The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-08

ing picture snow at vile,
Preston county, w. Va, Twenty-Five
persons wereinjured.
The senate is making ready to take
up house tariff bills.
Juarez, Mexico, is still an open port
despite order of Madero.
Eight hundred thousand British
eoal miners have ceased work.
President Taft 4s preparing for an
extended speechmaking tour.
President Madero OF Mexico says
he has no thought of resigning.
Both houses of congress interested
themselves in the Lawrence strike
situation.
The Presbyterians are planning to
raise $4,000, 900 for the support OF
aged clergymen.
The Iowa retail hardware dealers
association adjourned after r~e-electing
all the old officers.
There was a mutiny Of soldiers at
Picking, and the city was given oyer
to- Rillage and burning.
The trust platform Of Senator
Cummins was embodied in q bill he
introduced III the senate.
Senator Cummins offered a bill de-
signed to strengthen the antitrust
arm of the government.
Colonel Roosevelt announces that
hA will accept the republican nomina-
tioR tor the presidency.
Arizona occupies the distinction Of
having no federal oflcial since her ad-
mission to statehood.
= The United States steel corpora
Ito Is described by an expert exam
liner as one Of the bad trusts.
The Third Missouri district republi-
ian convention split and elected both
Taft and Roosevelt delegates.
The department OF justice is nves-
tigating the moving picture business
to ascertain is there 10 q trust"
ViscOunt Chinda, the new japanese
ambassador to Washington. made his
drst call at the state department.
Reduction Of wages would, result
from house steel tariff bill, labor rep
resentatives told finance committee.
Secretary Meyer says the United
States will soon sink to fourth place
as Z naval power If congress is not
more liberal.
The day Of the arrival of Secretary
Of State Knox in Nicaragua is to be
declared a public holiday throughout
the country.
Secretary Meyer was before the
house committee on naval affairs and
urged that the coal fields ct Alaska
be used by the government.
Senator Dupont of Delaware voiced
. flat denial Of the charges against
him in the resolution introduced by
Senator Reed of Missouri.
Representatives of shoe manufacture
ers urged the department of justice to
stand by it's civil criminal suits
against the United Shoe Machinery
company.
Senator Poindexter advocated be-
tore the interstate commerce commit
tee his bill for abolition Of the United
States commerce court.
Twenty years in the penitentiary
was the sentence imposed on Richard
Palmer. in criminal court at Def
Moines, for the theft Of two chickens.
He confessed.
Governor Hiram Johnson Of Califor.
MIA addressed Ohio's fourth constitu.
tional convention in advocacy OF tho
initiative, referendum and recall. He
made no political references.
One hundred and sever govern.
ment oflcials will lose free tele-
phones when the appropriation com.
mittee Of the house reports the sup
ply bill.
An appropriation Of $55. 900 for tho
protection of Valdez. Alaska, and tho
adjacent region from glacial floods
tho commerce commission.
Samuel Untermeyer told the Inter
state Commerce commission there
was open violation OF the antitrust
laws in the acquisition OF smaller rail-
roads by certain large eastern sys-
TENS.
Tue house began hearings on the
bill providing for increased federal
appropriations for the aid OF the state
agricultural colleges. The bill on
templates an initial appropriation Of
100000.
A request from citizens Of Ogden.
Utah. presented to President Taft by
Representative Howell, urging the
government to investigate the strike
OF the machinists on the Hartman
lines was referred to the department
Of Justice.
Eleven women wer rescued by
iremen during q midnight fire which
destroyed an apartment building at
3449 Idiana venue. Chicago. Eight
Of the women. all Of whom were in
bed when the IRE was discovered,
were carried down extension ladders
from the fourth story Of the building.
Personal.