Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-03-22
AROUND THE world.
short TELEGRAPH Notes FROM
ALL POINTS OF Hemisphere.
\ Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.


Many earthquakes have occurred in
Italy recently.
Grover Cleveland celebrated his 6Sth
birthday on Saturday.
The wife of Congressman B. F..
Marsh of Illinois, is dead.
Major Alexander o. Brodie was or
dered to proceed to Manila.
The president has nominated as min
lister to Corea Edwin v. Morgan Of
New York.
Ex-Governor Cyrus G. Luce, Of Mich
igan, died recently, OF goiter. He was
so years old.
Formal ratification of the treaty of
peace between Chile and Bolivia has
been exchanged.
An appropriation Of $4,000 for a
Minnesota exhibit at the Lewis and
Clark fair has been made.
1t is reported that profits of $780,
900 a month are being made by the
CRANKY mines. near Phoenix.
The fishing schooner Pearl from
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the Alaskan coast near Sanak.
St. Petersburg announces that the
internal loan of 2U0,000,000 roubles at
4 per cent interest has been arranged.
The bite of a cat nine month ago
has caused the death /by hydrophobia
of Henry PHasterer, of st. Louis, aged
9 years.
Secretary of State Hay on boarding
the steamship Celtic to sail for Eu-
rope was seized with a fit of weakness
and collapsed.
Professor William c. A. Freerichs.
a we'll known marine and animal paint
er, is dead from paralysis at his home
on Staten Island.
The Frankfurter Zeitung, of Berlin,
says that the negotiations with Ger
man banks for the Japanese loan is
nearing conclusion.
vania is now regarded as the leading
candidate for chairman Of the repub-
lican national committee.
Motorman James Francis, a strike
breaker in New York, was recently
sent to the Tombs prison by Coroner
Scholer, charged with homicide.
Mrs. Mary Fox Vardaman, mother Of
Governor Vardaman of Mississippi,
who lives with him at the executive
mansion, dropped dead recently.
Queen Alexandra and her party have
sailed for Lisbon. Owing to rough
seas the royal yacht took shelter in
Portland harbor Saturday night.
Much regret may be caused in the
northwest by the news that Daniel
Mcdonald, president of the American
Labor union has resigned from that
position.
1t is reported at Alden. Arabia, that
the Arabs have captured the town of
Sana Yalan, in province which is
supposed to be garrisoned by 5000 Tur-
kish troops.
The senate at 3:39 p. m. Saturday
adjourned sine die. Before the ad-
journment the senate confirmed James
Wickersham as Judge Of the district
court Of Alaska.
The president has accepted an invi-
tation rendered by delegation Of coal
miners and officials headed by John
Mitchell to address meeting at Wilk-
esbarre on August 10.
A cyclone struck Porch, Oklahoma.
recently. One man, name not given.
was killed; ]. E. and Charles Jones
fatally injured and 16 others hurt. Six
teen houses were demolished.
William H. Hunt, former president
Of the defunct Panama Banking CON-
pany, has been released from Jail in
Chicago on a $4,000 cash bond. He
is accused of embezzlement.
Frank Vokoun, Chicago tailor. aft
er firing two shots through a closed
door in an attempt to kill his wife at
her home. shot and killed himself.
Mrs. Vokoun was uninjured.
plague not more than 500 inhabitants
remain in the city Of Pisagua. Chile.
The place had a population Of 10000.
but all who were able have fed.
The rumor is being persistently cir
culated in court circles that the czar
Is on the verge of nervous break
down and that physicians are in at
tendance on him day and night
The final step in many New York
gambling cases was taken recently
when over $4,000 worth of gambling
paraphernalia was taken from the
criminal court building and burned.
Many valuable paintings and pieces
of statuary and articles used in in.
struction were destroyed by a fire
which damaged the building occupied
by the National Academy Of Design
at Washington.
The Union county (Ky.). grand jury
has returned 151 indictments against
the Standard Oil company for selling
oil in retail lots without license. The
penalty is a fine of from $50 to $1,000
for each violation.
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