The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-08-02

setting date for filing pleadings.
The house committee, by strict
party vote, recommends the unseat-
Ing Of Catlin Of Missouri, whose term
u almost out anyway.
Build more warships, IL the cry OF
Great Britain.
The senate p~ostoflce bill is shorn OK
the good roads provision.
Roosevelt says there must be full
state tickets all along the political
line.
The new progressive party has
been formally launched In New Jer-
sey.
At this writing Woodrow Wilson is
In s%eclusion, preparing his speech OF
acceptance.
The tariff board is to stand for
another year unless the house deter
mines otherwise.
Governor Deneen's decision to stand
with the Taft regulars means a third
party ticket in Illinois.
Grand Rapids was hit by a tornado
hat injured forty o. more persons
nd did thousands of dollars worth OF
amage.
theoretically the United States lost
half a dozen of it's biggest battleships
in an engagement with submarines at
Newport.
Two separate delegations were
selected by Georgia progressives to
the national progressive convention
at Chicago. August 5.
Ex-Governor Richards Of Wyoming,
who was a member of a l~and-seekers'
party, died suddenly of heart failure
at Melbourne, Australia.
President Taft is believed to be
willing to repeal Canadian reciprocity.
New Jersey progressives decided to
launch a separate ticket.
The senate judiciary committee or.
dered q favorable report on the bill
to prevent the shipment Of liquor
from wet" into dry" states.
The state department having given
the word, the navy department order
ed the return to America Of $50 OF
the marines now in the neighborhood
Of Guantanamo, Cuba.
Colonel Augustine Estrada former
commander of the Madero govern
ment garrison in Juarez was released
from the custody Of the United States
commissioners court.
Appointment of a receiver for the
Big AK P~ocohontas Coal company
whose property is in Buchanan coun'
ty. Virginia and valued at $1,759, OOO
is asked in a bill filed in the circuit
court at Chicago.
Jacob Datsenan, a wealthy farmer,
and his wife were killed instantly and
three children were slightly injured
when their automobile turned over
near Fowler, Indiana, as they were
returning home from church.
The announcement of a sweeping
advance in transcontinental freight
rates, in some instances amounting to
as much as 100 per cent, was made at
| the general Offices of the Southern
| Pacific and Santa Fe railroads.
Sentence upon John Mitchell, con
victed Of contempt OF court with
| Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison
Of the American Federation of Labor
for violation of an Injunction in the
Bucks Stove and Range boycott case,
was again postponed in the district
supreme court.
The detailed answer which Presi-
dent Taft's advisers will make to
charges that his nomination at Chi
cago was obtained in illegal fashion
was one of the first subjects that greet
ed Carmi A. Thompson of Ohio when
he assumed the post OF secretary to
the president.
Marked division appeared between
the house and senate over the time
for conducting the impeachment trial
Of Judge Robert. w. Archibald of the
commerce court. While senate lead
ers have virtually agreed to delay the
case until November, chatham Clay
ton of the house managers, reiterat-
ed his intention to insist upon an i'm
mediate hearing.
Three deaths occurred Sunday In
| the suburbs Of San Juan from bubonic
| plague, One suspect has been found.
| These cases YER not reported. Since
the outbreak Of the plague there have
been thirty-seven cases and twenty-six
deaths throughout Porto Rico. The
| Haffkine vaccine has been administer
ed to all persons residing in the In
| fected districts.
Robert Kinsella was drowned on
the top Of . twelve story building in
which he lived in East Sixteenth
street, New York. He had gone to the
roof of the building and found a foot
and 4 half Of water which had collect
| ed there after the drain pipe became
| clogged. He ran his right arm down
into the drain pipe and as he released
the rubbish the suction of the FISHING
water caught him.
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