Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-06-23

A skating rink for the blind has
recently been opened in Berlin city.
A Washington state congressman
said millions were going to waste in
tobacco taxes.
Senator Lorimer is preparing to
make a vigorous fight to retain his
seat.
It is expected that the senate will
vote on reciprocity about July Is.
The line of battle has been drawn
in the senate on the reciprocity bill.
The Portuguese cabinet considered
the question of mobilizing the army.
| A reduction in the price Of sugar
is likely to come said the head OF the
| trust.
These are reconstruction days In
Mexico and the country is rapidly re-
turning to peace basis.
Manuel Bonilla took the oath of Of
flee as Mexican minister of commune
cation and public works.
Secretary Knox has, been sum-
moned by the house committee to ex-
plain an expenditure of $1,000.
Directors of the Denver & Rio
Grande railway passed the dividend
on the preferred stock of the COM
pany.
A committee said to represent the
Gould interests have purchased the
International & Great Northern rail-
road at receivership sale.
There is an alarming increase Of the
cigarette habit among boys and girls
of New York's public schools, accord
ing to DR.. John d. Quackenboss.
With an air of great mystery, Will
liam ]. Burns, the detective in the
Los Angeles dynamite case, sailed for
Europe on the American liner Phil
adelphia.
Mabel Mosier, an Atchison, Kan.
woman, was convicted of engaging in
the white slave" traffic by a criminal
court jury and sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary.
Mary Mannering, charming and
beautiful, who has ended all specu-
lation as to her matrimonial inten-
by wedding Frederick e. Wadsw0rth,
a Michigan millionaire.
Announcement was made that Miss
Ellen Fitz Pendleton, dean and acting
president of Wellesley college. had
been chosen president of the col
lege.
Three thousand, two hundred and
nineteen bodies of federal soldiers
buried in cemeteries in different parts
of Texas are to be movd to Pineville,
La, for reburial in the national GENE
terry at that place.
Under the terms of the will Of Mrs.
Caroline E. Thompson of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, and New York, daughter OF
the late P. T. Barnum, an estate
valued at over 100000 is disposed Of
To her husband is given an annuity
of $4,000 and life interest in the
New York residence.
Following four hours discussion OF
the Canadian reciprocity bill by the
senate finance committee in executive
session, Chairman Penrose expressed
the opinion that many amendments
which might be adopted by the com.
mittee would be killed on the floor OF
the senate.
The great naval review by King
George at Spithead, June "a, two days
from the coronation, will see gath
cred together in full commission the
largest number of vessels of the
dreadnaught class ever assembled.
Most of them naturally will be units
of the British navy, but the United
States will be represented by the
most powerful up-to-date battleship
in the review, the Delaware.
Drinking of champaign in public by
members was one of the closing fea-
lures of the Ohio legislature.
The formal making of plans to cele.
brate the fiftieth anniversary of Kan.
sas as a state was commenced by the
Topeka Commercial club. The cele.
bration will be held this fall during
the Topeka state fair week.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt said
with reference to a published story
that he would support President Taft
in the next campaign: There is no
truth in the report that l have agreed
to support any man for president in
1912. l have neither made any such
statement nor even discussed the mat
ter"
Mrs. Edith Culbertson, republican
candidate for superintendent OF the
Denver county schools at the last
election, shot and killed herself at
her home in Denver. Mrs. gilbert
son left note in which she evident
ly wished to make it clear the wound
was self-inficted. Her husband, Sgd
ney M. Culbertson, told the police
that he and his wife had quarred.
Mrs. Culbertson was thirty-six years
old, and a graduate of Vassar.
The sinking of an overcrowded fer
ry boat ON the Volga, near Uglitch, is
reported. Thirty persons were
Personal.
Madero is engaged in pacifying the