The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30

way across ASlaLlC RUSSIA.
Democrats of the country are very
much encouraged over recent state
state elections.
The cholera continues to spread In
to the southeast of Italy.
There were 100 Rockefellers In
Newburg, N. Y. for reunion.
A report on land fraud investiga-
tions in Alaska is expected shortly.
One was killed and eighteen injured
in collision of Burlington and Rock
Illinois republicans endorsed Presi-
dent Taft's plan for a tariff commits
sion.
A train on the Rock Island was
wrecked by flood, sixteen being killed
outright.
Mayor Gaynor is looming up as the
democratic candidate for governor of
New York.
The Grand Army of the Republic
declared against a proposition for a
dollar day pension.
Congressman Ollie James formally
announced himself a candidate for
United States senator.
Governor Stubs made a sensation
al speech at the interstate conference
on railroad rates at Topeka.
Colonel Roosevelt and his friends
claim to see the rout of the old
guard at the state convention.
John l.. Peak, former United States
minister to Switzerland. is critically
i'll at his home in Kans..s City.
The Idaho republican state conven-
tion adopted a platform endorsing
| President Taft's administration.
Congressman Tawney says the
| democrats brought about his defeat
by voting for his republican rival.
Schenectady county, New York.
gave the old guard a disagreeable
surprise by declaring for Roosevelt.
Father John Baptiste Abbott, of the
monastery of trappist monks at st.
Norbert, Manitoba, died last week.
The report that Taft will step aside
for Roosevelt in 1912 was declared at
Beverly to be unworthy of a denial
Hamilton w. King of Michigan,
United States minister to Siam. is
seriously i'll at hospital at Balti-
more.
John Barry Ryan, son of the New
York millionaire, proposes to equip
the government with fleet of aero
planes.
Il don't care what anybody says
about me so long as I am conscious
of doing my duty" says Secretary
Ballinger.
Governor Shallenberger has quit
the recount game and declares Mr..
Dahlman the democratic nominee for
governor Of Nebraska.
The lynching of two men of Italian
birth at Tampa, Fla, is being investi-
gated by the diplomatic and consular
representatives of the Italian govern
ment.
The building which stood upon the
site purchased for the Carnegie Ii
brary in Alliance has been moved
and work is now progressing on the
new building.
Mon Win, st. Louis only patient at
quaraptine, escaped from the leprosy
isolation hut west of the quarantine
station, leaving note which read:
Me going west.
The war department decided to
send the Seventh and Eighth cavalry
to the Philippines to relieve the
Twelfth and Thirteenth. The Seventh
is now at Fort Riley, Kas.
Acting Mayor Mitchell of New York
has ordered that Police Commission
er Baker be removed on the ground
of unfitness in permitting gambling
to flourish in the city unchecked.
It was announced that it had been
tentatively decided to elect Edward
M. Shepard and D. Cady Herrick as
the temporary and permanent chair.
man, respectively, of the New York
democratic convention.
H. T. Howell, one of the most
prominent bankers and financiers of
Nashville, Tenn, has resigned his
position as president of the Fourth
National bank of Nashville to accept
the presidency of the Carnegie Trust
company of New York.
Lightning struck the statute OF
Henry Clay in the Lexington, KY
cemetery, shattering an arm and leg
OI JUo HSuIe. uC IuClUOI ldl was wv
yelled in July and took the place OF
a similar monument which was struck
by lightning in July, 903.
Charles Mindeleff, New York ex
pert metallurgist, has been engaged by
the treasury department to make 6
study of the methods of refining gold
in the United States mints. He was
anpaped nv Acting Secretary Plat
Andrews and will begin work at once
Personal.