The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-03-20

During the last year n aviator
vas killed for every $1,000 miles lowe
In 1913 there were 322,S31 foreigners
admitted to the United States VINO
were illiterate.
India rubber has been grated TO
living tissues by Prot. Belbet OF Paris
to relieve an intestinal hernia.
Indictments were returned at Chi
cago against Henry Siegel and Frank
S. Vogel, department store bankrupts.
Two hundred and fifty %convicts
from the Illinois state penitelltiary at
Joliet will be sent out to work on the
state roads as soon as the weather
will permit.
The federal grand jury at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, returned an indictment
against Harry Fl. Woodling, proprietor
OF a Council Bluffs mail order house,
charging misuse of the mails by cir
culating misleading advertisements.
Hereafter horse-drawn vehicles, as
well as automobiles on New York
state public highways must display q
red light visible from the real in the
night time, according to a bill signed
at Albany by Governor Glynn.
The Kentucky house of representa-
tlves at Frankfort, by a vote of GO to
50, passed a bill providing for the
submission to the voters at the cleo
ton in 1915 of a constitutional amend
lnent providing for a statewide pro-
hibition.
C. Hunter Raine at Memphis plead
ed not guilty to seventeen indict-
ments in connection with the alleged
embezzelement Of more than $1,000,-
900 from the defunct Mercantile bank
Of Memphis, Of which he was presi-
dent. He made no request for bail
and was returned to Jail.
Mrs. l.. s. Sheldon OF Lawrence,
Kan, has announced herself as a can
didate for associate justice OF the SUI
preme court. She has practiced law
In Topeka and Lawrence for twenty
years and is the first oma to seek
q place on the bench in Kansas. She
is q candidate on a nonpartisan ticket.
The special election In Omaha re-
suited in the carrying of one measure
only. that Of seven fares for a quarter
on the street railway. The bonds for
the purchase Of the city Of the audi.
forum, the building Of an ~incinerator
plant and the proposed home rule
charter proposition were sadly de-
feated.
The Waters Pierce Oil company
was fined q total Of 1000 in federal
court at Shreveport, La, after the
company had been found guilty on
fourteen counts OF an indictment
charging violation Of the Elkins law.
The company was charged With LAX
ing rate concessions on o.. shipments
in 1904. 1906 and 1906 from Bixby. ILL.,,
to points south Of Alexandria. in
Louisiana.
A suit for 5 ,40O, 900 has been flied
by the state Of Texas at Livingston,
Tex. against the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway of Texas and the Beau
mont & Great Northern Railway COM
pany. Penalties for alleged violation
Of the state safety appliance act by
failure to provide electric headlights,
automatic couplers and power brakes
on engines covering q period Of two
years were asked.
FOREIGN.
The British naval estimates for
l914-15 amount to $257, S 5000.
The rate Of discount Of the bank
Of Austria was reduced from Az to
4 per cent.
The extraordinary military esti-
mates Just submitted to the Russian
duna amount to " $60. 100000.
Navigation Of the Panama canal
will have to be regularly suspended
during the early morning hours, or
elD stringent regulations must be
enforced to insure safety on account
Of fogs In tie Culebra cut, according
to Captain Hugh Rodman, u. s. N,
who Is slated to become superintend.
emit Of operation.
Following the recent dispatch from
Vera Cruz to the British and German
legations IN Mexico City Of machine
gums and squads Of trained gunners,
arrangements have been made to
place In the hands Of all Americans
capable Of bearing arms weapons for
self-defense In the event OF an upris-