The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-10

AuVeSllSatlOu Oh the use Oh SENATE
stationery in the promotion OF a
North Carolina gold mine has been
started before a senate committee.
Twentyspe naval officers were
placed on the retired list, fifteen Of
the number having been selected by
the plucking board, while the other
elk voluntarily asked retirement.
Surgeon General Blue Of the public
health service will go to New Orleans
to take charge of the campaign
against bubonic plague. which has
appeared there. One death has al.
ready been recorded.
A conference Of democratic senators
was called by Majority Leader Kerr
to act on q resolution announcing te
the country that congress will stay II
Washington until it has disposed o.
al trust legislation.
Ulrich Duvivier. the minister from
Haiti, informed Secretary Bryan that
be had been recalled by his govern
ment and that he would be succeed
ed by Scion Menos, whom he replaced
ct Washington in 1913.
An item of $1,000 0 for the boring
q artesian wells in arid districts fol
the purpose of discovering the exist
enc of supplies of water available
for irrigation purposes. has been
dropped from the agricultural appr0
priation bill.
President Wilson will take no action
In the strike situation at Butte, pend.
ing further developments. Federal
troops will not be moved from Van
couver barracks to Fort Missoula to
Be in readiness in case OF trouble, for
the present.
President Wilson has signed tie
naval appropriation bill. which car
ries a provision for two new dread
thoughts and permits the sale Of the
b~attleships Mississippi and Idaho to
Greece. Negotiations now are being
conducted for their sale.
The administration trade commits.
sion bill was further supported by
Senator Cummins, republican, who
continued his discussion OF its consti-
tutional phrases. He particularly de-
Tended the provision Of the bill max.
Ing unfair competition" unlawful.
Senator Davilmar Theodore. the
Haitien revolutionist leader has been
killed in q battle with fifty Of his fol-
lowers near the dominican frontier.
Captain Eberle Of the cruiser Wash.
mgton 20 reported his information
from awo members Of the Haitien
cabinet
Letters Of commentator for con
Gpicuous g~allantry during the occupa.
ton Of Vera Cruz were written by
Secretary Daniels to George H. Boyd,
quartermaster. and Augustus j. Hall
berg. gunner's mate, Of the cruise"
Chester. Both men have been ad-
sanced to the rank Of petty officers.
ooMgoTlo.
There are 299 railways In the
United States, operating 12O, 901 miles
Of track which last year carried
409. SO8,4SS passengers without . sin.
gle fatality.
The teaching Of sex hygiene In
Sunday schools was approved in the
report to the convention Of the Inter.
national Sunday School association
BY 3. K. Mohr, superintendent Of the
purity department.
The germ which caused pyorrhea
and q cure for the disease has been
discovered by DR.. Michael F. Barrett
u philadelphia, according to an an
nouncement made at the annual meet
lng Of the Pennsylvania state dental
society.
Hope for an early settlement Of the
strike OF the Westinghouse employees
ak Pittsburgh was checked by the de-
lision Of 1000 Of the strikers not to
lccept the terms made in signed
Itatements by the heads Of the affect
u industry.
Joseph Burton. the negro who was
'ocently captured In . spectacular at
ompt % blackmail the Cunard Steam
Ihip company a New York, was SEN
,enced = aftssn years in Sing Sing
nsimatee maAo based on the total
nount Of Income assessments paid
MO tho once o. Charles w. Ander.
-, intornal tax ~col1eetor. indicate
~ Il thts one district. which IN.
$3.50 ~ Wall atraot 1nancial hons
1es3co pogDooe haxo = total n
inesns sxooo1ing e1.0o0.eoo.