Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-05-31


Manager Dixon said the result in
Ohio made certain the nomination Oh
Roosevelt.
The house passed the joint resolu
ton providing an amendment to the
constitution for direct election Of
senators.
Houston, Tex, had million dollar
fire in business section.
One new bishop-Homer c. Stuntz
was elected by the Methodists.
Iowa's democratic delegation must
vote as a rule for Champ Clark.
Colonl Roosevelt scored the meth
DDS Of Taft men in Washington state.
The Presbyterian general assembly
took strong stand against the liquor
traffic.
The house voted against levying OF
canal tolls on American-owned coast
wise steamers.
Governor Foss has declined to In
terfere with the death sentence Of G.
v. T. Richeson.
Roosevelt said there would be no
compromise at the republican nation
al convention.
Senator Root OF New York will BE
temporary chairman Of the republican
national convention.
The coming international congress
OF navigation will take cognizance OF
the Titanic disaster.
Prospects are not favorable for an
adjournment OF congress prior to the
national conventions.
Colonel Roosevelt says he can
count enough delegates to give him
the republican nomination.
At Winnipeg, Man., although War
rem Conlan, playing at the Orpheum
theater, dropped dead on the stage,
the show went on.
Miners Of district 10, comprising
Iowa and the north tier Of counties in
Missouri, will vote May % on the ten
tative agreement reached at Des
Moines.
James A. Peterson, of Minneapolis
announced his candidacy for the
United States senate to succeed Sena-
ton Nelson at the September pri-
maries.
DR.. T. F. Henderson of Brooklyn
and w. O. Shepard of Chicago are the
new bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal conference elected on the elev-
enth ballot.
The federation of German Catholic
societies of Illinois elected as presi-
dent DR.. ]. "A. Bauer of Germantown
and selected Decatur as the next con-
vention city.
The supreme court of Missouri con-
tinued the application of the Stand
ard OIL company for modification OF
the judgment against it until the
October term.
Vice President Sherman signed the
joint resolution for direct election OF
senators which must be ratified by
three-fourths of the states to become
an amendment to the constitution.
The National Anti-Third Term
leagues petition to amend the consti-
tuition to prevent a third presidential
term, consecutive or otherwise, was
presented by Representative Mccall.
The German reichstag passed to
the third reading of the bills increas-
ing the German army and navy. The
navy bill provides for an extra battle
ship squadron, with three additional
battleships and two cruisers.
The Mississippi river commission
decided to expend up to 100000 to-
ward the closure of the Hymelia, La,
crevasse on condition that the prop.
erty owners interested shall contri.
butte one-half of the expense.
Suffragists scored in the national
socialists convention at Indianapolis,
when they amended the section OF the
constitution pertaining to membership
in the party to read land unrestricted
political rights for both sexes"
Premier Giolitti announced in the
Italian chamber that General Angelic
had surrounded and defeated the
Turkish garrison of the Island OF
Rhodes, which had surrendered and
had been accorded military honors.
The state of Michigan won first
honors in the thirty-eighth annual in
terstate oratorical contest held at st.
Olaf college. Iowa won second place
and Minnesota third, Illinois fourth,
Indiana fifth, Ohio sixth and Nebraska
seventh.
Resolutions protesting against the
passage by congress of the Dilling-
ham immigration bill were adopted at
a mass meeting in Chicago attended
by college professors, clerymen and
laymen. 1t was declared that if the
bill became a law, no political refugee
from Russia would be safe from de-
portation.
The members of the subcommittee
on arrangements for the republican
national convention adjourned in Chi
cago without naming a temporary
chairman for the convention. After
adjournment Secretary Hayward an
nounced that the committee had de-
cided to leave the selection of tenn
porary chairman to Harry S. New,
chairman of the subcommittee.
Personal.
Champ Clark has a solid delegation