Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-01-29
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gold medal to Commander R. E. Peary.
Elinor Williams of Cleveland, Ohio,
once a nurse in the home of John d.
Rockefeller, and a widely known local
character, is dead, aged 100 years.
Ezra Kendall, comedian, died of apo
plexy recently in sanitarium at Mar
linsville, Ind. The first news of his
death received by friends outside the
immediate family was when the body
was brought to Cleveland.
Thirty-seven unsolved murders in IL
months was the record of New York for
1909. Seven more have been added in
the first three weeks of the new year,
according to report just issued by the
police department.
Native reports estimate that thou
sand deaths from smallpox have oc-
CURED at Chang Chow, one of the
largest cities in China, in the last week,
principally among children. The bu-
bonic plague also is reported to have
broken out again at that place.
George II. Schumann, president of the
Louisville Anzeiger company, and one
~ bhO OAuNpI uGW6-
paper men in the United States, died
recently at Louisville, KY, aged 70
years. Mr.. Schumann had been at the
head of the Anzeiger for 80 years.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Educational association an
nounced that the 4sth annual conven-
ton viii be held in Boston July ? to 8,
1910. San Francisco was under consid-
GRAFTON, but the choice of Boston was
deemed advisable, as the association
met in Denver in 1909.
Miss Jennie Rosen, young woman of
Denver, whose leg was broken and who
received other injuries when she was
struck by Denver & Rio Grande rail
road train on August 21, 1907, has been
awarded verdict of $13,422 by a jury
in her suit for damages against the
railroad.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt will sail for
Naples February Is on the liner Ham
burg on her way to upper Egypt. Ac-
cording to news received from East
Africa recently, ex-President Roosevelt
will arrive at Khartoum March IS.
After remaining two or three days at
Khartoum he will meet Mrs. Roosevelt.
He will be back in the United States
June 1.
Richard II. Rushton of Philadelphia,
president of the Fourth Street Ma
tional bank, one of the largest fnan-
cial institutions, died recently from
complication of diseases. Three years
ago his nervous system was almost
wrecked by bomb explosion. An UNI
known man who had been refused
money, dropped bomb at Mr.. Rush
toms office door, instantly killing him
self and the cashier of che bank.
The body of Alma Cunningham,
daughter of P. Cunningham of San
Francisco, who has been a patient in
sanitarium here ever since the disaster
of 1906, when her nervous system was
shattered, was found recently floating
in reservoir several miles from
sanitarium in Mill Valley, Cal. 1t is
unknown whether the girl fell from the
steep hillside above the pool OF threw
herself into the water
John R. Walsh has been initiated into
the Office as reading cleak in the bu-
reau of criminal Identification at the
federal prison. His duty is to read
newspapers and clip from them "write-
ups' of criminals, which are preserved
at the prison. Walsh IS hands are drawn
up with rheumatism, Gripping him in
such a manner that he is unable to
work deftly. He worked with a pre-
occupied air and made slow progress
through large pile of newspapers.
Jeffries and johnson will meet to de-
eide their argument over the title of
heavyweight champion of the world at
Ely, New, next July 4, according to a
statement made by a close friend of Tex
Richard, one of the promoters of the
match Jeffries and Richard met at
Salt Lake recently and held several
hours secret conference. No official
announcement of the outcome of the
meeting was made, but a friend of
Richard, who claimed to be Gin on the
know" whispered "Ely.'
One of two charges of criminality
against American railroad men in Mexi-
co that have attracted nationwide at
tention in the United States was dis
posed of recently, with the release from
prison at Monterey of Joe Woods, an
engineer who has been confined for
three months on a charge growing out
of the accidental killing of fellow
engineer. The other case, that of Con-
ductor James A. Cook, who is being
held in Jail at Guadalajara for com
plicity in the robbery of a train in his
charge, has been passed to the jurisdic-
, ton of the prosecuting attorney.
Drastic proposals for dealing with
: drunkenness are contained in the po-
lice jurisdiction and summary offenses
bill, which is now before the Queens
| land parliament in Australia. For a
first offense the culprit viii be fined
20 shillings, for a second within six
months 40 shillings, and for any sub.
{ sequent conviction within a similar
period 80 shillings. After third con.