The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-03-09


cans, Englishmen and Germans, who,
he declares, are worse than Chinese
Crimes.
Mrs. John Byers of Belmond, Iowa.
committed suicide by drowning in the
Iowa river. Poor health is given as
the cause
Justice Sweet at Boulder, Mont,
has imposed fine OF $40 and costs
upon James McTaggert for clipping
the queue from the head of Charles
App, an aged Chinaman from Basin
William Bell, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Hamilton, Mont, committed
suicide by shooting. Bell used rifle.
firing three bullets into his head, his
face being terribly mangled
Albert Matte, bookkeeper and conf
Dental man for the Val Blatz Brewing
company of Milwaukee, at their Han
cock. Mich, branch, has absconded, it
is alleged, with several thousand dol
lars.
The grand jury at Asheville, NJ c..
returned another Indictment against
with practicing before the treasury de-
partment in violation of the federal
statutes.
The Breathitt county (Ky.) grand
jury returned indictments against
Judge James Hargis, Ed Callahan, B.
+. French, John Smith and John Abb
ner, charging murder and accessory to
the same in the death of James b.
Marcum, two years ago. Marcum was
killed in the court house door, the re-
suit of a feud
After an expert accountants exam
nation of the books of Allen c. Bates.
secretary Of the Mississippi Elevator
and Grain company, who committed
suicide by shooting on Feb. IA, it was
made known at ST. Louis that a short.
age of $4,000 had been revealed.
Bates was under surety bond in the
sum of $4,000
Two daring negro highwaymen
walked into the isolated store of
Frank Botto, an old italian at Crosse
Point, small town on the Texas G.
Pacific railway, killed Botto and fatal.
ly wounded his two sons, fourteen and
thirteen years old. Mrs. Botto was
shot at but escaped and gave the
alarm. While she was gone they rob.
bed the place and made their escape
Florence, twenty years old, daughter
of County Physician r. b. Allen, was
instantly killed and Mrs. Allen serl.
ously injured at Mount Pleasant, Iowa
| by bullets fired at them in their home
| by Carl Becker, young farmer. Beck.
er's body was found on the outskirts
of the town later, where ne evidently
had committed suicide. The cause is
believed to be unrequited love.
The main postoffice at San Diego,
Cal, was entered by robbers and the
vault was blown open by dynamite
All the stamps were taken and the
office wired for $500 worth from Los
Angeles. Postmaster Newkirk de
clined to give an estimate of the
amount secured by the robbers, but it
is understood to be in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000.
A suitcase containing two bonds,
Nos. 157 and 1853, of the Central Rail.
road Of Pennsylvania, each for $50, 200
|
James Kerr the Clearfield coal opera.
tor. was stolen recently from a Penn.
sylvania railroad train. Detectives 10.
Gated the case, minus the bonds, at
the boarding house of Charles Cato
an Italian, at Retort. Cato was ar.
rested.
Bob Butts and George Bridgewater,
young white men living at New Pitts.
burg. Ohio. drew their revolvers and
made George Donovan, a negro, dance
clog. Butts and Bridgewater, after
emptying their revolvers, began to
jeer the negro, when he turned and
fired five shots at his annoyers. Butts
was shot in the lung. Bridgewater was
shot through the stomach and bowels
Both men died. Donovan was arrest.
ed.