Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-19
General.

Senator Works of California de-
clared himself opposed to a new
party.
Twenty-one were killed and thirty
injured in a collision of trains near
Latrobe. Pa.
Norman E. Mack says the demo
cratic ticket appeals to both conserva-
tive and progressive democrats.
Minneapolis police are looking for a
man who slugged, gagged and bound
Guy Hanson, aged Is, in downtown
establishment in broad daylight, and
with hundreds of pedestrians nearby
At Marion, Ind, four persons were
killed and more than a dozen serious
ly injured in a head-on collision be
tween two interurban cars on the
Marion, Bluffton & Eastern traction
line.
The American government and peo
pie began the new fiscal year with
$3.50. 407, 621, of which all but $685.
621, OO8 is in circulation and the bal
ance held in the treasury vaults as
the assets of the fedral government.
The British court of inquiry, pre-
sided over by Lord Mersey, has fin
ished it's report in regard to the loss
of the Titanic. The report is much
like that of the report made by the
congressional committee headed by
Senator Smith.
The American line steamer, Phila-
delphia, due to leave New York fol
Southampton, was held up through
the failure of ITS oilers, coal passera
and water tenders to report for duty.
The men apparently deserted in SYM
patty with the seamen's strike.
The disappearance Of two pouches
of registered mail from a government
street car while en- route to the Union
depot from the postoffice in Kansas
City, is puzzling government inspect
ors. The mail was addressed to New
York, Omaha and Ogden, Utah.
A 3-year-old Chicago boy got hold
of his mothers pocketbook and fed
$36 in bills-his fathers wages-to
his pet guinea pigs. The father sent
the remnants Of the pigs meal to
President Taft with an appeal to the
government to redeem the entire roll
That the property and live stock
loss because of the cloudburst in the
Bad Lands district of North Dakota
will exceed $500. 900 is the statement
of farmers, who made their way from
their homes, some travelling consid.
cradle distances through water.
One of the most disastrous fires
that ever visited North Adams, Mass,
destroyed q large section Of the bust
ness district, causing an estimated
loss Of 100000. The Empire theater.
Wilson hotel, the Empire apartment
house and Sullivan furniture building
were destroyed.
The navy will supply enlisted men
to operate the ships Of the Panama
railway between New York and Colon,
to replace those who Joined in the gen
eral strike called at New York. The
regular service of ships is essential
for supplying food and other necessi
ties for the canal workers, as well a.
material for the canal itself.
Cecil Brunswick Smith, one Of tn
best known railway and hydro-elec
trical engineers in the world, is dead
ut his home in Toronto Of cancer. He
was 48 years old. Nearly every hydro
electric plant in America was either
designed or built by Mr.. Smith.
1t is the consensus of public opinion
that the outcome of the Baitimors
convention makes the third party
logical absurdity.
William J. Bryan. in a statement
said that the nomination of Woodrow
Wilson ON q progressive platform
meant an overwhelming victory 10,
the democratic ticket next fall.