Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-01-26

Radical reductions in livestock rat
have been ordered by the interstate
commerce commission.
Senator LaFollette said IL anothel
than the republican party afforded
better agency for reform he would de
sert his present affiliation
Senator Lorimer pleaded his owl
cause as witness before the senate
Investigating committee.
The black powder law enacted in
Kansas in 1907, to protect coal min
ers, was upheld as constitutional.
Major General Carter told the mill
tary committee that $4,000 Japanese
subject to recall in war time, lived IN
Hawaii.
The New York state convention to
elect delegates to the national repub
lican convention will be held In
Rochester on April 9.
George A. Medley, democrat, Of
Hutchinson, Kansas, was elected to
congress at the special election Tues
day by a majority of 1900 over Frank
{. Martin, republican.
The administration building at the
Massachusetts leper colony on Penic.
keye Island, at the entrance of Buzz.
Yards bay, was burned.
A band of Bulgarians threw three
bombs into an open air mass meeting
at Zikowa, near Uskub, European Tur-
key, killing three persons and injurine
twenty-five.
The Turkish vessels destroyed by
italian warships were those which
took refuge at Suez two weeks ago.
according to dispatch to a news
agency from Rome.
Pennsylvania Gettysburg anniver.
sary commission urged 100000 appro.
priation before Gettysburg congress.
sional committee for erection of q
permanent memorial.
New Mexico's first members of con.
gress, George Curry, republican. and
H. B. Ferguson, democrat. were
sworn in as members of the house
amid generous applause.
Representative Smith Of Texas at
tackled President Taft in the house,
for alleged failure to protect Ameri-
cans on the border during the Mexi-
can revolution last year.
Fire destroyed the four-story build
ing occupied by the st. Louis Bag and
Burlap company, st. Louis, causing a
loss Of $4,000. Adjoining buildings
we're damaged by water.
NNvowrA~ ~T,,HcNyn 10 IF Ohf0
in an address before the st. Clair
County Democratic club at East st.
Louis, attacked the financial policies
If the recent republican administra-
ton.
When August Neumeister of Rock
ford, ILL.,, died almost penniless, as
his daughter Alice supposed. small
safe which he had kept in an obscure
corner of the house was opened and
therein was found $21,635 in money
and valuable securities.
An order was issued by the secre-
tary of war detaching Brigadier Cen
eral William w. Witherspoon from
duty in Washington as president Of
the war college and assigning him to
duty as commander in chief of the de-
partment of the gulf at Atlanta.
The Rev. r. c. McIlwain. rector
emeritus of St. Johns Episcopal
church at Keokuk, Iowa, and for forty
years pastor, was sued for $4,000
in a breach of promise action by Mrs.
Rosa Haga, go years old, now of Tul-
sa, Okla, but formerly Of Keokuk.
Frank Wells, Wilberfore Sully, Ru-
fus J. Ireland and George W. Daily
must stand trial in Wyoming on In
dictments charging them with con.
spiracy, on June 1, 1906, to defraud
the government by obtaining 1,760
acres of coal and belonging to the
United States.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh awarded an aggregate of $751;
900 to two informers in customs
frauds cases. Joseph l.. Payne will
be given $4,000 for the evidence he
contributed in the Duveen art case
and Peter Redling will receive SIS. 900
for his service.
William Twiman. a negro, consider
ed insane. murdered his father at
their home in Scottsville, a village
near Rochester. N. Y, shot dead a
deputy sheriff and wounded four
others who were endeavoring to enter
the Twiman home in which he had
barricaded himself
The late Associate Justice John
Marshall Harlan of the supreme court
of the United States left an estate of
$4,000, of which $1,000 was in life
insurance. Letters of administration
were granted to his son, Interstate
Commerce Commissioner James Har-
Ian.
An issue of $2O.OOO.00O per cent
gold debenture bonds has been sold to
a New York banking house.. it was an
nounced by the Chicago Rock Island
Railroad company. The proceeds will
be used for terminal additions and
betterments to the system and for re-
funding purposes.