The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-12
General.

The proposed merger Of tho Com
mercfal National and the Continental
banks Of Chicago has been abandoned.
Five hundred cabinet makers and
other employees in the cabinet custom
shops in st. Louis have struck for an
eight-hour day.
Nearly 1000 men employed on the
street car lines and elevated roads of
Chicago received an advance in wages
of from Z to 10 per cent.
Grain transactions on boards OF
trade are gambling, according to a ver-
dict rendered by a federal jury in an
important case at Fort Dodge, Iowa.
The Prudential Insurance company
has announced that 1t will withdraw
from Texas, considering it impossible
to comply with the law recently pass
ed in that state.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Marquette Mutual Life Insurance
company Of Chicago. Tho company
has outstanding insurance amounting
to mor than $1,000.o 200.
w. W. Rockhill. the American minis.
ter to China. has formally commune
Gated to the Chinese government an
invitation to participate in the investi
cation OF the opium trade.
Francis Murphy, the noted apostle
Of temperance. is dead at Los Angeles.
The end came peacefully at the resi-
dence Of his daughter in this city,
whore for three weeks he had been Ill.
J.. E. Shanafelt, editor Of the Pyth.
ian Times Of Oklahoma City and presi-
dent OF the National Pythian Editorial
association. has issued q call for a
meeting of the association in Chicago
| July 15.
The Tennessee supreme court has
declared the anti-race gambling law,
passed at the last legislature, to be
constitutional. This decision will pre-
vent the proposed race meetings at
Memphis and Nashville
There is a slight decrease In the
amount of gold received at the United
States assay Office at Helena, Mont,
for the fiscal year just ended, and an
increase in the silver. Gold received
was $2,052, o46.S7, silver $59.131.o4.
e. Moodey Boynton Of Boston, who
has Just received a charter 70 build a
bicycle railway" of his WI invention,
predicts that in time, IL his scheme is
adopted. the trip from Boston to Chi.
cage will be made In twenty-four
hours.
The board OF regents Of the Univer-
| sity Of Michigan has promoted Prof.
John Oren Reed of the department of
physics to be dean Of the literary de-
partment. The board also decided to
raise the salaries of members of the
faculty.
The cigarmakers who are on strike
at Havana, not having replied to the
ultimatum Of the manufacturers to
submit their differences to arbitration,
the manufacturers their de-
termination to close all their plants in
definitely.
One OF the most interesting fea-
lures of the Fourth of July celebration
at Portland, Ore. was the naming of
Mrs. Mary Ramsey Leme Wood Moth.
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l20 years old and in the possession Of
all her faculties.
The first squadron Of the Thirteenth
cavalry. which will begin its march
from Fort Riley to Fort Sheridan, ILL.,.
July 20. will make the trip over q
route of $50 miles. The schedule n.
lows forty-four days for the trip,
thirty-four days Of which will be
marching.
-Four hundred journeymen plumbers
went on strike at st. Louis because
the master plumbers refused to accede
to a demand for an increase of wages
from IS to IS . day. Nearly all the
concerns in the city employing plumb
ers are affected.