Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-07-08
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
4 Review OF Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The interested eyes of 100000 en-
thusiastic Epworth Leaguers are turn
ed upon Denver, Col, this week for the
seventh annual international conyen-
tion of the Epworth League was call
ed to order Wednesday, and the ensu
ing proceedings will be the theme of
conversation in Methodist homes all
over the land.
There are persistent rumors current
in Washington that the unexpected
General Leonard A. Wood is due to
the fact that he is obliged to undergo
a serious surgical operation. 1t is
said that he has had some trouble
with his head which necessitated his
return from the Philippines to consult
specialists.
Mrs. Augusta Chaplin, one of the
best known woman's rights agitators
in the country, is dead from pneu-
monia in hospital at New York. She
was SO years old, and had been i'll.
Charles Il. treat of New York has
succeeded Ellis II. Roberts as treasur-
er of the United States. Mr.. Roberts,
who had held the position for eight
years, has left for Utica, N. Y, where
ne will make his home.
oyster Bay, l.. Henry Seymour
OF Vantage l.. l., unarmed and APP
parently harmless, was arrested at
Sycamore Hill while making repeated
and persistent efforts to see President
Roosevelt He was released on prom
Use to leave town at once.
1t is believed in official circles Hay
will be succeeded by Joseph II. Choate.
Society has now a rare bit of gos-
sip in the rumored intention of Lieu
tenant General Nelson A. Miles, u. S.
A., retired, to lead to the altar the
blooming widow Of Philadelphia's ia
nous DR.. Huidekoper.
One of the tallest buildings in the
world is to be erected on the site OF
Or. Parkhurst's Madison Squire Pres
byterian church, New York, by the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company
John Deeny. 19 years of age, messen
ger, while returning from the bank
with $500 in a wallet was held up al
Chicago by man who threw red pep
per in his eyes and grabbed the money
and escaped.
The st. Petersburg police have dis
! covered eight completed and % hal
completed bombs and so cannisters o.
explosives in a house occupied by {
government employe in the village o
t Vera near TsarskoSelo.
ST. Petersburg.-Th resignation o
> Minister of the Interior Bouligan is re
garded as impending. He probably will
I be succeeded by Count Ignatieff, form
t erly governor of Kieff.
C More than $50 policemen, under tn
personal direction of Director of Pull
t lie Safety Potter and aided by agent
S of the law and order society, recent
S raided numerous houses of i'll reput
: and other disorderly places, maxim
S 500 arrests.
d Santiago, Chile.-Tenders will b
b made November Is for the building {
p railway from africa to Lapaz, Bolivii
Chile will give a per cent guarantee
during a period of 20 years, and a d.
post of $4,000 will be made to TAX
J part of the tenders.
+ Three soldiers of Company ]
a Eleventh infantry, while rowing O
l. Sloan's lake, some miles north of CHI
s yenne, were drowned owing to ii
boat leaking.
3 Admiral Sigsbee's squadron, wit
IS the body of John Paul Jones, expec
20 to leave France July 8 and to arriN
r off the Virginia capes on July %.
u Disastrous floods in the neighbo
hood of Valdez, Alaska, are reporte
Il in special cable advices received tOda
II from the north by Major Glassfor
II There has been no loss of life, but
'e cabins were swept away and fully
Is mile of telegraph poles washed on
&c There are continuous disorders
Borisoff, Russia and adjacent COUNT
d district, and scarcely a night pass
70 without shooting ARRAYS.
ID At bingham, Mass, Commander
y Chief w. w. Blackmar of the Graz
le Army of the Republic is i'll at his SUI
~ mer home.
King Oscar has relieved C. Hagu
secretary of the legation of Swed'
and Norway at Washington. of b
functions at the legation. Mr.. Hagl
is a Norwegian.
Cherbourg.-1ne municipality
Cherbourg has arranged an elabora
program in honor of the Americi
aeet. consisting of concerts, illumir
tons and receptions.
1t was suggested recently by t
delegates to the convention Of the
dustrial union that May l be made
Dor day instead of the first Mond
in September.