Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-07-13

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I I'd in auth wrecks near PiIrsburg Sum
| day
The mining town of Kaylnr, Pa,
was practically wiped out by fire.
Pittsburg was selected as the next
meeting place of the American insti-
tnte of homeopathy.
| Many department officers believe
an examination will disclose the
Maine was wrecked from without.
| Congressman Norris of Nebraska
charges there is a conspiracy at
I Washington against the progressives.
| More than $500 engineers of the
Baltimore AZ Ohio railroad were grant
ed an increase in wages of about 6
| per cent.
Crazed by heat which prevailed
there, Mrs. McCrary, Of Lockney,
Texas, killed her three children and
ended her own life.
/ John McNarrey. chief of the Kansas
City, Kas., fire department. was dan
gerously injured when he fell through
the floor of burning house in that
lefty.
| Two hundred persons were wound
ed in an election riot at FSalusz, East
| ern Galieia. 1t was necessary to call
out the troops to put an end to the
! fighting.
/ Democratic members of the ways
and means committee held brief
preliminary meeting and planned
work on the cotton tariff schedule
revision
Governor Shafroth of Colorado or
dered out a company CT militia at La
| Junta, Colo, to prevent the possible
iynciiiIlg of Ben Harris, TIE negro ac-
eused of killing Chief of Police Craig
at Rocky Ford.
PresiiiieeiEsts Taft I aft left Washington on
Friday for his new cottage at Beverly,
| Mass. Mrs Taft, Charlie Taft, Miss
Della Torrey the presidents aunt,
of Milbury,, Mass, and Major A. W.
BUTT accompanied him.
l The state health department of Ok
lahoma has decreed that artificial but
| .termilk must go. The sale of this
| kind of buttermilk is said to be
common practice in some of the cities
OF the state.
/ President Tara of Uruguay, who a
few months ago seized the presidency
| through a hloodless revolution, has
now assumed dictatorship and de-
elared martial law according to a tel
| egram to the state department
| William j. HanGke, north of Atchi-
son, finished threashing wheat from
|. an aleNenAaere field and the yield
|; premises to- he the high record for
Kansas this year, being 556 bushels,
an average of 5f1a bushels an acre.
5pstiIteT Champ Gissis
| 81 900 week, it is said, because con-
gress Is remaining in session at a
| time when he expected it to have adj
| journed. The speaker had a contract
| with a Chicago lecture bureau to take
the platform on July /.
| President Taft sent to congress a
| special commissions report recon-
mending the acceptance of gift of s.
600 acres of land near Tullahoma,
Tenn, and the purchase of $4,000
acres nearby at $12.56 per acre for
| permanent maneuver.
The Japanese naval hero, Admirar
Japan, will have NO difficulty in view
| ing every thing he cares to see in the
New York navy yard or any other
naval establishment. 1t is expected
he will board the battleship Florida
now nearing completion.
I The house of lords, by a vote OF
| 25a To 46. passed Lord Lansdowne's
amendment to exclude home rule
from the operation of the veto DiII
War Secretary Haldane made it clear
| that the government would refuse TO
accept the amendment.
No less than 63,000,000 barrels Of
7 beer were sold in the United States
during the II months ending June so
| last, or an increase over the previous
| IL months of 621 per cent, according
to the annual report of the beer and
whiskey sales; made public by the
United States brewers association.
President Taft I send to congress
a special report recommending the ac-
ceptance of gift of 5000 acres OF
land near Tullahona, Tenn, and the
purchase OF $4,000 acres nearby at
$1-50 per acre for permanent ma
neuver ground, inspection camp and
rife and artillery range for the army
Fire resulting from the explosion of
a large frecracker In the Matt Dono.
van ice house at Bernard, Ia, caused
a loss OF more than $4,000. the ice
house. elevator. a lumber yard. gem
eral store and a number Of residences
were totally destroyed It was sever
al hours before the flames were got
ten under control.
Al new counterfeit 500 gold certi-
fcate. SO we'll made in many details
that the secret service regards it as
highly dangerous, was found in a
shipment OF money from national
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ent III New York. The new bill Is
lithngraph and although 1t has many
defects. is printed on the govern
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