The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-10-13

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Petitions are circulating for consol-
ldation of South Omaha with Omaha.
Construction of the Burlington Big
Horn Basin connecting line has been
put off.
American securities at London
we're quietly firm during the early
rading.
The New York assembly passed the
Ferris-Blauvelt direct nominations
bill.
Governor Wilson was in control OF
The New Jersey democratic state con-
gention.
The United States is not ready to
declare neutrality as between Italy
and Turkey.
The Russian declaration of neutrall-
" is being drafted. 1t will not be Is
sued for a week.
John ID. Rockefeller has installed a
telegraph line to his home near Tar
rytown, N. Y.
A count of the dead of Austin, Pa,
indicates the total fatalities will be
less than two hundred.
High water did great damage In
| Wisconsin, almost entirely destroying
the town of Black River Falls.
Campaign managers Tor Senator
Isaac Stephenson admitted the Wis
consin man was a good spender.
Republicans are prone to wander
from the fold, but will return said the
president in his Denver address.
Among the first class postoffices de-
signated as postal savings banks, ell
tective November 4, Is Omaha, Neb.
Three-quarters of a million dollars
damage was done by the rainstorm
which swept over northern Ohio.
DR.. B. Clark Hyde of Kansas City
positively will be placed on trial a
second time on October 16, on a
charge of numbering Colonel Thomas
n. Swope.
A movement to raise a half million
dollars to build a national monument
in Washington to the memory OF the
women of the civil war was Launched
at New York.
1D2TG WAS d cheaper 1oSN AOS
Warsaw directed against the Jews In
the suburbs. Three Jews and two
| Christians were wounded. The police
restored order.
The will Of the late Mrs. Ole Bull
Vaughn, daughter of the late Nor
wegian violinist, Ole Bull, was filed
with Judge Hobbs of the New YORK
county probate court.
Captain John Bradie, giving exhibit
tons at the South Georgia fair at III
ton, vas killed when he fell from his
balloon and plunged 700 feet to the
earth.
The body of William E. Curtis, the
widely known writer of Washington
who died suddenly in Philadelphia,
was taken to Washington and buried
in Rock Cook cemetery.
Because she refued to respond to
his opportunities to marry him. En-
skine Swalker shot and perhaps Ia
tally wounded Miss Madeleine komp,
and then committed suicide at Rock
Island.
DESPITE the advent of the postal
savings banks, the savings deposits
in the national banks are increasing.
From June Z to September l these
deposits grew from $634,10O,OoO TO
1854, 800, 900.
Edward Ellis and Walter Nowlan
pleaded guilty in the United states
district court at Davenport. Ia, TO
charges of being implicated IN the
operations of the Mabray gang OF
%swindlers.
The Burnside shops OF the illinois
Central railroad became open shops,
a formal notice posted WITHIN the
stockades informing the workers that
| hereafter the road will deal only WIN
its individual employees.
According to all reports the harvest
of 1911 in Denmark will surpass all
records since 1868. Not in fo~rty-three
years has weather, labor and other
conditions proven SO suspicious to the
farmer.
Plans for a $4,000, 900 system OF
freight terminals in Minneapolis were
announced by the Chicago, Rock Is
land & Pacific Railroad company.
Two tracts of ground have been pur-
chased, the larger comprising thirty
acres.
The Germans of the United States
as represented by the German-Amer-
lean national alliance now in conven-
ton in Washington, signified their
wish that Germany enter into negotia-
tons with the United States for a
general arbitration treaty similar to
those with Great Britain and France,
now pending ratification by the United
States senate. saasH
Demanding a return of the Black
Hills territory and all of Rapid City,
which they allege was taken from
them wrongfully by the treaty OF 1873,
famous chiefs of the Brule and Ogal'
lala Sioux conferred with Congress-
man Eben w. Martin. Congressman
Martin explained that the treaty OF
1878 was superseded by the 1899
treaty, and invited the chiefs to meet
the great white father president