Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-07-14

There was general observance o.
the Fourt at European capitals.
The 4th of July was celebrated in
many sections of the old country.
Two were killed and fourteen injur.
ed in auto wrecks near Pittsburg Sun.
day.
Pittsburg was selected as the next
meeting place of the American insti-
tute of homeopathy.
The German cruiser Berlin will re-
lieve the gunboat Panther at Agadin,
Morocco. The Berlin is three times
as large as the gunboat Panther.
At Coshocton, O.. Aviator Lemar
was probably fatally injured when his
Curtis biplane, flying low, struck the
roof of house, turning over and dash
ing him to the ground.
More than $500 engineers of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad were grant
ed an increase in wages of about 6
per cent.
President Taft has under considera-
ton the withdrawal of the troops now
forming the maneuver division in
Texas.
President Taft approved an issue
Of $1,50O,0O0 Hawaiian bonds, the
money to be used in public improve
ment in the islands.
Crazed by heat which prevailed
there, Mrs. McCrary, of Lockney,
Texas, killed her three children and
ended her own life.
1t is reported that Bakhmetieff, for
mer Russian ambassador at Toxic,
has been promised the Washington
post in case Baron Rosen resigns.
John McNarrey, chief of the Kansas
City, Kas., fire department, was dan
gerously injured when he fell through
the floor of burning house in that
city.
Festivities in connection with the
coronation of King George, so far as
the metropolis is concerned, ended
Friday with his majesty's treat to the
children.
President Taft left Washington on
Friday for his new cottage at Beverly,
Mass. Mrs. Taft, Charlie Taft, Miss
Della Torrey, the presidents aunt.
of Milbury, Mass, and Major A. w.
Butt accompanied him.
The state health department of Ok
lahoma has decreed that artificial but
termilk must go. The sale of this
kind of buttermilk is said to be
common practice in some of the cities
Of the state.
Expeditions action in the pending
treaties with Honduras and Nicara-
qua, providing for customs guarantees
for foreign loans by those govern
ments. where urged by President
Taft in a message to the senate.
William j. Handke, north of Atchi-
son, finished threashing wheat from
an eleven-acre field and the yield
promises to be the high record for
Kansas this year, being 556 bushels,
an average of 51h bushels an acre.
The supreme court of the United
States issued an order to the attorney
general ordering him to instruct the
lower courts to carry out the supreme
courts decision providing for the dis
solution of the American Tobacco COM
pany.
Gifts to the amount Of $1,200,000
received by Harvard university last
year, were announced by President
Lowell to the 1000 for more Harvard
men gathered for the alumni meeting
in the quadrangle behind Seaver hall.
Rev. Timothy Sullivan, of Fort
Dodge, the Catholic priest who was
found dead in a bath tub in hotel in
New York last week, was well known
in the Sioux City Catholic see. He
was stationed in Sioux City for four
years.
President Taft sent to congress a
special commissions report recon-
mending the acceptance of gift of s.
900 acres of land near Tullahoma,
Tenn, and the purchase of $4,000
acres nearby at $3.50 per acre for
permanent maneuver.
Miss Florence R. Cushing of Boston,
who arrived from Honolulu, jumped
from the seventh story of hotel and
was instantly killed. A note found in
her room said troubles had made her
desperate and asked that her brother,
C. F. Cushing, of Needham. Mass, be
notified.
Parramatta, the new summer white
house, is in readiness for the arrival
of the presidential family. For sever
al months a small army of workmen
of various trades has been engaged in
fitting up the house and grounds for
the use of the Taft family.
President Taft will send to congress
a special report recommending the &C.
ceptance of gift of 5000 acres of
land near Tullahoma, Tenn, and the
purchase of $4,000 acres nearby at
$3.50 per acre for permanent ma
neuver ground, inspection camp and
rifle and artillery range for the army.
Fire resulting from the explosion of
a large firecracker in the Matt Dono-
van ice house at Bernard, Ia, caused
a loss of more than $4,000, the ice
House, elevator, a lumber yard, gen.
eral store and number of residences
were totally destroyed. 1t was sever