Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-06-29

Porto Rico is making strides in az
ricultural development. ss
4 President and Mrs. Taft celebrated
ut Washington their twenty-fifth we'd
ding anniversary.
/ Talking to Yale students, Attorney
General Wickersham declared against
the Arizona constitution.
The campaign publicity bill was
cast aside In the senate.
The United States has officially rec
ognized the republic of Portugal.
President Taft will be unable to
visit Huron, S. D., during his west.
ern trip.
The American medical association
convention will meet this month in
Los Angeles.
London is being gorgeously deco
rated for the coronation exercises,
soon to take place.
The American company was shown
to have interest in the beet sugar
properties of Michigan.
President Taft sent message to
congress urging amendment to the
pure food and drugs act.
Under orders from Washington
many mail cars are now being hauled
behind the baggage cars.
The house refused to concur in the
senate amendment on direct election
of United States senators.
The senate is in such an ugly snarl
that the fate Of the reciprocity bill
10 ho trir In, no ko1
Anselmo Braamcamp was elected
president of the republic of Portugal
by the constituent assembly.
Testimony ;i;y g. the the snggar hearing dis
closed that Havemeyer was a silent
partner of the Mormon church.
Insurgent republicans and demo-
Gratis of the senate have formed a
new combine to force tariff legisla-
ton.
The Panama bond sale shows tina:
Uncle Sam Is in good health and the
business men of the country GONZALES
cent. Id,
James Proctor Knott, former gov
ernor of Kentucky, and prominent for
many years in congress, died at Leba
non, KY:
In an address at the Yale alumni
luncheon the president spoke in
praise of recent supreme court de-
cisions.
Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus has
succeeded to the command of the At
lantic fleet, taking the place of Ad-
miral Schroeder.
A storm which included hail, wind,
lightning and rain swept central Kan
sas, doing thousands of dollars dam
age to farm property.
Ferdinand Edmund Duez, receiver
for the dissolved religious congrega
tions of France, was convicted by a
jury of embezzling $1.2OO.OOO.
Mrs. Mary L. Cox, formerly OF Day
ton, o., was granted a divorce from
Congressman James M. Cox, newspa-
per publisher and financier of that
city.
Governor Wilson gave out state
ment expressing his pleasure over
| the success of the commission gov
eminent movement in Trenton, N. j.
Subscriptions to the British portion
Of Che $3o,00O,O00 Hukwang railway
loan to China we're opened and i'm
mediately closed. having been over
subscribed.
Rev. DR.. John Clifford Of London,
England, president CT the Baptist
world alliance took decided stand
against any .unitey of organization"
among the christian churches.
- r1o1e.,
Hardor, Oudh, from heart disease,
aged 81, removes one of the most YER
satile and eminent Indian scholars
He spoke dozen tongues, and could
read, write and think in twenty.
Apparently uneasy over the grow
ing habit OF mineral water drinking
by senator's and their Office stalls,
Senator Lodge introduced and had
adopted resolution which Is expected
to check the practice.
George Burns, Cleveland, o., aged
fifteen, fatally shot his father, Seward
Burns, aged forty-f1ve. when he came
and found his father abusing his
mother.
Senatorial reports Of crop damage
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market 60 skyward.
The battleship Florida. now nearing
! completion at the New York navy
| yard. was ordered placed in commits
/ sion on September Is. Her sister ship,
the Utah, Is expected to be completed
on August /. III
bill providing that every news
paper must print In . conspicuous
place the name of the owner or own
ers. publisher and managing editor
was introduced by Representative
Barnhart OF Indiana. N ss5.
The reports emanating from Vienna
Of fatalities resulting from the recent
hurricane were greatly exaggerated
i SO far as known, not more than TWEEN
/ ty-flve lives; were lost.
The Illinois grain dealers associa
tion adopted resolution opposing
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