The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-06-16
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The field and work of the women's
auxiliaries furnished the topic of dis
cussion at the session of the society
Of st. Vincent de Paul at Boston.
The bill to revise the wool tariff
was formally introduced in the house.
The senate subcommittee which
will pass On Lorimer has been made
up.
President Taft reiterated his oppo-
sition to any amendment to the re-
c%iprocity bill.
Drinking of champaign in public by
members was one of the closing fear
lures of the Ohio legislature.
President Taft is quite confident
reciprocity will pass the senate il
amendments a be excluded.
Mayor Voel II. Cuchin was found
guilty of m%alfeasance and misfeas-
ance in Office at Roanoke. Va.
In a referendum vote members of
Iowa suffrage association ruled to
hold the state suffrage convention in
Perry.
The southwest tariff commission,
composed of business men of the
southwest, opened q weeks session at
Chicago.
An invitation was received by Pres
ident Taft from the a%nti-horse their
association OF Kansas and Oklahoma
to visit Arkansas City. Kas., to ad-
dress it's convention July 10.
The last $4,000 required to insure
the erection in Des Moines of a monu-
ment to the late Senator Allison was
received by State Treasurer from Gen.
eral Grenville M. Dodge.
The Cunard line steamer Saxonia,
arrived at Trieste, Austria, from New
York, in the hands of the health au-
thorities as the result of the discov-
cry of a Ease of suspected cholera On
board.
Under the terms OF the will of Mrs.
Caroline E. Thompson of Bridgeport,
Conn, and New York, daughter Of
the late P. T. Barnum. an estate
valued at lei 81. 900. 90 is disposed of.
To her husband is given an annuity
of $4,000 and a life interest in the
New York residence.
The action of the war department
in not reporting to congress awards
of contracts for materials used in the
construction of the Panama canal,
of dollars, was a subject of inquiry
by the house committee on expendi-
lures in that department.
The suit of the Ware-Kramer To-
baccO company against the American
Tobacco company for 81, 200, 900 dam
ages under the Sherman antitrust
act was begun at Raleigh, n. c., be-
fore Judge O'Connor in the federal
court. Matters argued were concern
ing production OF books, records and
papers and exceptions to dispositions
by both parties.
Fourteen of the largest guns ever
used in the American navy, each cost
ing more than 1927, 900 to complete
and mount, are now in course of con-
struction in the Washington Navy
Yard, and scores of official visitors
and sightseers are attracted daily to
the big shops where work on the Won
derful new war tools is we'll under
way.
Supplementary estimates of the
governments receipts from the corpo-
ration tax, payable this month, indi-
cate the evenu from hat source
will exceed the first predictions. The
assessments of the first four months
Of the year are more than 1850. 900,
which is considerable more than the
assessment for the first six months
of 1910.
The formal making of plans to cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary of Kan
sas as a state was commenced by the
Topeka Commercial club. The cele-
bration will be held this fall during
the Topeka state fair week.
Following four hours discussion of
the Canadian reciprocity bill by the
senate finance committee in executive
session. Chairman Penrose expressed
tho opinion that many amendments
which might be adopted by the COM
mittee would be killed on the ioor of
the senate.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt said
with reference to a published story
that he would support President Taft
In h next campaign: There is no
truth in the report that I have agreed
to support any man for president in
1912. have neither made any such
statement nor even discussed the mat.
ter"
Because he was unfamiliar with the
rule requiring applicants to register
when they begin their study for law.
Robert Alphonso Taft, son of Presi-
dent Taft, was denied the privilege of
taking the Ohio state bar examina-
ton. Two months ago he wrote to the
clerk of the supreme court, asking to
be registered for examination. He
was advised that because he had not
registered when he began to prepare
for the law that he could not take the
examination now. He will probably
take it two years hence.
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