Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-06-13

I Fields n. Nash. former president of
| the Merchants Exchange bank of
Bristol. Tcnn., is under arrest ut Nor.
riSlown. Tenn. charged with the MUIR
der of Il barber for SIS.
Sam holiday. an cmployc. was ar
rested at st. Joseph. Mo-. for robbin.,
the mails. He confessed his guilt, and
said he took the money as his salary
/ WAS not sufficient to support himself
and his wife.
George Il. Montgomery shot and
killed his brothcl-in-law, Archibald
Riley. on the church steps at Ver-
s;lilles, Ky. Riley betrayed Mont
gomcry's sister and ut the point of Il
revolver had been compelled to marry
the girl, but had since been cruel in
his treatment of her.
Foreign.
Cholera has broken out ut Tarsus,
Turkey.
state of eruption.
Cardinal Gibbons has arrived in
Paris on his way to Rome.
Oscar Wilde is convicted and SEN
fenced to two years ut nard labor.
IIostilities begin i'll Formosa, the
japanese bombarding a town.
y dispatch from ConStnntinoplc
says that cholera has broken out in
Tarsus.
The Fmnfurtcr Zeitung says that
Franco. Germany and Russia will
jointly take up the Chinese war loan.
1t is now freely predicted that there
will he n general election in Great
Britain in July.
The Guatcmalan government has
made rcparation for it's treatment of
Argyle. the American whom it ill-treat-
ed in prison.
During the massacrcs iii Armenia
the Turks cooked the bodies of vic
Tins and compelled prisoners to eat
them.
]. Gle Burlct will be the new premier
of Belgium, Nj. Schollaert minister of
the interior and of public instruction
and Nj. Nysscns will be given q new
portfolio, that of minister of labor.
The passengers on the Spanish
steamer Ciudad de Santander, which
was wrecked near lsla de Flores while
bound from Barcelona for Buenos
Ayrcs, have been landed. Efforts are
being made to save the cargo.
The Allcgemaine Zeitung asserts
that the German markets must re-
main closed unless the German
financial syndicate is placed on the
same footing as those of the other
countries.
General.
The interstate miners convention ut
Columbus. Ohio, adjourn ed without
doing anything.
The national convention of chart
ties and corrections has opened at
New Haven.
The late trolley strike cost District
New York, S13.739.
The tobacco growing industry of
California is about to undergo wave
of prosperity, it is believed.
The report of Grand Master Wilkn-
son of the brotherhood of Railway
trainmen shows that Debs' strike cost
the brotherhood 5000 members.
AT New York Mrs. Bertha Leonard
hcrsewhipped y. ii. Moore, II sporty"
son of Il Philadelphia millionaire be-
cause he had kept her diamonds.
Cubans in New York at mass meet
ing agreed to contribute one-tenth Of
their weekly wages to aid the insur-
gents now fighting the Spaniards.
The United States court has re-
strained the Choctaw nation from SELL
ing several thousands of dollars worth
of land.
The Penwell and Sprlngside collier
les at Pana, ILL.,, employing hundreds
of miners, shut down owing to having
no orders for coal.
Federal troops will probably be en-
ployed to quell the trouble on the Win.
nebago Indian reservation in Ne.
braska.
A woman minister baptized thirty
nine converts in the Okaw river near
Arcola, ILL.,, in the presence of an au-
dience of 5000.
George 3. Gallon, the yituperative
Englishman who at Topeka, Kan,
called the American flag a dirty rag"
has made an AFFECT apology.
Owing to the death of one Of her
crew from yellow fever the Mexican
Prince has been detained at quaran-
tine in New York.
A chinch bug station has been es-
tablished at Kansas state university
with view Of ultimately extermin-
ating the pest.
Seventeen passe1 ger conductors on
the Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad lines,
west of the Ohio river, were discharg-
ed. Spoilers are said to havee been
working on the. road recently.
II. NJ. Benedict, identified with w.
w. Taylor, the South Dakota default
er, has gone into court and surren-
dered himself. The move is taken to
get hearing on the habeas corpus
proceedings before the United States
court.
Freight cars with every modern i'm
provement and capable of carrying
sixty tons can now be bought for 20
per cent less than the prices Of 1892.
Prices vary because Of the standards
of different roads and the necessities
of the manufacturers. The average