Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-09-03

PIIlHK SOUTH DAKOTA.
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN fPITOMf
important Events at Home and or
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
ss Personal.
Mrs. Henry Torphy, 100 years old
died at her home in Rockford, III.
Tony Pastor, the theatrical manager
81 died at Elmhurst, Long Island, after
nm illness Of several weeks.
Samuel Staples, formerly resident
OF Colfax, Wis, is dead at Wenatchie,
Wash, at the age Of eighty-four years.
Senator ]. B. Foraker has accepted
an invitation to speak at the Emanci-
patton day celebration at columbus,
Ohio, on Sept. %.
Augusta B. Leguis has been pro.
claimed president Of the republic of
Peru. All the members of congress
except two voted in the affirmative.
j. Simeau, an aged restaurant keep.
or Of Monterey, Cal, who became
widely known as close friend of
Robert Louis Stevenson, is dead at
his home there.
William Bronson, ST.. proprietor Of
the Hotel Bronson at La Crosse, and
one Of the most widely known hotel
men In the Northwest. is dead at the
age Of seventy-three.
Richard Croker has become an hon
orary burgess Of Dublin. He signed
y the roll and received from the lord
mayor certificate granting him the
freedom of the city. Only three
Americans have previously enjoyed
this honor
Rev. Thomas N. Arnold, one of the
most prominent ministers of the
Christian church in the S~--.:.h, died
on train while en- route from Frank
fort to Versailles, KY, to preach q
funeral sermon. He was classmate
Of Gen. Grant at Nicol.
While crossing the lower gate Of
Poe lock at Sault Ste. Marie, James
MacKin, veteran of the Civil war,
dropped dead of heart disease He
had been talking over old times on
the Southern battlefelds with Homer
Hodge, another veteran.
Foreign.
4Iax ~
been established in Turkey as q result
Of the suppression of the censorship,
"A dispatch from Shanghai says that
1t is reported that China has decided
to adopt the japanese monetary sys-
tenn.
AS the result Of dispute in the Por-
tuguese house of peers Count de La
goaca and Senior Monteiro fought a
duel with pistols. Neither was hurt.
The official report of cholera for the
week ending Aug. 20 in all Russia
shows LIB cases and SIT deaths.
Since that date the cases have reached
2,024 and the deaths 90
An automobile containing Thomas
I Lambert of New York and Henry
Sands of Paris knocked down and
killed woman in Dourdan, France.
The police exonerated the chauffeur,
Death by drowning is the verdict
OF Coroner Donovan in the case of
John Keefer, whose mysterious death
kept the police of Iowa City guessing
twenty-four hours, Keefer's body was
found in e boat floating down the
Iowa river.
Miss Winifred Parsons. daughter of
the late Charles Parsons, president of
the Rome, Watertown &. Ogdensburg
Y railroad. New York, was found dead
with a bullet wound in her head in
her apartment in Paris. The girls
right hand clutched a revolver.
Fire broke out in the STEAMBOAT
quarter Of Constantinople, and within
Ia very brief period terrible con-
fagration was raging. A strong wind
carried the flames at great speed, and
for six hours they swept over the sec
ton, destroying 1000 houses and
) shops N 3S
! S3ss Inc berlln Lokal AEzelger's Pekin
correspo ndent telegraphs that Japan
ese soldiers captured recently and
nortally Injured Chinaman who was
formerly an official OF the ministry Of
war. The Chinese government in
sists that an explanation be made Of
the affair.
Accidental Happenings.
n. Susmicht zand Frank and George
& Eischan were drowned while bathing
~ Silver, creek, near New Athens
Two chi dren Of Peter Good, farm.
II er Of elbert, Man, were cut off In
t the upper sorry hy Are and burned to
death, 5 n
Fire at Belle Vile, nj. destroyed the
factory Of the Jordan Shoe company
h and the elevator Of the Crown Milling
company entailing 4 loss Of $15o, 900.