Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-04-23
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both East
srn ard Western Hemispheres During
The Past Week-National, Historical
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.

/. MariscaI, secretary for foreign re-
Iations in Mexico City, died after sew
eral days of illness.
A Japanese submarine foundered
Saturday while executing maneuvers in
the bay of Hiroshima. Her crew of ~
are supposed to be lost.
The cruiser Cleveland of the United
States Asiatic fleet has been dispatched
to Hankow because of the anti-mis-
sionary riots at Changsha.
Henry N. Oerter, business agent of
the Bartenders' union of Spokane, has
been elected national president of the
International Brotherhood of Bartend-
ers.
That the Central Oregon railroad,
building from La Grande TO Walla
Walla, is but a feeder for the Northern
Pacific, is the opinion of many railroad
experts.
Frederick, Md.-The Rev. DR.. Ed
uund Esbach, one of the most promi-
nent clergymen of the Reformed church
in the United States, is dead at his
home aged "a.
That William J. Baehr, formerly city
treasurer of Kansas City, who died re-
Gently, was short in his accounts 500, 4sO
has been reported to the mayor by a
drm of accountants.
At Nashville, Tenn, Fire Lieutenant
Ambrose was killed and three other
persons were injured in a fire recently
which damaged the Bradford wholesale
manufacturing plant.
Henry Gerber, who died in eastern
Oregon from cirrhosis of the liver, was
one of the pioneers of Wallowa county
and was the first man initiated into
Free Masonry in that county.
Jacob d. Rubenstein, aged AS, junk
dealer at Seattle, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head.
He leaves a wife and four children. He
was in love with another woman.
The steamship Santa Clara, which
was struck by a heavy sea off Hum
boldt bay, California, and abandoned by
her passengers and crew last week, will
not prove a total wreck, as was at first
feared
Near Beaverton, Ore, an unidentified
rural assassin attempted to blow to
atoms Tom j. Allen, farmer. The
fact that Allen returned from town
earlier than usual was all that saved
his life.
OF a total of 1902 business failures
sn the United States for the first three
months of this year, according to Brad
sstreets, only 20, or but a trife over
per cent, are credited to the state of
Washington.
at Creston, b. c., recently, fire com
pletely destroyed the Rodgers Mill com
pany sawmnl. The origin of the fire is
unknown. The loss, $4,000, is partly
covered by insurance. The mill EN-
ployed 80 men. 1t will Immediately be
rebuilt. Charles o. Rodgers is princi
pal owner.
The man under arrest at San Fran
cisco, said to be Charles j. Weller
syho is wanted in Tacoma, Wash, on q
charge of having murdered Mrs. Henry
Schulz, the mother of Wezler's di
vorced wife, admits that his name il
Charles Weller, but says he is not the
man for whom the police are searching
Former Judge James A. Waymir'
died suddenly at his home in Oakland
Cal, from heart failure, attributed t
his advanced age. He was boyhoe'
friend of President Mckinley, ant
served in the latter's regiment during
the civil war. For years he was promi
nent in legal and political circles il
California.