Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-09-29
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

/ Miscellaneous Matters of General In
terest Here and There.
Democrats of the country are very
+ much encouraged over recent state
state elections.
All Mexico celebrated the S0th
/ birthday of President Diaz
Mrs Hyde, wife of DR.. Hyde,
Kansas ity, is critically i'll.
The cholera scourge is sweeping It's
1 way across Asiatic Russia.
/ There were 100 Rockefellers in
! Newburg, N. Y. for reunion.
One was killed and eighteen injured
In q collision Of Burlington and Rock
Statistics show that American rail-
road employees get better wages than
those OF Europe
From eight to ten thousand people
listened to the speech Of Ex-President
Roosevelt in Omaha.
d. p. Thompson, late minister to
Mexico, has sold his interest in the
Lincoln (Neb.) Star.
The democratic machine in Virginia
setback at an early day.
Congressman G. w. Norris of Ne
| braska, returned from Wisconsin
| pleased with insurgent victory.
The report that Taft will step aside
for Roosevelt in 1912 was declared at
Beverly to be unworthy of denial
The voters of Shreveport, La, de-
r1a II ~, 81 5c.ctif>
| form Of government at a special cleo
! ton.
Arizona's constitutional convention,
| which will meet October JIG, Will have
| forty-one democrats and eleven repub-
licans.
Hamilton w. King of Michigan,
United States minister to Sian, is
seriously i'll at hospital at Balti-
more
81 don't care what anybody says
about me SO long as l am conscious
of doing my duty" says Secretary
Ballinger.
Governor Shallenberger has quit
the recount game and declares Mr..
| Dahlman the democratic nominee for
i governor OF Nebraska.
a formidable bomb was discovered
1 lying on the railroad track in front Of
Emperor Williams train in which he
was proceeding to the hunting lodge
at Mohacs.
w. M. Bradshaw, guard in the
| federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
shot Bertha Schmetz at her home
near Horton, Kan, and then commit
ted suicide.
| The building which stood upon the
site purchased for the Carnegie IL
brary in Alliance has been moved
new building.
Mon Win, st. Louis only patient at
quarantine, escaped from the leprosy
isolation hut west of the quarantine
station, leaving note which read:
ME going west"
The estate of the late Thomas w.
Evans, the Philadelphia who won
fame and fortune as dentist to ari-
/ stocracy in Paris, has dwindled from
| s6,000000 to $1,750,000.
The war department decided to
send the Seventh and Eighth cavalry
| to the Philippines to relieve the
Twelfth and Thirteenth. The Seventh
Is now at Fort Riley, Kas.
| Acting Mayor Mitchell Of New York
| has ordered that Police Commission
| err Baker be removed on the ground
of unfitness in permitting gambling
| to flourish in the city unchecked.
4 Prospectors returning from Knils
Arm, Alaska, a branch of Cooks inlet,
report the discovery of an immense
| field of bituminous coal that promises
to be more valuable than the Man
taniuska deposits.
/ III. T. Howell, one of the most
prominent bankers and fnanciers OF
! Nashville, Tenn, has resigned his
! position as president of the Fourth
National bank of Nashville to accept
the presidency of the Carnegie Trust
company of New York.
Lightning struck the statute OF
Henry Clay in the Lexington, Ky.
4 cemetery, shattering an arm and leg
of the figure. The memorial was un
yelled in July and took the place OF
a similar monument which was struck
by lightning in July, 903.
The Right Reverend Joseph Char,
trand was consecrated as bishop co
adjutor of the indianapolis diocese.
Charles Mindeleff, a New York ex
pert metallurgist, has been engaged by
the treasury department to make 8
study Of the methods Of refining gold
in the United States minis. He was
engaged by Acting Secretary A. Plat
Andrews and will begin work at once
Personal.
Indicted beef packers Of Chicago