The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-02-14

Newton, Mass, is to have a dehtal
clinic for pupils of public schools,
In McComb City, Miss, high school
boys work in railroad shops on alter
nate days.
Both houses of the Missouri legislat-
ure tool a recess Of thirty minutes
while DR.. Anra Shaw spoke on woman
suffrage.
Both houses Of the Iowa Legislature
passed a concurrent resolution 10 III
vestigate the Iowa state board OF a8rl-
| culture and the state fair board.
w. 3. Hogan, accused of swtndinS,
who escaped from the detention hos
pital al Sioux City, Ia, while suffer
ing with a virulent case of smallpox,
was caught at Sac City, la, by
Sheriff J. w. Crisis of Sac county.
Frances e. Warren Of Wyoming
was elected to the Z. S. senate at
Cheyenne for the fifth time, he hay
ing already served tw~enty-four years,
by seven majority over his demo
cratic opponent.
A bill TO discourage divorce seek
ers from going to Nevada, by extend
ing the period of residence from six
months to one year passed the as
sembly by a vote of 30 to rs. 1t is
made effective January !, 1914.
Details Of the wreck OF the schooner
Granada on the bar at the entrance 10
Colorado river, received at Bluetields,
go 900. .I.4 ...D+, r,--1,a Afar.
drowned. OF the fifteen passengers
who persisted, several were among the
most important citizens OF the repub-
lie.
A definite line of action to dc
away with the middleman and buil0
up a cooperative system whereby
farm products may be sold and de
livered by the producer to he con
sumner was adopted at a recent SEES
sion of the fortieth annual convention
of the New York state grange,
About 100000 was spent last year
by fraternal organizations, labor un-
ions and insurance companies in spe-
cial funds for the treatment of their
tuberculosis members and pOlicyhold-
ers, according to a statement issued
by the National Association for the
Study and Prevention Of tuberculosis
A boys cry of fire" and the smoke
from an exploded reel of a motion
picture machine in a New York thea
ter resulted in a panic among the
audience of 400 persons and a rush
for the exits in which two women
were killed and eleven other persons
so badly injured that they had to be
sent to hospitals.
Eighteen miles Of copper wire
leading from the power station at
Needles to the gold mines at Tom
Reed has been stolen and eight tons
of it shipped to Los Angeles, ac-
cording to a report to the sheriff.
Even the poles Were taken by the
thieves. The wire was Of heavy
copper, valued at $1,000 per mile.
According to an agreement reached
between the attorney general of the
United States and counsel for the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific the
latter road will turn over to the Union
| Pacific the railroad known as the Cen
trail Pacific, which connects Ogden,
Utah, with San Francisco, thus giving
the Overland a through line to the
coast from Omaha.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany paid the government $500, 900
more than necessary that it might
avoid a conflict with the government
and repetition of the publicity attend
ant on the weighing fraud scandals.
This was the testimony of James P.
Gerry, a former employe of the Gus
toms division of the treasury depart
ment before the ways and means com
mittee in Washington.
Herman RosenthaIs one-time part
ner in gambling picked up the brok
en- threads of Rosenthal's story and
told the aldermanic committee investi-
eating graft in New York, a tale of
money paid for police protection
eclipsing that CT Jack Rose, Charles
Becker's collector. For seventeen
years, James Purcell said, he had paid
for the privilege of running a gam
bling house making a hand book, or
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gave the police more than $4,000, he
declared, in this period.
Federal aid for vocational schools
received a substantial boost in the
United States senate by the passage
of a bill carrying 81, 200, 900 for dis
tribution among agricultural and vo-
cational schools in the states which
are now receiving federal aid. The
bill is a substitute for a measure
passed by the house Of representatives
and goes back to that body for con
c%urrence. Three million dollars is APP
propriated annually for the mainten-
ance-of instruction in agriculture, the
trades and industries and home eco
nomics, the allotment to be made TO
the states in proportion to their popu
lation. For the maintenance of in
struction in trades. industries and
home economics in separate industrial
and home economics schools an appro-
nriatiOn Of 81 900 600 is made tn he