The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-12-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK N fPTOMf
IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND an FOREIGN SHORES
DRiGFLY TOLD.
Washington Notes.

A bill to establish postal savings
banks for depositing savings at inter-
ct has been introduced by Senator
Carter Of Montana.
Senator Proctor has introduced a
bill to promote military education in
the various civil institutions of learn
ing. including agricultural colleges.
The value Of the coins executed at
the minis Of the United States during
November. 1907. was $35, 963, 26O, Of
which $333,840,060 was gold, 81. OO2, 900
silver and 1922 minor coins.
Representative Garner Of Texas in.
troduced q bill creating a new form Of
legal tender, to be called United
States currency notes" and providing
for their printing to the amount Of
0 1000, 900.
The senate has received from the
White House the treaty negotiated be-
tween the representatives of the Unit
"a States and certain European coun-
tries as the result of the conference
On wireless telegraphy held in Der,
M.
The monthly circulation statement
issued by the controller Of the cur.
1oncy shows that at the close of bust
1ess. Nov. 80. 1907. the total outstand.
ing circulation was $3.50, 218, 1876.
which is an increase for the year Of
462,S37. SAT and an increase for the
month Of S46,237. 7so.
Personal.
Mai. w. T. Seward. a doorkeeper Of
0o United States senate. dropped
Dad while entering q revolving door
q the capitol.
Prof. Jeffrey O. Hebeck. professor
q German and Slavonic languages at
~ University Of Nebraska, died at
nncoln Of peritonitis.
Gen. Allen Thomas. United States
ninister to Venezuela during the sec.
- administration Of President Cleve.
land. died at his homo Ct Wavsland.
Miss.
Morris r. Tyler. president Of the
Southern Now England Telephone
company, former treasurer Of Yale
university and a millionaire, died sud.
denly In New Haven.
Francis J. O'Neill Of the London
ata@ Of the Associated Press died at
III home In London after an illness OF
several weeks. Mr.. O'Neill was wide
u known In newspaper circles In the
United States. having been connected
prominently with papers In Washing
ton and elsewhere.
Foreign.
Gen. Luis Saenz Pena. ex-president
q the Argentine republic. is dead. He
was born In 1880.
Reginald Post, governor Of Porto
Rtco, has been renonlinated to that OF.
los By President Roosevelt.
No less than $4,000 rides and revol.
vers. - well as several pieces Of ar.
tillery, have been shipped from Ant.
werp to Portugal recently.
Ralph Smith, M. r.. British Co,um.
~, will move In the Canadian parlia.
nent legislation similar to the Chinese
exclusion act to prevent an influx OF
III Oriental immigration into Canada.
The Newspaper Derniere Heure Of
BRUSSELS has opened q subscription
1or the purpose Of buying in the jewels
q the late Queen Henrietta Of Bel
Gium, which were left by her will to
Aer daughter, Princess Louise. and
lAter seized for debt.
Florence Nightingale, the English
DAtlanthr0pist, has been DECORATED
With the Order OF Merit by King Ed
ward. She II the first woman to re.
ooivo this distinction. which to the
Drosent time has been bestowed upon
Nineteen men. each Of marked emf.
nence.
That Japan IL not only planning to
O~utdistance the United States in the
struggle for the commerce OF the Pc,
el0c. but already has driven the
Steamship lines Of every other nation
ct Of the Chinese trade. is the. state
Isn't of Henry l.. Paddock. United
otates consul at Amboy. China.
rho government Of Austria-Hun.
ehry has issued . caution against emf
STation 70 the states Of Missouri and
ulasissippi, unless reliable informa.
I'm Il ct hand from Austrian sources.
In1s action has been taken on account
complaints made regarding the
f4o1tment Of Austrian workmen in
xAoee states.
AM Grimes.
n. B. b. Hunt, aged thirty, 10
II 16fxeeG1nt because her husband desert
G1 ~. committed suicide BY inhaling
~ a Chicaso.
Crsked With jealousy. Ray Howard,
oEnt D. Moines soldier, fired a bull
.liIi " III former sweetheart, Miss
skol Adair, who had lifted him, but
noo1 ~ rim ana killed her sister.
4artAa Pickering. Howard is
1raTrosk
iENtnnane, 1flss Adelia n. Johns
111i11S Xxx al : farmer q Marshall
nD a<tempfsd 70 set dre To-
SSr Soass. she then drakn
6nndty y eonceuttatsd I've. He
Scrfe@eaya1 hor. She was ad-
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