The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-07-19

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Valentine, commissioner Of Indian al
fairs, had resigned.
Governor Osborne reiterated his op-
position to a third party.
Another case of suspected bubonic
plague was reported from Havana.
There was a bitter fight in the house
against the Clayton contempt bill.
The heaviest earthquake in history
was experienced at Fairbanks. Alaska.
The national education association
will probably meet next at Salt Lake
City.
The Roosevelt party issued a call
for a national convention at Chicago
August s.
Mormon colonists in Mexico viii
give battle rather than pay tribute to
Mexican rebels.
Treasury officials estimate that
there are now 1852, 1851 pennies in
circulation.
The national education association
voted to bury the Boston ballot box
stu!ing scandal.
Senator Norris Brown says Presi-
dent Taft was honestly nominated and
should be reelected.
Senator Hoke Smith Of Georgia is
fighting to force from the Washing
ton force all colored policemen.
With bat one dissenting voice tho
house voted articles of impeachment
against Federal Judge Archibald.
A youthful Iowa bandit held up and
shot q bank cashier. escaped with
money, but was shot and killed.
Iowa republicans refused to endorse
either Taft or Roosevelt, but Roose-
welt men dominated the convention.
Captain r. B. Lorraine and Sergeant
Major Wilson Of the English army
flying corps were killed while flying
over the great military encampment.
The national convention Of the pro-
gressive party will be held at Chicago
on or about August !, 1t was an
nounced by Senator Dixon.
Bryan Callaghan, fourteen times
elected mayer of San Antonio and
serving in that office, died after an
illness Of two weeks.
Mrs. Russell Sage OF New York
gave 81 1000 to the street cleaning de-
partment pension fund for superan-
uated and disabled white wings"
Dispatches from Oriente indicate
that the Instruction in Cuba has been
crushed. The troops, however. are
continuing tho pursuit of small bands
Of starving negroes.
Holding it "unpatriotic," the ID. A..
r. is fighting the treasury plan to re-
cent pieces and substitute a buffalo
head.
Governor William O. Dawson Of
South Carolina announced that he
has signed the call for the national
convention of the Roosevelt party to
be held in Chicago August 10.
The Cuban senate adopted the re-
port of the committee on laws, author
izing President Gomez to negotiate an
amplification of the reciprocity treay
between Cuba and the United States.
General M~onteagudo. the command
er.in-chief of the Cuban government
troops, has formally turned over the
government of the province OF Oriente
to the citizens, declaring that he re-
bellion is v
Governor Wilson's day Wednesday
| in Atlantic City was planned to be a
brief one. At Don he was to lay the
corner stone OF the Y. NJ. c.. A. and at
2 o'clock he was scheduled to address
the annual convention of the National
| I1.;lIs~~ md Onn 0Cnni1tinnc on tho
steel pier.
Three masked bandits armed with
revOlvers and shotguns terrorized the
village of Torono. Ill. Two farmers
driving home were first held up and
robbed and then the trio forced the
Illinois Central agent at the point OF
guns to surrender all the cash on
hand in the station.
At Roanoke, Va. leaders in the
Roosevelt third party movement met
and decided to hold a mass meeting,
July 80 for the purpose of selecting a
delegation to cast Virginia's twelve
votes in the proposed Chicago con
vention, and to name progressive
electors.
The plentiful harvest of important
crops of the country, indicated by the
crop report Of the department of agri.
culture, will extend also to minor
crops to a great extent. Conditions OF
all crops were materially better on
July l than on the same date last
year.
Miss Aileen Heppner, the young wO.
man named by Mrs. Josephine Hen
ming as the person who influenced hrr
in the alleged conspiracy to injure
Clarence s. Funk, general manager OF
the International Harvester company,
by means of a suit for damages for
alleged alienation Of Mrs. Henning's
affections. was held to the grand jury.