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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23
List of Casualties.

Fire at Williamsburg, n. Y, de-
stroyed the greater part of two blocks,
with a loss of 100000.
In a trolley car collision in New York
Miss Sadie Michaels was killed, her
sister badly bruised and her father and
mother fatally injured.
During a severe thunder storm at
Winnipeg the Scott Furniture com
pany's building was set on fire by d
stroke of lightning. Loss. $4,000.
Abe Alexander and Arthur Bingham
of Chicago went to sleep on the tracks
near Marion, Iowa, and were run over
and killed by a Milwaukee work train.
John and Arthur Phillips, brothers,
were killed and four others were bad
ly burn ed in gas explosion in the
mine owned by the Reliance Coal COM
pany at Sullivan, Ind
BY the explosion of furnace at the
plant of the Iroquois Iron company in
Chicago. one man is believed tC have
lost his life and two others were
burned severely.
Two cfOlley cars crowded With per-
sons returning from the Yale-Prince-
ton baseball game We're shattered in a
rearend- collision at Trenton. n. j..
and twenty persons We're seriously in
jured.
Three persons were killed and TWEEN
ty-nine injured in the wreck of an east
bound passenger train at Golden Gates,
III The train was Cotton special, .
carrying Confederate veterans to The
reunion at Louisville, Ky.
An official investigation OF the dis
appe france of Lieut.. w. G. Blasdell of
the revenue cutter Bush has been com
pleted at San Francisco and it was de-
cided that he accidentally fell from his
vessel and was d1owned.
Springing from his bed in a delirium
of fear caused by nightmare, Carl A.
Clauser. a wealthy broker of New
York. plunged through his bedroom
window to the stone-paved areaway
four stori IS below. His skull was
crushed and he was dead when picked
UP few minutes later.
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CHARGES OF GRAFT AND BRlR.
cry ARE COMPLETELY OVER.
SHADOWED.
RIVAL INsTlGATEs STRIKE
GRAND JURY CONVINCED THERE
WAS CONSPIRACY BEHIND
THE STRIKE.

Chicago, June Testimony tend
ing to show gigantic conspiracy be.
tween employers, labor leaders and
union pickets which may result in
their being joint defendants on a
criminal charge has been laid before
the grand jury. All the witnesses ex-
amined yesterday were closely ques-
toned regarding the alleged conspira-
cy, which has already ovegshadoweG
the charge of graft and bribery.
Assistant States Attorney Fake de-
clared that the evidence given before
the grand jury was of so startling a
character that it could only be paral.
leled once in a thousand years.
Insteated by Rival.
1t is unofficially reported that the
grand jury yesterday devoted much of
its time to listening to the statements
of witnesses who declared that the
strike against Montgomery Ward &
&C. was instigated by rival business
house.
States Attorney Healy, while TAX
ing every precaution to keep secret
the doings in the grand jury room, adj
mitted last night that he was well
pleased with the information thus far
received and declared he expected
important results before the inquiry
| closes.
The grand jury, it is said, is prac.
tlcally convinced that there was a con-
| splracy behind the present strike. and
| it is on this point that evidence. is be-
ing collected
Labor Leaders Worrylnu.
The labor leaders are said to be
| worrying more over the new develop
ments than they did over the graft
charges, as the latter are in most in
stances outlawed by the statute OF
| limitations.
Prominent employers connAeG
WITH the present strike We're CALI be
fore the inquisitors yesterdsA and
| questioned concerning a conspiracy.
The name of the firm of Sears. hoe
buck & Co. was coupled with that of
Montgomery Ward & Co., and it is said
that before the present strike was
called offers to avert it for a money
consideration were made.
Another sensation was sprung be
fore the grand jury yesterday when 1t
was told that the teamsters had ar
organized gang of pickets engaged In
kidnapping and assaultiEg non-union
teamsters and keeping them confined
in lodging house on West Madison
street, near Canal street.
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Resume Of the News.
From the Capital

| Gov Magoon las reported two new
cases of yellow fever on the canal
zole Neither We're employees of the
canal commission.
A delegation of Cincinnati mer-
chants called upon the attorney gen
| eral and asked him to investigate the
| action of railroads in an alleged dis
elimination in their territory.
| The testimony in the Loonis Bowen
imbroglio is practically complete. Mr..
Bowen, however has offered to go TO
Caracas to take dispositions to sustain
mis- charges against MIR. Loomis if Sec
rotary Taft approves.
In order to prevent the Japanese
from learning any more naval secrets.
general order has been issued bar
ring all but accredited persons from
American warships during the war
game on the Chesapeake.
Chief Clerk Wisdom of the Musko-
gee Indian agency has been dismissed
from public service by Secretary
Hitchcock for refusing to obey the in
structions of Inspector Wright in CON
nectiol with the tribal tax law.
Reports to the forestry bureau CON
corning the cutting of timber ON forest
reserves show that up to date 81 .o00,-
600 feet of lumber. 10000 cords of
wooG and $4,000 railroad ties. and &C.
600 posts have been DISPOSED of under
the supervision of the bureau Off
Gals
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Crime. and Criminals.

Charles l. Bridge, vice president of
the defunct American Savings bank,
has been arrested at Trinidad, Colo,
charged with embezzling $500 from the
bank.
Because Miss Alma Coos and her
sister Emma Tilted him, Max Ploehn
of Plattsmouth. Neb., killed the for
mer. seriously wounded the latter, and
escaped
Despondent over having lost her po-
sition, Leah Litman jumped to death
from the Long Island steamer Hart
ford while the vessel was passing
through Hellgate. inward bound.
Warrants for five men charged with
murder, who were on the trolley car
from which was fired the shot that
killed Henry Week, have been sworn
out by Chief of Police Kahn of Sagi-
nav, Mich.
John c. Peyton Of Topeka. Kan, a
deaf mute and student at Gallaudte
college, in Washington, committed sui
eide with carbolic acid. He was de-
spondent and left note asking the
authorities to notify his sister at To
peka.
William Mitchell wealthy stock.
man of Troy. N. Y. was found dead
with bullet hole through his head
and his wife shot through the shout
der Mrs. Mitchell says that her hus-
band shot her and then shot and kill.
ed himself as the result of a quarrel
over another woman.
William Caldwell, a prisoner in the
state penitertary at Michigan City
Ind. who was convicted three years
ago for numbering an Indianapolis
man. has received $4,000. his portion
OF an estate left by an Eastern rela
tive.
AS result Of race riot on an
Aiken and Augusta trolley car al
Charleston, S. c.. Peter Renew. white
is dead, and Charles Willis. negro
and Make Boyd. white, are seriously
injured. 22cya cursed Willis and start
Cd the trouble.
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Foreign.
34.%S \
49,

| The first locomotive crossed the
Yellow river bridge, near Shanghai,
nearly one and seven eighths miles
long, on June IL.
The Chilean cabinet has resigned,
according to report from Valparaiso.
The cause is said to have been some
trifiing incident which is not known.
Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild,
brother of the head of the Austrian
branch of the firm, died at Vienna He
had been seriously i'll for long time
On account of the small trade rela-
tions the British consulate at Mexico
City wi. be abolished. What consul
lar business there is will be done by
an unpaid vice consul.
The German navy department las
ordered six sea going torpedo boats OF
a different type from those previous
ly authorized. They are on the gov
eminent list as "G"-l32 to "G"-137.
The employers in The building
trades of the Rhenish Westphalan dis
trict nave dismissed within fortnight
10000 wollmen belonging to labor or
carnations.
The boycotting of American goods
by the Chinese guilds i. daily assum-
ing more serious proportions. News
papers are :efusing advertisements
for American goods.
Leon Mortel, secretary of the Nice,
France, labor exchange, was sentenced
to three months imprisonment Tor
making a speech applauding the
throwing of the bomb at King AL
fonso.
Another Russian Red Cross scandal
has developed by the discovery that a
donation of 5000 pounds of tobacco,
intended for distribution among the
soldiers in the field, is now on sale
at Hardin.
Constant diminishing is taking
place between Bulgarans and Turkish
troops. The Greeks lost three and the
Bulgarians twenty-eight, besides sew
enteen prisoners, who We're executed
by their captors
The Cuban house of representatives
unanimously appropriated 100000 for
the benefit of Gen. Maxine Gomez.
The precariousness of the condition
of Gen. Gomez is increased by the
spread of gangrene.
For the last few days Mont Pelce, on
the island of Martinique, has manifest
ed recrudescence of activity which,
while stronger than that of the month
of April of the present year. does not
seem to be of an alarming nature.
Dispatches from Buenos Ayres say
the rivers Parana, Uruguay and Sala-
do have overlooked, inunda.ing an
enormous region. Santa Fe. Rosario
and other cities suffered heavily For
ty thousand cattle are estimated
drowned
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TRAIN CRASH FATAL TO IS.
Railroad Employs Killed and Mang'ed
by CiIlision.

Baltimore. June 90. - Twenty-Five
persons were killed in wreck on the
Western Maryland railroad near
Patapsco. The list of dead is likely TO
be increased from among those grlev-
ously mangled,
All the dead were employees of the
railroad returning to their homes III
the small towns along the railway 10
spend Sunday. The train, which was
No. > passenger, westbound, carried
large number of passengers, all the
coaches being filled. AS many of the
workmen as could do so went into the
baggage car, the remainder of the
gang of thirty-ive finding places on
the platform between the mail and
baggage cars and between the latter
and the tender.
Orders Were Disrega.ded.
In the neighborhood of Patapsco
station. about eight miles from West
minister. the Western Maryland has
many curves. and that Just west of the
bridge crossing the Patapsco river is a
sharp one. An extra freight made up
of heavy coal and provision cars. was
running east 1t should have taken a
siding to allow No. to pass. Such
We're the orders. Why they were dis
regarded will never be known for all
those who should have seen that they
, were obeyed are dead
The passenger train was running at
p speed of thirty miles an hour and
the freight was making good time.
lust west of e bridge they came to-
gether with terrific force, the three
engines being piled on one another.
The fearful impact drove the pas
senger tender into the baggage car
and demolished it and the mail car.
| Along the track on both sides were
| scattered dead and
Frightfully Mangled Men,
these latter more fortunate than
those who had been in the baggage car
and on the engines. for most of them
We're still pinioned in the wreckage
out of the immediate reach of helping
hands.
Heartrendng shrielis from the in
/ jured quickly brought to the scene the
inhabitants of all the farm houses
"ear by. Farmers wives and daugh.
tiers made bandages of their clothing
and household linen and worked he
roically amid the blood and CRIME
| Medical assistance was received from
| Westminster and later a relief train
from Baltimore, carrying physicians
and supplies. AS fast as they could be
taken from the wreckase the dead
We're placed aboard the train from
| Westminster and taken to that towr
and Union Bridge. The more serious
| ly injured We're brought to this city.
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Germans Are Pleased.

Berlin. June 90. = The expression
through semi-official newspaper of
Paris that Great Britain does not sun
port France steadfastly in the Moroc-
co dispute, pleases German observers
because that is precisely the view
upon which the German foreign Office
presses France to participate in the
International conference. Germany
maintains that Great Britain offers n,
serious objection and has irsorre /
Germany that she will participate in
the conference if France does
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23
JAIL YAwNs FOR eRAFrERs.
Arrest of Several Leading Politicians
of Philadelphia to Occur Soon.

Philadelphia, June 1S.--The jail
doors are open for several political
bosses who have heretofore passed as
leading citizens Of Philadelphia and
Of Pennsylvania. Persistent rumors
are in circulation to the effect that the
men whose arrests are being consid-
cred in connection with grating on
city contracts, if they have not already
been decided upon, are State lnsur-
ance Commissioner l. w. Durham
State Senator James P. McNichol
former Director Of Public Works Peter
e. Costello; John w. Hill. whose resig-
nation as chief of the filtration bureau
was accepted yesterday by Mayor
Weaver, Immediately after the reve-
lations at the Caven hearing. and one
or two men who were employed as
inspectors on various portions of the
filtration work
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Otherwise.

A $4,000 Carnegie library has been
dedicated at Topeka. Kan.
Kotaru Date. japanese student. has
been awarded the Wayman Grow med
al for 1905 at the ST. Louis school of
fine arts.
The National Coal and Coke COM
pany has been incorporated at Tren-
ton. N. j., with an authorized capital
of $2.O0o,O0O
Following a conference with former
Gov Odell, Supreme Court Justice
Warren B. Hooker of New York an
nounces that it is not his intention to
resign.
Work on the Chicago subway is pro-
crossing rapidly, and by the end Of
August the company will be hauling
freight from practically all the rail
road terminals in the city.
The new $4,000 administration
building at the Ohio Pythian home at
Springfield has been dedicated The
Grafton was delivered by Grand Chan
cellor j. D. Clark of Dayton.
Twenty-Five infants were bawised
in the First Methodist Episcopal
church at McKeesport. Pa, by the pas
tor Rev. ]. w. Miles, with water from
the river Jordan.
The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers association adopted resolu.
tons condemnins any law which dis
eliminates against blended Whistles
in favor of what is commercially
known as straight
More than 200 employees of the
United States mint at Philadelphia
have been suspended indefinitely.
the coming department and the melt
ing room were closed down because Of
a lack of silver bullion.
Herman eKneller aged 81. known as
the Hermit Of Dyer, is dead of starva.
ton at Hammond, Ind. He hadn't
spoken a word to human being since
his wife died, and refused to permit
friends to bring him food.
All schools and churches at Grand
Rapids, Mich. have been closed on
account of the alarming spread OF
smallpox, which has taken on the ma.
ture OF dangerous epidemic. Fig.
ures given out by the board OF health
show that there are seveaty-five cases
in the city.
Gifts aggregating $4o5. 900 were an.
nounced at the flfty-fourtn conyocation
OF the University of Chicago. OF these
gifts, the largest individual one was
S1S0 f)00 received from, tho eStoto ri
Elizabeth Kelly. The next largest
gift was that of John D. Rockefeller.
who save $14s,Sa2.
State Bank Examiner l.. F. Thomas.
who is member of the Louisiana
Baptist committee appointed to choose
the site for Baptist college in Lou.
isiana announced that John n. Rookie
Teller had promised the institution lib
esal financial support.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23
TO SETTLE THE MOROCCO MESS.
France May Agree to Germanys Pro-
poals for a Conference.

Paris. June 90. - The Improvement
| III the Franco-German situation took a
more definite turn yesterday as the
semi official version of Saturdays con-
ference between Premier Rouvier and
Prince Radolin. the German ambassa-
dor. became known. This version
shows that the ambassador asked
France to accept the plan of an inter-
national conference, leaving the de-
tails to be adjusted later. Premier
Rouvier answered that he desired at
first to be advised upon Germany's OBJ
ject in securing the conference and
the questions it would be called upon
to consider.
AS the result of instructions from
Berlin Prince Won Radolin was able to
respond to these inquiries and to give
Definite information
regarding the German government S
ideas upon the scope and limitations
of the conference. More particularly
was he able to relieve the conference
Plan from any appearance of being a
| menace to France or of being a pre-
liminary step to override French Pres
tige in Morocco.
With these explanations pour par
lers will continue with good prospect
OF resulting in definite agreement.
There was, however, a necessity for
further exchanges between the gov
ernments with the view of fully defin-
ing the extent of the conference.
Premier Rouvier also conferred at
considerable length with Paul Cam
bon, the French ambassador to Great
Britain, following the latter's CONVEX
sations with Lord Lansdowne. the
British foreign minister. These con-
versations showed that the British
declination to participate in the con-
ference had been entirely free from
the belligerent tone ascribed to it.
Scope Must Be Defined.
Moreover Great Britain is resolved
to adhere to article of the declara.
ton of April s, which says:
'The two governments agree to lend
each other diplomatic support for the
execution of the clauses of this dec]ar.
alton
Great Britain intends to Loyalty in
terpret this article. and. according to
the indications furnished by her. will
assist France in settling Moroccan af
fairs Therefore, if the conference
takes place Great Britain will partake
therein with the proviso that the scope
OF the conference must first be clear.
ly defined.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23
CAPTAIN MUST GO TO PEN.
kirkman's Sentence Is Approved b,
the President.

Washington. June 1S.-The presi.
dent has approved the findings in two
trials of Capt. George W. Kirkman OF
the Twenty fifth infantry, sentencing
him to dismissal from the army and
confinement in the penitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth. Kan. for three
years Kirkman was connected with
the. sensational case resulting in the
suicide of the wife of another army
officer at Omaha.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

They are now studying Dickens
over dinners. If they would only
study Browning in the same way some
Of his meanings would become al
most lucid. Or, IL they didn't, the
5sstssaia;s7Isss s;s:us full coed things,
wouldn't care; which is better yet.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

According to the Globe. Boston has
q professional snake catcher. In Port.
land there are perhaps half a hundred
whose energies are devoted to captur.
ing the serpent that turks in the
bowl. Portland Advertiser.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

1t is understood that the surviving
widows of Mr.. Hoch are about to form
an old settlers association. Some
thrilling, hair-breadth escapes will
probably be recounted when the nion.
GERS get together.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

Mark Twain has had his full share
OF trouble in recent years, and now
his daughter has the appendicitis. A
man who has done SO much to make
others cheerful deserves more happi.
ness himself.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

While her husband was on his
knees praying the Lord to bless him,
Mrs. Nellie Brown of bingham coun-
ty, Georgia. jumped out the window
and disappeared. Mr.. Brown is right
~ surprised at the speedy answer to
his prayer.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

A Pennsylvania court has decvided
that "a man is master in his own
household" This will be news to
many man.-Perry Herald. The wise
husband will wait until his wife af.
firms this Judgment
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

We hear a lot of talk about
identifying the canal zone" A hole
in the ground extending from ocean tc
ocean. would be about the pretties,
ornament imaginable for the canal
zone.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

According to one correspondent
they are killing flying snakes on the
Rappahannock. and according to an.
other the steamboats, plying that river
have decided to close their barrooms.
1t is time.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

Dynamite has been found in the heel
OF womans shoe at Connellsviile.
Penn, but even that won't stop the
woman who wants to put her foot
down hard.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

1t seems the hoop skirt and the
sylph-like figure are among fashions
DEGREES for the summer. How they
are to be made TO agree we do not
pretend to understand.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23
FIGHTING GOES ON.
japanese Force Russians to Retreat in
Disorder.

Disorder.
Toxic. June 20.-The following re.
port has been received from the Man
churian armies:
In the Weiyuanpaoman district at
> o'clock on the morning of June 16
SOC of the enemy's cavalry advanced
against kuyushu. but were repulsed.
In the Chamotu district our nd
vanced force, after driving out the en-
envy stationed at Su:niencheng. occu-
pied that village.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

Men drink less in summer than in
winter. according to observing statisti-
clans, and yet summer is the season
of larks and swallows.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23
Looks Like Double suicid.

Pittsburg, June 1s.-Two bodies
presumably those of mother and her
child. were found in the Monongahela
river at McKeesport last evening. Ii
is believed they sought death together
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

Dressmakers denounce the "sylph-
like figure. Possibly this is because
1t takes less goods to cover that kind
with stylish garment.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

1t has been necessary to vacclnate
the entire police force Of Passaic. N.
J. That town must have policemen
who are in the habit of catching
thugs.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23
FIRST CONVICTION OF KIND.
Man Who Lied to Get PASSPORT Paw.
Penalty

Philadelphia, June sc. V. Hart
man has been found guilty of fraud
IN connection with an application for
passport, having sworn that he was
born in Milwaukee, when in fact he
was not. The conviction is the first
of its kind in this country.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

1t cost the city of New York $4,000
TO bury Hiram Cronk. last veteran of
the war of 1872 But then, there are
no more last survivors.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

A wealthy woman in New York saws
she expects TO rejoin her pug dog
after death. 1t is question whether
she believes she will go to heaven or
the other place.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

Philadelphia seems to lie tco quiet
even for sheep. One recently but;ed
a Philadelphia near.y 10 death.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-23

Prof. w. p Trent says Defoe was a
great liar. Wish there were a few
more such lies extant as Robinson
Crusue.