The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-07-23

The Retail Lumber Dealers associar
tion Of Mississippi and Louisiana was
sued in the chancery court of Holmes
county at Lexington, Miss, under the
antitrust statute for the recovery Of
penalties aggregating $14,1S4 900.
State troops we're called out to keep
order among 5000 rioting steel work.
ers at Pittsburg, Pa.
A conference at the white house re-
suited in conclusion to reduce corpo-
ration tax from two to one per cent.
The story of recent fight of Philip
pine constabulary with Moro outlaw
has reached America.
A wind storm at st. Louis was de-.
strnctive to property.
Fire at Duluth, MINI. destroyed
$500, 900 worth of lumber.
When the Pacific coast Unitarian
conference affirmed its approval Of
the Methodist platform, it changed
two words in plank No. to commit
the Unitarian church to woman suf-
frage.
to have congress Investigate the sys-
tenn, for they believe they will get bet
ter salaries.
II departments at Washington want
to show low estimates next winter
they must not expect congressional
relief.
Delays in harvesting in the wheat
belt has caught warehouse men short
and boosted wheat seven cents q
bushel.
Two powerful banks in Chicago have
united, giving them q financial power
OF $S3,0OO,0O0.
Conference committee on the tariff
is working night and day, but refuses
to divulge details of work.
Germany has raised the tax on beer.
tobacco and brandy.
Members Of congress see no hope
OF insurgent success and predict COM
plete Aldrich victory on tariff com.
promise.
President Taft speaks favorably Of
the plan to connect church and gym
nasium. and praises the worker whose
vacation is short
Congressman Kinkaid has persuaded
the secretary of the navy to loan Ne
braska the figurehead of the battle
ship Nebraska.
More than 1000 western Union tele-
graph poles in Iowa were broken by
the recent storms and foods through
out the state.
Wolgast and Nelson fought q ten.
round bout at Los Angeles, the for
mer getting much the better of it.
Delegates of q number of New York
business associations will go to Wash
inkton to urge that a tariff commits
sion be incorporated as a part of the
tariff till.
There is about to come from the
press an 8,0OO-word booklet by Mrs.
Mary Copley Thaw of Pittsburg, deal
ing with the case of her son, Harry K.
Thaw.
Washington.
The revolution in Colombia Is at an
end, according to q message which
was received by Senor Gusmsn, Co
lombian charge d'affairs. who rushed
Immediately with 1t to the state de-
partment.
A shake-up In the personnel Of COM
merce and labor took place when ap-
proximately 100 employees were re.
duced, and the designations of about
ten others were accepted. This ac-
ton was taken by Secretary Nagel as
result Of an Investigation into "the
efficiency" record of the employees in
his department.
Hon. Church Howe. consul general
at Manchester, England, arrived in
Washington. Mr.. Howe has returned
to the United States upon . leave Of
absence. and after transacting some
business in connection with his ONCE
will start for Nebraska to spend the
remainder of his leave at home.
/ All discrimination is not forbidden
by the act to regulate commerce, but
only such discrimination as Is undue.
This, In effect, was q decision of the
Interstate Commerce commission an
nounced In the case of the Morbeck.
Demer company against the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad and the Pennsylvania
railroad.
President Taft was presented with
"big stick" bludgeon six feet long
and shaped much like the big emblem
OF Rooseveltian authority, which be-
came famous in cartoons during the
last administration. The donor was
J. f. Forbes of Ottawa, Kas.
As an Endorsement Of his stand dur
Ing the discussion of the tariff. the
Union League club Of Chicago has in
vited Senator Dolliver to address the
annual dinner Of the cluh Washino.