The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-08-18
Washington.

ger WOulu remain IN washington as
adviser on the Chinese question. 1t
Is the wish of all classes of the former
city that he return.
Consul Snyder at Bogota reports
conditions in parts of Columbia, the
result of dry spell, as approaching
famine. The crops are ruined, cat
tie dying and prices have risen
enormously.
The state department has been in
formed that the New York & Bermudez
Venezuelan government protest
against the recent decision of the
court against that company.
Criminal.
While in a buggy with Jules Gar
land, near Decatur. Ill.,. Anna Dye shot
:nd killed co4elf. No reason is
known for the girls act.
Two Cinnamon We're killed and sew
eral others wounded, three fatally, in
a pistol fight between rival Chinese
societies in the Chinese theater in
Doyers street, New York.
Thomas Torantino, an Italian, was
mysteriously murdered in front of his
home in Milwaukee by man whose
identity is unknown and who has so
far eluded posse of police who are
searching for him.
Charles Reisser was shot and in
stantly killed by Policeman w. II.
Dixon at Cincinnati. 1t is said Refs
ser attempted to kill his wife and
baby, when the policeman appeared
and fight ensued.
lnga Hanson, the former Salvation
Army girl, convicted of perjury in
connection with personal injury suit
brought by her against the Chicago
city railway, was taken to the peni-
tertiary at Joliet.
Thomas Brady butter dealer of
Philadelphia, who has been supplying
butter to the League Island navy
yard, was arrested at the instance
OF the state dairy and food commits
sion, which charges him with selling
colored oleomargarine for butter.
the motorman on a trolley car, we'll
dressed young man compelled him to
bring the car to a stop in the middle
of the Brooklyn bridge. He then
hurried to the railing and dropped to
his death into the river, 1876 feet be-
low.
Sentenced to three months for at
tempting to kiss a woman and suffer-
ing from an incurable disease, Michael
Conroy Jumped from third-story WIN
dow OF the Brooklyn court of special
sessions to the sidewalk and sustained
fracture of the skull and internal in.
Juries which will probably cause his
death.
State Senator Frank H. Farris was
acquitted by a jury in the circuit
court at Jefferson City, Mo-, on a
charge of bribery in connection with
bill introduced at the session of the
state legislature in 1901 to repeal the
statute prohibiting the use of alum
~ 'ne manufacture of baking pow
der, commonly known as the "alum
bill"
for the second time after deliberat-
ing for over forty hours jury in the
united States district court at Port
iahd' Ore, has reported to Judge Be-
maven that it was unable to reach an
agreement in the case of the United
STATES against Congressman J. N
Williamson. DIR. Van Gessner. and
former United States Commissioner
Marion o. Biggs, charged with con.
spiracy to suborn perjury in connec.
ton with the securing Illegally of M IT
of the public domain
Casualty.
disastrous boiler explosion occur.
red near Del Rio, Tenn. in which three
men We're killed and another fatally
hurt.
Five Italian laborers were struck nv
an engine and killed at railroad :,nc.
tlon about five miles west of Alexan-
dria, Va.
Capt. Walter B. Barker of the quar-
termaster's department of the United
states was killed at Nagasaki in a
railway accident.
John Peterson, aged twenty was
drowned at Britt, Iowa. He could not
swim. and got over his depth in n
swimming hole near the city.
Two men We're killed, two severely
and six slightly injured in an accident
ct mine No. Of the Union Pacific Coal
company at Cumberland, wyo.
Fire destroyed a boarding house at
Dallas, Tex, in which Mrs. TAYLOR.
sixty, and her twelve-year-old grand.
daughter were burned to death.
The Farmers Cooperative creamery
building. located at Sand Springs. Ia
was destroyed by fire. The creamery
was one Of the largest in this part Of
the state.
The fast Pittsburg flyer crashed into
street car at Cleveland, killing a
child instantly and fatally woundins
six people, while fifteen others sus.
tanned injuries of serious nature.
During an electrical storm that
passed over Grenshaw, Pa, mining
village, freight station was struck
by lightning and Joseph Hire. aged
twenty waS in lxs,y-,