The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-06-20

New York has 20,S39 industrial e.
Adjustments.
Atlanta's new court house will
cost $1,250,000.
Chicago is TO put up 10000 new
street signs at crossings in Septem-
Der.
John Purroy Mitchell was sworn in
as collector of the port of New York
succeeding William Loeb, jr.
The domestic economy schools OF
London every year prepare 500 girls
certificated to be model housewives.
BRIDGE" Weber, one Of the princl-
pal witnesses in the Rosenthal murder
case, was stabbed in the back by an
unknown party.
The estate Of Colonel John Jacob
Astor, who persisted in the Titanic
disaster, has been officially appraised
at S6,966,611.
st. Louis women ere raising funds
to endow a mothers and babies home
which is now caring for It's children
and thirty-fiye mothers.
Lebanon claims to have the Oldest
citizen in Missouri-Wllliam =.
Simpson, Il Mexican war veteran who
was 102 years old on June 3.
San Francisco's municipal street
railway line on Geary street has al
ready piled up a deficit Of $l~1,oSO.b3
in four months Of operation.
John Madden, for eight years gen.
oral oftnrnny for tho Missouri Kan
sas & Texas railway has resigned o
become general solicitor Of the Miss
ouri Pacific.
Evan Edwards OF Torquay, Eng
land, who has attained the patriarchal
age Of SO, and is still hale and hearty,
is believed to be the Oldest Baptist
minister in the world.
Tete jaime, the most westerly dl-
vision point on the Grand Trunk "a
cific, in the Rocky mountains, is UNI
der water because of a sudden rise
in the Frazier river.
Henry Morganthau. a New York
lawyer, to whom President Wilson Of
fered the post of ambassador to Tur-
key, after a conference with the pres
lueHl, mas OeCIlneQ the post.
DR.. George e. Vincent, president OF
the University of Minnesota, confer
red degrees upon the largest gradu-
ating class in that institutions his
tory. 700 receiving diplomas.
John A. McIlhenny has been des-
dent of the Civil Service commission.
Mr.. McIlhenny was the only one Of
the old commissioners retained.
A public utilities bill, providing for
a state commission to have general
charge over rates, service and capt.
talization of all public utilities in
Illinois. has beer passed by tn. lower
house.
Eugene Maggi and his wife, believ-
ed to be the wealiest persons in
Switzerland, committed suicide be-
ing actuated by sheer lack Of inter
est in life. Eugene Maggi was only
forty.
Fifty women spectators in the Chi
cago circuit court rushed to Dennie
Bernstein % years old, and Rugged
and kissed him when he was found
not guilty Of the murder of Lawrence
Buck.
Notwithstanding the strict Ameri-
a rules applied to emigrants in re-
gard to thir health and means, Rus
sian emigrants increased during 1912
to $3.50. having been 39,161 in 1910
and 35,O52 in 1911.
Lewis Grandjean is attempting to
induce the immigration authorities
to win a $4,000 stake for him by de-
porting him to France as an undesir-
able alien. Grandjean says that If
he can reach Paris by July Is he will
win $4,000 put up at the Jockey
club ten years ago as a wager that he
could not visit evry country in the
world, always working his way, and
never being subsidized or receiving
charity.