Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-29
WORLD NEWS NOTES
SHORT ITEMS Clipped FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

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Los Angeles.-H. c. Rogers was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment for rob-
berry.
Nelson, B. C-Andrew Berry, 30
years old, was drowned one mile north
of st. Leon recently.
New York.-The city awarded the
whole 1925, 100000 subway extension to
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company.
Marion, Ill.-Mrs. Daniel NORM of
Herrin was put in Jail here to await a
coroner IS jury verdict over the body of
her husband.
Ottawa, Ont.-A conspiracy to con-
troll the smuggling of Chinese and
opium through Pacific coast points has
been unearthed.
Mexico City.-Telephone girls at
Chihuahua struck for three hours re-
Gently and secured a substantial adj
vance in wages.
Victoria, B. C.-Frederick Hussey,
for the last 20 years superintendent
of the British Columbia provincial po-
lice, died here, aged SO.
DR.. w. r. Brooks, director of the
New York observatory, professor of as
tronomy at Hobart college, announces
that he discovered new comet.
Ritzville, Wash.-Claude Willis, Is
year-old son of j. A. Willis of this
place, was drowned at the Frank York
farm, 20 miles west of Ritzville, Satur-
day.
Butte, Mont.-David H. Steele, aged
10, pioneer mining man of the north
west and one of the wealthiest prop
erty owners in Butte, died Saturday of
general breakdown.
Cashmere, Wash.-The body of F. r
Chandler, who was drowned in the
Wenatchee river July 10, was recov
cred near the Monitor bridge, five miles
below the place he was drowned.
st. Petersburg has been no Sc
) cret that Russia has been perhaps tn,
most graft-ridden country in Europ,
and that official corruption is rife il
r high as well as the lower circles.
La Crosse, Wis.-Organized labor o.
Wisconsin, represented at the conven
tion of the State Federation of Labor
Friday voted the Buck Stove an,
Range company in good standing will
the unions.
A puzzling eye disease, which i
widespread in Connecticut towns thi
summer, is said by physicians to b.
caused by the use of oil on the streets
> The eyelids of those affected turn
3 yellowsh color and the lashes fall out
San Bernardino, Cal.-Cloudburst
q that filed canyons with debris an,
turned bunk shacks at the mines int
houseboats have marked the climax o
hot wave which sent the mercury u
to 14O degrees in the Death Vale
sink.
+ North Adams, Mass.-Drawing a re
r volver in a crowded electric car, Pabl
e Mallock, a 21-year-old youth, shot an
b killed Motorman Hoyt and a Mrs. Isle
n and seriously wounded Miss Margare
d Shea of Cheshire and Mrs. S. l.. +
n Hall of Pittsfeld. He was captured
New York.-Three armed thieves il
vaded the heart of the Tenderloin a
n its gayest hour Saturday night, smashe
J.. a Sixth avenue jewelry window, sho
h the clerk, killing him, seized $500
y worth of diamond rings and escaped i
a taxicab, pursued by scores of person
). who had witnessed the murder and roll
g berry.
Patrick Welch of Spokane, and asst
ciates, have been awarded the contraC
for the construction of 551 miles of tn
g Canadian Northern railroad betwee
Port Arthur and Sudbury, Ont, fC
: $12O00,000. This is the second larg
Il contract obtained by the same person
from the same company within a mont
q and constitutes a new record in til
d annals of railroad contracting. TIL
e contract just awarded is one of til
? most extensive ever let, figured froi
n mileage point of view. Several thol
: sand men will be employed on the worl
The time set for its completion is o.
tober, 1913.