The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-12-12

Fourteen cities In Massachusetts
aaye held municipal elections.
The transport Prairie, bearing 75O
marines, has arrived at Pensacola
from Philadelphia
Officers and warehouses Ct the
Hicks company, wholesale grocers,
! Shreveport, La, were burned with .
loss estimated at $4,000.
An inventory Of the estate OF Mich.
ael Elias Rice, the Wholesale dry
goods merchant who died at st.
Louis recently, showed its value to be
$1,125,000.
A fund OF 100000 which the
knights Of Columbus Of the country
have been collecting for more than
two years for the Catholic university
at Washington has been closed.
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John P. jackson, labor commissions
er Of Pennsylvania, requested the de
partment of labor to use its Offices IN
an effort to settle the strike Of 5000
garment workers in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Nina Finger Of Santa Barbara,
Cal, said to have been the only wom-
an in the United States pensionea
for personal services during the Mex
lean war, has died. Size was 81
years old.
The loss CT the power schooner
Mary Sachs, an auxiliary vessel or the
Stefansson exploring expedition IN
the Attic ice off the coast OF Alaska,
will not prevent the expedition carry
ing out its plans, provided the other
three vessels escape.
There are affiliated to the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor l1S lnterna-
.ional trade unions, with their $4,000
local unions, thirty-six state fedora
ions, 537 city central bodies and $50
Iocal trade and federal labor unions
having no internationals.
Arguments in defense of the state
law enabling farmers to pool their
tobacco were made to the supreme
court by Attorney General Garrett of
Kentucky. Thomas Malone, a Mason
county farmer, has attacked the law
IS unconstitutional.
A new labor organization, bound by
it's constitution to oppose strikes n
lphold the arbitration method OF set.
ling disputes and to favor a gradu-
ated, rather thsn a uniform, wage
scale, was chartered in the circuit
court at Kansas City recently.
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Fourteen OF the eighteen copper
mine strikers arrested, charged with
firing on deputy sheriffs at Paines-
dale, Mich, were released at Calumet
because the deputies could not iden-
tify them as members Of the party
which attacked them.
f. d. Coburn, secretary Of the state
board of agriculture, said the fell
sown wheat in Kansas aggregated
~S,589,09o acres, the largest acreage in
the states history. He placed the
condition Of this wheat at 81 per
cent the highest since 1860.
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A. A. Mccormick, president Of the
Cook county (Iil.) board, sent his
personal check for sS.GG8 to the coun-
ty clerk, requesting that the money
be used to meet 31T mothers pension
warrants which are due. The county
otherwise would be unable to pay.
It costs 80 cents to distribute 81
worth Of food in New York City. The
bureau Of feed supply OF tho New
York association for improving the
condition OF the poor has been con.
Quoting a cost-of-liying inquiry, ard
has made public a report showing
| hat 81 cents represents the cost of
food on its arrival at the terminal
markets in New York. while the rest
OF the consumers dollar is divided
between wholesaler and retailer in
the process Of getting the food to che
consumers kitchen.