Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-26
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
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Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
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The tariff conference voted Saturday
to leave bananas on the free list.
Governor Cox of Ohio has appointed
Hugh L. Nichols Of Batavia chief JUS
tice of the Ohio supreme court.
Montreal.-James Ross, millionaire
railroad builder, died here Saturday
of heart disease. He was So years old.
London.-Sir Edward Carson, leader
of the Irish unionists, Is now engaged
In reviewing the volunteers at various
places in Antrim.
Bentonville, Ark.-The Rev. w. e.
Pippin, Baptist minister, after plead
ing guilty here to passing a worthless
check, was sentenced to three years.
Representatives. of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners will tour the iron
mining districts of Minnesota and
Michigan for aid for the striking cop
per miners at Calumet, Mich.
Mrs. Lorena Mathews was acquitted
by jury at Guthrie, Okla, of the
charge of completely in the murder Of
her husband, Lawrence Mathews, on
their farm at Saltwater in December,
1908.
At Breslau, German, several of IA
prominent men arrested and accused
of improper relations with young girls
have committed suicide, among them
one officer and one former police Off
cial.
London.-George Washington of
Nashville, Tenn, lineal descendant
of one of President Washington
brothers, is visiting Sulgrave manor
the ancestral home of the Washington
family.
Famous metropolitan playhouses
once the sanctuary of Legitimate
drama, are yielding their boards tc
the silent actors of the photoplay
Every day more than 100000 attend
An imposing demonstration in which
about 10000 persons, including man,
red-shirted Garibaldians and othel
veterans, took part. was held Saturda,
In celebration of the anniversary o
the capture of Rome by the Italian
troops in 1870.
The efforts of the Prussian and Sax
on ministers of war to secure the CO
operation of chambers of commerce IL
obtaining places in bsiness for retire'
army officers continue to excite tn,
opposition and indignation of bushes
organizations in Germany.
Kansas City, Woodworking to al
announcement from the board of pc
lice commissioners, the beauty squad
men dressed as girls-of the loca
police department is to be maintaine'
Indefinitely in an effort to driv
Washers" from the shopping district
Berlin.-The germ of smallpox,
protozoan so infinitesimal that it ha
passed through the minutest filter
and escaped the trained gaze OF mi
croscopists for decades, has bee
finally discovered by DR.. Walter Fol
net, staff physician at the Kaiser Wi
helm academy.
Heidelberg, German.-Only a SINAI
number of persons, chiefly the repre-
sentatives of princely homes, wer
present at the funeral of Princess Sc
phia, the only daughter of Prince WI
liam of Saxe-Weimar- Eisenach. Han
Won Bleichroeder. for hopeless love o
whom the princess killed herself, di'
not attend the services.
The lumber industry In this countr.
as represented by the number of fee
cut in any one year made its recor'
in 1909, when 44,509. 161 900 feet wer
taken from the timber growing states
In 1910 the total was 40,018, 282 90
feet, in 1911 37,003, 207 900 feet and II
1912 the figures were slightly in
creased over the previous year to 80
l5S,414,0 900 feet. Last year the stat
of Washington was the largest produc
er of lumber with total cut of 4,099
$4,000 feet, Louisiana was second
Mississippi third, North Carolini
fourth, Oregon fifth and Texas sixth
About 14.770. 100000 feet of the tota
number produced last year were vel
low pine, practically all of which wa
cut in the south, where also NOR
than half of the hardwood cut of tn,
country CaIfe. from