The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-07-25
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
oNciudss What 10 Going On q Wash
lnoton and In Other Sections Of
the Country.
Domestic.
Domestic.

least 1000, 900 gasoline or oil engines
1t work on the farms Of the United
States.
United States in May imported ST.
115, 037 worth Of uncut gems mostly
diamonds.
Last year the Pennsylvania road
carried 101. 755 ,O61 passengers with
only four fatalities.
Wages, working conditions and va
cations on pay are involved in a
strike vote now being taken among
the 1927 telegraph operators on the
Northern Pacific lines.
DR.. Jauro Muller, minister Of for
eign affairs Of Brazil, has ended his
long visit to the United States. He
boarded the Brazilian battleship Min.
as Geraes at New York to sail fol-
Rio Janeiro.
The Rev. Arthur J. Francis, pastor
Of the First Presbyterian church OF
Englewood, q suberb OF Chicago, de-
fed church tradition recently by ap-
pearing in the pulpit dressed entirely
n white.
Controversy ever the p%ostoffice at
gainesville, Ca, was settled when
the senate confirmed the nomination
Of Mrs. w. j. Ham to succeed Mrs.
Helen D.. Longstreet, widow OF the
confederate general.
Consul David j. D Myers reports
that banana exports to the United
States from Puerto Cortes Honduras,
during the first five months Of 1913.
aggregated 1,46O,OO punches.
It IL estimated that there are at
Former Congressman Watson OF In
diana entertains precious little respect
tor lobby investigators. He is losing
$4,000 q week by a m to Wash
lngton which takes him OF the chau-
tauqua circuit.
Miss Gertrude Mordecai, daughter
of Judge T. M. Mordecai OF Charles
ton. 8. c.. raj killed and Miss Hannah
Folk, also Of Charleston, was badly
injured In an automobile accident at
Troy. N. Y. The bursting of a tire
caused the automobile to crash into
. tree.
Two American warships, the gun
boats Helena and Samara, are in the
International fleet OF Kui Kiang,
China. where heavy fighting is in
progress between the northern gov
srnment forces and the provincial
troops Of Kiangsi province.
By q decision OF the California rail-
road commission made public the
state takes unto itself the power to
regulate the rates Of steamship COM
panies plying over regular routes
from one California port to another,
eve though the ships making such
trips traverse the high seas.
Claude Ball Of Montgomery, Mo-,
has telegraphed Speaker Clark his
acceptance Of the appointment Of at
torney general to the territory of
Hawaii. Ball was Champ Clark's op-
ponent for congress last year and
withdrew after the speaker failed to
BE- nominated for the presidency.
A search begun a year & for Will
dam Sand, aged Is years, who mys-
teriously disappeared from his home
n Germantown Pa. has just been
brought to q successful close in a
Douth American country, according to
advices received by the boys parents.
C1eveland's youngest champion
gardener is Rhea Ryon, IA. who began
gardening at Willard school when
ohe was 6. During the eight years
che has received more than 100 prizes
ln school garden festivals and re-
eived, approximately 5000 from the
Gale Of her products.
Mis- Helen Prick, daughter Of the
Pittsburgh iron manufacturer, has at
hst succeeded Ia her effort to have
IN IDEAL summer home for working
girls, situated ii the country. The
Iron Rail club ID the name that has
boen given to the c0mmodious man.
ton for that purpose in the midst OF
$50 acres Of ground ut Wenham,
Mas.
Another constitutional amendment
- provide that tho president and vice
president after March. 1921. shall
serve single six-year terms. and any
person who has heretofore held the
Dmco " election or has discharged the
Sewers and duties. or has acted az
president shall b ineligible TO again
hold the once by election" has been
~ Representative Madden
q Illinois.
The Imperial Tobacco company.
~ sp-called tohecco trust n Ken
(noky, has pauporised hitherto pros
Dorcts towns q the tobacco belt. &C
nnrSfne N sinnffncMY Of ~ 3. GaFvis