The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-07-12
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- the Country.
One hundred. thousand cases OF
'sSpanish influenza are reported In
Germany.
Mohammed v, sultaa of Turkey,
died July 4th, says a Constantinople
dispatch.
Two persons were killed and three
injured, one seriously, when an auto
mobile crashed into a telephone pole
at Omaha.
Information is In the hands of
Washington officials that Holland In
tends to export to Germany $1,000
tons Of potatoes.
Without q dissenting vote and with
virtually no debate, the house passed
the bill authorizing an additional bond
Issue of SS,OO0.OOO,OO0.
The price of copper has been fixed
at 26 cents per pound, an advance OF
~ cents over the former price, the
war industries board announced.
Without 4 word Of discussion or a
record vote, the senate adopted a re-
solution annulling the federal charter
OF the National German-American al
lance.
The total number OF Germans killed
and wounded by American troops in
the recent battle In Belleau wood is
between LOO and 100, according to
Ofacial reports.
President Wilson, by proclamation.
formally took over the wharves and
docks Of the North German Lloyd and
Hamburg American steamship COM
panies at Hoboken.
Eugene v. Debs, four-time candidate
for president Of the United States on
the Socialist ticket, was arrested ut
Cleveland, Ohio, charged with vio-
1ating the espionage act.
Two explosions Of tripitrotuluol at
the munition plant Of the Semet-Sol-
way company zeal Syracuse, n. T..
resulted in the death Of G. persons
and the injury to nor than 100
others.
A Canadian hospital on a site be-
hind the British front In Flanders
was bombed by German aviators and
several persons, including doctorss
officers and patients. were killed or
seriously wounded.
The German government IS unani-
mously opposed to a general election
during the war, and has submitted a
bill ~pr0longing the life OF the present
reichstag until 1920. according to an
Amsterdam report.
Il has been officially reported that
IN entire German regiment was yir-
tually annihilated when American and
French forces made a brilliant attack
against the enemy on the Marine front
last Wednesday night.
a llnal count OF the number Of per-
sons killed when the Run building at
Sioux City, Ia. collapsed. gives the
number Of dead as t~hirty-nine. It Is
thought that all the bodies OF the VIC
tlms have been recovered.
Germany has seized Russia's Black
- feet, which consists OF two dread
noughts, seven battleships, seven pro-
tected cruisers and a great number Of
destroyers, submarines, transports,
eunb0ats and miscellaneous craft.
German peace terms. as published
n 4 Prussian newspaper. demand that
Great Britain turn over IT. navy to
Germany. return Gibraltar to Spain
and return Egypt md the Suez canal
10 Turkey. That England, France
and the United States pay Germany
~ indemnity Of 45.OO0,O00,OO0, and
that Belgium and French territory be
surrendered.
New wheat prices. announced By the
food administration grain corporation,
are a. follows at markets Of the mid.
Gle Nest: Duluth and Minneapolis,
o2s211< Kansas City and Oufnho,
3s1A. Prices range from $2.84h to
320 a other principal markets. The
abcv6 prices are TOR No. ! hard wheat.
~ Prize basis for No. 2 wheat will
~ fhree cents below No. !. and for
4 llGo B four cents below No. 2. Gsades
alow "a. 3 wfl ~ dealt A on cample.
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