The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-05

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holidays, will get to work on the wool
measure.
More than . million gallons OF mo-
lasses were destroyed in a fire among
the wharves and buildings of the Bos-
ton Molasses company.
Colonel Roosevelt has declined q
second time to attend the New York
peace dinner.
Supporters Of General Reyes declare
him a traitor for surrendering.
President Taft has decided to make
a few speeches himself in Ohio.
The Hamburg-American line has Or
dered q third $4,000 ton liner for the
transatlantic service.
providing for a downward revision OF
the wooden tariff.
DR.. Sen, Chinese republic promoter.
has arrived at Shanghai and is in con-
ference with WI Ting Fang.
Republican members of the ways
and means committee have begun
work on the republican wool bill.
A son-in-law of Richard Croker has
begun a damage suit, claiming his
wife was taken from him.
The visible supply of wheat in Can
ada December % was II, 1850, 900 bush
els, an increase of 238, 900 bushels.
Kansas City religious workers have
undertaken to find respectable homes
for women OF the red light district.
Premier Yuan Shi Kai says he must
have $4,000, 900 Immediately to save
the Chinese dynasty.
Tariff legislation, with the steel
schedule first, ia to be taken up in the
house.
j. Scott Clark, professor Of English
language at Northwestern university
at Evanston, is dead. He was oper-
ated on for appendicitis.
Notices have been sent out fixing
the date Of the annual meeting of the
Western Golf association as jan
uary 20.
Henry N. Van Dyke, formerly regis
trar at Princeton university, died OF
heart disease on a Broadway a in
New York.
Henry J. Horn, former assistant
general manager OF the Burlington
lines west was made vice-president OF
the New Haven road.
Robbers blew the p%ostoffice safe at
S%paulding, Ohio. Two men, with 800
worth of stamps and some registered
mail were arrested at Hickville.
Thirty cases of ptomaine poisoning
have been discovered at Belmont, ILL.,,
since Christmas. Physicians say that
all those suffering had been eating
oysters.
Edward Sawyer, secretary and as
sistant treasurer Of the Great North
ern and one Of the pioneer railroad
officials of the northwest, will retire
January l.
Diamonds valued at between $4,000
and $1,000, enclosed in a jewelers. wal
let. were stolen from the diamond
room of a jewelry firm in Minneapolis.
The thief escaped.
The California estate of the late
Michael Cudahy. the Chicago meat
packer, who died at Los Angeles, has
yielded $4,000 to the state in the
form Of Inheritance axes.
The funeral of Wright Lorimer, the
actor, who committed suicide in New
York last week was held in the Dana,
Mass. town hall, the building where
he first attended school.
e. G. Lewis of st. Louis. publisher
and promoter of realty and banking
enterprises, was reindicted by the
federal grand jury on the charge of
using the mails to defraud.
Mrs. Elroy M. Avery, aged Ct, edi'
tor of the official paper of the Daugh-
ters Of the American Revolution and
prominent In club and educational
work. died in Cleveland, Ohio.
The will Of John r. Walsh. the for
mer Chicago banker who died early
in November following his release
from the Leavenworth penitenttary,
was admitted to probate.
Amendments to the articles Of in
corporation Of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis Railroad company have been
filed. increasing the capital stock
from $50, 900, 900 to $50. 200. 900.
The Jewish Chronicle says that the
leading Jewish institutions in London
have decided to urge the a%brogation Of
the Anglo Russian treaty, which diff.
ferentiates against the English Jews.
William Rockefeller gave to his en-
ployes as = Christmas present IS for
every year each had worked on his es-
tate ct T%arrytown. Several men have
been In his employ for upwards Of
twenty years.
Edward H. Shuster, cousin OF
Morgan Shuster, treasurer general OF
Persia. IL in New York, en- route to
Teheran from the Panama canal zone,
He II going to help the treasurer gen.
eral In his trouble with Russia.
Alfred Tennyson Dickens, 70 OF
the English novelist, visited James
| WhitcOmb Riley. the HOOsier Poet, OF