The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-02-21
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Personal, Political, Foreign and Other
intelligence Interesting to The
General Readers.

Intelligence interesting to h
General Readers.
Nine men were drowned in h War
rior river, near Birmingham, Ala, by
the capsizing of q fishing boat.
CAPTAIN b. B. Lipsner. a~eronatAcai
expert, has offered to bet $lO,UU ne
will he the first aviator to cross the
Atlantic In an airplane.
Covper miners affiliated with the
/. w. W. at Butte, Mont, voted TO go
On strike for Il daily wage of ST and
\ six-hOur working day.
Five armed. unmAsked bandits held
up the Liberty State bank at Minneap-
oils and escaped with $4,000 in cash
and $4,000 in liberty bonds.
Plans for. bringing home the bodies
Of all officers, sailors and marines now
buried in foreign soil are being work
ed cut by the navy department.
For the first time in their history
the of the national banks of
the country at the last call. December
81, 1918, passed the $2OO.OO.OOO,OU
mark.
The ThirtietE. E~ighty-fifth, Twenty
sixth. Seventy-seyenth, Eighty-second
aud Thirty-ffth divisions are slated
for early return from overseas BY
Geaernl Pershing.
France and England have sent sharp
notes to the German armistice COM
mission, dealing with the failure Of
Germany to deliver locomotives and
agricultural machinery as agreed. .
The American Equal Month Calen-
dar association has Il plan TO divide
the year up into thirteen months OF
twenty-eight days each, making each
menth begin with 4 Monday.
Fifty-four members Of the Industrial
Workers Of the World who arrived at
New York aboard a special train un-
der a heavy guard. will be deported at
snce by the immigration authorities.
II q special message to the state
legislature Governor McKeivie OF Ne
braska stated that there was as much
boeze in the state when he took Office
as there was when the state had open
saloons.
Orange growers Of the San Gabriel
valley, California. drove fr0M the Vi
cintty thirty-6ve Russian anarchists.
including four women. alleged to have
attempted to intimate Mexican range
pickers.
Both branches OF the Nebraska leg
islature adopted q resolution CON
desnning Secretary Of War Baker for
eivaDg honorable discharges to con-
sdentious directors at Fort Leaven-
worth. kans.
Ed ("Strangler") Lewis. challenger
q the heavyweight wrestling champ
ioaship. and Joe Stecker Of Dodge,
Neb.. are matched to meet in a finish
csstcst at Chicago March 3, for a
purse OF $4,000.
Matthias Erxberger. member Of the
German ar1nistice commission, is re-
sorted to have declared In I'm inter-
view 1t Weimar that Germany would
net the armistice IL the new
provisions are too severe"
Edward NJ. Hurley, chairman Of the
United States shipping board, who
Just returned from Europe. said .thas
the u. s. now has 2.O72 sea-going yes
sells Of 6,47O.396 gross tons under the.
American flag. rs against 1,329 vesseI~
Of e,364,928 gross tons Of foreign ship
ping trading with this country.
.
Premier Clemenceau Of France-maf,.
the assertion to newspaper men th:st
the Germans still are q menace to tn.
world. He stated that there would he
danger OF .'reopening Of war" il It
were not for the assurance President
Wila0n hal voiced recently that when
ver France or any other free people
was nlenaced the whole world would
b. ready to vindicate It's liberty.
Mayor Hanson Of Seattle, WASH.
md 4 citizens committees representing
81 civic. patriotic and business organ.
.:xati0ns. have called upon the federal
government to punish those guilty Of
bringing about the general strike iE
the city. The strike was Characterised
BIT the mayor and the committee rs nm
eGert BY anarchists to establish 4
Eoviet government In Seattle which
tsaeT say. Inns ended in utter failure.
Declaring the marrow skirt - form
Of Prtssianisln to curb women the
HnColn Women'g club asked mer-