The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-08-18
Resume 81 the News.
Foreign.

but the violence so far has not been
great.
Arrangements for a $5,000,0O0 to
Morocco by Germany it Is expected
will be concluded soon.
The Venezuelan government has
placed an order at Genoa for six tor
pedo boats and opa torpedo boat de-
stroyer.
A dispatch says the Russian police
have agents in London, the result of
rumors that anarchists are plotting to
assassinate the czar.
The German government has init
mated to Morocco that it does not de-
sire to secure any concessions pend
ing the international conference.
George l.. Tucker, fourteen-year-old
son of Col. and Mrs. w. F. Tucker,
and a grandson of Mrs. John A. I>o-
gan is dead of appendicitis at Manila.
The municipal council of Marseilles
has provided for the construction of
a canal from Marseilles to the Rhone,
to facilitate the passage of ships from
Marseilles to Lyons, at an estimated
expense of $1,2OO,00O.
Mayor Fernandez of Vueltas of the
province of Santa Clara, Cuba, has
been indicted with the connection Of
the burning of the municipal build
ing of that city July 2. He has been
placed in Jail without bond.
Henry Palas, Count Won Plauen, son
of Prince Henry XXVI. of Reuss, be-
longing to collateral branch of the
younger Reuss line. was among twen-
ty persons killed in a railroad COLI
sion, between Shremberg and Goer-
litz, Prussia.
The steamer Kangawa, from Yoko-
hama, brings news of a plot to ship
10000 rifles and 100000 rounds of
ammunition to Samar and to other
unpacified districts in the Philippines
The scheme was discovered and the
filibusters are in hiding.
The entire crop of Roumania is
threatened with ruin owing to the
persistent drouth. There has been
no rain for two months. The holy
synod has ordered special prayers for
rain, and professions carrying ikons
will take place throughout the coun.
try.
A new Dutch cabinet was formed at
The Hague on Monday under the
premiership of j. A. Vanhamel, profess
sor OF philosophy at the university
m voV1y
rees Van Swinderin, minister at Wash
ington, has been appointed minister of
foreign affairs
The activity OF Vesuvius, which was
moderate during the last two months,
increased yesterday, though the ex-
plosions are infrequent. Two cracks
have appeared in the upper cone on
the north side. and from these much
lava Is elected. A cone is forming in
front Of Humbert's Hill, with an in
candescent lake of marvellous beauty.
General.
The International Anatomical con-
gress has accepted an invitation to
meet in Boston in 1907.
Willard Merrill, for years vice pres
ident of the Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance company. died at Pase-
dena, Cal.
Fifteen electric light and gas COM
panies In Luzerne county, Pennsylva-
mia, have been merged in one company
with a capital OF $1.000,0OO.
Pat Kramer, seventy, one of the
most noted old-time Texas gamblers
and sporting men, died suddenly at
Fort Worth Of heart disease.
The supreme council, Royal Arcan-
um, will meet at Put-in-Bay, Ohio. on
Aug. 80, to consider the developments
growing out of the establishment of
new rates.
Gen. Stone, a veteran of the Civil
and Spanish-American wars, and a
distinguished civil engineer. Is dead
in his sixty-ninth year, at his home
In Mendham. N. ].
Louis w. Hill, first vice president
Of the Great Northern railroad, will
be elected president, and Howard
James vice president Of the Great
Northern Steamship company.
Capt Evan p. Howell, long promi.
nently identified with Southern Jour.
nalism died at Atlanta, Ca. after an
illness Of three weeks brought on by
q carbuncle complicated with dia.
betes.
Alexander Melville Bell, father OF
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell. died at
the Washington home of the latter.
eighty.six years old, from pneumonia.
following an operation for diabetes.
He was native Of Scotland.
Seward, Alaska. has finally been
connected with the outer world by
telegraphic communication. With the
connection Of the Sewar-Valdex cable
the government now has about 1900
miles Of cable in Alaskan waters.
President Roosevelt Sunday after.
noon delivered lay sermon to the
Christian Brotherhood Of Oyster Bay.
He emphasized especially the neces.
sity OF sound character building. hold
ing that high moral character l. the
real essence OF Christian life.
Insane because her lover, 4 Young