The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-10-14

the western portion OF Galveston.
Loss, estimated at $120,000.
The president withdrew 4,100 acres
Of land from the public domain in
Montana.
Necessity of frequent examinations
of banks was made at the Los Ange-
les convention.
A republic has been proclaimed at
Lisbon, Portugal, and provisional
government established.
Walter Brookins, the hero of the
Chicago oto-Springtield will attempt
aight continuously from Springfield to
st. Louis, a distance of eighty-five
miles.
Joe and Ed Chandler, negro high
Waymen, were killed and Ed Black, a
third member of the gang, was mort
ally mounded in Huntsville Ala, by
Sheriff Mitchell and squad Of depu-
ties.
Social Washington was deeply In
terested in the recent cabinet meet
Ings at the White House, at least in
that part of them which had to do
with the filling of the vacancies on
the supreme court bench.
Seventeen of the twenty or more
men who lost their lives in the explo-
sion that wrecked the Times newspa-
per plant eight days ago, were buried
aide by side in Hollywood cemetery at
Los Angeles. One funeral service
was held for all.
There was substantial increase,
amounting to about 10 per cent, in the
number of wooden cross-ties pur-
/ chased for consumption by the steam
and electric railroads in the United
/ States in the calendar year 1909, as
compared with the number purchased
/ in 1908
Sir William Reloar, the English
/ philanthropist and former lord mayor
4 OF London, who has been in the Unit
ed States and Canada a month, sailed
on Sunday on the Celtic of the White
I Star line, after pronouneng the AM
erican women the 'smartest dressed
women in the world"
The Bogota Railway company, an
1 American concern in Colombia, has
received the first payment OF $425,O00
on the sale of the road to the municip-
ality of Bogota, the purchase price Of
which was 100000. The plant is now
in the hands of the municipality, and
| the cars started running today, amid
popular demonstrations.
Floating in Long Island sound, off
Fort Schuyler, the body of George Ide
Malcolm, board member of the New
York stock exchange firm of Malcolm
& Coombe, was found, exactly one
week after he had disappeared, and
the fears of his friends and business
associates that he had ended his life
by jumping from a Fall River boat
were confirmed.
AS a tragic sequel to the death Of
Edmond Poillt the French aviator,
his fiancee, who had shown almost
uncomfortable grief went to his grave
Sunday and fired a bullet into her
heart. Pollot was killed on Sep
tember 25 while making flight with
a passenger While at a height of
ninety feet a wing collapsed and the
machine fell backward.
The Standard Oil company through
it's official publicity representative, J.
l. G. Clarke, has announced that the
company has inaugurated cam
paign to increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined OIL and is lower
ing prices of kerosene in Europe and
the far east This action follows that
of August last, when the Standard Oil
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels l cents gallon from 9A to
Ss4 cents at the refinery, and refined
oil in tanks from 612 to 51s cents a
i gallon. In part the statement reads:
1.-The Standard Oil company has in
augurated a campaign to increase the
worlds consumption Of refined oil.
The level OF prices for refined oil to-
day in the United States is lower
than at any time during recent years,
and as a direct result OF these prices
the consumption of refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol
icy is now being actively pursued
abroad"
A $1O0OO,O0O merger of all the
powder companies in Canada with the
exception of the Giant Powder COM
pany, branch factory at Telegraph
Bay, has just been effected.
BY an order issued ~ the postoface
department land grant railroads here
after will receive only $15.39 for
each 1000 pounds of mail carried in
excess of $4,000 pounds. The old rate
was $17.10.
The worlds record for the long dis.
tance throwing of a baseball, that had
stood for thirty-six years, was broken
at the field day meet between the Gin.
cinnati and Pittsburg National league
teams when Sheldon Lejuene of the
Evansville club of the Central league
threw the ball 1926 feet IA inches, Is
feet II IA inches over the record.
| An alleged scheme for the assassin.
alton of President Taft was unfolded
to Miss Della C. Torrey, aunt of the
president, by a stranger who called at
her home in Millsbury, Mass. The
man, who refused to give her his
name. claimed to have overheard the