Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-07-02
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMI-
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
6ref Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.

Evelyn Thaw is to be a witness at
Harry Thaw's trial for insanity.
Rev. Theodore L. Flood, a noted
Methodist preacher, died Saturday.
Alexander Kenealy, editor of the
London Daily Mirror, died recently.
General w. A. Soukhomlinoff, the
Russian minister of war, has resigned.
Next Sunday being the Fourth of
July, pursuant to custom Independ-
ence day will be observed on the
fifth.
Several thousand representatives of
Zionist organizations of the country
are holding a meeting in Boston this
week.
German papers rap peace plan. They
say the recent German socialist man
ifesto is seen as a weakening cause
of the Fatherland.
The total attendance at the Panama
Pacific exposition at San Francisco
since it's opening passed the 100000
mark Sunday noon.
Hundreds of massmeetings of wom-
en- were held in all parts of Scandina-
via Sunday to urge the calling of a
conference of neutral nations to end
the war.
German submarine, which left
Emden for the North sea recently,
sank near the island of Borkum after
a severe explosion, the cause of which
is unknown.
Americans in the Yaqui valley, Mex
leo, are we'll armed with Springfield
rifles and an adequate supply of am
munition and are ready to repel any
future attacks.
Convicted of treason General Bare
du, ex-member of the Union defense
council, South Africa, was recently
sentenced to five years Imprisonment
and fined $4,000.
Mr.. Maxim, the gun inventor, de
clares modern style guns and arma
ments are life saving machines, and
asserts that it is more dangerous tC
ride in an automobile than to go into
the trenches.
Bombs dropped by British aviatorI
near Roulers, Belgium, Saturday, caus
ed the explosion of a large ammuni
ton depot and also resulted in the
killing of so German soldiers WHIT
were loading an ammunition train.
Secretary Redfield reported thi
week at the cabinet meeting that tn
total trade balance in favor of tn
United States on June 10 was $976
100000. He predicted that the bal
ance for the fiscal year ending July
would be in excess of $1,000, 100000.
Six persons were killed and II 9th
ers more or less seriously injured re
Gently when the Blue Mountain eS
press and the fast mail of the Wester
Maryland railway crashed on bridg
100 feet high a few miles west c
Thurmont, Md
Workmen excavating under tn
house occupied until a few years ag
by Eugene Butler, at Niagara, N. d
who died in 1913 in the state hospitt
for insane, unearthed the remains {
six men, believed by the authorize
to have been murdered by Butler.
The supplementary British naval e.
innate issued Saturday provides IL
the addition of $4,000 officers and me
to the navy This would bring the t
tai personnel for this year to 10000
officers and men. The last vote {
$50 900 men was made in February.
The idea of the express compani'
entering into the merchandise deli
cry service as the result of the pare
post hampering their operations in
larger field of activity, does not appe
from the standpoint of lowering Il
cost, except for the department stor'
in the larger cities. There IS no re
reason why an intermediary should
employed in this department, if Il
merchants are able to get togeth
upon a comprehensive plan for coo
erative deliveries.