in the regular army until
1879, is dead in New York city, Major
Merritt served many years with the
Eleventh, Twenty-fourth and Twenty
ninth infantry, and participated in nu.
merous Indian campaigns.