The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-26

better agency for reform he woul de
sert his present a%filiation
Senator Lorimer pleaded his W
cause as a witness before the senate
Investigating committee.
The black powder law enacted in
Kansas in 1907, to protect coal min
ers, was upheld as constitutional.
Major General Carter told the mill
tary committee that $4,000 Japanese
subject to recall in war time, lived IN
Hawaii.
The New York state convention to
elect delegates to the national repub.
lican convention will be held in
Rochester IN April 8.
George A.. Medley, democrat, of
Hutchinson, Kansas, was elected to
congress at the special election Tues.
I. Martin, republican.
The administration building at the
Massachusetts leper colony on Penic.
keye Island, at the entrance of Buzz.
Yards bay, was burned.
A band of Bulgarians threw three
bombs into an open air mass meeting
at Zikowa, lear Uskub, European Tur-
key, killing three persons and injurins
twenty-five.
The Turkish vessels destroyed by
italian w%arships We're those which
took refuge at Suez two weeks ago,
according to a dispatch to a news
agency from Rome.
Pennsylvania Gettysburg anniver-
sary commission urged $500, 900 appro-
priation before Gettysburg congress
sional committee for erection of a
permanent memorial.
New Mexico's first members Of con
gress, George Curry, republican, and
H. B. Ferguson, democrat, were
sworn in as members Of the house
amid generous applause.
Representative Smith Of Texas at
tackled President Taft in the house,
for alleged failure to protect Ameri-
ans on the border during the Next
can revolution last year.
Fire destroyed the four-story build
ing occupied by the st. Louis Bag and
Burlap company, st. Louis, causing a
loss Of $4,000. Adjoining buildings
were damaged by water.
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio,
In an address before the st. Clair
County Democratic club at East st.
Louis, attacked the financial policies
Vt the recent republican administra-
ton.
When August Neumeister OF Rock.
ford. Ill.,. died almost penniless, as
his daughter Alice supposed, a small
safe which he had kept in ar obscure
corner Of the house was opened and
therein was found $21,635 in money
and valuable securities.
An order was issued by the secre-
tary of war detaching B%rigadier Gen
eral William w. Witherspoon from
duty in Washington as president Of
the war college and assigning him to
duty as commander in chief of the de-
partment of the gulf at Atlanta.
The Rev. r. C. McIlwain. rector
emeritus of st. Johns Episcopal
church at Keokuk, Iowa. and for forty
years a pastor, was sued for $4,000
in a breach of promise action by Mrs.
Rosa Haga. so years old. OF Tul-
sa. Okla, but formerly of Keokuk.
Frank Wells, Wherefore Sully. Ru-
fus ]. Ireland and George w. Daily
must stand trial in Wyoming on In
dictments charging them with con
spiracy, on June I, 1906, to defraud
the government by obtaining 1,76O
acres of coal and belonging to the
United States.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh awarded an aggregate of $685.
900 to two informers in customs
frauds cases. Joseph L. Payne will
be given $50, 900 for the evidence he
contributed In the Duveen art case
and Peter Redling will receive $25 900
for his service.
William TWiman. a negro. consider
ed insane. murdered his father at
near Rochester. N, Y, shot dead a
deputy sheriff and wounded four
others who were endeavoring to enter
the Twiman home in which he had
b%arricaded himself.
The late Associate Justice John
Marshall Harlan Of the supreme court
of the United States left an estate OF
$4,000, of which $1,000 was in life
insurance. Letters Of administration
were granted to his son, Interstate
Commerce Commissioner James Har
Ian.
An issue of $50. 600. 900 5 per cent
gold debentMre bonds has been sold to
a Now York banking house. ii was an
nounced by the Chicago Rock Island
Railroad company. The proceeds vii
be used for terminal additions and
betterments to the system and for re
funding purposes.