The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-26
Resume Of the neWS.
Washington Notes.


Washington Notes.
The coal famine is affecting the gov.
buildings. The capitol has
only two days supply Of coal.
Elmer Pettiford, the Seventh Day
adventist clerk, will be given a place
where he a do piece work. and thus
avoid laboring on Saturday.
1t is the intention of Chairman Coon
er, OF the house committee on insular
affairs, to move for prompt action on
the bill to establish the gold standard
in the Philippines.
The legislative, executive and Judi.
clal appropriation bill, carrying $685.
93O,453, was reported to the house by
the appropriations committee. This is
an increase Of $780, 01.
Senator Mason of Illinois has a bi,,
winch ne promises to introduce in the
senate within a day or two, giving the
president Of the United States authori.
ty to seize and operate coal mines.
Senator Foraker introduced q bill to
provide q government for the island
OF Guam. The tariff on Guam-made
goods imported into the United States
is reduced to 50 per cent of existing
rates.
The house committee on judiciary
decided not to report either Of the
three resolutions providing for a con
.stitutional amendment prohibiting po-
lygamy and preventing polygamists
from holding Office.
The senate committee may drop the
educational test in the immigration
bill. Commissioner General of Immi-
grafton Frank Sargent said that this
feature could be sacrificed without de-
stroying the efficiency of the bill.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Esch of
Wisconsin, directs the secretary of
war to establish a military camp, for
the use Of United States and national
guard troops, in the vicinity of Camp
Douglass, Wis, and approprlating the
sum of $4,000 for that purpose.
The Indian appropriation bill will
not be considered by the house until
the holidays. Another effort will
be made to induce the house to make
appropriation for the support of
sectarian schools, but the movement in
this direction will undoubtedly fail.
The house passed the senate bill for
a union railway station in Washington,
to cost $4,000, 900. The station Is to
be situated north of the present site Of
the Baltimore & Ohio depot lat Della
var and Massachusetts avenues, and
park.
"In my judgment, the question of the
control of corporations by congression-
al legislation is the most important
problem that now confronts the Amer
lean people," said Senator Nelson, who
is a member of the judiciary commit
tee of the senate, and iauthOr of the
bill to increase the power Of congress
through changes in the Sherman anti
trust law.
Casualties.
The home of John Puglughi, at Fort
five children killed by the explosion of
an Illuminating gas tank.
Fire in Montreal, Que. destroyed Fl.
Jacobs & Co.'S cigar factory. One mil
lion cigars just finished went up in
Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
In the Watts kidnapping case at
H., Mrs. Watts, wife of the
defendant, alleged hat counsel for the
defendant attempted to buy her off.
Fire destroyed H, Jacobs & Co.'S
cigar factory at Montreal, Que. One
cigars, just finished, went up in
smoke. Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
The Victoria hotel in Quebec was
completely destroyed by fire. The
guests and employees escaped unin-
jured. Loss, $11o,0 900; insurance, $751;
900.
Fire in the Hathaway building, Bos-
ton, did damage to the extent OF $751;
900. The building is occupied by print
ing and bookbinding firms and Wool
dealers.
Railway traffic in Tennessee Is de-
moralized in all directions, because OF
washouts and the flooded conditions OF
and streams, caused by the con-
tiunuous rains of the past three days.
Edson's hotel, at Gazelle, Siskiyou
county, CAL, the home of e. B. Edison,
railroad commissioner Of California,
was destroyed by fire, involving a loss
of SIS, 900. Miss Elizabeth B. Foulks,
aged twenty-five years, persisted in the
Eleven persons were injured, n Sc
in a rear-end collision between
two south bound Second avenue ele-
waited trains in New York. The mo-
torman of the second train, apparently
the distance, and, although
be. had slowed down, his a crashed
into the real Of the other train with
sufficient force to throw it off the
Notes From Abroad.
Vice Admiral Kruys, minister OF ma
rine of the Netherlands, is dead.
The strike at Marseilles Is at an end.
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