The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-12-15
Secretary Meyer urges the need OF

Congress will not do much work
until after the holidays.
When congress opened nearly every
member was in his seat.
Persia has made an appeal for help
from the aggression Of Russia.
Detective Burns says J. B. McNama.
ra in his confession told only part OF
the truth.
Chairman Gary, OF the steel corpo-
ration, said his company was anxious
to obey the law.
Mayor Alexander was reelected in
Los Angeles, largely defeating the So
cialist candidate.
Samuel Gompers said he considered
the penalty for the McNamaras appro-
pirate to the crime.
Senator Miles P~oindexter, Of Wash
ington will open the LaFollette cam
paign in North Dakota.
A bond issue for waterway improve
ment was favored by the rivers and
harbors congress at Washington.
Frank B.. Morrison said Clarence
Darrow drew a fee of fifty thousand
dollars for defending the McNamaras.
A gigantic conspiracy which will be
probed to the bottom, is what Pros
ecutor Ford says of the Mcnamara
case.
At Los Angeles sentence was pro-
nounced on the McNamaras, James
B. to life Imprisonment, John j. for
fifteen years.
Mrs. John L. Grifiths, wife Of the
American consul general in London,
gave a reception to the society or
American women in London.
Less enthusiasm marked the open
ing of the first regular session of the
second congress than characterized
any of it's predecessors in the last five
years.
The state of the late Otto Ringing
of Baraboo, Wis, n Of the five
circus kings, who died March 81,
1911, has been appraised at s497,-
1922.
Thirteen insurrectionists, captured
at Halacho, Yucatan, after their COM
panions had been routed by Mexican
troops, were shot without formality
of trial.
Richard l.. Jervis, one of the secret
service men who watched over Presi-
dent Taft on his recent $4,000 trip,
successfully underwent an operation
for appendicitis.
In spite of the efforts of five United
States senators. President Taft de-
clined to reconsider the cases Of
seven cadets recently dismissed from
West Point for drinking.
A plea for the free use by all ma
tons of the completed Panama canal
is made by John Barrett, director gen.
eral of the Pan-American union, in q
statement to be published.
Local labor leaders at Salt Lake
are bitterly aroused over the implica-
ton that the Mcnamara confessions
we're arranged with a partial purpose
of shielding men higher up"
Members of the socialist party OF
Lima, O., have demanded the resig-
nation Of M~ayor-elect Corbin D..
Shock, who headed the socialist ticket
this fall. Shock will not resign.
The armored cruiser Colorado OF
the Pacific feet has carried OF the
honors among American ~battleships
aad armored cruisers for the various
forms of target practice in the autumn
of 1911.
German military authorities are
planning to build an aerial cruiser.
with a carrying power of 800 persons
and a speed of fifty miles an hour.
It's gas capacity will be 10000 cubic
meters.
Physical valuation OF all railroad
property in the United States is pro-
posed in a bill presented in the house.
Abrogation Of the treaty with Rus
STA was advocated at a mass meeting
held at New York.
George M. Ward, general manager
Of the Commercial Cable company.
announced that the Commercial COM
pany would adopt a rate of 5 cents a
word for deferred transatlantic news
paper dispatches.
Mrs. Anna Gaffney Langley, the girl
wife who shot and killed her husband
in San Francisco several months ago.
alleging that he had ~squandered her
earnings as a stenographer for liquor.
was discharged from custody.
Already Twenty-Five states have &C
cepted invitations and indicated their
intention Of participating in the ff-
teenth international congress of hygi-
enc and demography to be held In
Washington September 1928, 1912.
The removal Of DR.. Alvah H. Doty.
health officer of the port of New
York, is recommended in q report to
Governor Dix by Charles N. Bulger.
appointed by the governor to investi-
gate the business affairs of the Office.
Fourteen men. including DR.. Raj.
fael Molina, were arrested at Ell Paso
charged with conspiring against the
Madero government in Mexico.
Personal.
A long session with little work Is