The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-01

Four men were drowned in the Illi-
nois river, six miles below Hardin,
Mo-, by the overturning of a gasoline
launAh.
One trainman was killed and ten
other persons were injured in a head
on collision between suburban trains
near Grand avenue, Chicago.
An automobile owned and driven
by N. Il. Riggs Of Charleroi, Pa, over
turned and injured its six occupants,
one being perhaps fatally injured.
Struck on the head by a descending
skip, Thomas Pascoe, a miner and
Cleveland Lake mine, Ishpeming.
Mich.
A passenger train crashed into a
street car at Cincinnati, killing one
woman and seriously injuring three
other persons, one Of whom will prob
ably die.
The sawmill of the Kern Manufac-
turing Company at Bay City, Mich.
was destroyed by fire and William b.
Lapham. a lumber Inspector. was
burned to death.
Ezra Williams. a we'll known Isl
dent of Waverly, Iowa, aged seventy.
seven years. was almost killed in a
runaway near his home. 1t is feared
that he may not ecover.
Three persons killed and thirty
seven more or less injured, one of
them probably fatally, is the result of
a collision at Rudd, N. c.. between a
Southern railway passenger train and
a freight train.
Foreign.
The railroad service throughout
Italy has been restored. The Social
lists voted against a general strike.
A sailing boat capsized in the road
sted at Uleaborg. Sweden. Twenty
one out of twenty-four persons aboard
were drowned.
A violent hurricane ragged over the
province of Finmark, Norway, for sew
eral days last week. Many fishing
boats are missing and up to the pres
ent time seven lives have been lost.
The giant steamer that English
shipbuilders are to construct for the
Hamburg-American line will be named
Europa. She will be of As 900 tons,
as against the 80, 800 of the Lusitania.
The Brussels Soir says that King
Leopold has refused to acoept the de-
cision Of the parliamentary commits
sion requiring the submission to par
lament of all facts concerning the
Congo loans.
The Spanish minister of the interior
has received reports of the appalling
destruction wrought by a renewal of
the floods in the provinces of Spain.
In some places the water has risen
thirty-tive feet.
A dispatch from Moji reports the
Japanese freight steamer Kokwo
Maru went ashore in a storm of
Rishma and is a complete wreck. The
crow was rescued in lifebOats. The
l2ss on The ship and cargo is 500, 600
The Hungarian government is nego.
tiatinG for the purchase of extensive
estates owned by Count Pejacsevicl
and OIL CT a%ristocrats in order to di.
vide them into small farms for tho
Ecasantry. The object is to restrict
immigration to the United States.
ThGrn urcS N Dpnnt lN,,,O, q t,soiin, 50
Manila one day last week in honor O
Secretary Taft. the occasion being &
banquet arranged by a committee
composed of members of the Manila
assembly. "A silver loving II of ma
tive make was presented to the secrc-
tary.
Thomas j. O'Brien, American I'M
bassador to Japan, has been invited
by the emperor to take luncheon with
him on Nov. Is. This is a special
mark of favor. as its purpose is to
emphasize the desire for friendly rela.
tions between Japan and the United
States.
King Alfonso had a narrow escape
from serious accident near Fauresa.
Spain. In his automobile the king
was going over a temporary bridge
when the light structure collapsed
under the weight of his car. which
vas precipitated into the water. His
majesty escaped with a wetting.
General News Items.
No additional cases of bubonic
plague have been reported at San
Francisco since Oct 16, and six more
patients have been discharged as
cured since the 14th.
The sixth annual reunion Of the
Confederate veterans in Montana, one
at Spokane and three or four others
on the Pacific coast, and the total
membership is close to 800.
When Mrs. Jonathan Culp Of Ore
gon, Mo-, received a telephone mes
sage saying his daughter, Mrs. Silas
Allen, had been killed from a shock