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


Gold production in the Philippines
increased from $189,953 in 1911 to
s57O,212 in 1912.
Timothy L. Woodruff, former lieu
tenant governor Of New York, was
stricken in Carnegie hall just as he
concluded an address at the fusion
Notification meeting.
Mrs. Harriet Johnston-Wood, a lrac-
iicing lawyer of New York, is wag
ing a determined campaign to be
appointed to the bench in the child
ren's court in that city.
Two masked and armed men forced
the employees Of the Yukon Gold COM
pany into submission on Love hill,
three miles from Dawson, and robbed
the company's sluice boxes of oncen
trated gravel valued at $4,000.
Hearings in the antitrust suit OF
the federal government against the
United States steel corporate n has
been resumed in New York. The
case has been under way nearly two
years.
After hiding about the state prison
at Moundsville, w. Va, Alexander
Childs, serving a ~tweny-year sentence,
made his escape from the prison by
sliding down a rope from a roof 80
feet from the ground.
The Lincoln Memorial highway
cross the continent was permanently
located along the Platte valley across
Nebraska at the American Good Roads
congress and meeting Of the Linoln
Memorial Highway association in De-
troit.
Evidence that Governor Suffers
stock transactions with the New York
brokerage firm of Harris & Fuller
ere for the account Of Mrs. Sulzer,
was disclosed at the trial of his i'm
parchment, The articles Of impeach-
ment charge that the governor made
use Of some Of his unreported cam
paign contributions in these trans
actions.
Women are taking an active part
in the fighting in Albania, according
to dispatches received from Aviona,
the Albanian capital. Many Albanian
women armed with h%atchets, fought
shoulder to shoulder with their hus-
bands. sons and brothers during the
street fighting at Dibra on September
%, when 1900 Seryians were killed
and 800 taken prisoners.
Finishing a 1,5O0-mile walk on the
trail Of Edward Payson Weston, Mrs.
Marie Chester OF Middlteown, N. y,
mother Of ten children, three of whom
apolis having left New York City On
July 81. A number of business men
Of Middletown agreed to rebuild Mrs.
Chester's burned home at an expense
Of $4,000 providing she made the trip
in sixty-five days. 1t was accom-
plished in fifty-three days Of actual
walking time. The children accom-
panying Mrs. Chester were one girl
and two boys, aged respectively. Is,
IA and Is years.
FOREIGN.
An official bulletin says that Prin-
cess Augustine Victoria, wife of
former King Manuel of Portugal. is
expected to recoyer within a reason
able time"
The tug Gatun was again passed
drought the Gatun locks, this time
from Gatun lake to the sea. The op-
GRAFTON consumed a little more than
an hour and a half as compared with
two hours necessary on its first pass
age.
The German aviator who vas ar
rested q Bologne when he landed
with his biplane on French soil is
said by the military authorities here
to be Lieutenant Steffen of the Ger.
man army.
Puerta Plata, chief stronghold Of
the Dominican rebels on the north
ern coast, has surrendered to the
government forces, according to Of
fetal adyices. 1t is believed in gov
eminent circles that the rebel towns
OF SANTANA and Sanchez must now
capitulate and end the rebellion.
The theft of a confidential document
belonging to Cirpriano Castro, the
former Venezuelan dictator, and con
tanning the plans of an insurrection to
be started by him in Venezuela,
brought two culprits before the po-
lice court at Hamburg. They were
sentenced to terms Of four months
each in jail.
Despite the apology Of General
Chang Hsun, the Chinese commander
at Marking, Japan, still will insist up
on his resignation as governor Of
kiang Su, which is confidently ex-