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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08
Domestic.

| Cornell Won her second annual boat
race with Harvard by about three
| lengths. Harvard made a much bet
| ter showing than in last years race
At the request of District Attorney
Jerome of New York, Justice Scott
suspended the trial of Josephine Ter
| ranova for the murder of her aunt in
order to inquire into her sanity
The biggest gas well in Ohio was
drilled recently by the Springfield Gas
company at Pleasantville, Licking
county. 1t is estimated that the we'll
is producing gas at the rate of 9,OOO,-
600 feet a day.
The Joplin, Mo-, savings bank was
closed last week. The deposits ag-
gregate $4,000; capital, $4,000. The
assets are small. George w. Layne,
president of the bank, has pledged to
pay every depositor in full.
Capt. U. A. Burnham, veteran of
the Civil war, of Duluth, died while
dressing for memorial services. He
was seventysix years of age. He was
captain of the First Maine artillery.
His first big battle was at Spottsylva-
MIA. s.
According to computations made by
agents of the brewing companies,
about 600 saloons in Cleveland, Ohio,
most of them in the outlying districts,
closed their doors through inability to
pay the $1,000 tax provided under the
recently enacted Aiken law.
The fund for forest fire sufferers at
Marquette, Mich, now amounts to
over $4,000, of which the county board
has appropriated $1,000 A great
quantity of clothing and furniture
has been contributed by the general
public and those burned out will be
looked after.
1t became known in st. Louis last
week that David Rankin, who is rated
as millionaire, has decided to give
$1,000, 900 to found an industrial school
in st. Louis. Mr.. Rankin expressed
chagrin that the matter had become
public and refused to announce any
details OF his gift
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08
LAKE STEAMER is CUT IN TWAIN
Is Sent to Bottom of ST. Clair River
as Result of EXPLOSION.


as Result of Explosion.
Detroit, Mich, June 2.-The steamer
Erin, up-bound and towing the schoon-
er Danforth, was run into and cut in
two by the steamer Cowle, in the St.
Clair river, just below st. Clair 1arly
yesterday. and five members of the
Erin's crew were drowned.
The collision occurred during fog.
The Cowle is modern steel freighter,
and is not thought to have been much
damaged. while the Erin was a wooden
vessel of the old type.
Seen Men Saved.
Six of the Erin's crew and the thir-
teen-year-old son of Mrs. Reed, who
was on the steamer, were saved.
Officers of the schooner Danforth
charge that the Cowle did not stop and
assist in the rescue of the Erins crew.
The Erin sank so rapidly after the col
lision that those members of the crew
who were asleep had little chance for
their lives.
Officers Were Confused.
Capt. Sullivan of the Erin was in the
pilot house when the collision occur
red, and-the impact of the steel freight
er as she hit the boat, threw him into
the river. He floated down to Marine
City on some wreckage before being
rescued. Capt. Sullivan says that the
officers of the Cowle evidently were
confused as to the number of boats APP
preaching and that this caused the
collision. The body of Mrs Reed came
to the surface soon after the accident
and has been picked up.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08
WEDDING IS GRAND AFFAIR

Madrid, June 2.-The public rejoic-
fonso and Princess Victoria had ter
ribly dramatic sequel at 2:30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, as bomb thrown
from an upper window exploded with
deadly effect near the coach occupied
by the king and queen. Providentially,
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria es-
capped by an electric wire DETECTING
the bomb, but at least sixteen per-
sons, most of them of the personal and
military escort, We're killed Many
others We're injured.
The Victims.
Capt. Barrosa, commanding part OF
the kings escort.
Lieut.. Reysient.
Lieut.. Prandc1gast.
Six soldiers.
The marquise Of Colosa and her
daughter.
Don Antonio Calvo and his niece,
aged six years.
Jose Soda
Luis Fonseca.
One royal groom, who was leading a
horse drawing the coach carrying the
king and queen.
Several of those killed were stand
ing on the balcony of the house from
| Which the bomb was thrown.
About to Enter Palace.
The explosion occurred just as the
royal couple were about to enter the
ro1o Of tho .r{o ho1
been diverted from Arsenal street to
Mayor street, owing to the popular de-
| sires. The procession had just passed
| through Mayor street and was about
to turn into the Esplanade leading to
the palace when an explosion shook
the buildings in the vicinity. stunning
large number of people and throwing
the cortege into inextricable confusion.
The royal coach was brought to a
sudden stop by the shock, officers and
soldier of the escort falling to the
ground about the equerry and horses
that had been killed.
Groans of the Dying.
| The screams of the terrified multi
tude mingled with the groans of the
1 Wy 1lS. IL MtS SeSu ludl
the royal coach was intact, except as
1t had been damaged by flying splint-
ers. King Alfonso Immediately alight-
ed and assisted Queen Victoria out of
the carriage. They then entered an
other coach and were driven swiftly to
the palace.
All this happened so quickly that
| pn0n10 from tho INN "a 1,;o
| lty We're not aware Of the tragedy that
had been enacted. and continued to
acclaim their sovereigns.
Joy Over Kings Escape.
Soon, however, there appeared the
empty royal coach with two horses
missing and the others spattered with
blood, several of them bleeding from
wounds. The grooms and drivers
looked deathly pale in their spangled
uniforms. Then came boy shouting
that bomb had been thrown at the
king. The appearance of the king and
queen in a coach brought out delirious
ovations. The fact was recognized
that the sovereigns had been spared
Horrble Spectacle.
1
tragedy presented horrible spectacle
with dead men and horses lying about,
literally torn to pieces. Intense en-
element prevailed, the mob invading
the streets while the forces of the
guards sought to maintain order and
block the approaching streets. The
pavement was literally covered with
blood. and the upper stories of the
buildings nearest were spattered
with it.
| Assassin Is Captured.
The place from which the bomb was
thrown is a boarding house The
chamber from which the missile was
hurled was taken May % by man
from Barcelona giving the name OF
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08
RESUME OF THE NEWS
Brief
Reliable
Casualty List.

| Ernest Robbins, aged six, son Of w
K. Robbins, a farmer of Marshalltown,
Iowa, fell into tub of boiling water
and was scalded to death.
Jesse Robertson, United States
sailor died at the naval hospital at
Norfolk from a fractured skull receiv-
ed while playing baseball.
B. Johnson was killed, A. Keeting
fatally injured and several others
slightly hurt by a dynamite explosion
at railroad camp twelve miles from
Deriddler, La.
Buffeted by the fierce storm that
swept Lake Erie, the schooner Mabel
Wilson sprang leak and sank just
outside the Cleveland breakwater
One sailor was drowned
Lightning struck a freight train on
the Missouri Pacific railroad at Jeffer-
son City, Mo-, and instantly killed w.
H. Edwards, brakeman. Several cars
were slightly damaged.
John Butcher, a stone quarry boss,
working with ledge stone at Bloom
ington, Ind, was examining break,
w
head and crushing it almost off at the
neck.
Eight to ten Mesicans employed as
sheep shearers near Golconda. New
are reported to have drowned in a
cloudburst. The cloudburst also wash
ed out the Southern Pacific roadbed at
Golconda.
Corwin Brockway, operator of lin
otype machine in the Office of the Ar
gus al Apa, Cal. while attempting to
repair the machine came in contact
with the electric motor which operates
it, and was electrocuted.
Howard Newton, aged seventeen
years, was struck over the heart by a
pitched ball and killed while playing
baseball in Kansas City. Newton drop
ped his bat, ran to first base and fell
dead.
Forest fires in the vicinity of Per-
sons and Davis, w. Va, have Destroy
ed property estimated to be worth
more than 100000. Lumber plants,
sawed lumber and standing timber are
burned.
While taking part in an amateur
! game of ball at Houston, Tex, Stach
Wisnoski aged twenty, was struck by
thrown ball, and after recovering
the ball and throwing it to first base,
fell dead.
Three men were drowned by a
squcll that passed over Sheepshead
bay near New York. One man was
thrown out Of a launch which was
pitching in heavy sea, and about the
same time rowboat was capsized and
two drowned.
John W. Flowers of Havre acciden-
| tally shot himself on Northern Pa
cific freight train as it was pulling into
| Billings, Mont He carried a 45-cali-
Der revolver strapped about him, and
| while trying to remove the weapon it
went off, the bullet passing through
| the body just below the heart. He was
taken to the Billings hospital and will
probably die.
| Fred Ludge, stockman living north
of Kingsley, Iowa, was drowned in the
Little Sioux river at point almost
identical with that at which two sons
of H. H Mead were drowned two days
ago. He had started across the river
on horseback after a herd of cattle,
and an hour afterward his horse was
found standing on a small island. His
body has not been recovered. He was
an Englishman and unmarried.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08
CHILD AT PLAY BROWNS.
six-Year-oId Boy Falls From Boat
House into Bay.

Red Wing, MINI, May 81 - Ralph
Limbert, six-year-old boy, fell into
the bay, where the water is about
seven feet deep, and was drowned.
Ralph and his brother Earl, who rs
eight years old, were playing together
on the platform of boathouse, when
Ralph fell backward into the water.
Before assistance came he was
drowned.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08
officers Were Confused.
ADMITS SHOOTING MULLER.
Joseph Lach confesses Crime to Bis
marck Officers.

marck Officers.
Bismarck. N. D., June 1. = Joseph
Lach, who shot John Muller near this
city Saturday, confessed the crime and
accompanied the officers to the scene
He pointed out where he had hid the
revolver after the shooting and also
described the crime. Muller is badly
injured, the ball severing an artery
and lodging in kidney. The chances
of recovery are slight.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08

The shaft on the New England
Homestake property at Deadwood is
now down 144 feet and shows good
ledge material The new hosting
plant has arrived and will be installed
Immediately.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08
At the CAPITA

fore the adjournment of the term.
The case of the New York General
Railroad Co VS.. II. l.. Miller, comp
| troller of the state of New York, in
volving the New York state law i'm
| posing a franchise tax on railroad
property in that state, has been de-
| cided by the supreme court favorable
| to the state, the opinion being deliv-
cred by Justice Holmes.
The sheriff at Mitchell, S. d., wires
| he has under arrest two escaped safe
| blowers from Marshalltown, Iowa, and
| that two other safe blowers are in the
vicinity of Mitchell
| In fight at ST. Louis resulting from
dispute over 81, man. name UNI
known, was shot and killed in pool
room, and William A. Abbott, proprie-
| tor, was placed under arrest Abbott
asserts he shot In self-defense
| Gustave Englin, after a futile at
| tempt to effect reconciliation with
his wife, broke into her home at Rock
Island, H., and shot her dead. He also
| fired at his twelve-year-old daughter
and missed. Engelin then put bullet
through his own heart
Ten indictments We're returned at
Omaha against election officers for al
legged misconduct in the operation of
the voting machines in the recent city
election, Former City Clerk Elborn
was also Indicted for alleged tampering
| with ballots.
Lewis Wallick was shot and instant
ly killed at Watonga. OxIa., by Indiana
| Wallick, his divorced wife. Wallick
was attempting to push in the door of
| the woman's home when she grabbed a
shotgun and fired through the panel.
| A coroner's jury discharged Mrs. Wal
| lick
w. G. Baldwin and his bride of two
| months We're found dead in their home
| at Canon City, Colo. The body of Bald
win was lying on the floor, the head
blown from the trunk. The wife's dead
body was standing nearly upright
against the wall, the head shattered by
gunshot wounds.
United States Attorney Baker filed
a motion in Criminal Court No. I at
Washington for a postponement until
October of the trial of Representative
Binger Herman Of Oregon, indicted for
the alleged destruction of an official
record pertaining to the business of
the general land office.
L. I. Dyke, president, and w. r. Law
ley cashier of the First National bank
OF Alfalfa, Ala, which was closed by
Bank Examiner Cooper April "a, have
been arrested by Deputy United States
Marshal P. G. Ashley of Birmingham
on warrants charging them with mis-
applying moneys of the bank.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08

The opening horse sale at the stock
yards at Pierre for this year will be
on the Goth of June, when it is expect
ed that large number of good horses
will be placed on the market.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08

In the sight of his father. who was
unable to go to his rescue, Ralph Jen-
mack of Deadwood was run over by
an ice wagon and instantly killed.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08

Danish-born residents of southern
South Dakota will have grand cele-
bration at Irene, in honor of the Dan
ish national holiday.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04
Lynn Post Office.

Miss Sima Alsager is expected home
from Idaho soon.
Mrs. A. G. Paulsen and Lalla Bleger
were in Webster Monday.
Shock threshing is nearly done anC
the weather has been fine lately.
No schools have started around here
yet. The school clerks say they cam
get any teachers.
The Standard Oil Co.'S tank from
Webster was here Saturday with oil fol-
@. E. Blegen's store.
b. o. Nodeland and Mr.. Abramso,
intend to go to Canada this fall to lool
after their homesteads.
The Studesness church is now painted
inside, and a new carpet will be laid
81 it looks real cosy now.
Messrs Allen and hartsough, of Min
neapolis, who have been hunting here
for about a week, went home last Sun,
day.
Rev. and Mrs. N. G. Mahlen were Wis
iting at the Blegen home Monday before
going to their new home at Harvey, N
ID.
Mrs. Christine johnson, of Chandler
Mimi, daughter of M. r. Davidson
was visited by the stork lately. 1t i.
a big boy. Congratulations.
Dick and Albert Davidson had a run
away Monday while going to Bristol
One of the horses got badly hurt, but
the boys escaped and walked home.
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MOB AFTER A NEGRO
SPECIAL OFFICER OF THE MOBILE
AND OHIO RAILROAD KILLED
IN FIGHT AT JAIL.

Mobile, Ala, Oct. Roy Hoyle, a
special officer of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad, and one of the most widely
known and best liked men in this vi
cinity, was fatally shot and Alderman
Sidney Lyons, chairman of the city
council of Mobile, was slightly wound
ed in the hand during a fight at the
county Jail between deputy sheriffs
and a crowd of men who were de-
terminsd to capture Dick Robinson, a
young negro. The mob is still hunt
ing the negro and threatens to lynch
him II captured. The negro, who is
only seventeen years of age attacked
Ruth, the twelve-year-old daughter of
Blount Sass:man. The girl was pass
ing a secluded spot not far from her
home, when she was attacked. Later,
she was found lying unconscious by
the roadside and was taken to her
home. Detectives were placed on the
track Of the negro and within three
hours he was captured. He was taken
before the girl, who at once identified
him. Deputy Sheriff Fatch, knowing
that the negro's life would be taken by
a mob IL he brought him into this city,
caused him to be conveyed to a sta
ton several miles up the Mobile and
Ohio railroad and he was not in the
jail at the time of the attack.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04
PauIson-B

Avery pretty wedding occurred at
the parlors of the Commercial Hotel at
300 o'clock Wednesday evening, Rev.
j. 8. Hardness officiating.
The contracting parties were Elmer
A. Paulson and Miss Pearl Boughuer,
Mathew Hentges was best man and
Miss Carrie Skaaden acted as Maid of
Honor, Miss Bertha Sauer played the
wedding march. The parlors were
beautifully decorated with green boughs
and flowers. The wedding was a quiet
one, relatives and few intimate friends
only being present.
The groom is buttermaker at the
Webster creamery, is an energetic,
industrious yonng man of good habits,
and has during his residence IN Web
ster made many friends by his straight
forward manly bearing, he is one of the
most popular young men in this city.
The bride has been employed al the
Commercial for the past year and has
all the sterling qualities which 60 to
make a congenial happy home, is bright
and intelligent, very quiet, an inassum-
ing, a good sensible young woman, who
will be ever ready to do her full share
in the building up and maintenance of a
home.
They were escorted to the train by q
large delegation of friends and departed
amid a shower of rice and old shoes.
The happy couple left on the evening
tram for Wheaton, MINI, where they
will visit Mr.. Paulson's brother for a
few days, when they will go to visit his
parents at Grove City, MIMI, for a
week or ten days. On their return to
Webster they will take up their resi-
dence in the Halverson house near the
creamery.
They were the recipients of many
handsome, substantial and useful pres
ents as wedding gifts.
The Reporter and Farmer joins the
many friends in hearty congratulations
and best wishes for their future success
and happiness.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04
High School Notes.

The enrolment of the High School i:
now 70.
The tuning of the piano by Mr.. Mel.
son has added greatly to its tone.
The next program of the Literary
Society will be given October 18th.
The course of study pursued by the
grades and high school this year is the
state course.
The high school students are now
going owe to the grade building for
their drinking water.
The boys gymnasium is open on Mon.
days. Wednesdays and Fridays. The
girls on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Some of the new students entering
tine High School are, Raymond Whit
man, Lena Renkas, Lew Potter and
Allie Smith.
TIE following program was given by
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Webster, South Dakota

year, or from which incompleted reports
were received, will swell the amount
paid patrons about x350,0O0, making
the nice total paid to the farmers by
the creameries Of 81, 3s9 All. Mime.
hsha leads in the number of creameries
in operation, having II. Day county
comes next with . and is followed by
Giant with s and Brown with T. The
showing is a fine one for the dairy
interests of our state.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04
Teachers, Examination,

Notice is hereby given that a public
examination will be offered on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, October 4, /;
and g., for first, second and third grade
certificates only.
This examination for Day county
will be held in the court house, and the
schedule of the August examination
will govern the same.
No special examination will be held
this autumn, and those teachers wht
have not taken the regular examination
are required to attend.
j. II. Hetley,
Countv Sunerintepdapt
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04

AS a matter Of genuine fact women,
travellers than men are. To begin
with, liz not so stodgily accurate, al
though that by no name of means
follows, they are more fluent In mod
ern languages. They chatter In them,
say the male things. Ergo, they are
the more colloquial, the reader to cir
cumvent the wiles and extortions of
kellner or Of garcon.-London Gentle
woman.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04
A Card of Thanks.

We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to u friends and neighbors for
the many acts of kindness and sympa-
thy, and the beautiful floral tributes
rendered us during the last illness and
at the funeral of u beloved daughter
and sister, Josetta. Words fail us IN
expressing the depth of our apprecia.
ton.
MIR. and Mrs. William Wagner
and Family
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Duluth Wheat and EIax.

Duluth, Oct. 2.-Wheat-To arrive
NO. / Northern, 76%c; No. 2 North
ern, 75Bc. On track-No. 1 hard,
7%c; No. 1 Northern, 76%c; No. 2
Northern, 75hc; Oct, 76Ac; Dec,
4Mc; May, 5Skc. Flax-To arrive,
$1.11A; ON track, $1.12; Oct, $1.11h;
Nov, $1.11k; Dec, $1.09A; Jan, ST.
09h; May, $1.13k.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04

Drawn through the wood? No!
That is sweet cider YOU are
thinking of. Our coal is drawn
from the pockets across screens.
1t must be screened before it can
be loaded. Price advanced 25
cents on October LIST.
Forbes Fuel Co.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04
SWEDISH VICE CONSUL KILLED
Murdered by Unknown Persons at 6s
tum, Transcaucasia.

Batum, Transcaucasia, Oct. 2.-M.
Hager, the Swedish vice consul here,
was MORALLY wounded while driving
in a carriage in the outskirts of the
city and died in the hospital to which
he was conveyed. His m%urderers es-
capped.
M. Hager, who was manager of the
Nobel naphtha works, is the second
consular officer murdered in the last
few months, the first victim being
William E. Stuart, the American vice
consul, who was shot and killed at his
country place near here May 20.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, Oct. 2.-Cattle-Beeves
$390@7.00; cows and heifers, $1,000
$40; stockers end feeders, $500
4.4O; Texans, $3.75@4.40; Westerns,
$3.55@5.40; calves, $6.250s.OO. Hogs
Mixed and butchers, $6.25 $3.50;
good heavy, $6.40@6.57k; rough
heavy, s5.90@6.25; light, s6.30@6.75;
pigs. s5.75@s.4o. Sheep. s3.55Q5.35;
lambs. N.75@7.75.
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the High School Literary Society, and

the High School Literary Society, and
was greatly enjoyed by all.
Song by school. Instrumental solo,
"The Robins Return" Florence Brass
Address, "The Declaration of Independ-
ence, "Gracia Kjerland Humorous Read
ing, "Rollo Learning Not TO-" Martha
Koplitz; Duet, Edith Ross and Iva Sig
linger Recitation, /" Widow Budd, Row
ena Walker; Vocal Solo, ga Picture of
Home Sweet Home Ethel Derrick Cur
rent events, Arthur Conley; Song by
school.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04

Josephus Alley, at surveyor sofice in
courthouse, has money to loan on real
property, at a low rate of interest. Will
buy well secured real estate mortgages.
No delay whatever, money furnished
same dav application is made
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A Good DOR.

what kind of a dog is thatY' asked
the inquisitive man.
II dunno jes' what kind Of a dog he
u.s." answered Mr.. Erastus Pinkley,
'but he's got good stock in i'm. Dat
dog is so many kinds of dog dat dar's
got to be good dog somewhere."-
Washington Star.