Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-02-15
AROUND THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH NOTES FROM
The ENTIRE CIVILIZATION.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphe eres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

Events TerseIy Told.
The house omnibus building bill car
ries a total appropriation of So, 500, 900.
The new Chinese loan of 100000
pounds was several times oversub-
scribed.
Fire has destroyed five leading busi-
ness houses of Oskaloosa, Iowa. The
loss is $150,000.
Last Sunday was Lincoln's birthday.
The earl of Kenmare died in London
recently, aged so years.
Mr.. Barrett will continue to repre-
sent the American diplomatic repre-
sentation at Panama.
J. Pierpont Morgan has arranged to
make another cruise in foreign waters
on his steam yacht.
1t is reported from st. Petersburg
that Maxim Gorky has been sent to
Riga to undergo trial.
1t was just year ago this week
that Admiral Togo began to do some
effective work with his fleet.
Lady Curzon, wife of the viceroy of
India. and her three children have
sailed for India from London.
The trial of Judge Swayne has be-
gun. The senate will sit every day
as an impeachment court from 2 un-
til 5.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed against Sullivan, Drew & Co.,
wholesale dealers in millinery of New
York.
Eggs are quoted at 38 cents dozen
in Chicago. and yet there are said to
be 45,OOO,GOO of them in cold storage
there.
Senator Perkins of California has
been selected to read Washington's
farewell address in the senate Febru-
ary %.
Andrew Carnegie has been served
with subpoenas to appear at the trial
of Mrs. Chadwick in Cleveland. March
9Th.
Charles H. Hackley, the lumber mil
lionaire of Muskegon, Mich, noted for
his munificent public gifts, is dead.
aged 68.
J. Samuel McCue, former mayor Of
Charlottesville, Va, was hanged re-
Gently for the murder of his wife. He
confessed.
The Nebraska legislature, by a vote
Of 73 to 43, has decided that playing
football is not to be considered fel-
ony in that state.
In a recent wreck on the National
~f hot
and Mendina, five persons were killed
and<six others were injured.
Fire recently swept through the T.
story brick building occupied by the
Central Electric company, Chicago,
causing loss of nearly 100000.
Major villamayor has surrendered
to the authorities of Buenos Ayres,
Argentina. Other leaders in the in
surrection also have surrendered.
The United States army transport
Logan has arrived in San Francisco
from Manila with. the Eighteenth in
fantry, which is en- route to Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan.
It is reported that Admiral Dewey
has asked for the new armored cruis-
er Colorado as his flagship in the COM
| ing naval maneuvers of the Cuban
| coast.
Statehood for Oklahoma and New
Mexico will not be granted during
this session of congress unless 1t be
on lines provided in the house state
hood bill.
The death of Governor General
Tchertkoff of the province of Warsaw
is announced. He was wounded In the
leg in a riot encounter between the
| troops and strikers.
Near New Brighton. Pa. man and
two boys were killed, two boys are
dying and three more were slightly in
jured as the result of bobsled dash.
ing into a train recently.
Governor Higgins of New York has
commuted the sentence Of William F..
Miller of Brooklyn, convicted Of grand
larceny. Miller was sentenced April
30, 1900. to serve ten years.
Secretary Hay has signed with M.
Takahira. the Japanese minister. an
arbitration treaty between the United
States and Japan, identical with those
signed with the other nations.
The president has appointed Joseph
H. Kibbey of Arizona to be governor
Of that territory and Eugene A. Tuck
er of Nebraska to be associate justice
of the territorial supreme court.
Judge Edward F. Dunno Of Chicago
formally signified his willingness to
accept the democratic nomination for
mayor on a platform calling for public
ownership Of the street railways.
The Arizona legislature hes forward
ed to congress memorial protesting
against the taking from Arizona and
annexing to Utah Of that part Of Ari-
zona lying north Of the Colorado river.
The Standard Oil company has cur
tailed its output in the Kansas field.
laying off 900 men indefinitely. The
action is said to be the result Of an
tagonistic measures passed recently
by the Kansas legislature.
The senate committee on interstate
hoc % ron1rxoN and