Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-07-21

| out conditions generally are gOOO.
Samuel Wellman of Omaha. Neb.
journeying in company with his
daughter from Pittsfield, Mass, te
New York, dropped dead at Dunbury
Conn.
Congressman Norris of Nebraska
charges there is a conspiracy al
Washington against the progressives
The German cruiser Berlin will re-
lieve the gunboat Panther at Agadin,
Morocco. The Berlin is three times
as large as the gunboat Panther.
Democratic members of the ways
and means committee held a brief
preliminary meeting and planned
work on the cotton tariff schedule
revision.
Sister Madeline O'Brien, for 40
years directories of st. Joseph's acad'
envy, Emmittsburg, Md, and one OF
the best known educators in this
country and Canada, is dead.
Steam railroads operating in Iowa
increased their gross earnings prac.
tically $6,0O0,000 during the year 1910
according to statement issued by
the state executive council.
Governor Shafroth of Colorado or
dered out company of militia at La
Junta, Colo, to prevent the possible
lynching of Ben Harris, the negro &C
cused of killing Chief of Police Craig
at Rocky Ford.
President Taft's order transferring
coal lands at Controller bay, Alaska,
from the forest reserve to the public
domain will be the subject of inquiry
by the house committee on expendi'
ture in the interior department.
Bishop Frederick Foote Johnson of
the Episcopal missionary diocese OF
South Dakota announced that he
would accept the call extended on
May 18 to the Office of bishop coad-
jutor for the state of Missouri.
President lara of Uruguay, who q
few months ago seized the presidency
through a bloodless revolution, has
now assumed a dictatorship and de-
clared martial law according to tel
egram to the state department.
William ]. 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 $50 bushels,
an average of SLY bushels an acre.
Resolutions were passed by 20 ma
tional, state and clearing house bank
examiners, who met in St. Louis, ad-
vocating an amendment to the ma
tional banking act, to empower ma
tional banks to loan money on real
estate security.
Speaker Champ Clark is losing
$1,000 a week, it is said, because con-
gress is remaining in session at a
time when he expected it to have ad-
journed. The speaker had contract
with a Chicago lecture bureau to take
the platform on July 1.
The Japanese naval hero. Admirai
Togo, hero of the battle of the sea OF
Japan, will have no difficulty in view
ing every thing he cares to see in the
New York navy yard or any other
naval establishment. 1t is expected
he will board the battleship Florida
uOW ACdlIA6 COupiOIiOA'
The house of lords, by vote OF
253 to 46, passed Lord Lansdowne's
amendment to exclude home rule
from the operation of the veto bill.
War Secretary Haldane made it clear
that the government would refuse to
accept the amendment.
No less than 100000 barrels of
beer were sold in the United States
during the IL months ending June 80
last, or an increase over the previous
IL months of Cpl per cent, according
to the annual report of the beer and
whiskey sales made public by the
United States brewers association.
All the Madrid papers print the
statement of Brigadier General Will
lam H. Bixby, chief of engineers
united States army, that he believed
that the destruction of the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor was caused
by the explosion of it's magazines
and not by external force.
Thousands of head of cattle have
died from heat, hunger and thirst on
the ranges in western Texas and in
Pecos valley, and the losses even
now are estimated from 100000 to
$750,00O. Unless generous rains fall
within ten days the losses will go a
couple of million or more.
Cuba is arranging to pay tribute
to the sailors whose lives were sacri.
feed in the destruction of the battle
ship Maine. President Gomez has
issued a decree ordering a special
demonstration of sympathy through
out the republic as soon as Havana
harbor gives up the dead.