The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-01-31

Eight ballots lett tne llllnols epe"N
| ership deadlock u%nbroken.
Free meat and possibly cattle loom
up as a probable part OF the ne"
tariff bill.
A Lincoln crowd saw Luther Nc
Carly, white heavyweight champion,
in action.
The alleged telephone monopoly is
to be taken in hand by the interstate
commerce commission.
President Taft has approved the
note sent in reply to the British cor.
vention on Panama canal tolls.
The democratic majority in the Del
aware legislature again failed to agree
upon a United States senator.
The Diamond Match company paid
fines aggregating $4,000 for violation
of the Wisconsin child labor law.
The deadlock in the New Hamp-
shire legislature over the choice OF a
United States senator continued.
The interstate m commits
sion finds there is basis for the com
plant that coal prices are too high.
At Neenah, Wis, a young girl, en-
ployed in one of the paper mills
there, has found $110 in a bundle OF
rags.
Head Consul A. r. Talbot urges
end of NJ. w. A. rate quarrel and says
Old rates will stand until 1914 meet
ing.
Arguments on points of law con-
sumed almost the entire day OF the
trial of officials of the National Cash
Register company in Cincinnati.
Prof. O. V. P. Stout Of the Uni
versity of Nebraska is attending a
meeting of the deans of engineering
de lartment in land grant colleges.
The largest and most powerful bat
tleship afoat, the Brazilian super
dreadnought Rio de Janeiro was
launched from the slips at Elswick
England.
State Senator J. B. Sanford OF
Uliah, Cal, democratic national com.
mitteeman for California, introduced
a joint resolution in the senate favor,
ing Asiatic exclusion.
Nathan Straus sailed for the Holy
Land to establish twenty-one soup
kitchens in Jerusalem and to do what,
ever else he can to alleviate the suf.
fering Of the Jews in Palestine.
Equal suffragists were successful in
having a resolution providing for the
submission of the question to the vot-
ers introduced into the lower house
of the Iowa Legislature.
The house on the Fred Troutner
farm, five miles northeast of Colo, Ia.
burned to the ground while the family
was away from home. The origin OF
the fire is unknown. The loss will
reach $4,000.
Extension of the Sherman antitrust
law provisions to combinations OF
farmers or laborers is proposed in ar
amendment to the antitrust law intro
ducement by Representative Byrne OF
Tennessee.
With the clause eliminated requir
ing aliens entering this country tt
have certificates Of character, the con
ference report on the immigration bill
was reported to the house by Repre-
sentative Gardner of Massachusetts.
President Taft presented to Capt
~Josephus f. Cecil, Of the Eighteenth
United States infantry the medal o.
honor voted to him by congress fol
in March, 1906.
Competition has hurt the arson
business in New York City. The
grand jury, which has already indict
ed several property owners and in
surance adjusters, alleged to be mem
bers of the so-called larson trust,
learned that a large group Of indie
pendent operators were responsible
for nearly as many fires as the trust
itself.
An address by Former Governo,
Hadley of Missouri on the subject o
Progressive Jurisprudence was thu
leading feature Of the program at tn
annual meeting of the New Yorl
State Bar association. At the cleo
ton OF officers which will conclud'
the meeting Judge Alton B. Parke
will be named as president of thu
association.
Mr.. Harry Garrison, one e Of tn
most widely known residents Of thi
section OF the state, celebrated hi
one hundredth birthday anniversar.
at his home at Mallard creek. Thu
entire membership Of Mecklenburl
camp of confederate veterans o
. this city made a pilgrimage to tn
home OF the %centenarian to help il
the celebration.
Federal Judge Holt postponed 70
one week his decision on the wri
of habeas corpus in the case Of Ed
ward F. Myths, the Belgian journal
list, ordered deported as an undesil
able alien. Myths will spend tn
week at Ellis island. The writ, !
granted, would give him his freedom
under bond until the courts deter
d mine whether he may enter the cour
try.
Alex Shuttle, a mail carrier @
Mankato, MINI. shot and kille
Joseph Budde, a policeman of tn
camo citv and then Turned tho wa.