Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-05-17

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John Samuel. said to be the inven
tor Of the Mason jar. is dead.
Paris police and soldiers killed two
desperate criminals after a fierce bat
tie.
The London inquiry into the Titanic
sinking is to be thorough.
Colorado democrats In state con
vention declared for Champ Clark.
Reforms on ocean liners will follow
the Titanic disaster.
Congressman Sloan protested in the
house against free cereals and meats.
The main building at Morningside
Cowa) college was totally destroyed
by fire.
Leaders Of congress contemplate q
recess during the national conven-
lions.
Methodist bishops favor q reutrn
to the old rule Of placing a time Inn
It on pastorates.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween house and senate conferees on
the pension bill.
The possibilities Of agriculture in
Alaska are dealt with in bulletin is.
sued at Washington.
There are so many candidates for
Office in Wisconsin the elimination
plan may be decided upon.
Senators declared their opposition
to any foreign nation securing foot
hold in Magdalena bay.
New Hampshire republican dele
gates were instructed to stick to Taft
until given their release.
A house resolution was introduced
providing constitutional amendment
limiting a president to one term.
Little hope is entertained for the
recovery of more than few addition
al bodies Of the Titanic dead.
The Wyoming republican and demo
cratic state conventions to select dele.
gates to the national conventions will
be held in Cheyenne May 10.
One side of the main business
street Of Terrehern, Man.. was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at 100000, principally in rail stores.
A broad anti-injunction bill, such
measure as has long been advocated
by labor conditions throughout the
country, was favorably reported ia
the house.
Five hundred employees Of the Muir.
ray, Utah, plant of the American
Smelling and Refining company
struck for higher wages. The plant
closed.
Mrs. Julia A. Polk, widow Of the
late Jefferson s. Polk, for many years
owner of the Des Moines City Rail.
way company, died at her home, aged
seventy-eight.
The directors of the United States
steel corporation declared the regular
quarterly dividend of IA per cent on
the common stock and "a per cent
on the preferred stock.
Secretary Knox sent to congress a
letter from the Chinese minister ex-
pressing the thanks Of tn people Of
China for this governments recent
message of congratulations and con-
fidence.
Urging a bill to create a Porto
Rican department of agriculture and
labor, Santiago Iglesias told the fnsu- |
lar affairs committee that Porto Rico's
welfare had advanced more since |
American acquisition than in previous |
years.
Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of
the treasury, expressed the belief that
the house banking and currency COM
mittee investigating the money trust
would find an evolution in financia! at
fairs tending towards concentration
of larger power in the hands of a few
institutions or even of few men.
Protestant and Roman Catholic me-
mortal services for the Titanic vic.
Tins were held at Halifax. Burial
services followed at both Protestant
and Catholic burial grounds OF the
fifty-nine unidentified dead seven were
women. Forty-six were placed in one
common grave in Fairview cemetery.
Bishop Austin Bowling, as his first
official act, today announced the APP
pointment of Monsignor Michael Fla
vim, pastor of Stambrose church, Des
Moines, as vicar general of the new
Catholic diocese of Des Moines. The
new vicar general had been pastor of
the local church for twenty-seven
years.
Work on the new 100000 Union
station in Kansas City was suspended,
when the 1000 union men employed
struck because some of the stone used
had been procured from an Indiana
company that employs stonecutters
whose organization is not affiliated
with the American Federation Of La
Dor.
The agricultural appropriation bill
carrying $17,656,976, which is $1,723,.
SO more than the house provided, and
B756,960 more than the current years
appropriation, finished by the senate
would raise the appropria-
ion for fighting forest fires from $780,
300 to $1,000.000; and appropriates
IS, 459,045 for the forestry service
generally.
The agricultural appropriation bill,
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