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

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the Panama canal.
District Attorney Rotan OF Philadel-
phia said that he would investigate
the raising Of the price of anthracite
coal by retail dealers.
Meat packing establishments under
federal supervision at Chicago, st.
Paul, Milwaukee and Indianapolis are
to be inspected by DR.. M. P. Ravenel
Of the University of California.
Oil engines propulsion for ocean go
ing vessels, has reached so success
full a stage that $5.00O.0O0 company
has been organized in London to op'
crate lines of freight ships OF that
type.
Governor Sulzer, after characterize
ing the Binghamton, N. Y, fire as
terrible catastrophe" declared IN
statement that the people OF the state
"will.. hold Mr.. Murphy of Tammany
hall responsible"
An explosion, believed to have been
caused by defective gas light plant,
wrecked grocery store owned by J.
Rosenfield in st. Paul and caused a
panic among patients at st. Lukes
hospital, short distance away.
Arrangements for the sixth annual
governors conference, which is to
held at Colorado Springs, Colo, for
five days commencing on August rs,
were announced recently by Secretary
Miles c. Roley at Madison, Wis.
True bills charing completely In in
cendiary fires were voted by Chica-
go grand jury against Joseph Fish,
head of Joseph Fish & Co., public fire
insurance adjusters, and nine others,
two of whom are reported to be Wo-
men.
Announcement was made recently
in Kanawha intermediate court that
thirty-nine indictments had been re-
turned by the special grand jury
which has been conducting an investi-
CATION into the strike conditions in
the Kanawha county coal fields at
Charleston, w. Va.
The big strike at Paterson, N. ]. is
over. All employees who left the mills
twenty -Ouo WOcho o6O WOAO oOAo w
find work. 1t is estimated the strike
cost the employees $1,500,O00 in lost
wages. The manufacturers lost their
spring and summer orders and TWEEN
ty-one small plants went to the wall.
Exposure of illegal operations OF
real estate firms is provided in
resolution adopted recently by the
Secretaries association at the con-
vention of the National Association OF
Real Estate exchanges. Their reso-
luton directs the secretary of each
exchange to notify the national ex-
ecutive secretary of all dishonest
transactions.
War Echoes.
Trustworthy reports of appalling
massacres and devastation by the
Turkish irregular troops come from
districts in Thrace which the Turks
are reoccupying.
Mar Wing Kee, Chinese consular
representative in Ell Paso, received a
telegram from Ow Young Kee, consul
general of China in San Francisco,
telling him to advise all Chinese to
leave western Chihuahua at once.
The Greek fleet has occupied the
ports of Lagos, Maronia and Makri
on the coast of Thrace, and Greek
force has captured the town Of Gumur-
jina, twelve miles from the Aegean
sea and about seventy-6ve miles
southwest of Adrianople.
The Mexican consul at Ell Paso, has
informed the Mexican foreign Office
that the matter of shooting OF Dixon
has been satisfactorily arranged, and
it is stated that the government at
Mexico City seems most DESTROYS of
meeting the desires of the United
States in every way possible.
Colonel Torobio Ortega, constitu-
tionlist commander at Guadalupe, for
ty-five miles southeast Of Juareb, told
American newspaper men who visited
him that he had been ordered by Gen
eral Francisco Villa, in a message
sent by courier, to break camp and
begin to effect a junction with Villas
main body to a point south of Jaurez,
with the object of beginning the pro-
jected assault on Jaurez.
Foreign.