The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-05-15


The silver alone stored in the Unit
I'd States treasury at New YORK
weighs $500 tons.
John r. Jelks, oleomargarine manu-
.acturer. was fined $4,000 and sem
:enced to two years in jail at Chica-
90 for conspiracy to defraud the gov.
srnment of taxes on illicitly colored
,le~omargarine.
Mayor Dan NJ. Roberts OF Terre
Haute, Ind, charged with conspiracy
to corrupt elections, vas fonnd not
guilty by a jury in the Terre Haute
circuit court. The jury was out thir-
ty-fve minutes.
Payments OF compensation to Wis
consin workmen injured through in
1~ustrial accidents passed the million
! year mark i'll April. This is shown
In the tabulations Of the Industrial
commission just completed for the
month.
Eight members of the Chicago
Board OF Education, including its
president, were sentenced to thirty
days in jail for contempt OF court
for refusing to obey the order Of Cir
cult Judge Foell reinstating four
members Of the board.
Right Rev. Charles H. Brent, Amer
lean bishop of the Protestant Eplsco-
pal church in the Philippines since
1901, was unanimously elected bishop
of the Episcopal diocese of New Jer-
sey at the annual convention OF the
clergy and laity of the jurisdiction at
TreHton.
A train on the newly completed
trans-continental Grand Trunk Pacific
railway was ditched near Westrose
Lake, in British Columbia. G. Van
Ardsol, divisional engineer; Mrs.
Marion Patterson, Vancouver, and
twelve others were injured, those
named seriously.
B. j. Matsen. assistant general man.
tger of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company, who returned to Trinidad
after visiting the Hearfano county
ield, estimated the total damage done
by strikers to the mines in southern
Colorado in the last two weeks at at
cas- $500, 900.
MI IT. N--r, Dt,Ar Cal
leIses company at Eccles, w. Va, was
sealed after 15S bodies had been re
moved. Fourteen of the mem killed IN
the explosion the afternoon of Apri
% remain in the workings and vii
not be taken out until the mine has
been cleared of debris.
An appeal of the state Of New York
rom the decision of Federal Judge
Edgar Aldrich, granting Harry K
Thaw's petition for a writ of habeas
corpus TO prevent his eytradition &c
New York, has filed at Concord. n. Il
The appeal contends that the court
erred in nine particulars.
A six-hour day is the ultimate Gle
mand of the Amalgamated Associa
ion of Iron, Steel and Tin Worker,
II North America, according to TIL
statement of John Williams Of Pitts
ourg, president of that organization
. n an address before the annual con
vention which convened at Columbus
T Ohio.
John Agnew, an inspector in tn
} city building department, has jus
+ completed sixty-two years OF continu
J ous service for Chicago. His fellow
:, workers recognized his long servic'
by presenting him with a gold watch
Agnew is e~ighty-two years old an
aolds the title Of being the Oldest maj
IN the municipal pay roll.
] Judge J. NJ. Lowe OF Kansas City
3 Mo-, was reelected president of tn
. National Old Trails Road association
! 1t its annua! convention at indiana
polls. The 1915 meeting of the asst
citation will be held at Grand Canyon
Ariz. Other officers elected are: Rev
Harvey M. Shields, Dawson, N. M
vice president, and frank A. Davis
Harrington, Kan, secretary-treasure1
/ At a joint session at Memphis {
8 the National Conference on the Ed
G cation OF Backward Truant, Deli
luent and Dependent Children an
the American Association OF Official
g Of Charities and Corrections, Mis-
Julia p. Lathrop, chief Of the go
ernment's children's bureau, made
e plea for cooperation between offici;
! and volunteer agencies In child we
fare work.
FOREIGN.
Countess Edmond de Pourtales, WI
was famous in the court of Napoleo
III on account of beauty and soci;
power, died at Paris, aged IS.
James w. Gerard, United States ar
, bassador at Berlin, has received i
structions from the State departmel