Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-09-07
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES 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.


ate at Hakodate reports that the loss
from the recent confagration was
$4,000 900. Fifteen thousand houses
burned and 10000 people are homeless.
Madame Emma Games Story, the
opera singer, is now completely free
from the matrimonial bonds which
bound her to Julian Story, the artist.
The secret marriage of the young
son Of the secretary of the navy to
Mrs. Ouida Vevans, a widow ten years
his senior, at Oakland, Cal, is now
public.
President Roosevelt has announced
the appointment of August E. Menter
to be collector of internal revenue in
California; Edward F. Sweeney to be
superintendent of the mint at San
Francisco, and William Cutter to be
coiner at that mint.
Honolulu boarding house keepers
chartered a ship and sent it loaded
with Japs to British Columbia on spec
ulation. They had to advance each
Jap $25 in order to land him. The
Japs vanished and the shippers are
out $4,000 on the deal.
Commissioner Sargent has ordered
immigration officials to inform resident
Chinese who intend to visit China with
the intention of returning to the Uni
ted States, that immigration officials
will make out the return certificates
free of charge as a part of their du-
ties.
Roosevelt has given up his plan to
have Arizona and New Mexico admit
ted to joint statehood. The people
concerned wouldn't stand for it.
The ministers of La Crosse, Wis,
formed a union and united with the
central organization. They were
dropped because the brewery workers
kicked on them.
The next national Democratic con
vention may be held in Chicago. 1t is
said Folk and Johnson are to be candi
dates if Bryan decides to make race.
1t is learned from Manila that samp
les of Philippine woods, believed to be
available for making lead pencils, have
been sent to New York to be tested.
The Swiss woman who was lost in
lDC Alps ntdl LII ~
days is Nine. Schopfer. She has re
covered her senses.
Long-term convicts, burglars, Ed
ward Quinn and Harry Varmon, de
tailed as nurses in the Joliet prison
hospital, escaped recently.
Koyama the Japanese who assaulted
and wounded Lii Hung Chang at Shi
moneseki in 1895, during Japanese
peace negotiations, and who was sen
fenced to life Imprisonment, has beer
pardoned
The Ogden tabernacle choir will sins
at the Fifteenth National Irrigation
congress in Sacramento. Cal.
The so-called lumber trust is to b.
the next big corporation to he inves
tigated by the United States depart
ment of justice.
: School opened at the Washington
State Normal Wednesday.
The crew of the Hill liner MINES
ota, which arrived in Seattle Saturday
! fought fire in one of the coal bunker
nine days during the run to Seattle
l Ex-Gov Durham, of Indiana, claim
! that he was offered a bride of $4,000
S to deliver Gov. Taylor to the Ker
+ lucky authorities.
t Machinists and other workers in tn
S railroad shops of the west are rejoi'
: ing over news that the nine-hOur da
/ is to be tried on several of the large
) railroad systems.
st. Louis, Mo.-The historic Der
T farm of ABS acres outside the city lin
S it's has changed hands, the conside
alton being $4,000. The log cabil
a at one time the home of General
a S. Grant, still stands.
n After wagering that he could cate
e and hold a boar which was roamin
r about the streets of Richmond, Texa
II recently, Adam Kaulfer, a prominel
young man of that place, laid hold {
e the animal and was killed
re Miss Anna Goodyear, granddaught'
Of Charles Goodyear, is trying to pl
E. bill through congress which wi
IS make lashing a punishment for a
Is crimes.
y George Gould, Go years old, no rel
ID tive of the railroad magnate, died r
Gently from starvation and exposur
g Gould, although he died from starv
At ton, was one of New Rochelle
Is wealthiest men.
m Word from Clinton, Ill.,says judi
1t Cochran has decided that Mrs. Isab'
la Robinson Warner. stepmother
at commissioner Warner, is entitled
20 dover rights of the estate of Jol
at Warner, the commissioners fathC
She secures a life interest in s6500C
Of A million-dollar union stockyard f
Ii railway companies. The site for 4
y proposed yard is said to be at Co
j, Point, situated about ten miles wei
~
C. Farmers Combine.