Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-08-16

the Northern Pacific docks at Duluth
ended.
President Taft formally accepted
the resignation of Federal Judge Cor
nelius Hanford of Seattle, who re-
signed while being investigated.
The progressive convention opened
In harmonious manner.
Right Rev. P. A. Ludden, Catholic
bishop of Syracuse, N. Y, is dead.
Negro contesting delegates were
not allowed to sit in the progressive
national convention.
Congress is to grant President Tart
absolute control in government OF the
Panama canal.
John w. Russell announced that
Harry X. Thaw is suffering from pto-
maine poisoning.
The treasury deficit for the first
month of the new fiscal year is less
than million dollars.
The United States senate, by a
practically unanimous vote, reassert-
ed the doctrine of Monroe.
House Chairman Adamson, in tart
letter to Secretary Stimson, denies
danger of water power trust
The American Federation of Labor
has issued call to all stell work
ers, urging that they unionize.
The United States senate served
notice on all nations of it's intention
to uphold the Monroe doctrine.
The feeling at Washington is that
everything has been done in Mexico
that can be short of Intervention.
A formal writ transferring the Kan.
sas election cases to the supreme
court was issued at Washington.
| The president has about abandon
ed hope of opening the Panama canal
on the date promised by engineers.
Marines from Panama have been or.
dered to Nicaragua to supplement the
force of bluejackets now in Managua,
guarding Americans and their proper
ty.
Twenty socialists, including nine
young women, jailed in Pittsburg for
street speaking without a police per.
nit, kept the other prisoners awake
all night with cell oratory.
Mrs. Daisie Opie Grace, acquitted
Of the charge of having attempted to
murder her husband to obtain $4,000
life insurance, is on her way to
Philadelphia to make her future
home.
Following out plans for country
wide campaign against the bubonic
plague, Sergeant-General Blue assign
ed five additional experts to various
ports where the disease has been in
dicated.
DR.. George Ernest Morrison has
been appointed political adviser of the
president Of the Chinese republic for
five years. DR.. Morrison is the CORE
spondent in Picking of the London
Times.
of Oaxaca, have renewed their revolt
against the government. It is report
ed that large body of the warriors
is marching on Ixtian, forty miles
from the state capital.
Roosevelt supporters held state
convention at Jackson, Miss, elected
delegates to the national progressive
convention in Chicago and adopted a
platform, one plank of which ex-
cludes the negro from politics.
Nine boy scouts were drowned by
the capsizing of cutter off Shippy
Island. A large party of boy scouts
was proceeding at the time to their
summer camp on the island. Several
other holiday fatalities were reported.
President Taft did not meet the
live issues in his speech accepting
the republican nomination, said Colo
mel Roosevelt. The president con.
fined himself largely to utterances
upon general questions, Colonel
Roosevelt commended.
Representative Levy of New York
democrat, introduced a bill in the
house authorizing the secretary of the
treasury to use at his discretion the
money in the treasury in the general
fund, to reduce the tariff on articles
of general consumption and SO reduce
the cost of living.
The Italian cabinet and senate help |
a prolonged secret joint meeting and
voted for the dissolution of the cham.
Der of deputies on the ground that
the present extraordinary session OF
the chamber, being a continuation OF
the previous session and having com.
pleted it's term, now lapses.
After a three-hour debate behind |
closed doors, the senate, 81 to 4. |
adopted the Lodge resolution defining I
the attitude of the United States in
disapproval of the acquisition by
foreign interests of any territory on
the western hemisphere which might
be used as military or naval bases OF
menace "the approaches" of this
country.
Colonel George c. Priestly, repub. |
lican national committeeman from
Oklahoma, rendered his resignation.
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