Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-01-04
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Taxpayers required to make lnven-
tories for 1920 returns may adopt the
basis of cost or market whichever
is lower" under regulations issued by
the internal revenue bureau.
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A Moscow wireless message saws
that as Great Britain, which recently
accepted the July agreement for a re-
sumption of trade with Russia, "has
now completely altered it's position and
is clearly evading the obligations which
it undertook in July" the soviet gov
eminent has decided to recall I.eonid
Krassin Bolsheliki minister Of trade
and commerce, from London to consult
with him.
Two hundred gallons of whisky new
truck and two men, Joseph Posner.
Chicago and John l.. Burns, st. Paul,
were captured at Waterloo, Iowa, when
the liquor runners got stuck in a snow
bank.
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Enrico Caruso, tenor, who has been
seriously ill in his apartment in New
York for more than a week, has de-
veloped suppurative pleurisy, attend
ing physicians state. Surgical respira-
ton was successfully accomplished,
the physicians announced, and added
that although he had improved slight
ly, his condition still was serious.
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Ferdinand Thum, said to be the in
ventor of sticky fly paper, was found
dead in bed at his home at Pasadena.
Cal. Mr.. Thum perfected his fly paper
while in business in Grand Rapids. |
Mich. He was unmarried.
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Franklin X. Lane, former secretary
of the interior, has made reservations
at the Rochester, Mimi, hospital and is
expected to arrive shortly to consult
che Doctors Mayo.
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John Sykes. self-styled "king of
heaven and EARTH" and leader of the
sect of the House of David, has been
arrested in Denver on charge of op-
Grating confidence game.
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Massa chuSetts coal dealers were told
to come down from their high perch
In a communication from Fuel Admin
Istrator e. G. Huffman. Asserting that
the retail price of anthracite coal in
many communities was excessive he
said there was no justification for con-
dnuance of high prices. and ne request
ed prompt readjustment.
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Daniel O'Connell, San Francisco at
torney, who is serving a seven-year
sentence at the federal penitentiary at
island, has been disbarred by
he state supreme court from practic-
ng law. O'Connell was convicted of
to obstruct the draft law.
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Additional information regarding the
of the S1OO,OOOOOO and
80, 100000 wartime appropriations
made by congress "for the national Sc
,urity and Defense" would be asked Of
President Wilson under a resolution
Uttered by Representative Gould CRY,
New York.
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Mail sacks containing 100000 in
ash consigned to a firm in Havana
we're raasacked in the pOstoffice of
hat city several weeks ago and the
money has not been recovered, it has
'een learned in New York. The loss
will fall on an insurance company Gov
ring protection of the currency, It
vas said.
One man was killed and more than
o persons were injured, several seri-
'usly, when trailer attached to
'ittsburgh, Pa, street car broke loose
N Forbes street grade in the Oak
and district and dashed down the
ill and crashed into another car. Both
ars We're crowded.
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Salaries of all civil service employees
+ Seattle viii be reduced Is per cent
eginning March 81, IL an ordinance in
reduced in the city council by Coun-
ilman r. Fl. Thompson Is passed. II