Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-08-24
WORLD NEWS IN
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Harold Bell Wright, author has been
granted divorce at Tucson, Ariz.,
from Mrs. Frances L. Wright on
grounds of desertion.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of for
mer President William II. Taft was
married last week at Murray Bay,
Montreal, to Frederick Johnson Man
ming, instructor in history at Yale uni
versity.
Organization of the Northwestern
Cleaners and Dyers' association has
been completed at Portland, so dele
gates from Oregon, Washington, Ida.
no, Montana and British Columbia be-
ing eligible for membership. A con-
stitution and bylaws similar to that
of the national organization was
adopted
The high price of potatoes was too
much for the weak heart of f. e. La
grave of Minneapolis Lagrave walk
ed into the city market and inquired
as to the cost of a bushel of "spuds"
When told the price at which they
were selling he dropped dead.
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Weighed against the specific de-
mands of organized labor, the Demo
cratic platform adopted at San Fran
cisco more nearly approximates the
desired declarations of human rights
than do the planks found in the Re-
publican platform" Samuel Gompers,
chairman of the special committee ap.
pointed by the American Federation
of Labor to present labor's demands
to both party conventions, said in re-
porting the result of the committees
work.
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Fred Staude, San Francisco capital
list, fell from a twelfth-story window
of his office building in that city and
was killed He was So years old and
was president of the Simplex Ice Ma
chine company.
Ellis Island officers investigating es-
capes of aliens from the island hospital
say evidence has been gathered to
show several unidentified employees
had assisted emigrants to enter the
country unlawfully. Approximately 40
immigrants have escaped within the
last three months, according to Byron
FL. Uhl assistant immigration COM
missioner.
Negotiations for the supplying of
500 new locomotives to Rumanian rail-
roads are being conducted by British
firms, according to advices from the
American consul general at London,
made public by the department of
commerce at Washington. Payment
for this equipment will be made wholly
or in part by deliveries of Rumanian
grain and oil, it was stated.
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The interstate commerce commits
sion has certified to the secretary of
the treasury its approval Of new loans
to the railroads of the country bring
ing the total of loans from the rail.
way revolving fund to $22,0S6875.
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Two persons were killed and 16 III.
jured, three seriously, when a Santa
Fe, Prescott & Phoenix passenger
train on which Governor Campbell of
Arizona was passenger, struck a train
of cantaloupe cars between Kirkland
and Hillside, Arizona. The governor
was not injured and Immediately
plunged into the work of extricating
and giving aid to the injured.
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Governor Catta of Florida has re.
fused to call a special session of the
state legislature to act on woman sui.
frage, leaders in Pensacola state. They
said the governor contended such &C.
ton would be useless.
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An unidentified man broke into
Field Marshal Hindenberg's house in
Berlin and fired at the field marshal.
The bullet missed its mark and the
man escaped.
Howard Eby, local immigration com.
missioner at Chicago, has announced
that 13 aliens, four of them alleged
radicals, had been sent from Chicago
to Ellis Island for deportation. Among
those ordered deported were Adolph
Fratesi and Pasquale Nardi of MIL