The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-09-27

with Spanish Influenza.
From London comes the statement
that Germany has made . defnits
peace offer to Belgium.
Gerfnany's latest pence feeier.
launched through her ally. Austria.
wal received In allied capitals with
much derisiOn.
King George OF England has e q .
message Of congratulation to President
Wilson on the victory won by General
Pershing In the st. Mihiel salient.
During the week ending September
8 the number Of sick and wounded SOL
diers landed in the United States from
overseas was AT, the surgeon general
announced.
A specially organized corps Of De
partment of Justice agents have be-
gun a nationwide search for men OF
draft age, who failed to register Sep
TENDER Il.
President Wilson sent a cablegram
OF congratulations to General Perish
Ing on the achievement Of the Amer.
lean troops In wiping out the ST. MI
hiel salient.
Chicago saloons have increased the
price or beer to ten cents a glass. The
raise is due. 1t Is said, to the advance
Ia beer Of from 81 to So q burrel by
the wholesalers.
Twelve soldiers were killed and
t~hirty-fve injured when a freight
train and q troop train crashed to-
gether In a head-on collision neat
Marshfield, Mo. Soldiers aboard the
troop train were from Colorado, Min.
nesota, Missouri. West Virginia, Iowa,
Illinois and Nebraska.
Cardinal John NJ. Farley. archbishop
Of New York. died at his country
home at M~amaroneck. N. Y. The car
dinal was born In Newton Hamilton,
County OF Armagh. Ireland. April 20,
1912. He came to the United States a
short time before the outbreak Of the
civil war.
John Rowan, chief OF the Colorado
Springs. Colo. detective force. was
shot and killed and John D. Riley. 0
city detective. was fatally wounded in
a battle with robbers In the down.
town district Of the city. The robbers
are thought to be three men who held
up and robbed q train near Paola,
Kan, July 10. last.
In order to save the wheat crop In
the vicinity OF Jefferson City. Mo-. and
get It to the elevators. truck owners
in Jefferson City agreed to donate the
use Of their trucks mt night until the
crop was moved. The farmers were
unable to move the crop owing to q
scarcity Of labor.
Trapped IN a cloak room on the top
floor. eight girls, a boy and a man
persisted In q FIRE which destroyed the
plant Of the American Button Co. at
Newark, N. ]. Another girl was killed
when seeking to escape from the
names. She leaped from a window.
Many other girls were injured.
.
"When Prussian mflitarism II crush
Cd and the Germans throw up their
hands. then the United States and her
allies WIN tell them the terms OF
peace which they are to accept, said
Senator Lodge. republican leader. in
the senate, indorsing President VIII
sons reply TO Austria's proposal for
Z conference.
Tint Lenine and Trotxky were
bought BY the German government
with gold paid through tn imperial
hank. and that they acted N agents
Of Germany In betraying Russia, Is
proven beyond al shadow Of a doubt
By the publication Of 4 series Of oficial
Documents ny the United States gov
ernment through the Committee on
Public Information.
Thirty minutes after the Anrtrn-
Hungarian proposal for 4 peace dis
eussion had reached Washington. SEQ
Rotary Of State Lansing issncd \
statement declaring that the urifed
States had definitely and e~mphaticnl-
II rejected the prefer. Americas re-
ply 70 the peace feeles. which officials
believe Wal inspired By Germany. u
understood to be for MI allied na.
tinna. Mr.. LArslnR's statement was
authorized 81 President Wilson.
PreeidentWilaon has issued a warn
ing u employees and employees alike
that no interruption Or production 0f
wAr material win he tolerated: that