Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-09-28
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.

Because Mayor Gillett and the police
commissioners dismissed an old police
constable for arresting one drunken
man in a street row between two men
and did not arrest the other, Chief
Pitchford and Sergeant Wightman, of
Nelson, B. c., have resigned, leaving
Nelson practically without a police
force.
Turner Igo of Farmers Rowan
county, Ind, is charged with the kill
ing of Governor William Goebel Of
Kentucky in an affidavit by Mrs. Lulu
Clark
A rumor is ahoat that scandal had
developed in the war department riv-
aling in many respects the postofiice
graft case.
Elk President Cleveland growing
weaker
1t is reported in New York that Tod
Sloane and Miss Julia Sanderson had
been made man and wife at the for
mer's apartments.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleve-
land, has been nominated for a fourth
term as mayor by reclamation at the
city democratic convention to oppose
Congressman Burton. the republican
nominee. In the platform adopted,
three-cent streetcar fare is put to the
fore.
The jury at Chicago found F. ]. Con
stantine guilty of the murder of Mrs.
Arthur Gentry and fixed his punish
ment at life Imprisonment
The British navy will probably re-
occupy Esquimalt naval station in the
near future
Declaring there is more money in
insuring lives than in saving souls,
ministers of Pittsburg are fOrsaking
the pulpit to engage in the life insur-
! ance business.
Rockefeller and five great chiefs of
the Standard OIL Co. have been called
to testify in the government suit to
dissolve the Standard trust.
The Japanese foreign Office has de-
cided that Ambassador Aoka shall re
main at Washington. Baron Tsudsuki
now representing Japan at the Hague
conference will succeed Ambassador
Inouye at Berlin.
The 1908 convention of the National
Association of Stationary Engineers
has been secured by Denver.
In a daylight collision on the Caojr
grade of the Santa Fe, recently five
men were killed and one fatally in
jured.
BY an explosion of gas in one of the
mines of the Lehigh and WilkesbarrC
Coal Co. at South Wilkesbarre recent
lily. three men were killed and five in
Ijured.
Vast expenditures are being made
by the Great Northern in the improve
ment of it's passenger service.
At Wilseishaven, Germany, five mel
were killed and four men and TIVE
women were injured through the eN
plosion recently of a sharpnel shell
while a quantity of ammunition wa
being unloaded in the artillery depot
AS the result of the refusal of bus
ness men of Helena to discontinue tn
use of the telephones, pending settle
ment of the Rocky Mountain Telt
phone company's strike. the Helen
Labor assembly, affiliated with tn
American Federation of Labor, has de
cided to call a general strike.
The Norwegian steamer Tellus, Coz
laden from Nanaimo. B. c., to Por
land, went ashore on North Spit, a
the entrance to Craps Harbor and sh
broke in two and with her cargo wi
be a total wreck. The Tellus carrie
nearly 1000 tons of coal, valued g
about $4,000.