Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-04-23
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SOuthern railroad.
Oomeotle.
Two hundred farmers residing near
Davis City, Neb., held meeting and
voted TO boycott the town because it
abolished saloons in the election last
week.
The contract for the construction Of
a pubic building at Devils Lake, N
d., has been awarded to the General
Construction company of Milwaukee
at $120.4o0.
James P. Munyon, the millionaire
medicine manufacturer CT Altoona
| Pa, and Miss Pauline Neff, former
| actress Of The Social Whirl," were
| married in jersey City
A call for the national assembly Of
the Christian party on May J., in the
watch tower at Rockford, H.. has
| been issued by William r. Benkart,
the national chairman of the party.
| Nine leading members of the relig-
ious sect THE Dreamers," have been
arre-tei at Medicine Hat on charge
OF arson. Some farm houses in the
district have mysteriously burned re-
Gently.
Announcement was made at Johns
town, Pa. that several departments of
the Cambria Steel company will re-
sumo operations this week, following
a three months suspension, affording
employment to 500 men.
Clifford Vernon, ten years old. son
of Thompson Vernon, hanged himself
In his fathers barn at Mount Vernon
! Ohio. The cause is a mystery, unless
the suicide of youthful cousin a
week ago preyed on his mind.
Oscar Rosengren, young me-
chanic of Marshalltown, Iowa. who
was run down by an automobile driv-
en- by f.. F. Michaels, formerly of that
city but now of Hampton, was given
verdict of $4,000 by the jury.
Or. o. o. swinney, who recently
came to Asheville, N. G., from New
York, shot and fatally wounded his
sixteen-year-old daughter Nellie and
then killed himself in the reception
room of a girls boarding school in
this city late yesterday. 1t is thought
his mind was unbalanced.
S. w. Corey of Ognen, Utah, has
been awarded the Canadian Pacific
railroad contract for the company's
large irrigation canal. The contract
| calls for the digging OF million and
half yards of earth in the district
between Langdon and Crowfoot dis
lance Of f1fty-four miles.
James Jones, chief Of police Of Des
Moines under the old regime Of the
city government, has instituted pro-
ceedings to prevent Will Hume, ap-
| pointed by the commissioners, from
becoming chief Of police. Jones
claims he is entitled to hold his office
| under the old soldiers preference law.
| A sensational prison breaking at
Penza, Russia, resulted in ten deaths.
Eleven political prisoners attacked
l and stabbed two wardens to death.
| They then threw a number of bombs
! and escaped from the prison iii the
4
4 suit and shot eight of the men to
! death.
/ Frank Duffy. an election district
captain of New York, who was con.
victed of having assisted thirty men
to register falsely at the last cleo.
I ton In the Seventeenth assembly dis
trict. was sentenced to not less than
two years and three months and not
more than four years and three
months in prison.
Claude Underliter, charged with the
murder of Nathan Taylor, his step
father, at Creston, Iowa, was sen
fenced by Judge Evans to the insane
weird of the state penitentiary at An
amosa. During his trial two months
ago the jury found that the defendant
Twas incapacitated to understand the
seriousness of the crime with which
he was charged.
Earlier than usual. the fishing tugs
operating in the Michigan waters o
4 AXE Superior have gone into com
4 mission for the season. The first lift:
i now are being made. There is an ex
4 cellent demand for fish now because
] Of the exceptionally high prices rulins
q for meats, ana the catch being equa
i the fishermen expect a more protita
Il BILE season than last year.
Despite the written declaration. o
q Judge George Gray that he could no
& unde. any circumstances consent II
b llshave the delegates Instructed for him
{ the Delaware state convention official
s II placed his name before the Democ
"a racy of the country for that party
nomination for president
$ A parade and mass meeting at Gin
/, cinnati under the auspices of the Per
| sonal Liberty league, constituted on,
.s5ss!zzoff the greatest public demonstration
s that city has ever known. Careful
. estimates place the number o
marchers at 20 900.