Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-01-10
EP|T0ME 0F EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
I MANY SUBJECTS
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention Of What is Transpirin0
In Various Sections Of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.


A passenger train on the Chicago
& Alton was held up near Spring
field, Ill.
The republic of Portugal is in a
state of unrest, with rival political
forces seeking control.
Passengers ON the grounded fruit
steamer Turrialba were safely trans
ferred to the revenue cutter Seneca.
Bubonic plague has broken out near
Popovka, in the government of Sama-
ra. Twelve persons have died OF the
disease and eight persons are under
treatment
Militant suffragettes made an ex-
tensive attack upon the pillar letter
boxes in London. They employed
black and red fluids in an endeavor
to obliterate the addresses on the
heavy Christmas mail.
Twelve hundred immigrants from
all parts of the world, detained on
threshold of the new world, were
given a taste of Uncle Sans Christ
mas cheer that increased their anx-
iety to enter.
In view Of the unsatisfactory posi-
ton of the opium question, the Chi
nese government has issued a mani
festo reiterating it's desire to suppress
the evil and to save the people from
a life of degradation.
At Atlanta, Ca, more than 200 pa
tients shot, cut, bruised, burned and
injured otherwise were received by
the hospitals as a result of the cele-
bration of Christmas with fireworks,
pistols and other noise-making de.
vices.
In a speech at Boston, Col. Roose-
welt severely criticised the war de-
partment for lack of preparation in
time of peace. His remarks are caus-
ing comment.
Bitten on the nose by a rat while
sleeping, Clifford Null, a musician, at
Traverse, Mich, nearly bled to death.
A vein in Mul1s nose was cut. Blood
poisoning is feared.
Denver's chief of police advised
women to keep their purses in their
stockings. One of them did SO. While
she was asleep in a chair smooth
burglar took off her stockings and got
the purse. Now she dosen' believe in
police protection.
Boarding house keepers all over
the country may celebrate for the ex-
press companies have been compelled
by the government to cut down the
rate on prunes. 1t was brought about
through the agency of the parcels
post.
Bert Dalton bank robber, one time
leader of the Whitney gang that held
western Wyoming in terror year
ago, and the man who engineered a
sensational Jail break OF nineteen
convicts from the Rawlins peniten-
tiary, was captured at Big Piney,
Wyoming.
Charges that Martin B. Madden of
Chicago obtained his reelection to
congress from the First Illinois dis
trict by expenditures in violation of
the law, were made in notice of con-
test filed with the house by andrew
Donovan, the democratic and progress
sive candidate from that district.
Major General Leonard Wood, chief
of staff who has just been named as
chief marshal of the approaching in
auguration parade, has begun to out
line his plans for a military, naval
and civic demonstration. General
Woods purpose is to make the Will
son Inauguration parade as we'll bal
anced as possible
With both hands cut off and his
skull fractured, Max Won Bulow, said
to be descendent of Count Won Blu.
low, the famous German general, was
picked up on the railroad track near
the Nevada state line Thursday
night and died two hours later in the
railroad hospital at Starks
Two of the ten buildings of the
Akron plant of the international Har-
vester company were destroyed by fire.
the loss being 100000. The company
manufactured automo. lies and farm
implements and LOO men will tenn
porarily be out of work.
The Portuguese premier, DR.. Duarte
Leite, on his return from Oporto, will
the resignation of the cabinet.
Chicago's cattle receipts show
decrease and prices are correspond
ingly increased. This is true in spite
of the fact that more money was paid
out for cattle in 1912 than in 1911.
After pleading not guilty to charges
OF receiving deposits after his bank
was insolvent, Bernard F. O'Neil, for
mer president of the defunct State
Bank of Commerce of Wallace, Idaho,
was held in default of $4,000 bail in
district court.
The Barre Wool Co. of Massachu-
sets paid government fines amounting
to $4,000 for violations of the alien
contract labor law.
Cambridge, Mass, was chosen as
the next place of meeting by the
annual convention of the National
Language Association of America at
its closing session in Philadelphia.