The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-23
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Miscellaneous Matters Of General In.
terest Here and There.


Newburg, n, Y, for reunion.
Democrats of the country are very
much encouraged over recent state
state elections.
Relations between the United States
and Nicaragua are to be readjusted.
ID. L, Thompson, late minister to
Mexico, has sold his interest in the
Lincoln (Neb) Star.
Congressman G. w. Norris of Ne
braska, returned from Wisconsin
pleased with insurgent victory.
From eight to ten thousand people
listened to the speech of Ex-President
Roosevelt in Omaha
Serious defects in the army are
pointed out in report made by In
spector General Darlington.
Secretary Nagel is the latest man
to be mentioned in connection with
the supreme court vacancy.
Alaska gold to the amount Of $751;
500 was stolen from steamer strong
box while en- route to Seattle.
President Taft may take a personal
part in the campaign in order to in
sure the return of a republican house.
An unconfirmed report has been
received that five negroes We're
lynched near Carlton, ten miles east
Of Athns. Ga.
The state department officials are
not quite sure that they fully compre-
hend the decision of the Hague
tribunal in the fisheries case.
More than a billion and half pas
sensers rode on the various traAspor-
tation lines in Greater New York in
the year ending June 80, 1910.
Capt. T. D. Bloom, head of a cod
fish company. was found in &c park
in Tacoma with his throat cut. 1t is
believed a robber attacked him.
Canada's total wheat crop this year
is 1227S5,000 bushels, according to
the estimate of the Canadian govern
ment statistics officially announced.
Whether or not the former earn
ings of the railroad companies were
excessive is now a pertinent question
in the controversy on the fixing of
rates.
Chippewa Indians will be enriched
by S2,S00,000 if the offers for the tim
ber on the Chippewa Indian lands in
Minnesota are accepted by the gov
ernment.
w M. Rroadshaw, guard in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
shot Bertha Schmetz at her home
near Horton, Kan and then commit
ted suicide
Thirty lives were lost when Pere
Marquette car ferry No. IS, bound
from Ludington to Milwaukee, went
to the bottom of Lake Michigan half
way across the lake.
The estate of the late Thomas w.
Evans, the Philadelphia who won
.ame and fortune as a dentist to ari-
stocracy in Paris, has dwindled from
$4,000 600 to $1,750,000.
Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, Jointly &C
cused with Ethel Clare Leneve of the
murder of his wife, has suffered
nervous collapse and was removed to
the hospital ward of BriXton Jail.
Locked out Of st. Andrews Protest
ant Episcopal church, Brooklyn, Of
which he had been rector for sixteen
years, the Rev William N. Ackley
conducted the regular services from
the front STEPS.
Prospectors returning from Knik
Arm, Alaska. branch of Cooks inlet,
report the discovery of an immense
fed Of bituminous coal that promises
10 he more valuable than the Man
t8D;uska deposits.
The plant of the Rubber and Cellu-
loid Harness Trimming company at
New York. with which is also as
sociated the Rubberset Brush com
pany. was swept by fire with a loss
estimated at $250000.
Great progress generally is heins
shown by the American Indian to-
ward gaining footing with the
whites IN the matter of civilization
aecoIdng to Assistant Commissioner
abbott of the bureau of Indian af-
fairs.
Arizona's constitutional convention,
which Will meet October 16, will have
r0rty-one democrats and eleven repub-
leans.
The rapid growth OF cities shown
by the census returns is due in a
large measure to enlarged railroad
facilities.
Captain T. D. Bloom, prominent In
shipping circles and head of Goldfish
company, was found in park in Seat
tie in the heart Of the city with his
throat cut 1t is believed a robber
attacked him.
Mrs r. B Mccoy, wife of Judge r
B. Mccoy of Sparta, Wis, was killed
and DR.. Carl Beebe, sr.. of Sparta
was dangerously injured when the
touring automobile in which they