The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-09-07

firm bought 15,000pounds of coffee at
II cents a pound, and afterwards, It
is alleged, found 1t to be worth only
II cents
Casualties.
Paul Vetter, fourteen years old, OF
City, Ind
A Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
train struck buggy at Rock City, ILL.,,
killing two girls.
Stepping off one train and walking
In front Of another at Stanton, Iowa.
four men were seriously injured.
Miss Flora Mullen and Lucy Hill OF
Pleasant Hill, Ohio, were drowned by
the overturning Of buggy in a small
creek
Nearly an entire block front of
business houses were partially burned
in New York, causing damage to a
dozen firms exceeding $250,000.
A car on the scenic railway at an
amusement park at Broad Ripple,
eight miles north of indianapolis,
sons.
The infant son OF William Dean, a
ranchman residing two miles north OF
Iron Rod station, Mont, died from the
effects OF a dose of poison admits
tered by mistake.
Dewitt Adams, aged twenty-seven,
and Miss Carroll Jones, aged seven
teen, while returning from church
near Fredonia, Kan, We're drowned in
attempting to ford Fall river.
Two men sitting upright in wagon,
dead, and four mules dead in harness.
were found near Kenna, N. M. They
were killed by lightning while driving
from Roswell to their farms near Ida.
A freight train on the Virginia &
Southwestern railway ran off trestle
at Bristol, Va, and the engine and
eight cars were plunged into the river
Two were killed and another serious
ly injured.
Fire at Lincoln, Neb., destroyed the
First Christian church at Fourteenth
and X streets. Loss, $4,000. The
Catholics purchased the building
year ago and were changing it into
handsome cathedral.
Thirty miners at Shaft No. of the
Southwestern Development company
at Pittsburg, Kan, were overcome by
gas and poisonous air. The victims
are in serious condition, but all are
expected to recover. Antoine Kauie,
another miner employed by the COM
pany, was killed by fall of rocks.
Otherwise.
Democrats and Populists of the Fifth
Nebraska district fused and nomin-
ated R. D. Switzerland, Popul1st Of
Superior, Neb, for congress.
Four Greek laborers were killed
and another man fatally injured by
being struck by Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern train at Symmes, three
miles from Loveland, Ohio.
Edward Heating, president Of the
Denver Press club, was elected presi-
dent Of the International League Of
Press Clubs at session OF the con-
vention at Corona, on the continental
divide.
DIR. C. M. Bigelow Of Evanston and
c. e. Lawrence of Chicago, who at
tempted to make trip from Sauya-
tuck, Mich, to Chicafo In a launch.
and were supposed to have been lost
in q storm, are safe in Michigan City,
Ind.
NJ F. Elliott, general counsel for
the Standard Oil company, who was
shown a telegram from Peoria, ILL.,,
to the effect that the Standard Oil
company had taken steps to acquire
all of the principal distilleries in the
United States as a result Of the dena-
tured alcohol law by congress, said the
Standard had taken no steps in this
direction and would not.
Tire hundred and fifty thousand
pounds Of food stuffs were destroyed
In Chicago last week, according to
the last issue of the bulletin of the
health department, because they were
impure. The bulletin says the food
inspectors in the down town districts
alone condemned and destroyed So.
719 pounds. This includes 10000
pounds OI Cdnueu 6OouS ana 1851
pounds of fruit and vegetables.
Dan PATCH went an exhibition mile
at Dubuque in 1853 fiat, the last quar-.
ter in :2S IL, lowering the track rec.
ord s "a seconds. It was the fastest
mile ever made by harness horse
in Iowa.
The feet Of Long Law, Decatur
Chinaman, injured in collision on
the interurban railway at Riverton.
H., have been sent to q local under
taking firm, which has prepared them
for permanent preservation. AS soon
as the Chinaman is uble to leave the
hospital he will send the feet to China
] to relatives.