The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-06-20

'"S" VI my Illness.
Criminal.
Ihe German Atlantic Gable
mas decided to lay another cable from
Germany to the United States.
Miriam l.. Medley. arrested while de-
handing to see President Roosevelt,
vas relieved Of her revolver and COM
mltted to the hospital for the insane.
Gustave Dirks, a well known news
paper illustrator. shot and killed him.
self in his studio in New York. He had
been i'll and broken down by overwork
of late.
One of the largest Illicit whisky dis
t~llleries ever unearthed in that district
was discovered at Yonkers, N. Y, by
the place accidentally catching fire.
Two large boilers were found, under one
OF which a hot fire was still burning.
Lieut.. H~agerdon, quartermaster Of
the Twenty-eighth infantry, who was
arrested in March last on the charge Of
ENLIGHTENMENT, has been dismissed from
the army and sentenced to two years
confinement in the prison at Manila.
Sandy Anderson, at Sioux City, shot
and killed Andrew Lovegreen, an ex-
policeman, with whom he quarreled.
Anderson is an old soldier, and has not
been considered properly balanced men,
tally for some time. He is under ar
rest.
Harry Tracy, a twenty-year prisoner,
and David Merrill, a thirteen-year man.
in the penitentiary at Salem, Ore, in
some way secured arms and escaped by
c@,1;,n tl& ~r;e~, x,,aI oFtor Li11yNn
three guards, Frank Terrell, S.. r. Jones
and Ben Tiffany.
Alice Lewis. twenty-three, daughter Of
Lee Lewis. a wealthy resident of st.
Louis, committed suicide at New York
in her hotel, making a moose In her room
of a bath robe and towels. She was on
her way to join her father in London to
witness the coronation ceremonies.
Mrs. Johanna Bishop committed sui
eide at st. Louis by taking carbolic
acid. Mrs. Bishop was the wife of j.
B. Bishop of that city, who was serious
ly injured in the fire that destroyed st.
Luke's sanitarium at Chicago, and took
poison upon hearing Of the accident
that had befallen her husband.
Gov. Jelks of Alabama pardoned
George Howard, Martin Fuller and John
Strength. three of the our white men
convicted in fillmore county Of lynching
the negro Robin White and sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary. The
. case is famous as the only instance in
Alabama where a white man has been
convicted Of lynching a negro.
Herschel Smith and his son, Orval,
accused of being connected with the
murder Of a Mexican sheep man, mao
a preliminary trial at Alamosa, Colo.
Smiths bail was fixed at s1o,o 0 and his
sons at SIS. 900. Both gave bond. At
the close of the trial the Smiths made
an attempt to whip the principal W.T.
ness, and the officers had to draw their
revolvers before they could quiet them.
General.
Experiments with telephones on fast
trains are being made by electrical ex-
merits in the employ Of the New York
Central road.
John Spreng Of New Orleans, on his
wedding tour, was arrested at Chicago
charged by Nellie Burke, a waitress
with breach of promise.
F. c. Ishoy has invented a device TOY
steamships whereby he claims a saving
of 90 per cent in fuel. The screw will be
placed under the bottom instead or a1t'
and the hull will be f1atter than usuai.
Prof. Friedrich Hirth, holder OF 'the
chair of Chinese philology at the Uni
versitv of Munich, has accepted the
offer of the Chinese chair at Columpia
university, New York, and will begin
his lectures there next october.
A circular ISSUED from the headquar-
ters of the division of Philippines di-
reefs that no incoming troops be allowed
to land on Philippine soil until a supply
of vaccine virus has been sent aooaro
the transport or steamer and in1ecteo.
With one hand resting on the key
hoard of the organ in st.
church in Jersey City. and the other
c,utching a piece of music, Leopold az
Grand Val, who taught the late Arch
h;shop Corrigan music, was founo
dead.
The May statistics Of gross postal re-
ceirts at the fifty largest postofhces IN
The United States show a net increase
NJ II per cent over the receipts for May
ION New York's receipts show an IN
crease Of IL per cent and Chicago
per cent.
Henry Ross of Streator, ILL.,, has az
stoned his entire possessions, including
,;s house and stock Of general mer'
chandise. amounting to $50,oo0 In n
20 to .John Alexander Dowie OF Zion
civ and will become a disciple OF ina
faith after July 1.
Daniel Smith, III Oldest man in Mich.
,ean, born Jan. "a, 1871. dropped dead a.
Saginaw when getting out Of oed Tor :
chew Of tobacco. He chewed tobacco
almost all day and all night. but neve
smoked or touched liquor. He served
IN the war of 1924. and went to TIL
roll under Decatur.
r. n. Frank Powell, st. Paul, MINI.