Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-10-25
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEns FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

ican products is subsiding.
For the past six days Manila has
been free from cholera.
The reception to President Roose-
welt at Jacksonville, Fla, was a hear
ty one.
The Bullock Electrical company Of
Cincinnati has been absorbed by the
Allis-C Chalmers company.
At San Francisco the United Bank
& Trust company has been closed by
the state board of bank commission.
ers.
Recently Archbishop Patrick w.
Riordan of San Francisco, was re.
ceived in private audience by Pope
Plus.
Victoria. B. C.-G. d. Collins, the
San Francisco lawyer who fed from
the Bay state on July s, has been ex-
tradited.
The report to the effect that Ambas-
sador Whitelaw Reid had appointed
an Englishman as his private secre-
tary is unfounded.
Quantities Of valuable pearls are be-
ing found in the Kankakee river, in
Indiana. Scores of persons have gone
to the river to hunt for the gems.
President Roosevelt was the guest
Of the Oldest city in the United States
Saturday night, and st. Augustine
put on gala attire to welcome him.
In the event Of q change in the cabi-
net at Toxic, Baron Hayashi, Japan
ese minister to England, Is likely to
be called home to take charge of the
foreign Office.
Madison, Wis.,. A. Lenroot of Su.
perior, speaker Of the Wisconsin leg
islature and a LaFollette leader, has
announced his candidacy for the gov
ernorship of Wisconsin.
Upon petition of some Of its credi-
tors, E. ]. Becker Of Kansas City has
been appointed receiver for the Impe-
rial Brewing company. The company
owes about $625,000.
Senator John Birge. a prominent re-
publican and well known manufactur.
er. was killed at Bristol, Conn.,, when
a horse he was driving ran away,
throwing him from his carriage to the
curb.
The active leaders of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union are pre-.
pairing to resist every effort likely to
be made during the coming session
Of congress to restore the canteen at
the army posts.
Her hair being caught in whirling
belt. Annie Wolf, II years old, was
scalped recently in the shop Of the
Milburg Atlantic Supply company. Of
New York. Every vestige Of hair was
stripped from her head.
west-bound Missouri Pacific pas.
senger train carrying cars from Kan.
sas City and St. Louis, was wrecked
Ave miles west Of Fort Scott. the re-
suit OF a broken rail. Fully 30 per-
sons were more or less injured, but
none killed.
Aiken, Minn.-Dr. w. Marones, the
bonesetter convicted Of bigamy. and
sentenced by Judge Spooner to six
years in the penitentiary at Stillwa-
ter, committed suicide In his cell.
blowing the top Of his head completely
of with a revolver.
Joseph Turpis of st. Louis was in
stantly killed at Chatsworth, ILL.,. re-
Gently by coming in contact with an
electric wire while chasing his hat,
which had been blown on by the wind.
William Meister. in attempting to drag
the mans body from the wire. met a
similar fate.
Mr.. P. X. Duchemin Of Colfax has
asked the newspapers to assist In To-
eating his son Ralph, who ran away
from home. Ralph is IL years old.
OF heavy build. light complexion. He
was accompanied by Joe Baker. aged
Is, dark eyes and hair and wearing
corduroy kneepants and cap.
Paul G. Kruger Of North Yakima,
has learned that he is wanted In chi.
cago by his half sister. Mrs. Martha
Hoffman, who has been hunting for
him for months to settle an estate
worth $4,000. to which they have fal.
len heir. Part of this comes from
Germany and the other part Of the es-
tate is from the estate of his sister,
Mrs. r. P. Rheim, who with her hus-
band and two children lost their lives
in the Iroquois fire in Chicago. Janu-
ary 2, 1904.