The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
The Citizens state bank at PRIEST,

Idaho, was robbed or $4,000.
The National Council OF Women,
which includes sixteen independent
women's organizations and many sep
arate branches, held a ~three-day SEES
sion in Washington recently.
Uncle Joe Cannon, wearing a new
| grey felt hat, is in Washington on his
first visit as a private citizen in near
ly forty years.
There is as yet no conclusive evil
dence that the Friedman treatment
is worth a penny to any pulmonary
consumptive who is seeking an abso
lutte and positive cure.
The Scotland Yard authorities,
London, are convinced that Joseph
Wilberforce Martin, the millionaire
cotton king of Memphis, Tenn, was
murdered and his body thrown in the
Thames.
The lower house of the New York
legislature passed a bill to pay 81 a
day for each days Imprisonment to
persons who are p~ardoned by the gov
ernor and who in the opinion Of the
executive are innocent.
Militant s~uffragists who destroy
property should be placed In insane
asylums instead of jails, as their ac-
tons indicate nervous arrangement.
This statement is made in the current
issue of the Journal Of the American
Medical association, Chicago.
The Minnesota house passed the
workmen's compensation bill already
passed by the senate, providing $40 a
week benefit for workmen disabled
while performing their duty. The bill
now goes to the governor for his sig
nature.
Definite plans for the construction
Of one of the biggest and most expen-
sive hotels in the world are said to
have been completed for Chicago's
down town district. The new hos
telry is to cost 50, 900, 900, and will be
built at the southeast corner Of Clark
and Madison streets.
An air blast generated by the fall
of 1000, 900 tOns of Gaping at the
Miami mine at Globe, Arizona, killed
three miners and injured 100 Others,
four probably fatally. The blast was
so terrific that ore cars were blown
from twenty-five to 100 feet along tun'
nels 500 feet below the surface.
Irvine binders hat sold at S225
when introduced thirty years ago de-
creased 500 in price down 20 the for
nation of the international Harvester
company in 1902 and since that tinac
have increased slightly in price, ac-
cording to testimony of witnesses on
cross-eXamination at a session of the
hearing in the governments dissolu-
ton suit in Kansas City.
A new policy in fling vacancies In
the position of irrigation manager and
assistant has been adopted by Secre-
tary Lane of the interior department
by which these positions hereafter
will be filled through civil service
commission examinations, instead OF
by advancement of men connected
with the construction of irrigation
works.
Albert C. Frost, former president
and promoter of the Alaska Central
fallfOdQ, anu HIS lbul 1O-utItlldftll0
George M. Seward, Pierre G.. Beach,
Frank Watson and George G.. Ball. all
interested in the development OF the
road, were found not guilty in the fed
eral court in Chicago of conspiracy
to obtain illegally millions Of dollars
worth of coal lands in the Matanuska
Valley, Alaska.
Miss Belle Sans OF Pasadena, Cal,
was the victim Of a peculiar series
of accidents, all occurring within the
space of a couple of seconds. While
washing dishes Miss Sans dropped a
soup tureen on her foot, breaking one
of the bones. She put out an arm to
save herself from falling and struck
the edge of the kitchen sink SO VIC
lently that the arm was broken. Col
lapsing in a faint, the young woman
fell to the floor in such manner that
one of her legs was twisted under her
and broken.
The Presbyterian parsonage at To
iedo, ILL.,. was dynamited recently. The
Rev. w. Fl. Wilson and his wife, who
were in the house at the time, escap-
ed with slight bruises. Wilson has
been a vigorous foe of saloons.