Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-09-01

| Britain IS gradually aDatlng.
President Taft nominated William
K. Chaplin registrar of the land Of
fee and William C.. Edwin receiver al
public moneys, both at Cheyenne,
Wyo.
Opponents of reciprocity are making
lively campaign in Canada.
Further strike complications have
appeared at Liverpool, England
Railroad traffic in Great Britain is
greatly impeded by strike of oper'
atives.
A favorable majority report on the
arbitration treaty was made in the
senate.
Senator La Toilette in a speech
urged federal supervision of utilities
in Alaska.
The program for the governors
meeting at Spring Lake, N. j., has
been outlined.
The United States exported seven
million dollars worth of medicines
during the past year.
Tariff revision is to bob up again
when the regular session of congress
convenes in December.
President Taft talked to Grand
Army veterans at Rochester on the
evils of concentrated wealth.
Workmen of Lincoln will celebrate
labor day with picnic at which Gov.
Aldrich will make and address.
Secretary Wilson admitted in his
testimony in the Wiley hearing that
his department was somewhat upset.
Lieutenant Whittier, executive Of
fcer of the United States revenue cut
ter Androscoggin, died at the relief
hospital in Boston of injuries sustain
ed at the hands of thugs.
Congressman ]. P. Latta of Nebras-
ka and his son Ed accompanied by his
physician, Dr. Luken, has gone to
Rochester. Mimi. where he will prob
ably undergo an operation.
Martin Dewey La Toilette, eighty
four years of age, died at Marietta. O.,
of paralysis. He was noted Grimm
ologist and jurist and was judge OF
the Ohio supreme court from 1883 to
1896.
Four men were killed, four were
fatally injured, while nine others suf-
fered fractured arms and legs in an
explosion which wreckd the molding
building of the Illinois Steel COM
pany's plant at Joliet, Ill.
Jose Maria, managing editor of the
paper Cuba at Havana, and his
nephew, Manuel Villeverde, an editori-
al writer on the Cuba, were seized at
the residence of the former and
placed on a steamer and deported to
SPAIN
The foundation of a federation OF
democratic club of the country at
large was laid in Washington in the
adoption of a charter and bylaws.
The organization is under the guild
ance of Senators Owen of Oklahoma
and Chamberlain of Oregon and
George H. SHIRLEY of Mississippi.
Martin w. Littleton, congressman
from Nassau county, N. Y, will be
chairman of the proposed congress
sional committee which will be au-
thorized to investigate the industrial
conditions of the United States. This
committee will, it is reported, be the
most important one appointed by con-
gress in recent years.
John w. Deaton, one of the oldest
employees at the Springfield, Mo-,
postoffice, was arrested by postoffice
inspectors charged with OBTAINING
letters that contained registered mat
ter. He furnished $4,000 bail, pending
trial at the October term of the fed
eral court.
The bishop of Padua has issued
pastoral letter addressed to all the
clergy under his Jurisdiction, warm
ly exhorting them to use their in
fluence to the end that women and
especially fashionable women, should
adopt more decent and decorOus
modes of dressing on these hot sum-
mer days.
A new comet recently discovered by
DR.. w. R. Brooks, director of observa-
tory and professor of astronomy, Ho-
bart college, and named by him the
Brooks comet has become so bright
as to be seen with opera glasses or
small telescope and will soon be vlsl-
BILE to the naked eye.
Governor Eberhart of Minnesota
was subpoenaed to appear before the
state board of control to testify in
the hearing of the charges of cruelty
preferred against Superintendent
Whittier of the Red Wing training
school.
The president probably will leave
Beverly September H. returning east
about November /. He will go west
through Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Colorado and Nevada to the coast.
Most of the big cities in those states
including Des Moines, Kansas City,
Omaha, Denver and Salt Lake City
will be visited, but the plans for the
trip contemplates stops at scores OF