The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-09

to 1858, goo.
Ex-senator Allen of Nebraska thinks
Taft is sure of republican nomination
and that Harmon is the only man
with a show of defeating him.
Tariff is to be uppermost in con
gress all this week.
Minnesota beat Nebraska at basket
ball by a score OF 20 to Is.
The fate of the steel bill in the SEN
ate is problematical.
Henry Watterson is disguised with
both Harvey and Wilson.
There will be no boost in binder
Irvine rates by western railroads.
Clarence barrow, union labor attor-
aey, was indicted on bribery charges.
Men behind the Roosevelt move
ment are going right ahead at Chi
cago.
With assurances Of pensions and re-
is preparing to abdicate.
The steel corporation and individu-
al defendants filed answer to the gov
ernment's dissolution suit.
The pope ratified the decision OF the
consistorial congregation creating a
new diocese of Des Moines.
The Rockefellers. father and son.
Joined in a disclaimer of government
charges In the steel suit.
Testimony of witnesses went 10
show that the minds of packers on
prices were remarkably alike.
The senate passed the Borah bill to
create a children's bureau in the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor.
More than 81, O0O.o 900 is to be distrib-
uted in charitable requests provided
by the will of Caroline Neustadter,
which was filed at New York.
President Taft has written Cover
nor Aldrich of Nebraska in behalf OF
the Red Cross making an appeal Tor
the Chinese sufferers.
The English admiralty has ordered
from Vickers Sons 4 Maxim three
submarines bigger than any existing
type and capable Of long voyages.
Walter j. Johnson. one OF the plon-
eers and best known specialists IN
X-ray work in the world. dice In a
sanitarium at Rochester. n. Y.
The pension appropriation bill, car
rying 1852, 579, 900 for the coming
year, was reported to the house and
debate on the measure began at once.
The state of Minnesota will expert
ment with Oleomargarine to deter
mine whether it can be given the
color of butter without adding color
ing matter.
The annual convention of the inter
national association of factory inspec-
tors, which is to be held this year IN
Washington, will be on June 4 u
continue until June 8.
The senate committee on military
affairs agreed to report f~avorably a
bill by Senator Penrose for a monu-
ment to the signal corps in the clvll
war at Gettysburg, Pa.
Colonel Daniel Cornman, acting
commandment at the army post at
Forth Leavenworth, received orders
to hold in readiness to go at a mo-
ment's notice to the Mexican border.
The senate refused by a vote OF II
to 80 to pass a bill authorizing the
sale of HOO, 900 acres of fertile anal
lotted land in the standing Rock re-
s~ervation in North and South Da-
kota.
Primary election bills, both includ.
ing the nomination Of United States
senator and excluding the selection OF
presidential electors were passed in
both houses of the Kentucky legisla'
ture.
The Steel tariff revision bill was
referred to the finance committee OF
the senate without discussion. Sen
ator Reed withdrawing his demand
that the committee report within
twenty days.
Senator LaFollette r~eintroduced his
antitrust bill of last session extending
it's provisions to prohibit the govern
ment from buying from trusts and for
feiting patents on articles manufac-
tured by trusts.
I~nouiry into the rates, classical
tions. regulations and practices of ex-
press companies, begun by the Inter
state Commerce commission several
weeks ago in New York, will be re.
s,ined in Washington at once.
Operation of the pure o decision
prohibiting the use of saccharine in
food stuffs which was to have become
ecective February 1, after W post
movements, again has been extended
to March /.
Men in all walks of life and OF vary
ing religious beliefs rendered a din
ner in New York to Cardinal Farley
as a token Of esteem in which the
new member OF the sacred college Is
held by the non-Catholic population.
Federal Judge Angel in Detroit
denied a motion of the attorneys TOT
the bath tub trust to compel the gov
eminent to elect which OF the two
counts of the pending indictment II
would proceed to trial under.
Owing to the ice blockade more
than $50 persons, the total populace
of Holland islands, in Tangier sound
u miles southwest of Baltimore. fol
four weeks have been oon from
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