The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-04-10

Pittsburgh hts year will spend W
Isl GOO for new school buildings.
Springfield, Mo, has for the second
| time within a yea defeated commits
sion government proposition
Foreclosure proceedings againsf tina
Pere Marquette railroad, which de-
sauIted in the payment OF it's semi
annual interest of So, 100000 bonds,
have begun in Detroit federal court.
The price OF gasoline in ST. Louis
was cut 70 Is cents a gallon BY the
Standard Oil company. This cut Is
the fifth made by the Standard Oil
company since November 4. when it
began a fight, is ia said. against other
dealers in the st. Louis field
Jean Gianfni. who is held in fail at
Herkiner, ". r., on a charge of mur-
fering his former school teacher
Miss Ida Beecher, was indicted for
the crime by the Herkinler county
grand Jury at Little Falls, ". Y.
Work has been resumed in the gem
eraI shops of the Norfolk & Western
at Norfolk. Va. 900 men being re-
turned to work on reduced time. The
order affects shop men throughout
the system. The shop had been
closed since March IA.
7. H. Mgsgrove. a wealthy planter.
was shot to death near BIythevllle,
Ark, and John Walker. a 1~6-year-old
youth, whose father MusgroTe was
charged with having killed fifteen
years ago. surrendered to the sheriff
of BlytheviIIe to answer for the kill
ing.
The Rockefeller institute FOR medi-
cal research In New York has an
nounced that John r.. Rockefeller a.
added ST, 0Oa, 600 to the general en-
dow fund OF the institution, to
be devoted to the study OF animal dis
eases, and that James j, Hill has
pledged $4,000 to be used specifically
for the investigation OF hog cholera,
Charges that E. r.. Green, former
president of the Pacific Coast Casual
tyr company Of San Francisco, EN-
lezzled at least s3e, 0G0 from his COM
oany and tied up approximately So
100 mere by questionable transactions
were made to the San Francisco dis
-rict attorneys office by e. G. Cooper,
California state insurance commits
siGner-
T. r. Sharrard, chairman OF the
West Virginia republican state cnn-
nittee has issued a call for a dele
gate convention at Charleston May
20 to consider changes IN he party
rules az suggested by a suhcommit-
tee of the republican national COM
nittea. Delegates to the convention
will be selected by districts on
APRIL II.
A local shoe con pany. acting tor
the Kansas Retail Shoe Dellers' as
ISOLATION, has fled an injunction suit
at Topeka to prevent the enforcement
Of the pure shoe law enacted by the
last legislature. The law requires
that all shoes that contain suhsti-
/ tutes for leather must be stamped to
show the adulteration. It was TO
have gone into effect April 1.
Mrs. Robert Duncan, her daughter,
elizabeth and five Of the latter's
quests at 4 children's party were hur-
ried to a hospital at Pittsburgh when
Il became known that two Pekines~
logs, by which the eve had been
bitten, showed signs of rabies The
logs, valued at $1,000, attacked one
3f the little girls and the others were
bitten while trying to drive them OF
United States District Judge .rara-
miah Neterer at Seattle imposed a
sentence Of FIVE years in the Mcneil
island ~penitentiary upon Albert Dahl
strom, founder Of a religious sect
known a. ~fIeIiga," who was con-
victed two weeks ago OF violating the
Mann anti-white slave act by trans
porting Edna England OF Tacoma,
from Fresno, CAL, to Washington, In
October, 1913.