The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-10-03
Resume 81 the neWS.


Vice Consul General Smith at Cairo
has cabled that since the Goth ult.
there have been 1926 cases of cholera
and 1851 deaths in all Egypt, but that
the general condition now is improv-
ing rapidly,
News has just been received that
Chullapata, eighteen miles from Ce-
lendina, Peru, has been erupting vol
canic dust and smoke for the past two
weeks. There is no record that Mount
Chullapata was ever a volcano.
Jane Hyatt, an American woman,
failing to have a gas meter of her own
invention recognized in Chicago or
New York, brought it to Paris and re-
ceived $4,000 in royalties from the
French government and the Paris Gas
company.
Germany IS initiating an information
al conference, to be held in October, on
wireless telegraphy, holding that the
practical working of the system being
assured, it should be subject to rules
similar to those of the international
telegraph convention.
There is little doubt that Uruguay
will follow the example of her neigh
bors, Paraguay and Argentina, and
take part officially in the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, but even if a
government exhibit is not made, the
country will be well represented.
The railroad between M~itrovitza and
Vuchitra has been torn up by the fol-
lowers of the Albanian chief. LA Bot
jetinaz, who announced his determine
ton, some time ago, not to allow the
newly-appointed Russian consul to as
sumo his dutieJ at the former place.
Sin and Sinners.
The Buffalo express was held I'D BY
ole man at Williamsport, Pa, who went
through the car and secured some vSlu-
ables, but no money.
A total shortage of $685. is report
ed in tho county's finances at YORK,
Pa, ana the treasurer, William O.
Thompson, will be arrested.
H. O. Williams abducted his two
year-old boy from his mother, at
shot and killed both the child and him.
self.
M. T. Hale, ex-city% treasurer of Colo
RADIO Springs, pleaded guilty to the en-
bezzlement of 5000, city funds, and
the amount has been made good by his
brother.
Six passengers in a Pullman Sleep
er on the Missouri Pacific, near St.
Joseph, Mo-, were robbed of over ST.
900 by two men who disappeared and
left no clue.
The countess Predosa, whose hus.
band is charged, at Chicago, with coun-
hurt because she was treated no better
In court than a common person.
Clifford and Willie Brooks, the lat
ter's son and a man named Riddle,
were killed in a fight at Spokegee, L.
T., while John Brooks and Jim McFar-
land will probably die of their wounds.
Burglars entered the homes of two
Sioux City business men and secured
$500 in cash and a gold watch and
chain. julius Pappee lost the cash
and Dave Davidson the watch, valued
at $3.50.
The coroner's jury, in the case of the
death of Banker Fish of New York, re-
turned a verdict that Fish's death was
by Thomas Sharkey. The latter is
held under $4,000 bail.
Maj. M. l.. Brigeman, recently de-
posed as Indian agent at the Fort Bel
KNAPP Agency, was arrested at Butte,
Mont, on a charge of classifying his &C.
counts. The grand jury has indicted
him on thirty-nine counts.
A letter from John B. Rose, city
treasurer of Wabash, Ind, who is said
to be short $11 900 in his accounts, and
who disappeared on the night of Sept.
1, expresses a desire to return at once,
ard assist in making good his short
age.