The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-07-20
Domestic.


A packing house employee at Omaha
found diamond set in fine gold in
the stomach of a COW. The stone is
valued at $500.
Obed Caswell, for two terms Judge
of the Seventeenth judicial district
and nominated for third term, died
suddenly at Marshalltown, Iowa.
Joe Walcott of Boston retained the
welterweight championship of the
world by knocking out Jack Dougher-
ty of Milwaukee in the eighth round
at the Lincoln Athletic club in Chel
sea, near Boston.
John Cody single and aged twenty
tW,, was killed while at work in an
excavation at the site of the new
French Catholic church at Marquette,
Mich. He was buried in sand and
9ufocated to death
Devolney Dunn, proprietor of the
Seneca Driving Park of Tiffin, Ohio,
who was attending the races at
jamestown, N. Y, was found dead in
bed at the Humphrey house. Heart
disease was the cause of his death.
Winston Churchill, the novelist, has
announced that he will be candidate
for the Republican gubernatorial nom.
nation. Since he was member OF
the state legislature four years ago he
has been factor in New Hampshire
politics.
Robert A. Scott, a Civil war cap
tain, eX-postmaster and retired poll
tician died at La Crosse, aged sixty
seven. Mr.. Scott was the husband of
Elsie Gle Scott, the richest woman in
Wisconsin. The couple were divorced
TWO years ago.
The offer made by the New York
Geological society to the governne
place herd of buffalo on the vi
tia forest reserve in Southwestern Ok
lahoma, has been accepted, and d
nerd of from fifteen to twenty buffa
loes will be shipped as soon as an area
of good grazing ground can be fenced
in.
Gov. Carter of Hawaii has written
to President Roosevelt inviting him
action with TIC expressed intention
Of the president to go to Panama
GOV. Carter suggests that the presi.
dent return by means of a triangular
trip from the isthmus to Honolulu. and
thence to San Francisco.
James Manning. fifty-seven wears
old, who, it is said, led Guiteau, Presi.
dent Garfield's assassin, to the gal
lows, died in the hay loft of stable
owned by Andrew Skau. 146 Thirty
first street, Chicago. Manning served
number of terms as marshal OF ~
District of Columbia. At the ti.r
his death he was employed as a
bic hand. He left office with $500
to his credit.
In choosing motormen for what is
believed to be the first municipality
built and owned street railway in the
United States, the street railway OF
Monroe, La, Mayor A. A. Forsythe
said that the first test for fitness fol
this position will be total abstinence
from all Intoxicating liquors. 1t is ex
pected that the railway will begin
operating in a short time
p. Gates, professor in the divinity
school at the University Of Chicago
in an address before the junior college
students, declared that the disaster al
San Francisco occurred because the
city was built in the name of Nam
mon and not in the name of Christ
''The 500 and more lives sacrificed ir
the Iroquois theater were sacrificed
because the building was erected ir
the name of greed" he said, CARRYING
his argument further.
The Berlin correspondent If the
Daily Telegraph says that it is de
clared to be Emperor Williams inten
ton to grant a somewhat extended
amnesty on the occasion of the bap
tism of his grandson. This amnesty
is to apply where there has been nc
heinous breach of the criminal code
involving a loss of civic honor.