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the leaders in rapid warship building.
Heavy punishments were meted
out to the English spies arrested at
Hamburg on March Is.
Soil products of Iowa for the year
Of 1911 are valued at $38S, 991 ,154.
Protests are pouring into the SEN
ate against precipitate action on the
Russian treaty.
Democratic Leader Underwood said
It was unlikely the house would pass
an omnibus building bill.
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad
were acquitted of the shooting of Mil
lionaire w. e. ID. Stokes.
The report of the investigating
board on the wreck of the Maine was
sem by the president to congress-.
Legislation for direct election or
United States senators apparently IS
hopelessly hung up in conference.
The foreign affairs committee
agreed to favorably report the Sulzer
resolution for abrogation of Russian
treaty.
More than so, 900, 900 animals were
~inspeced during the last fiscal year by
the United States bureau of animal in
dustry.
A report crrent in London is that
Prince Arthur OF C~onnaught will sue
coed General Baron Hardinge as vic
eroy Of India.
The -four output of Minneapolis is
appropriated at 49, 00 900 barrels
and will turn the high water mark,
according to the millers.
Louis d. Brandeis of Boston, dis
GUESSING trust regulation before the
interstate commerce committee, urged
the competitive system.
The $4,000 women suit makers and
5000 tailors who have been on strike
in Berlin since November % have
abandoned the struggle.
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress
of China, which went ashore on July
81, forty miles from Yokohama during
a fog, was relocated.
A personal campaign to secure sen
atorial support for the British ana
French arbitration treaties was be-
gun by President Taft.
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to open the twelfth lnterna'
tional Association of Navigation con
gress at Philadelphia, May %.
The Omaha railway announced the
installation Of a 1914 per cent milling
in transit rate per hOundred pounds
on wheat from Kansas City to Chi
cago via Minneapolis.
The committee of the German Aero
club has decided that the interna-
tional balloon race for the James Cor
don Bennett trophy is to be held at
Stuttgart next year.
The general tariff situation, and
particularly President Taft's forth
coming message to congress on the
wool tariff schedules, were discussed
at length by the cabinet.
Two young officers from the presi.
dents yacht M%ayflower. Lieutenantss
J.. S. Dowell, Jr., and A.. L.. Bristol, Jr.,
have been ordered to Berlin to study
German s%hipbuilding methods.
Wire and nail product prices have
been advanced one dollar a ton
by the American Steel Wire com
pany, a subsidiary Of the steel cor.
poration.
An investigation to determine why
the price of sugar was increased sew
eral cents a pound last summer was
begun by the house committee ap'
pointed to investigate sugar conui
tons.
Enough ammunition to supply the
United States army, navy and state
militia for three and a half years viii
be in the ~arsenals and strong boxes
OF the United States at the end OF
the present year.
Mrs. Agnes Taylor Schwartz, sister
to the late President John Taylor OF
the Mormon church, and mother-in'
law of President Joseph F. Smith
died at Salt Lake City. She was nine
ty years old.
On account of two vacancies in the
supreme court of the United States
a movement has been started te
have the group of state railroad rate
cases assigned for argument on Jan
s, 1912, postponed for a full bench.
Complete information of the oper
alton of the parcels post in twenty-one
foreign lands has been compiled fol
the use of the senate committee or
postofices and post roads. to be usec
in considering proposed legislation K
establish a parcels post in the United
States.
After a running battle Of thirty
miles with a company of state militia
and a posse of armed citizens, Johr
Weidemeir, who shot and killet
Sheriff Moody of Wahpeton. was sur
rounded near White Rock, S. D., ant
killed after he had wounded three O
} his pursuers.