Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-04-20


been declared unconstitutional.
Congressman Norris was placed to
his satisfaction on house committees.
The cofferdam surrounding the
wreck of the Maine has been com.
pleted.
Judge William S. Kenyon was elect
ed United States senator by the Iowa
legislature.
Mexican rebels are accused OF hold
ing Americans captive in town OF
Lower California.
Senator Lafayette Young made q
speech in support of the commission
form of government.
A tornado which devastated Okla
homa and Kansas killed twenty-three
and injured a hundred.
DR.. Gomez, of the revolutionary
junta at Washington, is moving act
lively for peace in Mexico.
According TO the court of commerce
Canadian reciprocity Is not affected
by the favored nation clause.
If congress adjourns during the
spring months President Taft will go
to Texas to watch the maneuvers.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress providing "children's bureau"
for the department of commerce and
labor.
Canadian reciprocity and farmers
free list bills were introduced iii the
house on beehalf of the democratic
majority.
The Nebraska railway commission
has announced the physical valuation
of the Rock Island system in Nebras-
ka to be $10,00O,0OO.
National negro democratic executive
committee has called convention for
Indianapolis, May II, to formulate
plans for the 1912 campaign.
New Mexico lands, aggregating $751;
064 acres, have been withdrawn from
all forms Of disposition by President
Taft on recommendation of Secretary
Fisher.
The story that General Hector Mac
have committed suicide years ago, is
drilling troops in China is authori-
tatively denied.
After a search of two years secret
service men arrested Harry B. Porter
in Denver and charged him with maxi
ing the best counterfeit silver dollars
ever circulated in this country.
Mrs. Serene E. Payne, wife of Rep
resentative Payne, father of the pres
enJ tariff bill, is III d serious condi-
ton at her home in Washington, suf-
fering from nervous prostration.
M. Cruppi. in his maiden speech as
minister of foreign affairs in the
French senate, refutcd the pessimistic
criticisms by Senator Alden Guam de
Villaine, who asserted that Frances
foreign policy was decadent.
A Mexicali (Mex.) dispatch says:
General Stanley Williams hurled his
little battalion of rebels against
Colonel Miguel Mayet's 500 main reg
ulars on the mesa five miles south of
Mexicali. Eighty Insurgents went Into
the fight; 20 returned from the battle
field.
Seeing his wife riding in a buggy
with William e. Hagan, wealthy
-four dealer of Kansas City, in indie
pendence, Mo-, John Bramhall, an at
torney and claim agent for the Metro
politan Street Railway company, fired
victim is dead.
The warden of the Wyoming peni-
Tertiary has rendered his annual re-
port to Governor Carey It shows
there are 251 convicts at the state
pen. This means that approximately
one person out Of every 615 persons
in the state is convict, there being
about $4,000 inhabitants in Wyom-
Ing.
w VIVA hat secret service men believe
was an extended plan to flood the
middle west with counterfeit gold
coin has been discovered in Kansas
City. M. r. Little and Charles De
Vau1 have been arrested charged with
passing counterfeit eagles and double
eagles.
At New York in the presence Of
many women and children whom they
had rescued, twenty-four women were
presented with medals for brave work
in 1901. Mayor Gaynor in present
ing the medals said the New York
fire and police departments were the
best in the world.
One hundred bills were offered but
only Is went through the Nebraska
legislature affecting the railroads.
George w. Critchfield, the Ameri-
can who was shot from ambush sew
eral days ago at his ranch near Tux
tan. Mexico, died from his wounds.
Drawing the chilly winds and drizz-
ling rain and immense throng, vari-
ously estimated from 100000 to 2O0,-
900 stood in the streets of Cleveland
and paid silent tribute to the memory
of Tom L. Johnson as his body was
conveyed from the family apartments
to the union depot, en- route east for
burial.