Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-02-24
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

A son has been born to Prince
Chun, the Chinese emperor's brother.
Karl Joubert, the well known writer
on Russian subjects, died in London
recently.
A plan is on foot to buy the Abra-
ham Lincoln homestead and convert
it into a national park.
Horace A. Taylor. assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, has rendered to
the president his resignation.
Sir William Joseph Greene. who
came to Denver five years ago from
Boston, seeking health, is dead
Two prolonged and severe earth
quake shocks were felt at Roseau,
Island of Dominica. B. w. l., recently.
James w. Alexander, former presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, is seriously i'll in New York.
Pat Grove is now a prisoner in the
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Jail, and will be
arraigned on the charge of streetcar
robbery.
The shipping companies at Fiume,
Hungary, have yielded to the demands
of the strikers and work has been re
sumed in all trades.
Nearly 5000 Americans, men. WON
en- and children, are in peril of death
at the hands of Chinese mobs in the
threatened Boxer uprising.
The state department has received
cablegram from. Shanghai, China,
saying that the conditions in that city
are not such as to cause any alarm.
The American consul at Fort de
France, Martinique, reports an earth.
quake recently, the most terrific in
GA years. Little damage was done.
An urgent writ has been served on
| Count Boni de Castellane, making hin
defendant in the separation proceed
ings of his wife, formerly. Anna Gould
l.. S. Montague. son Of Sir Samue
Montague, the well known Londor
banker, will be the liberal candidate
for the city of London against former
Premier Balfour.
The city of Boston officially cele
brated the Longworth- Roosevelt wed
ling Saturday, the mayor ordering al
bells in the city to ring Is minutes
beginning at noon.
Morris Caplin. who operates al
auction business in Denver, was muir
dered in the dining room of his hom'
by a masked man, who entered 70
he purpose of robbery.
Lord de Clifford of London was mar
ried February 10 at st. Margaret
church, Westminster, to Eva earring
ton. who is now playing a small par
n "Bluebell in Fairyland."
Governor Dineen of Illinois has re
ferred to the state board of pardon
he petition of Johann Hoch for
+ communication Of sentence. He is ser
fenced to hang February %.
The Iowa house of representative
} has passed a bill making it a misd,
2 meanor. punishable by fine and in
2 prisonment, to discharge firecracker
\ II other explosives on July 4.
2 In pursuance of his campaign fc
. the betterment of the army, Lor
I Roberts has issued a manifesto I
}, he British nation advocating this
1rill and the use of the rife be taugf
e in all public schools.
e The largest picture ever painted
! France and perhaps the world. wa
inspected by the Fine Arts commissio
q at the Gallerie des Machines. 1t
4 GAG feet square and contains moi
4 han 1000 life size figures. The pi
a lure represents the mob. after the tai
/. ing of the Bastile, marching with Il
!. fayette to the Hotel de Vile. It
!. the work of NJ. George Roussel