Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-01
AROUND The WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH NOTES FROM
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The Italian cabinet has resigned.
The Delaware legislature failed to
elect senator and a seat is vacant
William Marconi and his bride have
arrived in New York from Liverpool.
Maurice Barrymore, the actor, died
recently at a sanitarium at Amity-
vile, L. |.
Booker T. Washington was in con-
ference with the president at the
White House recently.
The district court at Sheridan, Wyo..
refused the petition of Colonel William
F. Cody buffalo BID for a divorce.
The plant and stock of the Virginia
Carolina Chemical company at East
Rome, Ga, was entirely destroyed by
fire recently.
Mrs Elizabeth Cass Goddard, one
of the most prominent women of Col
orado. has been appointed a deputy
sheriff of Eel Paso county by Sheriff
Grimes.
The wages of nearly 1000 miners in
the field near Morristown, N. j.. were
increased 10 and Is per cent April l..
Two years ago lney were cut the same
amount.
A. c. Merriman of the Hamilton &
Merriman Lumber company of Mari
nette Wis, died at Eureka, Cal, aged
"a years. His estate is valued at
100000.
President Roosevelt recently APP
pointed General Rosser, who was the
youngest brigadier general in the con
federate army. postmaster at Char
lottesville, Va.
Peoria, Ill.-For the first time
since he was stricken with paralysis,
several weeks ago, Bishop John l..
Spalding is so much improved he ex-
poets to go to Hot Springs, Ark,
April l.
President Roosevelt has rendered
the Office of assistant secretary of the
navy to Truman II. Newberry of De-
troit and the prefer has been ac-
copied He will succeed Charles H..
Darling.
The first session of the Worlds In
ternational Railway congress ever held
in America is to take place in Wash
ington May to Is. More than 1000
delegates will attend. This body meets
once in FIVE years.
The Mormons have decided to come
back to Illinois. At the meeting of
the Illinois conference of the Mormon
church just closed in Warren county,
AZ Voc daofdad 10 fpvoda tho land of
their fathers, and three churches will
be built.
The benefit at the Metropolitan
opera house in New York city for
Joseph Holland, the actor, who on
account of illness, probably will never
be able to appear on the stage again,
netted $4,000.
At recent meeting of the Denver,
Colo, Smeltermen's union the strike
in the Globe and Grant smelters was
declared off by unanimous consent.
The passage of the eight hour law
recently by the legislature influenced
the action.
1t is announced from Caracas that
President Castro has replied to Min
lister Bowen's final proposal for arbi-
tration, denying that Venezuela has
questions pending with the United
States and saying the case of the
New York & Bermuda Asphalt com
pany must remain in the courts.
A decree of New York lower court
awarding John G. Carlisle former sec
rotary of the treasury, $25. 4SO for pro-
fessional services in connection with
a contest against the constitutionality
of the laws under which duties were
levied on goods imported from Porto
Rico. has been affirmed by the appel
late division of the supreme court
Abigail Becker, famed in song and
story in Canada. is dead at her home
at Walsingham Center. Unaided, she
saved the crew of the schooner Con
ductor, wrecked at Longpoint, on Lake
Erie. in November, 1858. For her
bravery the government gave her a
farm, Buffalo shipowners $1,000 and the
New York Lifesaving association a
gold medal.