The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

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Fire at Vermillion destroyed the
home OF William Gremmes, entailing a
loss OF $500. The origin of the fire is
a mystery.
While on his way home on horse
back Ole E. Aaberg was fatally in
jured at Hot Springs by his horse fall
ing on him.
William Todd of Yankton, brother of
Chief James Todd of the Yankton fire
department, died at the age of forty
even years.
The roller mill at Waubay owned by
Herman & Knistle burned last week.
The loss Is 100000; insurance, $4,000.
The origin of the fire is not known.
There are STILL fifteen schools. of
Jerauld county without teachers. THE
total number of schools is fifty. The
u Of the scarcity has been too low
wages, ~ - ~
j. So: :" 30 6Ge+ a.
John yMilks. a, student fireman on
Engine No. 2eS, was killed attVolga..
He was cleaning the ashes from the
frebox when another train. hacked
into them.
A desperate shooting ARRAY occurred
at Rapid City. Frank and John Graves
were seriously wounded. Ed Wallace
was placed in Jail, charged with the
shooting. All were colored.
After nearly forty-eight hours of m
tense suffering as the result of drink
ing a quantity Of I've, the eighteen
months-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
O. T. Hanson of Sioux Falls is dead.
Fire at Parker destroyed the Chica-
go & Northwestern depot, three box
cars loaded with freight and the store
room. Fire was caused by an engine.
The loss to the railway company is
$4,000.
The twelve-year-old daughter of
Henry D%ethlefson, a farmer of Aurora
county, was thrown from a wagon and
killed. The wheels of the g
passed over the girls head. crushing
her skull.
Miss Malta Stangland, daughter Of
Hans Stangland, a farmer of Airing
ton, drank a bottle of carbolic acid and
died before medical services could be
summoned. She had been in i'll health
for some time.
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While drilling block holes in the
5O0-foot level of the Homestake mine
and making tests for rival machine
companies, Dominic Ronchetto and
William Niva, miners, drilled into a
missed hole and were injured by the
explosion, the former seriously.
The first prosecution in that vicinity
is in progress at Pierre under the law
that makes it an ~offense. to start a
prairie fire. Henry Krohnmiller was
arrested on complaint Of one of the
losers Of hay in the prairie fire of last
Sunday evening and is having his
hearing.
Information has been received at
Oacoma Of the fatal shooting by acct
dent of a Sioux Indian named Eagle
Hawk, who was a member Of the res
ervation Indian police force. The no.
liceman was handling his six-shooter
when it was discharged, the bullet en-
tering his body.
A wreck on the South Dakota Cen
trail railroad at Arlington resulted in
the death Of n man. The train en-.
gagged in laying steel had stopped for
water before entering the yards. A
freight following crashed into the en-
CINE, derailing it and several cars. Joe
Palvic, one Of the steel gang, was run
over and died soon afterward.
The University Choral club has re-
organized for the winters work pre-
p%aratory for the musical festival next
May, at which time the second annual
concert will be given. The cantata,
Gods Own Time" will be sung by the
club; also "The Holy City" and a
chorus Of 100 boys voices will be
heard in a selection. The club is I'M
der the direction of Emory W. Hobson,
formerly Of the Cincinnati Conserva.
tory of Music.
In a wreck on the Northwestern
railroad between Deadwood and
Pierre. near Box Elder. William Wal
lin, a brakeman, suffered a broken leg,
while Conductor D%elehanty and Brake
man Gerbing were both cut and bruis-
ed. The wreck was caused by a sec
ton of the train, which was a freight,
breaking away, and when the engineer
slowed down the loose section crashed
into the train. Wallin was hurt in a
wreck a few weeks g and had not
yet returned to work.