Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-06-15

Of raising the wreck of the Maine.
The field and work of the women's
auxiliaries furnished the topic of dis.
cussion at the session of the society
Of st. Vincent de Paul at Boston.
The bill to revise the wool tarih
was formally introduced in the house.
The senate subcommittee which
will pass on Lorimer has been made
up.
President Taft reiterated his oppo-
sition to any amendment to the re-
ciprocity bill.
Drinking of champaign in public by
members was one of the closing fea-
lures of the Ohio legislature.
President Taft is quite confident
reciprocity will pass the senate IT
amendments can be excluded.
Mayor Voel H. Cuchin was found
guilty of malfeasance and misfeas-
ance in office at Roanoke, Va.
Price of wheat in Chicago pit went
higher as result of reports of Hessian
fly, grasshoppers and heat damage.
In referendum vote members of
Iowa suffrage association ruled to
hold the state suffrage convention in
Perry.
The southwest tariff tom iissssiion,
composed of business men of the
southwest, opened a weeks session at
Chicago.
An invitation was received by Pres
ident Taft from the anti-horse their
association of Kansas and Oklahoma
to visit Arkansas City, Kas, to adj
dress its convention July 49,
The last $4,000 required, to insure
the erection in Des Moines of a monu-
ment to the late Senator Allison was
received by State Treasurer from Gen
eral Grenville M. Dodge.
5. D. Bren, cashier and accountant
of the state university, was held up
by three Minnesota highwaymen near
the university and robbed of $4,000.
He also lost his watch and his
months salary.
The Cunard line steamer Saxonia,
arrived at Trieste, Austria, from New
York, in the hands of the health au-
thorities as the result of the discov-
cry of case of suspected cholera on
board.
The action of the war department
in not reporting to congress awards
of contracts for materials used in the
construction of the Panama canal,
amounting already to many millions
of dollars. was subject of inquiry
by the house committee on expendi-
lures in that department.
The suit of the Ware-kramer To-
bacco company against the American
Tobacco company for $1,20O,OOO dam
ages under the Sherman antitrust
act was begun at Raleigh. n. c., be-
fore Judge O'Connor in the federal
court. Matters argued were concern
ing production of books, records and
papers and exceptions to dispositions
by both parties.
Fourteen of the largest guns ever
used in the American navy. each cost
ing more than $127,OOO to complete
and mount, are now in course of con-
struction in the Washington Navy
Yard, and scores of official visitors
and sightseers are attracted daily to
the big shops where work on the won
derful new war tools Is we'll under
way.
Supplementary estimates of the
governments receipts from the corpo-
ration tax, payable this month, indi-
cate the revenue from that source
will exceed the first predictions. The
assessments of the first four months
of the year are more than 2,S50,000.
which is considerable more than the
assessment for the first six months
Of 1910.
The formal making of plans to cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary of Kan
sas as state was commenced by the
Topeka Commercial club. The cele-
bration will be held this fall during
the Topeka state fair week.
Following four hours discussion of
the Canadian reciprocity bill by the
senate finance committee in executive
session, Chairman Penrose expressed
the opinion that many amendments
which might be adopted by the com,
mittee would be killed on the floor OF
the senate.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt said
with reference to published story
that he would support President Taft
in the next campaign: There is nc
truth in the report that have agreed
to support any man for president In
1912. / have neither made any such
statement nor even discussed the mat
ter
Because he was unfamiliar with the
/ rule requiring applicants to register
when they begin their study for law
Robert Alphonso Taft, son of Presi
dent Taft. was denied the privilege ol
taking the Ohio state bar examina
ton TWO months ago he wrote to the
clerk 81 the supreme court, asking te
be registered for; examination. He
was advised that because he had moi
registered when he began to prepare
for the law that he could not take the
| examination now. He viii probabl,
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