Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-08-19
WORLD NEWS NOTES
SHORT ITEMS Clipped FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review Of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

Three prostrations were reported in
Kansas City Saturday.
There will be no final action on the
direct election of senators at this SEES
sion of congress.
Elgin, Ore.-Albert Huntley, alias
Oscar Hunter, who, it is claimed, stole
two horses at Milton, Ore, was cap
tured here.
Baker, Ore.--One of the biggest
funerals ever held in Baker was that
Of Louis Mansfield, who shot his wife
and then himself.
The Pope is improving slowly from
violence Of pains in his equity leg, but
two weeks must elapse before period of
convalescence, doctors say.
Berlin.--A Munich newspaper says it
has discovered an insurance company
whose business deals with insuring mar
ried couples against divorce.
ashington.-Andrew Carnegie has
sent to Washington $4,000 of the
100000 he promised for identifying
the grounds of the Panama American
union building.
New York.-The ancient ''lineup"
of crooks, practice started by In
spector Byrnes and regarded with ven
GRAFTON by police headquarters for 25
years. has been done away with.
New. York.-Secretary Of War Slim
son and party have arrived home on
board the armored cruiser North Caro-
lima from an inspection of the Panama
canal and trip to the West Indies.
London.-The inquest into the death
Of Jameson Lee Finney, the American
actor who lost his life in the Carlton
hotel FIRE recently, resulted in a yer
dict Of accidental death by suffocation
New York.-The election Of Genera
Edward A. McAlpin as national presi
dent and chief scout of the American
Boy Scouts is announced. General Nc
Alpin was drummer boy during tn,
civil war.
London.-After days Of work
Tstrike" of gold has been made a
Kildonan, Sutherlandshire, and Will
lam Heath, Klondike expert, who i
directing the experiments, considers tn
outlook as "highly promising"
Chicago.-In a desperate hand-tc
hand battle on top of flying trail
with flashes of lightning the onl.
illumination, Charles Letzel of Chicag
was probably fatally wounded. Let
zel's assailant, tramp, escaped.
Washington.-For the first tim
since he has been a member Of the sen
ate Senator La Toilette now sits oil
the republican side in that body. HI
moved over to the seat so long occu
pied by Senator Frye of Maine, VIII,
died last week.
Memphis, Tenn-Clad in uniform
Of gray the body of General Georg,
w. Gordon, commander in chief of tn,
United Confederate veterans and mem
Der of congress from the Tenth Ten
nessee district, was laid to rest in Elm
wood cemetery Saturday. General Cor
don died August Q.
Norwegian parliament providing tina
no marriage shall be performed unless
The prospective bride has previousl,
obtained a certificate attesting "a salts
factory knowledge of cooking, laun
dry and dressmaking. There is a gooC
chance Of it becoming law.
Hope, b. Give men who wer'
working with a gang at placing cabl,
across the river were drowned in thu
Fraser river at Saddle Rock when thei
boat was capsized by the swift cur
rent. A scOw with three men wa
swept away, but stranded lower dowI
the river and its occupants wer
rescued.
Washington.-As a strategic meas
ure the navy department is preparing
60 extend the wireless system o
Alaska. A powerful station will b.
erected on one of the Aleutian island
next year 1t will be superior to an,
in Alaska at present and will have
radius of 1900 miles at night and sOI
miles during the day.
Salem, Mass.-Mrs. Ernest Webb o
Danvers owes her life to the effort o
I0-year-Old Edwin Cam of st. Louis
Cam, who is an expert swimmer, swan
at top speed a quarter of a mile whei
Mrs. Webb was seized with cramps a
Juniper Cove bathing beach recently
and, despite the woman's unusua
weight, brought her safely to shore.