The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-05-27

servatiOns during the passage OF the
earth through the comets tail.
King George ordered that military
sentries be posed at Dorchester
house in honor of Mr.. Roosevelt, spe-
cial envoy of the United States.
Richard Price Morgan who Is
credited with drawing the plans for
the first elevated railroad in the
United States and a former room
mate OF Abraham Lincoln, is dead,
aged 81 years.
The Interior department Is prepar-
ing for the establishment OF the
the bureau of mines, In accordance
with the recent enactment Of con-
gress, creating it as a coordinate
division in that department.
1t was announced at Houston, that
Edwin Hawley had purchased the
Texas & Central railway and that the
line would become part OF the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas system.
The Democrats in the senate refus-
ed to make an agreement to aid the
regulars"
Sir Walter Gilbey, the author Of
numerous books on agriculture,
horse breeding and sporting sub
~jectes, is seriously i'll in London.
Two almost simultaneous explos.
ions of dynamite, supposed to consist
of 5000 pounds, completely demolish-
ed the rural guard barracks in the
city Of Pinar del Rio. One hundred
were killed.
Lilliuokalani, former Queen OF
Hawaii, has again met defeat in her
effort to obtain $450,0 900 for the rem
tails from the crown lands in Haw-
all.
Speaker Cannon was quoted as pre-
dieting that congress will not adjourn
until July 18th, at the earliest, and
possibly remain in session until
August I.
Five carloads of macaroni shipped
from st. Louis to Chicago and alleged
to contain poisonous coloring sub
stance, was ordered destroyed by
Judge Lands.
The house postal savings bank bill,
as favored by the republican men,
bers of the committee on post offices
and post roads, was introduced to the
house by Representative Gardner of
New Jersey.
Mrs. George M. Pullman, widow OF
the late palace car magnate, was sue
cessfully operated on in Chicago
Tuesday. Her speedy recovery is pre-
dicted.
The Jockey club of Juarez has an
nounced that a gross sum of 10000
in stakes and purses will be given
during a To-day meeting Thanksgiv-
ing day, an increase of $1,000 a day
owe the meeting last season.
After Quarreling over a SO skirt
which her husband had bought for
her under protest. Mrs. A. J. Sun
derland of Chippewa Falls, Wis, shot
and killed him.
The Hyde jury found the defendant
guilty, fixing punish, .ent at life i'm
prisonment.
The United States has suggested to
Mexico that the boundary question In
volved in the celebrated Chamizal
one case be submitted to some we'll
known jurist of a mutually friendly
power for arbitration.
Advices received at Guayaquil state
that the Peruvian government has sta
toned 1OO, 900 men along the frontier
to resist invasion.
Plans for King Edwards funeral
ceremonies include a great military
pageant.
The first survivors of the recent
earthquake in Costa Rica, in which
more than 1900 lives were lost in the
destruction of Cartago. arrived at
New York.
Colonel w. T. Sullivan, a former
p~ostoffice. inspector, Tor several years
in charge at Denver. Colo, died at
G~allatin, Mo-. from paralysis. He re-
tired from the government service
about three months agu.
One hundred and fifty delegates to
the National Socialist congress. rep
resenting the entire socialist move
ment In the United States met in
Chicago to prepare for the coming
state and congressional campaigns.
An excursion steamer capsized In
the Missouri river but no lives were
lost.
An engagement between the pro-
visional and Madriz forces at Rama
is looked for at any moment. The
two armies are practically facing
each other.