Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-05-13
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING The 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.

At Shanghai, Rene WALTON, the French
aviator, fell from great height Satur-
day and was instantly killed..
Little change is recorded in the strike
situation on the Pennsylvania railroad,
whose shopmen went out.
Three hundred and eighty-two ships
will take part in the naval review by
the king at Spithead, England
The United States Steel corporation
is negotiating for the purchase of the
Moran company's plant, at Seattle.
The court mourning for King Edward
was ended Saturday, May 6, the first
anniversary of the death of the mon
arch.
At San Francisco jury in the super !
Tor court Saturday returned a verdict
of manslaughter against Andrew Brown,
who was accused of killing his wife.
Great distress is being caused to
housewives in Berlin by the remarkable
dearth of domestic servants, due pri
marily to German industrial prosperity.
The servants union being formed in
Vienna threatens to give trouble in the
kitchen, as the millinery workers union
gave trouble to the society leaders over
their Easter hats and gowns.
At a sale in Paris Of relics of Napo
leon IS army the headdress of an officer
of the guards brought $3.50, helmet
worn by a lieutenant of the guards at
Waterloo $575, and sabre presented
by Napoleon $270.
President Taft Saturday designated
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Ma
gel and Chandler p Anderson, counsel
lor of the state department, to confer
with representatives of Great Britain,
Japan and Russia and to negotiate and
sign a treaty for the protection and
preservation of seals, sea otter and
other manuals in the North Pacific.
Seattle.-The mystery concerning the
man back of Detective William J.
Burns in gathering evidence of alleged
corruption in the police department I'M
der the last administration is cleared.
DIR. Mark A. Matthews, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, announces
that he had engaged Mr. Burns and was
paying him out Of his own pocket.
Canada will have three transcOntin-
entail railroad lines and fourth road
to tidewater by way of Hudson bay, if
the announcement of the policies of the
liberal government are carried out.
John Charles, aged "A, capturer of
% Deadwood Dick" and who received
ri fnr Iii
gang of outlaws near Deadwood, S. D.,
died in poverty at Bozeman, Mont.
Tuesday.
The American Federation of Labor
has issued an appeal for funds for the
defense of the Mcnamara brothers, in
Jail at Los Angeles for dynamiting the
various buildings. Their trial comes up
in September.
Little doubt exists in Washington
that Commissioner Fred bennett of the
general land office will decide against
the Cunningham coal claimants and or
der an area of Alaska S mineral lands
returned to public domain.
At Cambridge, Mass, Tuesday, Col
Onel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, his
t0rian and author, minister and soldier
aud one of the last of the famous schol
airs and abolitionists of a half century
ago, died aged 81 years.
AT Milwaukee, Wis, Tuesday, Emma
Nelson and Mabel Gilmore were shot
and instantly killed, and Joseph Ungel
was seriously wounded at a resort b,
Charles Vance, a stationary engnee
of Racine, who then killed himself.
Second Assistant Postmaster Genera
Stewart frankly admitted Tuesday be
fore the house committee on civil ser
vice, that clerks had been discharge,
from the government service for activ
ity in promoting the organization of
trade union
Characterizing the killing of Ameri
cans in FL Paso and Douglas as "mul
der, Senator Stone of Missouri ha
made a second speech of protest agains
the inactivity of the United States i
the protection of its citizens along tn
Mexican border.
The report of the Bunker Hill an
Sullivan mine for the fiscal year enc
ed May ], shows it to be the bipge,
producer in the Occur d'Alene distric
with the net profits aggregating $971
263.35. The Hercules comes secon,
with the returns showing a net prof
of $41s,542.
The 190-ton wooden steamer Whidb
which piled on Puget sound from S
attic to Everett and WILDLY and Car
ano island points, was burned at b.
wharf at Oak Harbor Camano islam
Tuesday, and Fireman Joseph Park
of Seattle, and Manuel Silva, wha
hand, who were asleep in the hold, pc
ished The boat was valued at $4,000