Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-13
Foreign.
Foreign.
II was officially stated that the rev.
'lution in Honduras has been sup

II was officially stated that the rev.
! olution in Honduras has been sup.
pressed.
A number of persons we're burned
] to death and hundred houses were
destroyed by fire at Donaneschingen:
Germany
The Russian naval commission has
decided that the new battleships for
the Russian navy shall be built either
in Italy or Germany.
! Estrada Cabrera, president Of Guate-
mala, has released forty-three political
prisoners, according to a dispatch re-
ceived at the state department from
| American Minister Heinke.
! The experiment of employing Nyas-
saland natives in the Rhodesian mines
| Is being attended with terrific loss
of life, the mortality in one mine ex
ceeding the rate Of sos per 1000 a
year.
The government has decided to
dredge the present typhoon shelter at
Hongkong and to make another one
| in West Harbor, at a cost of 81, 500, 900.
To provide revenues for this work
merchant ships will be taxed 2 cents
on every registered ton. 1t is now
estimated that 1000 lives were lost in
the late typhoon.
England's dream Of the last quarter
of a century that her shores are abso-
lutely impregnable to attack by for
eign navies has had a rude awakening
since the conclusion of the naval ma
neuvers in the North sea- These ma,
neuvers showed up SO many faults
that those in authority have sought
| to keep the details from the public.
According to the Berlin Tageblatt.
the yearning Of Nine. Toselli former
Crown Princess Louise of Saxony, for
| has materialized. The former princess
! has entered suit at Heidelberg for dis
solutionfof her matrimonial bonds on
the ground of her unconquerable dis
| like for Toselli and his inferior educa-
| ton.
The court at Agen, France, has con-
demned the Matin to pay a 500 fine
and $4,000 damages and to publish
| 200 times the courts judgment in the
libel suit brought by M, Chaumie, for
| mer minister of justice, against the
paper The Matin, tits charged re-
peatedly accused M. Chaumie OF pro-
viding sinecures for relatives and
friends at the public expense.
General.
John McGregor was declared not
guilty of the charge of accepting a
bride of 81 900 in a deal with the Atlas
Engine works at Indianapolis.
Fourteen railroads of Colorado have
asked the federal court for an injunc-
| tion restraining the Colorado railroad
commission from enforcing the law as
| to rates and railroad regulation.
Railway mail clerks throughout the
country are greatly alarmed over the
announcement by the postoffice de-
| partment to the effect that they will
be held responsible for all damages to
persons and property caused by care
! less delivery OF mail at catch stations.
Angry because his father, a pawn
broker of Des Moines, was arrested for
keeping open on Sunday, Louis Seigel,
aged fifteen, started to put on the Sun
day lid by swearing out warrants
against half dozen candy, cigar and
drug stores, charging violations of the
anti-Sabbath closing law. Siegel pur-
chased stuff at each place and will use
| it for evidence.
The Iowa state supreme court, hav-
| ing declared the partial decree of the
ldistrict court respecting the mulct law
illegal and void, Burlington saloon
keepers and liquor dealers in other
towns are reported to have done a
good business last Sunday. Some of
them probably will quit business this
fall with fat wads as the results Of
this opportunity that has been afford
ed them
La Porte, Ind, has another murder
mystery for solution. The discovery
in half-dug grave, covered with
fence rails, branches of trees and 9TH
er debris, on the farm of DR.. Bowel,
5liGelTT flClliiiS FIItlIlcy VI d DdQly Qe-
composed body Of a well dressed man
about forty years old, has aroused the
lauthorities. Coroner Mack. after
carefully examining the body, declared
the man had been shot through the
head.
A gigantic negro kidnapped little
ight-year-old Vera Ditto from her
front yard at Muscatine, Iowa, and
escaped with the child to Mad creek
bottoms, near town. A posse of $50
men with the police, ran him down
and captured the child The negro
later was captured after running
flight through the bottoms. He has
been removed to jail and heavy guard
placed over him TO prevent possible
llynching. NH
Charles w. Wssterfeld, twenty-five
years old, an assistant bookkeeper of
the Produce Exchange bank In New
York, committed suicide BY shooting
himself through the head in the book
room of the bank, just as two checks
bearing his signature were presented
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