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

GENERAL.
Eleven people are reported killed IL
Council Bluffs, la.
Richard A. Ballinger has been ap
pointed commissioner of the Genera
Land Office.
The funeral of the late King George
1t is officially announced in an Athens
dispatch will take place March 80.
A tornado swept Bombay, Fla, and
according to reports, three persons
were killed and twenty-five injured.
Former Governor Frank S. Black,
of New York, long prominent in re-
publican politics, died at his home in
Troy.
Many farm animals were killed,
barns were demolished and other
property losses were caused by a
storm which passed near Elgin, Ill.
The illiteracy average of South Da-
kota has been reduced by almost half
In the last ten years, according to a
bulletin issued by the bureau of the
census.
Mobile citizens are canvassing for
money and supplies for the relief of
storm victims at Lower Peach Tree,
Ala, which practically was wiped out
by cyclone Friday.
Manager Kilian has announced the
purchase from the Nebraska State
league of Spellman, who is said to
have burned up the Nebraska circuit
last year as a batter.
St. Joseph, Maumee and st. Mary
rivers in Indiana are on a rampage
Fort Wayne is without lights and a
water famine threatens. Highest
water in twenty years.
p. Endicott, rural mail carrier be-
tween Atlanta and Twin Springs,
Idaho, was killed when he was caught
beneath a snowslide several miles
from Atlanta
Train service on the Twenty-Five
railroads centering in Chicago is seri-
ously impaired as result of the dam
age wrought by storms and floods in
the central states.
The Missouri senate recently pass
ed bill making the nine-hour day ap-
ply to all women workers except those
employed by telephone or telegraph
companies. The bill has passed the
house.
Much progress has been made on
preparations for the woman suffrage
demonstration which is to take place
in Washington on the opening day of
the special session of congress April
z.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in a
letter made public Endorses the can
didacy of Frank H. Gerhart, progress
i've candidate for mayor of St. Louis,
at the April election. Mr.. Gerhart in
national politics is democrat.
Bankers and silk dealers who ad-
vanced money and goods to Salo R.
Jackson, ''the petticoat king" of New
York, lost more than 100000, the
district attorney said, when arrange
ments were made for Jackson's trial.
Mrs. Jennie Eaton, wife of Admiral
Eaton, who died recently, is in Jail in
Plymouth, Mass, charged with mur.
dering her husband by giving him
poison.
More than sixty persons are report
ed killed and hundreds were injured
some MORALLY, by a storm of tornado
intensity which ragged over central.
western, southern and part of east
ern states recently. Property damage
will run we'll into the millions.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau, has resigned. Secretary Hous-
ton accepted the resignation after a
talk with President Wilson, to become |
effective July 81. Prof Moore is a
democrat and was a candidate for an
pointment as secretary of agriculture.
American women and children from
the mining settlement at Cananea
Sonora, Mexico, are being rushed to
Douglas, Ariz, in automobiles. Sew
eral hundred Yaquis, led by General
Obregon, chief of the insurgent state
troops, are reported marching on the
town, garrisoned by $50 federals.
Girl strikers employed by potters of
East Liverpool, O., accepted PROPOSE.
ion to retI.-- to work Monday pending
arbitration of the difficulty. Girls will
'eceive $1.25 day pending the arbi.
rators reaching a decision. The girls
struck for $3.50 day.
1t is learned through official sources
hat in the event bills now before the
california legislature, and hostile to
apanese. pass. Japan will withdraw
er support from the Panama Pacific
EXPOSITION, refuse to exhibit and pro-
ibit Japaneze citizens from having
ny connection whatever with the ex.
ositfon. y