The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-07-01

Telluride, COlO.-Three men were
killed by gas fumes that followed al
explosion in a mine at Rico, near here.
Chicago-Held up in her home by a
bogus telephone repairman, Mrs. J. S.
Young was robbed Of jewelry and furs
valued at $17,0
Casper, Wyo.-Fire, started by q
bolt of lightning striking an oil tank,
was extinguished after causing a loss
estimated at $S74,700
New Yofk-The cost of living in the
United States dropped 2.3 per cent in
May, according to figures made pub
lie by the National Industrial Con.
ference board.
Oklahoma City-Fourteen persons
we're injured, one probably fatally,
when a streetcar was overturned by
backing into a Missouri, Kansas and
Teaxs stock train here.
Ell Paso-A Mexican bandit who held
up a %streetcar near the city limits OF
Ell Paso, at midnight was disarmed by
Bundy Avant, conductor, who shot
dead with his own pistol.
New York-Under suspicion OF kill
ing his wife, who was beaten to death
and robbed of $40, William Shaw, 81
years old, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with a razor.
Chicago-Purchase Of coal by farm
| ers of nine Middle Western states
through their county and state farm
bureaus was decided Upon here when
a plan drawn up by the American
Farm Bureau federation coal commit
tee was adopted.
Kansas City, Mo.-Marshall Foch Of
France has accepted an invitation to
attend the annual national convention
Of the American Legion here this fall,
according to a telegram received from
Lemuel Bolles Of Indianapolis. national
adjutant Of the legion.
Denver-Radicalism today had been
hit hard by the American Federation
Of Labor. The convention repudiated
the "One Big Union movement and
President Samuel Gompers made pub
lie letters telling why he and the ex-
~ecutive council had withdrawn sup
port from the International Associa.
ton Of Trades Unions.
Northwest
Centralia, Wash.-Walter Linney.
aged II, kidnapped himself and fixed
his ransom at $3.50, police said they
learned.
Des Moines-Two men were killed
when a car of the Fort Dodge, Des
Moines & Southern railroad crashed
into an automobile carrying three men
at a crossing near Ames.
Centralia, Wash.-Roy Gardner, un-
der two sentences of rs years each for
robbing the mails and who escaped
twice from federal guards while being
taken to prison, was captured here by
a policeman.
Helena, Mont.-Except for reports
of slight insect damage in II counties,
crop conditions in Montana are excel
lent, according to reports received by
the Department Of Agriculture, Labor
and Industry from "a counties in the
state.
Foreign
Brussels-Crown Prince Hirohito, OF
Japan, who has been here some days
on a visit, left with his suite for Hol-
land.
Rome-Pope Benedict conferred the
red hat on three card. nals who were
made members Of the sacred college OF
cardinals in the consistory last month.
Berlin-Cumulative reports from va
rious parts of Russia tell of a rapidly
growing religious reaction to the
atheistic and irreligious b%olshevist doc
trines.
Brussels-The Belgian Red Cross. it
was announced here, has purchased
II gramme of radium in Colorado.
The purchase price was 1000, 900
francs.
Mexico City-Two persons were kill
ed and four wounded during a fight
between two soviet factions in the state
of Michigan. The clash resulted from
a dispute ver ownership Of q hill.
C~onstantinople - Prince Ibraham
Chamyl. head Of the Daghiston insur-
gent mountaineers of the northern Cau-
casus, has taken arms with $1,000 men
against the bolsheviki in the Caucasus.
Paris-James X. Hackett, the actor.
will be decorated with the Legion Of
11UuOI ~ L 4COluCAL XllllCl duO at HI I'LL.
pressive ceremony. He is the first Eng
lish speaking and the third foreign ac-
tor thus honOred.
Antwerp-The new American immi-
grafton laws are causing congestion at
the port of Antwerp, especially as re-
CARDS Poles, a number of whom are
being left behind by each steamer and
are unable to find shelter.
TokioAF1oods are sweeping large
areas Of Japan. The death list ap-
preached 200. Entire villages were
submerged under Is feet Of water in
the Hita district. At Kyusha more
than 600 houses were washed away.
Paris-Baron Edmond de Roths-
child, administrator Of the Eastern
Railway company Of France, has given
10 million francs to found a scientific
institute, the object Of which will be
to encourage students to consecrate.
their lives to the work Of research.