Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-27
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PART OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical Political and Personal
Events.

An earthquake shock was felt in
Catelina province, Spain, Saturday aft
ernoon.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the
Bank of Coldwater, Oklahoma, Satur-
day and escaped with $4,000.
Richard Ballinger, secretary of the
interior, has purchased for his own use
Roswell" the saddle horse recently
owned by Roosevelt.
Safeblowers recently dynamited the
safe of the First National bank of
lmogene, Page county, Iowa, and took
$4,000. One robber was captured
Fred Stephenson, who is at present
in Mexico, has accepted an invitation
from former President Roosevelt to
join the African hunting expedition.
A sudden attack of acute rheuma-
,tism in his right arm and hand has so
disable Ignace Paderewsxi, the Greek
pianist, that he has been forced to can
eel all his western engagements.
The United States Steel corporation
has decided unless business steadily i'm
proves, to close down the principal
plants of the Tennessee Coal & Iron
company at Ensley, Ala, on April /.
Mrs. May Pepper Vanderbilt, the
spiritualist Bishop of Brooklyn, asks
in effect that the Kings county court
determine whether there is such thing
as communication with the spirit world.
Emperor Nicholas has conferred the
order of the Grand Cross of Alexan-
der Nevsky upon President Diaz of
Mexico. The order is one of the high
est in the gift of the Russian SOW
ereign.
Judge William Hayward of Nebraska,
who was rendered the position of first
assistant postmaster general, has de-
clined the place and will remain sec
rotary of the national republican com
mittee
Capt. Seth Bullock, the old cowboy
friend of Roosevelt, is to be taken
care of by President Taft and will be
reappointed United States marshall of
South Dakota at the expiration of his
present term.
The position of assistant attorney
general of the department of the in
terror has been rendered and accepted
by Oscar Lawlor of Los Angeles, United
States district attorney for the south
ern district of California.
AT Laporte, Ind, the authorities
have started an investigation that will
probably lead to the arrest and prose-
cution of several young men students
of the White county school following
the death of Charles Stintson, student
who was hazed.
At Barrowin-F urness, England, a
gangway connecting the battleship
Vanguard with the wharf at the Wick
ers Sons-Maxim yard collapsed recent
ly. Fifty workmen were precipitated
to the dock. Three of them were killed
and 40 injured.
By an explosion of fire damp in the
Sunnyside coal mines in Evansville
Ind, recently, all but two of 81 miners
at work in the galleries were over
come. The only two conscious survivors
say they believe majority of those
remaining are dead as result of the
explosion.
Mrs. Eta Banner, on trial at Omaha
Neb., for the murder of her brother-in-
law, Fred Banner, was acquitted by a
jury which was out two hours. Mrs
Banner shot her brother-in-law after
her daughter implicated him in her
ruin. The defendants attorney ap-
pealed to the jury through the un-
written law and also pleaded emotional
insanity.
New York.-The body of Rev. John
W. Simpson, who persisted recently in
the fire which swept through the Fifth
avenue apartment house at "a Central
park south, was covered by piece OF
tin roofing when discovered. DR.. Simp
son was formerly president of Marietta
college, Ohio, and at the time of his
death was manager of the Fidelity Life
Insurance company.