The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-12-16

/ ANCpI dSh AL ID llc lWEiiiS III
The total corn product in Ohio this
season was 105,512,245 bushels.
1t is likely that the holiday recess
OF congress will be abbreviated this
year.
Francis Fl. Burr, former captain Of
the Harvard foot ball tea. is criti-
cally i'll with typhoid fever in Bos-
ton.
Kentucky democrats have endorsed
Champ Clark for speaker of the lower
house.
Jack Alternately, United States mar
shall for Oklahoma, rendered his res
ignation.
Plans are on foot for an attack on
the validity of the twe-cent fare law
in Iowa and Illinois.
Justice w. ID. Beard of the Tennes-
see supreme court dropped dead in
a hotel 1T Nashville.
President Taft is comforting with
congressman on coming appointments
to the supreme court.
Announcement was made OF q GIT
OF $100.C COO to the John Hopkins uni
versity endowment fund.
The Ballinger-pinchot congression-
al committee gave the secretary or
the interior a clean bill.
In his annual report Secretary OF
War Dickinson recommends the neceS~
slty OF military aeroplanes.
Theodore Roosevelt narrowly es-
capped being made the beneficiary III
the will of a rich Indiana a
The conservatives made a supreme
effort to eliminate the recall from the
Arizona constitution, but failed.
Eurele r. Cox declares the Chris
tian Science church will continue to
run smoothly, Notwithstanding the
death of Mrs. Eddy.
The fourth division Of the United
States Atlantic fleet under command
OF Captain Thomas b. Howard sailed
for Gravesend, England.
The state crop report issued by the
state board of agriculture shows that
the total corn product in Ohio this
season was 105,512,245 bushels.
Miss Mary Holbrook. many years a
missionary for the American board in
China and Japan, died Friday at the
home of her brother in East Haven,
Conn.
The board of directors of the Hook
ing Valley Railroad company de-
clared the regular ~semi-annual divi-
dent of 2 per cent on the common
stock.
Senator Stone of Missouri was ap-
pointed to fill a vacancy on the SEN
ate committee on finance created by
the death of Senator Daniel of Vir-
ginia.
Gifts aggregating $1S6, 900 recently
have been made to Columbia univer-
sity, according to an announcement
by the trustees. The giver of $780,
600 is anonymous.
The machine has been set in motion
to provide for an issue of Panama
canal bonds to end a drain upon the
now threatens a deficit.
On account of the death of Chief
Justice Fuller who Mas eX-officio pres
ident of the industrial peace founda-
ton, which was to have been held on
December IA, has been postponed.
The Iowa board Of railroad commits
sioners announced a material reduc-
ton in freight rates on soft lump and
nut coal within Iowa. The rates on
steam or slack coal remain unchanged.
Painting as he leaned out of an
open window Of the Society for Saw
ings building ex-Common Pleas Judge
Conway w. Noble. sixty-eight years
old. of Cleveland, o., fell seven stories
to the street below and was killed.
United States marshals seized 5000
pounds of canned eggs" shipped into
Chicago. United States District At
torney Simms said that a test of one
~teaspoonful Of the substance showed
the presence of "a, 000, 900 bacteria.
On the eve Of the annual meeting
of the American Red Cross in Wash
ington, President Taft, who is presi-
dent, received word that New York
city has completed its subscription of
100000. apportioned to it on the
basis of 10 cents per capita popula-
ton for the So 0 900 endowment
fund OF the society.
Senator Elmer J.. Burkett of Ne
braska, who has been mentioned in
connection with the presidency of a
national bank in Washington, laughed
at the idea that he intended to be-
come a permanent resident of Wash
ington.
At Fresno. Cal, a mob burned the
headquarters Of the industrial work
ers OF the world. severely beat men,
bers of the organization on the streets
and surrounded the county Jail where
other members are being held. A de-
mand was made that the industrial
workers of the world be turned over
to the mob, but no effort was made
to enter the Jail.
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