Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-05-18
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Former Emperor William at a din
ner last week thanked Count Won Ben
timex for his hospitality and for all
the trouble and Inconvenience he had
suffered for his sake. For a keep
sake he presented a marble bust of
himself to the count. The ex-kaiser
has moved into his own new home at
A~merongen.
The labor council Of SyGney, N s..
W., after a heated debate, decided not
to participate in the welcome to the
Prince of Wales on his forthcoming
visit to New South Wales.
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DR.. John Dill Robertson's class for
Chicago fat women set a record In the
third week of their 60-day reducing
campaign, which has just closed, by
losing an average of 4.55 pounds. Mrs.
Nellie Leonard, who started three
weeks g at 323, brought her total
loss to 20 pounds by dropping nine and
one-half pounds during the last seven
days.
Motion to quash the indictment
against 125 bitumlnous coal miners
and operators Of Indiana, Ohio, Him
OILS and Pennsylvania, were filed in the
federal court at Indianapolis by
Charles Evans Hughes, chief counsel
for the indicted miners, and Samuel d.
Miller and James A. Bingham, counsel
for the operators. The motion attacks
the constitutionality of the Lever
food control act on which the
indictments are based.
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Two persons were killed and two
seriously injured when their automo
bile was struck by a Great Northern
passenger train, east bound near Dali
ton, MINI.
An invitation has been extended to
Maj. Gen. Enoch III. Crowder, provost
marshal of the army during the war,
to become a member of the board of
control of the Kansas City Railways
company. The position pays $4,000
a year. General Crowder would rep
resent the city on the board, accord
ing to the plan.
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Five unmasked robbers held up the
store rooms of a former saloon keeper
at Kansas City and drove away with
two truck loads of whiskey valued at
$4,000. The proprietor was forced to
operate the elevator while the robbers
carried the whiskey from the third
floor to the street and placed 1t in
motor trucks.
President Wilson has signed a bill
amending the deportation laws so as
TO make possible the deportation of
Germans and other aliens who were
lnterned during the war as enemy
Births In the registration area OF the
United States, which covers about SO
per cent of the country's estimated
population, during the year 1918, ex-
ceeded deaths by 34.4 per cent. Sta
tistics just completed by the census
show a total of 1853, 649 births
for that year In the territory which is
a small decrease compared to 1917,
while the deaths, 1,014,620, show a
increase.
Delegates attending a meeting of the
national board of farm organizations
at Chicago refused to indorse a move
ment to bring Chinese labor into the
United States to meet the shortage OF
labor at the present time.
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kilograms have been sent by the
department of justice to all United
States attorneys reiterating the de
policy Of holding the mar
gin of profit on sugar sales to 1 cent
for wholesalers and 2 cents for retail
ers. I,
Orville Harrington. former employee
Of the Denver mint, was sentenced to
10 years in the United States peniten- |
Eiary at Leavenworth, Kas., following
plea Of guilty to stealing $4,000 I
gold anodes from the mint. The :
gold was recovered. (,