Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS
FROM WORLD over
SHORT ITEMS Clipped FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both Eastern
and Western Hemispheres During Past
Week-National, Historical, Political
and Personal Events Told in Short
Paragraphs for Busy Readers.

Paragraphs for Busy Readers.
Inauguration day in Arizona was
Wednesday, February IA.
At Alameda, Cal, James Wise, a
well-dressed stranger, committed sui
eide Sunday.
Baron De Rio Branco, minister of for
egn affairs in the Brazilian cabinet,
died recently.
Chicago street railway companies
were fined $15Oc recently for INSULT
cent heating of stiet cars.
The floods continue in every part of
Portugal, but the southern districts are
the more seriously affected.
Like carrying coal to Newcastle, "
carload of sunAower seed has been re-
ceived in Kansas, the Sunhower state,
from Europe.
Louisville, Ky, is to have an eight
story hotel for negroes exclusively. 1t
will contain 800 rooms and will cost
about $4,000.
S. o. Bourea of Port Arthur, Ont,
crossed frozen Lake Superior to Duluth,
in an automobile, a distance of 1876
miles, last Sunday.
President Taft has decided to delay
the appointment of a successor to the
late Justice Harlan of the United
States supreme court.
Robert Long, aged 80, stationed at
Fort Dupont, Delaware City, Saturday
shot and killed his 19-year-old wife and
then committed suicide.
The coasts of Tripoli and Cyrenaica
still are commanded by the Turks and
the Arab allies to such an extent that
Italian action is great restricted.
Colonel William II. Stewart, former
commander-in chief of the Union Cob
federate veterans, died at his home in
Portsmouth, Va, of pneumonia. He
was 70 years old.
Lieutenant Commander Samuel B.
Thomas, u. S. N, son of the late Rear
Admiral Charles NJ Thomas, died re-
Gently in Los Angeles He had been
married a few days.
At Chicago several persons were in
jured by falling debris, and traffic was
, obstructed in the downtown quarter
when fire did $4,000 damage to the
Temple Court building.
Earl Spencer of London has resigned
I 81, Il
I action is attributed to the widespread
criticism recently of his conduct of the
e Office of censor of plays.
The Saxon court is negotiating with
r the authorities in Vienna with a view
| to obtaining a declaration that ex
;. Crown Princess Louise of Saxony is
[ irresponsible for her actions.
Refugee officials of the Diaz regime
a in Mexico can not be extradited from
? the United States for executions OF
other acts which they may have ordered
while holding positions of authority.
Three children were burned to death
one man fatally injured and woman
seriously hurt in a mysterious explo
sion which destroyed the home of Isaac
Smith, a farmer living near Maxwell
Iowa.
Fifteen midshipmen of the fourth
l class of the naval academy failed il
semi annual examinations and ar,
forced to resign. Among them is Rob
ert s. Lamotte of the state of Wash
: ington.
. A reduction of the cavalry force OF
. the United States army from Is to Il
regiments, with a consequent reduction
( of the enlisted force of the army by
! 1880 men was passed in the house Of
congress Saturday.
e By vote of to the senate com
D mittee of privileges and elections ap
: proved the report of the subcommittee
a generating Senator Stephenson from
S charges of corruption in connection
r with his election.
Christiania.-The designations of the
ministers of foreign affairs, justice
commerce, defense and public instruc
! tion were due to their opposition tC
the movement to make the peasant dia
lect Norway's literary language.
Ernest Terah Hooley, who was one
e of the leading men in the financial
] world of London a few years ago, wa:
/, sentenced recently at the Old Bailey tC
!, year Is Imprisonment on a charge OF
), obtaining money by fraudulently repre-
r. senting as free of encumbrances some
property he had sold tc the complain
ant.