The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
Six navy captains were put on the

Six navy captains were put on the
retired list July LIST.
At Coshocton, o., Aviator Lemar
was probably fatally injured when his
Curtis biplane, flying low, struck the
roof of a house, turning over and dash
ing him to the ground.
Lieutenant de Malherbe, a French
military aviator, flew from Paris to
Sedan.
A meeting of the republicans and
socialists at Madrid passed resolu-
tons condemning SPANS military OPP
erations in Morocco.
Norman Macleod & Co., Philadel-
phia, stockholders, made an assign
ment.
The Cunningham Alaska coal lane
claims were disallowed by the interior
department.
Pittsburg was selected as the next
meeting place of the American insti-
tute of homeopathy.
Senatorial reports of crop damage
in the northwest made the Chicago
market go SkyWdTu.
John ID. Spreckles told how his faith
er and H. O. Havemeyer entered into
a sugar producing combine.
Under orders from Washington
many mail cars are now being hauled
behind the baggage cars.
Old and dreary Westminster abbey
was transformed into a scene of light
and beauty at the coronation.
More than $500 engineers Of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad were grant
ed an increase in wages of about 6
per cent.
President Taft has under considera-
ton the withdrawal of the troops now
forming the maneuver division in
Texas.
President Taft approved an issue
of $4,000 600 Hawaiian bonds, the
money to be used in public improve
ment in the islands.
Crazed by heat which prevailed
there, Mrs. McCrary, of Lockney,
Texas, killed her three children and
ended her own life.
1t is reported thai Bakhmetieff, for
mer Russian ambassador at Toxic,
has been promised the Washington
post in case Baron Rosen resigns.
President Taft left Washington on
Friday for his new cottage at Beverly
Mass. Mrs. Taft, Charlie Taft, Miss
Della Torrey, the presidents aunt,
of Milbury, Mass, and Major A. w
Butt accompanied him.
Expeditions action in the pending
treaties with Honduras and .Nicara.
qua, providing for customs guarantees
for foreign loans by those govern
ments, where urged by President
Taft in a message to the senate.
The supreme court OF the United
States issued an order to the attorney
general ordering him to instruct the
lower courts to carry out the supreme
courts decision providing for the dis
solution of the American Tobacco com
pany.
Reliable advices have been received
at Vienna from Albania that the stu
alton there is growing decidedly criti
cal. Turkey has massed fifty thous
dlu tIOOpo "1tlIl q uay - 4 ~
the Montenegro frontier.
Gifts to the amount Of ST. 200 900
received by Harvard university last
year, were announced by President
Lowell to the 1000 for more Harvard
men gathered for the alumni meeting
in the quadrangle behind Seaver hall
Rev. Timothy Sullivan, of Fort
Dodge, the Catholic priest who was
found dead in a bath tub in a hotel In
New York last week, was we'll known
in the Sioux City Catholic sec He
was stationed in Sioux City for -four
years.
Philadelphia financial circles re
ceived a disagreeable shock when |
became known that the liabilities O
the stock brokerage firm of Norman
Macleod & CO., which suspended re
Gently, aggregate $1,182,173, while
the assets are given as $410,884.
Miss Florence r. Cushing of Boston
who arrived from Honolulu, jumped
from the seventh story Of a hotel anC
was instantly killed. A note found II
her room said troubles had made hel
desperate and asked that her brother
c. F. Cushing. of Needham, Mass, be
notified.
Festivities in connection with thu
coronation of King George, SO far a:
the metropolis is concerned, ended
Friday with his majesty's treat to thu
children.
Parramatta, the new summer whit,
house, is in readiness for the arriva
of the presidential family. For sever
al months a small army of workmel
Of various trades has been engaged il
fitting up the house and grounds TO
the use of the Taft family.
President Taft will send to congress
a special report recommending the &C
ceptance of a gift Of 5000 acres o
land near 'Tullahoma, Tenn, and tn
purchase OF $4,000 acres nearby a
$50 pei acre for a permanent ma
neuyer ground, inspection camp AM
riAo and artillery range for the army