The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-18
General News Items.

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Samuel Barb has been arrested at
Fort William, Ont, by Sergt. Watkin
on a charge of forgery. The alleged
crime was committed in Duluth.
Three prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Cincinnati. They dug
their way through an inner wall with
pieces OF iron broken from their beds.
The carpenters employed in the con-
struction of the Bell Telephone build
ing at Great Falls, Mont, have gone
on strike once more, and the work on
the building is stopped.
Frederick Boehmann, a wealthy Ger
man, was sentenced to fourteen years
in the penitentiary for the murder
last Decoration day of Henry Matthias,
a saloonkeeper at Chicago.
Oct. 20 has been set by the manage
ment of the Fort Dodge, Des Moines
d Southern as the date on which reg
ular service will be started on the re-
Gently completed electric lines.
Levi Jones and William Carpenter
are dying in a hospital at Pittsburg
from injuries received in a duel with
a knife and an ice pick as weapons.
jealousy.
The jury in the Rowland murder
trial at Raleigh, N. c., returned a YER
dict of acquittal. DR.. and Mrs. David
Rowland were charged with poisoning
the woman's former husband, Charles
r. Strange.
William Burns. a negro desperate
who shot Policemen August Barter at
Cumberland, Md, inficting wounds
from which the officer died, was taken
from Jail by a mob at an early hour
and shot to death.
With the assistance Of seven power
full tugs the battleship Kentucky,
which stranded off Lambert's Point,
Va, while en%deavoring to avoid a pos
sible collision with vessels lying at
anchor in the stream, waiting to take
coal, has been 1oated.
Freight tonnage passing through
the 500 canals. according to the Sep
tember report, was over $500, 900, MAX
Ing the seasons tonnage to date over
4O,OOo,0o0. Less than 10, OF 900 more
Is needed to exceed the record of last
season. The year will break last years
record by several millions.
The output Of automobiles for 1908
is expected to be $4,000 cars, as
against $4,000 made this year. These
figures, which are said to be a con-
sentative estimate, have been an.
nounced by the management of the
American Motor Car Manufacturers
association.
Judges Grosscup, Baker and Seaman.
in the United States circuit court of
appeals, in an opinion overruled the
petition of the Chicago & Alton Rail-
way company for a ~rehearing on it's
appeal from the 100000 fine imposed
by Judge X. M. Lands a little more
than a year ago for rebating.
1t Is authoritatively stated at the
state department that there is no foun.
dation for the report that Robert Ba-
con, hrst assistant secretary of state,
is to succeed Ambassador Tower at
Berlin, and it is added that no word
has yet been received from Mr.. Tower
indicating his intention to retire from
the office.
But for the investigation of the
child's father and the timely arrival of
officers. Henry Johnson, a negro. who
1t is alleged assaulted the three-year.
old daughter of Leonard Broadway
would probably have been lynched at
memphis by a posse of neighbors. who
captured him after a two-mile chase.
Grand Master John j. Hanrahan of
the brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
men and Engineers has issued a call
for a meeting of the general chairmen
OF the joint protective boards Of all
the railroads east of Chicago to meet
In Buffalo. The purpose of he meet.
ing is to establish a standard rate Of
pay and uniform operating and work.
ing rules for the various railroads IN
the territory embracing all the lines
east Of Chicago.
Sir Thomas Upton has decided TIC
build the new Fife-designed cutter tc
compete in the British ~regattas in
IN 1908. 1t is intended that the cutie,
shall eclipse the White Heather n
the present champion Of the British
yachts.
A gang of convicts who we're heine
escorted to Tobolsk, Siberia, from
Iyumen, Eastern Siberia, attacked
tnelr guards and wounded six of them
Inc guards fired on the ~convicts
twenty-five OF whom were killed
Eleven of the prisoners escaped with
me which they had wrested from
the ~ A..