The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-08-01

Earnest WeSLpnlly an dVldlOT, Wdb
killed while hyin. at the aerodrome at
Niederrad, Germany.
Fire which threatened an entire
block caused a loss estimated at
$500, 900 in the wholesale district at
Indianapolis.
Wee Willie Sudhoff, one-time star
pitcher Of the st. Louis Browns, Is
reported violently insane.
District Attorney Rotan Of Philadel-
phia said that he would investigate
the raising Of the price of anthracite
coal by retail dealers.
II. Johnson, formerly OF Itasca
county, Minnesota, obtained a $4,000
farm after waiting in front OF the
land office at Moose Jaw Sask. from
May 80 to July l.
Another advance Of 5 cents a barrel
in the price Of crude oil was announc-
ed at independence, kans., the new
price, IS cents for all grades making
the m~id-continent field.
The main building of the American
Agricultural Chemical ~company's
plant at North Weymouth, Mass, and
eleven cottages, occupied by employees,
were burned, the loss exceeding $780,
600.
Formal recommendation to the at
torney general Of the appointment OF
Merton l.. Corey of Clay Center, to be
solicitor general Of the Treasury de-
partment has been made by Senator
Hitchcock.
Governor Sulzer, after characterize
ing the Binghamton, n. Y, fire as a
terrible catastrophe" declared in a
statement that the people Of the state
will, hold Mr.. Murphy Of Tammany
hall responsible"
John O'Brien, the Columbia foot
ball star and heir to $4,000, 900, for
whom his classmates have been look
ing since he disappeared from New
York two years ago, has been found
in Van Buren,, Ark.
Concerted opposition has developed
in congress to Postmaster General
B%urleson's order reducing parcel post
rates and increasing the maximum
size Of the packages to be handled
in the service.
Fire tarted in the mat shop at
Sing Sing prison and quickly spread
to the lumber, carriage and wagon de-
partments and the ice house. Those
buildings were destroyed. The loss
is estimated at $3.50, 900.
Andrew Kline of Dillsburg, Pa, has
a barrel which, instead of being made
OF wood, is made Of plated straw and
in such a way that it is perfectly
water tight. Barrels of this kind dur
ing the revolutionary times were fre
quently used.
Martin N. Mullhall, the lobby wit
%retracted his charges that former
Representative Watson Of Indiana
was employed by private interests
while a member OF congress to work
for . tariff commission bill.
Having crossed the Pacific
inch map Of North America and a
primitive compass to guide them on
their s~eventy-day voyage, eight Japan
csc captured at the village on the
coast north Of Vancouver, B. c., were
deported.
Dr.. H. F. Asbury a member OF the
lower branch Of the West Virginia
legislature, was found guilty by a
jury at Webster Springs, w. Va. OF
having accepted a bride for his vote
in the recent contest for a United
States senator. Asbury is the third
OF seven legisltors to be convicted.
The closing of the public offices at
Gargona, a town on the Panama canal,
which soon will be inundated by the
rising waters Of Gatun lake, began
with the abandonment Of the police
station. The town will be vacated by
all it's inhabitants 9 quickly IS posi-
BILE after August l.
Marching progress has laid hands
upon the last landmark in Richmond
OF Edgar Allen Poe. His boyhood
home, the house of the Aliens, long
ago gave place to commercial build
ings, the Swan tavern and the Bird-in-
Hand have passed away, and now the
city has began razing the %old-fashion-
ed brick building in which the poet
edited the Southern Literary Mess
enger. Approaches to a new concrete
bridge over the James river will take
its place.
Foreign.