Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-28
WORLD NEWS NOTES
SHORT ITEMS Clipped FROM
LATEPRESS DISPATCHES
In THE DAILIES.
A Review of Happenings In Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past educational, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

The plague in China continues to
spread, according to reports.
The Iowa senate has passed resolu
ton favoring San Francisco for the
Panama exposition.
Miss Eleanor Monaghan of Spokane
has been invited by the navy depart
ment to christen the destroyer Mona
CHAN.
Russia gets about three-fourths of
it's typewriters from the United States,
20 American machines being in the
market there.
Backed by a 900 endowment fund,
the University of Leeds, England, has
established chair of coal, gas and
fuel industries.
The funeral of Paul Morton, presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, took place Saturday afternoon
in New York.
The oldest priest in France is Canon
Gadenne, parish priest of Roches, where
he celebrated his 1O5th birthday on
New Year IS day.
With the construction of but 20 sta
tions, all of Britain IS possessions
throughout the world would be linked
by wireless telegraphy.
The lumber cut in the United States
last year totaled 1855, 900 feet,
board measure, an increase of 34.2 per
cent more than in 1908.
A big fire at Payson, Utah, Saturday
destroyed property to the value of $780,
600. Five business houses, all in the
same block, were burned.
General Gomez, at the end Of Cuba's
second year of independence, fads his
administration apparently more firmly
entrenched in power than it has been
at any time.
A new trial was denied to Mrs. Annie
Sutherland, convicted of numbering her
husband in Wisconsin, and she was SEN
fenced to Is years at hard labor in the
state prison.
Again it is rumored that Herr Won
Bethmann- Holweg, the chancellor of
the German empire, tired and discour-
aged with his many political failures, is
thinking of resigning.
Attorney General Wickersham dis
cussed the Alaskan coal lands bill Sat
urday before the senate committee on
public lands. He declared the bill
would tie up all lands so as to make de-
velopment impossible.
Floyd B. Merrill, a 17-year-old Sc
attic boy, has been offered $4,000 by
the Pennsylvania railroad for an in
vention of an electric device to warn
the engineer of a train of a displaced
rail or a bridge washed out.
Announcement of Andrew Carnegie Is
additional gift of $1O,OOO,OOO to the
Carnegie institute and the enconiums
he pronounced upon the work of Mount
Wilson solar observatory has caused
much citation among scientists.
q A. ]. Davidson of Milwaukee, for
merly president of the st. Louis & San
Francisco railroad, has been elected
SShAAAAtooAOAOA VI INC NOII0WeEI-
ern Demurrage Bureau at Seattle. He
will fill the vacancy caused by the death
= of Robert Dudgeon.
q A thorough investigation of several
l.. New York state departments, including
T. prison, banking, insurance, health, pub,
lie service commissions and others, the
: heads of which are appointive officers
Q is to be begun this week at the direc
ton of Governor John A. Dix.
2, Pearl Kindall, aged 20, died from the
d effects of burns sustained in the Hub
G bard house fire at Niobrara, Neb, re
J. Gently. He was a son of M. W. Kindall
J. the proprietor, who also lost his life
e This brings the total death list to six
) Mrs. Kruhicka, aged rs, having dice
during the week.
Congressman Poindexter called on r
!, II. Newell, chief of the reclamation
. service, recently in behalf of the higl
= line irrigation project in Kittital
county. He urged that plans be mad,
to obtain an appropriation as soon al
possible that the work might be taker
d up. He was given assurance that tn,
t department favored the project ant
IS would give it support.