The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-07-31
NEWS Of the WEEK IN tPITOMt
~emoortaat Events at Home aad %
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
AZ the Capital.

Al tne CAPITAL.
According to advices received by
the wal department in Washington
cholera has been stamped out in the
Philippines.
The trademarks and patents treaty
between Japan and the United States
and japan and Great Britain are al
most completed. The summer holi-
laws OF a number Of officials have
been delayed in order to secure rati-
dcation before the vacations.
II the consumption of anthracite
coal continues at the same rate at
which 1t has been going on for the
last several years it is estimated that
the supply will be entirely exhausted
In the year 2O55, says Edward v. Par
ker of the United States geological
survey.
China is to hMe an arbitration
treaty with the United States. The
preliminary negotiations are o in
progress, and as sOo as the terms
Are agreed upon the convention will
be signed by Minister WI and the
state department officials at Wash
mgton.
Immigration to the United States
trom all countries, particularly Rus
sia and Japan, showed a marked fall
ing OF for the month OF June as COM
pared with the same month Of 1907,
according to figures made public by
The bureau OF immigration and natu-
~tnlixation. The total immigration ag.
Eregated 31,497, compared with 154,.
y34 In 1907, a decrease of ~ per cen
Personal.
John H. Pierce Of Kewanee, ILL.,,
died ia Chicago following an opera
ton two weeks ago. For a quarter OF
. century he had been prominent in
the iron and steel trade.
Mrs. John B. Stetson, widow of the
late millionaire hat manufacturer OF
Philadelphia. is engaged to be mar
ried to Count Santa Eulalia, Portu-
guese consul at Chicago.
]. A. Sommer, forty.two years old,
3 veteran major league baseball
catcher, died Of p~aresis at his home
tn Cleveland. Sommer once caught
Tor Amos Rusie. He played with In.
dianapolis. Chicago and Boston.
Judge Alfred NJ. Craig. more than
se~venty.nve years old, and q Of the
Wealthiest citizens Of Gaiesburg, ILL.,,
ms been Joined In marriage to Miss
Mary Davis, who IL thirty years his
junior. The bridegroom served as
Judge Of the supreme court OF Illinois
oor three years. s..
FNt.EAA
Casualties.
Two men were killed and q third
seriously hurt by q premature explo-
sion in the Red Dog mine at Webb
City, Nc.
william Pohlman, . somnambulist.
cut his throat in his sleep at st. Louis,
ana only prompt work by physicians
saved his life.
During Q IRE In the Kline building
at Altoona, Pa. three persons were
electrocuted by live wires which
dropped IN the street.
A 1 result Of eating matches, Ag-
. Boswell. the seventeen-months-
Old daughter o. Edward Boswell, q st.
Louis horse buyer, died.
rive men were burned. two perhaps
fatally. by an overflow Of molten met
u from . furnace in the plant Of the
wisconsin steel mills IN South Chi
sago.
Gladys, the ffteen-year-old daughter
u Ed Woodle Of Lehigh, Iowa, was
killed by the breaking 6f a Whit
detree. which struck her in the pit Of
the stomach.
Abraham S~alerovitch, a ~fifteen-year-
pld telegraph messenger boy, was
scrus he'd to death by a passenger e!e-
vator IN the First National bank build
hg in Chicago.
Louis Schultz. nineteen years old,
Was seized with cramps while bathing
N the Peshtigo river, near Menominee,
Mich, and drowned in spite of heroic
sforts made by his brother.
Silas w. Corey, Jr.. sixty years old,
died suddenly at Fort Dodge, Iowa
from ptomaine poisoning. He ate
sasAd dressing at q picnic Saturday
and had been i'll ever since.
Several men on the naval t~rainin,
steamer Hawk at Cleveland wer,
badly scalded by the bursting of
stesm pipe. Charles Taylor, assist
ant engineer. probably will die al
result OF his injuries.
The year-osd SON Of M. E. Dakins Q
oGarshalltown, Iowa. drank q quantit
q the water IN which a patent A
killer was soaking, and 1t was onl
fhSough the most strenuous effort
d q the physician and family that tn
pkkild No. saved.
HE 81 Fort William, Ont, con
oletely destroyed the new block OF tn
J0hn king cOanpany and took with
~ dw1lljpg houses. the warehouse
" the company and stores Of Ktrku
! winnie ande +. strachan. The los
= 100000.
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