The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-04-22
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Washington Notes.

washington Notes.
The general deficiency appropria-
ton bill was reported to the house by
bill carries $1O,3SS, 744.
Consul Davidson of Minnesota has
been assigned to duty at Shanghai,
China, until the close Of the Russo
Japanese var
The Mccall special committee &C
quits members of the house of repre-
sentatives of guilt in connection with
the influence" report.
Representative Lind has resigned
his position on the committee on
claims in favor of Representative Mar
| tin Emerich of Chicago.
The senate has received a com.
munication requesting an %appropria.
ton Of $250, 900 for the purchase of a
site and the construction of a capitol
building at Juneau. Alaska.
Senator Clapp has secured the pas
sage in the senate of his bin propos-
ing to pension the surviving defend
ers at New Ulm and Fort Ridgley at
the time of the Indian massacre in
that region forty years ago.
Six Of The twelve Mormon wit
nesses for whom summons were is
sued by the senate committee to ap-
pear in the Smoot case have disap-
peared. All efforts to find them have
been vain, although a search is being
kept up.
Senator H~ansbrough has secured
the passage of a bill to reimburse the
settlers on Fort Lincoln reservation,
North Dakota, for the appraised value
Of their entries, which paid in addition
to the homestead price of $1.25 per
acre. The reservation was opened to
settlement Aug. n 1894.
The bubonic plague is spreading in
alarming fashion along the west coast
of South America. The state depart
ment has received the following ca
blegram from United States Minister
Wilson at Santiago de Chile: "Exten-
sive epidemic of bubonic plague at
A~nafogasta." This is n of the most
important shipping ports on the west
coast north of Valparaiso.
Casualties.
A large portion of the business sec
ton of Winona, Miss, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
Jack TenniIl, Charles Haskins and
Smiley Baxter were drowned in Lake
Manawa, near Council Bluffs. while
hunting ducks.
Tony Carrello, aged 30 years, of
Kenosha, was shot and seriously II
not fatally wounded by tho accidental
discharge of a revolver which he was
cleaning.
After living for a day in a diving
| suit. imprisoned in s~eventy-three feet
of water in the great reservoir az
| Boonton, N. j.. a diver succumbed to
the continued air pressure.
The north-bound Pan-American ex-
press, Queen and Crescent, ran into
| An open switch while going fifty miles
an hour at Arklet, Miss. and was
wrecked. Engineer Chiles was killed.
Rev. John Long, seventy years old,
pastor of the Pine Bush Methodist
| church, died of asphixiation a ia no.
tel in West twenty-sixth street, where
he was staying during the New York
conference.
A prairie fire started near Brewster
ing clear across Loup county and into
Garfield, burning all the range be-
tween the North Loup and the Gala
mus rivers, a distance of twenty miles
in width.
The Cadillac Automobile works at
Detroit, the largest plant of it's kind
in the United States, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. The loss to buildings
and materials will reach 5000, 600. The
firm had orders for So, O0O, 900 of work
on hand.
A street car loaded with passengers
returning to town from the Old Mis-
sion ran off the track at the intersec-
ton of Garden and Mission streets at
Santa Barbara, Cal, and five deaths
have resulted. All of the dead were
Santa Barbara people.
5. Foreign.
A wolf entered Minsk, Russia, and
attacked and bit six people before it
!, was killed.
Some slight disturbances followed a
demonstration at Barcelona. and sew.
eral persons were injured in q conflict
with the police.
. At Antofagasta, Chile, there have