Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-04-28
The Mexican government has issued

The Mexican government has issued
a call for volunteers.
In a battle near Chihuahua forty or
more insurrectos were killed and
many wounded.
The insurrectos who defended Aqua
Prieta all day Monday, quietly stole
away during the night.
w. s. Kenyon will not qualify as a
senator until the antitrust prosecu-
tons are finished.
H. U. Nudge, president of the Rock
Island, is not adverse to public con-
troll of corporations.
House democrats have decided to
revise the agricultural schedule of
the present tariff law.
A tornado which devastated Okla
homa and Kansas killed twenty-three
and injured hundred.
A Nebraska man was among those
killed with the Mexican insurrectos in
battle near Chihuahua.
DR.. Gomez, of the revolutionary
junta at Washington, is moving act
lively for peace in Mexico.
The house, by vote of 296 to 16.
adopted the resolution for direct cleo
ton of United States senators.
George Gould was able to dictate
the selection of Benjamin F. Bush as
president of the Missouri Pacific.
With the Mexican situation on his
hands the president has reason to be
thankful that congress is in session.
Searching inquiry into the situation
in Mexico is demanded in resolu-
ton offered by Senator Stone of Mis-
souri,.
President Taft has gone as far as
he cares to on his own initiative, and
if there is to be intervention congress
must declare it.
The Michigan senate killed the bills
for popular vote on constitutional
amendment providing for the initia-
tive and referendum.
George S. Terry, assistant United
States treasurer at New York, died at
Aiken, S. c. He had been suffering
for week from an attack of dia-
betes.
John Hays Hammond has filed a
formal plea of not guilty in the suit
brought against him by ]. Sully for
$1,5O0OOO damages for conspiracy to
defame.
John R. Montgomery, 81 years old,
and for fifty years New York tea
merchant, stepped into summer
house at his home and ended his life
by shooting.
But % years of age and married for
the fourth time is the record of ,Geor-
giana Pierce of South Omaha, who was
last week united in marriage to Alfred
E. Lowe, aged "a years.
After a search of two years secret
service men arrested Harry B. Porter
in Denver and charged him with max
ing the best counterfeit silver dollars
ever circulated in this country.
Henry Brown, aged 80, a roommate
of Abraham Lincoln when the latter
was practicing law, died on his farm
near Bloomington, Ill. He had many
letters written to him by Lincoln.
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 vera the
hest in the world.
The New Hampshire senate, by a
vote of 16 to 6. adopted a resolution
informing Senators Gallinger and
Burnham that the sentiment of the
people of New Hampshire appears to
be that Senator Lorimer should not
be allowed to retain his seat in the
United States senate"
Representative Clark of Florida,
during debate, served notice on his
colleagues that there would be no
more extension of remarks or leave
to print undelivered speeches in the
Congressional Record, popular out
let when debate is limited during the
Sixty-second congress-
Drawing the chilly winds and drizz-
ling rain and immense throng, vari-
ously estimated from 100000 to 20O,-
600 stood in the streets of Cleveland
and paid silent tribute to the memory
of Tom l.. Johnson as his body was
conveyed from the family apartments
to the union depot, en- route east for
burial.
Denman Thompson, of West Swan
sey, N. H., the venerable actor, Gre
ator and portrayer of that homely
New England character, Uncle JOSH
VA Whitcomb," which he endeared to
theatre goers all over the country,
was buried Sunday with simple cere-
monies in the little cemetery across
the road from his home.
A government operated mine, to be
run, not for profit but to obtain scien-
tific data, will begin operations about
May /, when the new experimental
coal mining plant at Bruceton, Pa,
near Pittsburg, is opened.
Scullers' row on the Hudson river
was swept by fire. Four boats were
burned, with their contents, including
nearly 200 racing shells, and two other
club structures were damaged. The
loss is 100000.