The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-04-21

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his satisfaction on house committees.
The cofferdam surrounding the
wreck Of the Maine has been COM
pleted.
Judge William S. Kenyon was elect
ed United States. senator by the Iowa
legislature.
Mexican rebels are accused of hold
ing Americans captive in a town OF
Lower California.
w. S. Kenyon will not qualify as a
senator until the antitrust prosecu-
tons are finished.
H. u. Nudge, president OF the Rock
Island, is not adverse to public con-
troll of corporations.
House democrats have decided to
revise the agricultural schedule of
the present tariff law.
A tornado which devastated Okla
homa and Kansas killed twenty-three
and injured a hundred.
DR.. Gomez, of the revolutionary
junta' at Washington, is moving act
lively for peace in Mexico.
According to the court of commerce
CdLduldu IcClpIOClly rs AOI oASSl0u
by the favored nation clause.
The house, by a vote of 296 to 16,
adopted the resolution for direct cleo
ton of United States senators.
If congress adjourns during the
spring months President Taft will go
to Texas to watch the m%aneuvers.
A bill has been introduced in con-
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for the department of commerce and
labor.
Canadian reciprocity and farmers
free list bills were introduced in the
house on behalf of the democratic
majority.
The Nebraska railway commission
has announced the physical valuation
ka to be SO. OOO, 900.
National negro democratic executive
committee has called a convention for
Indianapolis, May II, to formulate
plans for the 1912 campaign.
New Mexico lands, ag%gregating $780,
O64 acres, have been withdrawn from
all forms of disposition by President
Taft on recommendation of Secretary
Fisher.
The story that General Hector Mac
Donald, British general, reported to
have committed suicide years age, is
drilling troops in China is authori-
tatively denied.
After a search of two years secret
service men arrested Harry B. Porter
in Denver and charged him with max
ing the best counterfeit silver dollars
over circulated in this country.
Mrs. Serene E. Payne, wife OF Rep
r%esentative Payne. father of the pres
ent tariff bill, is in a serious condi-
ton at her home in Washington, SUI
fering from nervous prostration.
M. Cruppi, in his maiden speech as
minister OF foreign affairs In the
French senate, refuted the p~essimistic
criticisms by Senator Alden Guam de
Villaine, who asserted that Frances
foreign policy was decadent.
A Mexicali Mex dispatch says:
General Stanley Williams hurled his
little battalion of rebels against
Colonel Miguel MGyet's 500 main reg
ulars on the mesa Ave miles south OF
Mexicali. Eighty insurgents went into
the fight; 20 returned from the battle
field.
Seeing his wife riding in a buggy
with William e. Hagan. a wealthy
-four dealer OF Kansas City, in Infe-
pendence, Mo-, John Bramhall, an At
torney and claim agent for the Metro
politan Street Railway company, fred
twice at Hagan with a shotgun. His
victim is dead.
The warden of the Wyoming pe1i-
Tertiary has rendered his annual re-
port to Governor Carey. 1t shows
there are 251 convicts at the state
pen. This means that approximately
one person out of every 615 persons
In the state is a convict, there being
about 1856, 900 Inhabitants in Wyem-
ing.
What secret service meE believe
was an extended plan to food the
middle west with counterfeit gold
coin has been discovered in Kansas
City. M. r. Little and Charles De
vaul have been arrested charged with
passing counterfeit eagles and double
eagles.
At New York in the presence OF
many women and children whom they
had rescued, twenty-four women were
presented with medals for brave work
in 1901. Mayor Gaynor in present
ing the medals said the New York
fire and police departments vera the
best in the world.
Braving the chilly winds and 1rizz-
ling rain and immense throng. vari-
ously estimated from 100000 to 200.-
600 stood in the streets of Cleveland
and paid silent tribute to the memory
Of Tom L. Johnson as his body was
conveyed from the family apartments
to the union depot, en- route east for
burial.
Personal.
Concress. II is said. faces a stormy