Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemisphere During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.


The population of st. Louis is 6s7, 029.
Italy is trying to check cholera, but
the situation continues serious in some
locations.
The next convention of the Esperanto
Association of North America will be
held in Portland, Ore, in 1911.
Frank Fowler, a well-known portrait
painter, is dead at his summer home in
Connecticut of heart disease. He was
So years old.
AT st. Louis, Mo-, the new 100000
bridge of the Mckinley interurban sys-
tenn will be formally opened to traffic
on Thanksgiving day.
Reports are in circulation in the
European press emanating from Vienna
of conference of the powers to de-
termine the status of Crete.
Emperor William Of Germany may be
next year s recipient of the Nobel peace
prize, following his good friend Theo-
dore Roosevelt, who received the prize
last year.
Eight transatlantic steamers sailed
from New York Saturday bearing HOO
passengers. This does not include the
second and third-class passengers. This
is one of the biggest departures in one
day for some time.
When the New York chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
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the statue of King George III in Bowl
ing Green they Immediately commenced
to take steps to oppose the project
Great Britain has solved, in meas
ure, the question of cheap transporta-
ton of it's mails. Automobile trucks
are being used in conveying the mail
matter between London and Birming-
ham, especially the heavier class of
mail.
The death in st. Louis, Mo-, recently,
of Francis Collier, uncle of Father Her
man j. Collier, former president of Con
zaga college and now provincial of the
Pacific northwest, marked the passing
of one of Catholicism IS most noted
priests in America.
So serious has the fire situation be-
come in the Crater National forest in
southern Oregon, that George p. Cecil,
associate district forester, called a con-
ference of the chiefs of the various Off
ces to receive suggestions as to further
procedure in the work of fighting. the
flames.
Hawley Harvey Crippen and Ethel
Clare Leneve sailed from Quebec
August 20 and are due at Liverpool at
noon next Saturday. By Saturday night
they probably will be lodged in a Lon
don Jail to await trial for the murder
of woman supposed to be Crippen s
wife, Belle Gilmore.
Rev. Dudley c. Fosher, for the last
three years pastor of the Ryder Me
mortal Universalist church, Chicago, has
} resigned and has accepted a position
with musical comedy company. He
gave as his reason for quitting the pull
pit that his salary of $1,000 per year
was too low. r.
+. Augustus Heinze has returned to
New York from Europe, disclaiming all
knowledge of the plans for a gigantic
copper merger as reported from Lon
don recently. He admitted, however,
that an arrangement among western
copper interests to control the copper
output was not improbable.
The state of New York has given
, Thomas j. Langton of Irvington-on the
Hudson rating of 100 per cent in his
examination for a chauffeur IS license
under the Callan automobile law. He
is the first chauffeur to achieve this
honor. Langton is chauffeur for Miss
: Helen Gould and swears that he has
driven automobiles more than 100000
miles.