The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-02-24

There was a sensational drop in pig
pig tin at London on free offerings.
General Navarro, at the head OF
a thousand federals, marched into
Juarez.
Periodical publishers made a reply
to the statement of Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock.
The contract of a loan Of 100000
600 to Honduras by American bank
ers was signed in New York.
The New Haven chamber OF com-
merce passed resolutions unanimous
ly approving reciprocity with Canada.
Proceedings in the lower house OF
congress were held up an entire day
by a filibuster by Representative
Mann.
The directors of the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad company decided
to increase the capital stock by $685.
600. 900
President Taft and Champ Clark
declared themselves in accord in
speeches at the Pan-American con-
ference.
Nicaragua has been placed under
martial law by President Estrada as
a result of the magazine explosion at
Managua.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman Befkowitz and
their five children were killed by IL
Eliminating gas in their home in
Philadelphia.
Fifty republicans from over Ne
braska organized a progressive re-
publican league in Lincoln and de-
clared their principles.
Joseph d. Rockefeller, cousin of j..
d. Rockefeller died at his home in
South Bend. Ind. Mr.. Rockefeller
was born in Pennsylvania.
Federal Judge Hough at New York
denied the motion to appoint a
guardian for Joseph G. Robin, the al
legged bankrupt and fallen banker.
One less contestant appeared before
the book committee Of the Methodist
general conference in the race for
next years meeting, as Chicago with
drew.
The daylight closing saloon bill, pro-
viding that saloons must not open
before 6 o'clock a. m, and that they
must close by Z p. m., was passed by
the Texas senate.
President Taft's plan for Canadian
reciprocity is extremely likely to re-
ceive Endorsement by the Illinois
legislature, despite Speaker Cannon's
avowed opposition.
Several hundred clergymen In
Chicago started a movement, further
ed by the Chicago Christian En-
deavor union, to relieve mail clerks
and carriers of Sunday work.
The will of Richard l.. Ashhurst,
the aged postmaster of Philadelphia,
who mysteriously disappeared at At
lantic City on January 80, was filed
in the Office of register of wills.
Under the terms of the treaty pro-
viding for the arbitration of the
Chamizai zone case, the United
States and Mexico exchanged pre-
sensations of their respective cases.
Declaring the proposed reciprocity
agreement with Canada a measure of
the utmost value to both countries,
the Boston Boot and Shoe club at it's
annual banquet passed resolutions
favoring the measure.
The French government is not
much interested in the plan for re-
ciprocal trade relations maturing be-
tween the two great governments OF
North America, while French export
ers are plainly apprehensive.
The Tennessee house Of represen-
tatives adopted a resolution urging
President Taft to call an extra ses-
sion of congress March 4, 1911, to
make an Immediate downward revi-
sion of the tariff on the necessaries
of life."
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion will begin a hearing in Chicago
on March 20 on Is applications filed
by trans-continental railroads for re-
lief from the operation of the long
and short haul clause of the new
commerce law.
A remarkable petition was received
by Postmaster General Hitchcock
from citizens of Fairbanks, Alaska,
requesting the establishment in that
city of a postal savings bank. The Pc
tition is t%wenty-four feet long and
bears the James of many hundreds OF
citizens of Fairbanks.
The Canadian reciprocity amend
ment had it's first actual advance Sat
urday when the committee on ways
and means reported favorably to the
house the administration bill embody-
ing the compact. President Taft can
get the agreement past congress if
he can force a vote in the senate this
session.
The New York Rockefeller insti-
tute for medical research announced
that the effectiveness of the anthem
nights serum had been generally ac-
copied by medical authorities
throughout the world and that the
new remedy had taken its place with
vaccine and diphtheria a~nti-toxin as
IAN improved agency for the protec-
ton of public health"
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