Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-01-02
NEWS OF The WORLD
SH0R1sDISPATCHES 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

Congressman Robert C. Davey of
Louisiana is dead
The annual report Of the department
of health for 1908 rates Chicago as one
of the healthiest cities in the world.
Count Won Bernstoerff, the new Ger
man ambassador TO the United States,
was presented to the president this
week.
Recently, in New London, Conn,
Mathew Mcnamara, for many years ma
tionaI warden of the Knights of Colum-
bus, died.
Henry W. Poor, trading as Henry W.
Poor & Co., on Wall street, has made
an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors.
Heir to 100000 and entitled to
position in Baltimore society, William
Jefferson Powell has been sentenced to
serve $50 days in the workhouse in Los
Angeles on vagrancy charge.
Richard A. Penrose, father of United
States Senator Penrose, died at his
home recently Of pneumonia. He was
so years old. DR.. Penrose was well
known in the medicalliterary world.
Rear Admiral James Mcqueen For
syth, U. S. NJ, retired, was stricken
with paralysis at his homo recently and
grave fears are entertained for his re-
covery. His entire left side is affected.
Viscount Charles de Chambrun and
Viscount de Martel, secretaries of the
French embassy at Washington, have
been promoted from the third to the
Twelve persons were seriously injured
recently when train on the Georgia
Coast e. Piedmont railroad rolled down
a 40-foot. embankment. The accident
was caused by the train 8 high speed
in rounding curve.
Irvine, Ky.-The jury in the case of
Beach Hargis, charged with the murder
of his father, Judge James j. Hargis,
reported their inability to agree and
were discharged. The jury stood nine
for acquittal and three for conviction.
J. W. Glenn, 40 years old, son of
Colonel Michael w. Glenn, mayor of
Waukesha, Wis, committed suicide
Saturday in Seattle by hanging. Two
months ago he attempted to kill him
self with carbolic acid and lunacy
commission declared him insane.
William Waddell, age so, died at
the Fort Worth (Tex) infrmary
haunted by the belief that his heart
was located on his right side, instead
of in the normal place. His death was
the direct result of his strange hallu-
cination.
Germany is mot able to supply its
home demand for eggs, according to
Consul General Richard Gunther of
Frankfort who reports that last year
$34,6@3,Ooo worth of eggs was imported,
this representing about three billion, or
an average Of 46 per capita.
Mainz, Germany.-Because his de-
mands for money were not gratifed, a
young student of astronomy Saturday
committed a quadruple murder, killing
his father, DR.. Racke, a former mem
Der of the reichstag, and his three sis
tiers, one of whom was betrothed.
The engine of a Canadian Pacific
freight train jumped the track at the
bridge near Fife, b. c., recently. Both
the engineer and fireman jumped, the
latter being severely bruised. The en-
CINE now lies at the bottom of the en-
bankment. The rest of the train re-
manned on the track.
The native forests this year supplied
100000 Christmas trees, the forestry
service estimating that one out of
every four families observed the tree
custom at Yuletide. Clifford Pinchot,
United States forester, upholds the
Christmas tree custom and believes that
it should be maintained.
Mistaking a drunken man clad in a
long buffalo overcoat for a burglar,
Thomas Deckmar shot and killed Thorn
as Andrews near La Fayette, Tenn.
Andrews had been in Jail, but was
paroed so that he might go home for
Christmas. Instead of going home he
got drunk and sat down to sleep in a
doorway.
In an official statement issued at the
White House in regard to presidential
interference in the ceases of President
Gompers, Vice President Mitchell and
Secretary Morrison of the American
Federation of Labor, now under SEN
tence for contempt of court, attention
is called to the fact that the cases are
still before the courts and that no
matter what the president s opinion
may be as to the business of the sem
tence imposed he can not take any ac-
ton looking to pardon or express any
opinion as to the merits of the case.
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