The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-03-01

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dimes Of the Don Cossacks has COM
mitted suicide.
Frey Nylund, 40. grieving over the
death Of q son, shot and killed his
wife and four children and himself
at Evelyth, MINI.
One hundred and ten persons per-
ished when the French steamer L. A.
Dives was torpedoed In the Mediter-
ranean sea.
General Sir william Robertson,
chief Of the British imperial stan, has
resigned. General Wilson, sub-chief Of
staff, has taken the vncant place.
Omaha Will be formally selected as
one Of the cities for q reconstruction
hospital in all probability. according
to Washington reports.
Fifteen British merchantmen were
sunk by mine or submarine during the
week ending Feb. 16, a slight decrease
from the previous week.
In q battle between Ukrainian and
bolsheviki troops at Kiev, the new
capital Of Ukraine, 1000 persons were
killed and 1000 wounded.
All third and fourth class postmns-
tiers and rural carriers are to be APP
pointed tabor agents. by the United
States employment service.
The government fixed price Of $3.50
per hundredweight on hogs at the Chi
cago market will continue to be en-
forced by the food administration, 1t
was announced ut Washington.
Heatless days in the east permitted
40 ships bound for allied ports to sail
from Atlantic ports, where they had
been tied up for lack of fuel, Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield announced.
A favorable report on the Gore bill
to Increase the minimum price for
wheat of the 1918 crop from So to
$3.50 per bushel was made by the sem
ate agricultural committee.
Stock raisers in Oklahoma are feed
Ing wheat to hogs on account of n
shortage Of corn, the senate agricul-
tural committee was told by John A.
Simpson Of Weatherford, Okla.
Clarence Bigelbw, a Columbus. O.,
Insurance agent. decapitated his wife,
two daughters and his s%ister-in-law
seriously wounded his mother-in-law,
and then committed suicide.
The German invaders Of Russia
have taken thousands Of prisoners.
several hundred guns and a great
amount Of rolling stock, according to
the Berlin war office.
"Bily" Madden, sporting man and
manager OF the late John L. Sullivan,
when he OF the worlds heavyweight
pugilistic championship, died suddenly
at New York.
Harry A. Wheeler, Illinois food nd
ministrator stated at Chicago that the
-four famine in Illinois has reached
an acute stage with no prospect OF
immediate relief.
The announcement that the Bolshe-
vik government ~oAlRussia purposes to
sign a German made" peace treaty
with the central powers caused no
surprise In Washington official circles,
Il Ii said.
Information that 100000 persons
In Turkey, Armenia, Persia and Syria
now face death by starvation has
been. received ~ the Presbyterian
board Of foreign missions at New
York City.
Measures to prohibit the sale of.in.
t~oxicating liquor within ten miles Of
any army camp in Texas. and making
violation Of such measures a felony,
will be submitted to a special session
Of the Texas legislature.
The first official estimate Of losses
BY the torpedoing Of the troop ship
T~uscania, issued through the commit.
tee Of public information, states thai
there 2,179 o1lcers and men
aboard; 1911 saved; known dead,
127; still unaccounted for, 81.
Arthur Guy Empey, author Of "Over
the Top" noted war story which Il
now appearing In hundreds Of papers
| throughout the United States, has pc.
titfoned President Wilson to permit
him to enlist AZ l private and avengs
tho deaths of the soldiers lost when
the Tuscania went down.