Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-11-28
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS Of The GLOBE.
\ Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events-

The pope has almost entirely recov-
cred from his cold.
The Illinois steel shops are very busy
and $4,000 men are to be given en-
ployment Immediately.
Toronto was selected as the meeting
place of the Goth annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompers was reelected presi-
dent of the Aemrican Federation of
Labor with only one dissenting vote.
DIR. G. E. Burton, one of the most
prominent physicians of Austin, New,
committed suicide Saturday. No cause
is given.
The Union National bank, with de-
posits of $4,000, 900, was absorbed
recently by the National Bank of Com
merce of Kansas City.
The condition of Francis ]. Heney,
who was shot by Morris Haas in Judge
Lawlor Is courtroom in San Francisco,
continues to improve.
Max Goldman, San Francisco
broker with offices in the Stock Ex-
change building, was found dead in
the bathtub at his home Saturday.
Ministers of 25 towns in the Kansas
Missouri zinc-mining districts m their
petitions to the Almighty on Thanksgiv-
ing day prayed for tariff on zinc ore,
Harry f. Pierce, a real estate dealer
of Council Bluffs, has fled a petition in
bankruptcy and was adjudged bank
rupt, with liabilities listed at 1854
On account of increased business the
| Southern Pacific has established nine
hour day at its railroad shops in
Sparks, after operating for years on an
eight hour basis.
According to reports received at the
meteorological bureau today, the en-
tire central portion of the republic Of
Mexico felt an earthquake shock recent
Iy. No damage was done.
Ten persons are dead and twice as
many injured as a result of an explo-
sion Saturday on the Mississippi river
steamer H. M. Carter near Bayou Goula
about 100 miles north of New Orleans
Mrs. Peter Van Vlissingen, wife OF
the confessed Chicago forger of 1000,
900 of worthless mortgages, who plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to the
penitentiary, is seeking employment az
stenographer.
Howard G. Weaver, young man
surrendered himself to the police o.
Oakland, Cal, recently, stating tina
while in the employ of Wetmore & Val
Winckle, real estate dealers of New
York city, he embezzled between $500
and 5000 of the firm money.
Every union man in Vancouve
u (B. O. G. P. R. machine shops, whel
he drew his pay check Saturday, hande'
over 81 as the nucleus of fund to b
contributed to the needy mechanics il
the east who have not yet been takel
back following the strike.
William A. Foster of New York wa
arrested at his hotel recently on
charge of vagrancy, the complainant
being Henry j. Forbis, head of tn
mendicancy bureau of the charitie
organization society. Forbis says job
d. Rockefeller made the original CON
plant which led to the arrest.
Mrs. Imogene Robinson Merrill,
II celebrated portrait and historica
\ painter, died at Washington, d. G
II Saturday in a room of lodging hous
alone and friendless and amid SUI
roundings of squalor and distress. 1
| 1873 she established the Nations
Academy of Fine Arts in this city. Sh
had done notable work.
The North Bank road has starte
its through passenger service with day
light train service between Portlan
and Walla Walla, known as the Inlan
Empire Special, and through nigh
train between Portland and Spokane
known as the North Bank Limited
both in connection with the Norther
Pacific, connecting at Spokane wit
the Great Northern and Northern p;
ciic.