The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-10-28
DR.. Crippen testified in his own be.

be elevated to chief.
Edgar Allen Poe has been declared
entitled to a place in the hall OF fame.
Mr.. Bryan has been making some
speeches in Speaker Cannon's Illinois
district.
DIR. Crippen was found guilty OF
numbering his wife and sentenced to
be hanged October 10.
The Norwegian steamer Bluefields
is believed to have been lost in the
West Indian hurricane.
The chairman of the Iowa demo
cratic committee proposes a state
wide primary On senator in November.
Rhode Island republicans renomi-
mated present state officers and en-
dorsed the administration of Presi-
dent Taft.
The validity of the Carmack amend
ment to the Hepburn rate law is be-
ing tested in the United States SUI
preme court.
The government has authorized the
Spanish minister at Lisbon to enter
into relations with the provisional
COVE 1ment.
Announcement was made of a gift
of $4,000 by John ID. Rockefeller to
the medical department of Western
Reserve university.
Luigi Lucheni, who as~sassinated
the emperor of Austria in 1908. COM
mitted suicide in his cell in the pris-
on known as lEveche.
Thn It,tx, an l,n,hnr r. ,,nrfoI from
Canada will be waived by the United
States in the interest Of the Mime
sofa forest-fire sufferers.
Society has given up it's attempt to
reconcile Colonel Jonn J acob Astor
and Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, the beau
tiful wife who divorced aim.
Charges that lobbying has been
done in behalf of a prohibition IT.
ticle resulted in depriving reporters
of floor privileges in the Arizona con
stitutional convention.
New Jersey is assured of a tradi-
tional Thanksgiving celebration this
year, for reports from all parts of
New Jersey show that the cranberry
cop will probably be the largest ever
harvested.
The charge in Theodore Roosevelt's
speech in New York that John A. Dix,
the democratic nominee for governor,
was a director of the wallpaper trust"
was denied by Mr.. Dix's friend and
business associate.
The twenty-first annual report of
the Great Northern railway says that
improvement in conditions during the
fiscal year ending June 30 last result
ed "in the largest earnings for one
year ever reported by the company"
Eighty-five per cent of the inhabit-
from the hook worm disease, accord
ing to the annual report of Captain
f. Parker, u. S. N, retired, governor
of the American islands of the Same.
an group.
Seven thousand eight hundred men,
among them Governor Wilson of Ken
lucky, coming from seven states-In-
diana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, West
Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky,
were initiated into the Woodmen of
the World at Louisville, KY.
A cable from Rio Janeiro to the
New Dreams Picayune says: "The
steamship Wally was wrecked near
the lighthouse at Arrosales off Para
and is a total loss. Some of the pas
sangers were rescued, but it is be-
lieyed that nearly fifty were drowned
New York's Chinatown is to be
cleaned up as it has never been
cleaned before. This is the decision
of the new police administration, it
was learned at headquarters. and be-
ginning at midnight, the police were
instructed to order all white persons
from the district.
One of the naval changes and pro-
motions resulting from the retirement
of Capt. U. S. G. White on account of
age was the advancement of Com
mander Robert E. Peary, the Arctic
explorer. to the rank of captain. Peary
has been the only civil engineer in
the navy with a rank of commander.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad com
pany was fined from so to $25 each
on four counts for violating the six
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st. Louis.
The English government has invited
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener to be-
come a member of the committee on
imperial defense and Lord Kitchener
has accepted.
Secret service detectives raided the
plant of a well known publishing firm
in Chicago, arresting two men, said
to be officials of the company, in con.
nection with the the alleged issue OF
millions Of dollars worth of counter.
felt notes of the Nicaraguan govern
ment, which ave been circulated
over the country. Other arrests are
expected.
The board of directors of the ma
tfonal association of credit men at a
meeting in Kansas City decided to
hold the next annual convention of
the association at Minneapolis, Mimi,
from June Is to II. D. w. Sayer OF
Minneapolis was appointed to formu.