The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-25
NEWS or Tnf WEEK N fPITOMf

IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND an FOREIGN SHORES
sRlGFLY TOLD.
Washington.
A new rural mail route out Of
Frankford, Sping county, s. D., Is or
dered to begin Dec. 16, to serve eigh-
ty4fve families; out OF Ross, Ward
county, N. D., to serve log families;
out OF Wheelock, Williams county, to
serve 1o7 families.
Confounded with q statement by
Henry A. Castle, former auditor Of the
postoface department, that the govern
ment for q long time had lost an av-
erage OF $1,000 daily through error
and fraud in the money order system.
the congressional commission which
= inquiring into postal methods, has
gone TAR enough to decide that impor-
.tant reforms are necessary in. the con-
duct Of the service.
Application for a writ of mandamus
VA made to the supreme court Of the
United States directing the court to
Issue . writ Of error In the case Of
Thomas b. Clement Of Faribault,
Mfnn.,i who has been convicted and
sentenced to eight years imprison-
ment at Saltwater for misappropra-
ton Of bank funds. Application for
Z writ Of certiorari In this case had
nR0vfnnc1v hoow AonioA U
People Talked About.
Campbell Slemp, member Of con-
9ress from the Ninth district Of Vir-
g1nia, died at Big Stone Gap. Va. Of
angina pectoris.
Rev. Ephraim Hall Emery Jameson,
for sixteen years district secretary Of
the American Baptist missionary So
ciety for Michigan and Ohio, died at
his home In Detroit. aged seventy-two
years. faesfl {#t H
Henri Rochefort, the well known
French journalist, at the age Of seven
ty-seven, severed his connection with
the Intransiegant, which he founded
p 1880, and assumed the editorship Of
the Patrie. 0
rev. Edward Everett Hale has re-
tired az president Of the American An.
tiquaFian society, and Waldo Lincoln
of~Worcester. Mass, was elected to
tho once. DR.. Hale has completed
axfy pears membership In the society.
From Other Shores.
The slump In the price Of copper
Ans closed . large number OF mines In
The southern portion Of the republic
q Mexico.
Midi advices from Batavia report
tho ambuscade and the massacre Of
two companies OF Dutch troops by ma.
dives In Celebes. Not one escaped.
The priests Of the department OF
F~inistere. France, having generally re-
fused to quit their pr~esbyteries, which
reverted to the communes under the
church and state separation law, are
now being expelled by the aid Of the
tenderness.
The imperial Chinese troops detach-
% from the Yangste Kiang valley can
comments since the aAtt-missionary
outbreaks at Nan Kang Sian, have
driven the so-called Boxers into the
mountains on the borders OF Kwang
Tung. In an engagement at Chung VI
the troops killed seventy insurgents.
"A correspondent Of tho Tagsblatt at
Emden ~telegraphs that, according to
. dispatch received from Borkun. =
spying yacht with English naval off,
cers on board has been captured by
two Wilhelmhaven torpedo boats. The
o6lcers are suspected Of having taken
soundings and made photographs In
forbidden waters.
Although the general strike has
BEEN oficially called OF at Milan, the
labor situation III other parts OF Italy
- Adisquieting. II n understood that
the decision taken by the leaders at
Milan was the result Of 4 promise on
the part Of Signor Gioletti, the pre-
nier and minister Of the interior. that
Tie government would punish the AR
blneers who fired on the strikers, II
the investigation being made proves
that they were not Justified In shoot
~ into the mob.
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Casualty.
T1yo men were drowned. by the over.
turning Of : scow In the Illinois and
Michigan canal near, Joliet, III.
Francis Hays. three years old. fell
ITO . water tank on the farm Of his
grandmother near Waterloo. Iowa. and
49, drowned. ,If
One man was killed and three 9th.
- fatally injured in . boiler explo-
otcn at the sawmill Of Jacob Markle,
n0ar Puxsutawney. Pa.
Matthew. Glovoski. I'VE years old.
and his sister Lucy, eleven years old.
NSre. run over and killed by . Lake
e15ore train At Lorraine, Ohio.
Wlfle trying to cross the Cumber.
land river . short distance below
Nashville, Tenn, in . skin T. j. War
1acksand his two sons were drowned.
Assistant Secretary Of State Robert
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