The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-06-27
New York is to have a training

New York is to have q training
school for suffrage workers.
The United States produces about
IS pei zen Of the world oysters.
Baltimore, Nd, will establish q
municipal storehouse to care for and
issue supplies to city departments.
Five indictments were returned
against the Michigan Central railroad
by a Detroit grand jury en- the charge
Of giving illegal concessions.
Five persons who made up a launch
party on Lake Cooper, above the keo-
kuk dam on the Mississippi river, are
believed to have been drowned.
Leprosy is steadily increasing in
the United States, according to DR..
Rupert Blue, surgeon general of the
United States. public health service.
Captain Robert Bartlett, command
er Of Peary's north pole vessel, takes
a like position in S%teffanson's expe-
dition to the Arctic, which started re-
Gently.
both aged %, were drowned at Ponce,
Alberta, when the raft on which they
were riding was carried owe Spray
Falls IN the Bow river.
Eleven persons were injured, two
perhaps fatally, when a Pullman car
attached to a northbound Mobile &
Ohio passenger train turned over, ff-
teen miles south Of Cairo, Ill.
In the first five months Of 1913 re-
turns show that 141 mining corpora
tions have paid out %S51,O00,000 in
dividends. OF these corporations thir-
ty-one operate copper properties.
E.. Dana Durand, director Of the
United States census, has accepted
the position of director Of the bureau
OF research in agricultural economics
at the Minnesota Agricultural college.
A music publisher, addressing the
New York State Music Teachers as
ISOLATION, said the nations annual mu-
sic bill was nearly $500. 900, 900, say a
per capita Of $685., which isn't SO
much.
The estate Of the late Mrs. Levi q.
Letter has been appraised at 3d.
672,725, not including household ef-
fects of the Letter mansion in Wash
ington or personal property in Chi
cago.
loaded into 344 automobiles were ia
ken to Central park one day last week
n given a picnic with all the trim
mings big hearts and purses could
supply.
N. w. Flaisig OF Alhambra, Cal,
who has passed his eightieth birthday
and has spent sixty-three years in the
employ of one firm, has signed a con-
tract with the same for twenty-five
years longer.
Ogden, Utah, has a woman city
physician who is also quarantine Of
ficer, and recently used the cow
catcher Of an engine to carry her
several miles on the hunt Of an es-
Gaping smallpox patient.
Richard L. Metcalfe, appointed gov
ernor OF the Panama canal zone, has
held a long conference with Colonel
Goethals, engineer in charge. Met
calfe expects to leave for the zone
August /.
President Wilson does not plan to
attend the fiftieth anniversary cele-
bration of the battle of Gettysburg
on the battle field next month. He
will be at the summer White house
at Cornish. N. H., oyer July 4.
IsidOre RAIDER, professor of burg
larry" confessed to a New York judge
fhof fcr cnvoral x-norc ho hoe hold
classes in stealing. Many Of his pu-
pills, he said, have stolen nearly $780,
600 worth of horses and merchandise.
Medical evidence tending to show
that Luther Mccarthy died in the
prize ring May "a as the direct result
OF a blow on the Jaw. administered by
Arthur Pelkey, was presented by the
crown at the trial of Pelkey for man
slaughter at Calgary.
The people of New York are becom-
ing badly frightened at the ave in
creasing cost Of their city govern
ment. In 1898 the city budget was
~$77,437,OS4. In 1913 it is 1892, 7O9,-
342. The debt OF the city in 1898
was $341, S44,225. In 1912 it was ST.
liz, ,USS.
The greatest fortune ever ccum
lated by an Indian of the Northwest
ern tribes probably is that left by the
late Mrs. Alma C. Parkins, a direct
descendant of Sitting Bull, famous
chief of the Sioux. Mrs. Parkin who
died recently at Cannon Ball, N. D.,
left an estate valued at more than
5000, 900.
President Wilson has received calls
from Viscount Chinda, the Japanese
ambassador; K~ajinaosuke lbuka, pres
dent Of the Federation Of Christian
Churches in Japan; DR.. Juichi Soye-
da, former president OF the indus
trial banks of Japan, and Tadal Ka-
mlya, chief secretary of the chamber
Of commerce.
Foreign.
According to an Italian scientist a
square mile Of the earth in six hours