The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-11-28
Resume 81. the neWS.

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um, stored in reservoirs on the out
skirts of Odessa, have been destroyed
by fire.
The Brussels police have arrested an
Englishman named James Hardie on
suspicion OF his having been connected
with the attempt made by Rubino on
the life OF King Leopold.
An American firm was awarded q
81, ZOO, 600 contract to construct a sew
er and telephone %conduits in st. Pc
tersburg. A Chicago firm has Sc
cured a contract for the switchboard.
Frequent acts of piracy between
Hongkong and Canton are causing
much uneasiness. A constable of the
British consulate, who was wounded
while travelling on a junk to Hongkong,
has died.
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the cele-
brated Wesleyan minister, died sud-
denly. at London. Mr.. Hughes was one
OF the leading spirits of the racial pur-
ity movement and anti-gambling
league.
The British government is deter
mined that every American resident Of
the United Kingdom shall contribute
to the extent of Is pence on every Ell
of his income towards l~iquidating the
war debt.
1t is rumored that Gear Nicholas is
contemplating divorcing the czarinA
Her chief offense is her failure to pre-
sent a male heir to the throne, but she
is also unpopular with court officials,
largely on account of her ideas of pro-
priety.
Generals Botha and Delarey are, ap-
parently, not going. to the United
States. The Petit Bleu prints an inter-
view with Gen. Delarey to the effect
that he and Gen. Botha have decided
to return to South Africa, where they
will meet Mr.. Chamberlain.
Public opinion supports the govern
ment OF India in it's refusal to grant
permission to the Standard Oil compa-
ny to exploit the Burmah oil fields.
Two companies with a large capital,
besides numerous Burmese owners, are
successfully developing the field.
Otherwise.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton willed
her brain to Cornell university, but
her daughter is fighting the bequest.
Segregation Is to be inaugurated at
the University of Chicago with the be-
ginning of the new year. just after the
Christmas vacation.
Anthony Fialia has been selected as
the leader of the next Ziegler polar ex-
petition. Mr.. Fialia is the youngest
man ever selected to lead a polar expe-
dition.
A quarrel over the biggest piece of
pie at the table of Noah and Catherine
Loop at Kokomo, Ind, was followed
by an action for divorce by the bus
band.
Two hundred and fifty crippled chill
dren in New York have applied for
treatment by DR.. Adolph Lorenz, the
Vienna expert, who will visit New
York in December.
Daniel K. P~earsons will make a gift
of $50, 900 to the Chicago missionary
society, on condition that the members
of the Congregational society raise.
$1,000 before Jan. 4, 1904.
The remains Of Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, one of the foremost military
leaders of the Revolution, were rein
TERED at Savannah, Ca, under the
Greene monument. in Jackson Square.
Jules Cambon, the retiring French
ambassador, was given a dinner in New
York by Chauncey Depew and James
M. Hyde. High tributes were paid to
the ~Frenchman, and to the United
States by him.
A verdict of $500 damages has
hnon awarded hv q f,ywVy IN <h4 njrn,S%
court at Newark, N. j., against Thorn
as e. Carr who, on Feb. IL last, shot
Theodore Ferre, a railroad brakeman,
mistaking him for a highwayman.
The sister of a well known society
leader of Chicago, it is supposed, is the
author of many anonymous letters
making scandalous charges against
prominent people. The woman is al
legged to be mentally unbalanced.
An effort is being made, which there
is every reason to believe will be sue
cessful, to get all the bicycle manu-
f~acturers together once more in a CO.
operative association and raise prices
for 1903 all round. It began with the
independent makers.
The Pioneer Mining company Of Sc
dIIlS udS dluOuuCCU that IL Will con.
struct q railroad from Nome to Coun-
Gil City, which will be in operation by
the end Of next season. Thc season
following 1t will probably be extended
to Salmon River and Cada de Paga.
That no dances labeled Asiatic are
to be exploited in the Midway at the
st. Louis exposition, has greatly
pleased the Orient, according to a dis
patch received by Miss Helen Gould
from John Barrett, former minister to
Siam, who is representing the EXPOSE
ton in the Far East.
Thomas H. Davis died at the Nation
al Soldiers home at Marion, Ind, and
two women, claiming to be legal wives
OF the deceased, attended the funeral
with their two grown children. Davis
had lived q double life for over twenty
five years. The wives wept on each
others breasts.
A great earthquake, which will de-
stroy the greater part Of the works Of
man within the next ten years, was
predicted by Samuel Fox, Of Summer.
dale, ILL.,, former editor, now machin.
list, scholar, scientist and inventor"
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