The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-09


| Cal, died at Naples.
and three fatally injured in a fire
which partly destroyed the Hotley
house, a three-story structure, at Os-
wego, New York,
Postmaster General Burleson has
ordered that unpaid, misdirected un-
mailahle and unclaimed postal cards,
as we'll as postcards deposited for
local delivery be returned TO sender.
Refused permission to play accord
dian at a party, Joseph Conjuan OF
Layton, Pa, emptied his revolver into
the guests, shooting four, three OF
whom will die. He then fed.
Five of the big hangers on Hemp
stead Plains aviation field, where
some of Americas foremost aviators
learned to fly. were destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The new city wells at Creighton,
company putting in the extension of
the water system, were tested and
proved satisfactory.
Former President William Fl. Taft,
now Kent professor at Yale, has been
engaged to deliver the Henry Ward
Beecher lectures for the next college
year in the department of political
science at Amherst college.
In a letter to Milwaukee authorities
recently. John Schrank, now confined
in the Northern hospital for the in
sane neal Oshkosh, Wis, asks to
used in his attempt to assassinate
Theodore Roosevelt last October.
Testifying for the defense In the
trial Of Arthur B. Smith, charged
with the murder of his wife, Florence
c. Smith, by poisoning, DR.. Ellis r.
Schilling of Columbus, o., a pathol-
ogist, declared that Mrs. Smiths
death was due to natural causes.
To provide adequate facilities for
the movement of northwestern crops
for the year 1913, approximately
20. 900 units Of rolling stock shortly
will be placed in service by the Great
Northern. Northern Pacific and Chi
cago, Minneapolis, st. Paul & Omaha
at a cost Of SOS. 900, 900.
Mrs. John Knzuuus, a bride of three
days, is in a critical condition and
may die, as a result of dancing too
much at her wedding. The Polish
custom of dancing with the bride for
81 a dance is responsible. During
the 23rd dance and with 293 silver
dollars constituting the brides dowry,
Mrs. Knzluus collapsed and may not
o
William B. Dingwall, an American
citizen, owner of a foundry and direc-
tor of the Santa Maria de la PaZ Min
ing company, was killed by the rebels
in their attack on Matehuala, state
of San Luis Potosi. Dingwall, who is
said to have been one of the wealth.
est residents Of the district, was
killed when he refused to contribute
10 the revolution.
The great strike Of working men in
Belgium, to force the government to
grant manhood suffrage, began quietly
and at nightfall it was estimated that
100000 men throughout the country
had quiet work. This number is at
least 100, 900 short of the socialist
predictions and the clerical press
calls the movement a 'pitiable
fiasco."
Henry woodland and Alexander
Drummond, young men of Brooklyn.
N. Y, captured by r. I. DAWSON OF
Dayton, O., a Yale senior, at the point
of a silver pencil, while ~ransacking
his room in Vanderbilt hall, on the
Yale campus, were in the city court
charged with burglary. In the dim
light Of the room the burglars thought
the pencil leveled at them by Davis
son as he entered was a pistol.
SPORT.
Pitcher Bob" Smith has been re-
leased by the Chicago Americans to
the Minneapolis American associa-
ton team. He was purchased by
Chicago from Boise, Idaho.
Bobby Wallace of the Browns was
not in the opening game this year:
which vas the first time he had been
out Of a getaway battle in his seven
teen years in the big leagues.
The New York club has sold Pitch
or Paddy Green, the Holyoke recruit.
to the Pittsburgh club of the National
league, all cities excepting Pittsburgh
having waived on him.
The Wisconsin assembly endorsed
Hedding bill. which provides ten
round no decision bouts to be held I'M
der strict supervision by the state
commission. No bouts are permitted
on Sunday.
Manager Jennings Of the Tigers is
using his %southpaw pitcher, Bert
Clauss, every minute in the day pitch
ing to batters in the hope that the
Tigers may overcome their weakness
against southpaws.
George Brooks, football coach OF
the University ). Pennsylvania, in an
effort to bring IN drop kickers and
punters for the red and blue eleven,