Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
lneIudss What 10 Going On ut Wash
lneton and In Other Sections o.
the Country.


.dered his resignation.
Colonel Roosevelt announced he had
quit the republican party.
The democratic national convention
voted to abrogate the unit rule.
The president sent a message TO
congress urging an emergency appro-
priation.
The outbreak Of the bubonic plague
in Porto Rico is having serious
effect, particularly In San Juan.
Bryan was defeated in his fight ON
Alton B. Parker for the temporary
democratic craftsmanship.
There will be no third party In
Kansas" was the statement by Gov
ernor w. r. Stubs, shortly after he
reached home from Chicago.
Minneapolis police are looking for
man who slugged. gagged and bound
Guy Hanson, aged Is, in downtown
establishment in broad daylight. and
with hundreds of pedestrians nearby.
An unconfirmed report was heard
in Mexico City to the effect that
Orozco, rebel leader, had communi-
Gated to President Madero his will
lingness to surrender and asking for
terms for himself and men.
Twenty-Five arrests were made and
score of people were hurt following
q midnight riot in connection with the
street car strike in Boston. The riot
ing followed a mass meeting of strik-
ing car men.
Bob Hunter, known as dare devil"
was instantly killed in motorcycle
race at Luna park, Cleveland. The
riders were speeding seventy-five
miles an hour when 9, collision occur
red.
One man is dying with a bullet In
his abdomen, a score or more are
nursing minor injuries and a dozen
men are under arrest as a result OF
rioting by street car mems strike
sympathizers in Boston.
David w. Bartlett, who was as
sistant editor of the New Era when
that magazine published at Washing
ton the first installments of Uncle
Toms Cabin" died at his home in
West Haven, Conn.,, aged "a years.
Icu0Idl vdl1SIO xISCOAOLS tAO AOOSA
leader and 100 insurgents were killed
in a battle at Vera Bellaco, six miles
from Micra, in the vicinity of Songo,
by government troops in command OF
Lieutenant de la Zorro.
Sir Laurence Alma Tadema, the
famous English painter, died at Wis
baden, Germany, at the age of n.
after long illness from liberation of
the stomach. He was born at Dronyp
in Netherlands, in 1886.
Every common carrier railroad and
steamship line in the United States
was affected by the suspension by the
Interstate Commerce commission of
proposed new regulations restricting
the dimensions of pieces of personal
baggage.
The supreme court of the District
of Columbia held that retailer may
sell a safety razor at any price he
chooses, Notwithstanding any stipula-
ton to the contrary by the manu-
facturer. The case probably will go
to the supreme court of the United
States.
Western and southwestern railways
were ordered by the Interstate Com
merce commission to reduce, by Au-
gust 15, their transportation rates on
cement from IL to Is cents a hun
dred pounds from Ada, Oklahoma, to
Shreveport, La, the existing rate hav-
ing been found unreasonable.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, the prosecuting |
attorney brought suit to have the
charters of three local ice manufac-
turing companies revoked. The officers
of the companies recently were indict-
ed on the charge of maintaining a
combination to control prices Of ice.
Patrolman William Williams of Chi
cago shot and killed one man an.
fatally wounded second when fiv,
men attempted to take two prisoners
from Williams. Earl Farrell, Is years
old, was killed, and his brother, Ed
ward J. Farrell, % years old, was
wounded.
Marshall e. Sampsell Of Chicago
purchased $4,000 worth of the $780,
900 capital stock of the Paris Trac
ton company, paying Sis a share.
His plan is said to be to establish a
terminal for the Christman-Paris and
Charleston-Paris interurban roads. |
The transfer ~ill be made July 2.
Three persons were killed and four
injured, one possibly fatally, near
Kansas City when an automobile OF
G. w. Strope, retired merchant, col
lided with Chicago. Milwaukee &
st. Paul passenger train. Mrs. Strope
is among the dead.
The strictest precautions have been
taken at st. Thomas, d. w. ]. against
the introduction Of bubonic plague
from Porto Rico.
Great public interest has been dis.
played in the recent republican con-
vention by the Japanese. both Presi
dent Taft and ex-Preside1t Roosevelt
having many adherents In Toxic.