The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-01-19

Senator LaFollette said If another
than the republican party Afforded a
better agency for reform he would de-
sert his present affi]iation
The supreme court will shortly
hand down a series of opinions on I'M
portant cases.
Former Governor Joseph M. Brown
was elected governor of Georgia. A
very light vote was cast.
Radical reductions in livestock rate
have been ordered by the interstate
commerce commission.
A sympathy strike. involving 3oo,-
900 railway shop employees, may De
called within two weeks.
Senator Lorimer pleaded his own
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.
The Equitable building was burned
at New York, with a cost Of six lives
and a property loss of $6,O0o,OoO.
Major General Carter told the mill
tary committee that 5 1000 Japanese
subject to recall in war time, lived IN
Hawaii.
The report Of the monetary commits
sion or the reorganization OF the cur
rency system Is completed n ready
for congress.
Representative Humphrey Of Wash
ington introduced a bill providing that
Chinese shall enter the United States
only through a Pacific coast port.
Mystery surrounds the deaths or
four persons whose bodies. fully
clothed, were found in q room of the
boarding house Of Mrs. Bridget Fla
nagan of Philadelphia.
New members of committees chosen
by the democratic caucus were elect
ed by the house, including Dan v.
Stephens, Nebraska, accounts and In
dian affairs.
In the burning Of the John Benyon
home at Farmersburg, Ia, Martha
Benyon was burned to death and her
sister, Mary was badly burned n
frozen.
A band of Bulgarians threw three
bombs into an open air mass meeting
at Zikowa, near Uskub. European Tur-
key, killing three persons and injuring
twenty-five.
The Turkish vessels destroyed by
Italian warships we're those which
took refuge at Suez two weeks ago,
according to a dispatch to a news
agency from Rome.
Pennsylvania's Gettysburg anniver-
a 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-
cans on the border during the Next
can revolution last year.
Governor Judson Harmon Of Ohio,
in an address before the st. Clair
County Democratic club at East St.
Louis, attacked the financial policies
of the recent republican administra-
ton.
Senators Hitchcock and Brown and
Congressman Kinkaid of Nebraska
will call on Director Newell of the re-
clamation service to seek an extension
Of time in which farmers in the IT.
rigated district may pay for their
lands.
To be blown through the broken
walls Of their home, imprisoned under
meath their bed out in the yard and
vet escape uninjured was the fate of
Mr.. and Mrs. Rex Sansing, whose
house was blown up by dynamite at
Parkhill, near Tahlequah, Okla.
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 l, 1906. to defraud
the government by obtaining 1,760
acres of coal and belonging to the
United States.
Secretary Of the Treasury Mac
Veagh awarded an aggregate of $751;
600 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 SIS, O00
for his service.
william Twiman. a negro. consider.
ed insane, murdered his father at
their home in S~cottsville. a village
neal Rochester, N. Y, shot dead a
deputy sheriff and wounded four
others who were endeavoring to enter
the Twiman home in which he had
barricaded himself.
The will of William c. Greene,
known as the mining king" OF
Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, who died
in Cananea, last August, was filed for
probate at Los Angeles. Colonel
N,ooro Advocated that all hio n~rOnorfv