Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-09-22

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United States Senator Pomerene,
who has been confined to his home by
IN acute attack OF kidney trouble for
several days, is much improved.
Crop conditions improved only
slightly during the month of August.
The death was announced at Brus-
sells of Imbart de la Tour, Belgian
.enor.
A genuine La Toilette boom was in
augurated by progressive republicans
At Minneapolis.
At this writing over 100000 men
are engaged in army maneuvering in
Germany.
Swindler s. A. Potter is believed to
have had a plan to catch London men
Tor half a million by ''salted" mine.
Directors of the Rubber Goods Man.
lfacturing company declared quar-
terly dividend of per cent on the
common stock.
w. S. Overton of Sarpy county,
Nebr., is believed to have been muir
dered and robbed of $4,000 about a
month ago near Omaha.
At Sydney, N. S. D., Jack Lester OF
Cleelum, Wash, defeated Bill Land,
the Australian heavy weight, for the
championship of Australia.
Colonel John Jacob AstOr and
Madeline Talmage Force, both of New
York, were married at Breachwood,
the Bridegrooms New port house.
Five thousand Spanish troops have
received orders from the ministry of
war to reinforce the Spanish garrison
at Melilia, on the Riff coast of Mo-
rocco.
Armed with an umbrella filled with
long pins, Miss Grace Bassett of FIRE.
mont, Nebr., avenged slight on her
reputation by beating NJ. T. Sankey
of Lincoln, city employe.
The United States Steel corporation
announced that the untitled tonnage
on the books on August 81 was $685.
9S5 tons against 3,5S4,05S tons on
July 81.
Four men were killed and two seri-
ously injured by dynamite explosion
in the stone quarry of the Elmhurst-
Chicago company, fifteen miles west
of Chicago.
The value of the railroad between
Port Arthur and Tang Sur, including
rolling stock, which Russia surren-
dered to Japan by virtue of the
treaty of Portsmouth, has been fixed
at approximately $4O,500,000.
The death of Congressman Latta
means that at the coming November
en-. Had the Tekamah mans death
occurred within thirty days of the No
vember election the place could have
been filled by appointment by Cover
nor Aldrich.
At Rapid City, S. D. parents of school
children are agitated by a ruling of
the board of education compelling all
scholars to submit to vaccination If
they are to continue in school.
According to the orders of the
Iowa commission Of health, Iowa live
stock will be protected from disease
in the future by the most stringent
set of rules in force in the U. S.
metieff Russian ambassador to the
United States to succeed Baron
Rosen, was officially announced at.
Petersburg. He was formerly ambas
sador to Japan and was at one time
secretary of the Russian legation.
A relic of the wreck of the battle
ship Maine, the gold class ring of
Assistant Engineer Darwin R. Mer-
rift of Iowa, who lost his life in the
explosion of that vessel in Havana
harbor thirteen years ago, was re-
ceived at the navy department.
Ending automatically courtship
of several months, Mrs. L. J. Sperry,
a widow aged 65, filed suit in the dis
trict court at Lawrence, Kansas,
against James D. Faxon, SO years old,
alleging breach of promise and ask
ing $4,000 damages.
The minister of education, M.
Hazba, carrying out the new govern
ment's policy of interior development,
announced that two new imperial uni
versities accommodating total of
1000 students would be opened in
Japan.
The wooden steamship Ramona OF
the Pacific Coast Steamship company,
bound for Skagway from Seattle, with
passengers and freight, went ashore
on one of the Spanish islands, oppo-
site Cape Decision, Alaska, total
loss.
Rallo B. Jackson of Newton, Ia,
filed a complaint with the Interstate
Commerce commissionagainst the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
company, complaining against charges
exacted on a carload of poultry from
Newton to Chicago.
Spreading wreck and ruin in its
wake a disastrous windstOrm held
Springfield and central Illinois in its
grip for three hours. The damage
caused by the storm will total hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars, not in
Guiding the loss of thousands of shade
trees. One death is reported.
Personal.
The tariff board is working hard to
make up it's report.