The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-10-17

Philadelphia is talking OF investing
$1,000, 900 in a garbage disposal plant.
Boston is completing in Franklin
park an aviary costing $1O0, 900 TO
house the city's collection of birds.
The new Equitable building in New
York City when finished will be not
only the largest building in the world,
but viii have a rent roll approximate
ing 5000, 900 a year. Thirty-six
acres Of rentable floor will be divided
into $500 offices.
James A. Barwick, United States
weather bureau observer, retired, cell
ebrated his SEVENTEEN birthday ami
versary at his home at Milton, Pa.
Mr.. Barwick spent thirty-five years,
half of his life, in the service Of the
United States government.
The much talked of 100000, 900 I'm
ion Pacific melon is not to be cut
just now. Robert S.. Lovett, chair
man of the Union Pacific board has
issued a statement saying that cir
cumstances make it inexpedient to
deal with this subject at present.
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A mob of several hundred angry
citizens stormed the Office of Mayor
Wilkinson of st. Marys, Ohio, a So
%cialist, in the city hall, and the mayor
barely escaped rough treatment.
Later he himself said that some n
in the crowd had brought a rope.
Claiming that she was married TO
Charlemagne Tower, jr., on June =,
1911, in New Haven, Conn, Mrs.
Georgianna Tower, formerly Miss
Burdick. has brought suit at Philadel-
phia against Charlemagne Tower,
former ambassador to Germany, for al
legged alienation Of her husbands at
fections.
Commissioners Of Mediation Ethel
bert Stewart of the federal depart
ment OF labor will recommend forth
with a congressional investigation Of
Colorado coal miners as the result of
a conference he'd here between the
mediators, Governor f. M. Amons and
representatives Of the argest coal
operating companies.
Without firing a shot federal sol
diers have taken possession OF Pied
ras Negras, erstwhile provisional CAPT
tai Of the constitutiOnalists, and end
ed the victorious march of the GOV
eminent army, under General Mas,
through the state OF Coahuiia, the
home of Veneustiano Carranza, revo-
.lutionary commander-in-chief
An old tin can, rusted through in
places, was unearthed in the Wieback
cellar at Winthrop, Iowa, by a work
man who was excavating. He vas
about to throw it in the rubbish heap,
when a CLEAN Of gold caught his eye.
Thecan contained $4,000 in gold. sill
YER and currency. The owner of the
premises died a week a ago. The
money was turned over to the heirs.
Judge John Fl. HUMPHREYS of Seat
tie has issued an order renting the
penalties imposed on Glenn Hoover,
former assistant attorney general of
Washington, who was fined 500 and
G. N. Hodgdon, an aged pioneer and
former member of the legislature.
who was sentenced to six months at
hard labor and to pay a fine of $500,
both defendants having been adjudged
guilty Of contempt of court for yiolat-
ing anti-street speaking injunctions
directed against socialists.
FOREIGN.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the mil
liant suffraget leader, has made all
her preparations for departing for
New York. She says she feels physi-
cally equal to her American cam
paign, having benefited much from
her s~ojourn with her daughter. Chris
Havre.
The British government has decid-
ed to establish an opium monopoly in
Hong Kong at the expiration of the
present agreement and it is thought
that with the control Of the traffic in
the hands Of the government its grad
ual suppression will be easier. The
staff and appliances of the farmers
are to be taken over in entirety.
The American Red Cross orphan
age, erected from funds collected in
the United States at the time of the
great Messina earthquake, has been
formally opened at Palmi. Lieutenant
Colonel George M. Dunn, the Amer
lean military attache at Rome, repre-
scented Ambassador Thomas Nelson
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President Raymond Poincare of
France, who is visiting King Alfonso
.