The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-01-27
Domestic.

ed States senator at Helena, Mont, re-
ceiving 81 votes.
The convention of the Stonemasons'
international union decided to hold the
next meeting in st. Paul.
The Pennsylvania legislature elect
ed Philander c. Knox to succeed the
late M. H. Quay in the United States
senate.
Levi Rouss of Passaic, N. j., has
celebrated what he claims as his 115th
birthday. Rouss has resided at Pas
sale for twelve years.
1t has been decided to throw open
the gates and all buildings at the
Lewis and Clarke exposition at Port
land, Ore, on Sundays.
Henry Phipps, the former Pittsburg
steel manufacturer, will give 81 ,000,0 900
for the erection in New York city OF
model tenement houses for the work
ing classes.
Hello, Central" was shouted 5,070,-
554,5 53 times by telephone users in the
| United States during n year, accord
ing to statistics prepared by the CEN
| sus bureau.
In a pastoral letter sent to the
priests of the Cincinnati archdiocese,
Archbishop Moeller strongly opposes
church fairs, picnics, excursions and
euchre parties.
At the closing OF the sixth annual
session of the Association of American
Universities, President Charles Fl. Van
| Hise of the University Of Wisconsin
was elected president.
United States Senator Lodge was
reelected for a full term by the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, and w. M. Crane
was chosen to complete the remainder
of Senator Hoar's term.
The Pennsylvania State Editorial
association adopted resolutions criti-
| cising Gov. Pennypacker for his refer
ence to the press in his recent bien-
NAL message to the legislature.
Mrs. Katherine Lubawa, 107 years OF
| age, died in Milwaukee. She was prob
| ably the oldest woman in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Lubawa is survived by eighty
| nine descendants, in five generations.
Herbert C. White, one Of the best
, known citizens of Cleveland. and pro-
bate judge Of Cuyahoga county since
1887, dropped dead of heart disease
while making a call at the home of a
friend.
For each and every dozen of bed
bugs captured and delivered dead or
alive) by the inmates of the county
| home at Greensburg, Pa, to the super
intendent's Office, a bounty Of 3 cents
| will be paid.
More than half OF the $1,000 900 ap-
| propriated for the payment of the
friars' fund in the Philippines has been
| paid out to the Catholic orders. and
the title of the land has passed to the
Philippine government.
A complete denial OF the charges
made by witnesses before the inter.
| state c~mmerce commission ~investiga-
| ton of the business methods Of the
| Armour refrigerator car lines has been
made by a representative OF Armour
E. Co.
Comte valiant de la Croix, former.
~ HuSlCdl ulICCGOi III lie 1lilAOlS CON'
~servatory at Jacksonville, and the
| Knickerbocker conservatory in New
York, distinguished for his work In
grand opera, and the last male sur
vivor of the famous titled French fam
lily, is i'll and in poverty at Los An
geles because he is too proud to let
his rich relatives in France know of
his condition.
A most peculiar theory is set forth
by an expert operator in the Northern
Ohio oil fields. which accounts for
many premature explosions Of nitro
glycerine. He says that it is nothing
more or less than rats gnawing away
at the cans.
Charles A. Edwards, secretary Of the
Democratic congressional committee
and the newly elected president of the
American Newsboy company, denied
that any one authorized by the com.
pany has used President Roosevelt's
name to further it's interests in sell
ing stock.