Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-05-26
OF The UJcek

former COl0Uf8a secretary Joseph
Chamberlain !, died in London.
King Edward, in an autograph letter
to Lady Stanley, lauds the services H
M. Stanley has rendered to the world
BY majority Of 55, Premier Balfour
successfully defeated the attempt to
upset the government upon the fiscal
question
King Edward VII. has definitely an
nounced his intention to visit Emper-
OF William during the regatta week
at Kiel, which begins June %.
The enormous budget demands for
the Austrian army and navy carrying
total Of $51, 791 ,20o) have caused the
utmost bewilderment among all par
ties.
The Vail of Biltis reports seventeen
villages have been destroyed by Ar
menian insurgents in the district Of
Sassoun. More than 600 families have
taken refuge in Mush.
A serious fight occurred between Ar
menians and Turks htroops at Chel
causon. The Turks lost 1876 killed and
wounded, while the Armenians had
their leader and many others killed.
Germany receives the announcement
of King Edwards intention to visit
Kiel In June with chilling silence. Not
a single newspaper dfgnifes the news
with SO much as word Of routine
comment.
French government circles are con-
sidering whether the pope's protest
against President Loubet's visit to
Rome should not be promptly followed
by the recall Of M. Nisard, the French
ambassador to the Vatican.
sHarry M. Vernon, under the alias
of Julian Ralph, has been convicted in
London of stealing a ring valued at
$500 from Ethel Clinton, the American
hei1ess, who inherited the bulk Of
Prince Soltykoff's fortune.
The radical press of Havana, Cuba
is urging congress to expel the French
and Filipino Catholics who have ar
rived there in large numbers during
the last six months. Their methods
are distasteful to the Cuban Catholics.
who have appealed to the clergy to
have them expelled.
According to a dispatch from Talla-
Marina. Algeria, the followers Of the
Moroccan pretender recently attacked
the sultan's troops near Ujda and the
former were repulsed after severe
fghtin. Fifty of the sultan's troops
were killed. The rebels losses are
said to have been heavier.
The Berlin correspondent OF the
Cologne Gazette telegraphs that pri-
vate dispatches from the Cameroons
say the Cross river rebels have been
completely crushed after an obstinate
fight by a British force in the territory
of Southern Nigeria. The British
losses were heavy. Thirteen officers
and non-commissioned cMcers were
killed.
The remains of Sir Henry M. Stan
ley were buried in the churchyard Of
the old Surrey village of Pirbright.
Prior to the burial the British nation
and the United States, in the persons
Of Am bassador Choate and Consul Gen
eral Evans, paid honor to the departed
African explorer with an impressive
funeral service, held in Westminster
Abbey.
General.
It is the purpose of the Baptist
church to raise an endowment fund of
100000 to be used in the education of
"a native ministry in foreign mission
fields. FL
Mrs. Clarence Dunkelberg Of Water
loo, Iowa, is one OF the titi heirs TO
the estate of her uncle, DR.. G. e. Rob-
inson Of Boston, Mass. Her share will
be 81, 125 900. 49,
Attorneys for the heirs Of Mrs. Anne
liza Noques. an eccentric old woman
who died about two weeks ago in New
Orleans, broke open an old safe in her
home, finding $4,000. 81
To extend and complete for the
whole civilized world the pacific insti-
tutions which are ultimately to dis
place war is the ambition Of the Amer
lean Peace society, in session in Bes-
ton,
Prof, Philip OF Princeton university,
who is generally known as the discov-
erer OF American radium, has accepted
an invitation to attend the st. Louis ex-
position and deliver daily lectures on
the new element. a
The establishment OF centers In all
sections Of the United States on the
plan d social settlement was offered
as solution for the negro question at
the session Of the Western Unitarian
conference IN Chicago.
The Des Moines & Fort Dodge board
of directors will meet at Des Moines
June 3. The Rock island lease Of the
property expires Jan. 4, 1906, and an
effort will be made by Edwin s. Hool-
ey, who Is believed to hold the con
trolling interest, to swing 1t to Edwin
s. Hawley for the purpose Of merging
the road with the Minneapolis 3 ST.
Louis.
Pretty Miss Frances Walsh. who an.