The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-18
A heavy snowstorm is raging in

Several persons have bee killed by
Z tornado in Missouri recently.
Mrs. Hoke NTH, wife Of the sena'
tor from Georgia, is seriously i'll at her
home in Washington, D.. c.
While hunting near Carter, Neb,,
James Grover, II years old, was shot
and killed.
Hot Springs, Ark, suffered $4,000
damage recently from the worst flood
IN years.
Chicago's share Of the net earnings
OF the street railway companies for
1912 totals $2,529,902. This is an in
crease of 35.2 per cent over 1911.
BY blowing his own breath into the
lungs of a baby for forty minutes, DR..
Benedict Williams Of Bellevue hos
pital, New York, saved the young
ster's life.
The railway strike is becoming
general throughout the whole OF
Australia and has assumed serious
proportions. Passenger service is
seriously curtailed.
Antoine George, the S-year-old son
Of Val Sitzmann, living south Of LIE
Mars, Ia, hanged himself while play
ing in the barn. His body, with a
rope tied around his neck. was found
by an elder brother.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rail-
road company was fined $4,000 by
Federal Judge Carpenter in Chicago
for violating the law prohibiting the
working of employees more than six
teen consecutive hours.
Four soldiers of the Fourteenth
cavalry who have been held under ar
rest at Fort Clark, Tex, since Novem-
Der 8 last on a murder charge, will be
turned over to the Texas courts for
trial.
Four firemen we're injured, two OF
them probably fatally, in fighting a
lire which destroyed beef house No.
2 of Armour & Co. in the Union
Stock Yards, Chicago. The loss on
the building and its contents is esti-
mated at $500, 900.
Great Britain has no intention of
following the lead of Washington in
recognizing the Republic Of China,
the house of commons was informed
by Francis Dyke Acland, parlia-
mentary under secretary of foreign
affairs, speaking on behalf of the for
eign office.
The last hope of the socialists OF
Brussels Of Intervention by the king
to prevent the great general strike
called to enforce the granting by the
government of manhood suffrage now
appears to have disappeared. 1t is
pointed out that such action in the ex-
listing circumstances would be un-
constitutional.
The little kingdom of Montenegro
has thrown down the gauntlet to the
six great powers. She. declines TO
yield to the demand Of the powers to
abandon her attempts to gain pos
session of Scutari, and has officially
announced that there will be no de-
parture from an attitude which con
forms to the necessities of the state
of war existing between the allies
and Turkey"
In the future it will be unlawful in
the state of New Jersey to wear hat
pins unless their points are guarded.
Governor Fielder signed a bill which
becomes effective Immediately maxi
ing it an act of d~isorderly conduct,
punishable by a fine of from IS to $40,
for any person "To wear in a public
place any device capable of decorating
the flesh Of another person. unless the
point is sufficiently guarded"
Direct election OF United States
senators by the people was author
lied and made compulsory when the
Connecticut legislature ratified the
constitutional amendment submitted
by congress less than a year ago.
The situation that results throughout
the country, where many legislatures
have adjourned until 1915 is such as
to leave confusion in the minds of
members Of the senate as to how the
early steps toward direct election of
senators will be carried out.
Basing their figures on reports re-
ceived from their field agents through
out the Ohio flood districts, officials
| of the Red Cross society, who have
been placed in charge of the relief
work in that state issued a statement
estimating that asa persons lost their
lives during the last weeks hoods. Al
though eleven days have elapsed since
the flood swept the west side Of Co
lumbus, $4,000 persons were still be-
ing cared for at relief stations. The
number Of bodies recovered totals
eighty-six, and there had been no ac-
counting for many persons who are
still listed as missing.
SPORT.
Official announcement has been CIV
en- out that the fourth annual national
clay court tennis tournament will be