The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-04-05

Vice President Wood OF the Penn
sylvania railroad says the steel "or-
poration should quit carrier busi'
ness.
Increased spring trading is helping
to wipe out the governments deficit.
The Colorado republican state con-
vention instructed delegates for TAFT.
A strike broke out among the EN-
ployes OF the Northern railroad OF
Spain.
Investigation Of an alleged coal
trust has been undertaken by the
government.
A compromise on a s per cent In
crease to miners has been suggested
at Cleveland.
Major H. Glacke. United States In
ternal ven collector, died at his
home at Cheyenne.
BY a vote Of 222 to 20S the house
OF commons rejected the Cancellation
bill on it's second reading.
A. B. Fall and T.. B. Catron, repub-
leans, were elected United States
senators in New Mexico.
Colorado has joined with Nebraska
in protesting the Union Pacific four
hundred feet Of right-of-way.
Congress needs no coaching from
the tariff board according to Demo
cratic House Leader Underwood.
A pile Of coal and a wharf compos-
ing the naval station at Sitka, Alaska,
was ordered abandoned by the navy.
Legislation for the protection OF
Niagara Falls probably will go over
until the next session Of congress.
AS between the ultra radical and
the reactionary, Colonel Roosevelt
pronounced himself the happy me
dunn.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination Of George l.. Town
send to be United States marshal for
Delaware.
The remains Of the heroes recov-
cred from the wrecked battleship
Maine, in Havana harbor, were aid
to rest at Arlington.
The United States was asked to
contribute 5000, 900 toward the nation
al conservation exposition to be held
in Knoxville, Tenn.
William Ludwell Shepard, confeder-
ate veteran and widely known as an
illustrator and designer Of sculpture,
is dead at Richmond, Va.
The house committee on expendi-
lures in the interior department de-
cided to conduct a full investigation
into the Indian bureau.
An unidentified Italian was burned
to death and a property loss OF $780,
900 was incurred in a fire in the bust
ness district of Blairmont. Ala.
Resort to the courts will probably
be made at once for a review of the
decision of the interstate commerce
commission announced in the Louis
lana rate case
The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
railway has placed orders for 26.55O
tons Of rails. The order was distribut-
ed between one western and two
eastern companies.
Two bills amending the patent laws
and intended to meet the "legalized
monopoly" decision Of the supreme
court were introduced by Representa-
tive Hanna Of North Dakota.
1t is planned to make Pittsburg
smokeless by using electrical power
developed from the nearby rivers and
streams. Over 100, 900 horsepower
can be obtained in this way.
Representative Jones Of Virginia,
chairman of the house committee on
insular affairs, proposed probation
ary independence" for the Philippine
islands from July 4, 1913, to July 4,
1921.
Legislation for the suppression Of
vice and the white slave" traffic is
to be discussed at the state anti-vice
convention to be held in Bloomington,
Ill.,. April Is and l6.
Representative Mann Of Illinois in
troduced a bill to require all railroads,
steamship lines or other common car
riers to provide food and water for
poultry in transit.
The Arizona legislature, by an over
whelming majority resolutions object
ing to the appointment of Former Ter
ritorial Governor Richard Sloan, to be
United States Judge for the district OF
Arizona.
The Blue Grass Baseball league
directors met at Lexington, KY, and
decided to hold an umpire day" this
year, on which players and specta-
tors are to treat the umpire with the
utmost consideration.
The republican state committee of
Montana, after a stormy session de-
feated a proposition for a presidential
primary by a vote of 26 to II and en-
dorsed President Taft for renomina-
ton by a vote Of q to 10.
The petition for the establishment
of a star mail route between Cook
and Tecumseh, signed by 160 citi.
Gems of Cook, has been received by
Senator Hitchcock and Congressman
Mcguire.
Personal
Governor Hunt of Arizona volun.
T.