Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-11-17

RdU0TS.
Advocates Of the initiative aud re
.erendum say it Is a question To-
congress, and not for the courts Il
decide.
Socialist mayors were elected II
several cities and towns of Ohio.
The country's election results
caused hardly ripple at Washington
Constitutional prohibition is fount
to he retained in Maine.
President Taft attended the dedica
lion of a monument to Lincoln a.
Frankfort, KY.
Two-thirds of the city Of Hankpw
China, has been burned, with a loss o.
dfty million dollars.
The country is not committed te
any party for next year. Next years
victory is yet to be earned.
1t was testified at Washington thai
man over forty need not apply fol
job with the railroads.
Ben Craven, released from the Mis-
souri, penitentiary, is charged with
two murders in Oklahoma.
The funeral of Norman ]. Coleman
first United States secretary OF agrl
culture, was held at st. Louis.
Notices of "open shop" were posted
by the Illinois Central railroad in the
shops Centralia, Ill.
No decision has been reached by
the president regarding successor
to Justice Harlan.
A memorial hall to commemorate
the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln
will be dedicated at Hodgenville, KY.
The massacre of natives at Han
kow, China, makes the problem OF
Premier Yuan Shi Kai more difficult.
The American chamber of COM
merce gave a reception in honor OF
the American ambassador, w. w.
Rockhill at Constantinople.
Frank H. Nicholai, former assist
ant cashier Of the City National bank
of Auburn. Ind, will leave the fed
Nal p, ison ct Leay suwolth IN rarele
FHrt Scott, Kas.-jpnn . T'stltosl
engineer, and ]. w. Papln, fireman,
both of this city, were killed when a
large locomotive exploded.
The proposed through steamboat
sytem for the Mississippi river,
which was intended to open per-
manent service between st. Paul and
New Orleans, has been abandoned.
A summary of the expenses and re-
ceipts of the steam roads of the Unit
ed States in August shows decrease
over the same month Of the previous
year.
The statement of the copper produc-
ers' association for October shows
decrease in stocks on hand of almost
100000 pounds compared with the
previous month.
For the first time in the history of
the county of Milwaukee in Wisconsin
woman was senenced to life i'm
prisonment for the murder of her hus-
band. She is Mrs. Mary Nokovic.
Minister of Labor Crothers OF Can
ada instructed Judge Laurentian OF
Montreal to resume the inquiry into
the charge that the American Shoe
Machinery company is combination
in restraint of trade.
The spot on the parapet of old Fort
Stevens where President Lincoln
stood exposed to confederate fire dur.
ing the attack by General Early on
the city of Washington, is to be
marked by a huge boulder.
A pension for the $4,000 employees
of Armour & Co., based on gift OF
100000 from J. Ogden Armour.
president of the packing company was
announced. The pension system be-
comes operative November 1.
At a meeting of the board of trus-
tees of the Press Publishing company
publishers of the New York WORLDLY
held in New York, the following Off.
GERS were elected; Ralph Pulitzer,
president; ]. Angus Shaw, treasurer;
Joseph Pulitzer, jr., secretary.
Maine retains constitutional prohl-
bition. Governor Plaisted and his
council decided to accept the correc-
lions in the vote of four towns, cast
in the special election in September.
thus reversing the result as indicated
on the face of the first official re-
turns.
At Rochester, N. Y, Charles w. Nc
Bride, a prominent business man,
died suddenly, while seated in an
automobile, which he had just pur-
chased. 1t is thought that the excit
ment incident to handling the car for
the first time affected his heart.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the
weather bureau, thinks an aviator
might cross the Atlantic if he could
take his airship up six miles and re-
main at that level at least two days.
At that height there is said to be
placid ether level, free from the con.
flicting storms and currents which
swirl below.
Personal.
Democrats carried Kentucky ty
$4,000 majority.