Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-10-20
Our government will wait awhile
before recognizing the new rulers in

Montana.
Fire totally destroyed the Adeline
Sugar company's plant at Franklin,
Pa. Loss, 100000.
!. Special agents at Washington are
looking into allegations OF the ex-
istence of lumber trust.
The supreme court postponed &C
ton on most of the big suits pending
until there is full bench.
With Lisbon tranquil and events
moving smoothly the new republic OF
Portugal seems destined to live.
Reciprocity negotiations will prob
and the United States within ten
days.
LIZ A violent collision occurred on the
streets of Valencia, Spain, between
republicans and members of the Cath
olic club.
Thomas ]. O'Brien, the American
ambassador to Japan, will sail for the
United States October Is on sixty
days leave of absence.
1t is officially stated that the British
war Office is considering the possible
ty of securing a regular supply OF
/ horses for the mounted troops in
Jamaica.
The will of Horace b. Silliman of
Cohoes, N Y, a former textile manu-
facturer, bequeathes the estate of
more than 100000 to philanthropic
| purposes.
! r. P. Nelson of Seattle, was elected
grand president of the Danish Broth
erhood, defeating H. II. Vogt OF DAY.
export, Ia, who has been president
| twelve years.
To the already large area of about
100000 acres, the department of
| the interior has added 10000 acres
of land to the enlarged homestead
portion of Wyoming.
Joe and Ed Chandler, negro high
waymen, were killed and Ed Black, a
third member of the gang, was mort
ally mounded in Huntsville, Ala, by
Sheriff Mitchell and squad of depu-
/ ties.
Rear Admiral John A. Rogers, u
S. NJ, retired, arrived from Alaska
convinced that his missing son, AL
exander, who went north in the sum
mer of 1909, persisted on the Valdez
Fairbanks trail.
4 Social Washington was deeply In
terested in the recent cabinet meet
ings at the White House, at least In
that part OF them which had to dc
with the filling of the vacancies or
the supreme court bench.
Adolph Rothbarth, the hop mer
chant, who pleaded guilty to having
defrauded various banks in New
York out of 100000, was sentenced
to serve not less than three and no
m ore than seven years in Sing SIM
: prison.
: The long-standing uneasiness amonl
, railroad employees in France dc
veloped in declaration to strike Of
} the part of those employed on tn
: northern roads. The decision is a re
) suit of a refusal of the company t.
+ grant the demands Of the men.
l A move toward unification of al
, of Chicago's street car lines was mad
: when the city council passed an OF
$ dinance permitting the rehabilitation
: of the Chicago Traction company an
the purchase of the Consolidated Raj
5 ways by the Chicago Railways CON
1 |.pany.
9 There was substantial increase
n amounting to about 10 per cent, in tn
n number of wooden cross-ties pul
g chased for consumption by the stea1
s and electric railroads in the Unite
n States in the calendar year 1909. a
d compared with the number purchase
j. in 1905
Uniformity in grain inspectio
throughout the United States and i
the rules Of trading in all exchange
n will be the principal subject COZ
sidered at the fourteenth annual col
le vention of the grain dealers nation;
y association, which held its initial sc
sion in Chicago.
% Sir William Reloar. the Englis
y philanthropist and former lord mayo
of London, who has been in the Uni
IS ed States and Canada a month, sale
ID on Sunday on the Celtic of the Viii
Star line, after pronouncing the Al
D. erican women the "smartest dresse
* women in the world.
Consul Chamberlain telegraphed Il
ID state department from Lourenzo Ma
as quez, East Africa, that the govern
general Of that colony continued
ae ONCE under the new Portuguese re
II ime; that the republic had been pl
"a claimed throughout the provinces a,
i that the translation was peaceable.
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u. Personal.
Il. CONGRESSMAN Mccall Of MassaC!