The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-02
Accidental Happenings.

Accidental Happenings.
Five blocks were burned at Victoria,
B. c. Loss. $250,000.
Two men were killed and five others
seriously injured by the falling of
some %scaffolding at the Pittsburg &
Conneaut dock at Conneaut, Ohio.
j. L. Davis, a well known young
man, and Miss Oocia Vebryke We're
drowned by the capsizing Of their
boat at Lima, Ohio. The two were to
have been married soon.
Four persons were injured, one seri-
ously. when a a collided with a
heavily loaded passenger car on the
Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Jack
son trolley line at Ann Arbor.
Caught under a shower of molten
metal at the Homestead steel works.
near Pittsburg, five men were serious.
ly burned, two perhaps fatally, while
many others received minor injuries.
Arnold Johnson, eight years old,
was e%lectrocuted at Burlington, Iowa,
when he picked up a broken telephone
wire which had become crossed with
a wire heavily charged with an electric
current.
Mrs. Jennie Lauberbauer, forty-Sev-
en- years old. was shot dead and in
stantly killed by her husband at their
home in Chicago. Lauberbauer, who
was arrested, told the police that he
mistook his wife for a burglar. The
police are inclined to believe his story.
Pauline Judson, eleven years old
was fatally burned by the explosion of
a gasoline stove at Ottumwa, Iowa.
The flames enveloped the child and
she ran out into the street a veritable
torch. Before the fire could be .x-
tinguished she was frightfully burned.
On the eve Of sending for his wife
and -four children to come from Russia
to join him at Sioux City, Steve Be-
beck. a packing house man, climbed
into a tree over the Floyd river and
fell into the water when the limb
broke and was drowned.
Knowing that he could no avert q
wreck, William Elliott, an engineer OF
the North Western railroad, jumped to
his death. A few seconds later his
train crashed into the rear-end of a
freight. The accident happened about
three miles south Of Belle Plaine.
Iowa
Walter Coulson, seven years old, the
son of a wealthy Mahaska county.
Iowa, farmer, vas killed while return
Ing home from Oskaloosa with his
parents. The boy was riding in a
wagon and by a sudden Jolt was
thrown out, the wheels passing over
his abdomen.
Three fatalities occurred in Mar
quette county, Mich. Alfred and No.
gel Remeer, brothers, of Negaunee.
were drowned in Teal lake while boat.
Ing, and John Andorsche of Marouette
was fearfully burned in a gas explo.
sion at the Pioneer Iron company's
blast furnace.
Mrs. Broderick. who has been blind
and an invalid for fifteen years. was
burned to death at Harlowtown. Mont.
recently. She was cleaning some paint
brushes with turpentine and accident
any spilled some of the liquid on her
clothes. which became ignited by com
ing In contact with the stove. She
was at once %enveloped in flames and
was SO badly burned when assistance
arrived that she lived but a short
time.
Domestic.
Federal Judge G. B. Adams Of New
York declared constitutional the en-.
ployers' liability act passed bv con.
gress June II, 1906.
Eighteen big o%re-carrying vessels
were tied up at Cleveland as the result
OF the strike of ore handlers at D
ports. Big fleets are also tied up
at other Lake Erie ports.
Loggers and workmen in the camps
along Slave river and other points in
the upper Fraser valley in British
Columbia have been driven from their
work on account of the unusual num-
Der of mosquitoes in the woods this
season.
James Taylor, one of the best known
lawyers in Iowa, died at San Diego,
Cal, where he had gone for his
health. Only a brief dispatch was re-
ceived at Bloomfield. Iowa, his home.
announcing that Mr.. Taylor had died
Of taking poison.
The members of the university party
have made the first ascent of the sea
son to the summit of Mount Rainier. in
Washington. headed by DR.. Henry R.
Cowles Of the University of Chicago.
Some Of the members were slightly
bruised by falling rock fragments.
Three young women Of Helena. the
Misses Bertha and Fredrika volker
and Miss Kenton Kepner, have been
appraised that after three years litiga.
ton In German courts they have been
declared heiresses to the estate Of
their grandfather, valued 1t $40. 900.
900. The young women win 20 to
Germany shortly to claim their for.
tune.
The hight scheduled at Brazil. Ind
between Willis Fitzgerald Of Brooklyn
and Paddy LAWN of Buffalo. n. y d,d