Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-01-12

The Hamburg-American line has or
dered a third $4,000 ton liner for the
transatlantic service.
More than a million gallons Of mo
lasses were destroyed in fire among
the wharves and buildings Of the Bos-
ton Molasses company.
President Taft has decided to make
few speeches himself in Ohio.
A son-in-law of Richard Croker has
begun a damage suit, claiming his
wife was taken from him.
Congress will have a surfeit Of bills
providing for downward revision Of
the wooden tariff.
The visible supply of wheat In Can
ada December % was 11,860.000 bush.
els, an increase OF 238.000 bushels.
Republican members of the ways
and means committee have begun
work on the republican wool bill.
Kansas City religious workers have
undertaken to find respectable homes
for women of the red light district.
Premier Yuan Shi Kai says he must
have $10,000,000 Immediately to save
the Chinese dynasty.
It is currently reported that Presi-
dent Arosmena intends to waive his
candidacy for reelection in Panama
in favor of Ricardo Arias.
Robbers blew the postuffice safe at
Spaulding, Ohio. Two men, with 500
worth of stamps and some registered
mail were arrested at Hickville.
Salt Lake City passed under the
commission form of government Jan.
1, when Mayor Samuel c. Park and
four commissioners were indicted IN
to office.
Thirty cases Of ptomaine poisoning
have been discovered at Belmont, ILL.,.
since Christmas. Physicians say that
all those suffering had been eating
oysters.
Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son Of
the English novelist, visited James
Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet. on
Thursday and chatted for an hour in
Riley's study. ~
At Pittsfield, ILL.,, John C.. Gingery
and Henry Hatfield lost their lives
when they overturned a stove and
burned to death in the house at Gin
gery's farm in a fight.
The funeral of Wright Lorimer, the
actor, who committed suicide in New
York last week was held in the Dana,
Mass, town hall. the building where
he first attended school,.
A resolution indorsing Governor
Eugene Foss for the dcmocrtic NOM
ination for the presidency Of the
United States was adopted by the
Massachusetts democratic state COM
mittee.
Rear Admiral w. p. Potter, aid for
personnel on the staff of the secretary
of the navy, fell down the long fight
of stone steps leading from the navy
department on his way to the White
house reception and was quite badly
hurt.
Attorney General Wickersham and
Secretary. Nagel and Samuel Inter
meyer of New York have been asked
to appear before the house rules COM
mittee January Is and give their
views upon the proposed investiga-
tons by congress.
At Hot Springs, Ark, one thousand
persons escaped with difficulty from
the First Presbyterian church Of that
city when the church was burned.
The congregation had assembled to
hold special watch services, when the
flames burst forth.
A reward of $1,000 has been offered
by the officials of the Illinois Central
for the arrest of the persons
who broke open several switches
south Of Chicago, caused several de-
railments and endangered the lives of
of passengers on subur-
ban and through trains.
Members of the Nebraska delega-
ton at Washington received briefs
from T. J. Mahoney on behalf of land
owners along the Union Pacific, who
protest the claim of the railroad that
it owns 400 feet of right-of-way.
Mahoney's clients insist that the road
owns only 200 feet. An act of con-
gress may be sought to settle the
matter
Steady increase in Chicago's fresh
meat industry is shown in the annual
report of the Union Stockyards and
Transit company issued lately by the
official statistician. 1t shows that
10000 more carloads of live stock
were received the last year than the
year before. The total number of car
loads received during the last fiscal
year was 271,00O.
The "See American First" propa-
ganda. preached so extensively
through the country, at last has reach
ed the federal government. Plans are
in contemplation for sending abroad
a well-known government official
whose name will not be revealed at
present to give illustrated lectures in
the important cities of Europe on the
beauties of America.