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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22

The Chinese army has selected nf.
teen students from the Paotingfu mill
tary college to study military science
In France.
Lord Penrhyn, whose dispute with
his employees at the Bethesda slate
quarries brought him into a great deal
OF prominence, Is dead at London.
Lord Curzon, former viceroy of In
dia, has been elected chancellor of the
Oxford university by LII votes
against 1876 cast for Lord Rosebery.
The visit to Lisbon OF Frederick Au-
gustus, king OF Saxony, is understood
to be In connection with negotiations
looking to the marriage OF the crown
prince OF Portugal, the duke OF Bra
CANA, with a princess of Saxony.
The italian government has decided
to send a special commissioner to the
lsthmus of Panama to study the condi-
lions of the Italians employed on the
canal. Reports have been received in
Rome that the conditions OF these la
borers is most distressing.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
BIG BRIDGES WASHED OUT.
Cincinnati Suffers Loss Of $685. OO-
Another Flood at Pittsburq.

Cincinnati, March 1S.-The city suf-
fered a loss Of about $15O,0OO early in
the day by the %collapsing OF the
Eighth street viaduct over the rail
roads of the Mill creek section Of the
city.
Fortunately the accident occurred
at an hour when there was no one on
the bridge.
With a stage of %sixty-one feet !;
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, it was
lieved that the crest of the big Ohlu
flood was not far away.
Another Flood Stage.
Pittsburg, Pa, March 19.-With the
miles Of ice in the Allegheny river
above Parker, Pa. and a drizZling rain
throughout Western Pennsylvania, To-
cal rivermen are looking forward to
another flood stage in this city. Prep
arations are being made to prevent
any serious damage when the gorge
arrives.
Five Hundred Homes Surrounded.
Huntington. w. Va, March 19.-The
river reached its highest point here at
2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when
the stage was 5S.3. After remaining
stationary w hours it began to re
cede slowly.
Central City are surrounded with wa
ter. Cattleburg. Caredo and Proctor
Vile are almost entirely flooded.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
CINCINNATI is SHAKEN UP,
Explosion of $50 Pounds of Dynamite
Causes Great Damage.

Cincinnati, March 19.-By the explo-
slon of 250 pounds of dynamite in a
shack on the site of the new city hospi-
tai early yesterday enormous damage
was done to residences and buildings
all through the surrounding section.
People all V e the city and suburbs
We're awakened, and it is feared that
patients in the Jewish hospital might
suffer serious results from the shock.
All glass within a radius of half a mile
was broken, n~eighboring store fronts
We're blown out, furnaces diSmantled
by the shock, sewers disconnected
and other damage was done. The Ger
man Old Mems Home and the Jewish
hospital were the largest buildings
a the explosion. which occurred in
AvOndale, one of the best known resi-
dence sections, and both suffered seri-
ously. The cause of the explosion is
unknown, but incendiarism is suspect
ed, a number of men recently dis
charged by the hospital contractors
being said to have made threats.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
loss (FuIff CAUSED BY FLOOD
MANY TOWNS IN MONONGAHElA
VALLEY SUBMERGED- PROP
ERTY LOSS HEAVY.

P%ittsburg, March 15.-The Mononga-
hcla, Allegheny and Ohio rivers are
rising rapidly. A stage of twenty-five
feet has been reached in this city and
by to-day twenty-eight feet is antici-
pated. This stage is six feet over the
danger mark and will inundate the
lower portions of the city.
Damage Reaches Millions.
Pittsburg, Pa, March 16.-The great
est food in the history of Western
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and East
ern Ohio is now being experienced.
The water continues to rise at the
rate of two-tenths of an inch an hour,
and at midnight was thirteen feet
above the danger mark.
The damage to perishable goods and
property in the Pittsburg district is
| estimated at $4,000, 900. In addition
much destruction to property has oc-
| Cured in Western Pennsylvania and
West Virginia. At Connellsville, Pa,
the damage to the coke region is esti-
mated at 81, 900, 600.
Over 100000 persons are out Of en-
ployment. All the mines along the
MOllOllSGltId river are lOOueu. lnC
flood directly affects over 100000
people, and thousands of families are
homeless. Railroad, telegraph and tel
ephone service is crippled. Within
the last thirty-six hours fourteen fatal
tiles directly due to the food have oc-
Cured.
Loss is $9,337, 900.
P%ittsburg, March 17.-With the rap
id receding of the waters in the Mo-
nongahela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers,
conditions are fast assuming normal
proportions. and the greatest and o
destructive flood in the history Of the
city is at an end. At nightfall the APP
proaches to the bridges were clear OF
water, and several hours later street
car service in the flood district was re-
sumed.
Ter square miles were inundated.
The loss in dollars probably will never
be known, but an estimate thus far in
Allegheny county may be summarized
in the following table:
Loss in output of steel mills. SO, 600, 600
Loss in output of other in
duStries 100000
Loss in wages of employees -. ~1,837,0OO
Estimated damage to indus
trial plants .............. $500. 900
Total SO, 1897, 900
Flood Is Subsiding.
Reports from all parts Of Western
Pennsylvania are to the effect that h
food has subsidized and efforts are now
being made to clear up the w~reckage.
Fires Add to Horror.
Wheeling, w. Va, March 17.-Fires
added horror to the stress of flood in
the Wheeling district last night, a
in a loss of a quarter Of a million dol
lars.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
People Talked About.

Foster l.. Backus, formerly district
attorney Of Kings county, New York.
q criminal lawyer of note, is dead.
Clinton Babbitt. Democratic member
of congress from the First Wisconsin
district in 1891 and 1893, died at Be-
lott, Wis.
James Halmel, known to the world
as Brother Martin, the oldest member
OF the Xaverian brotherhood in the
United States. died at Louisville Of Sc
nifty.
Harry N. Black, a we'll known Eng
lish actor, who had been leading man
with Crane, Gillette and Goodwin, Died
at a sanitarium at Colorado Springs of
tuberculosis.
Joe" Ullman. known throughout
the country al a sporting man. has
beer placed in a private sanitarium at
Belmont, Cal. Mr.. Ullman is suffering
from nervous prostration.
Emma Kubicek, a pupil In the Hi
nois state school for the blind and
known as the Second Helen Keller"
is dead. She had given demonstra-
lions at educational conventions in
many states.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
SEVENTY FIVE DEAD IN MINE.
Disaster Caused in German
Mine bv EXPLOSION.

Ferbach, Germany. March 19. = An
explosion of fire damp In an under
ground shaft of the coal mine at Klein
rosseln, near here, resulted in the
death of seventy-five miners and the
terrible injury of twelve others.
Six of the miners who We're in the
shaft at the time of the explosion are
still missing. One hundred and seven
teen others escaped into adjoining gal
leries.
Rain was falling heavily and the
most distressing scenes of grief were
witnessed as the bodies were brought
up by twos and threes and laid out I'M
der a blaze Of electric lights. Many OF
the bodies were so disflgured by the
force of the explosion that they were
scarcely recognizable.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
JAPANESE COOLIES ARE BARRED.
President Keeps Promise to caIiforni-
ans-Japs in School.

President Keeps romis to Caiirorn'-
ans-Japs in School.
Washington, March 16. - President
Roosevelt yesterday issued an execu-
tive order directing hat Japanese or
Korean laborers, skilled or unskilled,
who have received passports to go to
Mexico, Canada or Hawaii, and to
come therefrom, be refused permission
to enter the continental territory OF
the United States.
Nine Girls Admitted.
San Francisco, March 16.-Nine in
tie japanese girls who had applied for
admission to the Redding primary
school We're admitted yesterday after
an examination as TIC their knowledge
of the English language. The admis-
sion of the Japanese children followed
the action of the board of education
yesterday resembling the resolution
which barred Japanese pupils from the
schools.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Crimes and Criminals.

DIR, Oliver C. Haugh, the Dayton
murderer. now in the annex of the
ONO penitentiary, will be e~lectrocuted
on April 6.
lawson Emerson, former clerk of
the supreme court of Ohio, was indict-
ed at Columbus on the charge of en-
bezzlement of $3,153.
Alonzo Jolly was killed by John
Collier, his %son-in-law, who was hur-
riedly taken away from Pana, H., as
mob violence was threatened. Family
troubles caused the tragedy.
Horace G. Mcdowell, president Of
the Farmers Bank of Canton, Ohio,
shot and killed himself at his country
home. He was known throughout Ohio
as a breeder and buyer Of high-class
sheep.
Sam Miller, a retired farmer of
Charles City, Iowa, attempted to muir
der his wife. He is in the county Jail.
He is a drinker and is quarrelsome.
His wife is in a serious condition, but
may live.
Richard Kennedy, Jr, twenty years
old, of Scion, Ohio, struck his father
with a baseball bat, killing him in
stantly. His father and mother were
quarreling and the O came to his
mothers rescue.
Leaping head-frst from a window
ledge on the thirteenth floor of the
Traction building at Cincinnati, Ger
trude Hanish, aged twenty years, a
stenographer, committed suicide in
the sight OF hundreds.
When the case on preliminary hear
ing charging Harry Macke with as
sault upon fifteen-year-old Ruby Long
was called at Webster City, Iowa, the
complaining witness did not appear
and the cas- was dismissed.
Unsuccessful in his efforts to affect
q reconciliation with his wife, from
whom he had been separated, e. M.
McNair of Port Arthur, Tex, shot and
killed Mrs. McNair, wounded her
mother and fired five shots into his
own breast.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
BIG STEAMER ON ROCKS

suevic Strikes During Fog-No Loss
of Life Anticipated.
London. March 19.-The White Star
line steamer Suevic struck on the
rocks and went ashore near the Lizard
in a thick, fog at 1870 o'clock last
night.
Two lifeboats have been launched
and others have been summoned to go
to the assistance of the vessel.
There are about 400 persons on
board the Suevic, but no loss of life is
anticipated.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Flood Is s%ubsiding.
"Does IN HELL" WROTE DoLLlE.
In ~Posthumas Sermon He Says He
Will Return to Cruch Enemies.

IN fOSInumaS sermon ne Gays TIC
Will Return to Cruch Enemies.
Chicago, March 16.-Six weeks be
fore he died John Alexander Dowie
prepared his own funeral sermon. Be
cause of the character of the sermon,
however, it was decided not to permit
it to be read at Dowie's funeral yester-
day. lest it should bring great dissen-
sion in Zion City, which is now torn
to pieces by religious factions.
The sermon prepared by Dowie
makes it plainly evident that he did
not forgive his enemies before he died,
as he lashes those who ousted him
from control as dogs of hell" DoWie
concluded his posthumous sermon in
the following words:
II shall return and with ruthless
hand shall l exterminate the vipers
and the dogs of hell that nov hold the
high places in the city of Zion"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Honduras Is Badly Whipped.

Managua, Nicaragua, March II. -
The Nicaraguan government yesterday
issued a decree recognizing the provi-
sional government of Honduras and
declaring it's members to be allies OF
Nicaragua.
The last battle fought between the
Nicaraguans and Hondurans was so
decisively in favor of the former that
it is believed it will result in bringing
the war to an end.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
LOCK GIRL IN SAFE.
Burglars Beat Her and She May Not
Recover,

Evansville, Ind. March 10. - Bur
glars entered the r. & G.. furniture
store on Main street shortly after mid
night. Miss Josie Gray, the bookkeep-
err. was in the store. posting the books.
The burglars beat the woman into in
~sensibility. and her broke open the
safe and after robbing it of $500
locked her in the same.
The young worIln was removed to a
local hospital and is in a serious condi-
ton. She NAV die.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Domestic.

! Frank Gotch won from Farmer
Burns at Chicago in two straight falls
at catch-as-catch-can
The Standard Oil company has ad-
vanced the price Of all oils 10 cents a
barrel, the new price being SITS.
The Harvard observatory has re-
ceived a cablegram from Nice an
nouncing the discovery Of a new com
ct.
The Indiana legislature has adopted
a concurrent resolution favoring the
election of United States senators by
popular vote.
Agitation against emigration is &C
tive in Madrid. About 700 families
sailed recently from Malaga for the
Hawaiian islands.
The South Chicago employees of the
American Shipbuilding company have
gone on a strike. Between 500 and 900
men are affected.
The Bulgarian national assembly
has adopted an extraordinary credit OF
$6,400,00 demanded by the govern
ment for new ornaments.
Anthracite operators have agreed to
make the usual 5O-cent reduction in
the price Of coal on April /, when the
new spring schedule will go into eff
feet.
Knoxville, Tenn. by a majority OF
nearly 1000 votes, has decided that
the saloons must go. Six months will
be allowed the saloons in which to
close.
The Illinois senate has adopted a
resolution accepting the war collection
of Mrs. John A. Logan and providing
for a place in the capitol and state ar
senal for the trophies.
The Union Pacific railroad has an
nounced that work on the Athol hill
cutoff neal Cheyenne, Wyo.. would be
discontinued on account of legislation
entailing a cut in rates.
Sir William Crookes says that the
story from America about the weight
Salesby said that it is a new and most
imbecile version Of materialism.
The Missouri senate has passed a
bill giving the secretary of state author.
ity to revoke the licenses of foreign
| corporations which remove suits from
state to federal courts without the
written consent of the other party to
| the suit.
After spending four hours at his
farm south Of Cedar Falls, Iowa, show
ing a prospective renter about the
place. Charles H. Foote. seventy-1ve
years. old, returned home and before
he, could remove his o%vercoate dropped
dead. Heart failure, brought on by his
exertions. Is believed to have caused
his death.
Joshua Wallace voohies, a negro,
has fled a petition asking that his
name be placed on the ticket as an in.
dependent candidate for mayor of Kan.
City. Kan. Voohies was born q
slave In Nashville. Just before the
| c1oae Of the war.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Prefers Death to disgrace.

Washington; March II. - Rather
than face prosecution for the embez-
element Of 50, 200, 900 from the broker
age firm of Wade & Hedges, of which
he was manager, Charles Abbott,
twenty. years old, late last night COM
mitted suicide by shooting.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Auto Strike. Street Car

Minneapolis, March 49, Mrs. John
M. Murray was seriously and possibly
fatally injured when an automobile in
WHICH she was riding collided with a
street a r Mrs. Murray was hurled
about fifteen feet and struck on the
back Of her head.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Five Hundred Homes Surrounded.
HEARINGS BY PROXY.
Commerce Commissioners Too Busy to
Travel About the Country.

0vVT TV000C ITC O00TTIT
Washington, March 19.-The work
of the interstate commerce commits
sion has grown so heavy that it has
been decided to discontinue the hear
ings which have been conducted by
members of the commission outside of
Washington.
Hereafter when it is found necessa-
ry to conduct Investigations in other
cities special agents will take the tes-
timony and report to the commission.
and the arguments on cases will he
heard by the commissioners in this
CITY.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
tell ABOUT BROWNSVILLE RAID
NEGRO SOLDIER
MAKES FULL CONFESSION AT
GALVESTON.

Galveston. Tex, March 19.-Accord
ing to a story printed yesterday by
the Galveston News. the mystery sur
rounding the murderous midnight raid
of the negro soldiers from the Twenty
fifth infantry upon the people OF
Brownsville, Tex, on Aug. 13 last year,
has been cleared up. A full statement
has been made by one of the discharg-
ed negroes, who admits that he par
TALLY participated.
Was Not P~remeditated.
According to the statement, the out.
rage was not premeditated, but was
the result of an an alleged injury done
one of the soldiers by a white man in
Brownsville about a half hour before
he raid was made. The negro, return
Ing to the barracks, seized his rifle and
announced that he was going to kill
the white man. Several of the negroes
volunteered promptly to go along and
see the work we'll done and to wipe
out old scores which they had against
thec citizens ON ccoun of the injuries
which they had claimed to have sut-
fered.
Helped Clean Guns.
The negroes returned to the bar
racks after committing the assault on
the town, n many soldiers assisted
In the hurried cleaning Of the guns for
the inspection which followed soon
after the shooting in the town ceased.
Apparently the soldiers from only
n company participated in the raid.
although practically the entire bat
talon knew that soldiers had done the
shooting.
The man who talked to the reporters
gave his name as d. G. Gray and
stated that he was formerly a private
in Company B of the Twenty-ffth in
fantry.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22

MslkeryiI!e. Has s1o5,eeo Fire.
Windsor, Ont. March 1e.-The Cath
Ollie church of Our Lady of the Lake
and the McGregor-Sanwell Fence com.
pany's plant at Walkerville were de-.
stroyed by fire. Combined loss, $780,
000.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Fall From Coach Eat.l

Grand Rapids, Wis, March 10. -
Orne Simpson, employed at the Green
Bay railway depot as baggageman,
was instantly killed by falling from 4
railway coach.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Two Get Life Terms.

Burlington, Iiwa. March 17.-Arnold
thinner (white) n Tom Grimes (col-
ored). who pleaded guilty to the muir
der Of John Gavin on Jan. %, were
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
Sinclair Colony Suffers.

Englewood, N. j., March by the
burning of Helicon hal, the home of
the Upton Sinclair cooperative colony,
one man was killed and eight Of h
colonists were injured in jumping
from windows.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
DUTCH BEAT REBELS.
Kin Of Capture $50 Men and Women
on Celebes.

The Hague, March 17.-An official
dispatch received here yesterday from
the island Of Celebes, Dutch. East In
dies, announced that the Dutch troops.
had captured an important rebel
stronghold, after a stubborn fight.
The fleeing enemy left $50 dead on the
field, among whom were several rebel
chiefs. The troops captured 200 wom-
en- and 70 men. The losses of the
Dutch are insignificant.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
THREE GUILTY OF GRAFT.
County Officers Convicted on Accom-.
plice's Testimony.

Ashland, Wis, March 10. = After
twenty hours consideration the jury
in the case of The State VS.. Mike Col
Inns, Vought and Mcdonald, county Of
ficers of Mellen. brought in a verdict
of grating in town orders. They We're
indicted a year ago and we're convict
ed largely on the testimony of an ac-
complete.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-22
X FALL ON BOY.
Are Jared From Pile on Dray and Sc
riouSly Iniure Lad,

FTous1y ThJuFe Lad.
Faribault, Mimi, March 10. - Leo
McVey, a young son of William Nc
Ney, was seriously injured while rid
ing on the rear end of a dray loaded
with filled boxes. In some way sew
eral of the boxes, weighing about 400
pounds, We're Jared off of the pile and
fell upon the boy. The injuries are
of a sever nature, although o nee
essarily fatal.
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Casualty.

ClT0 ~ SOIOu, lOWd, ucSlIOyeu c
meat market, saloon and ice house.
Fire destroyed the Chippewa ounty
(Mich.) poor house, twenty inmates
barely escaping,
Fire at Brunswick, Ga, destroyed
the cross-tie wharves of F. d. Aiken,
causing a loss Of $4,000.
BY the exploration of an irrigation
plant at Matamoras, Mex, seven la
borers were scalded to death.
The Rock Island station ticket INC
and residence of the agent at Center.
Vile, Iowa, were destroyed by fire.
An explosion in a district school
near Upton, Iowa, caused a panic
among the pupils and resulted in the
injury of one boy.
The British steamer Columbia,
which caught fire while at sea, burn
ed to the waters edge and sunk. Two
men lost their lives.
Harry Little, day foreman for the
Cleveland Cliff Iron company, was
killed at Gladstone, Mich, by the ex-
plosion of a gas tank.
A passenger train was ditched near
Jamestown, Ohio. and the engineer
and fireman were killed. The passen-
gers were badly shaken up.
Joseph Loder, a twelve-year-old boy
Of Terre Haute, Ind, who was stricken
dumb eight months ago, coughed up a
broken tooth and at once began to
talk.
Lillian Gardner, ten years old, OF
Waterloo, Iowa, was attacked by a
bulldog belonging to Jacob H. Griffith
and was badly %lacerated about the
chest and arm.
The building occupied by William
Green, the New York printer, from
whose presses Smart Set and Town
Topics are printed, was burned, caus-
ing a loss of 100000.
Fire In the five-story building occu-
pied by the Partisan Steam laundry
and the Detroit Regalia company at
Detroit, Quilted the entire building.
The loss is something over 100000.
From Other Shores.
1t has been arranged for King Ed
ward to visit King Alfonso at San Sc
bastian, Spain, during the latter's an
nual spring %sojourn.
A husband has been sold at Macy.
Bajon. Hungary for $3.50. This is q
reversal of the custom of selling wives,
which is rather common in Hungary
as a form Of divorce when a man GOV.
cts another woman
Jean. Casimir-P errier,, former presi
dent Of France, ,fs dead In Paris. . His
public r was. practically coeval
with the advancement Of the Third re
public.
Emperor William has offered thu
!, German military volunteer. AUTOMOBILE
corps q prize for q. long-distance race
ON the lines Of the cavalry distanc,
race.
Emperor William has bestowe,
upon Prot. Ernest Haeckel. founde
Of the Association for the Propagation
OF Ethical Atheism. the title Of excel
iency. In honor Of his golden jubile
SIS doctor