Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-08-11

iASSAoS0A oAAotSW oeiyo AAhAoeso 40 49,
taking Speaker Cannon seriously.
Congressman Campbell Of Kansas,
standpatter, calls insurgents icono-
ciasts.
The standpatters were badly defeat
ed by the insurgents In Kansas.
There was a generous fall of rain
In considerable district of Nebraska.
A new party has been born in Penn
sylvania and state ticket nominated.
On the whole, it is thought crops
this year will be about the same as
last.
Roosevelt will address the national
conservation congress in st. Paul,
September G.
Senator Gore gave the full details
concerning bride he alleges was
offered to him.
The Rusk party Of mountain climb
ers failed to reach the summit of Mt.
Mckinley, in Alaska.
A Chicago newspaper charges that
bride fund was raised to return A.
j. Hopkins to the senate.
Chairman Yoakum, of the Frisco
railroad, discussed good roads at the
Niagara Falls convention.
Claude A. Swanson has been ap-
pointed U. S. Senator from Virginia in
place Of Daniels, deceased.
Twenty-Five persons persisted in
flood that followed cloudburst at
the town of Dees, Hungary.
Senator Crane will make trip
through the west to size up the poll
teal situation for President Taft.
The coroner's jury found that Ira
G.. Rawn died by his own hand, but
does not say he committed suicide.
Secretaries Wickersham and Nagel
are keeping out of the Alaska
quarrel while visiting the territory.
The government intends to break
up the practice Of railroads selling
foodstuffs spoiled in transportation.
There is some hope Of compromise
in the differences between the
British house of commons and lords.
| The French government has accept
ed bronze copy of Houden's statue
| OF George Washington, which was
presented by the state Of Virginia.
That the one-quarter mill tax levied
on all property in Oklahoma for
| school taxes is valid in the opinion Of
District Judge Huston in decision
Cooperation between the federal
and state governments in the good
roads movement was advocated by
! speakers at the Niagara Falls conven-
ton.
The report of the national giners'
association at Memphis, indicates a
condition of 1871 per cent for cotton
up to July %.
In a pitched battle between police
officers and band of negroes at
Bradford, Ohio, one of the negroes
was fatally shot
The pope has appointed the Rev.
| Joseph Chartrand as coadjutor
bishop to Bishop Chatard, Of the
diocese Of Indianapolis.
| Lionel Waldron and Jules Pages,
the American artists and Alexander
Garfield, the American explorer of
| Africa were decorated with the legion
of honor.
/ The ancient and long established
pass book system, used in ordinary
| savings institutions, will be adopted
for the proposed government postal
savings banks.
Governor Harmon of Ohio commu-
ted to life Imprisonment the sentence
of death which was to have been I'M
posed upon Joseph ]. Mackley, the
/ Toledo murderer
One OF two new dreadnaughts al-
thorized by the last congress will be
built in the New York navy yard and
1t is possible the other ship also
may be built by the government.
The Missouri supreme court re-
4 fused writ of mandamus to compel
i Secretary of State Roach to place a
/ constitutional amendment on the Off
cial ballot to redistrict the state as
proposed by the republican state cam
mittee.
Eugene Childs, veteran of the
civil war, who as child flew kite
across. Niagara falls which permitted
the engineers who built the suspen
sion bridge there to draw the ca
BILE across, is dead at his home al
Minneapolis.
| Lieutenant Commander Henry T
Baker, on duty at the Bremertor
navy yard. Washington, was reduced
fifty-flve numbers and public repri
q mand sent to him by the Navy depart
4 ment as the outcome of "by court
martial on a charge of uttering {
falsehood."
The famous Crocker's Iowa Brigad,
will hold its Fifteenth Biennial Re
union at Washington, Ia, Wednesda.
and Thursday. September IA and IL
1910. All soldiers who served in tn,
brigade composed of the 18th. 18th
q 18th and 18th regiments of low
4 volunteers are entitled to membership
and are earnestly urged to attend.
Personal.
. DR.. Crippen and Miss Leneve mus
4 remain in Quebec until August 1s.