Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-05-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE On The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispteres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.
The Oregon census shows 675,870.

The Oregon census shows 675,S79.
A. d. Pelton, owner of the Toledo
Blade from 1857 to 1868, died Saturday
aged 81.
The Rev. Billy Sunday is headed for
California to start campaign against
the big fight.
The Rev. DR.. John w. T. Booth, one
of the oldest and best-known Baptist
clergymen in the United States, is
dead at his home in White Plains, N. Y.
James M. Lynch was reelected presi-
dent of the international Typographical
union by 5000 votes in the election
throughout the country by the organ
ization May 1s.
Annoy, China. - Conditions arising
from the continued drouth are serious.
There has been no rain for four months,
food supplies are running low and the
crops are failure.
A severe storm in Clay county, Kan
sas, Saturday night did much damage
to crops, trees and outbuildings. Tele-
graph wires are down and the full ex-
tent of the damage is not known.
General Louis Botha, premier of the
Transvaal, has been summoned to form
the first union ministry cabinet of
United South Africa of which Viscount
Gladstone is the first general.
Barry Pike, formerly of Chicago, and
whose divorced wife now lives there,
shot and fatally wounded Hazel Ritter,
aged 20, of Laramie, Wyo., and then
attempted suicide at Denver, Colo, Sat
urday.
Arrangement of the administration Is
sale of the Philippine friar lands and
of the activities of the so-called "sugar
trust" in that archipelago, was made in
the house Saturday by Mr.. Covington
of Maryland.
John M. Simpson, California argonaut
of 1s49 and Oregon pioneer of 1866, died
at his home in South Tualatin, Washing
ton county, CAL, Friday, from the effects
of injuries sustained in a runaway acct
dent near there some time ago.
George Turner, former United States
senator of Washington, has sailed from
New York to The Hague to act as one
of the attorneys of the United States
in the adjustment of fishery and boun
dairy questions between Canada and the
United States.
With the approach of the time fol
the maneuvers at American Lake, Wash.
in August, when the posts of the north
west will be all but deserted by al
soldiers and officers, interest increases
and all activities bear relation to max
ing preparations to go.
Seven hundred nonunion miners EN-
ployed at the Providence electrical anC
at White Dog zinc mines, Webb City
Mo-, have struck upon the refusal Of
the company to increase the wages tx
figures which obtained before the de
creased price of ore forced a 10 pc
cent reduction.
Twenty-one students of the mining de
partment of McGill university, Mon
treal, are at the concentration of the st
Eugene mine, Moyie, B. c., where the,
will remain for four or five days devot
ing their energies to the acquiring of
practical knowledge of the variou
modern methods of silver-lead ore treat
ment.
A heavy snowfall delayed railroa
traffic and threatened telephone an
telegraph service around Trinidad, Colo
Saturday. Six inches of snow is re
ported in the Stonewall mountains. TIL
snow is melting rapidly and the moi'
ture means thousands of dollars to farm
ers and stockmen in this section in pros
pective crops and grass for stock.
A lockout in the building trades c
Germany, affecting 100000 men, is
full swing. 1t is expected the lockor
3 will spread even further. Although I'll
employers of Berlin, Hamburg an
b Bremen have not joined the movement
it is expected that work there will
suspended. Negotiations for peacef
settlement are under way at Munich.
f The body of Martin P. Case, presidel
f of the Independent Oil company, al
f. for a number of years known in fina
e cial circles as a wealthy man, was foul
,, in the basement of his home in Clev
IS land, Ohio, Saturday night. He hi
b. died of bullet wound apparently Sc
inflicted. He was 70 years old. 7
ID dependency of old age is thought
|. be the cause of the suicide.
m Jewel Creek Gold Strike.
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