The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-12-29
General.

General.
Smallpox has become epidemic at
the University of Oregon. Many stu
dents are i'll and more are being
seized by the disease.
Evangelist William Sunday closed
a five weeks revival at Burlington,
Iowa. He made $500 converts. The
residents donated $4,000 to him.
Prince Louis Of Battenberg has ac-
! eepted a membership in the Cana
dian Camp, an organization of 700
sportsmen and s~portswomen residing
in all parts of the United States.
Thirty-nine sixty-foot new steel mail
cars will be in operation on the lines
| of the Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe
within a short time. About half of
that number are already installed.
Lyman l.. Pierce of Washington,
for the past five years general secre-
tary of the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION. has resigned, to take effect
Dec. 81, on account of impaired health.
Prof. S. Stanhope Or-is, professor
emeritus of Princeton university and
one of the foremost SCHOLARS in the
United States, died at Harrisburg, Pa,
of paralysis, after an illness of three
years. He was 70 years old.
Owing to the scarcity of American
lead and the large demands for the
metal at the present time, it is report
ed that arrangements have been made
to import several thousand tons from
England, Belgium and Germany.
j. Wesley Jones, founder and di-
rector of the United States l~ife-saving
corps, died at his home in Brooklyn.
Col. Jones served. throughout the Civil
war, part of the time on the staff of
Gen. G. B. Mcclellan.
A telephone received at Harvard
observatory from Prof. Percival Low
ell of the Flagstaff (Ariz.) observa-
tory, who is in the East, says that a
comet was found by Prof. Slipher on
a photograph made Nov. 90
William l.. Kestner, president of
the board of directors of the Illinois
normal college, died at his home in
Kansas City. He was 81 years old
and had been a leader in the Illinois
Republican party ever since the Civil
war.
Under the auspices of the Actors
National Protective union, it is an
nounced, a union Of grand opera sing
ers, including both men and women,
has been formed in New York with
1872 members. The union consists OF
the members of the chorus.
Here's a trust that will get you
while you slumber. It will cost 10
per cent more to sleep on an iron bed
and wire springs after Jan. / than it
does now, for the Metal Bed and
Spring Bed associations have decided
to raise the prices Of sleeping para
phernalia.
Fred Pabst, the former president of
the Pabst Bhewing company and one
Of the best known m~illionaires in Wis
consin lis studying agriculture at the
University Of Wisconsin. Mr.. Pabst
recently acquired a fine stock farm
and has decided to go into the bust.
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and scientific plan.
Judge Brace of Milwaukee decided
that Charles F. Pister was not guilty
OF larceny as bailee, as charged in the
Indictment returned Aug. 4 last by the
grand jury. The decision was on q
motion to dismiss the defendant after
the state had rested its case. The mo-
ton to discharge was argued at length
70 ra day and a half.
Thomas L. Reilly, q reporter on the
Meriden (Conn.) Journal, has been
elected mayor Owe George M. Curtis,
the Republican candidate. Mr.. Reilly,
who was the Democratic, candidate,
represented the younger element and
drew from both parties.