The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-23

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material reduction In cavalry strength.
President Madero has been weighed
In the balance, and 1t - feared be Is
found wanting.
Kansas City. Mo-, will be the scene
II the next intercollegiate balloon
race.
w. J. Bryan is to be the first wit
ness called in the money trust investi
cation at Washington.
Samuel Gompers reiterated his de-
NAL that he willfully defied al injunc'
ion of the court.
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Ba-
0en-Powell arrived in Chicago with q
message of peace.
A system of wireless telegraphy In
the Philippine islands WAS recon-
mended by President Taft.
Testimony was given to show the
Swift group Of packers had knowledge
Of the system of margins.
A reputed holy a is welding, oc-
cording to the duma, too great influ-
ence with the Russian court.
Field Marshal Wilhelm Won Hahnke,
one of the best known and most popu-
lar soldiers in Germany, is dead.
The health of Morse, the paroled
banker, is improving, and he will
soon go abroad for recuperation.
The senate finance committee de-
bated the Hepburne bill to repeal Ca
madam reciprocity, but took no action.
The 1912 convention of the Amer
lean bankers association will be held
in Detroit in the week beginning Sep
tcmber 9.
The house passed the anti-loan
shark bill fixing IL per cent as the
maximum interest rate In the District
Of Columbia.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination of Hal j. Cleve OF
Washington to be registrar OF the
land Office at Spokane.
The government brought three &C
tons in the federal district court
against the Erie railroad for violation
Of the sixteen.hour law in relation to
employees.
Two army officers made an aero
plane flight in a war department ma
chine from Doeberitz near Berlin. to
Hamburg in two hours and fifteen
minutes.
Inaugural day in Arizona has been
changed from Monday, February II,
to Wednesday, February IA, according
to q statement made by Governor
elect w. P. Hunt.
w. Morgan Shuster, e%x-treasurer
general of Persia, was a passenger on
the steamship George Washington,
which sailed from Southampton for
New York.
Worldwide significance attaches to
the visit soon to be made by Secre-
tary Knox at the direction of Presi-
dent Taft, to the countries bordering
on the Caribbean sea-.
Governor Clark of Alaska was be-
fore the territories committee and op-
posed the Alaska elective legislature
and urged development Of railroads
and fuel resources.
The nomination of Former Cover
nor Myron T. Herick of Ohio to be
ambassador to France was sent by
President Taft to the senate. He will
succeed Robert Bacon.
Secretary McVeagh announced that
he would appoint, before February Is.
an entirely new board to prepare
standards for testing purity Of tea i'm
portations next year.
The Turkish cabinet decided to put
into force the order for closing all
Italian institutions in Turkey, includ-
ing private banks, insurance CON-
panies and the orphanage OF Scutteri.
Mrs. s. H. Schermerhorn, wife of a
Chicago broker, was seriously burned
when an alcohol stove overturned in
a compartment Of a car on the Santa
Fe California limited train near EN-
poria, Kan.
Major Frank White, twice governor
OF North Dakota and who served with
distinction in the Philippines during
the war with Spain. has announced his
candidacy for congress from the Sec
ond district.
William McVey, arrested in New
Orleans for larceny, is the former Ne
vada convict for whom a reward was
offered after the murder of William
A. Sanderson at Garfelud, Utah. No
vember II.
Thirty-two indictments against al
legged dynamiters were returned by the
grand jury at Indianapolis.
Charles H. Walters. former vice
president OF the Mansfield Rubber
company and interested in concerns in
three state. was arrested in Gallon,
O., on charges OF larceny and embez-
element aggregating $16,654.83.
Abraham Lincoln's birthday was
marked in the senate by a favorable
report on a bill to appropriate $4,000
for the aid Of a negro exposition next
January in celebration Of the fiftieth
anniversary Of the emancipation proc
lamation.
Personal.
Jas. J. Hill was summoned to testify