Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-08-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Thomas Caldwell. president of the
Caldwell Lawnmower company and an
inventor of note. is dead at his home
in Newburgh, n. Y.
Emperor William visited King
Christian last Monday. and stayed for
three days at Bernstorff castle. the
summer residence of the king.
An unknown negro who attempted
to assault two white women was
lynched near the town of Avery. Tex.
by a mob of several hundred men.
Cinnamon throughout the world
have been banded together for the
purpose Of raising a fund to fight the
Chinese exclusion law Of the United
States.
1t is rumored in railway circles that
James ~ Hill, eldest son of James
j. Hill, will become first vice president
of the Northern Pacific railway. to
succeed Daniel S. Lamont
The bakers strike at Warsaw. in
which rs bakeries are involved. is the
cause almost daily of murders and
other excuses. The police appear to
be powerless to ascertain the perpe-
traitors of the crimes.
Revolvers and black jacks in the
hands of police officers figured in
special meeting of the city council at
Springfield, Ill. Alderman Hay, repub-
lican leader in the council, was knock
ed down by a policeman.
Through the dismissal of proceed
ings in the district court, Miss Edna
Dickerson, a Chicago stenographer,
came into undisputed possession of
the estate of Albert Johnson, the de-
ceased Minneapolis millionaire.
News has been received at Berlin
from Coburg that Emperor Nicholas
has refused his permission to Grand
Duke Cyril, his cousin, to marry the
divorced grand duchess of Hesse,
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg ana
Gotha.
Every resource of the Detroit police
is being used to find the men who
murdered and robbed Joseph Meyer
in his pawnshop. The murderers got
about $500 in money and $1,000 worth
of jewelry A reward of $1,000 was
offered.
President Roosevelt has designated
August 2S as the date of drawing for
nearly 10000 homesteads in the Tin
tab Indian reservation, and already
the early arrivals are en- route to this
new land of opportunity for the home
seeker.
James tombstone, president of the
Nelson, B. c. Agricultural association
has presented a silver cup valued at
500 for the district which makes the
best exhibit of fruit and vegetables
at the Nelson fall fair which occurs
on September 20, q and %.
Victoria, B. C.-The charge that
George ID. Collins, accused of perjury
at San Francisco and fighting vigor-
ously against extradition, had tam
pered with a witness, A. ]. Henry, no
tary public of San Francisco, may yet
be investigated, although Judge Lamp
man has not taken cognizance of the
matter.
The British government is still in
complete ignorance as to the motives
for Emperor Williams recent maneu
vers with the Car, but is assured that
his efforts ultimately will be directed
toward a readjustment of the equili
brium of Europe, which was disturbed
by the removal of Russia from the
scale as a sea power.
Advices from Hakodate state the
Japanese sealing schooners Hokuse
and Koyei, last reported in May of
Oshima island, engaged in pelagi'
sealing, are long overdue and believ
ed to have been sunk by Russians a
the time other sealing schooners were
destroyed. There were four Cana
dams and one Norwegian hunter from
the Pacific coast on the Hokusei.
James Travis, 70 years old, has sail
ed from New York for his home il
New Zealand having established hi
identity to the satisfaction of rela
tives whom he had not seen for NOR
than 60 years. Travis came back t
his old home a few weeks ago seeking
the recovery of an inheritance of s35
600, which had been held by the stat
treasurer for his benefit for about
quarter of a century.