Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-02-09

Mississippi legislature.
At Duisburg, Germany, eight iron
workers were killed and two others
seriously injured by the bursting of
a blast furnace.
The Fo.k-Clark fight in Missouri
has reached bitter stage.
Former Governor Fort thinks Colo
mel Roosevelt will soon make a state
ment.
President Taft announced his belief
in the loyalty of Postmaster General
Hitchcock.
Cyrus e. Woods of Greensburg, Pa,
was nominated by President Taft as
minister to Portugal.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen says a republic in
China is the only logical relief from
present intolerable conditions.
Herbert Knox Smith, in report to
the president, says the profits OF the
steel corporation are excessive.
The senate bill allowing the Nicara-
guam presidents son to enter West
Point, was passed by the house.
The minority members of the SEN
generation of Senator Stephenson.
The postoffice department reports a
large number of convictions of pro-
moters who used the mails to defraud.
The supreme court declared rail
roads must carry beer when rendered
for shipment regardless of dry" ter
ritory.
~~,I <aPN Avry
York announced an advance Of twen-
ty-five points in the price of refined
petroleum.
The Naval Year Book, issued by
foreign relations committee, gives the
United States second place among
navals powers.
In a wreck on the Illinois Central
at Kinmudy, ILL.,, Jas. 4. Harahan,
former president of the road, was
killed.
Joseph Kenyon, battalion chief in
the fire department, Chicago, was
probably fatally injured while speed
ing to a fire.
The name of Judge Hook, to sue
coed the late Justice Harlan. will
probably be sent to the senate this
week.
Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont said that
she is planning to start daily news
paper to be managed by women and
devoted entirely to their interests.
As the days 60 by it appears more
and more clear that the name OF
Roosevelt is to be complication
throughout the nomination campaign.
Pending bills to increase the pay
and rank of army aviators were urged
before the house committee on mill
tary affairs by Major General James
Allen.
Attorney General Wickersham in a
conference with the rules committee
said the government would proceed
against the International Harvester
company.
Senator Gore Of Oklahoma intro
duced a joint resolution for a joint
congressional investigation Of the
presidential campaign funds of 1904
and 1908.
Ambassadors and ministers Of the
foreign countries represented in
Washington we're entertained at din
ner at the White House by President
and Mrs. Taft.
The republican city committee OF
st. Louis adopted highly laudatory
resolution indorsing Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt for candidacy for the pres
dent in 1912.
The Equitable Life Assurance COM
pany has purchased the $2,51S mort
gage on the home of the late battalion
Chief William J. Walsh and presented
it to his widow.
Commissioner of Navigation Cham
berlain. told the Interstate Commerce
committee that the Panama canal
would not affect the Suez canal mon
opoly of Asiatic commerce.
The will of Nine. Caroline Leroy
widow of Jerome Napole-
on Bonaparte. grand nephew of EN-
peror Napoleon, disposes of an estate
valued at 100000.
The Henry bill for changing the
date of inauguration and assembling
of congress was favorably reported by
the house judiciary committee, with
of early debate.
Armour and companys annual state
ment gives the net earnings for the
year ending November 4. 1911, as
S2,510O53, or about 2ss per cent on the
net capital investment which is listed
rs 1914, 493,366.
The movement for fitting celebra-
ton in 1918 of the fiftieth anniversary
Of the battle of Gettysburg took de-
finite form when the Pennsylvania
having the matter in
charge appeared before the joint con-
gressional committee and made pub
lie it's plans.
The kaiser's third son, Prince Adel-
bert, is to visit the United States
some time this year. He was born
July IA, 1884, and is unmarried. The
prince probably will follow in the
footsteps of his uncle, Prince Henry
of Prussia, as commander-in-chief OF
tho imperial fleet.