The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02

The supreme court declared rail
roads must carry beer when rendered
for shipment regardless of dry" ter
ritory.
France Is badly stirred over recent
seizures Of ships by Italy.
Three million votes in 1912 is the
shibbo1eth of the prohibition party.
President Taft announced his belief
in the loyalty of Postmaster General
Hitchcock.
Cyrus e. Woods of Greensburg, Pa,
was nominated by President Taft as
minister to Portugal.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen says a republic in
China is the only logical relief from
present intolerable conditions.
Herbert Knox Smith, in a report to
the president, says the profits of the
steel corporation are excessive.
William r. Hearst has accepted an
invitation to address the general as
sembly of Kentucky or February IA.
President Farrell, of the steel cor
poration, says it has nothing in com
mon with the harvester company.
s. S. Semmes, eldest o of the late
Admiral Raphael Semmes, of the con-
federate navy, died at Osceola, Ark.
The minority members of the SEN
ate elections committee may oppose
exoneration Of Senator Stephenson.
The postoffice department reports a
large number of convictions OF pro-
moters who used the mails to defraud.
The Standard Oil company Of New
York announced an advance OF twen-
ty-five points in the price OF refined
petroleum.
The Naval Year Book, issued by
foreign relations committee, gives the
United States second place among
navals powers.
Joseph Kenyon, battalion chief In
the fire department, Chicago. was
probably fatally injured while speed
ing to a fire.
The name of Judge Hook. to sue
coed the late Justice Harlan, will
probably be sent to the senate this
week.
President and Mrs. Taft gave the
second reception of the winter at the
White house. The judiciary were their
special guests.
Mrs. w. E. Bailey Of Chicago, wife
of the genera! auditor of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, dice at
Castle Hot Springs. Ariz.
The Worlds Christian Endeavor un-
ion has been proposed by Congress
mar w. l.. Mccall of Massachusetts
for the Nobel peace prize.
Mrs. oliver II. P. Belmont said that
she is planning to start a daily news
paper to be managed by women and
devoted entirely to their interests.
Governor Foss sent a special mes
sage to the legislature urging an i'm
mediate investigation of the strike in
the textile mills in Lawrence, Mass.
Rev. Alphonsus s. DonlOn has been
appointed president of Georgetown
university 20 succeed Rev. Joseph j.
Hummel, who retires on account OF i'll
health.
Attorney General Wickersham In a
conference with the rules committee
said the government would proceed
against the International Harvester
company.
The Ogden division of the Union Pa
cifc railroad has been abolished, and
the 500 miles of railroad from Chey-
enne to Ogden is to be known as the
Wyoming division.
The will of Nine. Caroline Leroy
Bonaparte, widow of Jerome Napole-
on Bonaparte, grand nephew of EN-
peror Napoleon, disposes of an estate
valued at 5000, 000.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma intro
duced a joint resolution for a joint
congressional investigation OF the
presidential campaign funds Of 1904
and 1908.
State Forester Cox of Minnesota has
called a meeting of railroad officials
and forest rangers to be held at Brain
erd, February 10, to oatline a plan for
prevention and protection against for
est fires.
President Dearborn OF the Anieri-
can-Haawiian Steamship company, be-
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion, opposed government ownership
OF the proposed steamship line through
the Panama canal.
The movement for a fitting celebra-
ton in 1918 Of the fiftieth anniversary
OF the battle of Gettysburg took de-
finite form when tho Pennsylvania
commission having the matter In
| charge appeared before the joint con-
gressional committee and made pub
lie its plans.
The kaiser's third son. Prince Adel-
bert. is to visit tho United States
some time this year. He was born
| July IA, 1884, and is unmarried. The
prince probably will follow in the
footsteps of his uncle, Prince Henry
of Prussia. as commander-in-chief OF
the imperial fleet.