Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-04-06

The Nebraska legislature expects to
adjourn about April 4th.
+ The employers compensation act
was passed in the Illinois senate.
Opponents of Lorimer are laying
plans to GUST him at the coming SEES
sion.
Friends of the Aldrich currency
plan are to conduct campaign in it's
favor.
Stanley Robson, owner of the st.
Louis National league baseball team,
is dead.
New York democrats in caucus
failed to make a selection for United
States senator
The national forest reservation
commission is ready to begin the pur-
chase of lands.
All train dispatchers on the Illinois
Central have been granted an in
crease of 10 per cent month.
Oklahoma-Kansas bandits held up
and robbed an Iron Mountain train Of
an amount said to be $4,000.
Francisco. Madero, jr., has made 1t
plain that he must be consulted be-
fore peace plans are concluded.
China has decided to unreseryedly
acquiesce to the demands Of Russia
concerning the treaty of 1881.
The New York legislature will make
strenuous efforts to get a senator be.
fore the extra congress convenes.
Annual reports shows the gross
revenue collected by the Bell tele-
phone system in 1910 was s165, 00O,-
900.
New Workers. held a mass meeting
in the interest of more adequate pro-
lection of so.called fire-proof build.
ings.
Selection of president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific to succeed George ].
Gould will not be made for several
weeks.
The Russian government has form
ally notified China that 1t is satisfied
with her final reply to the Russian ul-
timatum.
Directors OF the Missouri Pacific
railroad met and approved the ex-
penditure OF 100000 for betterments
on the road
The Red Cross Will collect funds
for relief of families who lost rela-
tives in the New York skirt factory
conflagration.
Mrs. Austin M. Knight wife of Cap
tain Knight of the United States navy,
died following an operation for inter-
nal complications.
The executors of the estate of Ce-
Gil Grace, the aviator who lost his
life while attempting an across chan.
mel flight, were granted leave to pre-
sumo his death. His body has never
been found
Ccuase! for the indicted Chicago
meat packers appeared before Judge
George A. Carpenter in the United
States district court and were given
one week to file demurrer to the
governments action.
1--WE are not anticipating war, but
we wish to be prepared for any
emergency, and with this in view,
purpose to keep the navy intact"
Secretary of the Navy George l.. Won
Meyer told the students OF Harvard
at lecture at the Harvard Union.
One hundred and fifty lives, mostly
women and girls. we're lost in fire
at skirt factory in New York City.
Operatives were entrapped and most
of them lost their lives by jumping
from a great height. Property loss
on the building is less than 100000.
II B. Cohn. prominent Omaha
business man, was assassinated as he
was on his way home late at night in
Omaha. Two men were concealed in
an alley and shot down the victim
as he was crossing the same. Two
arrests under suspicion have been
made.
DR.. Kelly, a young physician, grad
uate of an Omaha medical college,
killed two men in Des Moines, one
of them deputy sheriff of Pottawat-
tamie county, while on his way to the
inebriate hospital at Knoxville, to
which he had. been sentenced. The
deputy sheriff, a lifelong friend of
the murderer, had him in charge. The
other man killed was a saloon keeper
of Des Moines who had refused to
sell drink to the frenzied doctor.
Secretary Nagel OF the department
of commerce and labor announced the
annointment of ROLAND P. Faulkner
as assistant director of the census.
r. Willoughby was recently transfer
red to the economy commission at the
white house.
Prompt denial was made by friends
of President Taft of the report from
Springfield, ILL.,, that Mr.. Taft had
Joined with Senator A1drich in urging
the election Of William Lorimer to
the United States senate.
At Los Angeles, after swallowing
poison and cutting his throat Wesley
Churchill, forty years old, leaped from
the top OF the eleven story building.
He landed in an alley and was man
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