The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-08-11
Foreign.


The draft of the new Franco-Rus-
sian commercial treaty has been COM
pleted.
w. X. Vanderbilt's Escalade won the
Herblay stakes and Prestige the Om-
mum stakes at Maisons LATTE.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles and his son,
Lieut.. Sherman l.. Miles, are seeing
Berlin, but are not making official
calls.
Owing to the failure IF big specu-
lator to meet engagements, said to
amount to $3,O00,000, two of the lead
ing sugar houses have suspended pay
ments at Paris.
Newspapers maintain at Lemberg
that they have been authoritatively
informed by physicians that attend
the infant son of the car, that the
future ruler is deaf.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says that it has
been decided to hold the Morocco in
ternatioEal conference at Madrid the
beginning of November.
The projected new line of steamers
between Quebec and Liverpool has
been abandoned. The Quebec harbor
commissioners refused to remove GER
tain tonnage charges on freight and
to make other concessions by promot-
ers of the line.
The Allan and the Donaldson steam
ship lines, after a month of rate cut
ting, came to terms with regard to
second and third-class transatlantic
passenger ticka.s, and the second
class rate was restored to $50 and the
third class to $25.
The car has decided to establish a
vice royalty for the government of
Finland similar to that which pre-
vailed in Manchuria before the war.
The viceroy is to have powers similar
to those exercised by Alexieff. 1t is
expected Gen. Kleigels will be ap-
pointed first viceroy. ss
Bidding for the construction of an
electric tramway system in ST. Peters
burg, it has been learned. has been
limited to Belgian, German and French
firms. American and English COM
panies ore excluded on account of the
pro-Japanese sentiment these coun-
tries are said to possess.
A sensation has been caused by an
order just issued by the pope that the
bishops all over the world shall in
future compel all candidates for holy
orders to pass an examination. From
time immemorial members of religious
orders have been exempt from the
provisions of the council Of Trent,
and the papal order is considered at
Rome the first blow to the many privi-
leges claimed by regular" clergy.
Premier Rouvier. in the course Of a
reception to the diplomatic corps at
Paris, handed to Prince Won Radolin,
the German ambassador, further
note explaining the French point of
view regarding the program for the
Moroccan conference. The note is
designed to clear up misunderstood.
ings concerning the scope of the con.
ference and to allay the renewed ag-
itation resulting from the delay in the
negotiations.
The national bank Of Hayti. which
has refused to surrender certain Gus
toms receipts claimed by the govern
ment, persists in its attitude in spite
Of the passage of resolution ordering
It to comply with the law.
Natives in New Hebrides have mur'
dered Henry Trumble. q brother OF the
well known Australian cricketer. now
in England with the Australian eleven
Trumble was involved in quarrel
with natives on Epi island while trad.
ing, and was obliged to shoot one In
SCI. :c.cc:c. n.here r.sshad him with
clubs and killed him.