Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-04-21

Pennsylvania eight-hour law ha
been declared unconstitutional.
Congressman Norris was placed t
his satisfaction on house committees
The cofferdam surrounding thu
wreck Of the Maine has been com
pleted.
The break in both parties promises
lively session for the present ses
sion Of congress.
Mexican rebels are accused of hold
ing Americans captive in town o
Lower California.
Senator Lafayette Young made
speech in support of the commission
form of government.
Rudolph Forster has been appoint
ed chief clerk of the executive Offices
at the White House.
Premier Giovanni Gioletti present
ed his associates in the new cabinet
to the Italian parliament.
According to the court of commerce
Canadian reciprocity is not affected
by the favored nation clause.
If congress adjourns during the
spring months President Taft will &c
to Texas to watch the maneuvers.
Members of the Brooklyn institute
which expelled DR.. Cook, elected Ad
miral Peary to honorary membership
One hundred bills we're offered but
only Is went through the Nebraska
legislature affecting the railroads
A bill has been introduced in con
gress providing 'children's bureau
for the department of commerce and
labor.
The Nebraska senate passed reso'
luton asking the regents to discharge
the head of the university extension
bureau.
Governor Had1ey, Of Missouri, has
vetoed the immigrant board bill on
the Grounds that it was political
measure.
Robert E. Davey, the Boston boy
broker, is being brought back from
Brazil for trial on the charge of en-
bezzlement.
Mayor Gaynor has appointed a COM
mittee of 14O leading citizens to ar
range for safe and sane Fourth OF
July in New York.
National negro democratic executive
committee has called convention for
indianapolis, May II, to formulate
plans for the 1912 campaign.
George w. Critchfield, the Ameri-
can who was shot from ambush sew
eral days ago at his ranch near Tux
tan, Mexico, died from his wounds.
The British cruisers Kent and Chal-
lenger arrived at Valparaiso, Chile,
bringing the special representatives of
King George on visit of courtesy.
New Mexico lands, aggregating &c.,
064 acres, have been withdrawn from
all forms of disposition by President
Taft on recommendation of Secretary
Fisher.
The story that General Hector Mac
Donald, British general, reported to
have committed suicide years ago, is
drilling troops in China is authori-
tatively denied.
M. Cruppi, in his maiden speech as
minister of foreign affairs in the
French senate, refuted the pessimistic
criticisms by Senator Alden Guam de
Villaine, who asserted that Frances
foreign policy was decadent.
A Mexicali Mex dispatch says:
General Stanley Williams hurled his
little battalion of rebels against
Colonel Miguel Mayet's 500 main reg
ulars on the mesa five miles south Of
Mexicali. Eighty insurgents went into
the fight; 20 returned from the battle
field.
Seeing his wife riding in buggy
with William E. Hagan, wealthy
flour dealer of Kansas City, in 1nde-
pendence, Mo-, John Bramhall, an at
torney and claim agent for the Metro
politan Street Railway company, fired
twice at Hagan with a shotgun. His
victim is dead.
The warden of the Wyoming peni-
Tertiary has rendered his annual re-
port to Governor Carey. 1t shows
there are PSI convicts at the state
pen. This means that approximately
one person out of every 615 persons
in the state is a convict, there being
about $4,000 inhabitants in Wyom-
ing.
A new Interpretation of the divorce
laws of the state was made by the
supreme court of Iowa, to the effect
that a person can be divorced in Iowa,
then go to Nebraska and be married
and return and live in Iowa without
violating the Iowa law.
What secret service men believe
was an extended plan to flood the
middle west with counterfeit gold
coin has been discovered in Kansas
City. M. R. Little and Charles De
Vaul have been arrested charged with
passing counterfeit eagles and double
eagles.
At New York in the presence of
many women and children whom they
had rescued, twenty-four women were
presented with medals for brave work
in 1901. Mayor Gaynor in present
ing the medals said the New York
fire and police departments were the
best in the world.