Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-06-29


Talking to Yale students. Attorney
General Wickersham declared against
the Arizona constitution.
The campaign publicity bill was
cast aside in the senate.
The United States has officially rec
ognized the republic of Portugal
President Taft will be unable to
visit Huron, S. D., during his west.
ern trip.
The American medical association
convention will meet this month in
Los Angeles.
London is being gorgeously deco
rated for the coronation exercises,
soon to take place.
The American company was shown
to have interest in the beet sugar
properties of Michigan.
President Taft sent message to
congress urging amendment to the
pure food and drugs act.
Under orders from Washington
many mail cars are now being hauled
behind the baggage cars.
The house refused to concur in the
senate amendment on direct election
OF United States senators.
The senate is in such an ugly snarl
that the fate OF the reciprocity bill
is hanging in the balance.
Anselmo Braamcamp was elected
president of the republic of Portugal
by the constituent assembly.
Testimony at the sugar hearing dis
closed that Havemeyer was silent
partner of the Mormon church.
Insurgent republicans and demo-
Gratis OF the senate have formed a
new combine to force tariff legisla-
ton.
The Panama bond sale shows that
Uncle Sam is in good health and the
business men of the country GONZALES
cent.
James Proctor Knott, former gov
ernor of Kentucky, and prominent for
many years in congress, died at Leba
non, Ky.
In an address at the Yale alumni
luncheon the president spoke in
praise of recent supreme court de-
cisions.
Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus has
succeeded to the command of the At
lantic fleet, taking the place of Adj
miral Schroeder.
A storm which included hail, wind,
lightning and rain swept central Kan
sas, doing thousands of dollars dam
age to farm property.
Ferdinand Edmund Duez, receiver
for the dissolved religious congrega-
tions of France, was convicted by
jury of embezzling $1,200,0O0.
Mrs. Mary l.. Cox, formerly of Day
ton, O., was granted divorce from
Congressman James M Cox. newspa-
per publisher and tinancier of that
city.
Governor Wilson gave out a state
1nent expressing his pleasure over
the success of the commission gov
eminent movement in Trenton, N. j.
Subscriptions to the British portion
of the s30,000,O00 Hukwang railway
loan to China were opened and i'm
mediately closed, having been over
subscribed
Rev. Dr. John Clifford of London,
England, president of the Baptist
world alliance took decided stand
against any "unitey of organizations"
among the christian churches.
The death Of Syed Ali Belgrami at
Hardor, Oudh, from heart disease,
aged 81, removes one of the most YER
satile and eminent Indian scholars.
He spoke dozen tongues, and could
read, write and think in twenty.
Apparently uneasy over the grow
ing habit of mineral water drinking
by senators and their office STATS,
Senator Lodge introduced and had
adopted resolution which is expected
to check the practice.
George Burns, Cleveland, o., aged
fifteen, fatally shot his father, Seward
Burns, aged forty-fve, when he came
and found his father abusing his
mother.
Senatorial reports of crop damage
in the northwest made the Chicago
market go slSyward.
The battleship Florida, now nearing
completion at the New York navy
ydIu, Was OIOGIeu JldC0u COmmlS-
sion on September 49, Her sister ship,
the Utah, is expected to be completed
on August 1.
A bill providing that every news
paper must print in conspicuous
place the name of the owner or own
ers, publisher and managing editor
was introduced by Representative
Barnhart of Indiana.
The reports emanating from Vienna
OF fatalities resulting from the recent
hurricane were greatly exaggerated.
So far as known, not more than TWEEN
ty-five lives were lost.
The Illinois grain dealers associa-
ton adopted resolution opposing
the plan of Postmaster General Hitch
cock to send trade journals and mag
azines by fast freight instead of pas
senger trains.