Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-09-17
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past week-Nationsl, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

The population of Boston, Mass, is
67O,5s5
England today is face to face with
the danger of national industrial
strike.
S. s. lines of Charleston, s. c., shot
aud killed himself in New York re-
Gently.
The conflict between Spain and the
Vatican is being followed closely in
Vienna.
Pickpoekets in Paris are reaping a
harvest through the prevalence of the
hobble skirt.
Sydney.-Land legislation continues
Go be pushed through the commonwealth
and state pariaments.
The rice crop in Japan is a failure
and the crowded people of the mikado s
nation face starvation.
Emanuel Fremit the noted French
sculptor, died in Paris Saturday. He
was born December 10, 1924.
BY the overturning of canoe con
tanning two men on Moyie lake (B. c.
Thomas Hugeon, a miner, lost his life
Saturday.
The duke of Beaufort has refused
a party Of Americans permission to
conduct a treasure hunt in the vicinity
of Chepstow CASTLE
DR.. Joseph a. Holmes, formerly chief
of the technologic.. branch of the geo
logical survey, is now director of the
new bureau of mines.
Former Governor Benjamin b. Odell
Jr. has retired, as he says, permanently
from the political arena in the city,, dis
trict and state of New York
The property Of the Deschutes Irri-
cation & Power Co. in Oregon, is to
he sold at foreclosure sale. The claims
against the company aggregate $780,
900.
The statistics of the movement of
population in the German empire in
1908 have just been published The
excess of births over deaths was s79,
562. * Is. go. e
The kaiser is greatly pleased over the
cordial letters received from King
George of England on the subject OF
the crown princes coming visit tc
India.
Fire Chief Brown of San Jose was
killed almost instantly Saturday wher
an automobile in which he was riding
from San Francisco to San Jose over
turned.
Lee O'Neil Browne was acquitted
at Chicago of the charge of legislativ,
bribery in connection with the elec
ton of William Lor:mer to the United
States senate.
Prince Tsai Tao, the chief of the
Chinese military mission, which ha;
spent two months in visiting America
and the principal European countries
has cut off his pigtail..
Thaddeus Kerns, a 16-year-old Chico
(Cal.) youth, used a homemade aero
plane recently to circle a mile race
track twice at distance of from 10
TO IS feet above the ground.
Celebrating its Tooth anniversary, the
University of Berlin is to establish a
students hotel, thus introducing a
feature of American university life
rare in German universities.
So incensed has King Victor EN-
manuel become over reports sent out
concerning the Elkins-Abruzzi affair
that he has ordered the premier to i'm
pound all dispatches relating thereto.
In spite of the hot pursuit of a pack
of bloodhounds and a posse of sheriff IS
deputies, George Reid, charged with
the murder of his 2O-year-old wife at
Clayton, b. c., last week, is believed
TO have escaped to Seattle.
The death sof Florence Nightingale
calls to mind the fact that of the rank
and file of those who took part in the
charge of the light brigade at Bala-
clava only 80. are left. OF these % are
in necessitous circumstances. The old
est is SO.
MINERS RETURN TO WORK