Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-04-21
People Talked About.

be appointed papal nuncio at the Ger
man capital.
People Talked About.
| Rev. John McQuaid, one OF the old
est and best known Jesuits in Amer
| lea, died in Boston.
Mrs. Louis E. McComas, wife of the
senator from Maryland, died ut her
| home in Washington. She had been
an invalid for two years.
| Sheridan Upper, SO, is dead in New
York of pneumonia. Mr., Topper was
! born in Decatur, H., and became an
| actor when young man.
Arthur Macy, aged 62, for nearly
forty years connected with Brad
streets, is dead at Dalton, Mass. Dur
ing the Civil war he served in the
famous Iron Brigade"
Mrs. Addie Farwell, a well-known
actress, who has been playing with
| Lewis Morrison's Faust company
| for the last two seasons, is dead at
Dunkirk, N. T.. of pneumonia. She
was 81 years old.
Col Charles H. Page, formerly a
member of the board of review of the
| National Trotting association and we'll
| known to turfmen throughout the
| United States, died in Philadelphia of
| heart disease. He was 70 years old
Samuel Hoar. distinguished law
yer and nephew of United States Sen
ator George F. Hoar, died in Concord
Mass, of paralysis. He was SO years
| old. and for nearly twenty years had
been general counsel for the Boston
&c Albany railroad.
| O. w. Young died suddenly at Os-
wego, N. Y, of heart disease. Thirty
| years ago he was well-known evan
4 gelist singer, and was associated with
Ira Sankey, P. P. Bliss and George
\ Stebbins in Moody's meetings in Chi
cago and other cities.
1 George Fitzcurwood Lejeune com
| poser of church music and organist
and senior choirmaster of Trinity par
! ish, is dead in New York at the age
of So from influenza He was the
composer of Jerusalem the Golden, =
and many other popular hymns.
Rev John A. Coughlin formerly OF
1 Nashville. Tenn. is dead of pneu-
monia at the residence of his nephew,
Rev. Bishop Muldoon, in Chicago. De-
ceased win be buried at Providence,
/ r. I. He was close friend and adj
/ wiser of the late Archbishop Feehan
| General News Items.
Harvard is already getting its foot
ball squad ready.
Chicago gamblers were caught re
Gently tapping tickers.
4 Pacific coast jockey clubs are unit
ing to form a new circuit.
1 The Automobile club has thrown
open its entry list to all corners.
| The spring agricultural season east
Of the Rocky mountains is backward.
4 So great was the crowd of applicants
i for positions in department store on
Sixth avenue, New York, that it be-
came necessary to call out the police
! reserves.
Justice Blanchard in the New York
| supreme court has issued an attach
ment in suit for s4oO, 900 brought by
Arthur L. Meyer against the property
of DR.. w. Seward Webb in that state.
The Edward Hines Lumber com
pany Of Chicago has purchased h0-
i 000, 900 feet OF lumber from the NJ.
Ludington company at Marinette, Wis.
/ The consideration was nearly ST ,OOO,-
900. ].
! Charles O'Brien, editor Of the Amer
1 lean Celt, who was assaulted ON the
street at st. Louis and taken to the
city hospital In an unconscious condi-
ton. Is dead as the result OF his In
4 juries.
Probably the largest check ever
drawn, as regards the amount Of paper
used, was delivered to the Catholic
University OF America In Washington
4 by the Knights Of Columbus for the
4 establishment Of q chair OF secular his
tory The check, beautifully en-
crossed, measures 5 by feet
Patrick Mooney. huge maniac. res
scented efforts to remove him II I'M the
Fifth Avenue hotel. New York, and
was only oyerpowered after 4 fierce
strugg against four porters and ave
policemen. He was taken to the in,
sane asylum.
onicials 81 the United States immi.
sgration bureau at San Francisco refute
the story ~ alleged mistreatment Of
Chinese visitors to the worlds fair. on
account OF which the Chinese minister
AT Washington il said to have fiied d
protest nth the state departme nt.