The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-02

senator La FOlfette Is QlrecUng MS
campaign from his farm home.
The daughter of Governor Haskell
of Oklahoma will study for the stage.
Forest fires are on the increase in
the west, attended with much loss of
| life.
General Estrada will assume the
post of provisional president of Nj
caraugua.
Banker Lillis says he will not mar
ry former Mrs. Jack Cudahy-or any
| other woman.
The Ohio state fair will be held at
Columbus, Notwithstanding the street
railway strike.
The constitutional amendment prop
osition was carried in the late Ne
braska primary.
Alarming reports of plot to over
throw the Portuguese government are
printed in Lisbon
EX-President Roosevelt is now on
his 5000 mile journey. He will be in
Omaha September g
Many lives were lost and much
property destroyed in the forest fires
VI Iudilo anu NloH ldIld
Roosevelt on arrival in Omaha, was
met by his son Archie, who has been
hunting in the Dakotas
Great Britain's new battleship, the
Lion, Is to be the biggest and fastest
naval fighter in the world.
Washington officials are convinced
that incendiarles are responsible for
the northwest forest fires.
1t is likely that at least one hun
dred people have lost their lives in
the forest fires of the west.
Colonel Roosevelt is expected to
give voice to some burning thoughts
on his trip through the west.
An insane Pullman passenger killed
the porter and badly wounded an
other man on a Kansas train.
The house committee finished its
Investigation of the Gore charges and
will report to the next congress.
Should the democrats control the
next house they will have a taste Of
insurgency in their own ranks.
At Sharon, Pa, at bedside, taking
| the temperature of a patient, DR..
Samuel G. Johnson dropped dead.
Interesting light on the Illinois
| Central car repair swindle was given
| by a witness at the Chicago hearing.
The war and navy departments
have declined to fire big guns in an
effort to bring rain in the northwest.
Gov. Shallenberger of Nebraska ac-
cepts Dahlman's plan to waive legal
technicalites and recount entire state
vote.
Captain, D. J. Mcclure of the Lin
coin (Neb) police force died Of heart
failure while driving the patrol
wagon.
On his own admission, Governor
Campbell will not stand by the plat
form demands of the Galveston dem
ocratic state convention.
Mrs. Russell A. Alger of Michigan,
widow of the late Secretary Alger,
has sailed for Europe, where she will
remain for several months.
Vice President Sherman before
company of st. Louis republicans at
dinner declared that there are no
insurgents in the republican party
The postmaster general has accept
ed the proposal of Mrs. Lima F. Saw
yer to lease present quarters of sta
tion G of Lincoln postoffice for ten
| years.
The bullet would in Mayor Gay
nor's neck has healed on the outside
and the irritation of the throat
! caused by granulatOn on the inside
has ceased.
! General George w. Gordon, com
! mander-in-chief of the united confed-
crate veterans, has been renominated
for congress by the democrats of the
tenth district of Tennessee.
BY the death of Mrs. Flora L. Dot
er, who died at her home in South
Orange, N. j., the bulk of her estate
estimated to be worth 81 100000, will
go to the Tuskogee institute
The Estrada government in Mica
ragua is tottering to a fall.
John Arbuckle, the millionaire cof-
! fee king, philanthropist and inventor
it is said, will be one of the bidders
for the contract of raising the illfat-
ed battleship Maine, in Havana har-
Dor.
In a midnight duel in a cottage in
King City (Cal.) between Frederick
w. Becker and N. F. Tognazzini, both
residents of that town, Becker was
killed and Mrs. Becker and her father,
W. d. Fowler, were wounded.
The French newspapers print lau-
datory sketches of the late Prof.
William James, whose death they
consider will cause a great loss to
philosophy. The Temps points out
that Prof. James exercised an i'm
measurable influence over contempor-
aneous French thought
Booker T. Washington, the negro
educator, under the guidance of Of
ficials of the Anti-Slavery Aborigines'
Protection society, toured the east
end of London to observe the condi-
fionu ovictinp amnnp tho nOoror clo ev.