The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-31

fessed conditions in Mexico were
worse than he supposed.
The New York senate judiciary
committee voted, s to 3, against re-
porting two woman suffrage resolu-
tons.
The Nebraska legislature expects to
adjourn about April 4th.
President Taft reiterated that the
sending of troops to Texas conveyed
no threat toward Mexico.
The dedication of Cleveland's new
$4,000, 900 postoffice took place with
many prominent men present.
No laying down of arms while peace
negotiations are going on is the de-
cision of Mexican insurrecto junta.
Annual reports shows the gross
revenue collected by the Bell tele-
phone system in 1910 was $165 ,00O,-
600.
The Iowa senate, at the close of an
exciting debate, defeated the resolu-
ton for woman suffrage by a vote OF
q to 81.
The International American Purity
federation has decided to hold it's
next congress in Columbus, o., Octo-
Der 1927.
All railroads operating in Oklahoma
must maintain general offices in the
state, according to a ruling of the SUI
preme court.
Mrs. Austin M. Knight, wife Of Cap
tain Knight of the United States navy,
died following an operation for inter-
nal complications.
Adams county, Ohio, grand jury has
brought in it's final report in the vote
buying probe. In all 2,148 indict-
ments were returned.
The final provisional census returns
give the total population Of India as
315, OOO, 900. This is an increase OF
20, 500, 900 as compared with 1901.
Calls for six or seven thousand re-
cruits, to bring the infantry to it's full
strength, have been sent by the war
department to all the recruiting sta
tions in the country.
l.. S. Naftzger, formerly president
of the Fourth National bank of Wich-
tia, Kansas, was found guilty by a
Jury in the federal court of buying
and selling stolen postage stamps.
Mrs. Rida Shyrock Booth, divorced
wife of General Alfred Edwin Booth,
of Baltimore, and Robert Stewart, jr,
of Philadelphia, were married In Will
mington, Del, where they had gone
in an automobile.
The French government has award
ed a life savers gold medal OF the
second class to Eugene Higgins of
the New York yacht, Varuna, which
went ashore on the coast OF Madeira
island on Nov. 16. 1909.
British feeling regarding the Mex
leo program of Washington is decid-
eddy less than it was a
week ago. The change for the better
is due to a clearer conception of the
purposes of Mr.. Taft and to a cessa-
ton of makeshift explanations.
Charles r. Davis, who served as a
private in the Indian wars in Montana,
Wyoming and the Dakotas, and in
1877 killed the Sioux chief. Lame
Deer, after the latter had attempted
to assassinate General Nelson A.
Miles, died at Seattle, aged 58eyears.
Nine more states must ratify the
proposed federal income tax amend
ment before it can become a part of
the constitution. Reports from the
capitals of the As states show that
the amendment has received favora-
BILE action in the joint legislatures of
26.
Senator Penrose. of Pennsylvania.
unless the republican slate in the SEN
ate is broken, is to have the place of
Nelson w. Aldrich, of Rhode Island,
long powerful in directing the course
Of tariff and other legislation in the
United States senate, at the head OF
the senate committee on finance.
Heavy failures in the WOODEN and
cloth trade in Japan, the most serious
being those of the Wada and Matsui
firms, are reported in Japanese mail
advices brought by the steamship Sa-
do Maru, which arrived from Yoko-
hama. Each of the two failures men,
toned involved a half million dollars.
Detachments of ten companies of
the Illinois National Guard are patrol
ling the mining town of Benld, south
of Gillespie, ILL.,, and the presence OF
the state soldiery has had a salutary
effect on the striking miners. who
Joined in a demonstration calculated
to awe their brethren who wanted to
return to work.
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