Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14
Otherwise.

Seven deaths and score of prostra-
wave in Chicago.
Raphael WE'LL, millionaire clothier
San Francisco, announces that he will
give complete outfits of clothing to
500 women as a bachelor tax against
himself.
Seattle felt slight earthquake
shock one morning recently. There
was one tremble only. No damage was
done and few persons knew anything
about it.
The Hancock Consolidated Mining
company, capitalized for $5,OO0,OOO,
has been organized The new com
pany will open extensive copper mines
under the city of Hancock, Mich
The city council of Sioux City is con-
sidering plan whereby denatured al
cohol may be manufactured from the
city garbage. Chemists say that gar
bage when properly treated makes the
best possible wood alcohol
Andrew G. Fields, lobbyist of the in
surance companies, has offered to fur
nish District Attorney Jerome IS New
York with a list of the legislators Who
took money from him to assist in pass
ing bills favorable to insurance com
panies.
All marriage records for Chicago
and Cook county were smashed one
day last week when $50 persons were
licensed to we'd. The nearest approach
to these figures was on June IA, three.
years ago, when 155 licenses were is
sued.
Gordon Bigelow of Milwaukee "a son
Of Frank G. Bigelow, former bank
president in Milwaukee who is now
confined in the Leavenworth peniten-
tiary, commenced suit against William
A. Tracy OF the brokerage firm OF
Tracy & Co. OF Chicago for $4,000.
A dispatch from San Diego, Cal,
states that George Boldt, Jr., on of
the owner of the Waldorf Astoria Motel
of New York, and Miss Estella Savin,
daughter of a wealthy Spanish mer-
chant of Tia Juna, Mex, were married
secretly at Yuma, Ariz.
Enumerators for the publishers of
the city directory of Chicago have COM
pleted their work and the largely in
creased number Of names they have
turned in gives ground for the estima-
ton that the city's present population
is close to 2.75G.OOO.
A jury trial in New York awarded
to John Delhaunty verdict for the
full amount of his claim in his suit for
$4,000 counsel fees against Richard
Garfield for legal services after Dis
trict Attorney Jerome's raid on Can
fields gambling house in that city.
What is said to be the biggest wool
clip in Montana, 1,250,000 pounds, be-
longing to ]. B. Long & Co. of Great
Falls, has Just been sold to Boston
firm. The price is not made public,
but it is thought to average rs cents
| pound. The wool was sold on the
sheep back and covers all the wool
belonging to the Montana firm There
are 100000 sheep In Valley, Cascade,
felton, and ether counties still to be
sheared.
Thirty-four miners employed at the
| Eleanor shaft at Punxsutawney, Pa,
suddenly became i'll and were obliged
! to Quit work. The men believe that
they were affected by fire damp, while
the coal company officials think poi.
! son was put in the mems dinner pals
| by strikers. q.
With soaring flames menacing many
hundreds Of children, enforcement of
the fire drill in public school No. 1872.
in the Brownsville section Of Brook
lyn, enptied the building Of its 1886
/ pupils within two and a half minutes
and without any one OF them receiving
1 = hurt Of any kind.