Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-17

his footing while going from his home
to work and fell down steep embank.
ment, breaking his neck Death came
instantly.
Domestic.
The Santa Fe railroad has contract
ed for s2,50O,00O worth of ohia rail,
road ties to be delivered from Hawaii.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was sworn
| in at New York as member of the
grand jury Of the court of general SEES
| sions.
The dispensary of the town Of Sam
son, Ala, was burned. The anti-whis-
ky sentiment is becoming almost a
frenzy in some sections Of the state.
The colossal seated statue of the
late Mark Hanna, modelled by the late
/ Augustus ST. Gaudens, has been cast
in bronze at a foundry at Mount Yer
non.
The battleship Maine has gone into
dry dock at the League Island navy
yard. The big warship will undergo
repairs in preparation for the trip to
the Pacific coast.
Gov. Conner Of Alabama announces
that a special session Of the legisla-
ture will be called to meet Nov to
pass measures for the further regula-
ton of the railroads.
Director General Martin Of the
jamestown exposition has issued a
statement showing a total of 2,193,173
admissions from April 26, the opening
day, up to and including Sept. 80.
The wholesale grocery firm of An
! drews, Bates & Co., of Cincinnati as
signed to Daniel Dreyfoos. Liabil-
tiles, $4,000; assets, s15O,OOO. Pres
sure of creditors was given as the
cause.
Rhode Island Republicans in state
convention adopted resolutions indoors
ing the administration Of President
Roosevelt and nominated a full state
ticket, headed by F. H. Jackson for
for governor.
The Evangelical conference in SEES
sion at Milwaukee adopted a resolu-
tion requiring preachers to quit smok-
ing and providing that hereafter no
person will be licensed to preach who
uses tobacco.
The annual report Of the Wisconsin
Central Railway company shows that
the net earnings for the year ending
June 80, 1907, were s2,S47, os5, as
against $2,576, O99 last year. The sur
plus was $1,000, 456.
The reports of the twenty-nine rail-
roads operating in Ohio show for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1907, under
the 2-cent fare law, Gan aggregate net
gain on passenger receipts for those
roads of $1,332,2S2, compared with
earnings for the year 1906.
Miss Katherine Rittenhouse Of Lin
coin, Neb., has fallen heir to an estate
worth $4,000 by the will Of Col Isaac
Wing, who was rejected by her mother
when girl. Col. Wing never married,
and he stated in his will that his UNI
dying love for the mother led him to
enrich the daughter, whom he had
never seen.
Michael Cronin, one Of the presi-
dent, Adirondack guides, has been
;adjudged insane and sent to state
asylum. It was Cronin who drove
Vice President Roosevelt through the
Lower Adirond lacks to the nearest rail
road station in 1901, when courier
brought him news OF President Nc
Kinley's assassination.
Two directors have been elected by
the Remington Typewriter company.
One OF them, Miss Mary Orr, entered
the employ of the company nineteen
years ago as stenographer. Her
election is not only recognition Of
her faithful service to the company,
but also Of ii It played by women
In the development OF the typewriter
business.
4E4 Principal Bratnard Of the Gardner
/ MASS high school has ordered the
disbanding OF the Legion Of the
Stockings composed of pupils Of
both sexes, whose badge Of member
ship consisted Of loud" stockings. He
found that the girls and boys ex
changed q; single stocking, each wear
ling mismated pairs. Twenty pupils
were sent home. 7s3
Another product that has felt the ef
feet Of rising prices Is chocolate, in
i which decided advances In the price
TO the retailers have been made with
In the past few d avs The Increased
Il constimp ion q ssenOco late products Ii
given az the principal cause 81 the ad
u Vance. mi
Secretary Straus OF the department
of commerce and labor has issued .
Il call Cor 4 meeting OF the trustees d
u the foundation for the promotion 81
Il ndustrial peace the Nobel prize
/ fund given ~ President Roosevelt
n ste be held a Washington on Nov. j
Il next. &