The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-17
EP|70ME Of EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT But INTERESTING
BRIEF Mention o. What 10 TranspIrine
In Various Sections Of Our Own
and Foreign Countries


WASHINGTON.
The sale Of the battleships Missis.
oippi and Idaho for use in the Greek
navy was consummated by the deliv.
cry to Secretary Daniels of q check
Tor $12.535.275.96
Secretary Daniels has announced
that he would advertise for bids for
the construction OF two new battle.
ships on August /. One OF the three
slips In this years construction pro.
gram will be built at the Brooklyn
navy yard.
A party including members OF the
congressional naval committees and
their wives and Mrs. J%osephus Dan.
iels left Washington aboard the dis.
patch boat Dolphin for Quincy, Mass,
to attend the launching OF the new
battleship Nevada.
President Wilson received messages
from the rulers Of the principal ma
ti0ns Of the world and from American
societies In foreign cities congratu-
lating him and the American people
on the 13Sth anniversary Of the indie
pendence Of the United States.
The $1,000 appropriation for the
aid Of the Salem fire sufferers. asked
by President Wilson in . message to
congress. was refused by the house
appropriations committee. The ma
jority Of the committee contended
that Massachusetts, was able to take
car Of the situation.
After q lively debate between the
Oklahoma and Mississippi delega.
lions the house rejected a senate
amendment to the Indian %appropria-
ticn bill which would permit the Mis-
sissippi Choctaws to present their
claims for participation in the tribal
funds Of the Choctaw Indians Of Ok
lahoma.
Secretary Daniels has sent letters
q commentator to Morris Wallace.
master OF arms, and william Carley,
b~oatswain's mate, for daring and cool
ness displayed at Vera Cruz recently
in rescuing q sailor who had climbed
to q yard arm Of the b~attleship Vir-
ginia and was about to dive to the
deck 100 feet below.
The Japanese ambassador, viscount
Chinda, introduced to President Will
son Major General Gijuchi Tanaka. .
member Of the Japanese army general
stan. who has been in Europe inves-
tigating military establishments. The
general 10 accompanied by DR.. S. Min
agawa, . distinguished authority on
international law.
President Wilson received . tele-
gram from the Pan-Hellenic Union In
America thanking him for the sale OF
the b~attlesaips Idaho and Mississippi
to Greece. I'VE consider the trans
action . great act Of humanity In pre-
venting the outbreak of a new war In
the near east telegraphed the presi-
dent q the union.
DoMgoTlQ
Apparently awed by what he con-
sidered the superior class OF his OPP
ponenk Matty McCue, . lightweight
Of Racine, Wis, substituted for Ad
Wolgast, Wal IN easy victim for Joe
Rivers In the second round of q
twenty-frame contest at Vernon arena
In Los Angeles.
The statement Of the Copper pro-
duccrs' association for June shows
m increase in stock or hand OF
IL 6S. 022 pounds, compared with the
previous month.
All the volcanoes along the Alaskan
peninsula west of Seward to tle
Aleutian islands are In action, accord
ing to q report brought by Captain
McMullen OF the steamship Dirigo.
which arrived from Dutch harbor.
The saloons In the Colorado strike
district will not be permitted to open
% long a. the federal troops are in
the field. The order issued BY the
federal commander upon entering the
district last April Il final. This Is
the word that came from the secre-
tary Of war, to whom the city and
county officials recently appealed.
American canoeists r preparing
20 defend me international canoe
trophy and some excellent races are
promised q the elimination trials to
- held n Cravesend bay. July u
md ~
Orleans health authorities have n
nounco6 That mono q the several
1Nouianl - oxnmined Tor bub0nic
ptneno infoctlon md shown traces -
1lnonea. - work Of rat extoc
Dee1sol ~vigorouelys
r. Destroy tho 60
$3.50 10oln1n IT. n - city.