The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-07-11


derwood Simmons tariff bill.
OF $4,000 locomotives inspected last
year by the Interstate Commerce
commission more than $4,000 were
found defective.
A machine for drying whey n con-
verting it into powder for food has
been invented by a New Yorker.
Cigarets cannot be sold on trains IN
Minnesota, according to an opinion
given by the states attorney gen
erals office.
In reply to a demand following a
request from Postmaster General Bur-
Lesson, Arthur G. Fisk again refused
to resign as postmaster Of San Fran
cisco.
A Pennsylvania statistician calcu-
lates that in the last year 12o,00o,ooo
tons of water were pumped out OF the
mines of one company in the anthra-
cite region.
According to the allenists, who are
meeting in Chicago, the people OF that
city work too hard, dance too hard,
think too hard. play too hard and dis
sipate too hard.
Nearly 5000 persons were maroon
ed on Rockaway beach all night by
fire which destroyed part of the
trestle connecting that particular re
sort with Long Island.
Charles r. Reickhoff Of Helmet, Cal,
has touched neither water or any
other liquid than the juice OF fruits
for four years. Reickhoff, is the son
Of a millionaire living at Orange City.
Arthur /. Moss, a tWenty-two-year
old probationary clerk in the main
postofice at st. Louis confessed to
have rifled the mails which passed
through his hands during the last six
weeks.
Statisticians have Just completed
counting the nickels that have been
spent the last year to see the
movies shows. The grand total,
said to be the first official count ever
made, is $4,000 900.
The total amount Of money in the
United States at the beginning OF the
new fiscal year, amounted to $3,718,
$4,000, an increase of s12,456,000 over
q month ago, according to a state.
ment from the treasury.
The special parcel post stamp will
not be issued after the present stock
In the hands OF the various offices is
used up and the ordinary postage
stamps will be good for the use on
parcel post packages after July 1.
twenty-five boys were dropped into
the Merimac river at Lawrence, Mass.
when a runway leading to one of the
bath houses collapsed. Two were
drowned and five others were uncon.
scious when taken from the water.
The special arbitration treaties Of
the United States with Japan, Swe-
den and Portugal, which would have
month, were extended by protocols
signed by Secretary Bryan, the Jap
anese ambassador and the Swedish
and Portugal ministers.
Returns to the war department
thus far shows that 165 students, rep
%resenting forty-eight schools and col.
leges, have qualified to attend the
lllIlldIy Cdllp VI llSJIuCJlOH WHICH
opens on Gettysburg battlefield July
Z, at the close Of the veterans reun-
ion and continues until August Is.
The ice situation at Cincinnati is
very acute. The city confiscated the
ice companies plants and operated
them despite the striking drivers, all
efforts at arbitration between ice
plant and drivers having fail
ed. In retaliation the owners Of the
plants sought to cnjoin the city from
continuous operation, but the court
allowed matters to stand, the city CIV
Ing bond to handle the plants in a
business like manner In the mean.
time the people are suffering.
Foreign.
Australia has 16,9O4 miles Of rail
road.
The ancient city Of Smyrna is to
have an electric railway.
Berlin's street railway is to. be
electrified at a cost of $4,000, 600.
Prince Ernest, husband of Emperor
William of Germany's daughter, has
an income OF s 1000. 900 a year.
The wife OF Premier Zahle of Den.
mark Is the oficial stenographer OF
the Danish Parliament at 1926 a year.
General Antonio Rabaga has re-
signed as military governor Of Chi
huahua state. He will 60 to Mexico
City.
A hanson type Of vehicle, which
was once seen in numbers in London,
now occupies q place In q London
museum.
The French aviator. Maurice L.
Foulquier. while testing q monoplane
for the first time, fell from q height
Of $50 feet and was killed.
BY the spring Of 1915 Germany will
have widened It's Kiel canal As feet
and will have constructed two double
locks larger than those OF the Pana-
ma canal.
Zue Sun Bien, recently appointed
assistant secretary of state Of the