The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-07-11
Of EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
, ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention Of What 34 Transpirino
In Various Sections Of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
DOM EsTic.

DOMESTIC.
Fortv-four ONE are applicants
Tor places as street cleaning inspec-
tors in Philadelphia.
Belgium became the twentieth ma
tion to accept the offer of Secretary
Bryan's peace plan and to ask for the
details.
Wage increases for employees OF
Atlantic coast are likely to be rec
commended within q short time by
Secretary Daniels.
William Waldorf Aston has just
added the London Morning Post to his
string OF newspapers, the Observer
and the Pail Mall Gazette. paying
81, 25O,OOO for the last venture.
The South Dakota National Guard,
900 strong, will go into camp at Fort
Meade, and go through maneuvers
with the Twelfth calvefy at the post
Tor eight days.
Pitcher Rice Williams was sold by
the Great Falls Union association
team to the st. Louis Nationals for
delivery September IA. The %announc-
ed price was $1,000.
President Wilson has approved the
recommendation of Secretary Daniels
that no applications for retirement Of
naval officers be favorably acted upon
unless such officers had had twenty
years service.
State Senator Smith OF West vir-
ginia was convicted Of bribery in con
nection with accepting $4,000 to vote
for Colonel William Seymour Edwards
~ q candidate for the United States
senate.
1t is stated that the David Lamar,
who has made such startling disclos-
ures to congress at the senate lobby
Investigations, was formerly a Ne
braska man, known in Omaha az Da-
vid Lewis.
H. L. Hass, a New York lawyer, re-
ported to the police that Jewels
valued at between $4,000 and $3.50 0
had been stolen from his summer
home at Long Beach, N. J., during the
absence Of the family.
OA1Cl0l A6ul Co. ACNCAlly NOIlRAlC0s
place the cement production Of the
United States last year at $780, 91
barrels. which Is a new high record
and an increase of more than s.
100000 barrels In q year.
Leo Barrett, o Of William Barrett
Of Cambridge, vt, aged Is years has
perfected IN invention by which an
engine ri take on water without
stopping. It has been approved by
the patent Office at Washington.
Oficials OF the Toledo Museum of
Art have refused to deliver to En-
sign Lowry. sem from Annapolis by
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels, the
Commodore Perry flag bearing the
Inscription. Don't give up the ship
With the c~elebation of high ponti-
1cal mass, the tenth annual conven-
ton Of the National Catholical Educa-
tional society was opened at New Or
leans. More than 200 prominent
@Ss.holic educators attended the ser.
vice.
The 2-cent passenger rate are now
effective in Missouri on the Chicago
& Alton; the Burlington and the Wa
bash railroads. The Missouri Pacific
and the Rock Island have also made
= 2-cent rate between Kansas City and
st. Louis.
An S00-mile1 ride over the civil wal
battlefield in Virginia, Maryland and
Pennsylvania has been completed
after forty-fve days spent in the sad
die. by . party Of officers from the
army college headed by Brigadier
General Crozier.
According to reports from Wall
street. the Missouri Pacific systems
May operations added $500 to sur
plus account, bringing total earnings
IN excess Of fixed charges and other
deductions for the eleven months Of
the current year up to $1.l14,O0O.
The democratic caucus of the SEN
1te finally approved the tariff meas
ure a revised by the finance commit.
tee majority and q final meeting OF
ehe caucus will be held when q reso-
hutton to bind the senator's to its sup
port will be presented and adopted.
Uncle Ben Wallace, reputed to be
ne wealthiest circus man in the
world, forever quit the show business
when his controlling interest IN the
HAgenbeck-Wallac shows was trans
1erred to ! newly formed corporation
known 20 the United States Amuse
nent company.
a child playfully kicked . package
- one Of the streets OF Lisbon, KY.
ana : terrific explosion followed. The
child VS. blown to pieces and . work
m6n = hundred yards away was In
Sxo1. All windows for blocks around
Soeo htoken.
NJ Z NIFTY pears 40 the gar
nv -. military works Of
9f7I ~ xSEe snty4ndes14 ~ Gen.
a0~pefal y.