The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-05-05

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some uneasiness In Honolulu.
A weevil has been discovered that
works havoc in alfalfa fields.
The "farmers' free list" finds favor
with the Nebraska delegation in the
lower house Of congress.
Mrs. Matusek, OF South Omaha, kill
ed her two children and then took her
own life.
Senator Brown holds that the in
come tax amendment is on the verge
of adoption.
The reapportionment bill in the
house provides for an increased men,
bership of 40.
Senate regulars declined to recog-
nize the progressive republicans as a
separate organization.
The new Mexican ambassador as
sured President Taft that peace In
the republic was assured.
Congressman Kinkaid introduced
81 bills providing for increases OF
pensions for Nebraskans.
The insurrectos who defended Aqua
Prieta all day Monday, quietly stole
away during the night.
State biologists from almost every
state met in Washington with the Of
ficials of the geological survey.
The house, by a vote of 296 to 16,
adopted the resolution for direct elec-
ton of United States senators.
With the Mexican situation on his
hands the president has reason to be
thankful that congress is in session.
The James bill. providing for wo-
man suffrage in Wisconsin, has been
bottled" by the assembly elections
committee.
Mrs. j. Elliott Langstaff, of Brook
lyn. N. Y, will witness the coronation
of King George of England by special
invitation.
Wool will not go on the free list in
the democratic revision Of the wool
schedule of the tariff, at this session
of congress.
President Taft has gone as far as
he cares to on his own initiative, and
II there is to be Intervention congress
must declare it.
Investigation of alleged extravag-
In the government departments
was endorsed by the house committee
on rules.
President Taft has signed a procla-
nation setting aside 301, 1850 acres OF
land in Humboldt county, Nevada, as
the Santa Rosa national forest.
Kage Adams, a wealthy planter liv-
ing ear Holt, Fla, vas assassinated
from ambush. 1t is believed the kill
ing Is the result of an old feud.
George s. Terry. assistant United
States treasurer at New York, died at
Aiken. s. G. He had been suffering
for q week from an attack Of dia-
betes.
The New York assembly adopted
the resolution of Senator Roosevelt
the election Of United
States senators by a direct vote of the
Plans were filed by the Broadway
Park Place company for the construc-
ton at Broadway and Park Place of
the highest building in the world. It
will be IS stories.
Delivery Of parcels post matter
from many European countries will be
expedited in the middle western
states by an arrangement made by
the p~ostofice and treasury depart
ments.
James Speyer of the banking firm
OF Speyer and company, and III. l.
Miller, receiver of the Buffalo & Sus-
railway. have been elected
directors Of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way.
The Episcopal cathedral Of st. John
the Divine, the largest ecclesiastical
structure In the country and the
fourth largest In Christendom, was
solemnly c~onsecrated in New York
city.
Telegraphic orders from Washing
ton, received at the Mare Island navy
yard, started 100 marines for San
Diego and the Mexican border under
the command Of Captain Fred A.
Ramsey.
Postmasters Of the country are to
be subjected to a rigid investigation
by congress. The house committee on
expenditures In the p~ostofice depart
ment has decided to act in response
to a resolution to this effect.
President Taft, addressing the open
ing session OF the Twenty-ninth con-
gress OF the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States, said:
I'VE have no state church. because all
churches that are working for the
uplifting of men and the spirit are
state churches within the protection
but not within the guidance or control
OF the government"
Senator Norris Brown. OF Nebras-
ka, believes that before any tariff
legislation shall have passed congress
the income tax amendment will have
been adopted. IT this proves the
case" said Senator Brown, "the whole
tariR situation will be completely
revolutionized. The argument that
duffoa cannnt he reduced or WfDe0