The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-08-17

to take effect Sept 16 Lieut. Gen.
Corbin is now in command OF the d.
vision. but he goes on the retired list
Sept. Is.
The total corporate expenditures of
the ISL cities for the fiscal year 1904.
exclusive of payments by one depart
ment of the city to another, were
1854 ,i40, 215, of which those of New
York constituted s167 .060,171, or three.
tenths, according to a statement by
the census bureau The total expend-
itures showed an increase of S27 ,10S,-
712.
Casualty.
Louis Torsdahl of Radcliffe was
drowned at Iowa Falls. Iowa. while
bathing.
Three trainmen were killed In a
wreck of the Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburg railroad train at Harmony,
Pa.
While fishing, Timothy Sullivan OF
Detroit and Herbert Walker, aged
twelve, of Sand Creek, drowned near
Saginaw, Mich.
Five children of Thomas O'Daniels
of Seymour Park, suburb of Omaha.
persisted in fire which destroyed the
family residence.
A heavy freight car, the sixth from
caboose, on the Northwestern, near
Scarville, Iowa, was blown from the
rails by high wind.
In a runaway accident near Lehigh,
Iowa, two children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Axel Johnson were killed and two 9th
ers We're badly injured.
One trainman was killed and two
were hurt In the derailment of pas
senger train at Joplin. Mo. None of
the passengers was injured.
jeremiah Wilson was killed and
Charles Parrish fatally injured by an
explosion in the North End Coal COM
pany's colliery at Scranton, Pa.
Conductor Myron l.. Bradley of
Michigan City, Ind. was killed and
four of the train crew injured at
Hartdale in wreck on the Michigan
Central railway.
Miss Galbraith, school teacher,
and the Misses Hilda and Margaret
Sawyer were drowned in the South
Coos river near Allegheny, Or. The
young women were bathing.
Reports from the floods in the terri
tories indicate that the damage will
be great Conservative estimates
place the loss up to this time at ST.
100000, suffered mostly by the rail-
roads.
A heavily loaded car on the Dan
ville-Urbana interurban line was over
turned while rounding sharp curve
at Danville, Ill. Kelly Smoot, a con-
stable, was killed and twenty passen-
gers seriously injured.
Several members of the Grand
Trunk survey camp, fifty miles south
! of Vermillion, Alberta, were taken vio-
lently i'll after partaking of canned
salmon. Maj. H. j. Smith Is dead;
others are seriously Ill.
Hartman Wenzel, sixty-five years
old, overcome by heat and excitement,
fell fainting from stoop in New York
and was killed. Wenzel was retired
cabinetmaker, and had obtained stay
of execution for his only son, who
killed George Spatz, hotelkeeper.
Oliver w. Coleman. brakeman on
the Northern Pacific, wished to see
his sweetheart every day, and to this
Is ascribed his death. Coleman had
been employed on run out of Spo-
kane to Pasco, when, at his request, he
was transferred to local run between
Sand Point and Trout Creek, Mont.
He was killed on the first trip OF his
new run.
Criminal.
Ludwig Meirs, eighty years old, COM
mitted snicide Tuesday in Cincinnati
at the home of his daughter. Grief
over the death of his wife was re-
sponsible.
After writing note stating that he
took his life rather than again earn
his living by selling liqaor, Ernest
Steinhardt, fifty seven years of age.
committed suicide at st. Louis by
drinking morphine.
Charles Wheaton, employed by
Michael Troxel, a wealthy farmer at
Lima, Ohio, shot and probably fatally
4 wounded Troxel in /. 4 dispute ovel
wages.
Edward g. Blower, an employe o.
the. American Tobacco company, tried
| to cremate himself by jumping into the
furnace under the boiler at one of The
,company's factories at Richmond, Va
He was dragged out before he was "a
i tally burned. Religious mania is as
signed % the cause OF the act.
4 bucket Of beer thrown into tn,
faoe Of Sarah Hawkins. . negress, a
81. Louis. Mo-. resulted In the seriou
hta6bing Of the Hawkins woman an,
viIliam Green, negro. and the Kill
Ing o. Tiny Watson. . negresa. VII
Il thFe1 the Der, Green and the Hawl
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