Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-08-17
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tors of Des Mnines are on strike.
George w. Perkins may be cited for
contempt for refusing to answer steel
committee inquiries.
George w. Perkins thinks congress
is composed of a good many pinheads.
The English parliament will adjourn
August 18 till about the list of Novem-
ber
Attorneys general of eight states
discussed railway rate cases at st.
Louis.
Democratic and republican con-
gressmen have arranged a baseball
game.
Marker, the fugitive banker, whose
wife lives at Eagle, Neb., suicided
in San Francisco.
standpat republicans have told the
president that any bill he sees fit to
veto will not be repassed
Baltimore gave Admiral Togo cor
dial greeting and kept him busy dur
ing the five hours of his stay.
The will of John W. Gates will be
probated in Port Arthur, Tex, where
the fnancier made his residence.
Senator Borah made an attack on
the principle of the recall of the judi
ciary in the Arizona constitution.
The national monetary commission
was denounced in the senate as ex-
travagant and a useless expense.
The French steamer Emir founder
ed today five miles east of Tariffa,
Spain, in the straits of Gibraltar.
Editors of the central west have
been sounded on the question of presi-
Dental approval or veto of the wool
bill
The United States government has
declined the Australian proposal for
a reciprocal cent postage arrange
ment.
The Georgia senate passed bill fix
ing sixty hours week as the max
imum for work in cotton and wool
mills.
Charles White of the Illinois legisla-
ture believes that most of the demo-
Gratis voting for Lorimer got pay fer
so doing.
Arthur P. German, son of tkv, late
senator German, is a candidate for
the democratic nomination for COVER
nor of Maryland.
Robert Ryan, formerly of Lincoln,
says that the Des Moines commission
er system OF city government has not
stood the first severe test.
The prohibition national committee
will meet December to choose the
time and place for holding the party's
presidential convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
of New York were guests Of King
George and Queen Mary at dinner on
board the royal yacht Victoria and
Albert.
Governor Hadley appointed the
commission of Hannibal men which
will have charge of the erection of a
monument to Samuel l.. Clemmons
Mark Twain) at Hannibal.
! Augustine Edward the Chilean
minister to Great Britain, paid over to
Ambassador Reid 1S4,637 pounds, the
indemnity awarded the United States
in the Alsop claim against Chile.
Announcement was made by the
United States steel corporation that
the untitled tonnage on the books of
the company on July 81 was 3,5S4,0S5,
against 3.361,07S tons on the books
on June 80.
Twenty-one thousand young people
will compete at forty-hye of the coun-
ty fairs to be held in Wisconsin this
fall for $4,000 offered as prize money
for the best exhibit of grain grown by
boys or girls under eighteen.
The war department has begun a
determined campaign to procure the
highest number of cadets allowable
under the la :<sssla S entering
the United States military academy
next June.
II must 60 where I am ordered
greatly as 4 regret to leave Wyo
ming" said Bishop K. j. Keene wher
informed that his nomination to the
archbishopric of Dubuque had beer
ratified by Pope Plus.
Gross extravaganza of the demo
cratic majority in conducting use
less inyestiga tons charged in
the house by Republican Leader
Mann, who also claimed the new dem
ocratic house leaders were incompe
tent.
Miss Florence Hopwood, Mime
apolis girl, is to become the wife o
Charles G. Gates, son OF John w
Gates, who died Wednesday in Paris
The engagement took place early II
thesummer before Charles g. Gate
was called to Paris.
The famous Crocker's Iowa brigad'
vii! hold its sixteenth biennial re
union at sigourney, Iowa. Wednesda.
and Thursday, September 6 and
1911. All soldiers who served in tn
brigade composed Of the Eleventh
Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteent
regiments Of Iowa volunteers are er
titled to membership and are earnes'
" urged to attend.