The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-05-17

Every county In Nec.aala owe
subscribed it's allotment In the third
Liberty Loan campaign.
May Z was the third anniversary OF
the sinking of the Lusitania by a Ger
man submarine with the loss Of 1,210
lives.
Antioch, Neb., established a record
for the entire country in the third
Liberty loan drive by oversubscribins
its quota nine times.
Lieutenant John Rosenvald, the
famous football player Of the Uni
versity Of Minnesota, was killed in ac-
ton on the battletields of France.
The German government has an
nounced that her captures during the
Past six months, thus far tabulateu,
shows SILT 100000 worth of plumber.
No favorable occasion for q further
peace move by Pope Benedict has pre-
scented itself, nor does n seem near,
1t was stated at the vatican at Rome.
The teaching Of German was dis
continued and military training made
compulsory in Council Bluffs, Ia. high
schools by unanimous vote Of the
school board.
Eleven persons were killed when
the American steamship Tyler, for
merly an Old Dominion freighter,
vas torpedoed and sunk of the
French coast.
Men raised under the draft can be
sent anywhere in the world to fight
for the United States, the supreme
court decided In upholding the select
i've draft law.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska has
been appointed chairman of the SEN
ate foreign relation committee to sue
reed Senator Stone Of Missouri, who
died some time ago.
A %three-inch shell, which il gunner
was trying to force into a trench NOR
tar, exploded ut Camp Bowie, near
Fort Worth, Tex, killing nine gun
nprS and iniur;nu Saypn
Wholesale deportation of the civil
ian population from the invaded dis
trict of northern Italy has started
again, the Italian embassy at Wash
ington has been advised.
Indictments returned by the federal
grand jury ut Aberdeen, S. D., includ-
ed one against r. w. Sallett of Aber-
deem, publisher Of the Dakota Freie
Presse, q German language ncwspa-
per.
To date, 1,227,OOO Americans have
been called to the colors under the
~selective service act. Provost Mar
shall General Crowder gave this figure
as the approximate strength Of the
national army.
Five hundred machine guns OF all
kinds are being ground ont Of Amerl-
cas-. factories per day. This record
will grow steadily, ordnance experts
say, until 1900 per day probably viii
be reached by November l.
Reports have reached Washington
that famine has reached a point in
Persia, which has resulted In canni-
balism being practiced. The daily
death toll from starvation Is very
heavy the reports say.
An average wage increase Of 20 per
cent for railroad workers has been re-
commended to Director General Nc
Adoo by the railroad wage commits
sion. This increase would aggregate
about. $26O.OO0,OOO a year.
N
According to a French Official dis.
patch roo young men Of Brussels,
born In Belgium of German parentage,
but Belgian citizens by adoption. have
been taken to Germany to be enrolled
In the army.
Legislation raising the draft r., to
forty years was discussed MS a r,ssi-
bility within a few months at Q meet
ing recently OF Provost Eiarh hal
Crowder and the house military COM
mittee.
Eighteen people were killed and
thousands Of dollars damage was done
to property and crops In eastern Iowa
and western Illinois when a violent
tornado swept over the district.
Nashua, Coleridge and Colmar, Ia.
and Franklin and Toulon, Ill. suf-
fered severe losses as the result Of
Tho ctorun