The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-29
From Other Shores.

1 Gen. Saussler, former commander
n-chief OF the French army, is dead.
Fourteen men were suffocated while
cleaning boilers in the naval steel
works at Home Court, France.
The international fleet, which has
been making a demonstration in Turk
| ish waters, has been recalled.
1t is officially announced that the
Franco-Venezuelan incident has been
sealed in accordance with the wishes
| Of France.
The correspondent of the London
| Standard at Kobe, Japan, says that
| the Marquis Ito has accepted an APP
| pointment as resident general in Ko-
| rca.
| A train which was deraied near
| Gatchna Russia, is understood to
have had on board 100000 in gold.
It is rumored that the crown jewels
have been sent abroad.
A most audacious theft has been
committed in church at oescina,
italy, where the thieves succeeded in
stealing a notable work OF I.uca Della
Robbia, after removing the entire al
tar.
The Tangier correspondent of the
Echo de Paris says that the pretender
TO the Moorish throne, Blu Hamara, is
preparing to attack the sultan's troops
with a numerous army near the AL
gerian frontier
Saint Nom la Breteche, on which Pres
dent Loubet was proceeding from
Marley with shooting party, and
which it was supposed was intended
to kill the president, turns out to have
been harmless
A cable dispatch from London says:
"A dispatch from Rome to the Stand.
ard says that after the ceremony at
the recent public consistory the pope,
turning to DIR. Henry Joseph Richter,
bishop of Grand Rapids, Mich, said:
America will have her turn"
General.
Smallpox has become epidemic at
the University Of Oregon. Many stu
dents are i'll and more are being
seized by the disease.
Evangelist William Sunday closed
five weeks revival at Burlington,
Iowa. He made $500 converts. The
residents donated $4,000 to him.
Prince Louis Of Battenberg has ac-
copied membership in the Cana
dian Camp, an organization of 700
sportsmen and sportswomen residing
in all parts of the United States.
Thirtynine siXty-foot new steel mail
cars will be in operation on the lines
of the Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe
within short time. About half of
that number are already installed.
Lyman l.. Pierce Of Washington,
for the past five years general. secre-
tary of the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION, has resigned, to take effect
Dec. 81, on account of impaired health.
Prof. S. Stanhope Orris, professor
emeritus of Princeton university and
one of the foremost scholars in the
United States, died at Harrisburg. Pa,
of paralysis, after an illness of three
years. He was 70 years old
Owing to the scarcity of American
lead and the large demands for the
metal at the present time, it is report
I'd that arrangements have been made
to import several thousand tons from
England, Belgium and Germany.
]. Wesley Jones, founder and di-
rector of the United States life-saving
corps, died at his home in Brooklyn.
Col. Jones served throughout the Civil
war, part of the time on the staff of
Gen. G. B. Mcclellan.
A telephone received at Harvard
observatory from Prof. Percival Low
ell of the Flagstaff (Ariz) observa-
tory, who is in the East, says that a
comet was found by Prof Slipher on
q photograph made Nov. 30.
William L. Kestner, president of
the board Of directors of the Illinois
normal college, died at his home in
Kansas City. He was 81 years old
and had been leader in the Illinois
Republican party ever since the Civil
war.
Under the auspices of the Actors
National Protective union, it is an
ers, including both men and women.
has been formed in New York with
1872 members. The union consists of
the members of the chorus.
Here's a trust that will get you
while you slumber. 1t will cost 10
per cent more to sleep on an iron bed
and wire springs after Jan. than it
does now, for the Metal Bed and
Spring Bed associations have decided
to raise the prices of sleeping para
phernalia.
Fred Pabst, the former president of
the Pabst Bhewing company and one
of the best known millionaires in Wis
consin lis studying agriculture at the
University of Wisconsin. Mr.. Pabst
recently acquired fine stock farm
and has decided to go into the bust
ness of stock raising on an elaborate