Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-04-11
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.

In all the civilized world in 1912 no
woman was executed for murder.
There is fear of an epidemic in the
flood districts of southern Illinois.
The coronation of King Constantine
of Greece will not take place until next
year.
The liner La France, bearing the
body of J.. Pierpont Morgan, sailed
from Paris, April 5.
Representative James r. Mann of
Illinois was elected as the republican
candidate for speaker Of the house.
e. T. Stotesbury of the Philadelphia
house of Drexel &c Morgan may take
the place occupied by the late Pierpont
Morgan.
Governor Cruce of Oklahoma has
signed the bill providing for the cleo
trocution of condemned criminals in
that state.
Plans for public buildings authorized
by the last congress will not be taken
up by the architects of the treasury de-
partment before 1916.
Gold exports seem to be at an end
for the present, but the spring move
ment of money to the interior will
soon be much in evidence.
Score Try Daniels of the navy de-
partment has decided that the Mare
Island navy I'd should be continued
as a yard of the first class.
Persons who know him well, say
that ]. p, jr., or Jack Morgan, as he
Is Familiarity called, is a chip of the
old block, albeit a 45-year-old chip.
. Joseph Gentry, one of the kidnapers
of Marian Bleakley, the famous "incu-
bator baby" was refused temporary
parole by Governor Hodges of Kansas.
The Gloucester, Mass, fishing inter
ests have subscribed $4,000 for an in
vestigation of the exodus of fishermen
to Pacific ports during the last few
years.
Lively scenes were enacted in sew
eral of the leading New York restau-
rants when police Saturday night en-
forced Mayor Gaynors recent mo
liquor selling after l o'clock" order.
At least one great power already
has declined to join the United States
In recognizing the new Chinese repub-
lie at this stage and there is reason
to expect some of the other powers
to take a similar attitude.
The California senate committee on
revenue and taxation recently gave ia
vorable recommendation to a constitu-
tional amendment providing for the
exemption from taxation of every edu-
eational institution of collegiate grade
in the state.
Walter H. Page, the editor and pub
Usher of New York, has been nominal
ed by President Wilson for the post of
United States ambassador to Great
Britain. Mr. Page is So years old. He
is a native of South Carolina and a
graduate of Johns Hopkins university.
Sixty heads of big industrial enter
prises in Chicago, employing an aggre
gate of 100000 persons, have sub
scribed funds whereby they expect to
drive the local loan Sharks" out of
business. The scheme is the simple
one of establishing a loan agency of
their own.
Captain Lawrence Oates of the En-
niskillen dragons, who died with
Captain Robert f. Scott on his antarc-
tic expedition, had lost both of his
feet from frostbite before he stumped
out of the tent to his death on the
stumps of his legs, according to
recent letter.
Attorney General McReynolds has
declined to reopen the question of par
doning Frederick A. Hyde and Joost II.
Schneider, convicted in 1909 of con-
spiracy to defraud the United States in
connection with California and Oregon
lands. President Taft refused a par
don on February 81 from the United
States.