Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-01-31


House and senate conferees reached
an agreement on the immigration bEl
The Irish home rule bill passed the
house of commons by a majority Of
Ito.
Bulgaria IL negotiating for a loan
Of forty million dollars.
Rhode Island was the first state to
send the electoral vote to Washing
| ton.
The threat of Bulgaria to resume
the war is apparently not an empty
| one.
A drastic provision is aimed at the
powder trust in the fertilization ap.
preparation bill.
Postmaster Genera. Hitchcock has
ruled that babies cannot be trans
ported by parcel post.
The cruiser Denver has been order
ed to Acapulco, Mexico, to protect
American interests.
The alleged telephone monopoly is
to be taken in hand by the interstate
commerce commission.
Flaws were found in the immigra'
ton bill, and the senate refused to
accept the. conference report.
President Taft will attend memorial
exercises for Vice-President Sherman
in the senate chamber next month.
The interstate commerce commits
sion finds there is basis for the COM
plant that coal prices are too high.
At Neenah, Wis, young girl, en-
ployed in one of the paper mills
there, has found $40 in bundle OF
rags.
The Tennessee legislature in it's
first joint session failed to elect sen
ator for either the long or the short
term.
The Kenyon bill, proposing to elimi-
nate the segregated district of Wash
ington by injunction, passed the
senate.
Head Consul A. R. Talbot urges
end of M. w. A. rate quarrel and says
Old rates will stand until 1914 meet
ing.
The South Dakota house passed the
senate equal suffrage resolution, 70
to 80; assuring it's submission to the
people next year.
John P. White of Oskaloosa was re-
elected president of the United Mine
Workers of America over A. Bradley
of Mount Olive. ILL.,, by 95,66Sh votes.
Attorney General Wickersham
asked the supreme court to send at
once to the federal district court at
New York it's mandate in the cotton
corner case"
State Senator ]. B. Sanford OF
Uliah, Cal, democratic national COM
mitteeman for California, introduced
a joint resolution in the senate favor
ing Asiatic exclusion.
The lower house of the Minnesota
legislature adopted joint resolution
offered by Representatives H. H.
Dunno and Green calling upon con-
gress to make judges elective.
Nathan Straus sailed for the Holy
Land to establish twenty-one soup
kitchens in Jerusalem and to do what
ever else he can to alleviate the suf-
fering Of the Jews in Palestine.
Senator Townsend's resolutions in
structing Attorney General Wickeh-
sham to investigate affairs OF the
Crow Indians of Montana passed the
senate without debate or opposition.
An emergency appropriation OF
s., 900 for pay for the secret service
protection for President-elect Wilson
until his Inauguration was requested
Of congress by Secretary MacVeagh.
John K. Shields, regular" demo-
crat, took the lead of candidates for
the long term in the United States
senate from Tennessee on the fourth
ballot in the state legislature.
The currency reform committee OF
the house wiz hear John B. Forgan,
president of the First National bank
Of Chicago and chairman of the Chi
cago clearing house association execu-
tive committee.
Acting under orders Of the war de-
partment. Company B of the Twenty
ninth infantry, stationed at Fort Por-
ter, took possession of the Lacka-
wanna railroad pier at the mouth OF
the Buffalo river.
Mrs. Mary L. Douglas, president OF
the National Association of Army
Nurses of Civil War and past ma
tional chaplain of the Woman's Re-
lief corps, died at her home in Con-
cord, N. H., aged 76 years.
James A. Perry of Chicago, con-
fessed leader of the band of automo-
bile bandits who have committed a
score of daring robberies in the past
sixty days. firmly refused to reveal
the identity of his associates.
A bill to increase the size OF the
supreme court of the United States
from nine justices to eleven was in
troduced in the senate by Senator
Gore. Under the organization act OF
1887 the court was constituted OF a
chief justice and five associates.
Personal.
Members of the French cabinet for
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