Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-28
The News of the Week
Casualties.


Casualties.
A passenger train and through
freight collided two miles north of
Mfddiesboro, KY, seriously injuring
nine persons.
Lloyd Emerson, twelve years old, OF
Poplar Grove, N. Y, who has been Wis
ting his grandmother, living near Ma
son City, Iowa, was drowned while
| bathing.
Private William F. Colvin, Company
C, Eighteenth infantry. whose home is
in Logansport, Ind, was accidentally
shot and killed by fellow sentry at
Fort Leavenworth.
John T. Baldwin, the eight-year-old
son of C. A. Baldwin, millionaire,
was killed in North Cheyenne canyon,
In Colorado. He was thrown from a
hurro and his skull fractured.
The steamer Steel King, bound
down with ore. was beached at Harbor
Beach, Lake Huron, having been seri-
ousiy damaged in a collision with the
steamer Manchester of Milwaukee in
8 fog.
]. B. Baremore, farmer, his two
children, Emma, aged five years, and
James, aged eighteen months, died at
Little Rock, Ark, of ptomaine pois-
oning. A daughter, aged seven years,
is at the point of death.
DR.. William G.. Hare and Charles
Delzell were drowned in Saginaw bay
at Bay City, Mich, when steam
launch in which party of six men
had started on fishing trip capsized.
The four other men were rescued.
Two early morning fires at st. Louis
did damage estimated at $215, 900 by
completely cutting a five-story Office
building and burning large livery
and undertaking establishment Fifty
horses were incinerated in the latter.
Five lumbermen were drowned in
the Shoshone river, near Wapiti, Wyo.,
while attempting to cross in boat.
The men belonged to gang working
on a log jam and had been warned by
the foreman not to attempt the trip.
The boat contained eleven men and
capsized in mid-stream Six were
rescued with difficulty.
Foreign Notes.
The MaZzini theater at Messipi,
Sicily, was destroyed by fire.
A passenger train was derailed at
Progranitschnal station on the Chi
nese Eastern railway and 100 persons
We're killed or injured.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointnent of j. B. Whitehead, late sec
rotary of the embassy at Berlin, to be
British minister at Belgrade.
The situation in the State Of Matte
Crosse, Brazil, is becoming serious.
1t is rumored that the revolutionists
are marching on Cuyada, the state
capital.
The Cologne Gazette prints an in
spired Berlin dispatch denying that
Emperor William will meet the en-
peror of Russia this year after the
conclusion of the formers Norway
trip.
Dispatches received at Antwerp
from the Congo Independent state re-
port a general revolt of the natives of
Kvango district. Several factories
have been pillaged and burned. Rein
forcements have been sent
The correspondent at Fee of the
London Daily Mail telegraphs that he
has had an interview with the sultan
of Morocco, who reluctantly agreed to
talk about the Algeciras reforms and
complained bitterly that during the
progress Of the conference he was new
er consulted.
1t Is announced at Dresden, Saxony.
that Prince John George, brother Of
King Frederick August, has been be-
trothed at Cannes, France, to Princess
Marie immaculate of Bourbon Sicily,
daughter Of the count Of Caserta
(Prince Alphonse of Bourbon Sicily.
head OF the house of Bourbon Sicily.