Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-06-22


recently been opened In Berlin city.
a Washington state congressman
said millions were going to waste In
tobacco taxes.
Senator Lorimer IL preparing to
make vigorous fight to retain his
seat.
It is expected that the senate will
vote on reciprocity about July Is.
The line of battle has been drawn
In the senate on the reciprocity bill.
A reduction in the price of sugar
is likely to come said the head of the
trust. s
These are reconstruction days In
Mexico and the country is rapidly re-
turning to peace basis.
President Taft nominated Robert
W. Kemp as receiver Of public mon
eys at Missoula, Mont
Manuel Bonilla took the oath of Of
flee as Mexican minister of commune
cation and public works.
Concessions to foreigners will not
be extended under the new order of
things in Mexican states.
Secretary Knox has been sum
moned by the mousse committee to eS*
plain an expenditure of $4,000
America must take the lead for
worldwide peace declared DR.. Benz
Kroheit of Leland Stanford univer-
sity.
Directors of the Denver & Rio
Grande railway passed the dividend
on the preferred stock of the COM
pany.
A committee said to represent the
Gould interests have purchased the
International & Great Northern rail-
road at receivership sale.
There Is an alarming increase OF the
cigarette habit among boys and girls
of New York's public schools, accord
ing to DR.. John d. Quackenboss.
The case of the government against
the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
company, the alleged bathtub trust.
was called for argument at Richmond.
Va.
With an air Of great mystery, Will
liam j. Burns, the detective in the
Los Angeles dynamite case, sailed for
Europe on the American liner Phil
adelphia.
President Taft is considering an
invitation to speak at the national
conservation congress which will
meet late in September, probably at
Kansas City.
Mabel Mosier, an Atchison, Kan,
woman, was convicted of engaging in
the white slave" traffic by criminal
court jury and sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary
Mary Mannering, charming and
beautiful, who has ended all specu-
lation as to her matrimonial inten-
by wedding Frederick E. Wadsworth,
a Michigan millionaire.
Announcement was made that Miss
Ellen Ftz Pendleton, dean and acting
president of Wellesley college. had
been chosen president of the col
lege.
A bill providing that every news
paper must print in conspicuous
ers. publisher and managing editor
was introduced by Representative
Barnhart of Indiana.
Three thousand, two hundred and
nineteen bodies of federal soldiers
buried in cemeteries in different parts
Of Texas are to be movd to Pineville,
La, for reburial in the national GENE.
terry at that place.
The great naval review by King
George at Spithead, June "A, two days
from the coronation. will see gath.
cred together in full commission the
largest number of vessels of the
dreadnaught class ever assembled
Most of them naturally will be units
Of the British navy, but the United
States will be represented by the
most powerful up-to-date battleship
In the review, the Delaware.
Drinking of champaign In public by
members was one of the closing fea-
lures of the Ohio legislature
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.
ration will be held this fall during
the Topeka state fair week
The senate committee on foreign re.
lations decided to report favorably the
treaty between Honduras and this
country providing for loan OF $1O,-
100000, from banking interests of the
United States to meet the Honduran
lebt.
Mrs. Edith Culbertson. republican
candidate for superintendent OF the
Denver county schools at the last.
election, shot and killed herself at
her home in Denver. Mrs. Culbert-.
ION left note in which she evident
" wished to make 1t clear the wound
vas selfinflicted. Her husband, Sgd.
ney M. Culbertson. told the police
hat he and his wife had quarrel.
Mrs. Culbertson was thirty-six years
old. and graduate OF Vassar.
The sinking OF an overcrowded fer
~ boat on the Volga. near Uglitch. is
reported. Thirty persons were
drowned.