The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-07-18

Mining dividends paid in June py
:hirty.fcur United States companies
.otaled 1881, FOG.
All union walters at leading St.
Louis hotels and restaurants here
been locked out Four hundred white
walters were affected.
Massachusetts legislature, at its
last session Of Ill day, passed l,ooO
new laws.
Secretary Garrison will start 0
on a tour of inspection OF army posts
in the United States.
Milk and the yolk Of eggs are the
only foods which contain all the ele-
ments needed to maintain human
life.
Pennsylvania is preparing TO re-
forest wide aras of the 13,ooo,o0O
acres in the state unsuited to agrl'
culture.
The employees of the Treasury de-
partment of the United States gov
eminent number more than 11,oO0
persons.
Reports Of the condition of Jack
London, the author who recently UNI
derwent an operation for appendicitis,
indicate steady improvement.
Jacob Oppenhimer, whom criminol-
ogists have termed one Of Americas
most extraordinary convicts, was
hanged at Folsom, Cal, prison.
Lumber dealers in Ohio quit deal
ers who sold directly to contractors
because they considered them COM
petitors, according to @. II. Bachtell.
Miss Okle Painter of Jacksonville,
Fla, succeeds her deceased father as
head Of the Painter Fertilizer COM
pany, a $500, 900 concern. She is ~.
Petitions bearing $4,000 signatures
have been filed at Denver with he
Colorado secretary of. state for the
referendum for the public utilities
bill.
A Swedish scientist has advanced
the theory that bearded grain, such
as wheat, draws electricity from the
air, and that the plant is aided in its
growth thereby.
M. ]. Dorsey Of the University
agricultural school has refused the
offer to become head of the depart
ment Of horticulture at the UNIVERSE
ty OF Arizona.
Philadelphia mint, August %, 1872,
to June Is, 1913, produced 766,s99,-
SS1 ounces OF gold coins, $2,1S6,36S-
.55 worth of nickels and $1,936, 1875
in silver coins.
Patrick Quinlan has been taken to
states prison at Trenton, N. J, to
serve not less than two years. nor
more thar seven, for melting rio
among the striking mill workers.
One county in Nebraska, one In
Montana and eight in South Dakota
have been ordered released from
scabies quarantine among cattle. Inc
order will take effect July Is.
Flying at the rate of fifty miles an
hour, Glenn Martins hydro-aeroplane
dipped too close to the surface OF
Lake Michigan and was overturned
when one of the pontoons struck the
water.
DR.. B. K. Leach, a socialist editor,
was driven out of Bandon, Oregon
following a notice served on him at
q mass meeting OF 600 citizens that
his would nc longer be toler'
ated.
Mrs. Dee Worthington the first wo'
man juror called in a court in San
Francisco, asked to be excused be
Her name had been drawn under the
idea she was a man.
A dirigible balloon, piloted by
Frank Goodale. lost its rudder while
1000 feet above the Hudson river
and was carried rapidly eastward,
apparently beyond control, across
New York and Brooklyn.
c. d. Taylor, United States consu-
lar agent at Guaymas, Mexico. has
protested to the state department in
Washington against the treatment OF
Americans by Mexican federals in
the invested gulf port district.
The decree of the United States
circuit court judges sitting as the
district court Of Utah, dissolving the
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific mer-
ger, has been entered on record in
the United States district court.
Mrs. Adelaide Sherwood Soule, the
late widow Of Prof. Frank Soule OF
the University Of California faculty,
had a mortal terror of being buried
alive, and in her will she stipulated
that within t~wenty-four hours from
the time Of her death, her heart
should be cut and that her body
should be held for burial seven days.
Her request was carried out to the
letter by her executrix.