The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-05-23
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Washington Notes.

Washington Notes.
President Roosevelt has signed the
oleomargarine taxation bill.
Indian Commissioners Jones denies the
charges made against him.
internal revenue officers look to the
oleo law to give them much work.
Senator Clapp has introduced a bill
appropriating $4,000, 600 to alleviate suf-
fering in Cuba.
The secretary Of war has approved
the plans for improvements costing
$500, 900 at Fort Smelling.
Cuban laws will be amended so that
e. G. Rathbone, convicted Of postal
frauds, may have a new trial.
Gates that the crop conditions are gem
orally favorable throughout the North
west.
The house committee on military at
fairs has ordered a favorable report on
the bill to retire Surgeon General Stern
berg with the rank Of major general.
Senator Mason introduced a bill au-
thorizing the secretary of war to in
wife bids for raising the battleship
Maine and authorizing negotiations
with the Cuban government to that
end.
Senator Kittredge is making strenu-
Gus efforts to induce the interior de-
partment to approve the Walker lease
Of Indian lands embraced in the Stand
Ing Rock reservation. This Is the mat
ter which finally got into court on in
junction proceedings instituted by the
Indians.
The presid ent has issued a procla-
nation opening for settlement the Fort
Hall Indian reservation in Idaho. All
OF the land within five miles Of Pocatel-
10 will be sold at public auction at noo
on July II. at a minimum rate of $40
per acre, and all the rest Of the lane
will be thrown open TO settlement and
entry at noon on July II next.
Casualties.
The Norris & Rowe dog and pony
show train was wrecked near Gold
Greek, Mont. One person was killed
and several badly injured
Mrs. L. Blommcrt Of st. Joseph.
Mich. put a lot Of celluloid collars in
her kitchen stove, and an explosion fol-
lowed, wrecking the room.
A Burlington freigh train ran into a
house at Dekover street, Chicago.
and knocked three persons ont of bed.
moving the house back four feet and
smashing one corner.
The body of Michael Mccarthy, an
inmate of the county poorhouse at Mar
s%halltown, Iowa, was found about three
miles west of that city. He had died
from exposure to the cold.
Passenger Trains No. l and 6, west
and e~ast-bound, on the Burlington road,
collided, head-on,, owing to the failure
Of q switch to work properly. Eight
persons were injured. but none fatally.
All were able to resume their journeys
except a Mr.. McEdwards of Denver.
Patrick Kelly and John Bartich of
Colorado, Pa. and John McMichael OF
G~irardsville were killed by an explosion
of q boiler explosion at the Lehigh VAL
ley company's No. 3 colliery packer.
near Girardsville. They were blown to
pieces.
Fire destroyed r. W. Kennedy & Co.'s
lumber mills at Ceredo, six miles west
Of Huntington, w. Va, the substation
Of the Camden Interstate railway,
twenty dwellings ard all the lumber in
the mill yards. Loss. $500. 900; insur-
Ance, one-third.
While a party Of students from Or
leans college. at Orleans, Neb., were
bathing in the Republican river, one
named Berry, twenty-one years of age
and unable to swim, got beyond his
depth. Another named Daniels, went.
70 his rescue. and both were drowned.
Daniels home is at Topeka, Kan.
Personal.
Patrick Smith. one of the oldest ves-
sci and dredging men Of Cleveland, is
dead. aged eeventy-fve years.
The death IL announced in London OF
Capt. James Octavius Machell, h fam
Gus turfman. He was born in 1887.
The death is announced at Berlin of
Julius Koestlin, the distinguished
theologian Of Halo. He was born in
1896.
j. H. Mcmillan Of Detroit, son of
United States Senator Mcmillan OF
Michigan. Is dead In Colorado Springs.
Colo.
Del n. Goodrich. secretary Of the
Omaha Street Railway company. died
1T his home in Omaha Of pneumonia.
He wal one Of the organizers Of h
present railroad system Of that city.
Henry Fitzpatrick, q wealthy and
prominent ranchman Of Gillead. Neb.,
died at his home Of tuberculosis Of the
bowels. He was ffty-three years OF
age and ieavaes a widow and ten chill
dren.
Mrs. Abby Perkins Cheney has filed
DR.. Marie b. Zakrzewski is dead in
Boston. She was the pioneer I'M
physician OF Boston and one Of the
pioneers Of the movement that enabled
women to practice in various sections
Of the country.