Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-18

Less than $1,000 was obtained by
the robbers who held up the Illinois
Central southbound trains near Talla'
hatchie, Miss.
The South Dakota National Guard,
600 strong, will go into camp at Fort
Meade, and go through maneuvers
with the Twelfth calvery at the post
for eight days.
At the request of Mrs. E. B. T.
Wadsworth, who died at Beatrice,
Neb., her body was cremated and
sunk in Lake Michigan, a mile from
Milwaukee.
Twenty-Five persons were injured,
four fatally, when two electric inter
urban trains loaded with pleasure
seekers met in a head-on collision in
Ogden canyon.
Pitcher Rice Williams was sold by
the Great Falls Union association
team to the St. Louis Nationals for
delivery September IA. The announc-
ed price was $4,000.
Stones are found in Nevada which,
when placed apart, begin to travel
toward a common center. The pres
ence Of lodestone or magnetic iron
ore is the explanation of the phe-
nomenon.
1t is stated that the David Lamar,
who has made such startling disclos-
ures to congress at the senate lobby
Investigations, was formerly a Ne
braska man, known in Omaha as Da-
vid Lewis.
Clarence Crosby, 18, of Toledo, o.,
was instantly killed when he fell 500
feet from his balloon while making
an ascension before 5000 people at
the Wood County Sunday School as
sociation's picnic.
Preparations have been begun at
the Brooklyn navy yard for laying the
keel of the latest United States bat
tleship, designated for the present
as No. 80, for which there is an ap-
preparation of $16,000,000.
I Leo Barrett. son of William Barrett
OF Cambridge, VT, aged Is years has
perfected an invention by which an
engine can take on water without
stopping 1t has been approved by
the patent office at Washington.
For quickly raising to the surface
of the water disabled submarine, an
Englishman has invented buoy to
be released from the boat, carrying
up hose through which air can be
pumped to fill and lift the craft.
The special arbitration treaties of
the United States with Japan, Swe-
den and Portugal, which would have
expired by limitation within the next
month, were extended by protocols
signed by Secretary Bryan, the JAP
anese ambassador and the Swedish
and Portugal ministers.
The acid placed in the center of
golf balls to give them resiliency
which usually explodes when the
balls are cut open by inqusitive per-
sons was swallowed by Frank Wilbur
Perry, a Chicago boy, with fatal re.
suits. The boy died from hemorrhage
of the lungs.
Prof. Rafael Munoz Jiminez, chief
of the bureau of animal industry of
Uruguay, is in Washington to study
the agricultural activities of the
United States, preliminary to the
establishment of department :
agriculture by Uruguay
By finishing a 5,O00-mile walk al
Ottawa, Ont, w. Chapman of Denver
won a $500 wager. The agreement
was that he should walk the distance
within two years for 81 a mile. He
finished forty-one days inside the two
year limit.
George Alexander, who had been
mayor of Los Angeles for more than
four years, has been succeeded by
H. H. Rose, formerly a police justice
In reply to demand following a
request from Postmaster General Bur
Lesson, Arthur G. Fisk again refused
to resign as postmaster Of San Fran
cisco