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I Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI_LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , NOVEMBER H>. 1908 NUMbEK 2 SUMMARY OF NEWS CONDENSATION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS. BOTH ST HOME AND SBB8AD General, Political. Religious. Sporting. Foreign and Other Events Re corded Here and There. _ Political. The Kings county (X. Y.) repub lican commiteemen have endorsed Chairman Timothy Woodruff to suc ceed Senator Platt. Secretary Metcalf of the navy has resigned and has been succeeded by his assistant. Truman Newberry. Senator Burkett of Nebraska, who arrived at Washington after a visit with President-elect Taft, says tariff is certain 10 be revised and rates lowered. The appointment of Colonel George H. Torney as surgeon general of the army to succeed Surgeon General K. M. O'Aeilley. was announced by the secretary of war. Colonel Torney is nowr in charge of the general hospital at San Francisco. John Motley Morebead, a republican, who was elected to congress in a North Carolina dictrict. regrets his success. Five hundred farmers, members of the grange, visited the president. The tariff revisers discussed ditties on imported wines and liquors. Three Kansans were elected gover nors of as many states in the election —Herbert S. Hadley in Missouri; W. F. Stubbs in Kansas, and James H. Brady in Idaho. Seventy days were required to get a second Ruef jury. There are sixty more indictments upon which to try the man. Time is money, and San Francisco is spending a good deal on Ruef. Democratic members of the house ways and means committee seek to have the tariff on barytes raised. Allegations are made that the death of former Senator Carmack was the result of a deliberate plot to assas sinate him. General. Francis J. Heney, prosecutor in the San Francisco graft trials, was shot in ihe court room by .Morriii. Haas,-a. venireman, who had been rejectea from former Ruef jury because he was an ex-convict. Heney will probably recover. Colonel Duncan B. Cooper and his son, Robin Cooper, were indicted joint ly on the charge of murdering ex Senator Carmack of Tennessee. The former sheriff is charged with being accessory before the fact. The presidential commission inquir ing into agricultural conditions is in vestigating farm life in Tennessee. Emperor of China is reported dead, and the Dowager empress, Tsi Ann, is said to be dying in Peking. Great secrecy is maintained as to actual con ditions because of the hostility to the Manchu dynasty. Three hundred and sixty miners are believed to have lost their lives in the wrecking of the workings at Hamm. Westphalia, Germany. A Chicago physician who examined Miss Mae Otis, who is charged with plotting to kill her mother, says she is sane. A Taxicab in New York was de stroyed by explosion of an infernal machine left in it by a woman. Park theater in Brooklyn was totally destroyed by fire within an hour after the audience had left the house. Vice President-elect Sherman and other leading political men of the na tion were at Hot Springs for a con ference with President-elect Taft. Both liberals and conservatives are confident of success in the Cuban elec tion. Venezuela has completed prepara tions for the threatened blockade of her seaports by Holland. The government will carry the Standard oil case to the supreme court. Assistant Forester VV. L. Hall says a lumber famine is coming in the near future. Over three hundred perished in a mine explosion in Germany. Charles Pool of Johnson county is said to be slated foi speaker of the lower house of the Nebraska assembly. Ex-Sheriff John D. Sharpe has been arrested in Nashville charged with be ing accessory to the murder of former Senator Carmack. Postmaster General Meyer in his report on the postal finances advocates rural parcels post to help pay for this service. An explosion of a glazing mill near Kansas City caused the injury of a number of passengers in a Kansas City Southern train standing near. The question of war or peace in the Balkans is said to depend upon the tenor of the note to be issued by Austria. The delegates from the Flint Glass Workers' association were excluded by the American Federation of Labor at Denver after a lively debate. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor delivered his an nual report to the convention at Den ver. The Reichstag gave Emperor Will iam severe censure in the course of a ’y debate on interpellations with respect to the published interview’ of the em peror in England. The Methodist committee on foreign missions has decided to ask the con ference to raise $1,500,000 next year. The federal court of appeals has de cided that the American Tobacco com pany is a combination in restraint of trade. Returns from the Nebraska election indicate the republicans have certain ly elected Kinkaid to congress in the Sixth district. The United States court of appeals at New York refused to admit Charles W. Morse to bail pending application for a new trial. There is a possibility that Hep burne has. after all, been elected to congress from Iowa. The vote is very close and there will be a recount. By running av.-ay of a freight train on the Union Pacific west of Cheyenne there was a collision, in which nine men were killed and three seriously injured. Three of the victims were Chinese. The United States circuit court of appeals overruled the petition for a rehearing in the case of the govern ment againsl the Standard Oil com pany. The case will be taken to the United States supreme court. Secretary Root will probably be elected ’ United States senator to suc ceed Thomas C. Piatt. Victorien Sardou dean of French dramatists, died in Paris Sunday. He was 77 years old. Unofficial returns indicate that Mr. Bryan's majority in Nebraska will be 4,500. Railroads of the west which were forced by the legislature of the west ern states to accept a reduction of 2 cents per mile for passenger fares are again uniting to make 2 cents the minimum as well as the maximum af ter January 1. Governor Sheldon of Nebraska is seriously considering camng an extra session of the legislature to pass a county option bill after having sent messages to members of the present legislature asking their position on the subject. Washington. The formal opening of the army war college was signalized by an import ant address by Secretary Root, popul arly known as “the father” of the in stitution. On account of the limited capacity of the lecture hall in which the exercises were held, the attend ance was limited. “Secretary Taft's religious faith is purely his own private concern, and not a matter for general discussion and political discrimination.” says President Roosevelt in a letter to J. C Martin of Dayton, O., in which he answers numerous correspondent?. The president says he deferred the ptibtteetion of the letter until now to avoid any agitation likely to influence the election. Important recommendations for im proving Mare Island strait and for the approaches thereto are contained in the report of the board of engineer officers of the army and navy and an estimate is made of $1,767,000 for the work, this amount to include a seif containing and self-propelling dredge whicli will require about $15,000 per year to maintain. What may be the final chapter in the story of the fight against racing in the District of Columbia is record ed in the dismissal by the district court of appeals of the appeal of Wil liam Davis, the New York bookmaker, convicted in the spring of 1906 of set ting up a gaming table by making books at the P.enning race course. Al though sentenced to serve two hours in the district jail it is unlikely that Davis will be brought here to carry out the sentence, as bookman-ing ap parently is a sport of the past in the district. The tariff commission have com menced on their work of revision. Foreign. The German Reichstag, after . further exciting debate concerning the interview with Kaiser Wilhelm in a London paper, refused to adopt a formal address to the emperor calling his attention to the possible effect of his utterances on foreign relations >'f the empire. —The burial of Victonen Sardou was accomplished at Paris with general public mourning. A man selected by lot to kill King Manuel of Portugal committed suicide instead. Calcutta, India, is terrorized by an outbreak of political crimes. Personal. William D. Cornish, second vice president of the Union Pacific railroad, died suddenly in Chicgo. William Hayward, secretary of the national republican committee, was given a rousing welcome home at Nebraska City, Neb., on his return from Chicago. Indication^ from Washington are that Mr. Cannon will be re-elected speaker without much opposition. Crawford Kennedy of Albion. Neb., who traveled 18,000 miles with Taft special train distributing buttons and tracts, has returned home. Judge Taft and Chairman Hitch cock went over the work of the cam paign. Mr. Hitchcock stated that no promises or pledges had been made in exchange for personal services or contributions. The postmaster general announced that the president has decided to re move George M. Stewart, postmaster of Seattle, Wash., as the result of an investigation of charges that he so licited campaign contributions. Colonel Ludlow, commandant at Fort Hamilton, denies stories that of ficers’ quarters at the post have been the scene of orgies. Federal officials emphatically deny the report that a lake ha= been found under the proposed site of the Gatun locks of the Panama canal. REAL RULER IS DEAD TSZE HSI AN. DOWAGER EMPRESS OF JAPAN, PASSES AWAY. - Date of Death Given Out as Two O'clock Sunday, but is Eelieved to Have Occurred Earlier. Peking—Tsze Hsi An. the dowager empress of China, the autocratic head of the government which she directed without successful interference since 1801, and without protest since 1881, died at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The announcement of the dowager empress' death was- official and fol lowed closely upon the announcement that Kuang Hsu. the emperor, had died Saturday at 5 o'clock in the after noon. but it is believed the deaths oe- j curred a considerable time before that set down in the official statements. An official edict issued at 7 o'clock placed on the throne Prince Pu Yi, the 3-year-old son of Prince Chun* the regent of the empire, in accordance j with a promise given by the dowager empress soon after the marriage of Prince Chun in 1903. An edict is sued cn Friday made Pu Yi heir pre sumptive. The foreign legations were notified by the foreign board of the death of the emperor and the succession of Prince Pu Yi. Troops have been in j readiness for several days to quell any disorders that might ar’se on the death of Kuang Hsu. and the possi bility of uprisings was made greater because of the fact that the death of the dowager empress was known to be close at hand. Two divisions of troops have been held in reserve and these are now stationed in various quarters of the city. Twenty gen darmes were dispatched to guard the approaches to the legations, but ttp to the present the duties of the forces have been slight. It was announced that the legation guard was ordered out at "the special call of the lega tions on account of the emperor’s death." Prince Chun, the regent, has ordered the viceroys and governors to take pre cautions for the continuation of the administration of the provinces as heretofore, and he has ordered a hun dred days of mourning. The court will go into mourning for three years. OUTCOME IN NEBRASKA. Democrats Get Two State Officers Governor and Railway Commissioner. ! The democrats will have the two 1 principal offices of the new state ad ministration, while the republicans get the six other offices of the new re gime. Complete election returns from all hut Richardson county show that the democrats have elected Shallenberger for governor by a plurality of fi.(i<!2 and Cowgill for railway commissioner by a plurality of 477. The republican pluralities are as follows; Hopewell, for lieutenant governor, 432; Junkin, for secretary of state, 1,874: Barton for auditor, 5,342; Brian, for treasurer. 3.425; Bishop, for superintendent, 3,927; Thompson, for attorney gereral. 4,800; Cowles, for land commissioner, 2,002. The state congressional delegation will be evenly divided ~etween the re publicans and democrats. The demo cratic congressmen elect are Maguire, in the First; Hithcock, in tne Second, and Latta in the Third. The republic ans have elected Hinshaw in the Fourth. Norris, in the Fifth and Kin kaid in the Sixth. WATTERSON IS LAID TO REST. Eody of Man Who Met Tragic Death is Buried at Louisville. Louisville, Ky.—The body of Har vey Watterson was laid to rest Sunday afternoon in Cave Hill cemetery. “He was from his babyhood,” said his father, speaking of his dead son. “a little gentleman. He was the only one of our children I had never to pun ish. He was born with a strong will and a fierce temper, but he completely mastered them. He had written his mother just before the awful mishap, a tender and breezy letter m which be says: “ ’I am pretty hard worked, but we are as happy as two bugs in a rug.’ "Our hearts are broken now.” EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS President-elect Taft Announces He Will Call One. Washington.—That a special ses sion of the Sixty-first congress will be called soon after March 4, to take up the matter of tariff revision, became known positively Sunday, when Will iam H. Taft, president-elect, after spending the day at the White House as the guest of President Roosevelt, stated that he intended to call the special session to meet as soon after his inaugration as w-ould be reason able. Standing of Next House. Washington—The temporary- roll call of the house of representatives for the sixty-first congress has been completed and published. It presents a complete list of members of the new house as shown by unofficial returns and gives the politics of all of them. According to this publication the next house will consist of 219 republicans and 172 democrats, a total of 391, as against a total of 389 in the house during the last session, of w-hom 223 were republicans and 166 democrats. The republican loss is four. I TIMELY ADVICE. — /muZYOul [holdt yourX i Xmout’ShupI m0TS au4 HUNDREDS DIE IN A MINE AWFUL RESULTS OF EXPLOSION IN GERMAN COLLIERY. Dead Number 339—Efforts to Reach Their Bodies Are Frustrated by Fire. Hamm, Westphalia, Germany. Nov. 13.—The greatest mine disaster in many years in Germany occurred Thursday morning at the Radbod mine, about three miles from this place. There was a heavy explosion in the mine about 4 a. m., and almost immediately the mine took fire. Of 380 miners working under ground at the time only six escaped without injury. Thirty-five were taken out badly ipjured and 37 were dead when brought to the mouth of the pit. The remaining 302 have been given up for lost. The explosion, which was unusually violent, destroyed one of the shafts, which had to be partly repaired before the rescue work was begun. In addi tion, the flames and smoke proved al most. insurmountable obstacles in the early efforts of the rescuing parties. A special corps, composed of the men who rendered such valuable aid in the terrible mine disaster at Courrieres, France, in March of 1906, arrived upon the scene shortly before noon, but were unable to enter the mine, being forced to await the result of the deter mind efforts of the firemen to keep the flames in check. Meantime heartrending scenes were being enacted at the mine when the dead and wounded were brought to the surface, and there were similar scenes in the town when the injured were transported through the streets to the hospitals. At one o’clock the fire had made great headway, and later in the after noon, after a consultation of the en gineers, it was decided that any fur ther attempts to rescue the entombed men were vain, owing to the impossi bility of entering the galleries. At the same time an order was issued to flood the mine. First reports indicated that the acci dent was the result of an explosion of coal dust, but the statements of the injured men render them improbable, and it is not clear just what caused it. BANK EXAMINER IS DEAD. E. B. Shaw Is Suddenly Stricken at Carroll, la. Carroll, la—The second tragedy in the affairs of the failed First National bank of Carroll, whose president, W. L. Culbertson, recently shot himself, occurred here Thursday in the death of the national bank examiner in charge, E. B. Shaw of West Union, la. Although apparently in good health Wednesday night, he was found dying at eight o'clock in the morning when the clerk at his hotel sought to arouse him for breakfast. He had been stricken while undressing to retire, and had lain across the foot of the bed all night unconscious. He was removed to the hospital and there died at ten o'clock of hemorrhage of the brain. Bold Attempt at Blackmail. Denver, Col.—A woman giving her name as Mrs. H. C. Cones Monday aft ernoon compelled Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps, divorced wife of Lawrence Phipps, the Pittsburg mil lionaire, to take her in her automobile to a bank for the purpose of getting $10,000 that she demanded of Mrs. Phipps on pain of being blown to pieces with dynamite. At the bank Mrs. Cones was overpowered by spe cial Qfficers and placed under arrest. She talked incoherently to the police and is thought to be insane. Life Sentence for Train Wrecker. Spartanburg, S. C.—Clarence Ag new, the negro charged with murder and the wrecking of a passenger train an the Southern railway near Duncan, 3. C., which resulted in the killing of ihe engineer and fireman, was found guilty Thursday. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Serious Fire in Bismarck, N. D. Bismarck, N. D.—Fire of unknown i origin destroyed the yards and war's-, house of the Acme Harvester Com- I pany, causing a loss of $150,000. KAISER WILLIAM CENSURED. Members of German Reichstag Use Severe Language. Berlin.—Emperor William never has been so severely judged by his parlia ment as he was Tuesday during the debate in the reichstag on the inter pellations concerning 'the conversa tions published with the permission of the emperor in the London Daily Tele graph, on October 28. The criticisms of his majesty’s court, his ministers and his majesty’s treatment of the constitution, as wrell as of his freedQm of speech, went to lengths that astonished observers ac quainted with tile traditional caution of the chamber in dealing with the personality of the sovereign. And the emperor seemed to have no de fenders. Chancellor von Buelow made an ad dress lasting 15 minutes, but he lacked his usual spirit, and a person high in confidence is authority for the statement that he also had told the emperor that neither himself nor his successors could remain in office unless his majesty was more re served. The house received his ex planation in icy silence. The conservatives, representing largely the landed nobility, were al most as relentless as the socialists, the radicals and the national-liberals. SIX CHINAMEN DROWNED. Attempt to Smuggle Orientals from Canada Is Disastrous. Buffalo, N. Y.—A motor boat con taining ten Chinamen and three white men was wrecked on the breakwall off the foot of Michigan street early Thursday. Six of the Chinamen were drowned or dashed to death against the rock-ribbed seawall. The four survivors were rescued by the crew of a police boat. The three white men escaped. Mock Quong, one of the rescued Chinamen, speaks fairly good English, which he learned in a South Bend (Ind.) Sunday school class. He told the immigration inspectors that the ten Chinamen left Toronto a week ago and had been lodged in a barn on the Canadian side of the lake opposite Buffalo, awaiting a favorable oppor tunity to make a lauding in the Uni ted States. Wednesday night they were taken to the lake by three white men and placed in a motor boat, which also had a rowboat in tow. They had been on the water about half an hour when thev were wrecked EMPEROR OF CHINA DEAD. Dowager Empress Also Said to Be Dying at Peking. Peking.—The emperor of China was reported dying Saturday morning. It has, however, been impossible to se cure official confirmation of this an nouncement. His majesty was trans ferred to the death chamber at two o’clock Friday afternoon. At that hour he was still breathing, it was said. Two imperial edicts were issued from the palace Friday afternoon in quick succession. The first makes Prince Chun regent of the empire and the second appoints his son, Pu Weir heir presumptive. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSIONS. Sergent, Ky.—In a boiler explosion at the Miller Lumber Company’s plant at Pound, near Pound Gap Friday, four men were killed gnd four more severely injured. Norton, Va.—Three men were killed outright, two were fatally injured and two others were seriously hurt in an explosion at a sawmill plant in Wise county Friday. “Pauper” Padded with Money. Peoria, 111.—Upwards of $1,000 in cash and certificates of deposit and deeds amounting to $4,000 were found by asylum attendants at the Barton ville institution Friday sewed in the clothing of Mrs. Mary McMasters, an aged and supposedly poor woman. The woman, for years, lived as a re cluse and recently had made threats to set fire to her home and burn the place and herself. The mon-? was 1 brought to Superintendent Zeller, who is jnaking efforts to find some kin of the unfortunate woman. METCALF STEPS OUT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WILL LEAVE CABINET DECEMBER 1. LONG ILLNESS THE CAUSE President Accepts Resignation with Regret—Truman H. Newberry of Michigan Will Be Appoint ed to Fill Vacancy. Washington.—Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf Friday tendered his resignation to the president to take effect December 1 on account of ill health. Assistant Secretary- of the Navy Truman H. Newberry- will be named as Mr. Metcalf's successor. For more than a year the fact that Mr. Metcalf had suffered serious ill ness has been well known at the navy department. Formerly of vigorous health, his friends expected that he would be able to regain his strength, but constantly recurring illness con vinced him that the only course for hint to pursue was to sever his con nection with all active work. Too III to Perform His Duties. Mr. Metcalf has suffered from a nervous breakdown that has rendered it impossible for him to remain at his desk for any length of time, and the chronic nature of his trouble has caused him to abandon hope of re covery- while burdened with the cares of office. On April 15 last, he went to California and to review the Atlantic battleship fleet. He took a long vaca tion, hoping to be permanently bene fited thereby, returning here Septem ber 1. Upon his resumption of of ficial duty, his illness promptly re curred and he frankly told the presi dent that he could not remain in the cabinet. Mr. Metcalf was thoroughly versed in naval matters, having served on the house committee on naval affairs while in congress. His first appointment under this administration was as sec retary- of commerce and labor, w-hich he relinquished in order to accept the duties of secretary of the navy on December 17, 1906. Praise from the President. The president’s letter accepting the resignation was as follows: “My dear Mr. Metcalf: I accept your resignation with real reluctance, and only because you tell me that it is imperative that you must go on ac count of the state of your health. I ------1 had earnestly hoped that you would be able to continue with me through out my term. I thank you warmly for your faithful and efficient service in both of the departments, at the head of which you have served under me. But, my dear Mr. Metcalf, you have al ways been more than the head of a department; you have been a cabinet minister upon whose aid and advice, and above all. on whose staunch and steadfast loyalty I could rely upon any and all occasions. No president could wish more loyal and hearty sup port than you have given me. I thank you for it. I shall miss you when you leave the cabinet, and I wish you well in whatever work you may un dertake and wherever your life may lead. “With regret, therefore, I accept your resignation to take effect upon the first of December.” Newberry Good Man for Place. Mr. Newberry had never filled any important public office prior to his ap pointment as assistant secretary of the navy November 1, 1905. Before that he was in business in Detroit, Mich. The intelligent interest he has displayed in connection with his post has caused much favorable comment. Mr. Newberry has entered into the spirit of naval improvement and has co-operated, whenever possible, in the development of naval matters. He will have an opportunity to use his per sonal prestige with the naval affairs committees of both houses in securing desired naval legislation. Not Guilty of Embezzlement. Pittsburg, Pa—Addison C. Altaffer, formerly discount clerk of the Alle gheny National bank, was found not guilty Friday on a charge of aiding and abetting former Cashier William Montgomery in the embezzlement of over $200,000 from the bank. Col. Torney Is Surgeon General. Washington.—The appointment of Col. George H. Torney as surgeon general of the army to succeed Surg. '.^en. R. M. O’Reilly was announced by tne secretary of war Friday. FRANCIS J. HENEY IS SHOT PROSECUTOR OF ’FRISCO BOOD LERS BADLY WOUNDED. Saloon Man Attempts to Kill Lawyer Because Latter Brought Out Fact He Was Ex-Convict. San Francisco.—Francis J. Heney, a leading figure in the prosecu tion of municipal corruption in this city, was shot and seriously injured Friday by Morris Haas, a Jewish sa loon-keeper, who had been accepted as a juror in a previous trial and after wards removed, it having been shown by the prosecution that he was an ex convict, a fact not brought out in his examination as a venireman. The shooting occurred in Superior Judge Lawlor's courtroom during a re cess in the trial of Abraham Euef, on trial for the third time on the charge of bribery. At six o'clock at night Mr. Heney was conscious. He said: “I will live to prosecute him."’ The physicians in attendance on Heney expressed the opinion that he would live. It had been ascertained PP - Francis J. Heney. tnat tne bullet, which had entered the right cheek, had lodged under the left ear. and had not entered his brain, as at first feared. Mr. Heney was taken to the Lane hospital, where he is re ceiving the care of skilled surgeons. When he was arrested, Haas said he shot Heney because he had ruined him. He is a married man and has four children. In a statement made to Police Captain Duke he said: “Heney denounced me in public, which ruined my life and branded me as an ex-convict. It was an outrage. I am the wronged man. I do not care what becomes of me now. I have sac rificed myself not for my own honor, but for those who are situated like my self. I would not have brought my four children into the world to bear such a brand if I had known that the fact that I was an ex-convict would be come known. Heney ruined me. That is why I shot him.” HIRES MEN TO KILL HER MOTHER Cold-Blooded Plot of Chicago Woman Is Exposed. Chicago. — Plotting matricide in the most cold-blooded manner, in order to obtain $7,300, May L. Otis, 3G years old, carried her plans to the point where she believed four days would see their fulfillment, then was arrested by the men she believed her fellow conspirators. She was to point her mother out to the man she had hired to commit the crime, that he might make no mis take. She had paid over $100 cash and signed a note for $2,400 to procure the commission of the crime. She had outlined in detail how her mother was to be done to death and had warned him that she wanted a “good job” and did not wrant it to be “any ambulance case.” All her planning was due to the fact that her mother, in a recent will, had made Miss Otis her sole heir. The woman’s supposed fellow conspirators were the head of a private detective agency and two city detectives. Oil Rehearing Denied. Chicago.—The petition by the United States government for a re hearing of the appeal of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana from the $29. 240,000 fine of Judge Landis was over ruled Tuesday by Judges Grosscup Baker and Seaman in the United States circuit court of appeals. In a brief opinion, delivered by Judge Grosscup, the original opinion of the court, reversing Judge Landis’ de cision, was upheld. New Head for Wesleyan. New York.—William Arnold Shank lin, president of Upper Iowa univer sity, Fayette, la., was elected on Fri day president of Wesleyan university. Middletown, Conn. Dr. Shanklin. who has been president of Upper Iowa university since 1905, graduated at Hamilton college, this state, in 1883. Receivers Tor Cleveland Car Lines. Cleveland. O.—Judge Taylor of the federal cotirc Thursday appointed Warren Bicknell and Frank A. Scott joint receivers for the Municipal Trac tion Company and the Cleveland Rail way Company. True Bills Against Coopers. Nashville, Tenn.—The grand jury Friday afternoon returned a true bill against Robin Cooper, Col. D. B. Cooper and ex-SheriS John D. Sharp, charging them with the murder of Senator E. W. Carmack. New Divorce Law Was Carried. Sioux Falls, S. D.—The new divorce law, increasing the period of residence from six months to one year was car ried on November 3 in South Dakota by a vote of two to one, according to unofficial figures.