Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-05-18
Otherwise,

Archbishop Glennon addressed the
Catholic knights of America at St
Louis.
The International Anthracite Mer-
chants association was organized by
retailers in New York.
The annual convention of the SOW
ereign camp, Woodmen of the World,
began at Chattanooga, Ten.
Wallace H. Hills, chief clerk of the
treasury department. was found dead
in his he a at Carizozo, N. M.
The board of directors of the New
York Players club has elected John
Drew president, to succeed the late
Joseph Jefferson.
The Height & Freese company OF
Boston, stock brokers, went into the
hands of receivers and all of their
Offices in the state are closed
Nearly five hundred delegates are
attending the twenty-ifth convention
of the American Waterworks associa.
ton at French Lick Springs, Ind.
The building of "Fraternal City,"
a sanitarium for consumptives in New
Mexico covering 10000 acres of land,
was celebrated at banquet in ST.
Louis
The Illinois house passed the bill
placing automobiles under state regis
tration and setting the speed limit at
twenty miles an hour on country
roads.
James M. Sprague was appointed re-
ceiver for the contracting firm of w.
H. Ellis & Co. of Cincinnati on appli-
cation of Harry E. Kennedy, the silent
partner in the business.
George H. Broderick, basso of the
Chinese Honeymoon Co., is dead of
pneumonia at Aurora, Ill. He was
we'll known throughout the country in
theatrical and musical circles.
The Fitzhush Lee Monument asso-
citation has been organized at Rich
mond, Va. It's object is to erect a
monument of Mr.. Lee in Richmond.
Mrs. N. V. Randolph was elected
president.
Private speculation by officers and
members is responsible for the great
majority of bank failures, according
to Controller of the Currency William
Barrett Ridgeley, who addressed the
National Bank Cashiers association
of Massachusetts at dinner in Bos-
ton. The tendency toward specula-
ton, resulting frequently in defalca-
tons, he said, had become much more
common during the last eight or ten
years.
F. A. Wing, United States assayer
at Seattle states from information he
has received from Alaska and the
Northwest Territory this season that
the output In gold from the Northern
country this year will total $22 cot, 900,
If not more. From the Klondike
alone Mr.. Wing predicts an output of
from s10,000.000 to SIP ,0O0, 900, the
balance coming from the camps on
the American side.
Articles of Incorporation Of the Ben.
eficial Life Insurance company, Or
ganized by and under the direction OF
tHe 1SdueIS VI stHe MCFulOu CnurCh,
were filed at Salt Lake. Joseph T
Smith is president, Gov. John C. Cut
Ter is first vice president, and the 9th
er officers are prominent in the
church. The company, which will do an
"old line business, has capital
stock Of 100000. all paid In.
Reports from all sections Of Califcr-
MIA tell of splendid crop conditions.
The grain yield will be large, and
from present indications the fruit sea.
son will show an Improvement over
last year. ss3s3
Edorado Rubini Swinfin Jervis, bet.
ter known as colorado Rubini once a
distinguished vocal music teacher, Is
dead ii New York at the age Of So
years. The British royal princesses
were his pupils IN sin ing for several
years Among his pupils were Vol.
PM Scasisi 'aslilna Iucca, arim mon,
Cotosni, Joseph Mass and Campanni,