Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-02-25
AROUND THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH NOTES FROM
ALL POINTS OF HEMISPHERE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Six men were killed and IA injured
at the Lytel colliery, near Pottsville,
Pa, recently.
The house Of congress has passed
the pensions appropriation bill carry
ing $13s.25O, 700.
Several attacks have been made on
Governor White and Governor-elect
Dawson of West Virginia.
AS the author of Ben Hur" the late
General Lew Wallace was known in
practically every country of the globe.
At Charlottesville, Ind, the funeral
of General Lew Wallace last Satur-
day was private, in accordance with
his expressed wishes.
Smelling at the new plant of the
Sullivan Group Mining company. at
Marysville. B. c., should start with the
first furnace about March l.
Word from Warsaw, Russian Poland,
states that in that city hundreds of
prisoners, mostly strikers and revolu-
tionists, are daily executed.
Funds with which to prosecute the
inquiry into the methods of the Stan
dard Oil company was asked of the
house recently by the secretary Of
commerce and labor.
In diplomatic circles at St. Peters
burg, the opinion is quite generally
expressed that the recent tragedy may
be followed by the decision of the gov
eminent to conclude peace.
The empress of Russia has received
A.. n a
piteously appealing to her as a wo-
man and a mother to use her influ-
ence with the emperor to secure peace.
The professors who gave their ser
vices free to the st. Petersburg uni
versities by a vote of III to 2 decided
not to resume their duties until fall
unless the present demands are grant
ed.
Investigation of special dispatches
sent from Arizona points detailing
depredations and massacres by Yaqui
Indians in the state of Sonora. Mex
leo, fails to develop any foundation
for these stories.
Five persons we're burned to death
in a dwelling house at Howebrook
b
Mo. The dead: Mrs. John Chorey and
daughter. Mrs. Sampel Antworth and
two daughters.
The Arizona Rangers have present
ed Governor Brodie the finest saddle
they could buy. The governor, who
leaves for the east soon, will present
the saddle to President Roosevelt with
nj fr1a 90 - ttfhn
are mostly former rough riders.
One of the most audacious of the
many recent robberies in New York
occurred in the Bronx. when a high
wayman attacked Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Cornish in front of their home
snatched $4,000 diamond brooch from
Mrs. Cornish's throat, and escaped.
The German consul at Chefoo states
that the taotai has ELECTED a confes-
sion from two members of the crew
of a junk that the German and the
French naval attaches. Guggenheim
and Cuverville. were murdered for rob
berry and their bodies thrown over
board
Harry Silverberg. alias a score of
other names, has been arrested in New
York by Central Office men. His ar
rest was in connection with a swim
ding operation which was to have
reached its climax on Monday, when
the prisoner was to receive $4,000
from one of his alleged dupes.
Twelve men have been held up by
six armed robbers at the office Of Max
Mildenberg, proprietor of the electric
light, oil and gasoline delivery at Chi
cago The highwaymen fired several
shots as they entered. wOunding two
persons. They knocked another I'M
conscious with blow from a revolver.
They then took more than $500 and
escaped.
1t is difficult for an American to
imagine the conditions under which
the people of Russia who do not hap
pen to be of the official class or mem.
bers of the Romanoff family are com
PEELED to live. They are in constant
danger of molestation from the secret
police, either for purposes of black
mail, revenge or because of some sus-
picious action which might be con-
strued as seditious.
Togal Noren of Rossland won the
championship of Canada in both ski
events in Rossland, B. c.. in connec-
tion with the eighth Rossland winter
carnival. The ski run from the sum
NIT Of Monte Cristo mountain to Co
lumbia avenue beat all previous rec
ords. In the flying jump on Monte
Cristo mountain. made on a specially
constructed course, Noren jumped 81
feet without losing his balance.