Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-05-09
news OF The WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH items FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere res
During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

James Mills, for more than 30 years
an editorial writer on the Plttsburg
Post, is dead.
H. l.. Whaley, salesman of New
York has been arrested charged
with having presented at bank for
deposit city warrant, which, it is
alleged, had been raised from SO to
$685.. 900.
After consultation between the
officials Of the navy department and
Admiral Sands, superintendent of the
naval academy, the fate of 30 mid.
shipmen has been settled. They will
not be expelled.
The battleship Rhode Island re-
Gently went on sand bar off York
spit. in Chesapeake bay.
Professor Eugene Renevier the
scientist. was killed at Lucerne re.
Gently in an ELEVATOR accident.
The Chinese government has given
notice that it will open certain Man
churian ports and interior cities to
the worlds trade only after it has
completed the preparation of regula.
tions for the government of foreign
colonies there.
In battle at Passaic, N. j., between
riotous Italian strikers and police four
rioters we're shot and a number OF
policemen injured. One man may die.
Thirty-two men were made prisoners
by the police.
George H. Walker, treasurer of the
Gridiron club, died in Washington as
the result of a second stroke of para
lysis.
August Braun, citizen OF Cincin.
natl, committed suicide yesterday by
jumping from the Eiffel tower in
Paris while deranged.
Elizabeth Gates, ia years old, said
to be the Oldest person in the state Of
Georgia, died recently at Brunswick
She had been married three times and
leaves four children, 23 grandchildren
and 19 great grandchildren.
After the fight at Kaplan, near
Uskub. recently, between Turkish
troops and band of Bulgarians. in
which three Turks and two Bull
garians were killed and several Turks
wounded, the troops were reinforced
and pursued the band, and exterminat.
ed it.
According to report, A. N. Dague
rre, secretary OF the Mexican district
Of Bravos, Mex. is going to send
commission to San Francisco to look
into the needs of her citizens there
1t is officially announced in st.
Petersburg that Maxim Gorky will be
prosecuted on the charge Of fomenting
an anti-Russian and revolutionary
abroad.
The executive council of the Ameri.
can Federation Of Labor has given its
Endorsement to strike among 5000
agricultural laborers In the Aricaibo
district. Porto Rico.
The mysterious disappearance of
Miss Bertha Muenter, sister of Pro.
fessor Erich Muenter of Harvard who
Is charged with poisoning his wiz
has been solved. The young woman
was located at the home OF his sister,
Mrs. Farmer. in Chicago.
Henry G. Coll. formerly cashier OF
the First National bank. at Milwaukee,
indicted for misapplying funds, has
been sentenced to 10 years at Fort
Leavenworth prison.
Acting secretary Oliver has sent out
a circular letter to the governors of
the various states having organized
militia forces inviting them to have
some part Of these troops go into
summer camps with the troops of the
regular army.
Two Cinnamon, Yen Hing and Fab
Chow, have been murdered near
Lillooet. B. c. Robbery was probably
the motive for the murder.
The latest date set for opening the
banks in San Francisco is June /.