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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
General.

Harry Lewis of Philadelphia receiv-
ed the decision over Twin Sullivan in
a ten-round bout in Denver.
Charles Hackenschmidt of Des
Moines, Iowa. was defeated at wrest-
ling at Denver by NJ. j. Dwyer.
In the Democratic primaries in Chi
cago Mayor Dunno won a victory in
the mayoralty contest. His opponent
was Former Mayor Harrison.
Plans for a new city hall at Des
Moines to cost not more than $350,000
and containing 900. 900 cubic feet have
been asked for by the city council.
Oficials of the Waterloo, Cedar
Falls & Northern Electric railway
have summarily dismissed all of the
officers of the union recently formed
among it's conductors and motormen.
According to the report Of the state
examiner, who has been investigating
affairs in Fairfield, Iowa, the people
of that place seem to break l cents
worth Of law a day. The investigation,
which covered a period of three years
and nine months. disclosed the fact
that during that time just $13 in fines
had been paid into court and turned
over to the city treasurer.
Residents all over Central and East
ern Washington. Northern Idaho, In
GLIDING the Panhandle, and North
eastern Oregon, are evincing great In
terest in the proposal to create \ new
state In that territory.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Criminal.

Assistant Paymaster w. P. Sypher,
U. S. N, has been dismissed from the
navy on account Of technical embezzle-
ment.
Ben Huffaker. a negro, who, while a
convict in the Kentucky p%enitentiary.
murdered B. Shirley, a fellow convict,
has been hanged.
Charles Thomas was shot and killed
on a train at Hobart, Okla, by DIR.
Beackom. Thomas eloped with
Beackom's wife a year ago..
The grand jury at Evansville, Ind,
has began to probe into the alleged
embezzlement of $4,000 from the
treasury of Vandeberg county.
There was a narrowing scene at the
hanging at Farmville. Va, OF Moses
Hill and William Rufin, negroes, con.
yicted of the murder Of Postmaster
Grubb. Hill weighed 275 pounds. The
rope broke and he walked clamly back
to the scaffold. when it broke the sec
ond time and he died in agony on the
ground.
Charles 8. Reichsrt, member Of q
prominent family 1t Upton, Iowa
committed suicide by shooting. He
had Just been left an ample fortune by
the death Of his father. Broodinl
over his Ill health 10 believed to have
unbalanced his mind.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
PRESIDENT BACK IN CAPITAL.
Takes Great Delight in Meetings al
Harvard.

Harvard.
Westboro. Mass, Feb. 26.-The ter
ribly mutilated and dismembered body
of Rev. DR.. Everett d. Burt, prominent
Baptist clergyman of Newton Center
was found lying beside the railroad
tracks near the Sumner street bridge
The body was discovered by the crew
of a Worcester-bound freight train
The face was bruised beyond recogni
ton, the skull was fractured, both
arms were broken and both legs cut
off. The clothing was torn to shreds
Medical Examiner Charles S
Knight stated that death was due tc
accident. He said thtsi the victim
had undoubtedly fallen from a moving
train while passing from one car to
another; that his clothing had been
caught by some portion of a train
and the body dragged over the ties for
about 400 feet, the blood on the sleei.
ers indicating that the body had been
dragged that distance.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Personal,

Baron Davey OF Fernhurst, lord of
appeal in ordinary since 1894, is dead
in London. He was born in 1888.
Harry Pratt Judson, acting presi-
dent Of the University of Chicago has
been elected president of hat institu-
ton.
A compatriot of Carl Schurz and one
OF the leaders in the German revolu-
ton Of 1S4S, Edward Roehr, is dead at
Milwaukee at the age of ninety-two.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia university, Is to wed
Miss Kate La Montague, daughter of
the late August La Montague of New
York.
William A. Thrall. who was for forty
years connected in an official capacity
with the Northeastern and the Illinois
Central railroads.. died in Chicago OF
heart failure.
w. G. Mcmillan, eldest son of the
late Senator Mcmillan, and one of the
prominent candidates to succeed the
after two months illness.
w. A. Henry, for twenty-seven years
dean of the college of agriculture Of
the University of Wisconsin, has re-
signed because of i'll health and a de-
sire to devote himself to literary work.
Patrick Burns, aged seventy-seven
years, father of John c. Burns, whole
sale fruit dealer n prominent In
commercial circles. is dead of cancer
at La Crosse, Wis. He arrived in La
Crosse in 1855. when there were only
a dozen houses there.
w. P. Hewitt, aged f%ifty-nine years,
president Of the Bank of Menasha and
the Menasha Wooden Ware company,
died at Menasha, Wis. after an illness
of three months, due to cancer of the
throat. Mr.. Hewitt was we'll known
throughout the state.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
pRueeED; HOUSE ROBBED.
Daring Thieves Work in Broad Day
Iiqht in MINNEAPOLIS,

Daring Thieves Work in Broad Day.
light in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Feb. 90. = Mrs. A. L.
Pipes, housekeeper for H. L. Walker,
was drugged and robbed in her home
late yesterday afternoon by two bold
thieves who wore no masks. The rob-
berry was one of the most daring yer
committed in Minneapolis. and Mr..
Walker says its success was due indi-
rectly to the dog muzzling order of
Mayor Haynes, for that prevented Mr..
Walkers bull dog from becoming a
factor in the affair.
After he had heard the story of the
robbery Mr.. Walker began a search Of
the house and found that the robbers
had taken $50 from a purse as we'll as
a valuable gold watch. The police
were called in oon after. but so far
they have obtained no clues that
would be Of value to them.
Mrs. Pipes is not in a dangerous
congerous condition.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
NEWS OF TIE WEEK IN tP'TOMf
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
Washington Notes.

Representative CARRIER of Ohio has
introduced a bill which is intended to
abolish fraudulent mining companies.
n house has passed a bill dividing
the State of Nebraska into two judi
cial districts and making a provision
for the appointment of an additional
judge.
Assistant Secretary OF the Navy
Newberry has left on the United
States cruiser Maylower to inspect
the naval stations at Guantanamo,
San Juan and Culebra.
The house committee on a%ppropria-
tions has decided to report a sundry
civil bill for 1908, carrying an appro-
priation of $104 37,540. The sundry
The regular qu%adrennial weighing to
determine the basis for compensation
of railroads for carrying the mails in
the States of Minnesota, Ohio, lndl-
ana, Illinois. Michigan. Wisconsin,
Iowa and Missouri will begin Feb. 70.
w. Leon Pepperman has resigned
from the position of chief of the Wash
ington office of the isthmian canal
commission. to become assistant to
President Shonts of the marlborough
Metropolitan company of r!ew York
city.
Lieut.. Col. James A. Irons, Four.
teenth infantry, has been selected as
military attache of the American EN-.
bassy at TOXIC. to succeed Capt. John
j. Pershing, promoted to be brigadier
general. and now commanding Fort
Mckinley. Manila.
After a conference lasting a month
the conferees of the house and senate
have agreed on the legislative, judicial
n executive bill carrying IN appro-
priation of 1929 900. This is $1,450.-
900 more than the bill carried when
passed by the house.
The special committee of the house
appointed last April to investigate
charges of mismanagement at st. Eliz-
abeth's government hospital for the
insane in Washington has filed a re-
port favorable to DR.. William A.
White, superintendent of the hospital.
Charges of mismanagement were not
sustained by the evidence.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Casualty.

The two-year-old daughter Of John
Beddow of Manchester, Iowa, is dead
from eating strychnine pills.
John hilbert, Ralph Schertner and
Laurence Nye. boys. broke through
the ice and were drowned in Rock riv-
er at Dixon, Ill.
Foreman Sutton and three Of his
crew were killed by a dynamite eX-
plosion neal Hazel Patch. Ky. The
bodies were blown to atoms.
The Chicago Pavific express was
wrecked in the yards at London, Ont.
One trainman was killed and the 400
passengers received a severe shaking
up.
The ~two-year-old daughter of j. T.
O'Connor of Iowa Falls, E0wa, is dead
as the result of burns received in over
turning a vessel containing boiling
water and I've.
One woman was killed and two 9TH
err persons were fatally injured when
the buggy in which they were riding
was struck by q passenger train at
Adrian, Mich.
Mrs. Joseph Walrous and Mrs. Hell
en- Ignat were instantly killed at Fin
leyville, Pa, by a train. The women
stepped off a side track to avoid a
freight train and were run down by
the express.
While assisting in removing tires
from locomotive drive wheels at the
Milwaukee shops at Mason City, Iowa,
Albert Zilke was pinned under one
which slipped from it's fastenings and
had his legs crushed.
The fact that a spreading rail caused
the wreck of the White Plains express
on the New York Central railroad, IN
t%wenty-one persons We're killed,
was developed at the coroner's inquest
in New York.
The barge Girard, coal laden, went
ashore near the Highland Light life
station and two of her r were
drowned. Capt. Larsen and another
member OF the crew were saved by
the life savers. The barge will be a
total loss.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Prlma Donna Leads Frightened Crowd
in "Star-Spanuled Banner"

Chicago. Feb. 26.-Hundreds of men
in evening dress fought and struggled
to make their way TO the doors of the
Auditorium theater: women dressed in
he height of fashion were roughly
Jostled and their wraps trodden under
foot Saturday night when, through
the stage, in the midst of the perform.
ance of Lucia di Lammermoor," there
began to trickle thin, spiral columns OF
smoke.
Two-thirds of the audience was on
its feet, panic-stricken and fighting
when Miss Alice Nielsen, singing the
principal role of the evening, dropped
the thread of the score and advanced
to the footlights.
Star Tries to Stop Panic.
The orchestra stopped and the
screams of the women and the hoarse
shoutc of the men as they fought theil
way towards the doors were the onl,
sounds audible in the theater.
There is no danger" said Miss
Nielsen, coming to the edge of the
stage. Keep your seats. 1t will be
all right"
Then, above all the din of the fight
ing, panic-stricken mob in the body OF
the theater, there arose the strains OF
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Song Arrests Terror.
Miss Nielsen led the song; the fright
ened chorus was marshaled back into
line, and in a moment the audience
forgetting it's fear and panic, had join
ed in the worlds.
Men in the boxes stood up and
waved their handkerchiefs, women, a
moment before pale and frightened
joining in the chorus. They were still
singing when the police and the fire
department arrived and the panic was
at an end.
The fire was caused by the burning
of some grease in the Auditorium no.
tel, and was quickly under control
No n was seriously injured.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
From Other Shores.

The governor of the port OF Baku,
Russia, has been murdered.
Princess C~lementine of Sake Coburg-
Gotha, mother of Prince Ferdinand OF
Bulgaria, died at Vienna.
A house at Campo Basso, Italy, col.
lapsed during a heavy storm. Three
persons were killed and several in.
jured.
AS a result of the prolonged strike
by the men employed In the largest
factories at I-odz, Russia, not less than
%, 900 families of Lodz are in dire
straits for want of food.
Alexander Fullerton, secretary of
the T~heosophical society, announces
the death at Adyar, India, of Henry
Steel Olcott, co-founder with Nine.
Balvatsky of the theosophists in this
country.
A bill having been introduced in
the house of commons to give the sur
frage to married and rate-paying wom-
en-, the suffragists have decided to
cease their campaign pending the dis
cussion of the bill.
The refusal of the Rothschilds to
float the coffee loan has caused Il sem
sation at Rio Janeiro. The Journal de
Commerce. says the rebuke should
convince the government that the cof-
fee scheme is a dangerous adventure
which should be dropped.
In spite of the daily bulletins issued
by the government announcing i'm
provement in President Castros
health, he has gradually weakened
since he underwent the recent opera
ton, and his condition is now more
serious than ever before. 1t is even
affirmed that his physicians entertain
no hope Of his recovery.
Archbishop Vilatte, head of the in
dependent Catholic movement In
America, who recently made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to organize a national
French Catholic church and who has
been denounced by the Vatican, has
announced he will bring suits for libel
against newspapers that have called
him a fraudulent p~relate.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
LAYS BLAME ON HONDURAS
PRESIDENT OF NICARAGUA GIVES
HIS REASONS FOR GOING TO
WAR.

City of Mexico, Feb. 26.-Dr. Bal
tazar %Estupinian, minister to Mexico
from Salvador and Honduras, last
night received the following vague "a
olegram of eight words from the Hon.
duras government:
"Nlcaraguan forces have invaded
Honduras. Fierce battle eusued."
When the battle was fought. where
the encounter took place. what was
the ultimate result of the reported
struggle and how many killed aud
wounded are left to conjecture.
This is the first word Dr. Estupi-
nian has received from the govern
ment Of Honduras for several days. al
though he has sent several cable.
grams OF Enquiry.
No other Central American news
has reached this capital during the
past StNty-eight hours, although the de
tatls oI i battle are hourly expected.
Lays Slame to Honduras.
New York, Feb. =. The Associ
SCsd Press yesterday received the fol
}rwius dispatch:
NAnAsua. Nicaragua. Saturday
Seq ES-Ws Went TO war because
"o@&a7sss forces attacked our small
&a--:soa On the frontier. looting. burn
- sal ki!iins. We demanded salts
<&ttiol and il was denied us; we
As-eei 70 accept whatever decision
tGe arbitration court might render
~ President Bonilla of Honduras dis
Solved the court by withdrawing the
Honduras arbitrator.
Nicarasua has triumphed in fou,
caiGbats over the Honduras forces
without suffering one defeat. Oul
forces are to-day in the territory Of
honduras.
-"Zelaya,
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
TO REDUCE
italy Ready to Join in Simultaneous
Movement,

Rome, Feb. 26.-From the work of
Prof. De Martens, Russian imperial
councillor of state, which already has
begun here in connection with the
forthcoming session of The Hague tri-
bunal, it appears that Italy, recogniz-
ing the necessity for peace, will sin
cerely cooperate in any movement
leading to concord on the question Of
the simultaneous reduction of arma-
ments or the lessening of the dangers
and disasters of war.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
LAWYER Burned to Death.

Meadville, Pa, Feb. Fitzpatrick c.
Sheehan, one of the best known mem.
bers of the Crawford county bar, was
burned to death at his home. Shee.
han went to the library of his home in
his night robes. Apparently he was
stricken with %apoplexy and dropped a
lighted lamp.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Wreck Fatal 70 Five

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 23-Four train
men were killed and two others in
jured, one Of whom died on the way to
the hospital, when the fast American
express train on the Michigan Central
railroad collided yesterday with an ice
train two miles west of Ypsilanti.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
ARREST FOR MURDER.

Man Charged With Murder Before He
Came to America,
Appleton, Wis, Feb. "a. = August
Sternickel, for whom the German gov.
eminent has offered a reward Of $3.50
has been arrested at Grand Rapids
Wis. The crime was committed al
Lowenberg, Prussia, near Silesia, and
the warrant was issued by the Prus
sian superior court.
He will be returned to Germany
through the imperial German consul al
Chicago.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Police Seek 25s Autoi.ts,

Pittsburg, Feb. q. - Warrants for
235 auto owners of P%ittsburg, charg-
ing them with violating a city ordi-
nance through speeding, have been is.
sued and many warrants were served
at the doors Of theaters as wealthy
owners got out of their machines last
night.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Killed by Train.

Norway, Mich, Feb. 21.-John Kin.
bron, tank foreman for the North,
Western railway at Loretto, was found
dead on the track near the tank. He
was struck by a train some time dur
ing the night.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Control the crevasse.

New Orleans, Feb. 26.-Control was
secured yesterday over the dangerous
crevasse nea Jesuit's bend, the state
engineers succeeding in tying in" the
ends of the broken levees so that the
breach did not widen.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
SCENT MURDER IN DEATH.
B%ookkeeper of Man Reported Accidcn-
tally Killed Is Arrested.

Knoxville, Tenn, Feb. 23.-As a Sc
quel to the supposed accidental killing
of Chalmers Vestal on Sunday, w. S.
Bryant, Vestal's bookkeeper was ar
rested here while on board a train in
the company of Mrs. Vestal, the wild
ow. He is charged with the murder.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01

Hazel, the eight-yearold daughter OF
A. l.. Cole of Menominee, Mich, was
shot in one y and fatally injured by
her ten-year-old brother. The boy was
shooting a 22-caliber rifle at a knot
hole when his sister peeped through
the hole in time to get the bullet in
her eye.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Hit by Switch Enoine.

Minot, N. D., Feb. ga Johnson, a
railroad employee, was injured through
being struck by a switch engine. He
was badly mangled, and thought still
alive cannot recover.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
SHEA is NOT GUILTY.
Transfers President is Acquitted in

Chicago.
Chicago. Feb. 23.-President Corne-
Brotherhood of Transfers and his fell
low defendants. who have been on
trial on a charge of conspiracy COM
mitted during the transfers strike
against the department stores in Chi
cago two years ago., were found not
guilty by a jury in the criminal court
last night.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Rob and Shoot in payIioht.

Augusta, Ca, Feb. 26.-Amos Clark,
superintendent of the Nixon Manufac.
turing company, was shot and robbed
of $500 while on his way to pay OF
his men. 1t is said his wounds are IA
tai.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
HackenschmIdt Defeated.

Denver, Feb. 81. Charles Hacken-
schmidt Of Des Moines, Iowa, was de-
feated at wrestling here last night by
NJ. ]. Dryer of this city.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
LIVED ON BOUNTY OF WHITE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRIZES INTO
PAST LIFE OF THE DEFEND
ANTS WIFE.

his cross-examination of Mrs. EVELYN
Nesbit Thaw yesterday at the trial OF
her husband District Attorney Jerome
brought out the fact that in 1892 Stan
ford White deposited $3.50 with a
New York trust company with instruc-
tons that it should be paid 10 the Mes
bit girl at the rate OF S25 a week Mrs.
Thaw frankly admitted receiving
checks from the trust company. but
she would not admit thar fhere was a
provision that she should receive the
money only when out Of ~e0}p'oyinent
The prosecutor spent nearly he entire
afternoon in trying to m-tle Mrs
Thaw admit thar This was true. pot rs
often and in as many WAYS As Ne put
the question ~ her. she gave the L
answer: y dom rs~nerber
Her Feelings Net Seared.
Mr., jerome indicated s6-y cNa, Re
had No disposition . <2are Mrs
Thaw'S feelings - tecs--c<a.s& ~
pointe6ly IS e - ~s- APPROPRIATENESS
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her husband M Jerome was assisted
materially l. his c-ossayamination by
typewriter statements made by Mrs.
Thaws mother ana ~ Howard Nesbit,
her brother. He consulted the state
ments.from time TO time. and Mr..
Delmas let this fact become known to
the jury by remarking upon it.
Mr. Jerome's cross-examination may
require several days yet.
Mrs. Thaw Breaks Down
Now vor,, NJ, o,
stress of . oiuei .ie
nis+r;ot a+tao iil'la'ioh III "aich
quarter, Mrs. EVELYN Nesbit Thaw
oroAe down yesterday upon the wit
hess slahd. with binding tears burn
ing lAelr way down cheeks which
from ashen white had flushed to Grim
sui sue dallltted mat after her 1lrst
experience with Stanford White her
lelaelons WIN the architect continued
loi several hlohths. But TINS was not
ail.
Damaging Confessions.
There were other confessions which
while DAMAGING tn her own character
accentuated all the more. the terrible
personal sacrifice she is maxine in the
effort to save her bushand from death
III the eiectrlc chair
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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01
Cav Life in Paris.

A letter written by Mrs. Thaw in
1904 and telling of her gay life in Paris
with Harry Thaw and a bunch from
the Tenderloin' was read to the jury
by Mr.. Jerome. This brought out
more testimony as to the Dead Rat
a Partisan cafe. There seemed to be
nothing in the witness past life about
which the prosecutor was not inform
ed. He seemed to have been able tc
trace every step, largely due, doubt
less, to the typewriter statement Of
the mother, which Mr.. Jerome nearly
always holds in his hand while hurling
questions at the daughter.
Court adjourned until Monday.