The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-02-13
Otherwise.

A syndicate OF Michigan lumbermen
purchased the Port Blakeley mill and
$4,000 acres of timber land in Wash
ington for 80 5000, 900.
Charles F. Schultz, city treasurer of
La Porte, Ind, aged forty-seven, died
of old age, having lived half a life
time in less than = year.
The appraisal Of the estate of Au-
gustin Daily of New York shows that
after a payment Of his debts and liza
bilities there is a deficiency Of $28. 460.
Revocation Of the licenses Of all
druggists who sell cocaine indiscrimi-
nately to all customers is the panacea
for the drug evil advocated by Chief
of Police O'Neill of Chicago.
1t is stated that James E. Kelly, the
well-known sporting man, is dead in
Paris. Mr.. Kelly at one time owned
a number Of noted race horses, among
them Dry Monoploe, Jacobus and Sis
ter.
The Standard Oil company has &C.
CURED control of the j. H. Guffey Pc
troleum company at Bayorne, N. ].
The Guffey company located In Bay
onne less than a year ago and handled
Texas oil.
Attorney General Cunneen of New
York holds that the offering of a trans
portation pass to a member of the leg
islator Is a misdeme,nor, and its &C
ceptance by the legislator would con-
stitute a misdemeanor.
Lawrence Sluter Benson, aged about
seventy years, author of "Benson's
Geometry" and well known years ago
a a novelist, philosopher and mathe-
matician. is dead at the city hospital
in Newark, N. j., penniless.
The illinois commandery of the Ma.
T, val Order Of the United States, at its
annual meeting, has adopted resolu-
tons requesting congress to substitute
the rank of commodore for that of cap
tain in the United States navy.
Anthracite mine workers at Wilkes
barre, Pa, have been informed that
they may have to aid the soft coal
workers soon. The soft coal opera.
tors have refused to give their men an
increase, and a strike is expected.
Joseph William Sheppard, who for
the last three years has been living rs
a recluse in New York, died there OF
starvation. Sheppard's death was due
to his efforts to prove that the true be.
lever in Bramah could live without
food.
The bill introduced in the Missouri
legislature providing for 'jim crow
cars does not meet with the approval
of the colored people. Large delega'
tions are at Jefferson City trying to de
feat it. kilograms were sent out tc
negro preachers in every town in thu
state asking them to pray for the de
feat OF the bill. The authoC Of the bill
gays he will not push it.
The will of Amos Mccartney, an &c
centric capitalist who died at Oakland
Cal, on Jan. "a. has just been opened
It directs that no religious services b
held at his funeral, but suggests that .
band Of music be provided. The es
tate, which Is left to his daughters
includes valuable property in Califor
mia, realty in Kansas City, 5000 acre.
of land in Missouri, real estate in Chi
cago, besides stocks, bonds and mort
cages.
A movement has been started IN thu
New England states for the election o
Maj. Austin S. Cushman Of East Or
Z ange as commanderin-chief OF tn,
Grand Army of the Republic at tn,
annual encampment at San Francisco
next October.
To circumvent the law forbiddinl
the marriage of a girl under eighteen
years Of age without the consent Of he
parents, Antonio Ardoini of Chicago
twenty-three years Of age, had himself
appointed guardian Of the girl ant
then married her.