The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-02-21


Goth birthday on February IL.
The price of Oil has been advanced
In the North Lima, o., field.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pass Inspector Boyd is in Omaha test
ing the free transportation market.
A report of Illinois some time ago
stated hat in the last twenty years
10000 country churches in Illinois had
closed their doors.
The Missouri house today passed
the county unit local option bill by a
vote of 80 to 45.
The German and Dutch steamship
lines announced that the steerage rate
from Europe to Canada would be cut
to $50 instead of $40.
Former Governor B. M. Fernald OF
Maine vas elected president of the
National Gamers association in con
vention in Louisville, Ky.
San Francisco was endorsed for the
meeting place of the National Can
ners' association in 1915 at the clos
ing session of the convention.
Sixteen are dead, including twelve
miners and four mine guards, as the
result of a desperate battle in the
Kanawha county, w. Va, coal fields.
The comptroller of the currency is
sued a call for a statement OF the con-
dition of all national banks Of the
United States at the close OF business
Of Tuesday, February 4.
A great national PARK in Colorado,
to be known as the Rocky Mountain
park, is proposed in a bill introduced
by Representative Rucker of Colo-
RADIO.
April IA has been selected as the
date for beginning a general strike
throughout Belgium by the National
Council Of Workingmen's organiZa-
tons.
The Illinois senate unanimously rat
flied the proposed amendment TO the
national constitution providing for the
election of United States senators by
the direct vote of the people.
Fire which started in the garrett OF
the Star hotel at Dolan, S. D., burned
eleven buildings in the business part
of the town before being brought
under control. The estimated loss is
$65, geo.
1t is understood the marriage OF
Princess Victoria Louise. only daugh-
ter Of the German emperor, to Prince
Ernst August, son of the duke OF Cum
berland, will take place in October
next.
The national chamber of commerce
adopted a resolution calling upon the
president and senate Of the United
States to renew the arbitration treaty
made between this country and Great
Britain in 1908.
A bill providing for a minimum
wage for women passed by the Kan
sas house of representatives fixes Sc
a week for a nine-hour day as the
minimum wage of all women workers
except domestic servants.
Harry Fisher of Buffalo was elected
president of the National Association
Of Merchant Tailors at the close OF
their annual clothing and style show
al NltNcIaIu, oubSSCuiAS Nf>
Carthy of Chicago.
The soil of a great portion of Ger
nan is little but sand and it has
been titled for centuries. but on this
poor land German farmers are today
raising in some crops more than twice
as many bushels per acre as the
American farmer, and in all crops
from so to so per cen more.
Details of the wreck of the schooner
Granada on the bar at the entrance to
Colorado river, received at Bluefields,
Mic, say that twenty persons were
drowned. Of the fifteen passengers
who persisted, several were among tle
most important citizens Of the repub.
lie.
Whether the ~siX-year single presi
Dental term constitutional amend
ment shall be presented to the public
as it recently passed the senate, or
be substituted by the Clayton resolu-
ton, the house judiciary committee
was unable to decide. The question is
to come up in the house later.
Criminal contempt of court proceed
ings against the Southern Wholesale
| Grocers' association and seventy-nine
individuals for alleged violations OF
the antitrust decree entered against
the "grocers' trust more thar a year
age were begun in Birmingham, re
Gently by the federal government.
President-elect Wilson announced
definitely tonight that he would not
make public the lanes of his cabinet
until he sent them to the senate for
confirmation, March 4. Il will follow
the good ol~d-fashioned method" he
said, land not make any announce
ment until the names of the cabinet
members are SEN to the senate" Mr.
| Wilson's remarks were %occasioned by
the publication of reports from Wash
ington that he would his
cabinet tomorrow. He said there was
absolutely no truth or authority fol
the reports.
George Kittle Of Palisade, Neb, filed
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