Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-03-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM THE DAILY
TELEGRAPH WIRES.
fROMFOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FIELDS
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Told In Brief Paragraphs
for Busy Readers.

Willis Moore has resigned as chief
OF the United States weather bureau.
Governor Walter E. Clark signed the
bill giving the ballot to the women of
Alaska.
Carranza, rebel governor of Coahu-
fla, Mexico, is seeking an opportunity
to treat for peace.
The Boy Scouts of Augusta, Ga, pre-
sented former President Taft with a
gold knife recently
e. A. Peck, general superintendent
of the St. Louis Southwestern railroad,
committed suicide recently
Blind, and i'll with pneumonia, An
drew G. Thompson, n years of age
committed suicide at Pleasant Grove,
Utah, Saturday.
Secretary of the Interior Lane has
signed the paper granting the petition
of the Tieton homesteaders for gradu-
ated payments.
William f. McCoombs, chairman of
the national democratic national com
mittee, has declined to become am.
bassador to France.
President Wilson is seeking John R.
Mott, on of the prominent internation-
al secretaries of the Y. M. G. A., to
take the post of minister to China.
The worlds consumption of oil ag-
mil Ia oIc
The United States produced during
1912 over two hundred twenty billion
barrels.
The jury at Topeka, Kansas, in the
case of Rev. w. l.. Beers, a Methodist
minister, charged with Staying his
wife by forcing her false teeth down
her throat, disagreed.
1t is reported that John Mitchell,
vice president of the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor, will be named as a
New York state department head, with
a salary of $4,000 per year.
A committee has been formed to
erect a memorial to the late John Big
Glow, the distinguished publicist, diplo-
matist and United States minister to
France during the civil war.
A bill authorizing the appropriation
of one million five hundred thousand
dollars for a United States exhibit at
the Panama Pacific Exposition was
approved by the canal committee on
Industrial exposition last week.
Then million dollars will be ex-
hot a.
Dominion of Canada government for
the advancement of agriculture. This
is in addition to any sums which the
various provinces may appropriate for
this purpose.
The death of General Manuel Bon.
lila, president of Honduras, is report
ed. The transfer of the executive pow
ers to Vice President DR.. f. Francisco
Bertrand was received quietly through.
out the republic.
The German government in order to
cover the continually increasing ex.
penditures of the army, is contemplat.
ing the establishment of government
monopolies in the sale of cigarettes,
matches and alcohol.
That Lord Denman, the governor
general without home, was wrong.
fully elected from his headquarters at
Sydney by the state government was
the decision of the full supreme court
at Melbourne, Australia
Plans have been perfected to issue
100000 postal cards and send them
broadcast over the United States,
thereby calling attention to the reign
of King Apple in Idaho, Montana, Ore
gon and Washington, the three north
western states that have set aside the
same apple day, April 5.
Henri Auguste Fromaleot, a distin-
guished French lawyer and publicist,
has been chosen by the governments
of the United States and Great Britain
as the umpire, or third member of the
joint commission appointed under
treaty provisions for the settlement
OF British and American pecuniary
claims.