Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-12-20
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From Hamilton, Bermuda, the Will
son party sailed for the United States
Saturday.
A. II. Palm of Philadelphia has been
appointed receiver for the Pittsburg
K Susquehanna Railroad company.
The Balkan ENJOYS have agreed to
second each others claims for Turkish
territory, according to an agreement.
c. r. yesterday, farmer living near
Marengo, Iowa, was beaten and robbed
of S449O in the union station at Bur
lington, Iowa.
Customs officers at San Francisco
are investigating a report that $4,000
worth of cocaine has been Struggled
from Canada.
Through the efforts of Secretary
Nagle bills are under consideration by
congress authorizing the expenditure
of $4,000 for improvement of Puget
Sound.
The condition of Whitelaw Reid,
American ambassador to England, is
now favorable, according to the Lon
don bulletin issued Monday. He is
quite serious.
The petition of John L. Speer, mil
lionaire society man of Pittsburg, ask
ing that his divorce from Margaret
Taylor Speer be annulled on the
ground of collision was dismissed.
Fogler and Rutt, the German-Amer-
lean team, won the six-day bicycle race
in New York, which ended Saturday
night Walter Rutt took the honors
for his team in the mile sprint which
decided the race.
With the arrival of rs prisoners from
Washington, d. c., last November the
pumber Of prisoners in the federal
rison at Leavenworth, Kas., was in
seased to 1906, the most ever confined
the institution at one time.
Willis York and Carl Gross were held
accountable for the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton railroad wreck in a
suburb of Indianapolis on November
10, when 16 lives were lost. according
to the report of Cononer Durham.
The railways of the United States
have union stations in 1875 of the 227
cities shown in the census of 1910 as
having a population of over $4,000, and
,e aff IN, thfc 1fcf having a
population of over 100000, 40 contain
union stations.
The Northeastern railroad strike has
been settled at New Castle, England.
It began December Z and affected 5000
locomotive engineers and about 10000
other workers. It's cause was the re-
duction in rank of an engineer for in
toxication while off duty.
Federal Judge Maxey of Austin,
Texas, has ordered the release on bond
of Colonel Pascual Orozco Sr and Gen
eral David de la Fuente, who have been
in custody of Colonel Charles G. Treat
at Fort Sam Houston pending an ap-
peal to be taken by the government.
Cobalt, Ont.-Worried over the fail
ure OF the expedition to return, James
Stewart and George Watt have started
from here to Moose Factory to seek
information regarding that part Of the
Donaldson party which last July went
I'D the coast of the Hudson bay from
the East Main river to Clark island to
look over the iron properties there.
The largest organ in the world is
claimed for the new st. Michaers
church. which was recently dedicated
at Hamburg in the presence Of the
emperor. 1t is over 81 feet high and
is divided into five stories. Its largest
pipe is 81 feet long, has a diameter
of 81 inches and weighs nearly 12OO
pounds. The organ is played on five
different keyboards, each containing
81 keys, and it has 80 pedals. There
are more than 1000 stops and buttons
for controlling the tones Two cleo
trical motors, each of five horsepower
supply the air pressure.