Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-05-10


Colonel Roosevelt.
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley advocated be-
fore the Interstate Commerce com.
mittee a bill to require net weight OF
food packages to be stamped thereon.
Colorado democrats in state con-
vention declared for Champ Clark.
Paris police and soldiers killed two
desperate criminals after a fierce bat
tie.
Tho main building at Morningside
(1owa) college was totally destroyed
By fire.
Mr.. Roosevelt made an extended ex-
PLANTATION OF his position in the har.
vester trust report.
Former Attorney General Bonaparte
says Roosevelt is correct on the Har-
vester trust dispute.
Speaker Clark, while In his Office
suffered an attack Of lumbago and
later went to his home.
Little hope is entertained for the
recovery Of more than a few addition
al bodies Of the Titanic dead.
The German government will make
no official protest against the closing
OF the Dardenelles by Turkey.
Officers, crew and passengers Of
the Titanic who persisted are describ-
ed az acting the part Of heroes.
A new tower replacing the one
which fell ten years ago, was dedicaf-
ed with imposing ceremony at Venice.
British Ambassador Bryce and Mrs.
Bryce left Washington for San Fran
cisco. from whence they will sail for
New Zealand.
Governor Herbert S. Hadley and his
friends swung the Missouri state re-
publican convention for Colonel
Roosevelt after q twenty-four hour
deadlock.
President Taft denies that he ever
approved at q cabinet meeting the
proposed delay in the prosecution OF
the Harvester trust.
One side of the main business
street of Terrehern, Man.. was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at 100000, principally in rail stores.
A broad anti-injunction bill, such a
measure as has long been advocated
by labor conditions throughout the
country, was favorably reported to
the house.
Edmee Chandon, a French girl, has
been made assistant astronomer at
the Paris observatory. She has been
connected with the observatory for
four years.
The bodies of Colonel John Jacob
Astor and Isador Straus, the million.
aire merchant of New York, who lost
their lives in the Titanic disaster,
have been recovered.
Interest in republican national pol
itics already at high pitch in Cali
f6Ynia, was intensified by the arrival
of Senator La Toilette to begin four
days personal campaign.
The body Of Major General Freder-
lex Dent Grant, u. s. A., in its final
resting place in the military cemetery
at West Point. The last rites of bur-
ial were very impressive.
Sidney Phoenix, aged edghty-three,
the oldest Yale graduate in the west
in the age of his class, and a prom
inent Presbyterian minister and mis-
sionary, died at Minneapolis.
Representatives of soft coal miner
of Ohio, eastern Pennsylvania. Illinois
and Pennsylvania and Of the united
mine workers of those states, have
signed the wage agreement by the re-
ferendum vote of the miners.
Representative Stanley attacked the
Roosevelt administration for alleged
favoritism toward the harvester trust.
The house insular affairs commit
tee favorably reported the bill pro-
viding for Filipino independence in
1912.
The heaviest baby ever born in
America saw the light at Salinas,
CAL, in a circus tent. He is baby
elephant, two feet tall, three feet long
and weighs 1870 pounds. His godpar-
ents say that nothing like him was
ever bred and born in captivity on
this continent.
Civil war has again broken out in
Paraguay. kilograms from Asuncion
state that four government warships
bombarded the revolutionists, who are
commanded by former President lara
at Villa Encarnacion, town IT'S
miles southeast of Asuncion.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rusch
were divorced in the circuit court at
Neenah, Wis. Mrs. Rusch was given a
cemetery lot valued at SO as her
share Of the property. The couple had
been married fifty-fve years and have
ten children. Mrs. Rusch got the d.
vorce on grounds Of cruelty.
John F. Robinson, founder Of Robin
sons circus, made a voluntary assign
ment in bankruptcy at Cincinnati.
Liabilities and assets are scheduled
as unknown" Litigation and pres
sure of creditors are given as the
cause. Several suits for large sums
have been brought against him lately
Personal.