The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-01-10

The viii Of the late French DatJlt
Painter Edouard leaves his residence
as a museum Of historical costumes.
Judge n. b. Neelen. in the dis
trict court of Milwaukee, fined Martin
Premak So because he spat on {
bible.
Football Coach Williams declare:
the game as now played is nearly per.
feet.
Long hours and small wages is the
plant Of millwoTkers at Little Falls
N. Y.
A dangerous five dollar counterfeit
has been discovered by the treasury
department.
A great military, naval and civic
display is planned in connection with
Mr.. Wilson's Inauguration.
Alaska has had a prosperous year,
but is handicapped by lack of trans
p%ortation' facilities and fuel.
Mrs. Harriet Burnham told a Chi
cago jury she shot her husband while
he was cruelty beating her.
Police Commissioner Waldo is un.
der fire before the New York alder
manic committee Of Investigation.
Postmaster General Hitchcock at
midnight in Washington formally in.
augurated the parcels post system.
During the year 1912 the live stock
receipts at South Omaha were the
largest in the history Of that market.
A Georgia farm hand confessed
numbering a plantation owner at the
behest, he said, of the victims wife.
Colonel GoethalS has ordered that
no photographs be taken of the Pana-
ma canal.
Swensen Bros, wholesale notion
house, sustained 500, 900 fire loss on
the night ot Dee. 9th at Omaha.
General Luis Fernandez, who was
prominent in General Orozco's army,
surrendered with 200 of his men at
Parral, according to official reports re-
ceived here.
Federal Judge Day in Cleveland au-
thorized William NJ. Duncan, receiver
for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Rail
road company, to issue $2,425 900 in
IeCelNeI , eQulDuielt.
Mrs. Elmira Keller Spencer, a veter-
al army nurse, known to civil wal
veterans everywhere as the Florence
Nightingale of the rebellion, is dead
at Oswego, N. T., aged "a.
During the year ending DecembeT
81, 1912, there were 1916 applicants
for enlistment in the United States
navy at the Omaha recruiting station.
OF these there were 282 enlisted, about
Il per cent. of the applicants.
In New Haven, Conn, it was an
nounced that President Taft has leased
the Parmelee mansion here for a term
of two years with the privilege Of pur-
chasing. The president is expected to
take up his residence there soon after
leaving the White House.
Mrs. Adelaide Otero Luna, widow OF
Former Republican National Commit
tee-man Solomon Luna. New Mexico
sheep baron, distributed cash and
gifts to the poor people of Los Lunas,
Albuerquerque and Santa Fee, her
be~nefactions aggregating upwards l
$40, 900.
Relics Of the poet John Greenleai
Whittier. including autograph letters
from notables all over the world and
manuscripts, were burned or seriously
damaged by smoke and water in q
fire which partly consumed the build
ing occupied by the Whittier House
association in Amesbury. Mass.
The treasury department issued a
notice to the public that q concern
known as the United States Treasury
Gold Mining company" said to be
sending out literature from Chicago,
has no connection with the treasury
and that the use of the name was not
authorized by the treasury.
Tired and footsore but still enthu
siastic and glorying in the fact that
they reached their destination two
days ahead OF schedule, the little band
of suffragette pilgrims, who walked
TIA miles from New York to present
a message to Goyernorelect Sulzer ad
vocating votes for women, arrived In
Albany shortly after 4 O'Clock Satur
day noon.
ID, w. Butts, aged rs years, editor
of the Little Sioux Qa.) Independent
is dead. Mr.. Butts was the old
est active newspaper man in north.
western Iowa. He al the first printer
to locate north of Council Bluffs, com.
ing to Preparation, Ia, in Nfonoa
county. from Kansas City in 1851. He
his paper up to December q,
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