The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-08-11

Senator La Toilette charged con-
spiracy to defeat all real tariff legis-
lation.
Street car motormen and conduc.
tors of Des Moines are on a strike.
The Standard Oil company has an
nounced it's plan Of reorganization.
The present mayor Of Omaha fayors
commission form of government.
John A. Topping denied there was
a price agreement among steel men.
The English parliament wilt adjourn
August Is till about the LIST Of NOvem-
Der.
Democratic and republican con-
sressmen have arranged a baseball
game.
Senator Bailey has refused to serve
longer on the privileges and election
committee.
Commissioners of Corporations Smith
made his report on the tax laws Of
the states.
Marker, the fugitive banker, whose
wife lives at Eagle, Neb., suicided
in San Francisco.
oN1I wv AlAlilOllS vi aOLldlo ait
charged up against the people of Ne
braska in back taxes.
The senate passed the house reap
portionment bill, providing for in
creased membership of the lower
body.
At Paris John w. Gates continues
a battle for life, but it is admitted
that the chances are against the
inancier.
F. II. Peavey & Co, will refund all
its Indebtedness by issuing collateral
6 e cent notes, maturing in three
years.
What is expected to be the last
stomp dance of the Snake Indians
is in progress on Hickory ground,
Oklahoma.
Treaties of arbitration between the
United States, Great Britain and
France were signed at Washington
and Paris.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion ordered lower rates for commut-
ers in and around New York in a few
instances.
Charles White of the Illinois legisla-
ture believes that most of the demo-
Gratis voting for Lorimer got pay for
SO doing.
Lieutenant Charles E. Brilliant OF
the United States navy was found
dead from a bullet wound in his room
at the Hotel Astor, New York.
1t is rumored in Washington that
Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire,
owing to recent family bereavements,
has decided to retire from public life.
The revenue cutters Ondoaga and
Seminole were ordered to sea to
search for the yacht Coronet, which is
believed to be in distress off Cape
Hatteras.
Nebraska state banks must display
In a conspicuous place certificate
showing their deposits are protected
by the depositors' fund of the state OF
Nebraska.
President Taft sent to the senate the
nominations of Lawrence N. Houston
as registrar of the land Office and
Hugh Scott as receiver of public
moneys at Guthrie, Oklahoma.
John G.. A. Leishman has been pro.
posed to the German government by
Washington as American ambassador
to succeed DR.. David Jayne Hill, who
resigned last spring.
Major General Carter was relieved
Of command of the maneuver division
at San Antonio, Texas, and ordered to
Washington to his duties as
assistant chief of staff of the army.
An official communication from the
italian government shows that from
July 81 to July &c inclusive, 4S6
deaths from cholera were reported
and 223 deaths in the provinces of
Italy.
The war department has begun a
determined campaign to procure the
highest number of cadets allowable
under the law for the class entering
the United States military academy
next June.
Captain William l.. Rodgers, at
present in command of the battleship
Georgia, has been selected as presi-
dent of the Naval War college to take
the place of Admiral Raymond Ro-
gees, who retires next fall.
A daughter was born at the general
hospital in Sault Ste. Marie to Mrs.
Angelin Napolitina, the convicted
slayer of her husband who was SEN
fenced to be hanged in August, but
whose sentence was cummuted to life
Imprisonment.
At a meeting today of the creditors
committee of Chicago bankers in
charge of the affairs of the defunct
Peavey Grain company, a report OF
the auditors was read showing that
the liabilities of the concern are
81, 00O,057 in excess of the assets.
w. S. Shallenberger, for ten years
second assistant postmaster general
and for six years in congress and a
member of the committee on postal
affairs, appeared before the commits
sion appointed by congress to inquire
into and report on an equitable ad-
jLstment of the disputed rates on Sec