The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-07

The Nebraska Legislature expects to
adjourn about April 4th.
The employers compensation act
was passed in the Illinois senate.
Opponents Of Lorimer are laying
plans to GUST him at the coming ses-
sion.
Friends OF the Aldrich currency
plan are to conduct a campaign In its
favor.
Stanley Robson. owner of the st.
Louis National league baseball team,
Is dead.
New York democrats in caucus
failed to make a selection for United
States senator.
The national forest reservation
commission is ready to begin the pur-
chase Of lands.
All train dispatchers on the Illinois
Central have been granted an in
crease OF 10 per cent a month.
Oklahoma-Kansas bandits held up
and robbed an Iron Mountain train of
an amount said to be $4,000.
Francisco Madero, jr., has made It
plain that he must be consulted be-
fore peace plans are concluded.
China has decided to unreservedly
acquiesce to the demands Of Russia
concerning the treaty of 1881.
The New York Legislature will make
strenuous efforts to get a senator be.
fore the extra congress %convenes.
Annual reports shows the gross
revenue collected by the Bell tele-
phone system in 1910 was $165, 0OO,-
900.
New Workers held a mass meeting
In the interest of more adequate pro-
lection Of so-called fire-proof build.
ings.
Selection of a president of the Mis-.
souri, Pacific to succeed George ]:
Gould will not be made for several
weeks.
The Russian government has form
ally notified China that 1t 10 satisfied
with her final reply to the Russian ul-
timatum.
Directors OF the Missouri Pacific
railroad met and approved the ex-
penditure of $300,0 900 for betterments
on the road.
The Red Cross will collect funds
for relief Of families who lost rela-
tives In the New York skirt factory
confiagration.
Mrs. Austin M. Knight, wife Of Cap
tain knight of the United States navy.
died following an operation for inter
nal complications.
The executors of the estate Of Ce-
ell Grace. the aviator who lost his
life while attempting an across chan.
mel fight. were granted leave to pre-
sumo his death. His body has never
been found.
Counsel for the indicted Chicago
meat packers appeared before Judge
George A. Carpenter in the United
States district court and were given
governments action
We are not anticipating war. but
we wish to be prepared for any
emergency. and with this in view,
purpose to keep the navy intact"
Secretary OF the Navy George L. Won
Meyer told the students of Harvard
at a lecture at the Harvard Union.
One hundred and fifty lives, mostly
women and girls. we're lost in a fire
at a skirt factory in New York City.
were entrapped and most
of them lost their lives by jumping
a great height. Property loss
the building is less than $100, 900.
H, B. Cohn. a prominent Omaha
business man, was assassinated as he
was on his way home late at night in
Omaha. Two men were concealed in
alley and shot down the victim
he was crossing the same. Two
arrests under suspicion have been
made.
DR.. Kelly. a young physician, grad
uate OF an Omaha medical college,
killed two men in Des Moines, one
Of them a deputy sheriff of Pottawat-
tamie county. while on his way to the
inebriate hospital at Knoxville. to
which he had been sentenced. The
sheriff, a lifelong friend of
the murderer. had him in charge. The
other man killed was a saloon keeper
of Des Moines who had refused to
sell a drink to the frenzied doctor.
Secretary Nagel of the department
OF commerce and labor announced the
appointment of ROLAND p. Faulkner
assistant director of the census.
F. W~illoughby was recently transfer
red to the economy commission at the
white house.
Prompt denial was made by friends
of President Taft of the report from
ILL.,, that Mr.. Taft had
joined with Senator Aldrich in urging
the election of William Lorimer to
the United States senate.
At Los Angeles, after swallowing
poison and cutting his throat Wesley
Churchill, forty years old, leaped from
the top Of the eleven story building.
He landed in an alley and was man.