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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
Washinoton.

Old soldiers are dying at the rate of
$50 a day, according to Pension Com
missioner Ware. This is a higher rate
than ever before in the history of the
pension bureau.
The expense of conveying the votes
OF the electors for president and vice
president to Washington amounts to
$4,000, according to an estimate sub
mitted by Secretary Shaw.
There is a hint hat Italy will give
the United States a large statue Of
Caesar, to be placed in the grounds of
the war college, where the heroic fig
ure of Frederick the Great was I'M
yelled.
The bureau of equipment announced
that sixteen naval stations at different
parts of the United States have been
equipped with the wireless system,
and min others are equipped and will
be manned in a few weeks.
In a letter to Supt. Brownson of the
naval academy, Secretary Morton *
presses his emphatic disapproval of
the efforts to influence the appoint
ment OF the midshipmen to certain
ships and declares that personal worth
and the good Of the service alone must
be the guides.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Thomas Clarke is upder arrest at
RutledGfs, Tenn. charged with the
murder Of Charles Malicote. whose
sister Clarke eloped with and married
two hours after the tragedy.
John Wainwright of Worcester,
Mass, killed his daughter and also
sent . bullet through his wife's neck.
wainwright has been arrested.
Tjaden Tjaden. q well-known Shiloh
township farmer. living south of
Wellsburg, Iowa. was found dead in
his barn. hanging by his neck.
n. H. Metxger. arrested on a charge
Of having murdered Homer E. Ward
Ct White Sulphur Springs. Mont, has
made IN admission Of guilt, but would
not state the motive for the crime.
N1txger admitted that he had an ac-
oomplice IN the assassination.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
List Of Casualties,

Nelson jerks, an old soldier, who
resided OF a farm near Riceville, Iowa,
fell from a load Of hay and broke his
neck, dying instantly.
Damages Of $4,000 were done to the
Humboldt Herald and the Kansas Der
rick company at Humboldt, Kan, by
fire. 1t burned several stores.
Seth Godfrey, l.. F. Godfrey and
Grover E. Els were drowned while at
tempting to cross the Mississippi river
at Muscatine, Iowa. Ice floats stove in
their boat.
Thomas B. Ayers and his wife, each
aged SO years, were run down and
killed by a freight train near Meadow
Grove, Neb. The bodies were found
later by section men.
Within sight of a score of compan-
ions, Ralph Adams, 16; Frank Bayless,
16, and Burdett Bleet, II. were drown
ed while skating on the Lake of the
Woods, near Decatur, Mich.
Fire at Keokuk, Iowa, destroyed the
Bell telephone exchange and damaged
the Western Union Telegraph office
and the public library. The fire was
caused by al Overheated furnace.
A child was burned to death, two
men were fatally burned, and two 9TH
er men and one woman were seriously
burned in a fire caused by the explo-
sion of a key Of powder at Elk Run,
Pa.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
Domestic.

The total attendance at the worlds
fair was 1S,741, 073, and that of the
closing day. Dec. /, 203.1O1.
The official vote Of West Virginia
gives Roosevelt 31,755 plurality. Nc
Kinley's plurality four years ago was
21,O22.
Special prayers are being offered for
rain in churches in certain localities
Of Dauphin, Perry Cumberland and
surrounding counties in Pennsylvania.
Complete official returns of the ma
tional election held in Kentucky show
the total vote cast vas 435, 765. The
plurality for the Democratic electors
is 1887.
1t is reported that a number Of cap
italists representing ]. P. Morgan Wis.
tied Manitoba and the territories last
week to inspect the Canadian Northern
road with a view to purchase.
Charles F. Illsley, aged 81 years.
president Of the Marshal & Ilsley bank
of Milwaukee, died suddenly recently.
Mr.. Ilsley was we'll known In banking
circles throughout the country.
The country schools of Woodbury.
county, Iowa are closing up for the
want of teachers. County Superinten-
dent Brown is being appealed to In
vain by the directors of the country
schools to send teachers, but he is un-
able to supply the demand.
Because she was the only woman
in the county to obtain a deer license
last season, a certain young woman in
Calumet, Mich, obtained a husband.
She had received considerable noto-
riety from the papers, which led to
her courtship by another kind of a
dear. This fact was divulged when
she approached the county clerk this
season for another license and gave
her new name.
The suit against Thomas Lawson
for $3.50, 900 brought by Paul Fuller
and F. r. Coudert of New York has
been entered in the Massachusetts su-
preme court. The action is said to
have been taken in connection with
stock transactions.
It is reported that David r. Francis.
president of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition, is to make . tour of the
world to repay the visit of foreign dig
nitaries and to express the gratitude
OF st. Louis and the national govern
ment for the liberality Of foreign ma
tons and exhibitors.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
Foreign.

Count Peter Kapnist, Russian am
bassador at Vienna, is dead from an
a%poleptic stroke.
A Greek band on Dec. 3 murdered
twenty-four Bulgarians in the village
OF Aintos, near Sorovitch, Salonica. 4
Temples second periodic comet was
observed on its return by the astrono-
mer. M. Javelle, at Nice, on Nov. 3.
The Servian cabinet has resigned on
account Of a disagreement between the
ministers over the building of new
railroads.
The income Of Bertha Krupp, who
owns nearly all the $40, OOO, 900 CAPT.
tai Of the Krupp company having just
declared q 6 per Cent dividend.
A boat from the Turkish corvette
Mansura manned by forty seamen has
sunk in the roadstead at Tripoli.
Nineteen Of the rev were drowned.
The London Standard asserts that
an entire Russian army division
which has been stationed in the Cau-
casus has been ordered to the Afghan
frontier.
The audience which the Duke of
Connaught had with the Pope was
most cordial. The pontif,, who spoke
in Italian. expressed the warmest re-
gard for King Edward.
In a duel at Madrid arising from
an alteration in the chamber of depu-
ties, Deputy Soriano was wounded in
the leg by Senior Guerra, formerly
minister of the interior.
Gov. Gen. Kleigels has issued in.
structions to the police at Kieff, Rus
STA, to eas nocturnal visits to hotels
and lodging houses in search of Jews
who have no right to live in Kieff.
The first trackless trolley street has
begun operations In Berlin, and is ap-
parently q success. The vehicles re-
semble electric omnibuses, but derive
their power from an overhead trolley.
The London Office of the United
States Steel corporation announces
that no agreement has yet been reach
ed on the price of steel rails between
the British and the German, French
and Belgian concerns.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
MINNESOTA MAN GETS JOB.
Prof. W.. M. Hays Is Appointed Assis,
tant Secretary of Agriculture.

Prof. w. M. Hays Is Appointed Assis-
tant Secretary Of Agriculture.
Washington, Dec. 14.-Prof. w. M.
Hays of the Minnesota experimental
station has been appointe dto the po-
sition of assistant secretary of agri.
culture, the result of practically the
unanimous Endorsement of all the
leading agricultural college and exper-
iment station workers in the country.
Besides this, Prof. Hays has all along
been the personal choice of Secretary
Wilson. Both are Iowa men, and for
years they were closely associated in
that state in agricultural work. Prof.
Hays has been serving the department
of agriculture here in an advisory Cd,
pacity for several years, and from
time to time has contributed important
articles for the publications gotten
out by the department..
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
Resume 81 the reWS.
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ing home in company with an old man,
vas shot down by an assassin hid be-
hind a tree. Sedrick's companion did
not see the shooter.
William Charles shot and killed
James Smith at the home of the latter
in the west part Of Springfield, Ill.
Charles escaped. Domestic troubles
are assigned as the cause.
Receiver A.. A. Stacel of the Newark
Savings bank has announced that the
shortage of James F. Lingafelter in
the savings bank, as disclosed by an
examination of the books, is about
SIS,
William Wenkstein, an inmate of
the soldiers home at Marshalltown,
Iowa, committed suicide by hanging.
His body was found in a lodging house
in the city. No cause for the suicide
is known.
Richard A. Garfield pleaded guilty
before Judge Cowing in New York to
an indictment charging him with keep
ing a gambling house and was fined
1l,OoO. Ills IldIdSGl was hACA IlAC
same amount.
The appellate court at Frankfort.
KY, reversed the case of Caleb
Powers granting him a new trial. He
is under sentence of death, c!E.rged
with completely in the assassination
of Gov. Goebel.
Albert II. Brown, Joseph and Charles
Kicker and Thomas Evans were given
penitentiary sentences. having been
convicted at Kansas City of using the
mails to defraud. They came to Kan
sas City from st. Paul two years. ago.
That two young men found dead,
locked in each others arms, entered
into an agreement to commit sulcide
simultaneously by gas, is the belief
of the New York police. The men
were James Gibbons and James Mo.
ran.
Cracksmen effected entrance to the
and exploded two charges of dynamite
on the vault. So far as can be learn
ed no money was secured. Men with
b~loodhounds are following the burg
lars.
Stewart A. FELTON,, the gambler who
shot Gov. Roche, another gambler. in
a crowded section of Broadway, New
York, Thanksgiving evening, has been
exonerated by the coroner's jury,
which decided that he acted in self
defense.
Karl karrer. charged with robbing
the Bank Of Treynor, Iowa, pleaded
guilty to the charge. He forced Miss
Frances Flood, assistant cashier, at
the point of a revolver to hand him
$1,522 of the banks funds. All but
500 was recovered.
Out of 139 decoy prescriptions sent
out by the state board of pharmacy to
Chicago druggists to be filled, 20 con-
tanned no trace Of the drug called for,
and only 81 were pure. AS a result the
board will prosecute 100 druggists for
selling impure drugs.
Saying they were in fear Of their
lives when they made it, four white
men, j. l.. Mckinney, w. r. Mckinney,
E. A. Donaldson and w. B. Adams,
charged by the United States officials
with robbing the postoffice at Pollock,
La, have repudiated a confession of
guilt.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Now that the logbook and private
papers Of Columbus have been found
II Paris. we should like to know,
among other things, whether the log
book starts It each day with "brite
and fair"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

The Harvard sophomore class has
elected as its president q poor student
who il working his way through col
lege by acting as q waiter. This coun-
try can never be In . bad way while
such things happen.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

The cOmmander-in-chie of the army
Of Panama threatened a revolution
and got retired on full pay for life.
Revolution is still profitable on the
tsthmus.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Do not deride the st. Paul man who
paid m election bet by rolling q pea
nut all around the Minnesota state
house. Rolling a peanut may be just
what he 10 fitted for.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

King Edward Is limping. as = result
of Kicking his own foot while shoot
lnS. Hven kings occasionally inter-
ter. And ri X anybody should Jug
gest tying : bunch OF straw around
one g Edwards ankles he would prob
Ably object
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Marriage Of the feeble minded was
opposed At the charity conference.
Some old bachelors might think that
classification would take in all who
contemplate matrimony.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
MANY CIGARETTES SMOKED.
Duluth Boy Who INDUCES HeaviI,
Drops Dead.

Duluth, Dec. 13.-Roy Fraser, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Fraser. 19
West First street, dropped dead Sat.
urday afternoon. He was fifteen years
old. and OF late has been driving a de.
livery wagon after school. 1t is said
that he smoked cigarettes to excess.
Heart disease is said to have been the
cause OF death. Alexander Fraser is
a we'll known explorer.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
FIRE Loss is HEAVY.
Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars
in Property Is Destroyed.

Over One Hundred Thousand Doiiars
in Property Is Destroyed.
Eney, Mich, Dec. IA fire which
caused a good deal of loss and damage
to the thriving town of Grand Marais.
Mich, occurred yesterday morning.
The heaviest sufferers are r. e.
Schneider, $4,000; S. Saulson, $685.
900. Those two stores were complete
ly Quilted, but they were heavily in.
sured. DIR. Doherty lost his office
building and entire contents, 5 300:
no insurance. DR.. Kinman lost his of.
flee and whole outfit, but it was GOV.
cred by insurance. The postofice. e.
j. Ostrander's drug store and John
Thomas barber shop went up in
smoke.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

That millionaire philanthropist Of
New York who is looking for a house
in the slums so that he may help his
neighbors evidently despairs of re-
forming the 400.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

The esteemed Philadelphia Record
Is IN Z state Of mind because Penn
sylvania has q surplus OF ove $14.,
100000 In its treasury. It manifests
almost is much uneasiness as IL there
YER Z deficit Of $4,000, OOv.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Objectionable literature from France
imported at New York Is being
burned. perhaps on the theory, based
on observation Of current publications,
that Va r able now to supply our
own market for that kind OF stun.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

One bride gets q check for $50, 900
and smother one for $4,000 as a we'd
ding gift. We venture the remark
that where such assets are visible,
marriage II never quite q failure.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

The longer We i've" says the Ne
braska State Journal. the more thor
oughly convinced we are that no man
knows Is much a. he let's on" This
seem to call for : sharp rejoinder
from Editor Stead.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

It staggers the country to hear the
Massachusetts, legislature likened to a
string Of sausages. String beans
would sound more convincing.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Resume OF the WOok'
Preceding

Washington, Dec. g.. The senate
yesterday reached a decision to vote
on the Philippine civeil government
bill providing for the construction OF
railroads in the islands on the 18th
inst, and in addition transacted con-
siderable other business. Mr.. Plat
IN. W created something of a stir by
introducing a bill providing for a re-
duction of the congressional represen-
tation of the Southern states on the
ground that many of the citizens of
those states are deprived of their right
to vote, and Mr.. Scott plunged the
senate into al exceptionally early de-
bate BY attempting to secur the pas
sage of the bill granting pensions to
the telegraph operators Of tht Civil
war. A large number of bills and joint
resolutions were introduced and many
petitions presented. The discussion of
the time for voting on the Philippine
bill brought out the fact that there is
a general understanding that the
Christmas holiday recess will be on
the 18th inst.
Washington, Dec. 9. - The annual
fight on the civil service commission
was begun in the house yesterday
during consideration of the legislative
appropriation bill. The opposition
came from Messrs. Bartlett of Georgia
and Grosvenor Of Ohio. Mr.. Hepburn
moved to strike out the entire appro-
priation for the commission andits
force OF clerks, at the same time de
%nouncing the civil service as not hav-
ne improved since the days of the
spells system, but, on the contrary, as
growing less and less efficient.
The legislative bill was scrutinized
carefully in ~nsona with the pres
ident's recommendation against ex-
travagance. But little progress was
made on the bill.
The senate held only a short session
yesterday and adjourned until Mon
day. An attempt to secure considera-
ton of the pure food bill was defeated.
Washington, Dec. II. - The house
yesterday passed the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill
practically as it came from committee
and adjourned until Monday. The
civil service commission section dis
posed of there was no debate on any
section. Throughout the day the pol
icy of retrenchment held full sway
and all attempts to increase salaries
failed.
The house passed a resolution to
adjourn on Dec. 81 until Jan. 4, 1905,
for the usual Christmas holiday.
Washington, Dec. 13.-The senate
had under consideration yesterday the
pure food and Philippine government
bill. The debate on the former was
confined to calling attention to the
inadequacy of the protection accorded
the people of the United States against
impure foods and drugs. The discus
sion of the Philippine bill related
solely to the question of the guarantee
by the Philippine government of he
income or interest on bonds of rail-
roads in those islands.
The house transacted quite a large
amount of miscellaneous business yes.
terday, starting with pension bills and
considering the Hill financial bill later
in the day. The bill transferring the
forest reserves from the department OF
the interior to the agricultural depart
ment, which has been pending in con-
gress for several years, was passed.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Somebody stole $4,000 OF the Fore
paugh circus employees wages from
the money wagon, and the detectives
searched everybody's trunk except the
elephants.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Any one who has watched q football
player using his dome OF thought as a
battering ram upon the opposing line
will admit that the performance seems
calculated to produce softening some
where.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

II the world really wants to stop the
var between Russia and Japan, it has
only to stop lending the two contend
ing nations money.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

It Is instructive to consider what
might have been If young Thaw's par
ents had made him go to work for a
living.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Russia will have a new navy built in
Germany. France and America. Ahal
Now isn't John Bull sorry he has been
30 friendly to the Japs?
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

The rich woman in Indianapolis
who left her entire fortune to her
coachman was lucky enough to die be-
fore her heirs found out about it.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

The Chicago clergyman who says
that women are not angels has no rea-
son to complain. 1t is much better
to have them as they are-just WON
en-.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

The records show that Miss Thaw
paid $25O.OOO for her title as Countess
of Yarmouth. She got the Earl as
boot.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

In order to comply with the fitness
of things Boston should remove the
sacred Goldfish from the capital and
hang up q sole.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
KILLS SELF IN ODD WAY.
Man Makes Tourniquet Of Handker
chief and Paper.

Flint, Mich, Dec. 13. - James IT.
,Lunn, a prominent resident of Sioux
Falls, s. D.. in a peculiar manner COM
mitted suicide in a sanitarium here.
He made a loop of a large handker.
chief, placed a knot in it and slipped
the handkerchief over his head. A
folded newspaper was stuck through
the loop and twisted until the mar
strangled himself.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16
ROUGH RIDERS TO BE ESCORT,

PRESIDENT R~ooseVeIt'8 Guard of Honor
at Inauguration.
Washington, Dec. IA. - President
Roosevelt's guard of honor in the in.
augural parade will be. a squadron NJ
picked men from his old regiment of
rough riders. Col. A. o. Brodie. gov
ernor of Arizona, and Maj. ". n.
Lewellyn, former OF the rough riders.
took luncheon with the president yes
terday, and arrangements for the
guard OF honor were made ct that
time.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

We incline to the opinion that Gen.
Stoessel will refuse to be a candidate
TOR 2 second term.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

This suit for $3.50, 900 against Tom
Lawson may provide him with still
another chapter on frenzied finance.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

Bombs are again being hurled in
Barcelona. That place seems to be
the Paterson, N. j., of Spain.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-16

New York Chinese are hot to de-
pose the Empress. Distance lends
courage as well as enchantment.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-04-15
ORPHANS COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Register Bay has probated the follow
ing wills:
Bessie X. Frey Younger, who leaves
her real estate consisting of tract of
land near the Mountain to her mother.
Mary V. Frey. She also makes small
rerembrances to number of her friends
and names her mother as executrix. The
paper is dated March %, l904. and wit
messed by Albert S. Magness and c. E.
Creswell.
lydia A. Smith, who leaves to her son,
Livingstone Smith, all of her property
subject to the life estate of her son, Thom-
as NJ. Smith. Her son, Livingstone
Smith, is named executor. The paper is
witnessed by Henry r. Waters, James
+. Reasin and William H. Starr.
Eliza M Jackson. who leaves $50 to
her servant, Mary E. Hart. To her niece,
Eliza Chase Coale, she bequeaths $4,000.
All the rest of her property is left to Eliza
Chase Coale and her nephews, William
F. Coale and Frederick S. Coale. The
will is dated May %. 1897, and is wit
messed by William S. Forwood, Jr.,
George W. Richardson and Gilbert S.
Hawkins. BY codicil da ted February
10, 1898, she names as executors her
niece and nephews. The codicil is wit
messed bv S A. Williams William S. For
wood, Jr, and Thomas H. Robinson.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-04-15
ARBOR DAY.

We have received from Mr.. NJ. Bates
Stephens suggestive Arbor Day pro-
gramme. 1t is complete in every particu-
lar and cannot fail to be interesting to
the pupils and patrons of the many
schools where it will be used to-day. The
pamphlet is replete with hints on how to
plant trees and contains scripture selec-
tions and poetical pieces suggestive of
the day.
AS Mr.. Stephens says, it is common
error to make Arbor Day holiday. 1t
is intended to teach the young a lesson
that will be of service to them through
life Its originators saw the great posi-
bility of instilling into the young minds
the necessity of the preservation of our
forests, and Governor Warield has in
his proclamation wisely recommended
that special attention be called to the
protection of our song birds. At most of
planted, but there are some where other
work is more necessary, and the teachers
will use their discretion in making the
day profitable one.
We will be glad to receive short &C
counts of the observance of this day in
the different schools of the county, pro-
vided they reach us not later than next
MONDAYS afternoon mail.