Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-05-11
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Japan has withdrawn all objections
to the Chinese consortium and has pre-
pared a communication according to
the terms agreed by the United States,
Great Britain and France, the state
department was informed by the Amer
lean embassy at Tokyo.
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Estimates placed the damage lone
to crops by a hailstorm which swept
Jasper county, Missouri, at more than
100000. Hundreds of acres of straw
berries ready to harvest, and oats,
wheat and other growing crops were
destroyed. j. e. Perriman, a farmer,
was killed by lightning, which struck
his home.
A Missouri Pacific local passenger
train and an extra freight met in head
end collision near Hope, Ark. Sever
al passengers were injured. Railroad
officials said the passenger train was
badly wrecked and four cars of the
freight demolished.
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Additional taxes amounting to $267,-
100000, nave been assessed against big
corporations in the last nine months as
a result of an audit of their tax re-
turns, Internal Revenue Commissioner
Williams informed congress in asking
for $1,300,000 to pay the expenses of
his work.
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The announcement of Gov. de la
Huerta that he intends to make Next
co bone dry threw CONSERVATION into
the ranks of Americans who have been
fitting up modern cafes in Nogales. So
nora, in anticipation of an early lifting
of the lid. Wholesale liquor dealers
across the line declared their belief
that the danger of prohibition has been
grossly exaggerated.
4 Z
The Chinese legation at Washington
denies that China has extended recog-
milton to the Russian B~olshevik gov
eminent as reported in a Moscow wire
less dispatch recently.
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The body of H. J. Robbins. a veal
thy retired banker. formerly of Oma-
ha, was found in the rear of a vacant
house in n of the better residence
sections of Los Angeles. Mr.. Robbins
had been beaten to death. A consid-
cradle sum of money, his watch and
other %valuables were undisturbed. Mr..
Robbins lived not far from the scene
of his death.
An additional appropriation Of $780,
100000 to aid the railroads in pur-
chasing rolling stock to relieve the
present freight car shortage was urged
by farmers and millers of Minnesota
and other northwestern states who an
peared before the senate Interstate
commerce committee. SO much grain
is tied up on the farms and in eleva-
tors that credit of owners is actually
impaired, they said.
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Charles Stoffer, Jr., took his father
and two friends for a ride in his new
airplane at Vallejo, Cal. Coming down.
the engine died and the plane went
into a nose dive. Charles Stoffer. Sr..
and Josephine S%ilveria, aged eight.
were killed, Jose Silveria suffered seri.
u injuries, and Stoffer was severely
bruised.
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The house postoffice committee has
refused to act favorably on the Tess
bill proposing repeal of the graduated
increase in second class mail rates for
1920, 1921 and 1922.
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Don Gelasio Caetani, a brother of
Prince Caetani, the American-trained
engineer who laid the mine which
blew off the top of the mountain Col
di Mana during the war, burying hun
dreds of Austrian soldiers beneath it.
has just dynamited a canal into exist.
ence from Lake Caprolace in Italy TO
the Mediterranean sea.