The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-06-17

Chairman Will Hayward mas cdiAeo
a meeting Of the Nebraska republican
state central committee for June 10.
Glenn H. Curtiss will attempt an
aeroplane fight from Cleveland to
Put-in-Bay and Detroit some time
next month.
In London, June 8, MISS
Margareta A. Drexel, daughter OF the
Philadelphia banker, was married TO
an Englishman.
Attorney General Stead and W OF
his assistants have been summoned as
witnesses before the grand jury In the
fraternal insurance investigation at
Grand Island, Ill.
The postofice safe at Merriam.
Wis, was blown by burglars and
and stamps to the value OF
SO, 900 were stolen.
Harry B. Kay, "a years old, who un-
til recently was cashier of a bank IN
Pasadena, Cal, committed suicide by
shooting at P~ocatello, Idaho.
Charles Gridley, attorney OF Vir-
ginia, Ill.,, who represented the fisher
in the Springfield lobby, was given a
clean bill by Mr.. Burke, after he had
testified.
According to the official estimate,
the population of New South Wales at
the end of March was 1,655,630. show
ing an increase for the quarter OF TO-
1886, the highest for many years.
When Colonel Roosevelt comes sail
ing home on June IS Collector of the
Port William Loeb, Jr.. and several
hundred loyal friends will meet MIN
down the bay in government vessels
and escort him up to Manhattan.
Attorney General Wickersham has
rendered a decision in which he holds
that Richard Parr is entitled to re-
cover from the government the
amount of his claim for information
given against the so-called sugar
trust.
Joseph G.. Cannon has decided to
make an extensive speaking tour in
the coming campaign. He made this
known in the course of a conversation
with friends. Uncle Joe said he had
not decided just what states he would
visit, but he would go to a good many
If them.
An appropriation of $500 for the
widow of former Representative u. A.
De Almond is carried by the general
deficiency bill, which was reported to
the house. The same amount also is
carried for the widows of three other
members of the house who have died
during the past year.
Vice President Sherman and Speak
er Cannon must pay the salaries OF
their chauffeurs and buy their own
gasoline. The senate gave up its fight
for the appropriation of $4,000 each
for the maintenance of the automO-
biles of the presiding oh.cers of the
two houses of congress.
Cannibals who ornament their huts
with the skulls of their victims are
causing much trouble in the French
| Congo, according to Captain Prakos,
who has just arrived from Africa.
Santa Barbara and San Luan nj
tiOnal forests in California will be
consolidated July l and will thereafter
be known as Santa Barbara forest.
Charles Stuart Rolls started in an
aeroplane in an attempt to fly across
the English channel from Dover II
Calais. He had gone only q few
yards, however, when the motor
broke down and he was compelled to
postpone the flight.
Treasury officials figure that II all
the money in circulation in the Unit.
ed States were divided equally, every
man, woman and child would have
$34. so. This is IA cents per capita
more than they would have had by
the same process Of reasoning q
month ago.
In a desperate encounter between
revenue officers and "mOOnshiners'
in Wilkes county, North Carolina
more than a hundred shots were fired
and several of the moonshiners were
injured. The officers destroyed four
Illicit distilleries and 1000 gallons OF
beer.
Notwithstanding recent threats
SloS AN ON
be inaugurated in China Sunday, the
date set for the opening of the Nan
king exposition. this ceremony was
carried out without the slightest dis
order.
At the Press Clubs dinner in honor
Of Glenn Curtiss, the aviator, ]. Ber-
nard Walker Of the Scientific Amer
lean announced that Edwin Gould
offers $4,000 as a prize to the man
who shall produce the first aeroplane
successfully employing two motors
and two propellers.
Richard Parr, the officer of the New
York custom house who unearthed the
gigantic frauds committed by the
American Sugar Refining Company,
will get his reward from the govern.
ment in a short time. Through Parr
the government recovered almost 49,.
600, 900. His reward is likely to be