The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-12-21
Casualty List.

Casualty List.
Drinking aconite in mistake for
whisky, Louis Munson of Marquette,
Mich, died in awful agony.
A passenger train crashed into an
open switch in the yards at Lima,
Ohio. A fireman was killed and two
trainmen fatally injured.
Patrick O'Connor, a miner at the
Minnie Heaiey mine at Butte, fell 200
feet down a shaft and sustained in
juries from which he died.
Ira B. Sail was instantly killed by
a street car wheel going over his
head at Winnipeg. He is supposed
to have come from Minnesota.
William Pallicheck and William
Kern, two boys, while playing on the
Ice on a pond near the city limits of
Muscatine, Iowa, were drowned by
the sudden breaking of the ice.
While driving from Shoshoni, Wyo,,
to Deepass during a binding snow
storm the wagon Of a man named
Abernethy was overturned, and he
was caught beneath the load and ia
tally injured.
The little schooner Wonder was re-
ported at Grand Rapids, Mich, by the
owners as lost. 1t is believed that 1T
was lost in the big storm of Nov. 81.
The schooner was manned by Capt. j.
Mailman and one sailor.
An explosion of gas in the power
and light plant at Centerville, Iowa,
demolished the walls of the building.
injuring the fireman and engineer, but
killing no one The debris was thrown
four blocks.
While Mrs G. Rudolph of Rock
Rapids, Iowa, was cleaning a coat with
gasoline the gasoline exploded. Her
fve-year-old O was burned to death
and a daughter seventeen years old
so badly burned that she cannot re-
cover.
General.
Six hundred and fifty coal miners in
the Wheeling. w. Va, district have
gone on a strike.
One hundred and twenty additional
teachers are wanted in the Philippines
for the next school year.
A fight for open shop" in the build
Ing industry is planned by leading
contractors of Chicago.
The Hooking Valley railroad has
Increased the wages Of it's employees
from 4 to z 1-2 per cent.
The Pittsburg Steel will
build an addition to it's plant at Mo-
nessen, Pa, to cost $1,000, 900.
Bids for the construction and opera
zion OF seven new subway routes In
Greater New York will soon be adver-
tised.
Lincoln Square theater in New York
offers a free seat to every man who
presents a certificate from his wife
that he e told her a lie.
Drury college, at Springfield, ILL.,,
will have to raise $200,O 900 before the
$4,000 offered by the Rockefeller edu-
cational fund becomes available.
H. H. Rogers and ]. d. Archbold
nave issued a Joint statement denying
that they had said that John ID. Rookie
%feller's income was $50, 900, 900 a year.
Andrew Carnegie has given to st.
Visteurs college at Kankakee, ILL.,,
$432,000 to rebuild the college building
which was recently destroyed by
fire.
Rev. l.. j. Roberts Of Lecompte, La,
was expelled from the Louisiana con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church south on the charge Of "immo-
rality."
Representatives of the Hebrew con
gregations in New York have Joined
In a protest against the observance OF
Christmas festivities in the public
schools.
All the counties in the Eleventh
Kentucky district, the home of moon
one, r "dry" as the result of the
elections.
A serious coal shortage exists in
Hutchinson, Kan, and throughout
Southwestern Kansas. The coal is be-
ing conflscated by the railroads to sup
ply their engines.
After marrying five sisters, all Of
whom died OF were killed, James
Craven Of Mount Gilead, Ohio, has
married the sixth and remaining sister
Of the Lamprecht family.
The banks of Chicago enjoyed the
largest earnings in their history in the
year 1906. 1t is estimated in round
figures that the total profits for the
wear will be over 81, O00, 1000.
The isthmian canal commission an
nounced that the date of opening bids
tor the completion OF the construction
OF the Panama caral has been post
lponed from Dec. IL to Jan. ~ next.