The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-02-14
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
eNTGLLloENCE GATHERED HERE
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
includes What ls Going On at Wash
in0ton and in Other Sections
Of the Country.

The bill giving presidential suffrage
to women In Indiana has been passeh
by both houses Of the state Legislature.
Societies to 'Saye the kaiser from
being handed over TO b niiles are
being organized in Germany, accord
ing to reports.
TIL total American force in Europe
and Siberia at the time OF the arms
,ice signing was 2,O13,O9, according
u official figures.
Washington is planning to coinpih
4 great welcome home for President
Wilson and the districts returning
troops.
Sixteen hundred hogs were burned
to death in n fire In the hog house of
Morris x Co, at the National stock
yards at East st. Louis, entailing u
loss estimated ut $6O.OOO.
The Bethlehem Steel company mas
decided to deal with its employees as
81 body in wage disputes and accept
the war labor boards decisions as a
basis for settlements.
Gordon Reed Patterson, serving a
lfve year term in the disciplinary bar
racks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, was
notified that he had fallentheir to So
co., eco through the death Of an uncle.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow Of
The former president, has sailed for
France. She will visit the grave OF
her son, 1t. Quentin Roosevelt, who
was killed in nm airplane battle over
the German lines.
Senator Thomas of Colorado. in the
M4nate propaganda investigating COM
mittee denounced the strike ut Seattle.
WASH, declaring that the strikers were
conducting an experiment on the
Northwest coast In Russian anarch-
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Senators Rorah, Hiram Johnson,
Kenyon and P%oindexter plan speaking
tours after March 4 to advocate meas
ures intended to make the people
more satisfied and to make 1t more
difficult for bolsheyist propagandists
% And hearers.
White the farmer would be paid the
Nt..as6 government guarantee for the
1910 wheat crop. the wheat would be
A,ld to the consumer at a price to be-
dictated by the law Of supply and de-
mand under legislation approved by
the house agriculture committee.
Fight hundred United States troops
were scnt from Camp Lewis, WISH. to
Seattle, 10 cope with any disorders
tint may arise AZ the. result Of the gen.
ernl strike In the city. The troops
were dispatched by. order Of the War
department, which hlso suspended de-
nassbilization at the camp.
C. J. Woodbridge, an insurance adj
justef Of Sioux City. who recently
was arrested for alleged swindllng in
r~Dnnection with HIS business is said
TO have told an investigator that his
SHARE Of the plumber during the past
lwO years from stolen automobiles
amounted to $4,000.
Several other cities along the west
coast were affected BY general strike
calls. which completely paralyzed in
siustry Mt Seattle. Workers In eating
houses, lnundrics and a few other In
dusfries I'm TakOma walked out. In
Oakland. Cal. twenty-five hundred
ship builders suspended work and sew
eral strikes have taken place In San
Francisco.
O6icial tables of the major battle
casualties Of the American forces In
France just made public by the War
department show that approximately
10000 men remain wholly unaccount-
~ for, nearly three months after the
ending Of hOstilities. The deaths,
nsiasing and known prisoners tabu-
lated mp to Jan. 10 is 1862. Of whom
17.494 ore classified as missing or
captured.
a committee Investigating thefts of
nearly sa1s500 automobiles In Omaha
during the past year has made known
that 1t - now m accepted fact that
activities Of 4 gang OF automobile
thieves operating In ! chain Of middle
western states and which has de-
mOfalixed pOlice departments Of q
han dozen cities. arc under the direc-
f50n Of m executive head In either
sCntcagO AZ Indianapolis.
aas sThe United states was ready to In
seEeeee lfs Hgfting force to 7.181,1 72
durfhg lal8 II the war had con-
(Hno1. Provost Marshal General
statSd u ~ annual report
s naee cpnsrsa has reached An
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