The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-15

llulSu MIlllc leaving ii MUST WIFI Oil
GERS where they had been searching
for men who had assaulted Kranbe
the night before.
Casualty.
Fire at Leroy, H., destroyed eleven
b75, 900.
Mrs. Jacob Tumbridge was run over
by a street car on Brooklyn bridge,
New York. and killed.
Fire at Dubuque destroyed the build.
ing occupied by the Dubuque Harness
and Saddlery company. Loss, $4,000.
The Carnegie library, municipal
building and fire hall at Sault Ste.
Marie were destroyed by fire. Loss,
s36, 900.
Two young sportsmen, while on an
excursion to Mount Santo Angelo.
| slipped and fell to the bottom of the
mountain. Both were killed.
While a wake was in progress in
Milwaukee the funeral decorations
caught fire from a candle and caused
a panic among the mourners.
A passenger train ran into an open
switch at Enid, Okla, and was derail
ed. The fireman was killed and sew
eral passengers were injured.
While engaged In harvesting ice
near Maron, Mont, J.. III. White was
struck by a string Of cars and was so
badly injured he died four hours later.
Hans Drella, aged thirty-five, a fac
tory hand. was killed by a fall from
the top of a stepladder while oiling
machinery in Smiths box factory at
Clinton, Iowa.
Owing to the extreme slippery con-
dition Of the sidewalks at Menominee,
Mich, a large number of serious acct.
dents have occurred. At least twelve
persons have Sustained broken arms
or legs.
Twenty cakes of blasting powder
exploded at a grading camp in the out
skirt, of Kansas City. Kan, with such
force that it broke window panes
within a radius of twenty-five miles.
But one person, a woman, was In
jured. She was not fatally hurt.
Section men on the Glover Leaf
railway found Joseph Hobson sitting
beside the tracks near Granite City,
Mo. trying to bandage up the stumps
| of both feet. He had been riding the
bumpers of a freight train. He lost
| his hold and fell between the wheels,
/ i.-Al po>A h. ,v3,,cr hAn~ covornI
BY the explosion of 1000 pounds OF
dynamite in the store house Of the
Richards colliery, near Mount Carmel,
Pa, two score of persons were injur-
! ed. one Of them, Lewis Dowie of Mount
Carmel, fatally. The explosion caused
damage to the extent Of $150.000. The
cause Of the explosion is a mystery.
Domestic.
The Iowa legislature has passed a
bill prohibiting contributions by cor
po~rations to political campaign funds.
The Kansas legislature has passed
a bill which makes 1t unlawful for
high school pupils to belong to frater-
mites.
The Iowa legislature enacted a law
to punish wife deserters. 1t provides
for a punishment not to exceed one
year in the ~penitentiary.
Sauerkraut manufacturers Of Illinois.
New Yeork, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin
and Indiana met at Toledo, Ohio, and
effected a permanent organization.
Edgar E. Robinson OF Oconomowoc.
Wis. won the university %oratorical
contest and will represent Wisconsin
in the Northern Oratorical league
contest.
w. c. Mcclure Of Saginaw. Mich.
has bought for 100000 t~wenty-eight
thousand acres Of timber land in Lin
coin and Polk counties, in Oregon, ad'
Joining the Siletz reservation.
James e. Burke, Democrat, so-called
blacksmith" mayor of Burlington.
i VT, was defeated by the Republican
candidate by 95 majority. Mayor
| Burke has Just finished his fourth
term.
Frank Billps, a rural mail delivery
! HAL WOl hllIS OuO VI ANSH SASSp ANS
south of Spokane, is the possessor o
an arctic owl, which he will send te
the Smithsonian institution. He sho1
the bird on the Donaldson ranch.
The placing on passes Of a condition
that the bearer shall ride at his owl
risk does not absolve common carrier'
from responsibility for gross negli
gence, according to q decision Just rem
deredS, by the supreme court Of Ten
nessee.,
Gov. Hanly OF Indiana has signed
the bill under which tho state vii
take charse of the grounds in which 1.
located the grave Of Nancy Hank.
Lincoln, mother Of Abraham Lincoln
The governor will appoint q commits
sion to take charge Of the grounds and
maintain them.