The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-24

United States last year imported
}22,422 pounds of mushrooms.
st. Louis provides a small parking
space for autos in front OF the city
court house by narrowing the walk.
Dancing on a public street at Pitts
burgh brought to a close the third day
of the convention of the National AS
ISOLATION of Real Estate Exchanges
OF America.
Winston Spencer Churchill, first
lord of the British admiralty, held a
reception in the house of commons
for a contingent Of midshipmen from
the American battlesnip Missouri.
Russia is about to recognize as
legitimate the emigration of its sur
plus millions to other countries, and
the ministry of commerce has submit
ted a bill to abolish some Of the PEN
alties.
Minister Suarez of Chile and Score
tary Bryan has agreed upon the terms
of a peace commission treaty which
will bind Chile and the United States
to submit to Investigation all differ
ences with cannot be settled by
diplomacy.
The federal grand jury has return
ed indictments under the Sherman
antitrust law against the members OF
the so-called halibut trust, which con.
trolls most of the halibut caught in the
North Atlantic, NorthPacific and
Boring sea and sold in the United
States.
Negotiations between the New Ha'
ven and the department Of justice to
effect a peaceful dissolution Of that
system nave apparently come to an
end, and unless there are unforeseen
developments, the government will
file it's Sherman lawsuit to force a
dissolution at once.
Federal Judge Lands at Chicago
ruled that Frederick w. Ellis, vice
president Of the Armour Car lines.
would have to answe certain ques.
tons asked him at a hearing before
the Interstate Commerce commission
in an inquiry last winter into the oper.
alton of private al lines.
Because the aero club OF America
has not received a guarantee that the
prize set apart by the Panama-Pacific
around-the-world race will be paid
to the winners upon notification by
the clubs contest committee, the club
is Withholding its sanction to the
race, according to a statement made
recently.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
voted indictments against four pri-
vate bankers charging them with US
ing the mails to defraud. They were
Sol Lewinsohn, former head OF the
Traders bank, Joseph 7. Ashurst and
William Forsberg, partners in he
Brookline and the Midway CONNER
cial and Savings bank and Jerome
Smrs, at one time postmaster at Argo,
ILL.,, and owner of the Industrial Say.
ings bank.
New Albany, has confessed according
to the authorities that he was the
slayer of Herman Fisher. IL year old,
who was saot and killed as he was
returning home from a visit to his
sweetheart, Ida Wilhelm. Murphy,
who is a married man. though sep
arated from his wife, said that he
killed Fisher because the latter in.
formed Miss Wilhelm Murphy had a
wife.
A woman's head, found by work
men on the Seattle city garbage dump,
which at first was believed to have
belonged to a murderer's victim, was
thrown away by a physician who had
been conducting experiments on a
corpse obtained from a hospital. A
preparation of red lead used In medi-
cal laboratory work had been injected
into the head. giving it the appear
ance of having only recently beer
severed from q living body.
The coroner's Jury which investf.
gated the shooting ARRAY in the for.
mer segregated district of Chicago, in
which one policeman was killed and
three wounded adjourned without hay.
ing determined on the facts which led
up to the revolver battle. 1t adjourned
to await the results of the wounds of
the three detectives now in hospitals.
The jury. comprised Of six public
school principals, recommended that
Fred Amort, morals detective, ar
rested on suspicion OF the shooting,
be released on his own reconnaissance
pending the result OF the inquest.
FOREIGN.
Two hundred persons were reported
executed in Mexico City by Huerta,
according to news from the south re-