Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-02-01
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-Natonal,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The Central hotel at Pontiac, H.,
caught fire and was destroyed recently.
The Imperial Bank of Germany has
reduced its discount rate from 615 per
cent to 6 per cent.
The National hotel at San Rafael,
Cal, was held up recently by an armed
man and Constable Edwards was shot
in the neck and and seriously
wounded.
An explosion in a heating stove
started fire at Madison, ILL.,, that de-
stroyed the greater part of two city
blocks in the heart of the business sec
ton recently.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York has
asked for the resignation of Magis-
trate Otto H. Droege, following a
scandal as to conditions in the court
over which he presides.
That freight traffic conditions are
recovering from the financial strin-
gency is the statement of several
traffic managers and other high rail
way officials at Chicago.
The cruiser Washington of Read AID
miral Dayton's squadron arrived in
Frisco from Magdalena bay on the
28th.
The police of Rio Janeiro have gath
cred up six sailors from the American
battleships who had either deserted or
failed to return on board before their
vessels sailed from there.
Petitions in bankruptcy have been
filed against the Cream City Park
Amusement company of Chicago by
creditors of the concern.
James Stillman, president of the Ma
tional City bank of New York, has re-
signed from the directorate and also
from the executive committees of the
Union and Southern Pacific.
George w. Wilson, a furniture clerk.
was arrested at Los Angeles recently
on an indictment returned three years
ago by the grand jury in Buffalo, New
York, charging him with DESERVING his
wife's child, which is felony under
the New York statute.
r H. S. Massingham of Mandon, n. d.
! has been arrested at Billings on a
? charge of forgery, it being alleged that
Massingham cashed checks in Billings
drawn on Mandan banks, in which lie
= had no account. On advices from Man
/ dan, Massingham was taken into Gus
f tody.
The first shipment through the Sa
bine lake canal, the last cut in which
was made by the government recently
q was of export lumber for England by
a lumber company of Orange, Texas
O Congress has expended $536,300 OF
r this canal. 1t is 10 miles long, connect
ing the Sabine and Neches rivers
k Dredging began January II, 1906.
v Congressman Hobson of Alabam;
declares that President Roosevelt. il
s with him heart and soul for a grea
o naval establishment.
Fred Elmore, aged IL years, wa
l. drowned at Grand Forks, b. c., re
Gently while skating.
Viscount Aoki, ex-ambassador t,
. Washington, has arrived home.
n H. R. Schade died suddenly at tn
! national capital recently He was
? son of the late attorney and statisti
clan, Col Louis Schade, and was him
y self a lawyer and journalist
g The mysterious disappearance o
l. Alec Latham, former chauffeur 70
o Ruef and an important witness for tn
( prosecution in the coming graft trials
is still unsolved at Frisco.
= Coming from Guaymas to Portland
the British steamer ST. Hugo ra
II through great schools of whales.
\ Leslie Shaw expects to be cand
v date for the republican presidentis
IS nomination if he can get the low
8 delegation.
Miss Eunice letters, who is to MARI
D. Edward r. Taylor, mayor of San Fral
cisco, is one of that city's best know
st charity workers.
lie The meat trust cinch is one thini
III at least, that has not been affected b
5 money stringency.
Jack London and his wife have a
. rived in Frisco on the steamer Mar
- posa from Tahiti.
sc Henrietta NJ. johnson was run dow
ut and killed Sunday at Seattle by a
of automobile driven by Guy c. Strattol
secretary of the Acme Single cor
as pany J. f. Ives, vice president of tn
o. Stimson Mill company, who was in II
IL automobile, and Mr.. Stratton, gay
90 $500 bail. The girl was crossing II
street on her way home from Sunda
10 school.
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