The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-30
news OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
People Talked About.

People Talked About.
The Hon. A Pitt, minister of de.
tense OF New Zealand, is dead.
Bishop John ]. Tigert OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal church South. OF Louis.
Vile, KY, died at Tulsa. l. T.. after a
weeks illness.
The Rev. DR.. Raphael Benjamin,
rabbi of the Temple Beth Elohim OF
Brooklyn, and formerly rabbi of the
Mound Street temple of Cincinnati,
died in Brooklyn.
Commodore Samuel III. Kane, New
Yorker and prominent naval officer,
died in a sleeping car about thirty
miles south of Washington, while en-
route from Hot Springs, Va, to New
York.
my father Is through with New
York politics forever" remarked Rich
ard Croker. Jr, as he stepped aboard
the White Star liner Baltic at New
York. 81 have not seen him in almost
two years." the young man went on,
and expect to spend some time with
him at Glencairn."
Foreign.
Prince George of Servia has been
declared insane despite denials, ac-
cording to advices from Belgrade.
Norway intends to propose that the
powers, including Russia, shall guar
antee the neutrality of Norwegian ter
ritory. Germany Is favorably disposed
to the idea.
The main portions OF the dock yards
at Toulon, France, were destroyed by
fire. The foreign warships in course
Of construction were saved with diff
Guilty. The loss will amount to several
million francs.
A scandal in connection with the dis
tribution of government funds for the
relief of the famine-stricken provinces
of Russia, entailing the purchase OF
great quantities of grain, is being aired
In the Liberal press.
1t is understood from good source
that the Dutch minister in Berlin has
been instructed by the government to
try to obtain an open door for the inn
forbidden under all kinds of pleas.
The government of the Congo lnde-
pendent State has accepted the recon-
mendation OF the commission of in
Quiry into the administration Of that
state and has abolished compulsory
labor in the district of Katanga Here
after the negroes will pay their taxes
In money.
Criminal.
b. G. Cavagna, receiving teller Of
the First National bank, was arrested
at Cincinnati 1t is alleged that Ca
vagina is short $1,000 in his accounts.
The safe in the State Bank of Mara
mec. Pawnee county, Okla, was blown
open by nitroglycerin, and the robbers
escaped with $1,000.
Will FARRELL escaped from federal Of
ncers near Charleston. w. Va. by leap
Ing from train going sixty miles an
hour. It Is thought that Jarrel may be
dead.
An indictment charging embezzle-
ment Of $4,000 was returned at st.
Louis against Charles H. Everly. form
or teller Of the st. Louis Union Trust
company.
Charles Thomas, serving life i'm
prisonment term for the murder of
Mabel Scofleld. seven years ago. was
denied a new trial by the Iowa "a:
,preme court. So
Floyd KILLER, nfteen-year-old mes
senger employed in the Jersey City
ONCE of the Standard Oil company,
was knocked down and robbed Of 81
zoo belonging 70 that company.
An anarchist named Lagans who re.
turned to Naples recently from Pater
son, N. j.. by way Of LONDON, stabbed
and killed the famous zoologist, Clio
yanni Rossi of the University OF Ma
.ales.
/ Robbers dynamited the safe in the
e,,oank of Lahoma, at Lahoma, Okla,
,a,nd escaped with $2,70O in cash. The
i1sank had just received $4,000 to pay
4rmers for their cotton. but the rob-
GERS overlooked this.
rslt Dick Garrett, the negro who killed
Dr.. Pauls at Grovestown, Trinity
3icounty, Texas, a few days ago, was
,thanged by the sheriff in the presence
Nof an immense crowd. He waived all
: rights and pleaded guilty.
Casualty List.
Fast mail No. Q, north-bound, on the
Mobile & Ohio railroad. while on q
siding ut Dwight, Ala, was run into by
the south-bound fast mail. Both en-.
gines and trains were badly damaged
and twenty-five persons slightly in.
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