Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-12-04
news OF The WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL over
The entire GLOBE.
4 Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Nat ional,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

On behalf of Samuel Gompers, John
Mitchell and Frank Morrison, the labor
leaders, a petition has been filed in the
supreme court of the United States for
writ of certiorari requiring the court
of appeals of the District of Columbia
to certify to the nation s highest tribu-
aal for It's revision and determination
nous stove case.
James Freeman Curtis, the new as
sistant secretary of the treasury, took
the oath Of ONCE. Saturday.
After scorning the wiles of Cupid 81
pears William Iursk s heart finally was
pierced by one of the shafts from the
archer IS bow, and now he IS living hap
pity with a bride, aged so, on his little
farm on the outskirts cf Evanston, Hi
nois.
Heavy storms in the eastern zone of
the West Indies have cut off from cable
communication the islands of Antigua,
Guadalupe Ind Martinique.
Forest fires are doing Leavy damage
throughout the naval stores belt in
Georgia.
Another traditional corner of New
York City, known the world over as
Mulberry Street, has yielded to the
march OF time, and this week police
headquarters will be moved to the new
building in Center street.
Fifteon-year- Wesley Mcbride shot
and killed his 13-year-old comrade, Har-
| ba - kon
Omaha. He said the first shot was an
accident, the second and third being
fred to quiet the boys screams. The
Mcbride boy is thought to be insane.
Raging floods have caused damage
along the Nooksack river in northwest
Washington, carrying out steel bridges
and endangering homes for 100 miles
utaries.
Judge Walter II. Sanborn of the fed
eral circuit court has filed an order dis
missing Charles II. f. Smith and Hor-
ace G. Burt as receivers of the prop
Ierties of the Chicago Great Western
Railway Company.
A special commission will be sent by
the United States to Central America
to take up the question of developing a
statement for insuring peace in that
quarter.
DIR. j. d. Moody, aged 6s years, a war
veteran of Ashland, Ohio, and former
secretary to General James A. Garfield,
is dead in Los Angeles.
A Chicago club man was run down by
a taxicab recently and killed.
The British foreign office, in reply to
a question Monday reiterated the state
ment made before that King Edward
had not yet been invited to mediate in
the Alsop claim between the United
States and Chile.
Fire which originated in the basement
of bank building at Colorado Springs,
Colo, recently destroyed the store of
, Perkins & Shearer. The loss is estimat-
ed at nearly 100000, fully insured.
, A military court which is making the
) final inquiry into the shooting-up of
Brownsville by members of the Twenty
fifth United States infantry, who have
since been dismissed from the service,
| convened Saturday at Brownsville, Tex
as. The session was taken up with the
disposal of matters preliminary to the
=, hearing of testimony.
st. Joseph, Mo.-H. Otis Blaisdell of
New York recently made new world &
record for fifteen minutes copying on a
l., typewriter by writing 6,1S4 words, OF
+ an average of 1913 minute. The pre-
}, vious record of 90 words minute wa.
made September 80, in New York, by
Miss Rose l.. Fritz.
q Fire in Seward, Alaska recently de
= stroyed several buildings valued a
Q $4,000.