Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events

The Woods National bank has sus-
pended at San Antonio, Texas.
Silas Reid has been appointed judge
of the district court of Alaska.
Engineer Thomas Hancock and Fire
man Claude r. Mcdonald were as
phyxiated by gas from their engine in
the Busk tunnel, nine miles west OF
Leadville. Col.
The directors of the Bank of Eng
land have put up the minimum dis
count rate from to per cent
4 At Los Angeles, Cal, Judge Oiin
Wellborn, in the United States court, |
recently fined the Atkinson. Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad company $4,000
for rebating
Observation-Disclosures of State Jonk- |
heer Van Panhuys, his son, mayor of
De Leek, and wives, were drowned re-
Gently while out driving, their carriage
falling into the canal Hoogvhork dur
ing a dense fog.
Four persons are said to have been
burned to death and six others are mis-
sing and may have lost their lives in
fire in Chicago Saturday.
A seat on the New York stock ex-
change was sold Monday for 100000,
the lowest price recorded since 1904,
when seat was disposed of for $751;
600.
Rear Admiral Henry w. Lyon was
retired from the navy Monday on &C
count of reaching the age limit
In a pistol duel at Reno, New, Police
man Charles Brown was shot and pro
ably fatally wounded by trio of thugs.
Before he was shot Brown killed one
of his assailants, and Archie Burrie,
an employe of the Southern Pacific,
was shot in the side
Mr.. and Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt
p Jr., have an heir. The baby is boy.
He will inherit fully $4,000, 900 from
his fathers side of the house, and per-
haps twice as much from his mother,
who was Miss Virginia Fair.
More than 500 men are now engaged
in construction work on the Rexforc
branch, between Fernie and Michel,
b. G.
Emperor William will see Secretary
Taft at Osborne house, Isle of Wight,
during the formers visit to England.
At Baltimore, Md, recently Mrs.
Cornelia McKelvie twisted a United
States flag into a rope and with it
committed suicide by hanging herself
to door.
At Muncie. Ind, the four-story build
ing occupied by the Joseph Goddard
wholesale grocery store and covering
a quarter of a block, burned recently
Loss 100000.
The Roman Catholic church at Lon
que Point, probably the oldest church
in the province of Quebec, was des
troyed by fire recently. The loss was
SIS, 5000, with $4,000 insurance.
Lumber is the only industry of east
ern British Columbia whose condition
is not satisfactory. The mines are
working a greater number of men and
with the rise in the price of copper
- and the expected rise in the price o
lead and silver, more properties are
yet opening.
Advices from Rome say that Pop
Plus is suffering from an attack o
heart trouble.
A hurricane swept over Marseille
recently. causing immense damage t
docks and waterfront property.
A self-propelling steam passenge
coach, the first to be operated in tn
United States, is to be put in servic
this week on a branch of the Roc
Island railroad. The car has made
trial trip from Chicago to Joliet an
return. A speed of from 40 to so mile
an hour was maintained over a create
part of the route.
Professor Joseph H. Drake of tn
law department of the University {
Michigan startled his class recently
declaring that he would favor electin
Roosevelt king of his country. TIL
students at first took the statement q
a joke, but it was reiterated. and Pr
fessor Drake asserted that it was gi
en- with all seriousness and sincerit
At a monster open air demonstr
ton in New York General Boot
founder of the Salvation Army. VII
has since sailed for Europe, babe h
soldiers in this country and the Anne
lean people generally farewell Satu
day.
BY the arrest of Haynes Wimber
and Otis Mayes detectives have fru
~ trated a plan to flood Ell Paso, Texa
with forged clearing house certificate