Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-04-18
GENERAL.

Woman suffrage was defeated in a
recent election in Michigan.
While hunting near Carter, Neb.,
James Grover, II years old, was shot
and killed.
Six strike rioters were shot by the
police in Auburn, N. j., during an at
tack which mob of 800 made on the
plant of the Columbian Rope company
Two of the six are fatally injured
Five former members of the fam
GUS Mabray gang of swindlers were
arrested at Winnipeg, Manitoba, fol
lowing complaints by several citizens
that they had been swindled out of
hundreds of dollars by the men
The home Office. London, denied
the report that Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst, the suffragette leader now in
Jail undergoing three years penal
servitude, had been forcibly fed and
is consequently in a state of collapse.
Failure has overtaken the German
Arctic expedition under Lieutenant
Schroeder-Stranz. Most of the mem
bers are believed to have died on the
ice from the exposure and scurvy,
and the COMMUNICATIVE is miss
ing.
The sentence in London of three
years penal servitude imposed on Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of
the militant suffragettes, for melting
her followers to destroy property has
aroused the militant suffragettes to
fury and they threaten strong repris.
ais.
The average condition of winter
wheat on April 1 was GIG per cent
of normal, compared with 500 last
year, 1873 in 1911 and S6.3 the ten
year average. There was a decline of
1.6 points from December to April
!, compared with an average decline
of sc in the past ten years.
Mrs Catherine Waugh McCullach of
Evanston, ILL.,, told the Mississippi
Valley Suffrage conference which be-
gan three days session in ST. Louis,
that women who march in suffrage
parades should not trust too implicit.
ly in the chivalry Of American men.
1t is well, she said, for girl marchers
to have chaperone
After having hung in an isolated
colonial mansion Of Maryland for
more than century, portrait of
George Washington, painted in 1894
or 1895, by Gilbert Stuart, has been
sold to a wealthy New York collec.
tor. The price paid is said to have
been between $4,000 and $4,000.
Labor unions the country over
have focused their attention and eff.
forts on Sioux City, Ia, to make it a
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.
Declaring that the consumers nav
too much for farm products and that
the farmer does not receive a com.
pensation commensurate with the
service which he renders the public
the first national conference on mar.
keting and farm products was held
in Chicago Wednesday and Thursday
The Canadian Pacific railway has
announced that it will soon begin con
struction of the longest tunnel in
America The tunnel will be built
through Kicking Horse pass in the
Rock mountains and will be sixteen
miles long, costing $14,000,000.
Hundreds of corporations will be
relieved from paying the federal cor
poration tax by decision of the su
preme court to the effect that corpo
rations leasing all their properl.
and .o"irg no income except that
vi 80 lease, are not doing
b. - therefore are not sub
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