Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-03-30
news Of The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.

During the Past Week-National
Historical. Political and Personal
Events.
Harry Thaw's lawyers believe him
sane.
II. Clay Ewing. who was attorney
general of Missouri from 1872 to 1874.
is dead.
-. l.. Lawshe has been appointed
third assistant postmaster general to
succeed Edwin c. Madden, resigned.
The Chicago Orchestral association
has been given $4,000 by Mrs. Flor
ence Lathrop Page of Washington.
D. c.
Edward A. Slack, receiver of the
land Office, well known newspaper
man and a pioneer of Wyoming, is
dead.
The navy department has ordered
the equipment of the United States
ship San Francisco as a mine laying
vessel.
George ]. Woodruff of the forestry
service has been appointed assistant
attorney general to succeed Frank l..
Campbell.
Mrs John Comeau and three chill
dren were frozen to death in a snow
drift at st. Simon, N. b., during the
recent blizzard.
The 18th annual meeting of the
Trans-Mississipp Commercial con-
gress will be held at Muskegee, 1. T.,
November 10 to %.
Ward M Synder, son of a Pittsburg
millionaire, has been indicted at Sap
ulpa, l. T., by the grand jury on the
charge of bigamy.
Officials of the Pennsylvania rail.
road are satisfied that robbery was the
motive for wreclSing the Chicago lin
tied near Stewart, Pa.
A statement of the business of ~
general land Office shows material
increase in the number of entries,
filings and selections made.
Fire at Ironton, o., caused 100000
loss in two hours. The entire plant
of the Ironton Lumber company and
nine residences were destroyed.
The government will enter on a
thorough prosecution of all men iii
GIcted for fraudulent dealings in Goa
and agricultural lands in Nebraska.
The French committee on hygiene
has reported favorably on the prohi
bition of the manufacture and sale
of absinthe, after one and two years
respectively.
James W. Van Cleave of ST. Louis
is in Boston agitating the formation
Of a gigantic employers organization
on the plan of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Secretary Taft has recOnsidered hi
decision OF an earlier date in regarC
to the eight hour law, saying it does
lot apply to cooks, captains, decl
hands and pilots.
The steamship Northwest, formerl.
the Orizaba of the Ward line on tn
Atlantic, lies a wreck on the sout
end of La Touche island on the south
western coast of Alaska.
AT North Baltimore, Ohio, Arthu
2 Bean killed his wife with an AK an
3 then committed suicide by shootin
himself. Bean had forbidden his wifi
( visiting her family.
= A fire which started in the boile
4 room of the Bluff City Lumber con
pany at Pine Bluff, Ark, destroye
: several residences and the plant Tn
less will exceed 100000.
President Roosevelt has espresso
his disapproval of the verdict of a
- Quittal Of Captain Lewis NJ Koehle
!, of the Fourth cavalry, U. S. A., con
u mander at Jolo, Philippine islands.
v According to the weather burea
= Friday was the hottest March da
g. ever experienced in Washington,
:. c., the thermometer registering 80
a. grees at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
= The rehearsal OF the closing e
# ercises at a country school house we
Of Carmi, ILL.,, ended in a tragedy al
q the arrest Of a farmer for the mu
y der of a man who had been his frier
10 and neighbor for years.
, Major c. w. Penrose of the Invent
q fifth infantry has been acquitted of Il
charge of neglect of duty prefers
- against him at the instance of Pre-
~ dent Roosevelt for alleged miscondu
in connection with the shooting u
= of Brownsville, Texas, by negro 81
10 d:ers of the Twenty-ifth infantry, la
=. August
70 Sacramento, Cal.-Because his
10 tie granddaughter, Ellen Gum,
III fused to sing a second song to hi
Monico Echeverria shot her in t
left side and then fired at his daugl
er, Mrs. Cato and Miss McKenna
C fore sending a bullet into his oV
a brain. The granddaughter is not {
nj pected to live.
ne Secretary of War Taft has reco
IN mended mitigation of sentence of c;
ar tain Will Cochran, Twenty-fouI
tI- infantry, who was convicted in
Philippines of drunkenness and 81
fenced to dismissal The secretar
N action is based on evidence of the
II ficers splendid record. 1t is ind
stood the president will approve I
secretary's recommendations.
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