The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-29
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The Tennessee state senate has
passed a bill prohibiting the sale of in
%toxicating liquors on railroad trains.
Good crops are already being pre-
dicted for North Dakota before they
are planted. There is noting that can
beat the N. d. optimist.
Col. James w. Caperton, personal
friend of Abraham Lincoln, lawyer
and banker, died at his home at Rich
mond, KY, aged eighty-five years.
Former Vice President Charles w.
Fairbanks, accompanied by Mrs. Fair
banks, sailed for the Orient from San
| Francisco last week on the japanese
liner Chiyo Maru.
Stephen Barno, a Brooklyn house
painter, whose back was broken by a
fall Of twenty feet in White Plains on
! April /, is rapidly recovering. Barno
was paralyzed from the hips down.
The Denver professional women
passed a resolution denouncing the
police force for an order prohibiting
restaurants with liquor licenses from
serving unescorted ONE after 8
p. m.
Farmers throughout the Canadian
west are becoming alarmed at the
continued cold weather, which is seri-
ously Interfering with the commence
ment of wheat seeding operations.
Seeding is undeniably late.
The New York Aeronautical society
of New York has voted to offer prizes
~aggregating $4,000 for distance and
speed. to be competed for at an aero
plane tournament on the Morris Park
race track the latter part of May.
Northeastern Iowa millers in con
vention at Waterloo to plan a way for
bringing Iowa into the wheat raising
industry. That state was once the
great Middle West wheat center, but
now ocorn takes the preference. The
-four men will cooperate with the ag-
ricultural college in bringing about
this condition, b
When Henry SeltDer, a German
farmer of the western outskirts of
Chicago, was presented with three
baby boys by his wife a few days ago
he decided to %perpetuate the glory OF
the Republican leaders and named the
boys Theodore Roosevelt Seltner. Will
liam Howard Taft Seltner and Charles
S. Deneen Seltner.
From present indications it is ap-
parent that any move the Iowa Cen
trail expects to take regarding the
moving of it's general shops from Mar
shalltown to Oskaloosa or enlarging
the plant there has been indefinitely
POSTPONED. Master Mechanic Gossett
has received orders to work the shops
to their fullest capacity.
Gov. George Leavens Lilley died at
| Hartford after battling with disease
| for four weeks. The governo- did
| not regain consciousness from the
| coma in which he laid for many hours.
| The attending physicians announce
| that the immediate cause OF death was
| toxi-semia, the result of acute nephri-
| tbs. with ~valvular disease and hyper
trophy.
owing to the long drouth In the far
! western part of Texas hundred of cat
| tie are dying on the ranges. The
| grass has all been eaten and the
| plains for many miles appear as a
| barren waste. no rain having fallen
| for ave months in some localities.
satisfied that the foot and mouth dis
ease in cattle, sheep. other ruminants
and swine has been completely eradi.
Gated in the United States, Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson has issued All
order releasing the entire country
from the federal quarantine or account
OF that disease.