Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-04-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

An official cable from Caracas states
that department secretaries are s..ii
filling the cabinet positions made va
cant by the resignation of President
Castro.
The population of Los Angeles, CAL,
according to the city directory census
of April l, 1906, is 22S,29S The popu.
lation as given in the directory for
May /, 1905, was 1854. On this ba.
sis the city has increased 1864 in
population in II months.
President Roosevelt will not hunt
any more while he is president, &C.
cording to Colonel Cecil Lyons, repub
lican national committeeman from
Texas.
George R. Young, cashier of the Pos
tai Telegraph company at St. Louis
who was arrested charged with EN-
bezzlement, committed suicide while
on the way to Jail.
Arthur Turner, editor and publisher
of Vogue, died recently from pneumo
mia at his home. He was so years Of
d6C anu hou UCCh tAC
business in New York for nearly 81
years.
The planters association is arrang
ing to send an agent to the Philip
pines to secure Filipino or japanese
laborers to work in the Hawaiian isl
ands. The agent will also be instruc
ed to secure laborers in Porto Rico.
All hope has been abandoned fol
the recovery of Father Louis Martin
.eneral of the order of the Jesuits, ant
known as the black pope" He Is
suffering from cancer.
The official enrolment figures of tLe
University of Michigan for 19O5-19Ot
were given out recently and show 6
total of 4571 students. This is a gair
of 435 over last year.
The cruiser Washington returned tC
the yards OF the New York Shipbuild
ing company after a successful tria
off the Maine coast. The cruiser at
tanned 1927 knots, little more thar
quarter Of knot in excess of the
government requirement.
Miss tombstone Bennett, the actress
died recently.
The king of Spain was recently
elected a member of the royal yacht
squadron. preparatory to his arrival al
Cowes, April II, to visit Princess Enc
Of Battenberg, the future queen Of
| Spain.
King Victor Emmanuel has decorat
cd Professor Matteucci, director of the
royal observatory on Mount Vesuvius
with the rank of commander of the
order of the crown.
Incendiary articles in the Appeal tc
Reason have resulted in its being
barred from the Canadian mails. II
is a socialistic organ, published al
uirard, Kan.
Israel Ludlow of New York, inven
tor of the aeroplane, was SO badly in
jured by fall at Atlantic Beach, Fla.
that he will probably die.
The recent discovery of a plot oil
anarchists to assassinate all of the
members of the royal family of spain
has caused feeling of apprehension
throughout the entire country.
The French postmen have been re
turning to work. There are now only
1400 strikers among a total of 10000
postmen. The strike at Lyons is end
ed.
King Frederick, Notwithstanding de
malls, is endeavOring to obtain from
| the pope the ecclesiastical sanction for
divorce from the Countess Montig
noso in order to marry again.
Two men were killed and II prob
ably fatally injured in collision Of
coal cars at the Territory mine OF
the Stonewall company near Charles
ton, w. Va. The cars went over a
100 foot embankment.
General E. S. Bragg. who has been
consul general of the United States al
Hongkong for the past three years
has returned to the United States.