The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-16
Otherwise.

Ellis II. Roberts, treasurer OF the
United States, addressed the Kansas
Bankers association at Topeka.
Warren A. Carpenter of Woonsocket
has been nominated for governor of
Rhode Island by the Socialist party.
The twelfth annual convention Of
the National Editorial association met
with 1877 delegates at Guthrie. Okla.
w. A. Heidel has been elected to the
Jene A. Sepey professorship of Greek
at Wesleyan university. Middleton,
CONF.
An immense parade of Grand Army
bodies in honor of the unwilling of the
monument to former President Nc
Kinley took place at Reading, Pa.
Salmi Smith, aged 100 years, the old
est resident of the Lake Superior cop
per country, died at Hancock Mich,
where she had lived twenty-five years.
Patrick ]. Hanway, formerly editor
and publisher of the Brooklyn Stand
ard and of the Vigilant, is dead of ty-
phoid fever at his home in Brooklyn
prblianer Of the Washington Post, and
formerly representative in congress
from Ohio, died suddenly of heart fail
ure at his residence in Washington.
The seniors of the GAINESVILLE (Ohio)
high school are in revolt and refuse
to take part in the commencement ex-
ercises this month because the juniors
have announced that they intend to
wear white duck trousers during COM
mencement week.
At Cotner university commencement
announcement was made of the dona-
ton to the university by w. ]. Bryan
of land valued at a thousand dollars.
Cotner is the UNCONVENTIONAL univer-
sity OF the Christian church of Nebras-
ka.
After two months Of married life,
Capt" George Wellington Streeter,
.gho made himself famous by laying
claim to large tract of made" land
on the lake front, has been sued for
divorce in the circuit court in Chica-
go by Mrs. Mamie Collins Streeter.
She charges her elderly husband with
cruelty. Streeter married his eighteen
year-old bride in South Bend, Ind, on
April 18.
When John D Rockefeller, Jr., re-
Gently announced his intention to re-
tire from active participation in bust.
ness because Of failing health, it be.
came known that pressure was brought
to bear upon tie young man by his
father. John D. Rockefeller, with the
result that the younger Rockefeller,
yielding to parental persuasion, will
stay at the wheel unless his health
should fail to improve.
While the marriage ceremony of
Miss Bette Lancaster and w. F. West
brook, two prominent young people Of
Lancaster, s. c., was being performed
at the home of the brides parents, the
BRIDES mother. who had been over
come with grief at the thought of los
ing her daughter, her only child, fell
dead at the altar just as the Rev. l..
NJ. Rope, had pronounced The couple
man and wife.
Enrique Cortese, former minister of
foreign relations of Columbia, arrived
in New York recently. He will confer
with President Roosevelt regarding
the establishment of friendly rela.
lions between Colombia end the Unit.
ed States.
Leo F1eischman, the New York city
boy who was found enlisted as hos
pital apprentice last month after his
parents had spent nearly $4,000 in an
unsuccessful effort to locate him. was
released from the navy and left for
his home accompanied by his cousin.
Miss Wilhelm.