Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-04-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review OF Happenings in Both East
ern ard Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.

Cordova, Spain.-Rafael Melinda,
well-known toreador, who fought under
the name "La Gartinjo," is dead.
West Point, N. Y.-General Lord
Kitchener of Khartoum is visiting New
York and West Point before he sails
for England.
Secret service men who have been
at work for some weeks past have I'M
earthed rich counterfeiters cache on
a farm near Highlands, N. Y.
The Colossus, Great Britain IS ninth
battleship of the Dreadnaught type, was
launched Saturday in Scotland. The
vessel has displacement of $4,000 tons.
In a collision between a street car
and a Chicago & Alton freight train
at Springfield, ILL.,, a brakeman was
killed and Is passengers were injured.
Winthrop Bishop, aged II, pioneer
of the Snohomish valley, was found
dead in the woods recently near the
county hospital, from which he had
wandered.
New Westminster, b. C.-August
Charles, an Indian, has been arrested
for the murder of Howard Wade, a
timber cruiser, at Silver Creek last
August.
f. E. p. McWain, a wealthy coal
operator of Vancouver, B. c., was in
stantly killed Saturday afternoon by
falling from the top of the Exchange
building.
Its rapidity of invasion was the most
noticeable feature of the recent out
break of beri-beri among the negro con
victs in camp at Ten Mile hill, neal
Charleston, S. c.
The parliament that was elected in
1908 ended its labors Saturday night
The general election will take place
April "a, and the new parliament will
assemble June l.
Seattle.-Dr. Harry w. Bauer, a den
fist, recently from Kethcikan, Alaska
committed suicide in his room in 6
downtown hotel Saturday by drinking
cyanide of potash.
Members of the Millers Nationa
= Federation, in convention at Chicago
adopted resolutions urging fedora
courts to render an early decision OF
the question of bleaching flour.
Cattlemen from Laguna Salada, Mex
leo, report that the Colorado river il
rapidly forming a second Salton sea il
Lower California. A party of engineer
is preparing to visit the little-knowi
region, said to be inundated, to inves
tigate.
Four big banks in the Wall stree
district resemble the gold mines of thu
west in one striking feature. The.
have three eight-hour shifts of toilers
. and the work never stops. One Sc
takes up the routine where the othe
leaves off.
Governor Shaffroth of Colorado ha
been asked to take a hand in the strilS
of the United Mineworkers of Distric
y No. Is by sending troops to the seem
of the difficulty, at Lafayette, Col. Z
delegation of citizens from that tow
waited on the chief executive and de
clared that present conditions are al
incentive to bloodshed.
Goldfeld, Nev.-The s50-ton mill o
the Goldfeld Consolidated Mines com
pany was damaged by fire to the exten
of $25O,OOO recently. Following an ex
plosion in the refinery, where owe
! $5O0,O00 in bullion was stacked 70
shipment, the fire spread to the hug
: coAveyor that carries the ore to tn
sampling department and stamp bat
teries.