Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-02-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM EVERY
WHERE, ALL The time.
A Review of Happenings N Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

Simon Chandler of Worcester, Mass,
said to have been the first man to en-
list in regularly organized military
company in response to Lincoln s call
for volunteers in the civil war, is dead
at his home in that city.
Drifting for "a hours in boiling
sea, clinging frantically to the top of
the deck house and expecting every
moment to be washed to death, Cap
tain Meader and the crew of eight of
the old schooner McFadden was saved
by the British tramp steamer Rather
inc, bound from Baltimore to Tampico.
A sky scraper for the use of ply
sicians, the only one in the world,
will be built in this city off Broadway,
in East Forty-frst street. The build
ing will be dubbed "The Doctorium. -
The projected building will be Is
stories high and will contain $50
suites of offices, each adapted to the
use of doctors.
General Wickersham has decided that
the dividends received by a corpora
ton as a stakeholder of any other cor
poration of the character to which the
act imposing a tax of 1 per cent on
net income applies should be deducted
from its gross income regardless of
the amount of the net income of such
dividend-paying corporation.
The president recently issued
proclamation in which it is said that
inasmuch as Denmark, The Netherlands,
Gxua1an Del
Persia and Portugal do not unduly dis
criminate in their tariffs against goods
imported from the United States those
countries are entitled to the minimum
rate established by the Payne-Aldrich
law.
The German imperial committee that
was formed after the disaster to the
Zeppelin airship near Echterdingen in
order to organize a national Zeppelin
airship fund, has now issued its official
report. The total sum subscribed to
the fund exceede 100000 marks. The
subscription list was headed by the
kaiser with 10000 marks.
Governor Alexander Henderson of
Yukon territory, who has arrived in
Vancouver, B. c., from Ottawa, where
he conferred with dominion officials,
learned that a petition asking the gov
eminent to remove him from office was
on the way from Dawson to Ottawa.
He will not go north until he learns
what action the dominion government
means to take upon the petition.
Julius Langbein, known to civil war
veterans throughout the country as the
"Little Drummer Boy of New York, "
is dead at his home. Langbein, who was
10 years old when he enlisted as a
drummer boy in Hawkins zouaves, was
the youngest volunteer who went from
New York state to the front. After the
war he became a district judge and
president of the Medal of Honor league.
While defending an aged man from
three men tormentors at New York
Thomas Graham, a partially paralyzed
newsboy, was stabbed three times by
one of the men in Herald square. Two
women in an automobile took the
wounded newsboy into their machine
and while the car sped to Bellevue hos
pital they held him on their laps and
their rich dresses became saturated
with blood. Doctors said the crippled
lad would probably die.
Premier Mcbride announced recently
at Victoria, B. c., that the govern.
ment IS railway policy will be laid be-
fore the house this week. Then mem
bers of the legislature and the public
will have an opportunity of Judging
whether the contract by which the
Canadian Northern agrees to build q
railway from the Rockies to Vancouver
with a ferry to Victoria and road
traversing Vancouver island s west
coast, is bargain or a holdup.
Heavy penalties were imposed by
Judge R. w. Tayler in the federal court
at Toledo, Ohio, on the prominent mem
bers of the Ohio band of blackhanders
found guilty of conspiracy to use the
mails to extort money from Italians
living in Ohio and Indiana. Salvatore
Lima of Marion, the chief of the band
was sentenced to 16 years imprison
ment. Sebastian Lima, his brother
and Giuseppe Ignoffo. his brother-in
law, were sentenced to 10 years. i'm
prisonment each.
Mr.. Van Norden, the millionaire head
of the Van Norden Trust company OF
New York, was robbed of $4,000 il
front of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel al
the outcome Of performing an act OF
courtesy. Mr.. Van Norden stopped t.
pick up handbag that young woman
had dropped. Her companion jostlec
against him so that he almost lost hi.
balance. After he had restored tn,
handbag he went on home and forgot
the incident. When he opened hi:
wallet, however, be found that severa
81, 900 bills were missing. ~ 81
Two hundred people, including many
women and girls, were thrown into 8
panic at Chicago when Carmena' Sicoli
laborer, entered hall where they
were dancing and began firing are
volver. The dancers escaped through
windows to adjoining roofs and down
fre-escapes. All the shots were wild
A tramp whom David Ornstein OF