The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-06-05
Greater New York spends $38.293..
l0e on public schools yearly.

ANOW ASNA RSAA0 ,
l0s on public schools yearly.
IN the United states cities there
wa last year one bank to every 800
people.
The date OF the international avia
ton meet and start OF the a%round-the
world aerial race at San Francisco
has been fixed for May 8 to Is, 1915.
Hugo Poynter, son Of Sir Johr
Poynter, president of the British
academy. and a cousin of Rudyard
kipling, has arrived at San Francisco
on the steamer Persia.
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Forest fires that broke out along
the Tamarack river in Minnesota lum.
Der camps out of existence. Rangers
from Robinson and Ely were sum
moned to fight the flames.
Granting Of the Saturday hail. holi-
day al a means of a stricter observ-
ance OF the Sabbath was urged in the
report of the committee on Sabbath
observance, made to the general as
sembly Of the Presbyterian church in
the United States.
The body OF Harry Weakleya a
rancher, burned almost to a crisp,
vas found under the wreckage Of his
automobile on a highway near Fresno,
Cal. Nearby lay Walter Robinson, un-
conscious. Weakley's machine had
turned turtle and burned with it's own
er pinned underneath.
An awakened public conscience and
higher ideals of the people in the
last score Of years have made actual
criminals of many thousands, accord.
ing to William N. Gemmill, president
Of the Illinois Society Of the Ameri-
can Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminology It it's annual meeting at
Chicago.
An avalanche OF claims for refund
Of income taxes paid under protest.
and in excess Of the legal amount due
is expected by the treasury depart
ment in the neal future. This is the
intimation given by William E. An
drews, auditor for the treasury de
partment, q former member OF con
gress from Hastings, Neb.
A mar who claims to be the Rev
Louis r. PatmOnt, a prohibition ad
~vocate. who had been missing since
he addressed a dry" meeting at West
vile, ILL.,, March 81, was found in al
abandoned farm house near Columbia
Ill. The man was found in the house
by farm hands who were working
about the place.
Society is too ready to intervene in
behalf Of the criminals, according to
John B. Winslow, former chief justice
OF the supreme court of Wisconsin. in
an address to the Illinois Bar associa.
tion at Chicago. 1.-THE un-written law
or sentimental nonsense is invoked
to prevent adequate punishment" he
said.
Shan Ching Shu, Chinese consul
general at San Francisco, reported to
the police the disappearance OF his
two daughters. Siao Quai, Is years
old, and Min Lien, s years old. He
could not account for their disappear
ance. They were later found in the
woods, where they had gon to gather
flowers and had gotten lost.
Asserting that its order was made
necessary by the ~"plundering" of tht
United railroads Of San Francisco OF
upwards of a million dollars by the
corporations former president, Patrick
Calhoun, on the authorization OF di.
rectors and stockholders. the Califor-
MIA railroad commission gave reluc-
tant consent to tht borrowing Of more
money by the United railroads for the
purchase of rolling stock.
Issuance OF a nation wide call for
financial and moral support for the
striking Colorado coal miners, en-
dorsement Of Congressman J. W.
Bryan's bill calling for federal owner
ship Of the Colorado coal mines and
the selection OF Denver for the next
meeting place were the principal acts
Of the convention Of the Rocky Noun.
tain Association of the United Mine
Workers Of America at Seattle.
FOREIGN.
The Dutch Dockers' union has pro.
claimed q general strike OF the work
men employed by the Holland-Amer.
lean line at Rotterdam.
.
Adyices from Paris bring informa.
ton that the late Sir John Murray