The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-09-02

11OUOhCA, ~. -" A0 army IIduSpOl
Wheaton arrived from Antwerp with
the bodies Of more than 5000 Amer
lean soldiers.
Macon, Ga.--City and county prison
ers here set to work to search the
ruins Of the Brown hotel where IL per.
sons are believed to have lost their
lives in a fire.
Chicago-A nationwide investiga.
tion into ~profiteering by undertakers
and an alleged coffin trust" has been
announced through the Offices of
Charles F. Clyne, district attorney.
Monroe, Mich.-Mary Soupski, aged
4, is dead, and her mother, a young
brother and sister are seriously ill at
their home rear here from eating toad
stools. believing they were mush.
rooms.
Chicago-One bandit was killed and
two others captured after one had
been wounded by a policeman. They
had held up and robbed a pedestrian.
Joseph Pavloe of Chicago Is the dead
bandit.
New York-Postmaster General
Will Hays escaped injury when an au-
tomobile, in which he was riding with
some friends collided with a motorcab
here. No one was hurt. Mr.. Hays
automobile was unchanged.
Hugo, Okla.-A st. Louis & San
Francisco passenger train, going from
Hugo to Hope, Ark, collided with a
%westbound freight train at Sawyer,
Okla. Three persons were seriously
injured and So others cut and bruised.
New York-Final revision of the
census figures Of the Presbyterian
church in the United States, shows a
total communicate member-hip of
3,722,361, the Presbyterian publicity
bureau announces, a net increase of
1926 over last year.
Baltimore-Four months after Harry
Roy Wilson. aged 80, mail clerk on the
U. S. S. Black Hawk, mother ship of
a destroyer flotilla at Guantanamo bay,
Cuba, is alleged to have absconded
with $4,000, he walked into the police
station here and surrendered.
Chicago-Clara Smith Hamon, who
attracted national attention following
her shooting and killing Of Jake l.. Ha-
mon, millionaire Oklahoma politician
and oil man, was married in Los An.
geles, to John w. German, who was
directing her appearance il a feature
moving picture which portrays her life
story.
Northwest
Helena-Hiram Miller, proprietor OF
a greenhouse, is exhibiting a cucumber
36h inches long, grown in his place.
The giant will be shown at the Mon
tana state fair.
Spokane-Two men, unmasked, held
up the officers of the Metaline Falls
State bank, 125 miles north of here,
and escaped with $4,000 cash and
$4,000 Liberty Bonds.
Minneapolis-A cut of ~ cents a
hundred pounds on grain moving to
the seaboard for export from the GEN.
trail freight district comprising Indiana
and surrounding states, was extended
to apply to the northwest by the inter-
state commerce commission. meeting
the demand OF Minneapolis shippers.
Helena-Acting upon the theory
that some business at small profit is
better than no business at a large
profit, the Great Northern railroad has
granted a "a per cent temporary re.
duction on shipments from Montana,
and thereby released at once 200 ear.
loads OF hay In the Milk river valley
in that state.
Foreign
San Sebastian, Spain-An Anne. team
sailor vas killed and another wounoed
here following an alteration with a
Waterman.
show that Great Britain has a popula-
ton of AZ, 767, $50, compared with 49,
361,3S6 in 1911. There are 20, ,623
males and z2,336,9O7 females.
Geneva, Switzerland-Grover c..
Bergdoll, the American draft evader,
says the Thurgovie Zeitung, arrived in
Constance from Munich three Gays g
and now is stopping in a hotel at st.
Gall.
Rome-General Armandos Diaz, com.
mander-in-chief Of the Italian armies,
has been authorized by King Victor
to accept the invitation Of
the American Legion to participate in
its convention in Kansas City next
fall.
Paris-Marshail Joffre, commander
of the French armies in the first bat.
tie Of the Marine will leave on a mis-
son to Japan on Sept. 2. Reports were
a few days ago that lie would
visit the United States upon his re-
turn from the Far East.
Paris-Paul Doumer, minister of
finance, offered his resignation to Pre-
.ler BRAND. owing to the latter's re-
dissatisfaction with the results
the financial conference, according
to La Liberte. BRAND refused to ac-
cept his minister's resignation.
Berlin-The American mich cows
have been distributed through
Bavaria are declared to be better milk
n - ~ han Tho (arr,a~ hrool Tl,o De-.