Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-08-18

The standpatters were badly defeat
ed by the insurgents in Kansas.
Postmaster General Hitchcock fs
cutting down the deficit in his depart
ment
81 The corn crop of the country is not
up to the ten-year average.
Speaker Cannon says he is not wor-
rying over the result in Kansas.
Joseph Vending, alleged slayer of
Alma Kelner, reached Denver on his
way to Louisville.
President Taft helped dedicate a
monument TO the pilgrims who landed
at Provincetown. Mass.
Wholesome legislation for Indians
is expected to follow an expose of the
charges Of Senator Gore.
The papal nuncio at the Spanish
court has been warned to make ready
to depart on short notice.
Claude A. Swanson has been ap-
pointed U. S. Senator from Virginia in
place of Daniels, deceased.
AT the meeting Of railroad men at
st. Louis the decision was reached to
demand an eight hour day.
Representative Bird Mcclure of
Aklahoma saws Senator Gore Is not
much better than a slanderer
With the coming election Cuba is
facing as serious crisis as has yet
confronted the young republic.
Swarms OF locusts recently invaded
Athens, rendering the streets Slip
perry with their crushed bodies.
The total population of the United
States under the last census will
hardly beknown before October
Serious floods continue throughout
Japan. Thousands of houses are sub
merged and many lives were lost.
One of the first duties of the United
States supreme court will be to pass
on the Kansas bank guaranty law.
Sweeping authority is given the
commerce commission ~ the law
which is to take effect August II.
Secretaries Wickersham and Nagel
are keeping out Of the Alaska
quarrel while visiting the territory.
The establishment of a national
home for the deaf at Colorado Springs
was urged at the worlds congress of
the deaf held there.
The prohibitionists opened their
campaign at Liberty, Mo-, In the in
terest of the statewide prohibition
constitutional amendment.
The funeral of Bishop Dunno of Dal.
las, Tex. who died at Green Bay, Wis,
was held at Chicago in the Church of
the Immaculate Conception.
An army paymaster's safe contain
ing $4,000 was stolen from the maneu-
yer camp at Pole mountain, twenty
five miles west Of Cheyenne.
Fritz Mergenthaler, son of the In
ventor Of the linotype machine, was
killed at Cape May, N. j., when an
express train ran into his automobile
The Carriage Manufacturers asso-
citation of the United States in session
at Louisville resolved to advance the
price of vehicles for the season of
1911.
Lionel Waldron and Jules Pages,
the American artists and Alexander
Garfield, the American explorer of
Africa We're decorated with the legion
of honor.
The Nebraska State board of equali-
cation told Omaha bankers they cam
not deduct $1,211,531 full value from
assessed value of capital stock on ac-
count of prospective bad loans.
Acting Secretary Pierre of the in
terror department appointed COM
mission to determine the competency
of Indian allottees on the Santee In
dian reservation In Nebraska.
The supreme lodge knights Of Pyth-
las has decided not to take over the
Las Vegas, N. NJ, sanitarium for tu-
bercular patients now under the turis-
diction of the Knights of Pythias.
John Wilson, jr., long absent from
his home in Johnson county Nebr.,
leturned and established his identity
as right to the $4,000 estate left by
his father, who died five years ago.
With her throat cut from ear to
ear, the body of Mrs. Joseph Wolfe,
aged 81, wife of Dennison, Tex,
contractor, was found by her daughter
lying fully dressed on a bed in her
home.
Robert Black and Miss Margaret
who were among those
injured when an automobile was
wrecked by Southern railway train
at Birmingham. Ala, died Monday,
bringing the total dead to four.
Because of the race riots at Gray,
Jones county, Georgia, Governor Jo-
seph E. Brown was requested to i'm
mediately spend troops to that vicin-
ity, the request coming from the sher-
III Of the county.
With an armed guard on each side
Of him. DR.. Crippen attended divine
services in the Catholic chapel of
the provincial Jail at Quebec. Miss
Leneve declined to join the protes-
tant prisoners at this service.
Personal
Nebraska was wen represented at
the KNIGHT Temnlar conclavo IN