The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-10-07
Resume 81 the neW$.
Foreign.


Foreign.
President Reyes is meeting with
much opposition in the Colombian SEN
ate to b resumption of amicable rela-
tons with the United States.
While hunting partridge, Duke Hen
~ of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was shot
by Prince Othon of Schoenberg-Wal.
denberg and wounded in both knees
and one hand.
The terms Of the sale of the inter-
ests Of the American Tobacco COM
pany to the Japanese government, un-
der the recently established monopoly,
have been concluded.
The Vatican is making great prepa-
rations to celebrate the jubilee of the
Immaculate Conception. Bishops from
all parts Of the Catholic world, includ-
ing several Americans. will be pres
ent.
Pope Plus recently received 1000
members of the Catholic Association
OF French Youths, whose president
presented an address protesting
against attacks on Catholicism and its
head.
The eruption OF Mount Vesuvius has
greatly diminished. The stones eject
ed from the crater do not now rise
beyond a height of $50 feet. The au-
thorities have relaxed the restrictions
placed upon the people when the erup-
ton was at its worst. and people are
permitted to ascend the mountain.
Many Americans are making the trip
to inspect the volcano.
Accidental Happenings.
Fire Of unknown origin wiped out
half the business houses of MEMO,
Iowa. entailing a loss of $4,000.
An explosion of molten Stag caused
the total destruction of the Val Verde
smelter at Prescott, Ariz. The plant
was of 800 tons capacity and cost
$175,000
Two freight trains on the Pensyl-
vania railway collided at Franklinville,
N. Y. A brakeman was killed and an
engineer fatally injured. In a dense
fog a work train was mistaken for a
time freight.
A south-bound passenger car on the
Scioto Valley traction road struck a
north-bound wreck car a Buckeye
Park, in Fairfield county, Ohio. Fiji
teen people were more or less serious
~ injured, two fatally.
Sixty-two persons are dead and
more than 125 are suffering from in
juries as the result of a head-on COLI
sion between two passenger trains on
the Southern railway eighteen miles
east of Knoxville, Tenn.
Daniel Cole OF Highland Park, Chi
cago. was struck by an electric car
while at Ravina a few weeks age. Mr..
Coles daughter, Mrs. Edward thinner,
was 50 affected by grief and wept SO
much that she lost the use Of her
voice and now cannot ever whisper.
The boiler in the gin department Of
the mammoth cotton mill at Dukes,
on the Cape Fear & Northern railway,
near Raleigh. N. c.. exploded with ter
rife violence, instantly killing four
men and scalding another SO badly
that he will die.
Twelve men were seriously injured
by the explosion of gas in the Peck
shaft of the Mount Jessup c~olliery at
Peckville, Pa. Two are believed t O be
fatally hurt. They were horribly
burned and lacerated about the face
and body. The others received slight
burns and decorations.
Standing on a frail scaffold. only
three feet wide and swinging IN the
air seven stories above the ground,
Henry Gravosky and Joseph Morris,
painters, in New York, INDUCED in
horse play" throwing a brush back
and forth. when suddenly both fell to
the ground and were instantly killed.
Nine and possibly ten little school
girls at Pleasant Ridge, seven miles
north OF Cincinnati, we're suffocated
In q vault during the forenoon recess,
and over a score of others narrowly
escaped a similar horrible death.
About thirty of the smaller girls were
In the clubhouse, when suddenly the
floor gave way, precipitating them into
a vault Of filth.
An e~astbound freight train on the
Grand Trunk railway crashed into an
other freight train near Eastwood,
Ont. A number Of cars were demol-
ished and Engineers Kirkland and
Heron, Conductor Falls and Brakeman
Benedict were killed. Fireman Cam.
eron was 30 badly scalded that his
life Is ~despaired of. An open switch
10 said to have been the cause Of the
accident.