The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-08-19

|
Serious floods continue throughout
Japan. Thousands of houses are sub
merged and many lives have been
lost.
Joseph Vending, alleged slayer of
Alma Kelner, reached Denver on his
way to Louisville.
Wholesome legislation for Indians
Is expected to follow an expose OF the
charges of Senator Gore.
| The papal nuncio at the Spanish
court has been warned to make ready
to depart on short notice.
! Claude A. Swanson has been ap-
pointed U. S. Senator from Virginia in
place of Daniels. deceased.
At the meeting of railroad men at
! st. Louis the decision was reached to
demand an eight hour day.
The total population Of the United
States under the last census will
hardly beknown before October.
Serious floods continue throughout
Japan. Thousands of houses are sub
merged and many lives were lost,
One of the first duties of the United
States supreme court will be to pass
on the Kansas bank guaranty law.
Sweeping authority is given the
commerce commission by the law
which is to take effect August H.
Secretaries Wickersham and Nagel
are keeping out of the Alaska
quarrel while visiting the territory
The establishment of national
home for the deaf at Colorado Springs
was urged at the worlds congress of
the deaf held there.
The prohibitionists opened their
campaign at Liberty, Mo-, in the in
terest of the statewide prohibition
constitutional amendment
The funeral of Bishop Dunno of Dal-
las, Tex, who died at Green Bay, Wis,
was held at Chicago in the Church of
the Immaculate Conception.
An army paymaster's safe contain
yer camp at Pole mountain, twenty
five miles west of Cheyenne.
Fritz Mergenthaler, son of the in
ventor of the linotype machine. was
killed at Cape May, N. j., when an
express train ran into his automobile
The Carriage Manufacturers asso-
citation of the United States in session
at Louisville resolved to advance the
price of vehicles for the season Of
1911.
The Nebraska State board of equali-
cation told Omaha bankers they can
not deduct $1.211.531 full value from
assessed value Of capital stock on ac-
count of prospective bad loans.
Acting Secretary Pierre of the in
terror department appointed COM
mission to determine the competency
of Indian allottees on the Santee In
dian reservation in Nebraska.
The supreme lodge Knights of Pyth-
las has decided not to take over the
Las Vegas, N. M, sanitarium for tu-
bercular patients now under the juris-
diction of the Knights of Pythias.
John Wilson, jr., long absent from
his home in Johnson county, Nebr.,
ieturned and established his identity
as right to the $4,000 estate left by
his father, who died five years ago.
American trade with Japan may be
seriously affected, in part at least,
when the duties in the new Japanese
tariff law will go into effect This
fear was expressed in a statement by
the state department.
The establishment of a federal COM
mission, on the order of the inter
state commerce commission, for the
control of Alaska was adopted by
Jacob H. Schiff, the New York bank
er, who has just returned from a tour
of the territory.
Mrs. Judith Ellen Horton Foster,
noted throughout the country as
temperance lecturer and writer and
advocate of missions and philanthro-
ply, died in Garfield hospital in
Washington.
The Pan-American congress has un-
animOusly approved a new conven-
ton obligating the republics of Amer
lea to submit to arbitration all pc
cuniary claims they are unable to set
tie amicably through diplomatic chan
nels.
With millions of tons of coal lying
untouched in the Katalla coal fields,
juneau, Alaska, is in the grip of
fuel famine The steamship COM
panies have exhausted their retail
supply, and the situation is becoming
acute.
Esparantists from all parts of the
world are arriving to attend the Es-
peranto congress at Washington. Ed
win C. Reed, secretary of the con-
gress, was notified by the State de-
partment that Ali Kuli Kahn had
been designated as official represent
ative of Persia, making the ninth ma
ton to send an official representative.
The coal lands in North and South
Dakota amounting to about 100000
acres, which were recently with
lrawn from the public domain by
President Taft, have been opened to
homestead settlement under the act
passed at the last session of con-