The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-24
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A woman who was travelling with a
medicine company was killed by light.
ming during a recent storm at Crofton.
A train on the Milwaukee road was
wrecked near Milbank. Three cars
We're ditched. The passengers es-
capped injury.
In the circuit court at Redtield Ed
win Gordon and John Williams, who
pleaded guilty to grand larceny, each
was sentenced to fifteen months in the
p~enitentiary.
A large barn belonging to G.. c. Nor
ton, eight miles south of Milbank,
and some cattle We're burned. The
loss is $4,000.
The authorities of Butte county
have been advised of the arrest in
North Dakota of Jim" Clayton, who
is wanted at Belle Fourche for alleged
horse stealing.
Rev. Aug. Senne OF Oakland, Iowa,
has accepted a call to the p%astorate OF
the Lutheran church at Grotou. The
church has been without a pastor since
Oct. 1 of last year
The jury in the case of the state VS..
Jackson, who has been held at Water
town On the charge of stabbing Con-
ductor Johnson, brought in a verdict
acquitting the defendant.
A. N. Barber. a capitalist of Els
mond, has awarded to a Mason City,
Iowa company the contract for the
erection of a grain elevator at Man
chester, capacity of 10000 bushels.
A tornado overturned a farm house
south of Parker. A lamp which was
burning set fire to the bed clothes and
burned to death the wife and young
son of Ole Sangstead. The husband
and father was seriously injured.
Charles Decker and James Morris
have been arrested at Redfield on the
charge of securing money under false
p%retenses. The crime alleged consist
ed in the passing Of old bills issued
and guaranteed by the State of Geor-
gia before and during the Civil wal.
The First National Bank Of Bridge
water was broken into last week. The
burglars in manipulating the combina-
ton of the safe accidentally set the
electric burglar alarm off and were
frightened away before any further
damage was done.
Joseph Martin, a prominent bust
ness man of Trip, has decided in
future to cut out efforts to aid his wife
In her household duties. Thinking to
surprise his wife by his industry he
seized a broom and commenced to
sweep off the porch Of the Martin
house. He worked only a minute or
two when he slipped and fell and
broke one of his ribs.
The Burlington railroad is retrench-
ing, the latest step being to close the
stations at Puma and Terry. The
Puma station Is one OF the oldest on
the line, having been used for eighteen
years. 1t is the junction point be-
tween lead and Deadwood, where
passengers bound to and from the
East must change for Lead. In adj
dition the night office at Mystic has
been closed.
Mayor Lavery of Fort Pierre has
appointed as his official force for the
coming year, M. A. Mcmillan, auditor;
]. Fl. Johnson, attorney: Milton Key
ser, chief of police. Lon French, who
has been acting as head of the police
force at Fort Pierre through the rough
times while hundreds of laborers were
employed in the material yards at that
place, has resigned and accepted a
like position at Philip. ,
Fred Sierth of Hermosa was killed
by the overtnrning of a wagon. He
was a man of seventy years of age,
and has lived in the Black Hills for a
number of years. He was driving
from keystone to Hermosa, when the
team backed into a hole. upsetting the
wagon. which, with all it's load. fell
Upon the old man. He was discovered
some time after by a passer-by, but
had, apparently, expired Immediately.