The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-04-25
GENER

Two sailors Of the United States
cruiser California were killed and
three others wounded in a street fight
at Mazatlan, a Pacific coast port in
Mexico.
Two OF the silk mills now idle be-
cause Of the strike Of $4,000 workers
for more pay and shorter hours are
leaving Paterson, N. J. One. belong.
Ing to the firm Of Aronson G. Bloom.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
railroad at a meetin in Philadelphia
passed a resolution authorizing a 10
per cen stock issue amounting to
about SAB, 000, 1000.
Mary Webb, 19 years old, sister Of
Robert Webb, the most daring of the
automobile bandits who terroriZed
Chicago last winter, will enter a con-
vent as atonement for the crimes Of
her brother.
An earthquake lasting several sec
onds was experienced at Salt Lake
City recently. Telephone operators
on the fifth floor of the Telephone
building reported that their transmit
ters were rocked by the force of the
shock.
Prosecution under the Mann white
slave act is threatened for a young
married man of Kearney, Neb., follow
Ing the confession at Sioux City, Ia,
by his cousin, a ~15-year-old girl, that
she had accepted money from him
with which she was to pay her ex-
penses to join him.
For the third time in his reign,
King Alfonso Of Spain narrowly es-
capped being the victim of an an
archistic attempt against his life.
Three shots were fired at the king in
the streets of the capital by a native
OF Barcelona, Rafael Sanchez Allegro,
who was Immediately overpowered.
The king was not injured.
Hundreds OF corporations will be
relieved from paying the federal cor
poration tax by a decision Of the SUI
preme court to the effect that corpo-
rations leasing all their property
and having no income except that
yielded by the lease, are not doing
business and therefore are not sub.
ject to the tax
MIS-. Vliildlh ouUlluS OlOIy VI AGN
York, head of the conservative party,
failed by six votes of the necessary
majority to elect her president general
OF the Daughters of the American Re-
volution on the second ballot, which
began Friday. The vote stood: Mrs.
William Cumming Story, STA; Mrs.
John Miller Horton administration
candidate). 542: Mrs. Charles B
Bryan, AZ.
Three congressional Investigations
have been proposed. Representative
Lobeck asked for an investigation Of
the "extortionate prices the govern
ment is compelled to pay for eleva-
tors in the various government build
ings. Representative Clark of Flor
ida asked for the appointment of a
special committee to probe various
special commissions and make recon-
mendations to abolish them. Repre-
sentative Austin proposed an investi-
cation of the stemming district to-
bacco associations with headquarters
at Henderson, "as alleged combina-
ton in restraint Of trade"
Higher prices for cold storage
products have been the rule ever
since the industry became CONNER
cially Important as shown by data
for more than thirty years back col
lected by the Department Of Agricul-
ture.
immigration officials at Philadel-
phia were startled when Rudolph
Gertzen, a German farmer, in reply to
the question as to whether or not he
had SIS, which is necessary before i'm
migrants can land, carelessly pulled on
OF his pocket $4,000.
Fire that destroyed four large
buildings and caused a loss estimated
at 100000 in the Kansas state peni
Tertiary at Lansing, Kan, was spread
by cGnvicts who scattered BURNING
papers in buildings not in the path
Of the flames; according to a state
ment by Fire Chief Michael Bahler o