The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-07-29

line.
Cardinal Gibbons was rs years old
Saturday. He spent the day at the
country home OF a friend near West.
minister, Md.
Senator Cummins declares Cannon
and Aldrich are driving the country
toward socialism.
The Oklahoma crop situation
shows an improvement of Is per cent
over any previous year.
The explosion at Fortress Monroe
is believed to have beer due to a de-
fective device on the gun.
There will be no strike on the
Pennsylvania railroad. the dispute be-
ing settled by a conference.
Rhode Island shows increased
population, but lot enough to give
the commonwealth another congress
man.
The French government has accept
ed a bronze copy of Houden's statue
Of George Washington, which was
presented by the state of Virginia.
Daniel Kinet, the Belgian aero
naut who fell when the rudder of his
aeroplane broke. died from his in
juries.
A Lincoln. Nebraska man has in
vented a bucket which may revolu-
tionize methods Of excavating and
hosting.
The crop report for Germany.
which gives conditions up to July Is.
shows "a slight depreciation since
June Is.
Prince John Charles Francis, the
youngest child of King George and
Queen Mary, celebrated his fifth
birthday.
The Baltimore Eastern League base
ball club mas sold Pitcher Lefty"
Russell to the Philadelphia American
League team for $4,000.
Plans for the establishment of a
bureau of railway economies at Wash
ington, D. c., by the railroads of the
country were announced at Chicago.
The Wisconsin prohibition platform
contains clauses d%enouncing both
local and county option as not being
a settlement of the liquor problem.
The forest service is engaged in
cruising the national forests in the
south and southwest for the purpose
of determining the stand of saw tim
Der.
President Taft has approved the
appointment by the Interior depart
ment of J. A. Ockerson of st. Louis to
investigate conditions in Imperial val
ley, Cal.
At Omaha Samuel C.. Dobbs was re-
elected by reclamation president Of
the Associated Advertising Clubs Of
America and after a gruelling fight
Boston was awarded the next conven.
ton.
Chico Baca, who was one Of
Aelaya's closest supporters, has re-
signed as minister general of the
Madriz cabinet in Nicaragua, accord
ing to advices to the state depart
ment.
Colonel Roosevelt. as we'll as Gift.
ford Pinchot, has been asked to be
in Atlanta, October Z, when a meet
ing will be held for the purpose of
organizing a state conservation as
ISOLATION.
Officials of the Iowa State Teach
ers' association announced that
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will
speak at the meeting of the associa-
ton in Des Moines Friday night. No
vember II.
Census returns Issued show that
Brownsville, the southernmost city in
Texas, increased it's population 68.3
per cent in the last ten years. It's
population is nov 1857, as compared
with 6,3O5 in 1900.
At Fort Crester, N. Y. eleven
thousand volts of electricity passed
through the body of Michael Foley
and although he is frightfully burned
he still lives and there is a chance
that he will recover.
The amazing growth in the south
and southwest is becoming one of the
evidence of expansion in the west
and northwest has been discounted by
frequent newspaper stories making
the fact known.
At Clinton, ILL.,. Chief of Police John
Struble was shot about midnight by
an unknown man and died in a short
time.
Formal announcement was made by
]. 8. Temple, secretary Of the Bucks
Stove and Range company, of the end
of the fight with organized labor. The
secretary, however, did not state If
the present workmen would be re-
quired to join the union.
A motion asking for a new trial in
the bleached flour case in which a
jury recently returned a verdict favor
able to the government. was nled in
the United States district court at
Kansas City by attorneys represent
Ing the Lexington Mill & Elevator
company of Lexington, Neb.
Chalmers No. s, which was driven
by Bill Bolger, was the winner of the
Cliddon frOnhv. Th0 contest board of