The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03

The senate failed to ratify the new
Japanese trade and m treaty.
Senate and house conferees reached
an agreement on the rivers and har-
bors bill.
A new rule was adopted in the
house which stopped the fllibuster
in short order.
Assurance is given that Mexico will
not take snap judgment on alleged
American rebel spies.
Senator La Toilette wants an inves-
tigation of the charge that secrets of
the navy have been disclosed.
Convicted officers OF the Naval
Stores company have been granted a
rehearing by the supreme court.
n British army estimates for
1911-12 issued by War Secretary Hal
dane show a total of S13S,450 900.
The supreme court Of the United
States ruled that advertising could
no be exchanged for transportation.
The commerce commission has Or
dered a reduction in refrigerating
charges Oh citrus fruits from the
west.
Word from New York states that
negotiations between the Bell and In
dependent telephone companies have
~reOpened.
st. Louis was selected as the next
meeting place of the National Edu-
cation association, department of SUI
D~erintendents.
Tho CnDat, A@p>r;ty~~ y,ra;~n
relations decided to recommend to the
senate the ratification of the new
treaty with Japan.
Eight prisoners in the st. Angus
tine, Fla, Jail, Friday overpowered
the jailer while he was giving them
dinner and escaped.
Rumors of the bubonic plague
spreading into the coast cities of
Russia caused wheat prices in the
Chicago market to go a half cent
higher.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to es-
tablish a hero fund Of 100000 in
Denmark. The foreign office already
has expressed it's gratitude for the
proposed gift.
The King Lumber company, OF
Charlottesville, Va, has been award
ed the contract for the construction
of the public building at Holdrege,
Neb., at $6S,325.
The Mark Twain library, built as a
memorial to Jean l.. Clemens, daugh-
ter of the humorist, who was drown
ed at Stormfield, Dec. "a, 1909, "a
formally dedicated.
Pleny Stokes, the 20-year-old Texas
box convicted of the murder of Dep
uty Sheriff Wood, was sentenced to
be hanged at the Florence (AriZona)
prison on April &c.
The supreme court of the United
States granted to Arkansas the priv
ilege of filing a suit against Tonnes
see to determine the exact boundary
between those two states.
After a lively debate, the Iowa
postpone the attempt to pass the Ore
gon primary plan bill over the gov
ernor's veto until March s..
The committee having charge of
raising the share Of Washington, ID.
c.. toward the $780, 900 memorial
convention hall to George Washing
ton reports $524,950 already sub
scribed.
A joint resolution authorizing the
secretary of "a to receive for in
.struction at the West Point military
academy, two Chinese to be desig-
mated by that government, was passed
by the house.
Two hundred and forty-eight rail
way mail clerks at Syracuse, N. Y,
took a revolutionary step for govern
ment employees by afiliating with the
American Federation of Labor, re
ceiving a charter and electing and
installing officers.
Marconi's patent covering the tun-
ing OF both transmitters and receiv-
ers used in wireless telegraphy was
sustained by the British courts in a
suit brought by the Marconi Wireless
company of London against
the British Radio-Telegraph and Tele-
phone company.
An attempt to obtain consideration
for the bill to make Robert r. Peary
a rear admiral, failed. The house
was considering private bills when
Representative Butler of Pennsyl.
vania, proposed that the Peary bill
be taken up. Representative Mann
the attempt by a parliament.
ary motion.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in the
last of his formal speeches in Chica.
go before the Union League club
banquet, warmly advocated the pro.
posed reciprocity trade agreement
Canada and scored congressman
who, he said, were responsible for
lindering the confirmation Of the
by means of an "annexa
ion scare"