Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-06-16

Chairman Will Hayward has called
meeting of the Nebraska republican
state central committee for June 16.
Glenn H. Curtiss will attempt an
aeroplane fight from Cleveland to
Put-in-Bay and Detroit some time
next month.
In London. June 8, Miss
Margareta A. Drexel, daughter of the
1 Philadelphia banker, was married to
an Englishman.
The postoffice safe at Merriam,
Wis, was blown by burglars and
money and stamps to the value Of
$4,000 were stolen.
Harry B. Kay, "a years old, who I'M
| til recently was cashier of bank in
Pasadena CAL, committed suicide by
shooting at Pocatello, Idaho.
Charles Gridley, attorney of Vir-
ginia, ILL.,, who represented the fisher
in the Springfield lobby, was given
clean bill by Mr.. Burke, after he had
| testified.
Reports received at Bristol, Tenn,
are to the effect that two churches
and probably dozen dwelling houses
were blown down in wind and hail
storm which visited that section.
Emil Seidel, the mayor OF Milwau-
kee, in speech declared the mon
opolies were labor-saving devices and
necessary. Mr.. Seidel added that all
monopolies, however, should be I'M
! der the strictest regulations.
mass meeting or Pittsburg resi-
dents of British birth or British de-
scent decided to erect research lab
oratory for the tuberculosis sanitar-
ium of Pittsburg as local memorial
to the late King Edward VII.
The grand jury which was convened
May 16 by Governor Hughes of New
York, to investigate alleged county
grating cases returned fifty indict-
ments against twenty-seven persons.
Thomas E. Watson, once demo-
cratic member of congress and once
named by the populist party for presi-
dent, announced in a card issued last
week his return to the democratic
party
In desperate encounter between
revenue officers and "moonshiners"
| in Wilkes county, North Carolina,
more than hundred shots were fired
and several of the moonshiners were
injured.
When Colonel Roosevelt comes sail
| ing home Oh June IS Collector Of the
| Port William Loeb, Jr., and several
| hundred loyal friends will meet him
down the bay in government vessels
and escort him up to Manhattan.
Attorney General Wickersham has
rendered decision in which he holds
that Richard Parr is entitled to re-
cover from the government the
amount of his claim for information
| given against the so-called sugar
| trust.
Charles Stuart Rolls started in an
aeroplane in an attempt to fly across
the English channel from Dover to
Calais. He had gone only few
| yards, however, when the motor
broke down and he was compelled to
postpone the flight.
Treasury officials figure that if all
| the money in circulation in the Unit
ed States were divided equally, every
man, woman and child would have
$34.59. This is Ia cents per capita
more than they would have had by
! the same process of reasoning a
month ago.
| Notwithstanding recent threats
that revolutionary movement would
be inaugurated in China Sunday, the
| date set for the opening of the Nan
king exposition, this ceremony was
carried out without the slightest dis
order.
In a desperate encounter between
revenue officers and "moonshiners'
in Wilkes county, North Carolina,
more than hundred shots were fired
and several of the moonshiners were
injured. The officers destroyed four
Illicit distilleries and 1000 gallons of
beer.
4 At the Press Clubs dinner in honor
of Glenn Curtiss, the aviator. ], Ber-
nard Walker of the Scientific Amer
lean announced that Edwin Gould
offers $4,000 as 8 prize to the man
/ who shall produce the first aeroplane
successfully employing two motors
and two propellers.
The Nebraska centenary celebra-
ton will take place at Bellevue June
4 %, % and "a. s5
Richard Parr, the officer OF the New
York custom house who unearthed the
gigantic frauds committed by the
American Sugar Refining Company,
will get his reward from the govern
ment in short time. Through Parr
the government recovered almost 3d..
o0,00O His reward is likely to be
I. close to 100000.
Personal.