The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-04-24

Mineral waste in the United States
10 estimated At $1,009,00o a DAY,
San Francisco Is the first large city
in the United States 10 have a union
labor hospital.
Freight handlers employed by the
New Haven railroad a Boston voted
to insist on a minimum weekly wage
Of SIS throughout the year. About
$500 men are affected.
Resolutions urging amendments to
the Sherman Law to permit legitimate
organizations of farmers were passed
at the closing session of the Western
Economic society held in conjunction
with the National Conference on Mar
keting and Farm Credits at Chicago.
Although the wage scale committee
Of the Illinois division OF the united
mine workers and the Illinois coal
operators have been in session a week
in Peoria, a member OF the commit
tee stated that scarcely a start had
been made toward reaching an agree
ment.
Angus Mcleod, president OF the
Newport r. l. Trust Co, died, aged
Ga, Ferdinand Griffin, president OF
the Fall River National bank, died
in Fall River. Mass. aged 10. Both
me had been prominently Identified
with New England financial institu-
tons for thirty years.
Oliver Luckett, a prisoner at the
Missouri state penitentiary at Jeffer-
son City, died suddenly Immediately
after he had been notified tina the
governor had paroled him. Luckett
was serving a two-year sentence for
burglary. Heart disease was believed
to have been the cause Of his death.
The body of Mrs. H. G. Hardy, wife
Of the captain of the schooner Charles
X. Buckley which stranded and went
to pieces on the beach near Monmouth
IDSdCHt y. J, lboNt1u cl W. 'HN
the bodies OF three members OF the
crew. Ten persons persisted in the
wreck. One sailor was rescued.
Suit to collect $4,000 as penalty
and a $4,000 damages for the bringing
OF the army OF 165 unemployed into
Colorado Springs last week was filed
- H. - c ~, ,r die wi NJ nn,Irt
recently by the county commissioners
Of FL Paso county against the Denver
Il Rio Grande and Chicago. Rock Is
land & Pacific railroad companies.
Edward and Charles Barrett and
Arthur Friedman, charged with the
murder OF Frank Witt, a street car
conductor, were found not guilty by
a Chicago jury. Witt was killed dur
ing a strike of pressmen in 1912. The
three defendants were newspaper cir
culators and the car on which they
we're riding was attacked by strike
sympathizers.
Twenty stick OF dynamite with 9
lighted fuse attached were found II
the new hall OF the Un.sed Mine
Workers of America at Iselin, Pa, by
the foreman construction. The fust
was ex~tinguished a few inches from
the explosives. The attempt to wrecl
the building, which is nearing compile
ton was made at the noon hour while
the men were at lunch.
The Injunction suit brought b,
holders of preferred stock of the Tn
ion Pacific railroad company to deter
mine whether the company could dis
tribute a dividend of approximate.
$50, O00, 900 in cash and Baltimore &
Ohio stock among holders of common
stock Of the road, was argued before
the appellate division Of the New
York supreme court. The court re
served decision.
John p. Burke OF Franklin. N. II.
has been nominated for governor b.
the socialist party. William H. VIII
kins of Claremont is the choice 70
United States senator. The part.
platform contains a recommendation
that the solution of the liquor prob
lem is the elimination Of private Pre-
fit in It's manufacture and sale"
protest against armed Intervention b,
the United States government in Mex
leo is also included.
With Ambassador ~Jusserand O
France and Madame J~usserand a
guests OF honor, the Sons OF the Amer
lean Revolution began their triennia
convention on board the steame
Southland bound from Washington
down Chesapeake bay on a trip tina
will include historic Yorktown, For
Monroe and Virginia beach. It vii
be q travelling convention. bushes
sessions being held on the boat be
tween stopping points.
FOREIGN.
~ hos hoAn 1noruoH@ IN TnpArn So