Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-03-01
AROUND THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH Notes FROM
ALL POINTS OF Hemisphere.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Terseiy Told.

Admiral Sigsbee is at San Domingo
on his flagship Newark.
Philip Glover, a we'll known artist,
died recently in Pittsburg.
Edward Cooper, former mayor Of
New York, died at his residence.
On the eve of General Stoessels ar
rival in st. Petersburg, section Of
the press attacked him bitterly.
The German steamer Severus, bound
for Vladivostock with cargo Of Car
diff coal, was seized recently.
Captain w. s. Winder, confederate
veteran, aged II years, shot and kill
ed himself in his home at Baltimore.
Edward F. Dunno, judge of the cir
cult court, was unanimously nominat-
ed by the democratic city convention
as candidate for mayor of Chicago.
A man who gives his name as Thos.
Ryan and says he is from San Fran
cisco, was fatally shot Saturday in
revolver duel with a Chicago police.
man.
New York.-Yale defeated Prince
ton in 10 board team chess match
at the rooms of the Brooklyn Chess
club by the odd point on totals of
5h to Az.
Secretary Taft has sent to the house
an estimate for the deficiency appro-
priation of $525,000 of the regular sup
plies for the quartermaster's depart
ment of the army.
The Moscow police are now satis-
fed that there exists plot Of consid-
cradle proportions against the late
Grand Duke Sergius, but they are baf-
fed in tracing it out
The lifeless body Of Daniel Mills,
Jr., press agent for Keith's theatre in
New York city, was found lying on the
tracks of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company in Brooklyn Saturday.
The president sent to the senate the
following nomination.: United States
district Judge for eastern Wisconsin,
John V. Quarles Of Wisconsin, whose
term as senator expires March next.
A general strike of the smelter en-
ployes of British Columbia has been
declared as a result of the defeat Of
the eight hour bill for smelter en-
ployes in the British Columbia legis-
lature.
Gathering evidence of his wife's af-
fection for another man from her talk
in her sleep. Mann F. Wageley OBJ
tanned an absolute divorce from Flor
ence Wageley in the circuit court at
Baltimore, Md.
Saturday night fatality occurred
at the CRANKY mines, near Phoenix,
B. c., by which young man, Vernon
Hill, was almost instantly killed by
being run over by the heavy steel 10
ton mine ore cars.
Washington.-The exercises accom-
panying the acceptance of the statues
of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Aus
tin, presented by Texas to represent
that state in Statuary hall, were held
in. the house Saturday.
Independent crude oil producers and
refiners from Kansas, Ohio, Illinois
and Indiana, Joined in the formation
of an organization of defense against
the alleged eradicating pressure of the
Standard Oil company.
Observation-Disclosures from Ba-
toum say the prefect of police and
several leading merchants of that city
have been assassinated and that num-
bers of Ottoman subjects have been
murdered by Georgian strikers.
Rich placer discoveries are reported
from Clearwater creek on the Stikene,
30 miles below Telegraph creek. Three
miners, Captain Canover, Wilson and
Jackson, brought out 16 pounds of
coarse gold, valued at $339O, taken in
short season. They anticipate rush
to the new diggings.
James H. Buchanan, aged As, has
met his death at San Francisco. by
falling from the second story window
of his lodging house to the sidewalk,
distance of 40 feet. His neck was
broken and skull fractured. The de-
ceased has. 1t is said. two children
residing at Seattle, Wash.
The pope has issued an encyclical to
the Catholic bishops of the whole
world urging them to safeguard their
rights, which the pontiff says have
been encroached upon by prelates of
lower rank in that which regards the
prerogatives and honors belonging on
ly to the dignity Of bishops.