The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-01-11

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Mrs Mary Bellamy committed sui
eide at Leon, Iowa, by drinking car
bolic acid. She was poor and alone in
the world and became deranged by
brooding over her troubles.
H. A. Drake of Little Sioux, Iowa,
shot and killed Lucy Way, his house
keeper, and then killed himself. De-
spondcncy is given as the cause OF
brakes act He was fifty years old
and the housekeeper thirty.dve.
At the boarding house at Joplin,
Mo-, where he lived, F. w. Troy shot
his wife through the head and breast
and shot Ralph Quinn. son OF the land
lady, through the shoulder. Quinn
will recover. Troy was captured. He
refuses to discuss the shooting.
Foreign.
Baroness Burdette-Coutts,w who has
been i'll at her residence in London
since Christmas eve, is dead.
Emerson Coatsworth has been re-
elected mayor of Toronto by majori-
ty OF 1000 oyer his Socialist oppopent-
All the British insurance companies
have repudiated their liabilities arising
from the earthquake at Valparaiso last
year.
Fire in the camp and equipment
stores on Gun wharf at Portsmouth,
Eng, caused damage to the amount of
| 81 .250. 900.
Twenty-three courts-martial are an
nounced at Tambov. The mutiny is
the most serious since that at Sevasto-
pol last July.
The employees of the state railroads
in Bulgaria have struck for increased
wages. The government will use mill
tary locomotive drivers.
The street car service at Copenha-
gen has been entirely suspended, ow-
ing to strike Of employees for 35
per cent increase in wages.
The French admiralty has ordered
the construction Of four submarines
which are to be superior to any exist
Ing type of similar vessels.
The foreign Office announces that
King Edward has approved the ap-
pOintment of James Bryce as ambassa-
| dor to the United States.
Snow storms continue In various
parts Of England, but with less severi-
ty, and there are signs in Southern
England of lnilder weather.
A statue of the late President Nc
Kinley by Trentanove, which is to go
to Summerville, N. J., was successfully
cast in bronze at Florence, italy.
The German foreign ofiice has mott
hed the French foreign ONCE that
Jules Cambon will be satisfactory AS
. successor to M. Bihourd as minister
at Berlin.
The wedding Of Post Wheeler, Sec
ond secretary Of the American embas
sy, and Halle Erminie Rives, the nov
elist, which took place at the embassy
At Toxic. was brilliant success.
>. The British admiraltys decision to
send the First cruiser squadron to
Hampton Roads for the opening of the
jamestown exposition will give Great
Britain an exceptionally strong naval
representation.
A. plenary council of the French
bishops to discuss the situation of the
church In France has been summoned
to meet Jan. Is at the Chateau de la
Muette, where Louis XVI. and Marie
Antoinette passed their honeymoon.
The pope has received many impoT-
tant donations to help him in the diff
culties with France. They include
$4O0, 900 from Emperor Francis joseph
OF Austria, and 100000 from Cardinal
Vashary, archbishop OF Gran. Hungary.
The French government intends, as
a mark Of appreciation of Ambassador
McCormick's services in furthering
the cordial relations between France
1 and the United States to confer ON
him the grand Gordon Of the Legion Of
honor.
Domestic.
The late Lady Burdette-C Coutts has
left the bulk Of her fortune to her nus
band.
The dispute between the Southern
railway and it's machinists has been ad.
justed.
The Atlantic fleet Of eight battle.
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