The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-06-16

Progress Is being made in the work
Of raising the wreck Of the Maine.
Robbers blew open the safe In the
postofice at Freedom. Pa, and es-
capped with $1,525 in money and
stamps.
Senator Cummins has announced
that he will support Taft for renomi-
nation.
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-
ciprocity bill.
Senator Borah's name is being men
toned in connection with the nominal
ton for the vice presidency.
Drinking of champaign in public by
members was one of the closing Tea
lures of the Ohio Legislature.
President Taft is quite confident
reciprocity will pass the senate II
amendments car be excluded.
Mayor Voel III. Cuchin was found
guilty Of malfeasance and misfeas-
nee in Office at Roanoke, Va.
Price of wheat in Chicago pit went
higher as result of reports of Hessian
fly. grasshoppers and heat damage.
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 a weeks session at
Chicago.
While driving a team across the
South Canadian river Mrs. George
Glover and her three children of Mel
lette, Okla, were drowned.
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.
An invitation was received by Pres
ident Taft from the anti-horse their
association of Kansas and Oklahoma
to visit Arkansas City, Kas, to ad-
dress its convention July 10.
]. d. Bren, cashier and accountant
Of the state university, was held up
by three Minnesota highwaymen near
the university and robbed of $4,000.
He also lost his watch and his
months salary.
Although several of the powers have
refused to support Russia's note to
Turkey with reference to the mobiliz-
alton of Turkish troops on the Monte
negrian frontier, the neal eastern sit
uation presents disQuieting aspects.
The Cunard line steamer Saxonia,
arrived at Trieste. Austria, from New
York, In the hands of the health au-
th0rities a. the result Of the discov-
cry of q case of suspected cholera on
board.
The action Of the war department
In not reporting to congress awards
OF contracts for materials used in the
construction OF the Panama canal,
amounting already to many millions
Of dollars, was 4 subject of inquiry
by the house committee on expendi-
lures in that department.
The suit Of the Ware.Kramer To-
bacc0 company against the American
Tobacco company for s 1,200,900 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 $127, 900 to complete
and mount. are now in course OF con-
In the Washington Navy
Yard, and scores of oficial visitors
and sightseers are attracted daily to
the big shops where work on the won
derful new war tools is well under
way.
supplementary estimates Of the
governments receipts from the corpo-
ration tax. payable this month, indi.
the revenue from that source
will exceed the first predictions. The
assessments Of the first four months
Of the year are more than 2,860,0O0.
which u considerable more than the
assessment for the first six months
Of 1910.
The last $1,000 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 NJ. Dodge.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
decided to increase the extension OF
the postal savings system from 100 to
$50 Offices q week, with at least 1000
Repositories designated by July 1.
This will be q worlds record in the
number operated within SO short a
time after establishment. On July l
the system Is to be extended to first
class Offices in the large cities.
The government has started a cru
SADIE against what Assistant District
Attorney Whitney says are extensive
frauds In the importation of German
cutlery. Josef Landesburg, an i'm
porter Of cutlery, vas arrested charg-
ed with undertaking. German-made
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