Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-03-14
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM THE DAILY
TELEGRAPH WIRES.
FROM FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FIELDS
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Told In Brief Paragraphs
for Busy Readers.

Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton, U. S.
NJ, retired, is dead.
Filipinos hope for independence
from the democratic administration
The vatican announces that the in
disposition from which Pope Plus Is
suffering is insignificant.
]. M. Baker of South Carolina, as
sistant librarian of the senate, was
elected by the democrats for secretary.
President Wilson says there was no
immediate prospect of letting down
the civil service bars to the thousands
of democratic officeseekers.
Levi p. Morton of New York, former
vice president, is afflicted with harden
ing of the arteries and has been
gravely ill for several days.
Funeral services for Mrs. Levi u.
Letter. for a quarter of a century one
of the national capitals social leaders
and one of its most brilliant hostesses,
were held Saturday.
Huntington, Quebec.-Henry McCon-
vile, IS years old, and his three grand
children, aged g. 10 and IL years, were
burned to death Saturday in their
home near the Chatauguay river.
Seventeen tuberculosis patients were
treated by DR.. Frederick f. Fried
mann with the vaccine which he as
serts is a cure for tuberculosis at
private clinic in New York Saturday.
Fire of unknown origin which broke
out in the retail section OF Winnipeg,
Manitoba, recently, caused damage es-
timated at 100000. The block was
owned by Director Daniel Mcmillan,
former governor.
The recent fire at Yokohama caused
damage of $7,5OO,OOO in the business
quarter of the city. The exchange,
number of silk factories and ware
houses and $50 business buildings
were destroyed.
President Wilson has offered to
Richard Olney of Boston, secretary of
state in President Cleveland's cabinet,
the post of ambassador to Great
Britain. MIR. Olney has brother liv-
ing at Standpoint, Idaho.
Details of an investigation conduct
ed by the senate of Hawaii, disclosed
the fact that there is shortage OF
81 900 in the accounts of the office
of the auditor of the county of Hawaii
County Auditor G. X. Mcguire is said
to have confessed.
A Chicago jury Saturday returned
a verdict finding both Charles Cramer
and his wife guilty of the murder OF
Miss Sophia Singer of Baltimore,
Cramer's punishment was fixed at life
Imprisonment, while his wife was Civ.
en- IA years in the penitentiary.
The willingness of the young men
of France to join the army in what is
considered a national crisis was indi-
Gated during March by the thousands
Of volunteers who applied at the re-
cruiting offices in every part of the
country to serve a term of three years
Before adjourning the national good
roads convention Endorsed the plan OF
former Representative Stanton War
burton of Washington for a system OF
federal good roads between capitals
of all states to be paid for by an in
creased internal revenue tax on to-
baceo.
London.-Arthur Newton, the lawyer
who came into the limelight during
the trial of DR.. Crippen for murder, in
connection with which he was subse-
quently suspended from practice, was
today brought up at Bow street police
court on the charge of conspiracy to
defraud DR.. Hans Thorsch, a wealthy
young physician of Vienna. The sum
involved was $4,000.
Reclamation service officials take
issue with the recent statements of
James ]. Hill, in an address at Charles
ton, S. c., in which the railroad mag
nate was credited with charging the
management of the reclamation ser
vice as being stupid" and saying that
irrigation works in the United States
had cost twice as much as they should,
and twice as much as they would in
Canada.