The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-24

senators.
Iowa's democratic delegation must
vote as a rule for Champ Clark.
One new bi~shop-Homer c. Stuntz
was elected by the Methodists.
Colonl Roosevelt scored the meth
DDS of Taft men in Washington state.
Cincinnati carpenters who have
been on strike will return to work.
King Frederick of Denmark died
suddenly in Berlin. He was SO years
old.
E. r. Rockwell, former editor of the
Pennington, Ia, Herald, died of par
alysis.
The Methodist conference voted to
retire Bishops Warren, Moore and
Nicely.
Michigan sends an unpledged dele
cation to the democratic national con-
vention.
Governor Foss has declined to in
terfere with the death sentence of G.
v. T. Richeson.
The coming international congress
of navigation will take ~cognizance or
the Titanic disaster.
Prospects are not favorable for an
adjournment of congress prior to the
national conventions.
There was a stormy time at the
meeting of the house committee in
vestigating meat inspection.
Colonel Roosevelt says he can
count enough delegates to give him
the republican nomination.
Delegates to the national republican
convention from the Fifth Oklahoma
district were instructed for Theodore
Roosevelt.
At Winnipeg, Man, although War
rem Conlan, playing at the Orpheum
theater. dropped dead on the stage,
the show went on.
The figures for the 1910 census
show that Iowa had only II per cent
of illiterates over 10 years old, where
as Nebraska had 1.9.
The house foreign affairs commit
tee unanimously reported favorably
on the Sulzer resolution for an inter-
national conference on cost of living.
Vice President Sherman signed the
joint resolution for direct election OF
senators which must be ratified by
three-fourths of the states to become
an amendment to the constitution.
The National Anti-Third Term
leagues petition to amend the consti-
tuition to prevent a third presidential
term, consecutive or otherwise, was
presented by Representative Mccall.
The Porto Rico democratic terri
torial convention has elected six dele
gates to the democratic national con-
vention to be held in Baltimore. All
are instructed for Woodrow Wilson.
Stocker and feeder rates on cattle
and sheep will continue at the rates
prescribed in tariffs prior to August
IA, 1911, according to a final order en-
tered by the interstate commerce COM
mission.
At Cleveland, o., flies neatly packed
in envelopes are being received at
headquarters of the fly-swatting cru.
SADIE. The other day 107, 600 flies were
swatted and counted, for which $107
was paid.
At Tampa, Fla, Mrs. Marie Morte-
| relic, kneeling at the grave of her re-
Gently buried baby son, saturated her
| clothing with wood alcohol and set
fire to herself. She died on the way
to a hospital.
The hulk Of an old Spanish ship,
loaded with zinc, has been uncovered
by dredges in the Potomac river,
causing a disappointing scrambling
for treasure" The vessel was sunk
before the revolution.
The Mississippi river commission
decided to expend up to 100000 to-
ward the closure of the Hymelia, La,
~crevasse on condition that the prop
erty owners interested shall contri-
butte one-half Of the expense.
Suffragists scored in the national
socialists convention at Indianapolis,
when they amended the section of the
constitution pertaining to membership
in the party to read land unrestricted
political rights for both sexes"
State Senator Thomas E. Kinney of
st. Louis, who was reported to be dy-
ing from tuberculosis of the throat,
rallied and his condition is much i'm
proved. Kinney is n Of the most
widely known St. Louis democrats.
Premier Giolitti announced in the
Italian chamber that General ANGELO
had surrounded and defeated the
Turkish garrison OF the Island Of
Rhodes, which had surrendered and
had been accorded military honors.
The supreme court affirmed without
argument the judgment obtained in
| Nebraska by Ozro Castle for injuries
received while working for the Mis-.
! souri, Pacific Railway company. By
80 doing the court upheld the consti.
tutionality Of the Nebraska employ
ers' liability law.
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