The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-03-28
THE NEWS RESUME
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALI.
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
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washingtOn Notes.
congressman Eddy is said t o be in
Denmark.
H. Clay Evans will quit the pension
business for a better position.
The ship subsidy bill passed the SEN
ate by a vote of 43 to 81. Six Repub-
licans voted against it and one Demo-
crat for 1t.
Republicans in the house rave agreed
to reciprocity with Cuba to the extent
of a 20 per cent reduction of duties un-
til December, 1903.
The cruiser Philadelphia visited
Guayquil. Ecuador. and brought away
a Minnesota man who had been con-
fined in Jail many months without a
trial.
Representative Hill of Connecticut
has introduced a bill for the coinage OF
the silver bullion in the treasury, pur-
chased under the act of July IA, 1892,
into subsidiary silver coin.
The first steps have beer taken to-
var carrying out the enlargement of
the functions of the Bureau of Ameri-
can Republics, as outlined in the recent
internal conference in the City of Mex
leo. An hours discussion resulted in
an agreement to hold three important
congresses On dates n.xt fall, to be
fixed mere closely hereafter.
United States Consul General Perry
M. De Leon. at Guayaquil, Ecuado".
has applied for and been granted a
leave Of absence, and will visit Wash
trufnn chNrtly m r0nfa,. vvifl the state
del artment with ~egard to the recent
troubles In Ecuador growing out OF
claims Of illegal arrest and imprison-
ment of American citizens.
Criminal.
Three more arrests have been made
at Beaumont. Tex. in connection with
the operations of the Matte Bennett
gang Of robbers and murderers.
Reese Evans and A.. A. Smith fought
q duel with rifles at eight feet distance
at Purdy Station, Neb. Each received
injuries from which death resulted.
The quarrel was over a strip of almost
worthless land.
Policeman Thos. Howard was killed
at Knoxville. Tenn, by Joshua Jone
and two brothers Of Monroe county.
This Is another sequel to the Jones'
Howard -McGhee feud Of about three
years standing. In Monroe county
of Leonard Calvitt, a white planter at
Union Point, Concordia parish, La, was
lvnched within Concordia parish pris-
On. Entrance was gained to the Jail by
the mob. claiming they had a prisoner
from Calhoun parish.
CASUALTIES.
Seven hfe-savers and five men whom
they were attempting to rescue. were
drownd.
Fire in the business district of Fort
Wayne. Ind. caused a loss of between
$l75. 900 and 5000 0O.
The jute storage warehouse in the
Green Point section of Brooklyn of the
Manufacturing company, re-
burned. 1t contained 1900 bales
Of jute. The building was Of wood, and
the loss is estimated at $4,000.
Fire destroyed nearly half the town
OF Allen. Neb. 1t started in q billiard
hall, and in an hour. with a terrific
wind blowing. burned the billiard hall.
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tel, post0ffice. hardware store and drug
store.
The state institution for the deaf and
dumb. a. jackson. Miss, vas entirely
destroyed by fire. All OF the inmates
were rescued. The fire il supposed to
have originated from an electric wire,
The loss II estimated It So 900. with
only $1,000 insurance.
Foreign Gossip.
Fifty Russian and Polish students
have been expelled from Prussian tech
nical schools on charges OF political ag-
The rebels An the southern provinces
Of China continue to crushingly defeat
the imperial troops sent to subdue
them.
n. Santos umont has accepted an
from the officials Of the st.
Louis exposition to go to st. Louis TO
asaist the authorities in the organiza-
ton Of the proposed balloon contests.
Portuguese troops captured 152 slave
and killed fully fifty others at
BAY recently. when the govern
forces attacked twelve strong
holds Of the slave dealers and liberated
zoe slaves.
Gen. y. HI. Smith. commander Of the
American troops in Samar, has ar
ranged for an armistice with Gen. Gue-
varra, who succeeded Lubkan as COM
mander NJ the rebels on the Island.
Gen. Guevarra has promised to sur
render with his entire force and all
arms and ammunition. He a about
400 rillemen.
Peroonal.
Sir Henry Irving says the Bacon
Shakespeare cipher IL silly.
Ex-President Cleveland recently cele-
his stxty-fifth birthday.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Cross. eldest
grandson OF the late Cornelius Wander
bilt, died IN New York.
AT the Invitation Of President Roose-
Welt .Algernon Sartoris, Gen. Grants
grandson. will accept . commission n
the army.
John Lawson 1.-THE Terrible Swede'9.
the well known bicycle rider. died at
ST. Joseph's hospital in Milwaukee,
after = five-days' illness OF pneumonia.
Hugh omen. founder OF one Of the
iaewaat rafail dry goods business