The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-01-19
Otherwise.

Otherwise.
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., to-day stands
the most prominent man in his class
at Harvard He is the first man to be
chosen to an Office in the class of 1909
Harvard college. He has been elected
chairman of the smoker committee.
The funeral of man named John
Frost was held from an undertaker's
rooms in New York 1t was said after
the funeral that Frost was the father
of Julia Marlowe, and that the actress
had arranged for the funeral.
Gov. Deneen of Illinois has notified
the officials and employees of all the
state departments under his control
and of the state charitable, penal and
reformatory institutions that they
must not ask or accept passes from
railroads.
Policeman James B. Boyd Of Pitts
burg, Pa, became violently insane af-
ter viev .ng the body of Mrs. Able who
was found murdered. Shrieking and
gesticulating wildly, he ran from the
house and was captured only after a
chase of several miles.
John w. Worrill, aged thfrty-three,
thinly clad and with bare feet. stood at
the corner of West Madison street and
Center avenue, Chicago, preaching to
a dozen or more men and boys, when
Patrolman Reilly interrupted the SER
mon and took the street preacher to
the station.
John A. Lewis, general manager OF
Prophet Dowie's Mexican colony, de-
nies that plan for establishing col
ony in that country has been aban-
doned. He states that negotiations
are pending for the purchase of large
tract Of land in the northern part of
the country.
Two franchises for electric street
car lines were asked of the common
council at Milwaukee, one by the Mil
waukee Northern Railway company, to
enter the city from the north, and the
other by the Chicago & Milwaukee
Electric Railway company, coming
from the south.
Common Councilman Robert K.
Cochrane Of Pittsburg is threatened
with blindness from blood poisoning,
which he believes he caught from a
street car strap. He is in the Presby-
terian hospital In a dark room, where
he has been since Christmas morning.
He has been totally blind for several
days.
Unless the Chinese boycott on Amer
lean goods is removed within thirty
days the plant of the Centennial Mill
ing company at Seattle, with a capac-
ity of 2,400 barrels of -four per day,
and that of the Hammond Milling COM
pany, with capacity of 1000 barrels,
will be forced practically to close
down.
At meeting of the Anti-Cigarette
league held in Chicago, an ordinance
was drafted making it misdemeanor
for minor under the age of seventeen
years to puff cigarette in any pub
lie place or for an adult to permit such
smoking on his premises. Members Of
the league believe the city council will
pass it.
Israel w. Durham, realizing that
the disruption of the organization in
Philadelphia Of which he was once the
undisputed leader is complete and that
the party machine has been captured
by the Lincoln Republicans, has told
his friends to look out for their own
interests and to make the best terms
possible with the men who are back of
the new ward leaders combine.
Samuel R. Shipley, retiring presi-
dent Of the Provident Life and Trust
company of Philadelphia, in speaking
of the rumor about the manner in
which the affairs Of the Provident COM
pany have been conducted, admitted
that the company had employed coun-
sci to have unfavorable bills killed.
Irving Park, Chicago suburb, is In
the grip OF scarlet fever epidemic
Business men are isolated from their
families, grocers and milk dealers use
poles and other long-distance devices
In delivering their wares, and every
one II under the constant watch OF
health department inspectors.