The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-08-25

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Home rule for ireland will be the
next bone of contention in the British
parliament.
Several persons were killed and
many injured in a wreck near Fort
Wayne, Ind.
General Diaz has received letters
from Mexico saying his return is nec-
essary to restore order.
Inquisitional methods are alleged to
have beer practiced by chiefs in the
agricultural department.
Harry N. Atwood made the air
fight from st. Louis to Chicago in 5
hours 43 minutes actual flying time.
On account of the judiciary recall
provision, President Taft vetoed the
Arizona-New Mexico statehood reso-
luton
Floods in the province of Anhui,
China, have destroyed $4,000 acres
of rice. Half a million persons are
homeless.
1t cost the Standard Oil company
$42,395.69 in court fees alone to re-
sist the governments long fight to
have it dissolved.
After more than 200 years under
the aldermanic form Of city govern
ment, Mobile, Ala, officially passed
under the commission form.
President Taft has been invited to
visit the convention of the 1nterna-
tional Association of State Labor or
ficials at Lincoln, Neb., on Septem-
Der q.
The house adopted the conference
report on the farmers free list bill by
100 to 102, after eliminating the
house lemons amendment and cor
curing with all the senate amend
ments
Directors of the Minneapolis x st.
Louis Railroad company and the Iowa
Central Railroad company, so-called
Hawley roads, in annual meeting
elected Newman Erb president of both
companies.
Four men were killed, four were
fatally injured, while nine others suf.
fered fractured arms and legs in an
explosion which wreckd the molding
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pany's plant at Joliet, III.
The Marquis Of Queensbury, with a
title fairly motheaten, has embarked
for America and a job. The marquis
is AZ, and he says that SO far he mas
made a failure of it. The only chance
to come back is in America, possib-
ly in the west.
Statehood for New Mexico and
Arizona on a basis acceptable to
President Taft was approved by the
senate through the passage of the
Flood-Smith resolution presented by
Senator William Alden Smith, chair
man of the committee on territories.
A reward of 81 per head is offered by
the health authorities of Decatur
county, Indiana, for mosquitoes. They
dsire only the Misunderstanding va
riety, but in order to stimulate inter.
est, have issued a bulletin giving a
full description of the species they
wish to exterminate.
Upwards of 225 delegates from
many states attended the opening ses-
sion of the twelfth annual assembly
of the Knights of Equity at Boston.
The government will throw open
10000 acres Of land to settlement in
northern Minnesota. $4,000 at Cass
Lake and 5000 at Fond du Las. Aug
ust %. 1t will cost $1.25 an acre to
any American citizen not owning
more than 16O acres.
The Alfaro government in Ecuador
was overthrow by a revolution or
ganized by the supporters of Presi-
dent-elect Estrada. Few casualties
occurred and a provisional govern
ment headed by the president of the
senate was formed.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
recommended to the house that rail-
roads be paid only enough to give
them a profit of 6 per cent above cost
for carrying the mails. He favors hav-
ing the roads themselves report an
nually on the actual cost of the
service.
John w. D~eaton. one of the oldest
employees at the Springfield, Mo-,
postoffice, was arrested by postofice
inspectors charged with OBTAINING
letters that contained registered mat
ter. He furnished $4,000 bail, pending
trial at the October term of the fed
eral court.
Martin w. Littleton, congressman
from Nassau county, N. Y, will be
chairman Of the proposed congress
sional committee which will be au-
thorized to investigate the industrial
conditions of the United States. This
committee will, it is reported, be the
most important one appointed by con
gress in recent years.
More than $4,000, 900 worth of Sc
curities were found when the safety
deposit vault of John A. Humbird
lumberman, was opened at st Paul
by his son, Thomas j. Humbird of
Spokane. A representative Of the
county t%reasurer's office was on hand
to list the property for the inherit
ance AK.
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