Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-08-04

A case Of cholera has appeared in
Boston.
Texas has voted to remain in the
wet column.
Three of four men accused of hold
ing up a passenger train in North
Dakota were captured by detectives
The reciprocity bill passed the sen.
ate by vote of SO to q.
Announcement is made that there
is soon to be an advance in sugar
prices.
Union and confederate soldiers met
on the fiftieth anniversary of the bat
tie of Bull Run and held a jubilee.
The census bureau says farm lands
have more than doubled in value in
the last ten years.
The United States is declared to be
imposed upon by Germany in the con
test for commercial supremacy.
New York city was overcharged
$17,S30 for the fire works with which
it celebrated July 4, according to a
report made to Mayor Gaynor.
Private dispatches say that Madame
Lantelme, the noted Partisan actress,
was accidentally drowned in the Rhine
near the holland frontier.
Colonel Sydney w. Taylor, Second
Field artillery, the commander of the
Department of the Columbia, has
been placed on the retired list.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
designated the main postofices in
New York, Chicago, Boston and ST.
Louis as postal savings repositories.
They will begin to receive deposits on
August 1.
President Simon of Haiti appears
doomed to follow President Diaz OF
Mexico, and to give way to another
revolutionary government, according
to advices reaching Washington.
The aeroplane piloted by M. Slusa-
renkos, in the St. Petersburg-to-Mos-
cow race, fell near Tsarkoe-Selo. The
airman's passenger, M. Shimansky,
was killed and Slusarenkos was badly
injured, both legs being broken.
The city council of Bontam, Tex.
has passed an ordinance providing
that no one may sell peanuts on the
streets of Bonham until he has suf-
fered the amputation of both legs.
A subcommittee of five members
of the senate committee on privileges
and elections will determine wheth-
er the charges affecting the election
of Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin
shall be investigated by the senate.
Barney Dreyfuss, president of the
Pittsburg club of the National league,
purchased Marty O'Toole, st. Paul's
spit ball pitcher, for $22.50, the high
est price ever paid for a ball player
in the history of organized ball.
Three armed thieves invaded the
heart of the tenderloin in New York
at it's gayest hour, smashed Sixth
avenue jewelers. window, shot his
clerk dead, seized $1,000 worth of
diamond rings and escaped in taxi
cab.
More than 1900 horses died from
the heat in New York city during IL
days. One packing company suffered
a loss of $4,000 in horse flesh and
another corporation met with loss
of $4,000. The total loss is set at
100000.
One of the biggest hospitals in the
world, the Pitie in Paris, which has
been opened, is already receiving it's
first patients and it is expected that
before the lapse of two months all
30 hn
Louis D. Brandeis, of Boston, who
participated as counsel in the Balm
ger-Pinchot case and other congress
sional inquiries, has been chosen to
act as counsel for the house commit
tee Investigating Controller Bay,
Alaska, land claims.
Within ten days thousands of men
probably will begin the construction
of the most elaborate system of I'M
derground thoroughfares in the world.
The entire new system, involving the
expenditure of approximately $685.
100000 was awarded to the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company.
F. G. Lewis, president of the Lewis
Publishing company of st. Louis, tes-
titled before the house committee on
expenditures in the postofice depart
ment that whereas a few years ago
he was worth 100000 to 100000,
he was compelled to borrow money
to come to Washington to appear as
witness.
Assistant States Attorneys Mar
shall and Arnold, of illinois, were
summoned to appear in Washington
on Monday before the senate commit
tee which is investigating the cleo
ton of Senator WilliamLorimer. The
prosecutors sought indictments
against State Representative Lee
ONeil Browne in connection with the
Lorimer scandal.
News received at San Diego from
Lapaz, capital of the southern district
of Lower California, is that the gar
rison of 400 Mexican troops rose
against General Augustin Sanguinez
last Tuesday, attacked the capitol
building and wounded the general,
who is also the jefe politico of the
territory. In the fight ten insurrectos
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