Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-04-04

The Turkish advanced positions an,
all the fortified points to the east O
the fortress of Adrianople have beef
captured by Bulgarian besiegers.
Large insurance policies are beins
placed on the risk of war among the
powers in six months.
Another severe storm is reported
from Pierre, S. D.
Boston defeated New York in the
National Billiard league three-chusior
match when DR.. r. Hudson won from
H. Goldman, so to As.
Seven or eight people were killed at
Berlin, Neb., fifty miles southeast OF
Lincoln, and the town was practically
wiped out, according to reports.
Reports from Woodbine, Ia, are to
! the effect that the storm did about
| 100000 worth of damage and that five
| people were killed, but that none were
| injured.
Perth, small town of 400 inhabi-
tants in the northern part of Clay
county, Indiana, practically was wiped
off the map by tornado, but only one
person was injured.
With a continued heavy rainfall in
northern and western Pennsylvania,
the flood situation is growing worse
and heavy property damage has al
ready resulted.
Three lives were lost and four peo-
pie were seriously injured in the storm
at Nicola, la. The storm centered in
a farming community two miles north
west of the town.
Charles Murphy of the Chicago Ma
tionals before leaving Jacksonville,
Fla, declared he had been offered $685.
900 and two first-class players in ex-
change for Roger Bresnahan by Ma
tional league club.
Presiding Judge Martin A. Knapp OF
the commerce court recently was re-
designated by President Wilson to act
as an arbitrator under the Erdman act.
The designation by President Taft ex-
pired on March 4.
In recognition of their work in pro-
tecting the marching women from the
crowds that threatened the suffrage
parade in Washington, March 3, the
Boy Scouts are to be decorated with
medals by the women of the national
suffrage association.
In order to obtain more explicit in
formation as to the express rates and !
practices, the interstate commerce |
commission, beginning April 1, will |
hear oral statements, in Washington,
from representatives of express COM
panies and express shippers.
A statewide flood, appalling in its
immensely and terrifying in it's swift
ness, claimed more than 200 lives, ac-
cording to fragmentary reports, made
nearly 100000 homeless and has done
property damage of more than $780,
100000 in Indiana.
Late advices from Saltillo via Mon
terey say that the rebels in force have
attacked that city. One thousand men
under command of General Case Lopez
have been dispatched from San Luis |
and 500 men under General Aguirre
Guardiola from Monterey to reinforce
the government troops.
Floods demolished farm buildings,
much stock was killed and many peo-
pie injured were left in the wake of a
recent storm at Rockford, Ill. Rock
ford and Winnebago county suffered
thousands OF dollars property loss.
Firemen and police were called to
rescue families flooded out of their
homes by Keith creek.
o1p tNI So,
area, following the tornadoes and
rains of the last few days, swept the
valley, causing a loss of
life that may reach into the hundreds
and damage to property amounting to
many millions of dollars. Ohio and
Indiana, and in a lesser degree ILL
nois and Missouri, felt the brunt of
the disaster.
Dayton. O., IS seeing the deep,
muddy waters of the Miami river rush
ing through it's downtown streets. In
'front.' of the Algonquin hotel, standing
On the corner of Third and Ludlow
streets, and beside which stands a
magnificent church, the great Young
Mems Christian association building
IND the Hotel AtlaS, the water is many
eet deep and the street is impossible
except by boats.
Acting under an order issued by e.
. Good, judge of the district court at
Nahoo. Sheriff Jerry Daley, jr., this
,fternoon publicly emptied 1,4OO bot
les of liquor in. Ashland, Neb, that
ad been stored since the premises of I
he ashland club" were raided on
september last on warrant charg- ,
ng Henry G. Smith, manager of the g
Tub, with unlawfully selling liquor +
'ithout license. They were dumped G
nto Salt creek. /
SPORT.
Clarence Ferns OF Kansas City and