The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-07-07

p&I&06 Oh the 6II6StS.
Insurgent republicans and demo-
Gratis OF the senate have formed q
new combine to force tarif legisla-
ton.
A civil suit against the alleged
magazine trust was filed at New York.
Lieutenant de Malherbe, a French
military aviator, flew from Paris to
Sedan.
Norman Macleod & Co., Philadel-
phia, stockholders, made an assign
ment.
The Cunningham Alaska coal land
claims were disallowed by the interior
department.
Senatorial reports Of crop damage
In the northwest made the Chicago
market go skyward.
There raj a stormy time In the Illi-
nois senate when gavel rule put to
death the waterway bill.
John ID. Spreckles told how his faith
er and H. o. Havemeyer entered into
a sugar producing combine.
A meeting OF the republicans and
socialists at Madrid passed resolu-
tions condemning SPANS military op-
erations in Morocco.
Fourteen secretaries of retail lum-
Der dealers associations were indict-
ed by a Chicago grand jury.
President Taft sent a message to
congress urging amendment to the
pure food and drugs act.
Under orders from Washington
many mail cars are now being hauled
behind the baggage cars.
The house refused to concur in the
senate amendment on direct election
of United States senators.
The senate Is in such an ugly snarl
that the fate of the reciprocity bill
Is hanging In the balance.
Anselmo Braamcamp was elected
president of the republic of Portugal
by the constituent assembly.
Testimony at the sugar hearing dis
closed that Havemeyer was a silent
partner of the Mormon church.
In an address at the Yale alumni
luncheon the president spoke in
praise of recent supreme court de-
cisions.
Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus has
succeeded to the command of the At
lantic feet, taking the place Of Ad-
miral Schroeder.
Ferdinand Edmund Duez, receiver
for the dissolved religious congrega-
tons of France, was convicted by a
jury OF e~mbezzling $1,000. 200.
Mrs. Mary L. Cox, formerly of Day
ton, O., was granted a divorce from
Congressman James Nj. Cox, newspa-
per publisher and financier of that
city.
Governor Wilson gave out a state
ment expressing his pleasure over
the success of the commission gov
eminent movement in Trenton, N. j..
approximately /. 1000. 900 gallons of
liquors are shipped by express.
principally from mail order houses d.
rect to u in prohibition
states.
The great hurricane which devasted
the coast of Chile a few days ago ex-
tended from Pisagua in the north to
Antofagasta on the south. Torrential
rains have followed.
e. H. Engwersen OF Chicago was
elected president of the National Live
Stock exchange in convention in Chi
cage. Portland, Ore, gets the next
meeting, although Chicago also was
bidder.
Reliable advices have been received
at Vienna from Albania that the situ-
alton there is growing decidedly criti-
cal. Turkey has massed fifty thous-
and troops within a days march of
the Montenegro frontier.
Edward H. Harriman's billion-dollar
merger of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads, with their
allied properties, Is upheld by the
United States circuit court of appeals,
in q decision handed down in st.
Philadelphia financial circles re-
ceived a disagreeable shock when 1t
became known that the liabilities OF
the stock brokerage Arm OF Norman
& Co., which suspended re-
Gently, aggregate $~1,182,173, while
the assets are given as $410.8S4.
Edward Valentine Lee, under ar
rest at Buffalo. charged with the
theft OF $4,000 from the paymaster's
safe while serving as o clerk on the
battleship Georgia at Havana last
February. married Miss Audrey f.
Kelsey Of Washington. After the
ceremony he returned to his cell.
"A wave Of economy Is sweeping the
country according to figures Of the
of statistics Of the department
OF commerce and labor which disclose
the fact that Americans cut their Inn
champagne bill in two and
themselves with 100000
worth OF diamonds fewer during the
eleven months than in the same
last year.
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