Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH items FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
\ Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western hemisph eres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Events.
Aurelio Herrera of Bakersfield, Cal,
knocked out Young Corbett, ex-cham.
pion lightweight, in the fifth round at
Los Angeles. Herrera's victory was
an easy one; Corbetts exhibition was
disappointing.
Willie Fitzgerald and Willie Lewis
fought rs round draw at Colma, Cal
Headed by Delegate Mark Smith of
Arizona committee of citizens of that
territory called on the president re-
Gently to protest against joint state
hood with New Mexico. The president
gave the delegation a cordial recep-
ton, but told its members that he
was in favor Of joint statehood.
In well informed Cleveland financial
circles it was believed that the liabil-
tiles Of the firm of Denison, Prior &
Co. will aggregate not less than ST.
100000 and that possibly the sum may
may be as high as $1,500.0OO.
Jens c. Jensen, who was compelled
by conscience to accuse himself of
fraudulent naturalization, has been
sentenced by United States District
Judge DeHaven to pay a fine Of So. t.
or in default to be imprisoned in the
Alameda (Cal). county jail.
Captain Benjamin F. Montgomery
of the signal corps has been ordered to
appear before the army retiring board
at San Francisco for examination. He
formerly had charge of the telegraph
service at the White House.
A man who the Chicago police sus-
pect to be Frank ]. Constantine, the
murderer of Mrs. A. w. Gentry, has
been arrested.
President Roosevelt has indicated
that he is in accord with the house
committee on foreign and interstate
commerce in its support of the Hep
burn bill for the regulation of railroad
freight rates.
Henry Wulff, former state treasurer
Of Illinois. and ]. w. Loeb, who was
associated with Wulff in the Contin-
entail Finance company. which was de-
clared by officials Of the government
to be a swindling scheme. entered
pleas of guilty at Chicago before Judge
Bethea in the federal court. Sentence
was deferred.
Statues of William Goebel and Hen
ry Clay are proposed for Kentucky's
representation in the hall of fame at
the capital in Washington in a bill
introduced in the state legislature. An
appropriation of $4,000 is provided.
Mrs. Bessie Hollister. 80 years old,
the wife of Franklin C. Hollister Of
the printing firm of Hollister Broth
ers, one Of the largest concerns Of its
kind in Chicago, was murdered by
Richard WINS, "a years Of age, who
had attempted to assault her.
The International Cigarmakers un-
ion has declared the strike Of the Key
West cigarmakers off and work will
be resumed at once. The strike has
been on nearly two months.
The Korean war minister, who is
staying at the Hotel de France in St.
Petersburg, had a narrow escape from
assassination recently at the hands Of
a Korean, said to be the minister's
interpreter. The would be assassin
stabbed the minister II times with a
knife.
Poultney Bigelow has notified the
committee on interoceanic canals that
he will appear before the committee
Thursday morning next to testify re-
garding canal conditions.
Louis Hecht. Sr., a we'll known Jew
ish banker and philanthropist, died at
his home in Brooklyn recently. He
was born in Hernstadt, Prussia. in
1897, and while q boy came to this
country. In 1849 he went to Califor.
mia, where he organized the firm of
Hecht Brothers, Wholesale shoe job
bers, with branches in Boston and Bal.
timore.
At q meeting of the cabinet recent
| ly, President Roosevelt asked Secre'
tary Shaw to remain at the head OF
the treasury department until March
l, 1907, and Mr.. Shaw agreed to do so
A section of the Windsor hotel. Mon
l tICdlp WdB uCbtioyCu W hiO ANSOhSy
causing q loss estimated at $150.00O.
The supreme court of Mexico has
declined to grant a stay Of execution
in the case of the three Americans
Maston, Richardson and Harle, recent
ly sentenced at Chihuahua to be shot
for numbering people in order to Sc
cure the insurance on their lives.
The state department has been in
formed that former President Morales
has left San Domingo on board the
U. s. 8. Dubuque for San Juan. Porto
Rico.
Friends of C. 8. Hart have been ad
vised that he and the two other de
Ifendants will not be executed in &C
cordance with the courts decree by
being stood against an adobe wall and
shot by q squad Of soldiers, but will bt
sent to the convict stockade on the
island In the tropics on the coast o
the southern republic to serve terms
OF 20 years each at hard labor. pre-
sumably in the salt mines.
II Marshall Field Worse.
II New York, Jan. 16.-The condition
of Marshall Field. the Chicago mer