The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-05-19
Gov. Wilson was given a reception

Gov. Wilson was given a reception
upon his arrival at Los Angeles.
The Western Union Telegraph com.
pany will put the eight-hour working
day into effect on June l.
Congressman Longworth says that
at birth a man has his choice between
a bald head and brains. His W
choice, he says, is apparent.
At Alton, ILL.,, Allen %Soroggins was
sentenced in the city court to ten
years in the p~enitentiary on a charge
of having enticed into white slavery
Grace Whaley, IA years old, Of Alton.
A bill aimed at the United States
Machinery company and it's alleged
monopoly of the shoe manufacturing
machinery business was introduced in
the house by Representative Peters
Of Massachusetts.
The international opium conference
which was to nave met at The Hague
on July / has been postponed for n
year. Germany, Japan and Portugal
are not prepared with the data which
Great Britain desired should be pre-
sented at the opening of the confer
ence.
The japanese have robbed a on
sulate at Algun, a Chinese town CT
Manchuria IN the Amur, Is miles
from the Russian frontier, and this
has caused the Russian government
to inquire the reason for this step and
whether it was taken for strategical
purposes.
The independence OF the Philippine
islands is contemplated in a joint res.
olution introduced by Senator Gore
of Oklahoma.
Lewis M. Hedges, one of the most
widely known old-time showmen and
for years manager for the late P. T.
Barnum, died at his home in Chicago.
The American Federation of Labor
issued an appeal for funds for the de-.
tense of the Mcnamara brothers, in
Jail in Los Angeles for using dyna.
mite.
The Kansas state board of railroad
commissioners refused to permit the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad to
issue $1O2, 900, 900 in bonds on the
ground that the proposition is too in
definite.
At Oklahoma City the democrats
were victorious in the first city cleo
ton under the commission form of
government.
Insurrectos made an onslaught on
Juarez, but commander of the feder-
ais in the city says he will die before
he will surrender.
Germany has warned France of the
dangerous consequences likely to fol-
low the occupation of Fee by French
troops.
A curb on the leasing at high prices
of patented machinery by the manu-
facturers thereof was proposed by
Senator Gore of Oklahoma.
Prof. Fred Lemar Charles, associate
professor of agricultural education in
the University of Illinois, committed
suicide by choking himself with a
bookstrap.
The body of Halsey C.. Ives, the art
director of the city museum of st.
Louis, who died at London. was Gre
mated at Golden's green. The ashes
will be sent to the United States.
Gen. Thomas L. James, president
of the Lincoln National bank and for
merry postmaster general in the cab
met of President Garfield, was married
at Tenafy, N. j., to Mrs. Augustus
Gaffney, of Rochester, who was d.
vorced from her first husband. The
general is 80 years old, and has been
married twice before.
A Georgia judge pronounces the
prohibition law a failure in that state
Rebels at Aqua Prieta have estab-
lished a provisional government.
Volume Of freight business handled
by Nebraska railroads Is lower than
usual.
Senators Brown and Hitchcock are
sturdy champions of the reciprocity
bill, and believe it will pass.
The town of Tijuana, Lower Califor-
mia, was captured by Mexican rebels
after a short and bloody battle.
The democratic free list bill passed
the house by a vote of 235 to 100.
It is definitely announced that
Queen Alexandra will be absent from
London throughout the coronation
festivities.
The Colorado legislature adjourned
without naming a United States
tor.
Chinese merchants in northern
Mexico are forced to pay tribute to
the cause of the revolutionists.
AS viewed at Washington the log
ical program of Madero is next to
march on Mexico City.
John M. Stahl. legislative agent Of
the farmers national congress, says
that body opposes reciprocity.
The late Robert Hoe paid $40, 600
to Louis F. Brown Of Covington, KY,
to persuade Brown to drop a suit
against Hoe for the alienation of the
affections of his wife. according to
testimony of Brown.
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