Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-10-27

A council OF Christian union to
sweep away UNCONVENTIONAL barriers
was proposed at the Topeka conven-
ton.
The West Insian hurricane has hit
Florida a fearful blow. causing loss of
life and property.
The Episcopal church convention
decided to defer action on the ques-
ton Of marriage and divorce
Reciprocity negotiations will prob
ably be in progress between Canada
and the United States within ten
days.
Every union man at the Illinois
Central shops at Paducah, KY, walk
ed out through sympathy to the strik-
ing carmen.
Announcement was made of a gift
of $250,00o by John d. Rockefeller to
the medical department of Western
Reserve university.
The duty on lumber imported from
Canada will be waived by the United
States in the interest of the Mime
sofa forest-fire sufferers.
United States Senator Nelson W.
Aldrich, who, with the members OF
his family, has been in Europe for
month, returned last week.
English bankers have agreed to ex-
tend the period of negotiating cotton
bills of lading under the present sys-
tenn from October 81 to December 81.
Secretary of State Knox has return
ed to his desk at the state department
after spending nearly all summer at
his country home at Valley Forge, Pa
The Missouri Pacific Railroad COM
pany was fined from $40 to $25 each
on four counts for violating the six
teen-hour law In the federal court in
ST. Louis.
The controversy over the sale of
the Rio Grande railroad, recently
bought by William c. Guy of St.
Louis at foreclosure sale, is believed
to have ended.
The English government has invited
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener to be.
come member of the committee on
imperial defense and Lord Kitchener
mas accepted.
The population of Omaha is 124,O96,
as compared with 1U2,555 in 1900 and
140,452 in 1890. The increase from
1900 to 1910, therefore, is 21,541, or
21.0 per cent.
Five were killed and seventeen in
jured when two trains on the Charles
ton & West Carolina railroad crashed
together at full speed two miles
south of Mccormick, S. c.
John d. Rockefeller has given to
the Rockefeller institute for medical
research an additional $3,S2O,oOO,
bringing his donations to this institu-
ton up to an aggregate of $4,000, 900.
Thirty-six cigar factories out of the
thirty seht hele:n s ing to the Manu-
facturers' association will open their
doors at Tampa to all cigarmakers
willing to work on the manufacturers
terms.
A commission of scientists has
come to the conclusion that Amer
lean potatoes are no longer source
of contamination, and the French gov
ernment has decided to admit this
product.
Joseph M. Huston of Philadelphia,
architect of Pennsylvania state
capitol, was sentenced to imprison-
ment for not less than six months
nor more than two years in the east
9ern penitentiary at Philadelphia.
The twenty-first annual report of
the Great Northern railway says that
Improvement in conditions during the
fiscal year ending June 80 last result
ed Gin the largest earnings for one
year ever reported by the company"
Announcement was made at Cleve-
land of gift of $25o,ooO by John d.
Rockefeller to the medical department
of Western Reserve university. The
gift, which is a personal one, is made
conditional on the raising OF $780,
600 more by the university,
Another chapter was added to the
history of aviation when the French
dirigible balloon Clement-Bay
made the voyage from Compeigne to
London in the remarkable time of six
hours. journey requiring seven
hours by the fastest express trains.
Acting Secretary of State Alvey A.
Adee, who has ridden over much Of
this country and Europe on a bicycle
without mishap, was injured while rid
ing in Washington when he attempt
ed to avoid running over yellow dog.
The Missouri state primary election
law Of 1909 is attacked in a petition
fled in the supreme court declaring
it unconstitutional. The petition was
filed by attorneys for John Felz to
compel the board of election commits
sioners Of St. Louis to place his name
on the official ballot as an independ-
ent candidate for the office of Justice
of the peace.
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