Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-16
Thus far 10 deaths have occurred

More United States troops have been
sent to protect the Mexican border
The Sulloway age pension bill,
passed by the house. failed in the
senate.
In speech at Akron, O., Clifford
Pinchot urged republican progression
Reciprocity failed of enactment in
congress. hence the call for an extra
session
DR.. Vasquez Gomez says he has re.
ceived overtures for peace from the
Diaz government.
The American National Red Cross
cabied another 81 200 for the relier OF
the starving in China.
Mrs. Maldwin Drummond was rob.
bed of $4,000 worth of jewels on
board an Atlantic liner.
Washington, D. c., has raised 1884,
600 as its share of the $4,000 Red
Cross endowment fund.
The total number of bills introduced
during the three sessions Of congress
just closed reached 33,015.
William H. Lewis, negro, has
assistant attorney general.
Presidential suffrage for women
was voted down by the Kansas house
in committee of the whole.
The government has begun pro-
ceedings against an alleged combine
in manufacture of electric lights.
The Christian Herald has sent an
other $4,000 to the state department
for transmission to China to aid in
famine relief.
Kansas City owners of the Luck
Tiger mine in Sonora, Mexico, have
been advised that the rebels have
seized the property.
Lord Amphill, in the house of lords
declared England's inaction is respon
sible for Canada desiring reciprocity
with the United States.
Professor C. Emery of Yale has
been designated by President Taft to
continue as chairman of the tariff
board at salary of $500 a year.
Two hundred women, most of then
accompanied by their husbands, at
tended a boxing match in Syracuse
N. Y, given for the benefit of hos
pital
the interstate commerce commits.
sion wants congress to relieve it from
any connection with mediation and
arbitration proceedings under the
Erdman act.
Congressman Champ Clark was ten
dered an informal banquet by Phila
delphia democrats who have been &C.
tive in reorganization plans for the
city and state.
Governor Co1quitt sent message
to the Texas legislature censuring ii
for voting to adjourn Saturday merely
because their pay drops from SIS to 81
day on that date
After spending nearly six years in
the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Frank G. Bigelow, the Milwaukee
banker, was released, according to
authoritative reports,
The California assembly adopted
a resolution condemning the United
States senate for seating Lorimer
and rebuking the two California SEN
ators for voting for him.
Fifty thousand business men of
Georgia and nearby states have been
invited by telephone to attend the
Southern Commercial Congress in At
lanta, Ga, March s to TO-
President David R. Kerr of West
minister college, Fulton, Mo-, has ten
dered his resignation. He has been
offered the presidency of Whitworth
college at Tacoma, Wash.
The house approved bill to pro.
vide for the erection of monument
over the grave of President John Ty.
Ter at Richmond. Va The limit of ex.
pense in the bill is $4,000
Dr. Theobald Smith, professor of
comparative pathology at Harvard |
medical school, says that If bubonic
plague starts in the west 1t might be
spread to the east through the me-
dunn of milk.
The main building of Mount St
Mary's college, large and we'll |
equipped Roman Catholic institution
on Watching mountain, near Plain
field, N. j., was burned Thursday, en-.
failing loss of more than 100000
The Missouri senate passed bill
submitting to the people at a special
election to be called by Gov. Had
ley, proposition to vote $4,000 900
bonds for rebuilding the burned CAPT
tol at Jefferson City
Breaking all records by some thou
sands, the total number of public
and private bills introduced in the
house during the three sessions of
the congress just closed was 1915,
besides 1.500 resolutions of various
kinds.