Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-11-16
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

In view of hundreds of Armistice
day celebrants who engaged them
selves in the noise celebration" in
Springfield, ILL.,, a girl becoming in
dignant because shower of talcum
powder had been thrown in her face,
turned upon her youthful prosecutor
and gave him severe threshing with
a horsewhip.
Officers pursuing rum runners no
longer must stop at the international
boundary line between Canada and
the United States. 1t has become
known at Windsor, Ont, that by re
cent agreement, an American officer
will accompany Canadian license
/ squads, and vice versa. This opera
ton is expected to facilitate in curb
ing traffic in liquor along the border.
DIR. Carleton Simon, appointed spe-
cial deputy police commissioner of
New York to handle cases involving
narcotic drugs, entered on his duties
by directing raid on a tenement
house on the lower East side and seiz-
ing four kinds of habit-forming drugs
valued at approximately 100000.
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The Selway Steel Post and Fence
company of Des Moines has been or
dered into receivership by Judge HUI
bert Utterback in district court there
and Thomas Tobin, lumberman, APP
pointed as receiver. Mr.. Tobn has
not yet announced whether he will
serve. The company is capitalized at
$2.00O,O0O.
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A gift of 100000 marks to the
German government by Haiime Hoshi.
president of the Hoshi Pharmaceutical
company Of Toxic, Japan, has been ac-
cepted in the name of the German gov
eminent by DR.. Wilhelm Solf, German
charge daffaires at Toxic. The gift
will be used for German medical and
chemical Investigations and is based
on the donors administration for Ger
manys contributions to science.
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Fights staged in a Chicago school
under the direction of the principal to
settle grudges between pupils who rep
resent - nationalities, were condemn
ed in resolution adopted by the Chi
cago church federation. The principal
recently announced she had found box
ing matches refereed by her were the
best means of settling quarrels.
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The railway situation is represented
in Dublin as serious because of the
refusal of the railway men to trans
port troops and munitions. Collaps,
at Christmas time of the profitabl,
food traffic is feared. Although tn,
general public is DESTROYS of a com
promise on the munitions question, thu
} attitude of the railway men remains
J unchanged. and they are supported b,
. Sim Feiners.
Commodity prices have indicated
/ such a downward trend that the de
} partment of justice is largely conten
to let the downward trend carry on b.
} It's own momentum, according to
J statement by Howard Figg, special as
; sistant in charge of the work, and VIII
has resigned. effective November is.
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D. r. Smith, %, an employe of
paving plant near Idaho Falls, Ida
I was killed when his clothing caught |
some cog wheel chains. his body bein
: drawn into the machinery and badl
. mangled.
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: The vatican museums and pictur
: galleries in Rome have been closed g
n the result of strike ultimatum by tn
: museum attendants, giving the dlrectc
: Of museums half an hour in which
t concede their demand for pay equal
that received by the attendants Of II
I. royal museums. ----->---