Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-07-06


new combine to force tariff legisla-
ton. Sc s. So e 8s 5 s sss
Lieutenant de Malherbe. a French
military aviator, few from Paris to
Sedan.
Norman Macleod & Co, Philadel-
phia. stockholders. made an assign
ment.
The Cunningham Alaska coal land
claims were disallowed by the interior
| department
| Senatorial reports of crop damage
in the northwest made the Chicago
market go skyward.
! john D. SprecKies told how his fath-
er and H. O. Havemeyer entered into
q sugar producing combine.
Fourteen secretaries of retail lum-
Der dealers associations were indict-
ed by Chicago grand jury.
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.
= @AAoSAAh0 LII was SASSSSN
president of the republic of Portugal
by the constituent assembly.
In an address at che 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
la fin Anof fo1 nil nf AL
miral Schroeder
A meeting of the republicans and
socialists at Madrid passed resolu-
lions condemning SPANS military OPP
erations in Morocco.
b. FL. Engwersen of Chicago was
elected president of the National Live
Stock exchange in convention in Chi
oago. Portland, Ore, gets the next
meeting, although Chicago also was
a bidder.
Reliable advices have been received
at Vienna from Albania that the stu
alton there is growing decidedly criti-
cal. Turkey has massed fifty thous-
and troops within days march of
the Montenegro frontier.
Edward H. Harriman's billion-dollar
merger of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads, with their
allied properties, is upheld by the
United States circuit court of appeals,
In decision handed down in st.
Louis.
| Rev. Timothy Sullivan, of Fort
Dodge, the Catholic priest who was
found dead in bath tub in hotel In
New York last week, was well known
in the Sioux City Catholic see. He
was stationed in Sioux City for four
| years.
Philadelphia financial circles re-.
ceived a disagreeable shock when 1t
became known that the liabilities of
the stock brokerage firm of Norman
Macleod & Co., which suspended re-
Gently, aggregate $1.1S2,173, while
the assets are given as $410,3S4.
Miss Florence r. Cushing of Boston,
who arrived from Honolulu, jumped
from the seventh story of a hotel and
was instantly killed. A note found in
her room said troubles had made her
desperate and asked that her brother.
G. r. Cushing, OF Needham, Mass, be
notified.
Edward Valentine Lee, under ar
rest at Buffalo, charged with the
theft of $4,000 from the paym-ster's
safe while serving as a clerk on size
battleship Georgia at Havana last
February, married Miss Audrey f.
Kelsey of Washington. After the
ceremony he returned to his cell.
Gifts to the amount OF $1.20O,00O
received by Harvard university last
year. were announced by President
Lowell to the 1000 for more Harvard
men gathered for the alumni meeting
In the quadrangle behind Seaver hall.
Parramatta, the new summer white
house, is in readiness for the arrival
of the presidential family. For sever
al months small army of workmen
of various trades has been engaged in
fitting up the house and grounds for
the use Of the Taft family.
Approximately 20,O0O,00O gallons of
liquors are shipped by express,
principally from mail order houses d.
rect to consumers In prohibition
states.
The great hurricane which devasted
the coast Of Chile few days ago ex-
tended from Pisagua in the north to
Antofagasta ON the south. Torrential
rains have followed.
"A wave of economy Is sweeping the
country according to figures Of the
bureau Of statistics Of the department
OF commerce and labor which disclose
the fact that Americans cut their I'M
ported champagne bill In two and
adorned themselves with $7.00O.000
worth Of diamonds fewer during the
last eleven months than In the same
period last year.
Personal.
The will Of Mrs. Eddy, founder Of
the Christian Science church, was adj