The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-12-13
Accidental, Happenings.

Accidental Happe n,ngs.
An automobile driven by A. c. Hon.
ore, brother of Mrs. Potter Palmer,
ran into wagon in Chicago, killing
John Kaish. peddler
Three men were seriously injured in
an explosion which destroyed small
building OF the Vesuvius Dynamite
works at Hampton Lake, N. ].
Fire swept the Northport Camp
Grounds, a summer resort near Bel
fast. Me-, destroying a hotel and sew
eral cottages. Loss about $25, 1000
Ephraim Banning, senior partner in
the law firm of Banning & Banning
and one of Chicagos leading attor-
neys, died from injuries suffered in a
fall from street car.
A fire at Leavenworth, Kan, which
10 supposed to have originated from
defective electric wiring, destroyed the
west wing of the barracks occupied by
Company L, Thirteenth infantry, en-
failing loss of about $4,000.
More than score of persons, mostly
women from Xenia, were more or less
seriously injured when Dayton &
Xenia traction car got beyond control
Of the motorman on a steep hill near
Dayton, Ohio, and overturned, turning
a curve. The injuries of Ave may
prove fatal.
Fire broke out in the Seventh regi-
OF which the annual automobile exhi-
bition was in progress. Thousands Of
dollars worth of automobiles were for
a time in Jeopardy, but we're removed
in time to escape damage The fire
was soon under control
Herman steigert, an employee OF a
bakery, was killed; Lieut.. w. A. Kel.
ley fireman, was seriously injured
by falling down flight OF stairs and
three other flremen were overcome by
back drafts in fire which caused a
loss Of $4,000 to building in Bleeck-
err street, in New York.
H. Mclaughlin has arrived at Van
couver. B. c., after a thrilling expert
ence in the upper falls of the Frazer
river, where with number of men he
was at work on the Grand Trunk Pa.
cific railway. A party Of eight left
with him to come down the stream.
Their boat upset at one OF the falls,
and six men were drowned. Their
names are not known.
General News Items.
The German Steel association has
voted to reduce on Jan. 1 the price of
structural forms Of steel by $3.50 the
ton.
The annual state convention Of the
Iowa Congress of Mothers will be held
in Des Moines from Dec. 81 to Jan. 3.
After existing five days on cactus
diet, DIR. Leon Ebert Landome Of Los
Angeles. who began two-week test of
that plant as food, has lost IA
pounds.
After living in the county home at
pittsburg for three years helpless
cripple, due to broken back sustain
ed in mine accident, John Leskzi.
stch fastened slowly approaching
death by opening vein in his leg
with safety pin.
A new aeronautical society has
been formed in Berlin for the purpose
Of arranging pleasure trips in the air.
both by siderable and spherical bal
looms. 1t is stated that the society
has placed an order for dirigible bal
looms in the United States.
: Yeast germs at work in the blood is
the strange affection Of Leo Konnel
of Chicago, for whose recovery there
Is said to be no hope. It is supposed
that the infection entered his system
through some lesion in the skin Of his
hands or face. There are said to be
only three cases Of yeast infection In.
the blood in all the history Of medi.
cine.
An entire village built by the
French during their occupation, Of the.
isthmus of Panama and completely
buried by the dense jungle growth OF
twenty years, has been discovered at
Caimito Mulato by the engineering
force that is locating the center line
of the canal in the Chagree division.
Fighting oyer bale Of hay, Roger.
q twenty-year-old elephant, seized
LII, his feminine opponent, and hurl.
ed her from the stage at Atlanta Ga
LII struck a sharp corner of the Mat.
form and received an injury from
which she died. The victor trumn.t.
cd loudly for long time.