The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-09-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK
CONVERSATIONS OF GREATER OR
Lesser IMPORTANCE.
4 BOILING DOWN Of EVENTS

National, Political, Personal and other
Matters in Brief Form for All
Glasses Of Readen
WASHINGTON.
London Is crowded with destitute
Americans from Germany and Switz
erland,% according to advices received
Ut the state department.
The limit on Individual postal saw
Sngs deposits was increased to 81 .0O(
by q bill passed by congress. The gov
eminent will pay interest on deposits
up to $500.
The senate has confirmed the nomi
nation Of Attorney General McRey
nolds to be an associate justice OF
the supreme court. Senators said the
vote was very decidedly" in favor
OF the confirmation.
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federal bureau of war risk marine In
surance, with q $4,000, 900 fund te
meet possible losses to American
shipping, was passed in the house By
. vote Of $50 to SO.
President Wilson let 1t be known
that there would be no insistence up
on passage at this session OF the bill
authorizing the interstate commerce
commission to regulate the issuance
Of railroad securities.
There is no precedent for the pass
age Of the resolution depriving mem
beers OF congress Of their pay for un
excused absence, according to mem
bers Of congress who have been ex
aiming the records Of past congresses
Nine United States senators ant
nine congressman, whose opposition
to woman suffrage Is SO powerful al
to constitute the greatest obstacle t.
federal legislation, that the womeI
have to face" are named In . state
ment issued in Washington by ths
national American suffrage associa
ton.
DOMESTIC.
Union Pacific trouble over OgdeI
Gateway may be taken to interstate
commerce commission.
Thomas G.. Plant. a retired shoe
manufacturer Of Wolfboro. N. H.. wa
fined l cent and costs for beating Q
reporter who tried to take pictures o.
his estate. Plant has appealed the
case.
Aeroplane guns are being erected II
London wherever ar attack by Ger
man dirigibles is feared nightly, &C
cording to w. ID. Jones Of Pittsburgh
one Of the passengers who arrived
from Europe on the Fraconia.
The British steamer Jalomo, Z
merchant vessel Of 5000 tons, which
sailed from New Orleans on Angus,
Il, has been captured In the Atlantic
presumably by q German vessel, &C
cording to advices received in Mo
bile BY the shippers.
The Canadian tug Lorne. the mos
powerful vessel of her kind on the
Pacific coast, and the barge America
formerly q famous China clipper, went
on the rocks one mile west Of Kanaks
bay, San Juan island. in a dense fog
and IL reported q total loss.
Housewives Of New York armed
With market baskets stormed the
four municipal markets opened by
the mayors citizen committee in ar
effort to stem the rising cost OF food
In such numbers that many farmers
and dealers had sold out within ar
hour.
Ten companies Of the state Nation
al guard, acting under sealed orders
given BY Governor Stewart to Major
d. ]. Donohue, have arrived at Butte
and went into camp on a hillside
overlooking the city. Although
watched BY large crowds. no re
sistance was offered to the soldiers.
Several hundred macninists, who
had been on strike IN Trenton FOL
twelve weeks, have voted to return
to work under the old scale Of wages
Many Of the larger employers, how
ever, declared that the strikers
places have been filled and that they
will have to await their turn before
obtaining employment.
Tho pending administration Philip
pine bill was urged as an imperative
necessity as In accord with Filipino
sentiment in . favorable report filed
with the house BY the insular affairs
committee.
The worlds record for the one-mllt
paco 70 , four-wheeled vehicle on {
haf mile track was broken IN the
state fa1x races In Des Moines