The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-15
Domestic.

F. Augustus Heinze denies that a
deal has been effected whereby he will
r~elinquish his Butte holdings TO the
Amalgamated.
The Baltic. the new steamer of the
White Star line and the largest vessel
ehoat, sailed from Queenstown for
New York on its maiden trip.
While no final action has yet been
taken on the latest offer by d. ]. Sully
for a settlement at 40 per cent, it is
believed that the committee will agree.
Gen. ]. l.. Lewis. famous as the com
mander of the orphan Brigade" in
the C~onfederacy, dropped dead at
Frankfort, KY. He was chief justice
Of the court of appeals over twenty
years.
Thomas E. Watson Of Georgia for
president and Thomas V. Tibbles OF
Nebraska for vice president was the
ticket nominated by reclamation by
the Populist national convention al
Springfield, Ill.
After having been suspended since
last fall, ore is again being hoisted
| from the Consolidated Lake Superior
| company's Helen mine, "a the Michipi.
coten district Of Ontario. New ma.
chinery has been installed.
The resignation Of Charles M.
Schwab, former president Of the Unit
| ed States Steel corporation, as a di'
rector of the corporation, 1t is an.
nounced. will be accepted at the quar-
terly board meeting in July.
The United Fruit company will es'
ia olish throughout the entire scope OF
their distribution in this country, says
the New York Journal Of Commerce.
the system OF selling bananas by
weight instead of by the bunch.
Thirty-fve hundred packing house
employees in East st. Louis have voted
that the wages Of the laborers mus
be increased from Is cents an hour to
1917 cents. Similar meetings have
been held in Chicago, Kansas City, St
Joseph and Omaha.
The Louisville school board has in
structed the high school committee tc
inform four Filipino students who ap
Piled for admission to the Dupont
manual training high school that their
color debars them from the privileges
of the public schools.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Lewis and Clark expo
sition at Portland, Ore, Presiden'
Harvey w. Scott rendered his resigna
ton, which was accepted. The rea
son assigned by Scott is failing health
His has not yet been Sc
lected.
"There will never be another silver
dollar coined in this country" sait
George T. Roberta, director OF thu
limited States mint at Portland, Ore.
"unless by some chance a 16 to / con
press should be elected, for the suppl.
of silver bullion purchased under tn
sherman act is exhausted"
Several hundred people besieged tn
doors of the German-American banl
at Aurora, H., the cashier of which
nv his W confession, is short $4,000
in his accounts. The bank officials de
clared the institution prepared for tn
run. Most of the withdrawals wer
said to be by small depositors.
Little s~ix-year-oid Harry Norton G
Alta. Mass, saved his e~ight-year-ol
brother Artie from a horrible deaf
by an act Of bravery. Artie fell fror
the top of a fence into a pigpen an
was set upon by an enraged SOW, an
would have been killed but for the II
interference of his little brother. VIII
climbed into the pen and beat of tn
brute with a stick.
Gen. Piet Cronje OF Boer war fam
{ was married to Mrs. Stertzael, tn
widow Of a Boer soldier. The Ger
mony was performed in the Boer cam
at the worlds fair.