Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-08-20
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
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LAST ANALYSIS.
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@rIef Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.


Lawrence Lyon. age "a, of Ithaca,
an aviator, was drowned at Conesus
Fake recently when the aeroplane
eurned over and fell into the water.
A dispatch to the London Daily News
Srom Athens says French and British
s4eroplanes have flown over Constan-
uinople. They threw bombs on Galata,
causing heavy casualties.
Eugene V. Debs, national leader of
the socialist party, announces that
national labor college, to be known as
the Peoples college, would be estab-
uished at Fort Scott. Kan. The an
rnouncement stated that Debs had been
elected president
Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam, hon
sorary curator of the Peabody museum
rat Harvard and a noted antlfropologist
and zoologist died Saturday in his nth
year. He had edited all of the publica-
rions of the Peabody museum since
1873
The torpedoboat destroyer Ericsson
was delivered to Acting Commandant
Price of the Philadelphia navy yard
Saturday by the New York Shipbuild-
Sng company. She was accepted and
crew of rs men under Lieutenant Com
umander Pryor was put aboard.
Activity such as Sharon, Pa, has not
known in several years is shown by
blast furnace interests, due to the in
creasing demand for pig iron. The
statement was made Saturday tina
Eurnaces which have long been idle
would be placed in operation before
October /.
The coronation of Archduke Charles
stephen of Austria as King of Poland
will take place in the Warsaw cathed-
raI according to the Times Petrograd
correspondent, who adds that a proc
gamation naming the new king on the
authority of Germany and Austria is
expected to be issued shortly.
Authority has been granted Major
General Murray, commanding the west
ern department of the army, to hold
a business mems military camp at
American Lake, Wash, from August
80 to September IL, similar to one al
one now on at Plattsburg, N. Y.
Proposed increased rates of cents
per 100 pounds for transportation of
cattle and sheep in carloads from Col
Norado, South Dakota and other west
@rn states to Chicago and points on
che Missouri and Mississippi rivers
were disapproved last week by the in
Eerstate commerce commission.
Gas meters in New York hereafter
will be read by photograph in order to
insure absolute accuracy. Meter read
ers will be equipped with camera,
which fits over the indicator of the
gas meter. By pressing button light
ts thrown on the dial and exposure
made showing the amount of gas used
Attorney General Gregory practic
ally has decided that the 5000 prison
<ers in the three federal penitentiaries
shall be put to work making articles
which can be bought by government
departments. including the army and
navy. At present they are at work
ysnlarging their living quarters, which
will not be completed for a year.
No bodies were found in the hold Of
the Eastland Saturday, at Chicago and
the keeper of the city morgue said
he doubted whether any would be-
found there Three bushels of jewelry
purses and other small pieces of per
Ssonal property which belonged to vic
Tins were found on the upper decks
which were the first available t.
search.
John Hildebrand, aged 5S, retired
business man. was found murdered IL
his apartment In Upper Fifth avenue
New York, by his daughter Sophie
when she returned from a call. Hill
Siebrand had been beaten about the
head and body. although bullet IL
the heart had caused death. The fur
niture was overturned, showing thai
she had struggled with his assailants.
The Italian infantrymen protect
themselves against shrapnel while ad
vancing on trenches by crawling OF
all tours with bags of earth on theil
backs. These afford sufficient pro
lection against ordinary shrapnel bull
lets and shell fragments. On hating
the men construct temporary parapets
with their bags. 1t was by this meth
cd that the Italians carried five miles
of Austrian entrenchments on the Car
so recently.
The Atlantic battleship fleet, or par
of 1t, will be reviewed by the cover
nors of the country during their an
nual conference here August "a to q
Governor Walsh stated recently. His
statement was made upon the receipt
of q telegram from Secretary Daniels
saying that a warship would be de
tailed on August rs to take the gov
errors to Gloucester, and that Other
vessels of the fleet would be lined VI
off Boston light for review.