The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-01

made to the senate WOman suffrage
committee.
The New York democratic state
convention to select delegates to the
national convention at Baltimore will
be held April IL.
Houston, Texas, had a conflagation
entailing a loss of several millions.
A higher duty is proposed for silk
stockings to make up the sugar de-
ficit.
Congressman Dan Stephens OF Ne
braska declares himself for Champ
Clark.
Provisions for a parcels post are
Included In the postofic ~approprla-
ton bill.
The prosecution is ready to pro-
coed any day in the trial of alleged
dynamiters.
The ~Presbyterians are planning to
raise $4,000, 900 for the support OF
aged clergymen.
Kuhn, Loeb Co., announced the pur-
chase of &c. 900 1000 of s per cent
City of Toxic bonds.
Mrs. Mary E. Arbuckle, wife OF
James Arbuckle, Spanish consul at
ST. Louis, Is dead in that city.
Grand jury Indictments were re-
turned at Chicago against a number
of railroads charged with rebating,
In an explosion and panic in a
ing picture show at Albrightsvllle,
Preston county, w. Va, twenty-nlne
persons wereinjured.
A bill that would create a bureau or
tariff statistics as a substitute Tor the
present tariff board was introduced
by Representative Peters,
of Massachusetts.
A bill authorizing the president to
prepare for withdrawal of sovereignty
OF the United States from the Phll}p-
pines was introduced by Representa-
tive Ferris of Oklahoma.
Brigadier General William P. Hall
automatically assumed the office OF
adjutant general upon the
Of General Ainsworth, in the opinion
| Of officers of that department.
Charles Hazen Hyde, former New
York city chamberlain. lost his appeal
to the appellate division OF the SUI
preme court for a change of venue,
and therefore must stand trial.
Mrs. Clara Murray was acquitted al
st. Louis of a charge OF numbering her
husband. She shot him with a rifle
last October, after. according to her
testimony, he had kicked her.
The ~coroner's jury Investigating the
death of John j. Richkels and his IA
year-old stepdaughter, near Topeka,
Kansas, brought in a verdict that the
man murdered the girl by shooting
her to death, and then killed himself.
President Taft told Mayor Fftzger-
aid 70 Boston that he would pin a
shamrock to the lapel OF his coat,
look around for a good shillalah and
ride at the head Of the st. Patricks
day and evacuation day" parade
when he visits Boston Monday, March
the 18th.
A cablegram was received at the
American school OF o%steopathy telling
of the death in Dundee, Scotland, OF
DR.. William Smith, who received the
first diploma in ~osteopathy and who
WAS IOT ucdIly tWCAty J0UAe
or in anatomy and surgery at Kinks
Vile, Mo.
The purpose of the majority of the
house ways and means committee te
abolish the tariff board and substi
tute for it another kind Of a commits
sion was manifested by the introduc
ton of a bill for a revenue board BY
Representative A. M. Palmer, OF Penn
sylvania.
Louis p. Lochner, for three years
editor OF the Wisconsin Alumni Maya
zine, and secretary Of the association
OF cosmopolitan clubs, has been ap
pointed to assume charge OF the de
partment to assume charge Of the de
partment for colleges and universities
Of the worlds peace foundation.
Joseph Baker, n years of age. who
first discovered lead ore In Kansas
died at Joplin, Mo. He came to Jop
lin In 1885 in the early mining days
Believing ore abounded across thu
state line. he went to Galena, Kas.
two years later and found lead In TIT
first shaft sunk.
Adjutant General Maloney OF len
nessee urged before the house mill
tary affairs committee a bill for gov
eminent acceptance OF 5000 acres o
land near Tullahoma, Tenn, donates
for vancouver camps for troops OF Ter
nessee, Kentucky. Mississippi, Alaba
ma, Georgia, Florida and Carolina.
Representative Hobson OF Alabam'
precipitated a lively debate in tn
house when he introduced a resolc
ton providing for an Investigation o
the attack on him by R~epresentativ
Hay, who charged him with havin
acted in a "cowardly manner" by III
serting in the records remarks deros
aNory to Hay, which had not bee
made before the house.
Personal,
Telling a Cleveland friend his ha
was in the ring, Roosevelt promise