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

IA Heat las caused q slump IN TRACE
but conditions generally are good.
DR.. H. w. Wiley, pure food expert,
may be given an opportunity to resign.
Testifying before the committee,
Governor Deneen Of Illinois denied
he was for Lorimer for senator,
La Toilette and Bristow spoke in
opposition. to reciprocity.
The Washington Star advises w. ].
Bryan to continue his political agitae
ton.
Yekkibery, editor of the newspaper
Shehra at Constantinople, was assas-
sinated.
The Fifteenth United States infan-
try left the maneuvers camp at Fort
Sam Houston for Fort Douglas, Utah.
Mrs. Morgan j. Goldsmith Of Clin-
ton Place, the Bronx, New York, was
killed in an automobile accident near
Cape May, N. ].
]. S. Long, Of Council Bluffs, Ia.
was elected treasurer of the conven-
ton of the American instructors of
the deaf at Delavan, Wis.
William Beecher, sentenced from
Deadwood, S. d., June 8, last, for sell
ing liquor to Indians, died in the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth.
The body of the eighth negro wom-
an to be murdered at Atlanta, Ca, in
as many weeks by an unidentified
"Jask-the- Ripper" was found on an
unfrequented street.
Samuel Wellman of Omaha, Neb.,
1ourneying in company with his
daughter from Pittsfield. Mass. to
New York, dropped dead at Dunbury,
Conn.
The German cruiser Berlin will re-
lieve the gunboat Panther at Agadin,
Morocco. The Berlin is three times
as large as the gunboat Panther.
Sister Madeline O'Brien, for 40
years directories of st. Joseph's acad-
envy, Emmittsburg, Md, and one Of
the best known educators in this
country and Canada, is dead.
Steam railroads operating in Iowa
increased their gross earnings prac-
tically $S,000,000 during the year 1910,
according to statement issued by
the state executive council.
Joseph M. Terrell will not return
to Washington to serve as United
States senator from Georgia and
positive announcement to this effect,
will be issued by Mr.. Terrell in the
next day or two.
President Taft's order transferring
coal lands at Controller bay, Alaska,
from the forest reserve to the public
domain will be the subject of inquiry
by the house committee on expendi-
ture in the interior department.
Bishop Frederick Foote Johnson OF
the Episcopal missionary diocese OF
South Dakota announced that he
would accept the call extended on
May Is to tine Office Of bishop ccsa-
tutor for the state of Missouri.
Resolutions were passed by 20 ma
tional, state and clearing house bank
examiners, who met in st. Louis, adj
vocating an amendment to the ma
tional banking act, to empower ma
tional banks to loan money on real
estate security
All the Madrid papers print the
statement of Brigadier General Will
lam H. Bixby, chief of engineers,
United States army, that he believed
that the destruction of the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor was caused
by the explosion of it's magazines
and not by external force.
Thousands of head of cattle have
died from heat, hunger and thirst on
the ranges in western Texas and in
Pecos valley, and the losses even
now are estimated from 100000 to
/ $75O,O00 Unless generous rains fall
within ten days the losses viii viii Sc g
couple of million or more.
Cuba is arranging to pay tribute
to the sailors whose lives were sacri-
feed in the destruction of the battle
ship Maine. President Gomez mas
issued a decree ordering d special
demonstration of sympathy through
out the republic as soon as Havana
harbor gives up the dead.
That his wife has refused to keep
house in La Crosse, saying that she
did not desire to remain his wife
longer because women will have the
she then intends to run for governor,
is the husbands defense made TO suit
of divorce begun in La Crosse, Wis,
by Mrs. Prisca w. Olson.
DR. William 7. Hornaday, director
of the New York geological park, and
a member of the Campfire club, testi-
fed before the house committee on
expenditures in the department OF
commerce and labor. that Secretary
| Nagel and Fish Commissioner Bower
tried to suppress him two years ago
because he sought legislation to pre-
serve the diminishing herd of seals
on the Pribilof islands.
Personal.
Senators this week will be busy
| with reciprocity.
| Congressman Mitchell. of Kansas
/ died after long illness.
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