The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-12-19

Dsnver. il debating the appointment
or pOlicew0men.
Approximately $4,000 people are
employed In the cotton, wood and SILK
industries in this country.
Adoption Of resolutions calling upon
congress to appoint q joint commit.
to investigate v~ivisection and various
other forms Of cruelty to animals
brought to a conclusion the annual
meeting Of the International Anti-Viv-
isection and Animal Protection %
gress.
The eighteenth annual convention
Of the Grain Dealers National asso-
citation will he held In Kansas City,
Mo-, in October. 1914. The association
includes in its membership representa-
tive grain dealers of Canada and some
of the South American republics.
There are now about forty psyche
logical clinics" in the United States,
according to DIR. J. F.. Wallin OF the
University of Pittsburgh. The hrst
of such clinics, for the purpose OF
studying and classifying mentally un-
usual children, was established in the
University of Pennsylvania in 1898.
Nesting of authority to pass on the
issue of railway securities in the fed
eral Interstate Commerce commission,
rather than in state commissions, was
urged as a of restoring finan-
cial health to railways by Governor
James M. Cox of Ohio in an address
al New York recently before the Rail
way Business association.
A whirlwind Of fire. bursting from
a partly drilled oil well, blew five
drillers into the air at Taft, Cal, and
scattered their tortured bodies about
like chips. All are in a hospital, criti-
cally injured. F. l.. Britain the man
worst hurt, has no ears or finger
nails and his lace and hands are
frightfully scared.
Officers and directors OF the Rose
Vile Trust company Of Newark, N.
j., wrecked to the extent of 100000,
and w depositors who knowingly
and p~ersistenty cverdrew their &C.
counts, may be indicted by the Essex
county grand jury under the ruling
by Chief Justice Gummere of the
state supreme court.
Warrants for the arrest Of the Uni
ted Mine Workers officers and mem.
jury at Pueblo have been placed in
the hands Of United States Deputy
Marshal Dewey G.. Bailey at Denver
Mr.. Bailey said that the warrants
would be served as soon as the usual
clerical formalities were gone through
The city of Denver has joined with
the street railway company and retail
coal dealers to relieve a threatened
coal famine. A section Of the com
pany's franchise forbidding 1t from
carrying. freight was rescinded and
coal wifi be carried on flat cars tC
central depots in the residence dis
tricts, from where citizens will hau'
it to their homes.
Labor organizations are allowed t.
exist in the United States. yet the
right of coalition, union and free
speech, is denied them under the
Sherman antitrust law Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, asserted in an ad
dress at the fourteenth annual meet
ing OF the National Civic federation
In New York.
More than one-fourth OF those
paroled c~onvicts from San Quentin
and Folsom prisons, who should now
be reporting, break their paroles ant
escape, according to prison reports
made to the governor OF California
Prisoners totaling SO7, released OF
parole, should now be reporting to thu
parole officers. or these, however
ZIG have run away.
James E. Flood and John B. Davis
president and treasurer respectiyel,
OF the Flood & Vanwirt Engineering
and Construction Co, OF Hudson
Falls, N. ", testified at District At
I t6rney Whitman's John Doe inquir.
into New York State highway graft
that their corporation had givel
$4,000 to the democratic state com
mittee because they feared that con
tracts the concern had with the Stat.
Highway commission ana the Cana
board would be held UP.
FOREIGN.
Seventy per cent of the worlds
cork is produced in Spain and Portu