The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29

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business nan who is on q t~wenty-day
fast, passed the fifteenth day.
Vice President Wood OF the e
sylvania railroad says the steel cor
poration should quit carrier busl'
ness.
There were more than a hundred
men killed In a mine explosion in OK
lahoma.
The result in North Dakota is cold
comfort for political managers OF Tart
and Roosevelt.
The home rule bill Is not to be In
troduced into the house of commons
before Easter.
A wholesale dynamite plot was
thwarted, according to the police, by
the arrest Of six men.
A presidential primary may be held
in Illinois by the ruling OF Judge
Windes at Chicago.
The right OF the people to rule was
the theme Of an address by Theodore
Roosevelt at New York.
Senator LaFollette Is the benefic-
larry of the first presidential primary
10 De neld IN any state.
Progressive democrats gathered In
Lincoln at a birthday banquet to do
honor to Bryan.
John P. White, head Of the united
mine workers, can see no other out
come than a strike April i.
A judge, prosecutor and sherlr
were shot by Virginia mountain out
laws in the town of Hillsvale.
Senator La Toilette has a substan-
tial lead in the North Dakota presi-
dental preference primary.
There Is to be no resumption OF
mining in Great Britain until the min
imum bill has passed the commons.
BY a unanimous vote the Michigan
house passed a workingman's compen-
sation and employers liability bill.
II an amendment to the govern
ment canal bill is adopted, railroad
owned ships cannot enter the water
way.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion ruled that wood pulp should take
ordinarily a lower freight rate thar
lumber.
The statewide prohibition bill pre-
pared by the a~nti-saloon league or
Maryland was passed by the house Of
delegates.
Strikes at six OF the textile mills in
Lawrence, Mass, are ended. Others
remain in effect at seven mills there
and one in North Andover.
Woman suffrage and the election
Of United States senators by direct
vote were defeated in the Massachus-
etts senate by a close vote.
Senator Simmons advocated a
reading and writing test for immi-
grants as an amendment to the Dill
bingham general immigration bill.
James ]. Hill, railroad builder, paid
800 for a city directory Of st. Paul,
Mimi, OF 1857 in which his name ap-
pears as a clerk in a brokerage office.
Representative Kahn OF California,
introduced a bill to appropriate
800, 900 to establish a small arms
target range for the navy on the
Pacific coast.
At Spokane, Wash, Oliver S. Grit
fin, said to be a professional wrestler,
Is under arrest charged with being a
fugitive from justice. He is wanted
at Osceola, Neb., for arson.
At least thirty-two men were kill
ed and parts Of their bodies strewn
for blocks around when a big pas
senger engine in the Southern Pac-
ifc shops blew up at San Antonio,
Texas.
Proposed advances in the transpor-
tation rates on hay. varying from 81
to 81 a car by northwestern railroads
were suspended by the interstate
commerce commission from March
Is until July 10.
Charges that railroads of the en-
trail west have Disseminated in the
| distribution If coal cars in favor OF
their own mines are to be investigat-
Indiana and Illinois.
Senator Cummins Of Iowa intro
duced in the senate a nationwide
presidential primary bill, the effect
OF which would be to do away with
local state and national conventions
Of the various political parties.
Positions as singers in motion pic.
ture shows are attracting so many
choir boys that churches in Chicago
are considering installing choir girls.
One church, the Trinity Episcopal, al
ready has substituted girls for the
chofr Of boys.
Personal.