Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-11
NEWS or THE WEEK IN [PITOMt
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EVIeIxn onOTeS 00elly
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People Talked About.
5sS Hildebrand Fitzgerald, business
81 manager and one OF the proprietors Of
the Philadelphia Item, lis dead.
n. Nathan Stein, widaly known as a
\ Wholesale clothier, died at his home
~ Rochester. N. r.. aged eighty
years.
ss8 Consequent upon his resignation
handed in several months ago because
q III health, President r. H. Jesse,
+ Tor many years head OF the Missouri
state university, has ended his connec-
ton with the institution.
"A document has just been uncover
+ Cd IN the ONCE OF the city registrar Of
\ q, Louis which shows that Gen, u. S.
Grant IN 1859 applied to the city OF
b. Louis for position as county en-
gineer and was refused the place.
Bishop Edward Wilson Of the Re-
formed Episcopal church died at his
home at Methuen. N u. He was born
In Liverpool. England, in 1920 and
came to America in 1870 Bishop Will
son retired some time ago on account
Of Ill health.
w. NJ Astor, Jr.. has adopted the
role Of temperance reformer. He pre-
sided at meeting In London OF the
Semi-tsetotal Pledge association,
whose. neSnbers bind themselves to
drink alcohol only at their midday and
evening meals.
Rev. Columbus Polk Goodson, pas
tor OF the Highland Park Presbyterian
church OF Warsaw, Ind, and Bertha
Irene Chapman, daughter Of Rev. Or.
II ]. Wilbur Chapman, the evangelist,
were married at Warsaw, the father OF
the bride officiating.
Francis ". Kossuth, royal Hungari-
4 m minister Of commerce, has notified
Emil Zerkowitz, the American CORE
spoDdent OF the royal Hungarian mu-
scum Of commerce. of his appointment
as commercial counsellor in this coun-
try. Mr.. Zerkowitz has been three
years in the United States and seeks
to strengthen the pleasant relations
between this country and Hungary.
sss Casualties.
ightning set or twenty-six tons of
dynamite on the Panama canal kill
ing two Americans.
Gust Nelson, an old timer and wen
known rancher OF. Montana, is dead
from the effects OF the kick OF a
& horse.
The distributing depot Of the Gin
cinnati Oil Works company at Gin
cinnatt YVES destroyed BY fire. LOSS,
+ S6o. o0o, ~ H., i 1ssss . .ss%a'~slrp
~ The greater portion OF the Erie
4 foundry ct Erie, Pa, one OF the larg-
+ est Of it's kind, was burned. mourning
i d loss OF nearly 100000.
Il Clarence Strain, twenty years old,
! ! resident OF fremont, Iowa, il dead
from bullet wound in the forehead
accidentally inflicted by boys who
were hunting.
An entire family, consisting OF VIII.
lam Eidleman, his wife and their two
children, were drowned In Pensauken
creek, below Rivertpn, n. j, by the
capsizing OF small rowboat.
"A boiler tube In the engine room
II Of the American liner ST. Louis ex.
pioded while the steamer was enter
q ing the roadsted at Cherhourg Three
hremen were seriously injured.
Mrs. Amanda Ottolenduy Of New
York was killed when an automobile
carrying seven persons fell over the
embankment on Magnolia blum, Seat
ne. The remainder Of the party were
slightly hurt
Lake Superior claimed one more
victim when Gustaf Varebrook. amen
Der OF Marquette's fire department
was drowned while fishing He was
II he rocks BY the high seas
John Kerwin was killed and ]. J.
Smith fatally injured when Ia skir
& dropped 22b feet with them down 4
al mine shaft near Dubuque; iowa.
Is 1efectiveR brake caused the accident.
Sins and Sinners. 5#
Charles T. Muir, paying teller Of ths
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