The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-03-15

A total Of 1888 people hit the saw
DUST trail at the Billy Sunday revival
meetings which closed recently at
Washington, D. c..
The government Is expected to call
between 10000 and 100000 draft
cd men for service In the army dur
Ing the present year.
Il IL believed that very few men
will be called IN the next draft for
service before June n order not to
hinder agricultural production.
A German machine gun captured by
Pershing's troops In France will be
sent to Washington as the first Am.
erican trophy.
The federal trade commission has
filed charges of unfair business meth
DDS against Sears, Roebuck 4 Co., big
Chicago mail order concern.
The council Of defense at Eustis,
Neb., sent out a statement declaring
that published reports Of a threatened
pro-German uprising in the village
were greatly exaggerated.
BY a vote of So to 80 the lower
house of the Wisconsin legislature
adopted a resolution cOndemning Sem
ator La Follette's attitude In regard
to the war.
Vienna reports that Austrian troops
have captured more than 10 guns
and 1000 machine guns, and In add.
ton large quantities Of war material
since the invasion Of Podolia.
Eight states, Mississippi, Virginia,
Kentucky, South Carolina, North Da-
kota, Maryland, Montana and Texas
have ratified the prohibition amend
lnent.
The armed mercantile cruiser CAL
garian, one Of the finest merchant
vessels that sailed the seas, was tor
pedoed and sunk March 1, with a
loss Of two Oficers and fifty-six men.
A monument in honor Of the Amer.
lean soldiers who persisted in the
Tuscania disaster, Is to be constructed
at Port Elan. Scotland, near the scene
Of the disaster.
Burton Hurlburt, royal flying corps
cadet, wqs killed when he tried to
make a landing at Fort Worth, Tex.
Hurlburt is the thirty-sixth cadet
killed at that training station.
John e. Redmond, famous Irish ma.
~tfonalist leader, died at London Of
heart failure at the age Of 81. He was
well known In America. having visited
this country several times.
Reports have reached London thst
the evacuation Of Petrograd has be-
gun. The bOlshevik government pro-
poses to declare Moscow the Russian
capital and Petrograd a free port.
COnferees of both houses OF CON
gress have agreed on q measure
which gives the government control
and operation Of railroads until 81
months after the termination Of the
war.
Misinterpretation Of orders Is said
to have caused the collision of the
Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern
Electric lines near Boone, L., in which
three persons were killed and 81 In.
jured.
The bill making It q crime to will
fully make r convey false reports Of
statements to obstruct the govern
n.cnt's sale OF bonds or other securi-
ties, or loans by o. to the United
H:stes was passed By the house.
The senate appropriations commit
tee reported unanimously . measure
authorizing the government to sell III
alien enemy property In this country
In order to weed out all German In
terests In the United States.
American ambassador Francis has
issued = statement ut vologda warn
inS the Russians that Z German vic
tory means the return Of monarchial
conditions and advising them not 4,
ratify the treaty signed By Lenina
and Trotxky.
Government purchase Of $6.O0O,O0O-
worth Of seed to be given TO farmers,
according to the farmers needs, and
. $2,5O0yO0O fund 70 enable the secrer
tary Of agriculture to mobilize labor
are proposed In q bill favorably 70
ported by the house agricultural COM