The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-10-10

III with Prof. Roy Lord for
four days, while Chicago detectives
were hunting for the pair.
From Other Shores
Advices from Kharbin say that the
Russian troops are beginning to evacu-
ate Manchuria.
Fred Hardy, convicted of killing Con
and Roney Sullivan on Unimak Island,
June Z, 1901, was hanged at Nome.
1t is said in Glasgow that the Scotch
coal masters have secured large con-
tracts for anthracite coal to go to the
United States.
The Bolivian foreign minister and
he Peruvian plenipotentiary have
signed a treaty settling the boundary
questions between their respective
countries.
Several American orders for steam
coal were booked at Newcastle Wednes-
day. In fulfillment of one order a
steamer was chartered to carry 1000
tons to New York.
The British war Office has decided
that in the future all army contracts
for meat shall contain a clause that
the frozen mutton supplied must come
exclusively from British colonies.
1t is reported from Moscow that a
lovesick youth belonging to an aristo-
cratic family named Kramurma has
murder ed Hlle. Efimoff, a Russian
prima donna, at Kaluga. Russia.
The breaking of a rope attached to a
car which was ascending the shaft Of
a nao1 roirn "a Do,yva1 yJyn1oC vrA-
cipitated the car, which contained eight
men, to the bottom. All were instantly
killed.
1t is reported from San Sebastian
that King Alfonso has refused to sign
certain DEGREES presented to him by
the minister Of war, Gen. Weyler, and
the matter is receiving much COM
ment.
The steamer Moana, from Australia,
brings news of the great native mas
sacre in New Guinea. The Tugeri
head-hunters attacked the sSanana viii
lagos and killed hundreds of people,
taking away the heads.
Gen. Won Gossler, formerly Prus-
sian minister of war, died at Danzig,
Prussia. Gen. Won Gossler was born
in 1841. He was appointed minister
of war Aug. IA, 1896, and resigned the
Office Aug. % of this year..
The British-American Tobacco com
pany. limited, was registered at Somer-
set House. London, last Monday. The
capital of the company is $50, 900, 200,
which III divided into 81, 500, 900 worth of
preferred and $22, SOC, 900 of ordinary
shares of n pound each.
A committee has been formed at
Copenhagen to erect a statue of Will
lam Shakespeare in the open space
opposite the so-called Hamlet Ter
race" of KrOnberg Castle, at Elsinor,
on which Shakespeare laid the cen
of Hamlet's meeting with the ghost of
his murdered father.
Within the last few days one gun
boat of Columbia displayed q flag of
truce, attempted to communicate with
the revolutionary force al a place about
tweleve miles from Panama, but were
fired upon from the shore and returned
the fire. One nan vas severely wound
ed of the Colombian force.
The Athens correspondent OF the
London Standard draws attention to
the exodus of emigrants to the United
States which he says is probably due
to the failure of the current crop in
Greece. Oflcial reports say that 5000
persons have emigrated during the
past year and that this exodus con-
tinues.
Otherwise.
Justice A. H. Ellis, of the Kansas
supreme court, is dead.
Charles M. Schwab's new granite
house in New York will cost 5000, 900.
A st. Louis firm has practically cor
nered the black pepper In the United
States. after two months of quiet bid
ding.
Efforts are being made to form a
$40, 000, 900 combination of manufac-
turers and sellers Of patented railway
supplies.
Tommy Feltz Of Savannah, Ca, de,
feated Danny Dougherty in the fourth
round of a twenty-round bout before
the Savannah Athletic club.
In new capitalization Of corporations
in Eastern states, the total in Septem-
Der declined to $195, 1874, 900, from
$241 ,879 $50 in August and sass, $50, 400
In July.
For the first time in several years,
what appears to be q case of leprosy
has been discovered in a patient at
Bellevue hospital, New York. The pa
tient Is q Chinaman.
An international conference on plant
breeding and hybridization, held by
the Horticultural Society Of New
York, began in New. York. The con-
ference will continue three days.
Canada will send many players to
compete in the Olympian games at
Chicago in 1904, according to Maj.
Gordon Strong, in football, canoeing,
cricket, lacrosse and field athletics.
Arthur Brisbane, one of the editors
Of Hearst's American, is the Tammany
choice for representative In congress,
to I'LL the vacancy In the Tenth dis
trict caused by the death of Amos
Cummings. and for the full term in
the new Eleventh district, which en-