The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-11-24
Yuan Shi Kai has consented to be.

rebels.
No soldiers will go to China till the
president gives the word.
Representative Henry of Texas has
drafted a bill providing prison punish
ment for trust criminals.
Attorney Hanecy, counsel for Lori
mer, said there was a conspiracy to
drive the senator out OF politics.
Governor Harmon, in an address at
Kansas City, complained Of the lack
If business ability of the government.
Herr Pletschiker, ar aviator, fell
while making a flight over the johann
nisthal field at Berlin, and was killed.
The postoffice at Horick, Ia, was
raided by cracksmen and $500 IN
money and stamps secured.
Rumors circulated at Washington
hat Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
S to resign are regarded authentic.
Tahan, an educated Kiowa Indian.
finds much to condemn in the national
administration of Indian affairs.
On application by counsel for Mrs.
Russell Sage her assessment for per-
sonal property was reduced from
5,00O,0 900 to $2.510,00
Increased dividends have been de-
clared by the Hooking Valley ana
kanawha & Michigan Railroad COM
panies.
Eight million persons are in need
II immediate relief owing to the fail
rrn IF fhn rorc in fWontv RlCCj2n
provinces.
United States Senator-elect Hoke
Smith, governor of Georgia, stated
ne would offer his resignation as chief
executive Of the state.
The Rev. G. Y. T. Richeson of Bos-
ton, will be placed on trial on he
Cargo of numbering Miss Avis Linnell
On January 10, 1912.
Beet sugar refiners have formed a
temporary organization to carry on
their fight to maintain the tariff on
sugar.
With a note of bitterness, General
Allen confesses Europe has outdis-
.anced the United States in army
a~eronautics.
James Freeman, rs years old, has
been sentenced to imprisonment for
life at Murphysboro, ILL.,. for the muir
Ter of his wife.
The seedless lemon, to produce
which botanical experts have unsuc.
,essfully labored for years, has been
discovered at San Bernandino, Cal.
The democratic house will attempt
TO amend the Sherman antitrust law.
Attorney General Wilkinson says he
can find no evidence to support a
prosecution of cotton bears.
Announcement vas made that the
supreme court of the United States
would take a recess after announcing
opinions next Monday, November 20.
nntil Monday, December 4.
The Mexican cabinet decided to
send a large force of fighters into
Morelos and adjoining states where
Emilano Zapata has been waging war
with more or less success for several
months.
New York's streets have become SO
Uttered with piles of garbage as the
result of the street cleaners strike,
hat Street Cleaning Commissioner
Edwards will begin the use Of disin-
t~ectants.
The famous old warship Nipsic,
which survived the Samoan hurricane
md which for many years has been
the prison ship of the Bremerton
navy yard, has been condemned as
nnsanitary.
Formal notice of the purpose of the
Japanese government to appoint
Baron Chinda ambassador to Wash.
lngton to succeed Viscount Uchida,
who was made minister of foreign af-
fairs, has reached Washington.
The method of choosing directors
and the preponderance Of banking
representation in the proposed Aldrich
currency plan were criticised by Prof.
E. w. Kemmerer of Cornell university
in opening a session on currency and
baking reform of the Western Eco
nomic society.
Mrs. Elizabeth Atchison of Sydney,
N. S. w, in a letter lays claim to the
land upon which Atchison, Kansas, a
city of nearly twenty thousand, Is
built. The land, she claims, was CIV
en- before the Louisiana purchase
to David T. Atchison, of whom she
says she is a descendant.
immigration through the port OF
New York has shown a falling of. In
the annual report of Commissioner
Of immigration William Mills, for the
veal ending June 80, 1911, it is stat
ed that during the period 1862
aliens came into the country as com
pared with 786.O94 the previous year.
The validity of hundreds of Illinois
marriages will be affected by the
decision Of the appellate court OF
Southern Illinois. The court held that
the Illinois law f%orbidding the remar
riage Of divorced persons within one
rear could not be evaded by persons
going outside Of the state to be mar.
| ried and then returning to the state
Ia live.