Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-07-21
Heavy rains have broken the droutn


NAL.
A new union station is planned for
Chicago which may COST SGT, 200, 900.
The first death for three years from
the bubonic plague occurred at Homo.
lulu.
The Pan-American Congress is now
In session and will hold for several
weeks.
The postal savings bank law is ex-
pected to prove an aid to the
treasury.
President Taft signed orders for
withdrawing more land from the pub
lie domain
Forty millions in gold is expected
to be imported from Europe by
Christmas.
Seven Cubans were arrested
charged with conspiracy against the
government.
A female aviator in France suffered
a fall of fifty meters and received ter
rible injuries.
A man was arrested at Chicago
who was thought to be cunning for
Jack Johnson.
Mrs. Ella F. Young Of Chicago was
elected president of the national edu-
cational association.
A mob at Newark, O., lynched
young joint-raider who had killed a
restaurant proprietor.
Solicitor McCabe says enforcement
Of the pure food law is one cause for
increased cost of living.
Senator Burrows, as the man who
must act, is bothered over the bribery
case :af Senator Lorimer.
Representative Poindexter Of Wash
ington received comfort and en-
conragement at Oyster Bay
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral P. V. DeGraw talked to Nebraska
postmasters in session at Lincoln
Hon. Charles s. Rolls, an English
aviator, was killed by the falling OF
his machine while making flight.
Loeb says he would rather remain
at his post in the customs service
than to be candidate for governor
At Clinton, ILL.,, Chief of Police John
Struble was shot about midnight by
an unknown man and died in short
time.
More than twelve tons OF frozen or
dessicated eggs. shipped to New York
from Chicago, We're seized as unfit for
human consumption
It is stated that 100000 of gold
purchased for Germany which has ar
rived in London, has been engaged
for shipment to New York
George Otis Smith, director of the
geographical survey will be the first
head in the new bureau Of mines,
Just created by act of congress.
At Hamburg Thirty-fve thousand
ship yard workers united in de-
mand for an increase of 10 per cent.
in wages and a fifty-three-hour week.
w. J. Bryan branded Nebraska state
senators who have refused to support
the Initiative and referendum as un-
worthy Of the party's confidence or
votes
Only two members of President
Taft's cabinet are in the capital "sit-
ting on the lid" as former President
Roosevelt designated this summer as.
signment.
The Hrbek monument was unveiled
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, and appropriate
memorial exercises were held for the
late professor of the University of
Nebraska.
Robert Prewitt Williams, state
treasurer of Missouri during the ad.
ministration of Alexander Dockery as
governor and we'll known banker,
died at his home at Fayette.
One cannot be quite certain, but it
Is most probable that Secretary Bal
fingers policy of blocking the wheels
of conservation with legal bubbles
would have succeeded but for Pinchot
and CLAWS.
The sudden death OF, Chief Justice
Fuller makes a, change in a majority
of the supreme court of the United
States during the first term of Presi.
dent Taft, q possibility. If not Il
certainty.
Attorney General Thompson advised
Governor Shallenberger that the
statutes of Nebraska do not prohibit
the exhibition of prize fight pictures.
Harvard City, Clay county, Nebras-
ka, has the distinction of being the
first Nebraska town whose population
is announced by the Census bureau.
Harvard City has population OF
l.1o2, as against $40 ten years ago.
Telegraphic auvices from Portland
have. been received announcing the
suicide Of Major w. u. Tucker IN
Portland hotel. He was formerly
treasurer Of the Battle Mountain
sanitarium and government home al
Hot Springs, s. D.
AT Muskogee, Okl.. while rehears.
Ing for literary entertainment in al
play requiring gun play. Jacob
Winkler, was shot and instantly killed
at Stone Blur by his chum, Everett
Olden. Olden used shotgun, which
he q sserted he had previously ex.
amined ana found not; loaded.
Personal.
Pinchot will help the insurgents III
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