The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-08-11
Resume 81 the news.
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Disastrous floods are ravaging the
Aosta valley in Italy and twelve per
sons have been drowned
The American schooner Honolulu,
now 125 days out from Shanghai for
Puget Sound, has been given up for
lost and further reinsurance refused.
A bad wreck seven miles south of
Barron on the 500 short line, caused
by loose brake bar, severely in
jured Conductor George Weymier and
two others.
The winter quarters of the Wallace
shows were threatened with destruc,
ton at Peru, Ind. Several harms and
$50 tons of hay were burned. Farmers
saved TIE rest.
Miss Edna Fisher, Miss Lillian Zieg-
Ter and Miss May Zeigler, aged from
sixteen to twenty-eight, We're drowned
in the Columbia off Government ISL
and, near Vancouver, while in bathing.
The plant of the Pittsburs Pulley
company at Grafton, Pa, owned by
Golf, Homer & Co. of Pittsburg, was
totally destroyed by fire, eLtailng a
loss of $4,000, covered by insurance
six-year-old girl was run down
and probably fatally hurt in Brooklyn
by an automobile. A mob attacked
the chauffeur, Nils Brolin, who was
saved from serious injury by police
man.
Fireman Charles Kitchener of
cleveland was instantly killed and
Engineer A. Whitman severely hurt
when the Wheeling & Lake Erie en-
CINE on which they were was wrecked
near Cleveland.
Mrs. John B. Gagon, wealthy
widow, and her sister, Mrs. William
Turner, We're fatally injured at La
fayette, Ind, in a runaway accident
caused by the breaking of the front
axle of their surrey.
In an explosion of gasoline launch
at Montgomery, w. Va, Robert and
Otto Huddleston were killed and two
others narrowly escaped death. The
latter We're Elmer Smith and John
Morrison, who swan ashore after the
explosion.
The d. A. Moore Storage company's
four-story brick building at Kansas
City was destroyed by fire, causing a
loss estimated at 100000. About 700
families had furniture stored with the
company and it is difficult to estimate
the extent of the loss.
Try,r irp,ofoo &c +lo l..,,z.
ton at Milwaukee are dead and four
others are dangerously ill in that in
stitution from drinking wood alcohol
said to have been obtained at South
Side resorts some days ago before the
victims We're sentenced to the work.
house.
William c. Senton, forty-three years
old, drank twelve goblets of whiskey
while calling in the afternoon on a
friend in the hills at Coshocton, Ohio
and while on his way home laid down
under an old apple tree by the road
side to sleep He was found there
dead the next morning. He leaves a
widow and five children.
General.
Bishop Robert X. Hargrove of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
died at Nashville.
Capt. James " Million, prominent
vesselman of the Great Lakes and
former member of the board of public
works, died at Detroit of paralysis
The National Negro Business league
OF which Booker T. Washington is
president, will hold it's sixth annual
convention in New York city on Aug
16, II and u.s.
The United Master Butchers OF
America is the name decided upon for
the amalgamated association of butch
ers, which was organized at Grand
Rapids Tuesday.
Caleb c. Willard, owner of the Eb
bitt house, Washington, D. c., died at
hotel at Atlantic City. He went
there to recuperate his health Mr.
Willard was Il years of age
| A number of beer gardens and sa
looms over the county line from St
Louis were raided Sunday and a mum
Der of arrests made on charges Of VIC
| lating the Sunday saloon closing law
| Attorney Edward Furthmann of Chi
cago, who was one of the prosecutors
in the trial of the Haymarket an
archists, is dead at Evanston hospital
following an operation for Appendix
citis.
| Duane Herbert Church, whose inven.
ton of about $50 machines has revo
lutionized the manufacture of watches
in America during the last twenty
years, is dead from heart failure al
his home in West Newton. Mass.
Rev. H. T. Besse, retired minister
of San Jose. Cal, donated $4,000 to
the Wesleyan Methodist church for
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