Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-05-23
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.

At Kansas City 500 brewery workers
employed at the different breweries
are on strike for more pay.
The senate has passed the southern
Appalachian and White mountain for
est reserve bill.
Secretary Taft when he returns to
Washington. will make a full report
to the president of his conference with
the Panama officials.
President Roosevelt has accepted
the presidency of the International
Congress of tuberculosis, which will
be held at the national capital in the
autumn.
Residents of Evanston, ILL.,, were
startled recently when it became
known that Mrs. James A. Patton,
wife of the grain magnate, and herself
leader in club and society life in the
suburb, had been swindled out of $780,
600 by canvasser
Read Admiral Charles Whiteside
Rae. engineer in charge of the navy
and chief of the bureau of steam navi-
cation of the navy department, died at
Washington recently.
In case w. j. Bryan receives the
democratic nomination, his daughter,
Mrs. Ruth Bryan-Leavitt, will take the
stump in Colorado, Wyoming and sew
eral other western states and will cam
paign for her fathers interests.
Michael Mulcahy, the last survivor
of the three aides who accompanied
General Phil Sheridan ON his famous
ride to Winchester, died recently in
Cleveland, Ohio.
A decree of absolute divorce in ia
vor of Fritizi Scheff, the actress, has
been signed. Miss Scheff was mar
ried to Baron Won Badeleben in 1903
The great sundry civil appropriation
bill, carrying total of about $120,000,-
600, has passed the senate.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway company will operate entirely
its own telegraph lines from one end
of its system of 10000 miles to the
other.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for a
memorial to Abraham Lincoln on the
site of the Lincoln birthplace in Ken
lucky has passed the senate.
Colonel Sam Parker, his son in law,
Prince David of Hawaii, and John
Baker have arrived at Frisco from
Honolulu. They have come to hunt
bear in Washington and Oregon.
The senate has passed a bill giving
to owners of letters patent right to
recover reasonable compensation
when their patents are used by the
authority.
Rear Admiral George A. Bicknell
has been placed on the retired list of
the navy after 40 years of active
service.
w. j. Arkell, well known in Reno,
New. and once a prominent stock
broker at Manhattan, New, is bank
rupt His liabilities are $279,O4O.
Directors of the Standard Oil COM
pany Saturday declared a quarterly
dividend of 50 per share.
The health of former President
Grover Cleveland is improving very
slowly
The keels of two monster battleships
larger than any now in existence will
be laid at the Japanese shipyards in
June, probably at Kure and Yokosuta.
Each vessel will be over $4,000 tons.
The old plant of the Omaha Packing
company South Omaha, was destroyed
by fire recently together with three
million pounds of meat, involving a
loss of $500,O0O
A resolution denouncing the use of
whiskey in the medical profession has
been adopted by the West Virginia
Medical association.
Ulmer Green, a prominent orchard
list. and Howard Cook. formerly en-
ployed by him, killed one another in
a pistol duel recently on Greens
ranch near Freeport, u miles from
Sacramento, Cal.
The Minneapolis Storage company S
central warehouse on First street
north, was destroyed by fire recently
Loss 100000.
Prince Helie de Sagan, Madame
Gould and the latters children are
now in Paris.
At San Francisco Joe Cans, the
lightweight champion, added another
victory TO his long string by defeating
Rudolph Unholz. the rugged Boer from
South Africa, in the eleventh round
recently. The fight was Cans all the
way through