Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-10-13

~ AAAN kSCA1NCAt6 OApINGW 4VEA VIII
put full ticket In the field. \
John A. Dix was nominated for gov.
ernor by the democrats Of New York
The president withdrew 400 acres
OF land from the public domain in
i Montana. s:s=i9sH II:
I China Is believed to be ON the ,
verge OF an upheavel similar to that
OF the boxers.
Necessity Of frequent examinations
OF banks was made at the Los Ange-
les convention.
Rear Admiral Charles r. Rocker,
retired, died in Washington, aged
sixty-nine years.
n q republic mas been proclaimed at
Lisbon, Portugal. and a provisional
government established.
4 The independence league OF New
i York declined to endorse the nomi-
nees OF the republicans
Former Congressman Thomas Up
degraff from the Fourth Iowa district,
died at his home in McGregor. Ia.
The German ministry Of war an
nounced it would give $4,000 as a
price for an overland aviation COM
| petition.
Edwin. three-year-old son Of c. A.
Johnson, republican candidate for
| governor of North Dakota. was
burned to death.
Diplomatic relations between Vene-
zuela and Colombia which were re-
Gently severed because Of boundary
dispute have been restored.
| Walter Brookins, the hero of the
Observation-Disclosures will attempt a
flight continuously from Springfield 10
| st. Louis, a distance of eighty-fve
miles.
A $10,000,00O merger Of all the
| powder companies in Canada with the
exception of the Giant Powder COM
pany, branch factory at Telegraph
Bay has just been effected
, Because of the cholera scare in
Europe, two incoming transatlantic
| liners the Lapland from Antwerp and
the Perussia from Naples, were de.
tanned at quarantine for inspection.
BY an order issued by the postoffice
department land grant railroads here.
after will receive only $3.50 fox.
each 1000 pounds of mail carried in
excess of $4,000 pounds. The old rate
was s17.1O.
The commission named by Presl.
dent Taft to determine how the gov.
eminent may best supervise the is
suance of railway securities will hold
its first session in Washington No
yemher %. Quarters viii! be opened
there at once and force of clerks
hired
~ The state Of Missouri has popula.
ton of 3,293,335, according to the en-.
gnmeration made during the thirteenth
census. statistics of which were an.
nounced by the census bureau. This
is an increase of 1S6,570, or 6 per
cent over the population in 1900 OF
3,106, sos.
The Los Angeles Times building
was wrecked by dynamite and subse-
quently destroyed by fire. Twenty or
more lives W ere lost ard great
printing plant utterly destroyed. The
outrage Is attributed to labor
troubles, the Times having for a
long time been an open office. So
far there is nc clue to the guilty
parties
The Standard Oil company through
Its official publicity representative, J.
RI. g. Clarke, has announced that the
company has inaugurated a cam
paign to increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined OIL" and is lower
ing prices Of kerosene in Europe and
the far east. This action follows that
of August last. when the Standard Oil
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels cents gallon from 9A to
E8A cents at the refinery. and refined
oil in tanks from 61s to 55k cents a
gallon. In part the statement reads:
THE Standard Oil company has in
augurated q campaign to increase the
worlds consumption OF refined oil.
The level Of prices for refined oil to-
day in the United States is lower
than at any time during recent years,
ard as direct result of these prices
the consumption of refined oil In this
country Is increasing. The same pol
Icy IS now being actively pursued
abroad"
AS tragic sequel to the death Of
Edmond Poillt, the French aviator,
his flancee. who had shown almost
uncomfortable grief went to his grave
Sunday and fired bullet into her.
heart. Poillot was killed on Sep
tomber Is while making flight with
Is passenger. While at q height OF
ninety feet wing collapsed and the.
machine fell backward.
The executive committee OF the
brotherhood OF machinists, through.
Secretary Robert M. Lackey, sent to
the interstate commerce commission
! protest against the recent petition.
presented to the commission by Of
iictals Of various organisations Of rail-
road employees urging that the pro-
posed adsance 81 freight rates should
~ approved.
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