Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-05-27
WORLD news NOTES
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DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING The WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Short Paragraphs.

Short Paragraphs.
Sane men have large feet and sane
women small feet, according to sta
tistics.
Robbers recently broke into the La
mont, Wash, postofice and stole $500
in cash.
Over 1000 people were in Cheney,
Wash, Friday to celebrate the May
day festival.
j. J. Gottlob, prominent on this coast
as a theatrical manager, died recently
near San Francisco.
President Diaz says he feels good,
with the exception of an liberated tooth
and is in excellent health and spirits.
Forest fires in Hokkaido, the north
ernmost of the islands of Japan, are
devasting a vast territory of the land.
The grand lodge of the Knights of
Pythias and the Pythian Sisters will
be held at North Yakima, Wash, next
year.
At Bridgeport, Conn, Saturday Mrs.
Caroline Thompson, daughter of the
late P. T. Barnum, died. She was 80
years old and wealthy.
Mayor Mccarthy of San Francisco
announces that he has removed Police
Commissioner Percy Henderson from
office for neglect of duty.
Choking on a piece of bacon, little
2-year-old Clarence Kelly died in the
arms of his mother, Mrs. William
Kelly, at Spokane recently.
The Mexican government officials dis
credit the report of plot to attempt
the life of Francisco Madero on his
arrival to discuss peace terms.
Farm products as well as stock, i'm
plements and household goods will be
auctioned at the proposed Farmers
Union auction market to be estab-
lished in Spokane.
Private John Lepp, who escaped from
the guardhouse at Fort Russell after
seriously wounding two other soldiers,
was shot and killed by a posse. Lepp
first fred upon the posse.
The practice among lumbermen of
blacklisting" concerns which sell di-
rectly to the consumer is declared to
be practiced in the northwest as else
where in the United States.
Miss Gertrude Gaynor, % years old,
daughter of Mayor Gaynor of New
York City, and William Seward Webb
Jr., a son of the New York millionaire,
eloped recently and were married.
The first state ball of the coronation
of King George, the date for which
was selected in honor of the visit of
the German emperor and empress, took
place at Buckingham palace Friday.
Beginning July 1 the Wells-Fargo
Express company will displace the Pa
cifc Express company on the Missouri
Pacific, the st. Louis, Iron Mountain
&c Southern, the Texas & Pacific and
the Wabash.
A report from Calgary states that
nearly 200 structural steel workers
employed on the Grand Trunk Pacific
railway bridge where the Calgary
branch crosses the Red Deer river, near
Alix, are on strike.
Passengers arriving at Quadalajara
from Colima, on the Mexican Pacific
slope, report that the revolutionists
took that city Saturday without blood
81. Dn
over the government on demand.
The record of the inquiry made by
the department of justice and the bu-
reau of corporations into the United
States Steel corporation is to be util-
lied by the special house committee
selected to investigate that corporation.
To enable John Hays Hammond to
carry out his commission as special
American ambassador to the corona
ton of King George a Washington Cd.
CO Judge has ordered the continuance
until November of further proceedings
in the case of D. J. Sully against Ham
mond.
An appeal has been taken to con-
gress from the navy department by
non-Mormons who have protested to the
government against the acceptance of
the silver service for the new battle
ship Utah, one piece of which bears
the likeness of the Mormon leader
Brigham Young.
Illinois Legislature Adjourns.