Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-04-25
GENERAL.

The twenty-second annual conven'
tion of the Daughters Of the Ameri
can Revolution has just closed in
Washington.
Three attempts are believed to have
been made within the last ten days to
burn the Young Mems Christian asso
citation building at Council Bluffs, Ia
Two sailors of the United States
cruiser California were killed and
three others wounded in street fight
at Mazatlan, Pacific coast port in
Mexico.
Addison c. Brown, from 1881 to
1901 judge of the United States dis
trict court for the southern district
of New York, died at his home in
New York of paralysis.
Fumes from vat OF boiling bluing
suffocated William Woertz in Chicago
and overcome three of his fellow en-
ployes, who are not expected to re-
cover.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
railroad at meetin in Philadelphia
passed resolution authorizing a 10
per cent stock issue amounting to
about $43,0O0,000.
Mary Webb, 10 years old, sister Of
Robert Webb, the most daring of the
automobile bandits who terrorized
Chicago last winter, will enter a con-
vent as atonement for the crimes of
her brother.
An earthquake lasting several Sec
onds was experienced at Salt Lake
City recently. Telephone operators
on the fifth floor of the Telephone
building reported that their transmit
tiers were rocked by the force of the
shock
Labor unions the country over
have focused their attention and eff
forts on Sioux City, Ia, to make it
closed shop town, asserts c. R. Dott,
secretary of the Sioux City Indus
trial association, an organization of
business men having for it's purpose
the opposition of this movement.
Twelve persons were injured, none
fatally, when two coaches and the
mail car on northbound passenger
train No. 10, on the st. Louis & San
Francisco railroad, left the tracks and
turned over two miles north of Lock
wood, Mo. Spreading rails was the
cause
Hundreds of corporations will be
relieved from paying the federal cor
poration tax by decision of the ST.
preme court to the effect that corpo.
rations leasing all their property
and having no income except that
yielded by the lease, are not doing
business" and therefore are not sub
ject to the tax.
Three congressional Investigations
have been proposed. Representative
Lobeck asked for an investigation of
the "extortionate prices the govern.
ment is compelled to pay for eleva.
tors in the various government build
1ngs. Representative Clark of Flor
Ida asked for the appointment of
special committee to probe various
special commissions and make recon.
mendations to abolish them. Repre-
sentative Austin proposed an inyesti.
cation of the stemming district to-
bacco associations with headquarters
1T Henderson, as alleged combina-
tion in restraint of trade"
Higher prices for cold storage
products have been the rule ever
since the industry became CONNER.
cially Important as shown by data
Tor more than thirty years bac,, co1.
lected by the Department Of Agricul.
ture.
The last hope of the socialists or
Brussels of Intervention by the king
to prevent the great general strike
called to enforce the granting by the
government of manhood suffrage now
appe - TO have disappeared. 1t is
poir vat such action in the ex
LIST stances would be I'm