Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-09-08

Twenty were killed and twenty-six
seriously injured at the theater panic
at Canonsburg, Pa.
Charged with impersonating a fed
eral marshal, Dave Colome and
Heine Hansen have. been arrested at
Winner, S. D.
The total of the death list of the
wreck near Manchester, N. Y, now
reaches twenty-eight.
A $1,000 trophy is the prize for the
best peck of wheat exhibited at the
Minnesota state fair.
At least thirty-seven persons were
killed and many injured in wreck
near Manchester, N. Y.
Vice President Kruttschnitt of the
Hartman lines says that the matter
of strike is up to the employees.
Chicago's population is now 1884,
1874, according to the announcement
made by the publishers of the new
city directory.
Monument makers all over the
country are in Cincinnati for the
sixth annual convention of the Ma
tional Retail Monument Dealers.
At Mason City, Ia, Morrel Severus
a prominent grocer of that city, was
shot and probably fatally injured fol-
lowing a quarrel with Thomas Brewer.
Friends of Mrs. Grover Cleveland
announced that they were authorized
to deny that her daughter, Miss
Ethel Cleveland. is engaged to marry.
Sixty persons were injured, eight of
them seriously, when an express train
on the valley division of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road was wrecked by the spreading of
rails.
Two New Jersey communities in
special elections rejected the commits
sion form of municipal government.
The city of Patterson cast 4,917 votes
in favor of the proposed law and 1884
against.
A bag of American mail matter
which was lost overheard while being
landed from the neutrality-suspicious.
line steamer Kaiserin Auguste Vic
toria at Plymouth, August II, was
picked up in the Helford river near
Falmouth. The mail bag was swept
away from the steamer by wave.
In denouncing at the session of the
national independent political league,
the lynching of negroes, Bishop Alex
ander Walters declared that President
Taft was lone of the weakest presi-
dents the country had ever had, in
view of the fact that he had remained
silent in the face of many lynchings
about the country"
Having distinct recollection of ev-
cry president in the United States ex-
cept the first five, and remembering
when the first railway train was run
in the United States, Alvin Austin, OF
Chicago, registered for home in the
Fort Berthold Indian reservation at
the age of ninety-four years. Mr.. Aus
tin who was born at Sterlin, Conn,
in 1877 is as spry as a man forty
years younger.
The raging storm which swept the
South Atlantic left it's imprint on the
navy. Six torpedo boats were
wrenched from their moorings at the
Charleston navy yard and tossed as
toys high upon the beach by the nine
ty mile gale. Many buildings of the
yard are believed to be wrecked. No
estimate of the damage can be made
here because of the interrupted tele-
graphic service.
Robert G.. Fowler of Los Angeles,
Cal, is announced as the first formal
entrant in the coast to coast aero
plane flight contest for the William
Randolph Hearst prize. Fowler, who
will fly a biplane in his projected
trans-continental trip is expected to
start from San Francisco Sunday,
September 10. His route calls for
crossing of the Rockies between Lara
mie and Cheyenne, Wyo.
Eugene Labine, Marshal county
(Minn.) farmer, is harvesting 500
acres of wheat with one machine,
working day and night. The binder is
run with eight horses, four to shift,
and a headlight is used at night. The
night shift of horses stand the work
better than those used in the heat OF
the day, and Labine predicts night
binding will become the vogue in the
northwest.
Melvin Maniman's balloon, with
which he and five others will attempt
to fly across the Atlantic ocean Octo-
Der %, has been shipped from Akron,
Ohio, to Atlantic City.
At Kansas City, John Perron, twen-
ty-seven years old, a railroad clerk,
shot and killed Mrs. Margaret Cos
sard, aged twenty-five, wife of rail-
road conductor, and then inflicted
probably fatal wounds to himself. He
recently left note saying he and
Mrs. Gossard alone knew the cause
for the tragedy.
Internal revenue inspectors in
search of illicit distillers have dis
covered that a man trap is being used
to discourage their investigations.
Two revenue officers said they just
missed stepping into large steel
tran presumably set for them by