Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-07
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITLMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-Nationa
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

| All CaDle cOnnectlOu WIN buenH
Ventura is still interrupted.
Richard L. Ashurst has been ap
pointed postmaster at Philadelphia, to
succeed Clayton McMichael.
Admiral and Mrs. Winfield Scott
Schley were in an exciting runaway
accident, recently, at the National
Capital.
Mount Vesuvius is In eruption from
a fissure 400 meters in length on the
right side Of the mountain. 1t is a
magnificent sight.
| Public Printer Stillings has appoint
ed Charles S. Brown of Grand Rapids
Mich, to be chief inspector of the
government printing offices.
Cameron A. Owens, assistant cashier
of the w. X. Vanderslice Jewelry com
pany of San Francisco, committed sui
side recently by gas asphyxiation.
Ukiah, Cal.-Frank Willard, a half
breed, who murdered Sheriff Smith on
December % last, was sentenced to
be hanged at San Quentin April 2s.
The national treasury statement
shows: Available cash balance, $145,
955,425 gold coin and bullion, ST.,
377,410; gold certificates, s36,765.17O.
The American game of football as
now played is wholly unfit for col
leges and schools, according to an
opinion expressed by President Chas
Eliot of Harvard university.
London.-Lady Strathcona and
Mountroyal, wife of the Canadian high
commissioner, has donated $52,500 to
Queen Alexandras fund for the as
sistance of the unemployed.
| The war department has decided
to go back to the heavy caliber fol
army revolvers and adopt a cartridge
proposed by the ordnance bureau car
rying a bullet of As caliber to replace
the 3S caliber now in use.
| The board of construction of the ma
| w has about decided to recommend
the installation on board each of the
South Carolina and the Michigan, the
two new battleships now being de-
signed, of turbine machinery.
| Secretary Metcalf Of the department
of commerce and labor has issued in
structions advising inspectors OF
steamboat inspection service that they
In the future assist the United States
district attorney in the enforcement
Of the steamboat inspection laws.
Chester H. Mercury, recently ap
pointed American consul at Managua
will not fill that post. Mr.. Mercury
married Nicaraguan, the daughter OF
an ex-president, who is still alive and
in politics. It was feared that Mr.
Mercury might therefore become in
volved in Nicaraguan domestic al
fairs.
| The president has confirmed the sen
tence in the case of First Lieutenant
Richard w. Buchanan. 23d infantry
who was tried by courtmartial in New
York city and found guilty Of charges
of violating his pledge to abstain from
the use of intoxicating liquors and
drunkenness on duty and sentenced to
be dismissed.
President w. g Tighe Of the New
Mexcio university was seriously injured
recently by sn explosion Of gasoline
while experimenting in the laboratory.
One Of his arms was torn of and he
was otherwise horribly mutilated. His
recovery II doubtful.
NJ. Pokotilonf, the Russian minister,
and Mr.. Tong, ,repEssenting the Chinese
government. are dlDcusstng q Russo
Chinese treaty along the lines OF that
between China and japan.
James d. Trevorrow, lats superin.
tendent If the LIE Roi mine at Ross.
land. B. c., is dead. He died at Loa
Angeles, California. He was A yeara
old: and q native Of Cornwall, Eng
land. He leaves wife and six child
rem, the Oldest Of whom is about IS.