The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-09-08

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at Canonsburg, Pa.
Charged with impersonating a fed.
eral marshal, Dave Colome and
Heine Hansen have been arrested at
Winner, s. D.
Alabama republicans have endorsed
the administration Of President Taft.
At this writing Congressman Latta
Is satisfactorily improving from his
operation.
The total of the death list Of the
wreck nea Manchester, N. Y, now
reaches twenty-eight.
Robert Chasteen, city marshal OF
Ullin, ILL.,, vas shot and killed by un.
identified persons.
Every demand Of the American as
ISOLATION was rejected by the ma
tional baseball commission.
A campaign which has for it's pur-
pose a reduction of the high prices
Of food has started in Paris.
1t is reported that the government
is about to take action against the
steel trust, the biggest trade COM
bination in the United States.
Monument makers all over the
country are in Cincinnati for the
sixth annual convention Of the Ma
tional Retail Monument Dealers.
Sixty persons were injured, eight of
them seriously, when an express train
on the valley division of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road was wrecked by the spreading of
rails.
Augustus w. Weissmann, superin-
tendent of the Hahneman hospital, is
a most polite man. and this brought
the hospital an unexpected legacy of
$~1,146,S26.
Postmaster General Hitchcock des-
ignated Washington as a postal saw
ings bank. An effort will be made to
have the bank at the capital regarded
as a model for others.
Melvin Maniman's balloon. with
which he and five others will attempt
to fly across the Atlantic ocean Octo-
Der %, has been shipped from Akron,
Ohio, to Atlantic City.
A Chicago street car conductor
took an 1853 half-dOllar as fare, and
turned it in at the barn. The cashier
replaced it with another, sold it for
$500, and it's present owner values it
at $4,000.
The emperor of Japan presented H.
w. Denison, the American adviser to
the Japanese foreign office, with a
Ci1unV hNW1 nc M nvn~nrcilr "f nrnft
tude for Mr.. Denison's service in con-
nection with the treaty revision.
Lady Cook, formerly Miss Tennes-
see Claflin, famous Anglo-American
suffragist, has decided to abandon
her campaign for votes for women"
and begin a crusade for uplift of
young men and women of Chicago.
In ~denouncing at the session of the
national Independent political league,
the lynching of negroes, Bishop Alex
ander Walters declared that President
Taft was lone of the weakest presi-
dents the country had ever had, in
view of the fact that he had remained
silent in the face of many lynchings
about the country"
Having a distinct recollection of ev-
cry president in the United States ex-
cept the first five, and remembering
when the first railway train was run
in the United States, Alvin Austin, OF
Chicago. registered for a home in the
Fort Berthold Indian reservation at
the age of ninety-four years. Mr.. Aus
tin who was born at Sterlin, Conn.,,
in 1917, is as spry as a a forty
years younger.
Eugene Labine, a Marshal county
(Minn.) farmer, is harvesting 500
acres of wheat with one machine,
working day and night. The binder is
run with eight horses, four to a shift,
and a headlight is used at night. The
night shift of horses stand the work
better than those used in the heat OF
the day, and Labine predicts night
binding will become the vogue in the
northwest.
At Kansas City, John Perron, TWEEN
ty-seven years old, a railroad clerk,
sard, aged twenty-five, wife of a rail-
road conductor, and then inflicted
probably fatal wounds to himself. He
recently left a note saying he and
Mrs. Gossard alone knew the cause
for the tragedy.
Internal revenue inspectors in
search Of illicit distillers have dis
covered that a man trap is being used
to discourage their Investigations.
Two revenue officers said they just
missed stepping into a large steel
trap. presumably set for them by
"moonshiners' in Iredell county. The
officers had destroyed an Illicit still
William Loeb, jr, collector of the
port of New York announced that an
American art connoiseur now in Eur
ope is under surveillance by the for
eign agents of the United States gov.
ernment-co-operating with the French
government in the search for the pic
ture Mona Lisa" Leonardo De
Winci's masterpiece, which disappear
ed from the Louvere some time ago.
Two New Jersey communities In
special elections rejected the commits