The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-05-05

MIS-. MdluSck, OF SOuCu Oudud, hlll-
ed her two children and then took her
own life.
Senator Brown holds that the IN
come tax amendment is on the verge
Of adoption.
The reapportionment bill in the
house provides for an increased mem
bership of 40.
Senate regulars declined to recog-
nize the progressive republicans as a
separate organization.
Committee assignments were made
in the senate, but the progresslves
are far from satisfied.
Plans we're filed for the construc-
ton in New York of the highest
building in the world, $50 feet.
Mexico sen a protest to London
over the landing of British marines
at San Quentin, Lower California.
The Missouri custer suit against
the beef packers was continued by
the supreme court until the October
term.
Mrs. j. Elliott Langstaff, of Brook
lyn. N. Y, will witness the coronation
of King George of England by special
invitation.
Public utilities commission of Kan
sas has called together the represent
atives of the railroads to discuss rail-
road valuation.
In the future London policemen in
the outlying and suburban districts
of the city are to be accompanied by
dogs, if they so desire.
The New York assembly adopted
the resolution of Senator Roosevelt
advocating the election of United
States senators by a direct vote OF the
people.
Lloyd C. Griscom, formerly ambas-
sador to Italy and a close friend of
former President Roosevelt, has re-
signed as president of the New York
county republican committee.
James Speyer of the banking firm
of Speyer and company, and H. /.
Miller, receiver of the Buffalo & Sus-
quehanna railway, have been elected
directors of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way.
Postmasters of the country are to
be subjected to a rigid investigation
by congress-. The house committee on
expenditures in the p%ostoffice depart
ment has decided to act in response
to a resolution to this effect.
At st. Louis Mrs. Alma James was
arrested soon after she asked the po-
lice to call at her home and aid her
husband, Leo James, who she said
was dying. The police found that
James was dead, with two bullet holes
in his head.
d. w. Dinsmore, implicated with
Former State Printer Mark Slater in
the alleged Ohio state house supply
graft case, changed his plea to guilty
when it was intimated that Slater
would turn states evidence. n was
sentenced to a year in the p%eniten-
tiary.
At Des Moines, Ia, DR.. Harry D..
Kelly of Council Bluffs pleaded no
guilty to the murder of Deputy Sher-
If Clarence Woolman OF Council
Bluffs and Edmund Sterling before
Judge Bradshaw in the criminal divi-
sion of the district court.
Revise the ten commandments"
urged the Rev. George A. Douglas,
canon of the Cathedral of st. John
the Divine, New York, in speaking at
the close of the twenty-ninth congress
of the Protestant Episcopal church or
1.-The Need for Prayer Book Revision
to Meet Present Day Conditions"
Plans were filed by the Broadway
Park Place company for the construc-
ton at Broadway and Park Place of
the highest building in the world. 1t
will be Sc stories.
President Taft, addressing the open
ing session of the Twenty-ninth con-
gress of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States, said:
I'VE have no state church, because all
churches that are working for the
uplifting of men and the spirit are
state churches within the protection
but not within the guidance or control
of the government"
The Wisconsin legislature wants
the United States senate to investi-
gate the election of Stephenson.
An order recently issued by the
Burlington, Withdrawing the sale of
all liquors and cigarettes on Nebraska
trains, marks the end of the test case
tried on this law passed by the legis-
lature.
Senator Norris Brown. Of Nebras-
ka, believes that before any tariff
legislation shall have passed congress
the income tax amendment will have
been adopted. If this proves the
case,' said Senator Brown, 1.-The whole
tariff situation will be completely
revolutionized. The argument that
duties cannot be reduced or wiped
out because we need the revenue, will
no longer be valid.