Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-10-17
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS Of The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatIonal,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.


list, will be married at st. Louis Octo-
Der 16 to Miss Marie Wing Gordon.
The American armored cruisers,
Maryland and Pennsylvania, have en-
tered the Suez canal bound south
ward.
Gustaf Roscher, age 81, and his wife,
10 years younger, were found dead in
bed recently at Chicago with the gas
turned on.
Mary Bowan, accused Of embez.
cling $1,000 from the money order de-
partment Of the Oakland, CAL, post
office, was found not guilty. The de-
tense was insanity.
the plant of the Illinois Steel COM
pany at South Chicago about 20 work
men were badly burned, two Of them
so seriously that 1t Is believed they
will die.
The new million dollar beet sugar
factory of the United States Sugar &
Land company at Garden City, Kan,
is now in operation.
Chanting hymns until the entire jail
re-echoed with his powerful voice,
Daniel Francis, the negro evangelist.
convicted of the murder Of his wife,
and the family friend, Mrs. Dora
Scroggs, was led to the scaffold In
Chicago
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor has taken the
stump in a tour of dozen states for
the purpose Of opposing anti-labor
Congressional nominees and urging
the union men to support their oppo-
nents.
The attorney general has prepared
an opinion holding that the general
eight-hour law applies to work in con-
nection with the irrigation reclama-
ton service.
George Anderson, a workman en-.
gagged in clearing land at Central park,
near Vancouver, B. c., was killed by
q blast recently.
The bad men" are getting so bad
at San Francisco that vigilance com.
mittee Is In charge of matters.
A cigar stump left in the window Of
an opera house started a fire Saturday
which destroyed the business section
Of Bristol, Iowa.
Secretary Hitchcock says that as
soon as the renegade Uintah Ute Ind
ians, who are now in Wyoming, reach
the Crow Indian reservation the de-
partment of the interior will see that
they return to their reservation in
Utah, even il troops have to accom-.
pany them.
The Pope received Saturday at the
vatican and declares he Is in better
health.
G. W. Campbell cut his wife's throat
from ear to ear and committed suicide
in the same way at hotel in Tuelpo,
Miss.
The Southern California Veterinary
association has declared war on be-
whiskered dairymen. II 1t has its way
caretakers, mixers and milk deliver
ers in this country will have to 60
clean shaven.
Hendrickson and Thornton, the es-
capped desperadoes of the Tanana dis
trict, Alaska, were captured near Ma
ton City, below Eagle, not far from
where they escaped from the steamer
Lavelle Young, while en- route to Sc
attic.
Dissatisfied with the exciting condi.
lions in their country, Gautemalan
political refugees have applied to Pres
ident Roosevelt to bring about annex
alton Of that republic to the United
States.
The Salvation Army has rented John
Alexander Dowie's Custom road taber
nacle in London, for years his Euro
pean headquarters, and will convert 1t
into a salvation hall.
The Fulton (Ga.) county grand jury
returned indictments against 20 white
men charging them with rioting in
Atlanta on September %.
Arrangements are being made for a
visit by King Haakon Of Norway to
the Pope.
Owing, 1t Is alleged, to unpromising
investments, the Ontario bank in To-
ronto, Ont. is In difficulties. and ar
rangements have been made whereby
its assets and good will have been
taken over by the Bank of Montreal.
The strike at Lode, Russia, still con.
tinues and the police are unable to
check the disturbances which are &C.
curing hourly. Street rioting Is con-
stantly being waged.
Omaha-Count John A. Creighton,
one Of the founders Of Creighton uni.
versity has decided to that institution
two buildings in the Wholesale district
worth about $500, 900. They are leased
for long term Of years, and will pay
the university about 8 per cent net on
the investment.
It is reported that James A. Dale,
keeper of a boarding house at Carmi,
B. c., has killed two men and wound
cd third.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president of the confederate states, ia
dying Of pneumonia at the Hotel Ma
jestio in New York city.
The struggle now on between capital
and labor In Oakland, Cal. is the most
serious that city has ever known.
Plans for . II story building for
August Paulsen, the wealthy mining
man OF Wallace. Idaho, to DO erected
1t the southeast corner of Riverside
avenue and Stevens street in Spokane
are being prepared, and work will be-