Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13
news OF The WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
n Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events

William j. Bryan announces that he
will join in the fight against the spread
of tuberculosis.
The conservation commission will
continue it's existence under the Taft
administration.
f. V. Brown of Minneapolis has been
appointed counsel for the Great North
-ern railway at Seattle.
Municipal Judge Grove has declared
that "shot to pieces" as applied to
some automobiles, as perfectly good
term.
kilograms received from Carinthia,
Australia, report that series of
devastating avalanches have occurred
there.
The technical high school at Munich
has conferred the honorary degree or
doctor of technical sciences on Wilbur
and Orville Wright.
Gas far as any war between the
United States and Japan is concerned,
all such talk is buncombe," declares
Admiral Robley d. Evans.
The last day of April was suggested
as the proper date to inaugurate the
president, in resolution introduced
recently by Senator Depew.
Forty-seven sail and steam vessels
of 1894 gross tons were built in the
United States and officially numbered
during the month of February.
Former Senator Joseph b. Foraker
was presented Friday with massive
silver loving cup, the gift of the negro
residents of Washington, d. c.
Figures issued by the Irish Immigra-
ton society show that during the year
1908 there landed at the port of New
York from Ireland 1884 persons.
For the first time in many years
Uncle Sam is not seeking men for his
standing army. 1t is now recruited up
TO its full complement of 77,753 men.
General Ballington Booth, founder
of and president of the Volunteers of
America, is on the Pacific coast on an
inspection trip of the volunteers of
the west.
An estimate of the damage done in
Baltimore by the recent storm places
1t as high as 100000, falling chiefly
sOn telegraph, telephone and railroad
companies.
At Parker, S. D., Mrs. Herman
Fikens and three little children were
drowned while trying to drive across
the Vermilion river. They were swept
from a bridge by the flood.
Compelled to leave his car, bound
and robbed and left lying on the track
was the experience of Conductor Good
fellow of the Popular Grove line of the
Salt Lake street railway recently.
Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president of
the United States, will be the personal
guest at a ceremonial breakfast at the
home of Robert j. Collier in Park
avenue, New York, Saturday morning
next.
j. w. Blythe of Burlington, Iowa,
general counsel of the Chicago, Bur
hngton & Quincy railroad, died recent
ly at Wapello, a country place near
Des Moines, while hunting. Mr..
Blythe was SO years old.
During a spell of dependency Mrs.
Louisa j. Jones, aged 3s years, the
wife of Alexander Jones of New York
city, committed suicide in San Fran
cisco by inhaling illuminating gas at
her home in Cough street.
Another Chicago landmark is being
removed to make way for the mod
ern apartment building. The home
stead of Carter Harrison, at one time
one of the handsomest homes in the
city, is in the hands of the wreckers.
Sixteen were drowned and three in
iured at Birkenhead, England, recently
by the breaking of dam being con-
structed to form a dock. The victims
were working AS feet below the level
of the restrained water when they were
overwhelmed.
Grove L. johnson, author of the Jap
enese school segregation bill in Cali
fornia that aroused so much antagon
ism in Washington earlier in the SEES
sion, withdrew Saturday joint reso
Ention he had introduced in the as
ssembly calling upon congress to enac'
an Asiatic exclusion law.
The body of well-dressed man, par
tally covered with snow and with {
ragged wound in the neck, was found
Sunday near Alexandria, Va, a shor
distance from Washington, ID. G. II
the pockets of the clothing were trav
eler IS check for $500, issued by thu
Wells-Fargo Express company at Lo
Angeles, payable to Walter f. Schultz
a card bearing the same name, but witt
the address 1914 Douglas street, Sou'
City, Iowa, and another card whicl
bears the name of Mrs. Alma HUM
Gillette.
Danger for Roosevelt