Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12


President Taft has learned that the
nomination at Chicago at one time
was almost lost to him.
The total number of victims OF the
Eagle. park, Buffalo, N. T., disaster
ts placed at thirty-nine. twenty-five
bodies have been recovered.
Mr.. Roosevelt told his supporters
he would make the race regardless OF
the action at Baltimore.
Receipts of hogs at the Sioux City
market for June total 100000, estab-
fishing = new high mark.
One man was fatally shot and sew.
eral injured in clash with strikers
at Hastings on-the Hudson.
Word was received in Pekin that
conditions have again become SO
acute at Che Foo that the American
consul there has sent out an urgent
appeal for assistance
The Liverpool cotton exchange will
remain in session until p. m. on July
3 to receive the United States govern
ment report on the American cotton
crop.
At San Jose. Cal. two motorcycle
racers were killed and two others Sc
riously injured while riding faster
than mile minute at the race meet
at the San Jose driving park.
Miss Blanche Stuart Scott has the
distinction of being the first woman
to ny an aeroplane in New England
a. the opening of the aviation meet at
Sqauntum, Mass. She used bipiane.
At Philadelphia q coroner's jury
composed entirely Of clergymen rem
dered a verdict of gross negligence
against the driver of an automobile
which had run down and killed .
woman.
At Concord, N. H., the supreme
court denied a rehearing in the case
involving the legality of the residuary
bequest of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy
to the First Church of Christ, Scien-
fist, of Boston.
David Eccles, the Utah sugar mag
nate, intestifying for the government
in the sugar inquiry, told how, in
1902, he had brought the late H. O..
Havemeyer around to his own price
in the purchase of half interest In
the Amalgamated Sugar company OF
Utah.
Samuel Gompers. and Frank Morri-
son, of the American Federation OF
Labor, recently sentenced to one year
and nine months in Jail, respectively,
for contempt of court, filed an appeal
today from Justice Wright's decision
and gave bail. Execution Of their
sentences was staid.
The saccharin rulings of the pure
food board were modified to permit
the use of saccharin in medicinal
foods, when its presence is stated on
the label. The order contains spe-
cific provision against the interpreta-
ton of the modification to permit use
of saccharine in foods not strictly
medicinal.
The militant tactics of the suffra-
gettes has assumed a new form. On
the arrival of train from Tunbridge
Wells, at Victoria station in London, 1t
was discovered that many windows
had been smashed. cushions cut and
destroyed and the walls plastered
with written demands for votes for
women.
The retirement of j. J. Hill, as
chairman of the board of directors of
the Great Northern railroad became
official July /, formal notice of the
appointment of his son being sent to
the leading officials of the roads. The
retirement of Hill marks the end of
thirty-three years of railroading in
the northwest.
Several naval officers were retired
July 1st on their application, thus re-
ducing to twelve the number of Of
ficers who must be compulsorily re-
tired. They are Captains James P.
Parker, on court-martial duty at New
York; Charles M. Hughes, command
ing the Washington; John E. Craven,
at the naval war college; Wilson w.
Buchanan, commanding the Ohio, and
Guy w. Brown, commanding the re-
cruiting shop at Mare Island.
A grand festival concert, participate
ed in by thousands of members of so
cieties constituting the northeast
with President anc Mrs.
as guests of honor, was the GROWING
event of a program of the Twenty
third Saengerbund festival in Phila-
delphia. When the President and
Mrs. Taft reached Broad street station
at o'clock they were greeted by a
German song of welcome, sung by q
large chorus.
Personal.