Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-07-28

lOSe IN MIS- hight Tor reelection.
The health OF the German emperor
r said to be greatly impaired.
A strike of conductors and train
men was called on the Grand Trunk
line. n
It Is said the next lower house is
cans.
The Oklahoma crop situation
shows an improvement of Is per cent
over any previous year.
There will be no strike on the
Pennsylvania railroad, the dispute be-
ing settled by conference.
The convention Of the American as
ISOLATION of Ad clubs opened In
Omaha with 500 in attendance.
Rhode Island shows increased
population, but not enough to give
the commonwealth another congress
man.
At Clinton, ILL.,, Chief of Police John
Struble was shot about midnight by
an unknown man and died in short
time.
Daniel Kinet, the Belgian aero.
naut who fell when the rudder of his
aeroplane broke died from his in
juries.
A Lincoln, Nebraska man has in
vented a bucket which may revolu-
tionize methods Of excavating and
hosting.
The crop report for Germany,
which gives conditions up to July 10,
shows a slight depreciation since
June Is,
Prince John Charles Francis, the
youngest child of King George and
Queen Mary, celebrated his fifth
birthday.
Drouth in the northwest is seriously
affecting the cattle men, threatening
them with great losses and possibly
with financial ruin.
The Baltimore Eastern League base
ball club has sold Pitcher Lefty"
Russell to the Philadelphia Americas
League team for $4,000.
Congressman George W. Norris of
the Fifth (Nebraska) district had his
name filed as a candidate for renomi-
nation on the republican ticket.
Plans for the establishment of
bureau Of railway economies at WASH
ington, d. c., by the railroads of the
country were announced at Chicago.
The Wisconsin prohibition platform
contains clauses denouncing both
local and county option as not being
a settlement of the liquor problem.
An aeronaut named Andrews fell
100 feet when his balloon burst at
Lake Manawa, Iowa, but was saved
from death by falling into the
branches Of large tree.
At Enid, Okla, guests Of the City
Hotel fled in their night clothes when
the hotel and an adjoining structure
was destroyed by fire. Several of the
guests were slightly injured.
AT Omaha Samuel G. Dobbs was re-
elected by reclamation president Of
the Associated Advertising Clubs of
America and after gruelling fight
Boston was awarded the next conven-
ton.
Chico Baca. who was one OF
signed as minister general of the
Madriz cabinet in Nicaragua, accord
ing to advices to the state depart
ment.
Colonel Roosevelt, as we'll as Gift
ford Pinchot, has been asked to be
in Atlanta, October Z, when meet
ing will be held for the purpose of
ISOLATION.
Officials of the Iowa State Teach
ers' association announced that
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will
speak at the meeting of the associa-
ton in Des Moines Friday night, No
vember IL.
For the first time since he returned
to Kansas, United States Senator
Joseph l.. Bristow, in a speech at
Olathe, Kans., referred to the fact
that he has been denied patronage by
President Taft
Edward A. Thompson. who is
charged by his former fiancee, Miss
Warren Of New York, with disappear
ing on October 6, 1909 the day set for
their wedding with $1,7S0 of her
money, was arrested in Minneapolis.
At Hamburg Thirty-five thousand
ship yard workers united in a de.
mand for an increase of 10 per cent
in wages and f1fty-three-hour week.
President Taft was highly pleased
when he received letter from Secre-
tory Of the Treasury MacVeagh,
stating that the splendid showing of
federal finances announced on June
80 last, had been improved by revised
returns showing additional receipts of
about s5,500.00O.
To race with the British expedition
under Captain Scott to the south
pole, Japanese sailing vessel of 200
tons carrying Lieutenant Shirase and
the Japanese expedition to the Ant
arctic will leave Toxic bay on
August i. The expedition will pro-
coed via Benin islands and Australia.