Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-13
PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA.
NEWS Of WEEK SUMMARIZED
I IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY. TOLD.
By s. g. ORWELL

AM NSINa
BRIEFLY TOLD.
People Talked About.
Justice David Terrence, chief jus
\ tice Of the Connecticut supreme court
\ Is dead at Derby.
Miss Louise Loeb, sister Of William
Loeb, President Roosevelt's secretary
was married at Albany, N. Y, to Fred
& erick Neudorf, an Albany druggist, at
the home Of the BRIDES father. Will
lam Loeb.
Orrtmell Gould, sixty-four years old
q Civil war veteran who served In
4 Company K, Sixth Minnesota, Is dead
at Rochester, Mimi A widow, q son
I and a daughter living in Spring Val.
ley, Mimi, survive him.
DR.. Francis r. Meattie. one Of the
y widely known ministers in the Presby-
terian church and president Of the
Presbyterian theological seminary,
died suddenly at his residence in
Louisville Of heart failure.
Dr.. Harriet 8. French, for more
than fifty years president Of the Phila-
delphia branch OF the Women's Chris
tian Temperance union, died in that
city Of heart failure, following a
stroke Of paralysis. She was eighty
two years old.
Casualties.
= -ns
n Mrs. William Dunlap and Miss Mel
son Murphy were drowned ut Free
port, Ill, while attempting to ford a
creek.
The mill OF the Empire Lumber
company at Empire, Mich, one Of the
largest In the state, was destroyed by
IRE. The loss Is 100000.
Two traction cars crashed together
on the Fort Wayne & Wabash traction
3 line on steep hill south OF Peru, Ind.
Eighteen persons were injured.
The power house OF the Kansas City
q Leavenworth Electric railway at
Wolcott, Kan, was burned, with its
valuable machinery. LOSS, 100000.
Charles w. Lynde, wealthy retired
business man, was killed at Islip, l.. l..
IN an automobile accident. Other oc-
cupants Of the automobile escaped in
tury.
The plant Of Graham Bros. & CO.,
soap manufacturers Of Chicago, was
destroyed by fire last night. The
loss Is estimated at $4,000; fully COW
4 nrnd NV inSIIranco
While playing with matches Labor
day the six-year-old daughter Of
James Mcvoy OF Nadeau, Mich. set
her dress on fire and was SO badly
burned that she will die.
Jacob Holstein, a laborer, fell five
stories from the new Radford ware
house at Winnipeg, Man, and was in
stantly killed. A ticket for Hungary
was found in one Of his pockets.
Carl Smith Of Brockton. Mass, a
professional aeronaut, fell 125 feet
from a balloon at the Maine state fair
grounds and received injuries which
probably will result in his death.
One Of the trapeze ropes broke.
White filling a balloon preparatory
to making an ascension at McPherson,
KEN, Jack Leroy was fatally burned
as the result OF the explosion Of the
balloon when the gasoline was
thrown on the fire.
A three-year-old son Of Mr.. and
i Mrs. N. H. Connell Of Maple Grove,
Wis, was drowned In q rain barrel.
J. There was Only nine inches Of water
Al the barrel, but the little chap fell In
head foremost and was drowned be-
4 fore he was missed.
While ascending chute on the
900 foot level Of the Bell mine at
) Butte, Mont, Joseph Lynhan. a miner
residing at Centerville, lost his bal
ance and fell ten floors, q distance Of
eighty feet. His skull Was badly
fractured By the fall and all the ribs
I on one side Of his body were broken.
He has no chance Of recovery.
Elmer Gilman was killed and sew
eral other workmen were injured by
an explosion which wrecked the plant
of the Midland Chemical company,
chlorofo rm anufacturers. at Milwau-
kee. The explosion released quantities
of chlorof form, the fumes Of whCn
hlled the air and made the rescue OF
the injured workmen perilous feat.
though they we're sixty-dye feet from
J the plant.
Foreign.