Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-21
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.

Every church in Chicago has a city
fireman within its doors Sunday at
the time of worship.
Robbers broke into the postof1ice at
Rawhide, Wyo., recently, and carried
away so registered letters.
The Pacific Coast Fire Chiefs asso-
citation will hold the next annual con
vention at Victoria, B. c., September
%, 20, 30 and October l.
AS the direct result of raids by
night riders in various parts of Ken
lucky, rewards aggregating $4,000
have been offered for the arrest of the
culprits.
Through the financial crisis in the
United States the glove industry in
the Err mountain districts in Austria
has been temporarily destroyed All
the factories have been shut down.
The Andover Theological seminary
one of the Oldest theological schools
in the country, will be removed to
Cambridge next fall and become affiH
ated with the Harvard divinity school
A. M. johnson, detective of Boise,
Idaho has put in a claim for the $780,
900 reward offered for the arrest and
conviction of the murderer of former
Governor Frank Steunenberg. He says
Gerhard was arrested by him.
The senate has passed bill by which
900, 900 acres of arid land belonging
to the public domain will be turned
Il 80 a.. 1,l.x s..
under the Carey act.
At Woonsocket, r. l., the Alice rub
Der shoe mill and the Millville rubber
boot mill of the United States Rubber
company have closed for an indefinite
period. About 1900 employees are af
fected
Secretary Metcalf has sent letter
of commentator to Lawrence Sulli-
van, boatswain's mate on the May
flower, for his gallantry in rescuing an
ordinary seaman, l.. s. Barber, from
drowning.
immigration statistics compiled by
steamship companies show that the
tide of alien arrivals in this country
still remains at low ebb, while the re-
turn of foreigners to Europe continues
in unusual numbers.
The amount stolen from the reserve
box of the Utah National bank last
January was $106,250, according to an
official statement issued today, not
$4,000 as given out by the president
when the robbery was discovered.
A ord-breaking bill in the anti
gambling line prohibiting gambling
on anything from a horse race to "fu-
lures" even to making illegal tele-
graphic communications on such mat
ters, was introduced in the house Mon.
day by Representative Campbell of
Kansas
The United States cruiser Mil
waukee of Admiral Swinburn's squad
ron, has returned to Frisco from tar
get practice at the bay, and has
brought word of daring robbery on
board during her stay in the south
when the sum of $500 in gold was
taken from the paymasters room by
some person doing duty on the
cruiser.
After two days of stubbornly con
tested play the tenth international
cable chess match ended Saturday
night in a victory for the American
players, who secured 515 points on
of possible 10 by winning three
games, drawing five, while two games
are held in allegiance pending adjudi
cation by Referee Baron Albert d.
Rothschild of Vienna. Sir Georg'
Newness' trophy, which was held b.
Great Britain last year, now become
the prize of America.