The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-10
United States in 1913 imported
3,267,323 pounds Of mica.

CullCu gIdlES III IO1O AAPoA SSN
3,267,323 pounds of mica.
The fourteenth International Sunday
school convention has opened In Chi
cago with 1000 delegates
Association of Illinois has been an
nounced at Chicago by Attorney Net
tie Rothblum, one Of the i%ncorpora-
tors.
Major General Leonard Wood has
partment Of the army, with head.
quarters on Governors Island. in New
York harbor.
Tho twenty-irst annual convention
OF the Baptist Young People Of Ame-
RIGA, meeting jointly with the Young
Peoples Union of the South. has
opened at Kansas City.
Walter w Davis, jr., and his
brother, Fred. were found dead in a
field on their farm near Peabody,
Kan. 1t is believed they were struck
by lightning in a storm.
America, the Rodman Wanamaker
transatlantic flyer, rose from the wa
ter in a recent test, with ten passen.
gers, establishing another weight-car
rying record for hydro-aeroplanes.
Roosevelt is still taking orders from
his doctor, and for that reason will
make Sycamore Hill his campaign
seat. He has been warned to curb
his strenuous program and to display
less exertion in public affairs.
Chief Wallace OF the Charlotte, N.
G. fire department and n fireman
were killed and three others were
seriously injured by a dynamite ex.
plosion in a small fire. The dynamite
stored by a contractor was ignited by
a fire In q barn.
DR.. Holbrook Curtis, the throat
specialist, has told Colonel Roosevelt
he would have to rest six weeks. Then
after the colonel had made a few
speeches as a test, the doctor said,
he would be able to tell more def
nifty just what Mr.. Roosevelt could
do in the campaign.
What is claimed to be a record in
walking recently from the summit of
Pixies Peak to the cog station in Man.
itou was made by Maurice Hubby of
Omaha, Neb. Hubby walked down
the mountain, according to timers, in
an hour and thirty minutes. Three
hours were required to walk to the
summit from Manitou.
An aeroplane will be used by Prof.
David Todd Of Amherst college in OBJ
serving the total eclipse Of the sun.
August q, according to plans an
nounced. Prof Todd will make his
observations at Riga, Russia. With
the aid of the flying machine he hopes
to be able to rise above any clouds
that may hinder observations from
the earth.
A carload Of beer and whisky billed
as gravel was seized by state and fed
eral officers at Bartlesville, Okla. 1t
was the biggest seizure of intoxicating
liquors ever made in this section.
Twenty barrels OF beer and twenty.
five cases of whisky were seized. As
no one claimed the shipment, it is to
be destroyed. It was valued at near
ly $1,000.
Two battles on the liquor question
will start in Ohio this week. Wet in
terests will start the circulation OF
petitions to initiate a constitutional
amendment f%orbidding statewide pro-
hibition. Dry forces. led by the Anti-
Saloon league organization, will cir
culate petitions to submit a consaitu-
tional amendment establishing abso-
lutte prohibition in the state.
The Federal league will invoke the
Sherman antitrust law in it's fight for
the services of Marsans and Chase,
according to a statement made by
President Gilmore. Charges that Or
ganized Base Ball Is a combination op-
Grating In restraint Of trade will be
made by attorneys for the Federals
when the next stage in the Marsans