Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-02

PlllRl SOUTH DAKOTA
NEWS OF THE. WEEK IN EPITOMt.
Important Events at Home and o.
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.

Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
Personal.
The Louisiana legislature adopted
i resolutions Of regret over the death OF
I Grover Cleveland.
Sir william Whiteway, former pre-
nnier OF Newfoundland, died at St
Johns, aged eighty-one.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son OF the
president, was given his bachelors
Z degree after three years of study. hav-
Ing taken extra courses.
w. b. Leeds. an American flnancier,
fled suddenly at the Ritz hotel Ia Pa
ris. He was at one time prominently
Identified with the Rock Island inter
& ssts.
President Eliot, 1t the commence.
ment exercises at Harvard university,
announced that the degree Of doctor
Of laws had been conferred upon
y President Van Hise OF the University
4 81 Wisconsin.
Or. Ezra Brainerd, for twenty-five
I years president OF Middlebury college
ut Middlebury. VT, has! retired from
4 the presidency and his successor,
Rev. DR.. John M. Thomas OF Orange,
y N. j.. has been indicted into the Of
Il iice. 81 sss 5.s
William r. Traffey, once manager
OF the Baltimore team, and manager
Of the Des Moines team In 1856, when
they made a worlds record Of twenty
n live games won in succession, died at
Des Motnes Of tuberculosis, aged for
ty-eight years.
After an illness Of several weeks
Charles b. Jefferson, the former the
Atrical manager and eldest son of the
B late Joseph Jefferson, died In New
York from a complication of stomach
troubles. During the active career OF
4 the late Joseph Jefferson Charles JEFF
ferson was his fathers manager and
personal representative. He was flf-
ty-seven years old.
Casualties.
Ss Three persons were drowned by the
Dverturning OF a rowboat on the Ohio
river at louisville, KY.
The town Of Park Falls, Ont, was
almost completely wiped out by fire,
involving loss Of 100000
Twelve deaths. due to heat prostra
tions or allied causes, were Recorded
4 In Chicago in one day last week.
Paul and Fred Foster. brothers.
were drowned while bathing in the
Tittahawlls near Midland, Mich.
Fred HI. Mattson, a student of the
/ Ames, Iowa, agricultural college, was
& drowned In Salt creek, near Lincoln,
Neb.
Three men were killed by the ex-
I plosion Of a boiler Of a locomotive on
the PENNSYLVANIA railroad near New
Bruins OK, N. j.
Fred Suhr. aged sixteen years, was
drowned IN the Manominee river, near
y Menominee, Mich. while swimming
with g number Of companions.
Two persons were killed and several
u injured In an explosion ID the Penn
sylvania railroad cut at Thirty-first
street and Ninth avenue, New York
Oscar Wester was drowned while
bathing In the Ontonagon river at
Ontonagon, Mich. David r Russ.
while trying to recover AVester's body
& lost his own life.
One man ID dead, smother is miss
A Ing and snearly q score of others were
8. injured by an es plosion on board the
q German steamer Arcadia. which ar
rived At Philade lphia from Hamburg
last week.
Famed BY 3 high wind. a fire which
h broke out at Three Rivers, Que, In a
Bta bic was not checked until the
greater portion 81 the lower town.
containing the business section Of the
city, had been consumed The loss
will be consid erably over $4,000, 600.
Grimes and Criminals.
Mrs. Olloway was shot anG oiled
by Harry Crawford, a wealthy retired
farmer near DEBORAH, Iowa. He then
h Killed himself II is said that Craws