Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-03

| virginia waits Tie supp CAAO SOuA
to shift part of her staggering state
debt on West Virginia.
There is a movement among house
democrats to frame a new code OF
rules for the next congress.
At democratic house caucus
Champ Clark was made the nominee
for speaker by reclamation.
Senator Fletcher in an address de-
clared Secretary Ballinger an unfit
man to remain in the cabinet.
President Taft is concerned over
the formation of the republican pro
gressive league at Washington.
The postofiice appropriation bill
was passed after the department has
received a round scoring in the
house.
At the second trial of men accused
of taking part in the Berlin strike
riots fifteen of the defendants were
found guilty.
Senator Hitchcock, in speech be
fore the Nebraska legislature, was
optimistic with regard to the pro.
gressive work of lawmakers past and
future.
At Aberdeen, S. D., the division
headquarters, local freight houses
and passenger station of the Milwau-
kee railroad, were burned The loss
is estimated at 100000.
At Danville, ILL.,, J. S. Mead, an am
bulance driver, and Robert Shut, a
veteran of the soldiers home, were
shot and instantly killed by Howard
Tucker, another veteran.
At Los Angeles, Howard Wilcox,
driving National, broke the Ameri-
can five-mile competition speedway
record at the motordome. His time
was 3 minutes 81 seconds.
With greater number of delegates
in attendance than ever before, the
United States Civil Service Retire
ment association convened in wash
ington in annual convention.
Oscar Johnson, farmer living near
the Pierce county (Nebr.) line.> at
tackled his wife with butcher knife,
and after killing her he committed
suicide with the same weapon.
The Panama national assembly,
called in extraordinary session to
deal with the financial situation,
voted 100000 in gold in aid of the
projected Panama worlds ia.r in 1915.
What is declared to be the most
nearly perfect counterfeit bill that
has been made in Is years came to
Chief Wilkie in the secret service,
from Wichita. Kans. It is a $40 bill.
The naval affairs committee of the
house which is to vote on the mat
ter soon, will probably provide for
the two battleships and two golfers
and all of the program of Secretary
Meyer.
During last year forty-nine men
were sent to the penitentiary and
566 to Jail for selling liquor to In
dams. The facts are stated in a re-
port by Special officer William f.
johnson.
Millions of spindles in cotton mills
will be idle one-quarter of the time
from now on until markets improve
if recommendation made by the
Arkwright club in Boston is general
ly accepted.
The Peruvian insurgents have oc-
cupied the heights of Tayabamba,
200 miles north of the capital and
are awaiting an attack by the gov
eminent troops which have been
sent to dislodge them.
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich's long
awaited plan for the revision of the
national banking legislation" as he
calls it, was submitted to the ma
tional monetary commission at a
meeting called for the purpose:
The petition for rehearing of the
judgment and order sentencing Abra-
ham Ruef to San Quentin for fourteen
years on a charge of bribery of the
Ruet-Schmidt board of supervisors
was granted by the California SUI
;reme court.
Caution in the extension of federal
control over the issuance of securi-
ties by railroads was urged by Mar
vim Hughitt, chairman of the board
of directors of the Chicago & North
western railroad in the hearing of the
securities commission.
Nearly half the members of the SEN
ate judiciary committee are said to
have taken positions against the con-
firmation of Judge William H. Hunt,
now serving as a member OF the court
of customs appeals, and promoted to
circuit judgeship.
The Japanese who assaulted United
States Consul Williamson at Dainy,
last month, were convicted and given
a light fine, according to news
brought to Victoria, B. c., by the
steamship Oanfa, from Yokohoma.
The men were reprimanded and as
sessed fine of $3.50 each.
James J. Gallagher, who shot Mayor
Gaynor and Street Commissioner Ed
wards on steamship in dock at Ho-
boken last August, was taken TO the
New Jersey state prison to serve
twelve years at hard labor. The SEN
tence, including fine of $1,000, is
FOR his attack on Edwards.
The purpose Of the George Wash
ington Memorial association was ad.
vanced when 100000 was donated by
a New York flnancier. This gift prac-