Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-02-07
The flood situation is considerably

100000.
The supreme court will take its us
| ual Easter recess from February 3
to "a.
Newark, N. J., children the other
day collected $1,000 to aid in fighting
tuberculosis.
President Taft nominated Preston
A. Worthington to be receiver OF pub
/ lie moneys at Burns, Ore.
San Francisco's new garbage in
cineration plant is to go into oper-
alton in March. Cost $132,075.
The Diamond Match company paid
fines aggregating $4,000 for violation
of the Wisconsin child labor law.
! A legislative measure providing for
the sterilization Of defective criminals
| will be laid before Governor Fletcher
of Vermont.
Appropriation of $1,0OO,000 for relief
of Ohio valley flood sufferers provided
in resolutions introduced by Repre-
sentative Stanley.
The largest and most powerful bat
tleship afloat the Brazilian super
dreadnought Rio de Janeiro was
launched from the slips at Elswick
England.
Equal suffragists were successful in
having resolution providing for the
submission of the question to the vot-
ers introduced into the lower house
Of the Iowa legislature.
Participants in the proposed reun-
;no bo fftioth onnl-
versary of the battle of Gettysburg
will decide fer themselves whether
to appear in their old uniforms.
Archduke Rainier, of the house of
Hapsburg, and therefore related to
Emperor Francis Joseph, is dying.
The last sacrament was administered
Archduke Rainier is in his S7th year.
Baltimore's public service commits
sion has secured reduction of gas
rates from 80 to 80 cents and of cleo
tricity from 10 to S1a cents kilowatt
hour.
The house ON the Fred Troutner
farm, five miles northeast of Colo, Ia,
burned to the ground while the family
was away from home. The origin Of
the fire is unknown The loss will
reach $4,000.
Extension of the Sherman antitrust
law provisions to combinations OF
farmers or laborers is proposed in an
amendment to the antitrust law intro
ducement by Representative Byrne OF
Tennessee.
With the clause eliminated requir-
ing aliens entering this country to
have certificates of character, the con-
ference report on the immigration bill
| was reported to the house by Repre-
sentative Gardner of Massachusetts.
President Taft presented to Capt.
Josephus E. Cecil, of the Eighteenth
United States infantry the medal of
honor voted to him by congress for
gallantry in action in the Philippines
in March, 1906.
The War department is arranging
to have the body of John McCrann of
the Philippine infantry, recently kill
ed there, brought back on liner
which leaves the islands for San Fran
cisco Jan. 20. Mr.. McCrann was the
son of DR.. w. J. McCrann of Omaha,
Neb.
The republican fight for the con-
firmation of President Taft's 1900 ap-
pointments now pending in the senate,
will come to head when a republican
caucus will be asked by republican
leaders to bind it's members to con-
tinuous session behind closed doors
in an effort to break down democratic
opposition.
The highly priced title of "Yale's
strong man" was conferred on w. F.
Roos, a junior at the Scientific school.
He has broken all the university rec
ords for feats of strength and rolled
up the remarkable tota! of 1865
points. The former record was
2,4OO.9, made in 1911, by John R. Kill
patrick, the football and track star.
S. G. B. Crawford, two years ago a
candidate for mayor of Alton, Mo-,
has issued unique announcement of
his candidacy this year He shows a
campaign picture of himself with his
hat off, all his other pictures having
been with his hat on. The hat, he
explains, LIDS UCCA CdoI iAto eAO
ring"
An attempt to procure a decision
from the supreme court of the United
States to the effect that the Hepburn
law allows railroads to limit their
liability for loss of baggage in return
for a low passenger rate was inaugu-
rated when attorneys for the Oregon
Short Line railroad appealed to the
court from a decision by the Utah SUI
preme court.
Mr.. Harry Garrison, one of the
most widely known residents of this
section of the state, celebrated his
one hundredth birthday anniversary
at his home at Mallard creek. The
entire membership of Mecklenburg
camp of confederate veterans of
this city made a pilgrimage to the
home of the centenarian to help in
the celebration.
Peraonal.
Francis Blake, inventor of the Blake
telephone transmitter, died at Boston
recently, aged 62 years. Besides the
transmitter, Mr.. Blake produced many
electrical inventions.