Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-01-17

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the next cabinet.
At Darlington, N. D., firemen stood
helpless while an entire city block
burned. The city water supply was
exhausted soon after the fire started.
President Taft believes canal dis
putes should be arbitrated by special
board.
Problems in currency reform are
being given attention in the house this
week.
Presiden1elect Wilson, SO far, has
not offered a single cabinet portfolio
to anyone.
Robbers got $4,000 from the State
Bank of Liberty in Montgomery
county, Kansas
Albert McCabe, United States dis
trict judge in the Philippines, died at
Rochester, MINI.
Denial is made by the insular bu-
reau of any revolutionary plot In the
Philippine islands.
Chicago federation of labor condemns
the whole proceedings in the trial OF
ironworkers.
Ortie Mechanical and Frank X.
Painter may be tried in Omaha for ex-
plosions in Douglas county.
Judge Archibald, as witness, de-
MED any bad motives in his different
deals with railroad companies.
Alaska has had a prosperous year,
but is handicapped by lack of trans
,,nrf tion fooi1;tioo ond fuo1
The Chinese customs revenues for
1912 amounted to $4O,280,O 900. This is
a much larger return than in 1911.
The retrial of the criminal anti
trust suit against the bathtub trust
will begin at Detroit on February 5.
While protesting to have reached
the limit Of concessions, Turkey is
yielding little by little to the allies.
Field Marshal Count Alfred Won
Schlieffen, formerly chief of the gen
eral staff of the German army, is dead.
Charles P. Miller, we'll to do mer
chant of Hulet, Wyo., was instantly
killed while descending a hill in his
automobile.
Action by the house judiciary COM
mittee on the proposed wOrkmen's
compensation and employers liability
legislation is expected within the next
two weeks.
Mortality records have been broken
during the present congress. Since
the Sixty-second congress began Vice
President Sherman, six senators and
sixteen representatives have died.
Edward E. Wagner of Mitchell, S.
D., United States attorney for that
state, and Charles Boynton, U. S. at
torney at Waco, Texas, have resigned.
President Taft accepted both resigna-
tions
United States Senator jeff Davis
died suddenly at his home in Little
Rock, Ark, as the result of an attack
of apoplexy. He was the only man en-
joying the distinction of having been
governor of Arkansas for three terms
Mrs. Adelaide Otero Luna, widow Of
Former Republican National Commit
teeman Solomon Luna. New Mexico
sheep baron, distributed cash and
gifts to the poor people of Los Lunas.
Albuquerque and Santa Fee, her
benefactions aggregating upwards of
$4,000.
The lowest death rate in the history
of New York City is recorded in the
annual report of the health depart
ment, just made public. With $4,000
deaths for the year, the rate per 1000
went down to AL, as against 1913
in 1911, 1898 in 1910 and sixteen in
1909.
Senator Bradley of Kentucky and
several other republicans threatened
openly that if the democrats persist in
opposing president Taft's appoint
ments, the republicans will start a
bitter contest against President Will
sons appointees in the special session
that meets after March 4.
The treasury department issued a
notice to the public that concern
known as "the United States Treasury
Gold Mining company" said to be
sending out literature from Chicago,
has no connection with the treasury
and that the use of the name was not
authorized by the treasury.
Congressman Lobeck introduced in
the' house a bill appropriating $780,
900 for the construction of a paved
road between Fort Crook and the
south limit of South Omaha. The
bill is identical with that introduced
in the senate before the holidays by
Senator Hitchcock.
The Italian supreme court has re-
versed the decision of the court of ap-
peals at Palermo, which held that
Nunzio Nasi, former minister of pub
lie instruction, was ineligible to sit in
the Chamber of Deputies. The deci-
sion ordered a new trial of the case
by the appeal court at Catania.