Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-08-12


Events.
Peace or war is the all important
question of the hour at st. Petersburg
Mrs. Mary J. Carlisle. wife of for
mer Secretary of the Treasury Car
Isle, is dead
Judge Andrew Leamy of the county
court at Grand Forks, b. c.. is dead.
The cause of his death was Bright's
disease.
John Mueller, who slashed his wife
and two cnndren to death and then
attempted suicide at Chicago, has been
sentenced to be hanged.
The National Lead company has
fled a certificate in the office of the
secretary of state at Trenton, N. j.,
increasing its capital to $5O.000,OO0.
That too much free transportation
has been given to secure freight and
the executive officers of western rail
roads
l.. NJ. Hayden. the Rossland, B. c.,
superintendent of the Kootenay Power
and Light company, was electrocuted
recently while repairing some wires
on top of a pole.
Members of Amalgamated lodges at
the mills of the Carnegie company.
where a strike has been on for over
year, recently took a vote deciding
to call the strike off
NJ. Karostovez, NJ. Whites chief aid,
has issued a formal statement declar-
ing that whatever decision is arrived
at by White, will be binding and con
sidered SO by the czar.
A school teacher. Kulikovsky who
on July II shot and killed Major Gen
eral Count Shuvaloff, project Of the
Moscow police, has been sentenced to
death by a court martial.
Robert Criswell the Town Topics
man who was sued by Congressman
Rhinock of Kentucky for libeling Miss
Alice Roosevelt, was decapitated by a
subway train in New York city.
The cable ship Colonia has sailed
with 240O miles of cable to lay the
Commercial Cable company's line from
Waterville, Ireland, to Canso, N. S.
and thence to Newfoundland.
A disastrous fire swept through this
business section of Winnemucca, New.
recently, burning 10 business houses
and inhicting damage variously esti
mated from $4,000 to 100000.
Creditors of Mrs. Cassie l.. Chad
Il 4 =,
about seven mills on the dollar wher
the matter is finally settled. Net as
sets will amount to about $4,000
A movement having for its obiec
an adequate commemoration in New
York of the 2O0th anniversary of thu
birth of Benjamin Franklin next Jan
uary has been inaugurated amoni
various societies of New York.
DR.. W. c. Tilden, at one time chic
chemist in the army medical museum
attached to the surgeon generals OF
J ice, is dead. 1t was he who discoy
cred the poison in the bouquet sent t.
Guiteau the day before his execution
The body of Dudley f. Chambers
treasurer and general manager of tn
Southwestern Oil and Gas company
has been found floating in a tank o
} oil on the Bernhard lease, six and
half miles east of Chanute, Kan. H
became asphyxiated.
Four officers of the police force sen
fusilade of shots after two robber
who had stolen goods valued at abou
$500 from a baggage car in Chicago
The thieves escaped with their booty
but three innocent persons were sho
by the officers, none seriously, how
ever
"Sister Elizabeth wants transports
tion" was the code message fiashe
over the wires to every district chaii
man of the Order of Railway Teles
! raphers by President Perham at s.
Paul. when the officials of the orde
decided upon the strike now in pre-
! gress.
g The correspondence Of the Londo
: Times relating to the British eXper
ment of promoting cotton cultivatio
in West Africa indicates that there
very little prospect of obtainin
z enough of this material from tina
d quarter to have any perceptible effeC
upon the market, at least for a Ion
= time to come.