The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-03-19

Rev. johnson Myers, pastor OF
Chicago church, shipped 500 bushels
Of potatoes that were going to waste
on farms to Chicago to feed Its poor.
An appeal to President Wilson for
government aid in fighting the foot
and mouth disease in Kansas, was
made at Topeka by Governor Capper.
President Pierre S. Dupont Of the
Z. /. Dupont de Nemours Powder Co.
Of New York announced hat ~
ficient orders have been received from
the belligerent powers to warrant the
company in making large extensions
to its plants.
Destruction Of the American ship
William +. Frye by the German com
merce destroyer Prinz Eitel Friedrich
from marine lists next to the
largest of the American sailing fleet
and n Of the largest square-rigged
craft in the world.
General Villa, in a statement rece1v.
ed at Ell Paso, Tex, from Torreon by
the Associated Press, declared that In
event OF Intervention Of foreign troops
to subdue the Carranza forces he and
all other Mexicans would unite
against the invaders.
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President Wilson assured Senator
elect Phelan of California that he was
very hopeful that he would be able to
visit the Panama-Pacific exposition 1T
San Francisco. He indicated he would
go as Don as the international situa-
ton appeared more favorable.
The largest gold mining deal In re-
cent years in Colorado was closed
when A. E. Carlton Of Cripple Creek
and fifty associates purchased IS per
cent Of the capital stock OF the Gold
en- Cycle Mining company for a cash
consideration of $4,000, 900.
Rate raises on transportation OF
cattle. sheep and hogs to Chicago and
st. Louis markets from Nebraska
points were announced by the Nebras-
ka state railway commission. Unless
the interstate commerce commission
holds them up they will go into effect
on April !.
The American legion, to be COM
posed of between 25O, 900 and SOC. 900
former army and navy militiamen. to
act as first reserves in event Of war.
Will soon be organized. Captain Cor
don Johnston. aid-de-camp to Major
General Leonard Wood. has an
nounced.
That while prices of grain have
gone steadily up, freight rates on it
have gone steadily down until there
is no money In carrying 1t was the ties.
timony OF Frank P. lyman, assistant
freight traffic manager Of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad gave at the
Chicago hearing.
The United States receiving ship
Maine, q vessel of Il. 200 tons station.
ed at the Brooklyn Navy yards. was
ordered into the dry dock at the yard
after an accident which flooded it's en-.
CINE room. An eighteen-inch pump
valve blew out. Before the water
could be gotten under control, the
ship had a pronounced list.
C.. T. Sagara, secretary Of the Jap.
anese Association Of America, appeal.
ed to the San Francisco police for pro.
lection for Japanese merchants
against what he alleges amounts to
picketing Of Japanese stores by Chi.
nese as the result of a boycott declar.
ed recently because OF Japan's de.
mands upon the Chinese republic.
Thousands Of Chicago dope fiends
will be robbing drug stores and com.
hitting worse crimes because they
can obtain no more narcotics az the
result Of the Harrison law. predicted
Superintendent H. /. Davis Of the
Cook county ''pyscho" hospital.
There are tens Of thousand drug sui.
ferers in the city," he said. THE con.
dition exists everywhere. and the
country must face it."