The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17

Roosevelt has the solid Texas del
sgation, forty in number.
Bryan charged IN attempt wa
made to buy votes for Harmon.
Leaders of congress contemplate .
recess during the national conven-
lions.
The senate added eight millions to
the house rivers and harbors bill.
Governor Harmon may devote .
week In Ohio to answering Bryan.
The will Of Mary Eddy was sustain
ed by the New Hampshire supreme
court
The Irish home rule bill passed its
second reading in the house OF com
Mons.
The house by a pronounced major
ity voted to abolish the court Of com
merce.
Senator Cummins accused the pres
ident Of trying to coerce IN tariff leg
islation.
The Methodist Episcopal church
conference voted against q final court
Of appeals.
Lax meat inspection laws was
charged before a house committee by
a woman
The house labor committee ordered
favorable report on Hughes industrial
committee bill.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween house and senate conferees on
the pension bill.
The possibilities OF agriculture IN
Alaska are dealt with in a bulletin Is.
sued at Washington.
Secretary Hayward has called a
meeting Of the republican national
committee at Chicago June 6.
The recall. initiative and referen-
dunn were written into Duluth's
charter by an overwhelming vote.
The Missouri supreme court sua
tanned the constitutionality OF the
semi-monthly wage payment law.
The senate interstate commerce
committee reported favorably on Sen.
ator Clapp's bill Of lading measure.
Mayor Dahlman and the ticket OF
which he was the head was victori-
Gus In the Omaha municipal election.
The senate passed the bill to permit
&c. 900, 900 increase in Indebtedness
OF the Philippines over present IS;
OOO, goo debt.
The bill for retirement OF govern
ment employees In classified service,
except postmasters, vas favOrably re-
ported IN the senate.
The figures for the 1910 census
show hat Iowa had only IL per cent
of illiterates over 10 years old, where
as Nebraska had 1.9.
Grips filled with potatoes and bot.
tied beer were left behind by a man
who cashed bogus checks a%ggregating
$500 at four Boston hotels.
At Benton, ILL.,, Night Marshal Will
liam B. Odom shot and killed spot"
Smith, whom he was trying to arrest
and was probably fatally wounded by
Smith.
At Chillicothe, o., a large crowd
stood in the rain to hear w. j. Bryan
renew his attack upon the presiden-
tial candidacy Of Governor Judson
Harmon.
AT Mount Vernon, N. Y, William G.
Vanderboest's will provided that he
be stabbed through the heart after the
doctors pronounced him dead, to pre-
vent burial alive.
Italian citizens at Cleveland, Ohio,
are preparing to raise a fund for con-
structing a war aeroplane to be given
the Italian army for use against the
Turks in the present difficulty.
Politics is absorbing the attention
Of congress. Much of the discussion
In both houses is being aimed at the
coming campaign and the congestion
of business in the senate Is largely
attributable to that cause.
Arthur Watts, chauffeur, Of Chi
cago, had been out Of Jail less than
eighteen months following the death
of a woman under the wheels Of his
automobile when he ran down and
killed Edward K. Rogers.
At Waukesha, Wis. crashing
through a window into the home OF
Judge Agnew came a carrier pigeon
having attached to it's leg a tag label
ed "San Francisco to Milwaukee,"
The bird was revived and liberated.
The second state convention to
adopt a platform and make nomina-
tons for judges Of the supreme court
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