Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-07-20
General.

An extended drouth which threat
ened the wheat crop Of western Tex
as, was broken.
Every incoming mail brings TO the
state department tales Of distress
among the Chinese.
The house passed the bill to buy
homes for its diplomatic representa-
ives in foreign lands.
BY q standing vote. Andrew Car
1esie was elected an honorary mem
aer OF the New York chamber OF
commerce.
The British parliament. just open
I'd by the king, viii settle some i'm
so::a&t questions touching the Brit
ah constitution.
G. A.. Madcro, brother OF the rero-
utionary leader says that If juarez
S captured all Mexico will soon be
In the Insurgents hands.
Eduardo Suarez Muiica, Chilean
minister to Mexico, has been trans
ferred TO the post at Washington in
succession to the late Anibal Cruz
Diaz.
The Des Moines Press club receiy-
ed an acceptance from DR.. Frederick
Cook. the Arctic explorer Of the invi-
tasion to lecture in Des Moines, Feb
ruary %.
Secretary Ballingcr granted leave
of absence to Governor William j.
Mills. of New Mexico. who will bring
to congress the official vote on the
new state constitution.
The attorney for John Il. Walsh
appealed to the president TO expedite
the case of the imprisoned banker.
President Taft gave We. 10 the
senate that il Canadian aeciprocity
failed he would cali an extra session
At least five cities will appear by
delegations before the book commit
tee OF the Methodist Episcopal con
ference at next years conference, ac
cording to announcements.
A second dividend of Is per cent
was declared to creditors of the First
National bank of Billings, Mont.
which failed last year. This pays AZ
per cent of the creditors claims tt
bate.
The will of the late Eizabetl
Stuart Phelps Ward devises the bull
of her estate, valued at $4,000, t
her two brothers, Lawrence Phelps o
Atlanta. Ga. and Edward j. Phelps o
Chicago.
In one of the most disastrous eX
blossoms ever recorded in Uppe
Michigan, ten men met instant death
nj the plant OF the Pluto Powde
company in the outskirts of Ishpe
ming. One man was injured.
The rational guard organization
of California, Alabama, South Dakot;
and Hawaii each will be compelled t.
drop one disbursing officer and tn
state Of Louisiana will have to droI
four by decision of the comptrolle
Of the treasury.
That the exposition in commemora
tion Of the completion of the Panam
canal. if held at San Francisco, woul
be. the greatest ever known. is tn
opinion expressed by the senate con
mittee On industrial expositions in
report presented TO the senate.
The British parliament was not
fed in effect that Canada was alb;
to steer her own ship of state.
Melville w Dewolf, aged 10, a vic
president of the Erie Railroad con
pany, died in New York from heal
failure.
Frank Hotchkiss, known to Val
men for two generations as the of
cial in charge of the grounds an
buildings, died, aged 40 years.
The democratic caucus bill {
nome rule for the police department
of ST. Louis, Kansas City and ST. j
seph, was introduced in the Nilsson
general assembly.
Senator Norris. Brown, in a stini
ing indictment of Lorimer of lilinoi
demanded that he he expelled.
1t is said that if E. H. Harrima
had nved he would have had raj
road around the world. This was OF
of his great ambitions