Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-27
New York has 2osss industrial es-

| New York has 2O,S39 industrial e.
Establishments. -,
Atlanta's new court house will
cost $1,25O,0OO.
Chicago is to put up 10000 new
street signs at crossings in Septen-
Der.
Sara Bernhard, in her last Ameri'
can tour, scooped in $4,000.
The biggest melon of the Standard
Oil crop carries $6O,000,0OO and is
about to be cut.
What is known as the polar regions
cover 4,97O,265 square miles and have
100000 inhabitants.
New Jerseys greatest altitude is 3D.
275 feet, which is a point two miles
north of Trucha's peak.
John Purroy Mitchell was sworn in
as collector of the port of New York.
succeeding William Loeb, jr.
The domestic economy schools OF
London every year prepare 500 girls
certificated to be model housewives.
BRIDGE" Weber, one of the prlncl-
pal witnesses in the Rosenthal murder
case, was stabbed in the back by an
unknown party.
The estate of Colonel John JACOB
Astor, who persisted in the Tltanlc
disaster, has been officially appraised
at $86,966,611.
Divorces annually average seventy
three of each 100000 of population IN
the United States. In Austria the
average is one.
st. Louis women are raising funds
to endow a mothers and babies home
which is now caring for IT'S children
and thirty-five mothers.
Complete route of the rebellious
Moros on Mount Bagsag was accom-
plished by the American forces with
the loss of six men killed and seven
wounded.
John Madden, for eight years gen.
eral attorney for the. Missouri. Kan
sas & Texas railway has resigned to
become general solicitor Of the Miss
ouri Pacific.
Evan Edwards of Torquay, Eng
land, who has attained the patriarchal
age Of 9S, and is still hale and hearty,
is believed to be the oldest Baptist
minister in the world.
Tete jaime, the most westerly d.
vision point on the Grand Trunk Pa
cific, in the Rocky mountains, is I'M
der water because of sudden rise
in the Frazier river.
Henry Morganthau, New York
lawyer, to whom President Wilson Of
fered the post of ambassador to Tur-
key, after conference with the pres
ident, has declined the post.
DR.. George E. Vincent, president of
the University of Minnesota, confer
red degrees upon the largest gradu-
ating class in that institutions his
tory, 700 receiving diplomas.
John A. McIlhenny has been des-
ignated by President Wilson as presi-
dent of the Civil Service commission.
Mr.. McIlhenny was the only one Of
the old commissioners retained.
A music publisher, addressing the
New York State Music Teachers as
ISOLATION, said the nations annual mu-
sic bill was nearly $600,O0O,00O, say a
per capita Of $685., which isn't so
much.
Richard L. Metcalfe, appointed gov
ernor of the Panama canal zone, has
held long conference with Colonel
Goethals, engineer in charge. Met
calfe expects to leave for the zone
August 1.
Notwithstanding the strict Ameri-
can rules applied to emigrants in re-
gard to thir health and means, Rus
sian emigrants increased during 1912
to $3.50, having been 39,161 in 1910
and 35,O52 in 1911.
President Wilson does not plan TO
attend the fiftieth anniversary cele-
bration Of the battle of Gettysburg
on the battle field next month. He
will be at the summer White house
at Cornish, N. H., over July 4.