Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-09-25
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL over
The ENTIRE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events

The Fourth of July celebration of
1909 killed 215 people.
Cures consumption-Dr. James c.
Ross, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
At San Berpardino, Cal, Saturday
Leroy and Melton Magoon, aged 10 and
IL years, respectively, accidentally shot
and killed Florence Brown, IL years
old, while cleaning gun.
The boundary differences between
Peru and Bolivia have been settled.
According to reports from Sebastopol
the car s health is very bad. The
emperor and the empress intend to re-
main some time in the south.
At San Francisco Saturday Miss
Ethel Bevell, 10 years of age, fell from
the circle swing at the chutes and was
killed.
The Boston chamber of commerce
has adopted resolutions condemning the
proposed Spokane freight rate.
Richard Hooker of Kansas City, who
was dismissed from West Point recent
ly, has been denied admittance to the
University of Kansas because he was
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John d. Ryan of New York has been
elected a director of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railroad company
to succeed Henry II. Rogers, deceased.
Mrs. Mary II. Cooper of Mitchell
county, Kansas, is the only woman
Judge on record.
Miss Gertrude Belle Dunno, who
sailed for France last August on the
same steamship with Ferdinand Pinny
Earl, the wealthy artist, has arrived in
New York alone.
Engineer John Lobner and Fireman
Roderiek Olson were killed Friday near
Phoenix, B. c., when an ore train at
the CRANKY mine was wrecked by a tree
fallen across the track of the switch
back
Seven persons were injured in rear
end streetcar collision at San Francisco
Saturday.
Los Angeles was chosen for the 1910
convention of the American Bankers
association.
By decisive majority the streetcar
employees of Chicago voted to end the
wage controversy which has lasted
more than two months, and accept the
latest proposition of the company.
Right Rev. William George McClos-
key of Louisville, KY, and the oldest
living prelate in the United States
died there Saturday. He was s5 years
old.
Spokane is the third city in the
United States in the per cent of in
crease in bank clearings for August,
according to the figures compiled by
r. G. Dun & Co. Only Atlanta and Los
Angeles lead Spokane, which shows an
increase of sos per cent.
With the broad idea of supporting
the American interests in Chinese i'm
migration transportation Acting Secre-
tary McHarg of the department of
commerce and labor has directed that
hereafter the inspection of Chinese
coming from the orient and seeking ad-
mission through Canada will be made
at Vancouver, Wash.
The following officers were elected
recently at Boise by the grand lodge
of Masons of the state of Idaho for the
ensuing year: Grand master, George
F. Gagon, Blackfoot; deputy grand
master, Byron F. Defenbach, Idaho
Falls; senior grand warden, f. G. Bow
man, Idaho Falls; junior grand warden,
Oliver E. Barr, Occur d'Alene; grand
treasurer, Charles Himrod, Boise; grand
secretary, Theodore w. Randall, Boise;
grand lecturer, David II. A. MacKin-
tosh, Latah county; trustees, Jonas
Brown, James A. Pinney, ]. W. Robin
son, all of Boise.