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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
% ARE KILLED IN
FURIOUS STORMS
CLOUDBURsTs, roRNApoEs AND
ELECTRICAL STORMS SWEEP
WIDE AREA.
IMMENSE DAMAGE IS CAUSED
HOUSES AND BRIDGES DEMOL,
IsAED AND GROWING CROPS
DESTROYED.

Chicago, June II. - Twenty-Five
known dead and forty persons injured
constitute the list of casualties re-
sulting from storms of tornado severn
ty which swept over Southern Illinois
and Indiana and Central Kentucky.
These fatal visitations came in the
shape of cloudbursts, high winds and
electrical disturbances.
The property damage will reach
many thousands Of dollars.
Crops Are Destroyed.
Houses were swept away, bridges
demolished and thousands Of acres of
growing crops destroyed.
Gradyville, Ky, was the worst suf-
ferer. A cloudburst deluged that vii
lage Of $50 persons shortly after mid
night and twenty-one persons were
drowned.
At New Minden, Ill.,, a tornado kill
ed five people and injured half a dozen
others.
Tornado Strikes Town.
At York, H., on the Wabash river,
three persons were killed and thirty
injured by a tornado which descended
upon the town last night.
Much Damage in Iowa.
Des Moines, Iowa, June 11.-A doz-
en- families are homeless, several per
sons are injured and property is dam
aged to the extent of $25, 900 as a re-
suit of a tornado that passed through
Pleasant Valley late yesterday after
noon.
Throughout Marion county the dam
age to growing crops was large. The
rural telephone lines are down.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
an ern,,citlv detailed confess.

made an explicitly detailed CONFESS
| of the murder of Frank St~eunenberg
bv an Internal machine. This COMES
sion opens the way for his w convlc-
ton and execution for the ofense. He
swore hat the assassination OF Steu-
uenberg was first suggested by Hay
wood, was Jointly plotted by Haywood,
Mover, Pettibone and himself, was
financed by Haywood and was exc
| cuted by himself after h failure OF an
attempt in which Jack SiInpkins had
participated.
Victims Number Eighteen.
Orchard increased the total OF his
own murdered victims to eighteen. de-
tailed the circumstances under which
he tried to murder Former Governor
Peabody. Judge Goddard. Judge Cab
bert. Gen. Sherman Bell. Dave Moffat
and Frank Herne. incidentally he
confessed to a plot to kidnap the child
of one of his former associates. Then
under cross-exanlination by the de
tense Orchard confessed to the guilt
of sordid social crimes, of deserving
his young child and wife in Ontario,
fleeing to British Columbia with Hat
tie Simpson. the wife of another man,
and committing bigamy by marrying a
third woman at Cripple Creek.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
PEABODY is THREATENED.
Former Governor Of Colorado Gets
ANONYMOUS Letters.

Kansas City, June 9.-James H. Pea
body, former governor OF Colorado,
who is here on business, said last
night in an interview that since the
Haywood trial in Boise began he had
received several anonymous letters
threatening his life. He said he had
paid no attention to the letters, be-
cause they evidently did not come
from responsible sources.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
Stump Fuller Breaks Lea.

Marshfield, Wis, June IL. - Gust
Sieg, a workman employed on the
Consolidated Farm company's land a
few miles from here, sustained a COM
pound fracture of the leg. The com
pany has just bought a new stump
puller which operates by means of a
cable. Sieg stepped too near this ca
BILE at the moment when it was pulled
taut, and in breaking at that instant it
struck his leg.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
LONG TROLLEY LINE.
Merged Company to Build Along L;
Michigan Shore.


Manitowoc, Wis, June II. The
merging of the Sheboygan Traction
company with the Milwaukee &
Northern Traction company, whiM
has just been tonsummdted, is said7to.
be a prelude to the merging of the
latter company with the Manitowoc &
Northern Traction company and the
extension of the latte rhine to She
boygan via Silver Lake.
Eventually, it is believed. that the
line will be extended %northward to
Green Bay and will become one of the
most important interurban roads in
the state.
The merger will give the new COM
pany a direct line north from Milwau-
kee along the lake shore to Two har
bors, taking in all the lake shore cities
and villages and will make it's total
mileage 100 miles.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
Criminal.

Because his mother-in-law "sassed''
him, James Henry Young, the captain
Of q river barge, spanked her so hard
that he Jared two of her teeth out,
and now he is a prisoner, charged with
assault.
Lee Holder, aged seventeen, convict
ed of the murder of his father near
Frankfort, KY, several years ago. was
sentenced to be hanged July IL. He is
death in that section.
On a plea of guilty Charles F. Grote.
fend. detaulting teller of the Washing.
ton National bank Of St. Louis, was
sentenced to five years imprisonment,
After emhezzling $3,3S7. Grotefend
fed to Sweden, where he was appre'
hended.
In the district court at Mobile, Ala.
pleas Of guilty were entered to an in.
dictment charging conspiracy to cause
the interstate carriage Of lottery ad
vertisements by thirty-two persons
Judge Toulmin imposed fines amount
ing to 1884, 600.
An attempt to wreck the early morn
ing Southern Pacific train between
San Jose and San Francisco wa.
thwarted by the discovery of a large
pile Of ties on the track near SAINTS
Clara Two tramps have been arrest
ed on suspicion.
Accidental discovery of a bomb IL
the home of Joseph hennell, a police
Judge of New Durham, n. D., prevented
the destruction of the house with it,
dozen inmates. The attempt to xii
Mr.. Kennel is laid to Italians whom
he has sent to prison for theft ant
blackmail.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
KILLED IN CAR WRECK.
Switching Brakeman Is Hurled Be.
meath Wheels of Train.

WATERFOWL, S. D., June s. Bert
Clements, aged twenty years. was
instantly killed in the switching yards
of the, Minneapolis & ST. Louis road.
He was employed as a switching
brakeman. The head car on which
Clements was riding left the track and
the lurch threw him between the two
head cars, the second Of which passed
across the body. killing him instantly.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
Red Wing for Lutherans.

Marshalltown, Iowa, June 1.-THE
sixty-sixth annual session of the Evan.
gelical Lutheran synod at Roland yes
terday chose Red Wing, Mimi, as the
next meeting place and elected Rev.
G. j. Eastwood Of Jewell, Iowa, presi.
dent.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
Negro Nearly Mobbed.

Indianapolis, Ind, June 11.-Taking
umbrage at being called a Niger"
James Hicks, eighteen years old. col
ored, threw a rock at a passing street
car late yesterday afternoon, striking
two girls, and came near being mob
bed for his act.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
Bull Attacks Bows.

Sheboygan, Wis, June 11.-One boy
was fatally injured and his brother
seriously hurt, the latter in an attempt
to save the life of the former when
he was attacked by a vicious bull.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
Train Kills Girl.

Milwaukee, Wis, June IL. - Lydi
Quasi twenty years old, was kille
by a Northwestern train near III
Folsom street bridge. The girls Ia !
was cut off and her body was h4s
mangled. u 4
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
Tells Of stuenenbero Murder.

Boise, Idaho, June s.. Harry Or
chard crowned his admissions of grave
crimes yesterday when continuing his
case against William D. Haywood he
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
Train Wrecklna Tried.

Jort Dodge, Iowa, June 11.-Samuel
S. Crandall of Dayton is under arrest
here charged with having made two
attempts to wreck trains on the
North Western road.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
Bear Killed in Town

Barron, Wis, June 11.-Harvey w,
CANT shot a 20o-pound bear within tn
city limits. The animal was discovere
feeding near one of the slaughte
houses.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
orchart Given Hard GriIlino.

Boise, ldaho, June y. - CounSel Tor
William ID. Haywood continued their
attack on the testimony of Harry Or
chard at both sessions of the trial yes
terday. To the extent that traffic with
the other side" in the war of labor
and capital in Colorado vas d%iscredita-
BILE, they succeeded in %discrediting
the witness.
Employed by Detective.
Taking up the admission that Or
card made on direct examination that
he has been t~reacherous to his com
rades in Cripple Creek by tipping off
the fact that Orchard had entered the
employ of d. c. Scott, who had charge
of the railway detectives. He said
that he had agreed to report to Scott,
but that he was lying to him, v in
tending to make reports to him and
did make reports.
The defense also tried to show that
because he stood in with the other
side Orchard was never molested by
the militia in Cripple Creek during the
strike.
More Grimes Admitted.
Orchard adnsitted that Scott had
told him that if the militia interfered
with him he was to send for him, and
hat the militia never did interfere
with him or search his house.
More crimes, great and small, We're
admitted by Orchard yesterday. The
Cripple Creek woman with whom he
committed bigamy had three sons; Or
chard stole high grade ore from a
messmate; he stole two cases of pow
der Irom the indicator mine; he stole
powder to make n of the bombs
thrown into the indicator coal pile
and he told a lie.
Orchard stood the test and strain
we'll and held tenaciously to the story
he related yesterday and the day be
fore.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
NEWS Of WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
u BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington.

The census bureau has issued a re
port showing that during 1906 there
were produced in Louisiana 2,796, 1876,
900 feet of lumber.
Mai. Gen. j. Franklin Bell, chief oil
staff Of the army, has arranged tic
make a thorough personal inspection
OF the principal army posts in the
West, with a view to increasing the
efficiency of the service.
IT. V. Powderly has been appointed
chief of the new division OF informa
ton established in connection with the
immigration bureau, at a salary OF
$4,000 a year. Mr.. Powderly was for
merly commissioner of immigration.
Rural delivery carriers will not be
required to count the number OF pieces
of mail delivered and collected by
them after July ! on routes where the
records show hat 5000 or more pieces
of mail per month were handled dur
ing each of the three months included
In the quarter ending June 80.
A general order has beer issued
from the war department prescribing
the details for the organization OF the
field artillery made necessary by a sep
aration from the coast artillery. The
neld artillery is to be divided into six
regiments, the First, Third and Fifth
being light, the Second and Fourth
mounted and the Sixth horse artillery.
Personal.
Erskine Uhl, secretary OF the inter
national committee Of the Y. M. c. A.,
died in a hospital at New York follow
ing an operation.
Helen M. Couger, the we'll known
temperance leader and lecturer, drop
ped dead at Lafayette, Ind, Of heart
failure. She was seventy years old.
Miss Helen Dent Wrenshall of
Washington and Chafree Grant of San
Diego, Cal, grandson of Gen. u. s..
Grant, were married in Washington.
Gen. Thomas H. Ruger, u. S. A., re-
tired, died at his home at Stamford,
Conn. Heart failure was the cause
Of death Gen. Ruker was a graduate
of West Point.
Nat Goodwin confirms the report
that he will quit the stage and begin
life anew in a Western mining camp.
He says he has bought some proper
ties in Nevada and will spend the rest
Of his days there.
Standing with his legs crossed In
front of a faucet where he went to get
q drink Of water. and resting his head
on his right arm. which was against
the wall, Frank Green, sixty-eight
years old, was discovered dead in the
rescue home at Newark, N. j.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-06-14
POSTMASTER GETS RAIsR
Mail Receipts increase Pay and SHOW
City's Growth.

Clty's Growth.
Thief River Falls, Mimi, June IL
r. H. kratka postmaster of Thief
River Falls, has received word from
the postal authorities of Washington
that after the first of July his salary
will be $4,000 a year. This is a raise
of 500 a year and is based upon the
Increase in the gross receipts of the
Thief River Falls postoffice during the
last year
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-24
The blue ~ened lids dropped esseUids z}1e> ert

out the sun s rays. which were now
dancing in mad rerclry about the room,
The chatter of the birds Jared his
nerves; he was out of tune with nature
and the whole world seemed awry.
he arose. shook himself in sullcn protest
and walked to the door The village
clock III the valley below chimed out
six drowsy notes. Hugh wondered if it
had awakened his little visitor. and
perhaps brought back 10 him the re
membrane of the hermit. Al his feet
lay the fallen pine tree, dignified even
in its surrender. Hugh unused as he
looked down upon it, 1t could not re-
wood. Yes, it must 90 with the rest
of his memories. In this thought he
found consolation and relief. As the
axe should cut through the limbs of
this fallen giant. so should the ruth
less sword of oblivion sever the tender
fibres of those clinging memories.
SO the tree was duly chopped into
firewood. And the memories All, well
they were more rcbellious, but ne kept
them at bay and only allowed them rein
of an evening as he smoked his pipe
before the cabin door. Then, in the
silence OF those last summer evenings
broken only at intervals by the mourn
ful cry of the loon. his fancy wandered
again in the realm Of dreams. These
uItuinS DSCdllc MS uulS NlSSlp IlOu, DuJ
they were quiet and obedient. and
when he bade them good night retired
noiscless shadows, leaving behind them
no dissatisfaction or regret.
Since that eventful day two months
before, Hugh had only gone to the
village after dark, and carefully avoid
ed the road which led past the side Of
the hotel He glanced furtiyely, how
ever, from beneath his lashes, fearing.
yet hoping, to see the childish face
again. But the boy was safely tucked
away in bed, if he had not already left
the village with the general exodus of
summer guests, he argued. The hotel
had closed its doors and its eyes, with
their green shuttered lids. prepared for
its long winter sleep. So one day,
when the air was fine and clear, cutting
the landscape with vivid distinctncss,
bringing the distant mountains close
and the ncighboring peaks almost to
ones very door. Hugh vcntured into
the village of a morning, The season
had advanced rapidly and The tree clad
hills were turned from gold 10 Grim
son Against this ruddy background
the pines stood out boldly, as though
nature has sketched them upon her
canvas as an afterthought in daring
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THE PARTING DINNER.
Continued from Page Twelve.

resonant call Winthrop's presence of
mind sprang alert His low, tense voice
compelled her with authority.
ahre.''
She stared at him quesfioninglv, in
reached for the carafc-it was empty.
Then for the vasc-it held mere
sprinkle. There was no water in sight,
and for her sake he must avoid n scene
at any cost
Sylvia had not fully grasped the
alarm, she saw the flames climbing to-
yard her hair. With terrified gasp
she pulled down the burning game,
scattering the danger 10 her thin in
hammablc gown in dozen places. The
lace on her bodice was now all ablaze
wide. staring eyes, shc pleaded;
''Lot me get out, Let me get out. -
= cold despair seized upon HIM lie
knew that the mad impulse of Eight
was upon her, and realized that he
must block her exit to the corridor or
''No. stand still,'' was his inpera-
tive order. as he threw his coat around
her, partially smotbcring tic fre. Then,
breaking away from him IN terror, she
ianned the flames By motion in Il gilt
'ering circle around the table. The
Skirt OF ncr gown was now blazlng.
Stop commended Winthrop. CON
ccntrating all Of his powers of mind,
soul and body into one supreme effort
of the Will, which was in effect his deep
love and intense anxiety for her safety
speaking through voice and ewes and
crystahzed into a subtle psychic inhu-
cpce
IT served. She halted and turned to-
ward him. Recognizing his iucvasiblc
mastery she Welded TO his protection in
her imminent danger rs naturally as
would n child
Save me, Jerry!" she cried, appeal
inGly.
In another moment he had wrapped
/ the long yellow folds of her coat close
lv about her. smothenng the flames, and
she lay sobbing in his arms.
| '.My poor darling he murmured,
with tender sympathy.
Don Z leave me, Jerry. she
moaned "Take me-home-and stay
with me-alwaysl
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hsn was stealing noiselessly from
arms of night. One by one the
|Iy peaks of the surrounding noun
) stood black against the silver
irn. AT first with sleepy dimness.
= boldly, the black pines etched
selves upon the awakening land
q until AT last ali nature was astir,
'iri awokc and chirped inquiringly,
|6i short silence he bravely chirped
g. This time an answer came from
[zhbOring tree, and at once all bird
was awake, conversing ct first
nly, then in shrill anger-they had
lies got out of the wrong side of
-i:t On they chattered, nervously,
.neally, dragging their little do.
g, differences ruthlessly to light,
y one weary spouse flew off in
'@ OF breakfast, and one by one
dlspuiants were awning and the air
full Of darting feathers.
re DAY crept slowly on, and the red
stealing lazily into the hermit IS
y, lay in vivid streaks across his
~ Hugh ynwned and awoke. His
Kaze wandered aimlcssly about the
at first vaguely, then in stolid
": He was yet in the throes OF
INST waking moment when the
sleeping brain realizes vaguely
nkes up reluctantly the respon-
'I!lss OF the work day world sadly,
ne sweet oblivion is passing away
me sternly practical Is as vet not
aroused. Then do our SORROWS
ovepowering in their cnormity,
responsibilities too heavy TO bear.
Yesterday the cabin was full of
asn laughter, 1t now lay silent.
,oyous brightness Of the awakened
.ssmed 10 mock at him. He drew
-lm snlklly across his eyes to keep
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iii

Two weeks had passed, and the her-
nit had shut himself up in hls lonely
cabin. His provisions were getting low
but ke stcrnly told himself that he
would not run the risk of seeing her
again, a bench was drawn beside the
hearth, aud on it he flung himself dis
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Continued from Page Ten.

Continued from Page Ten.
\ without was rs running river.
/ The water Law in deem pools with
IN furrows tracked by recent wagon
ii, As Hugh plunged into the
lerbrush beyond the clearing its
n branches showercd a benedIction
'rain drops upon his head and
pI1ers On reaching the cabin he
Ind a great pine had been uprooted
hy forbiddingly across his door.
|as side was an ugly cash, torn by
hghtning 1t seemed TO Hugh as
ngl il bIed. lie knelt down and
|rd his forehead upon the gaping
M. With its fall he had lost an
VI friend.
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end Of dream, to the child the com
mencement Of one, for he did not under
stand, and felt but vaguely that his
little life was troubled and-though he
know not Why-alone.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-24

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TO your nerves muscles vtals just like water soaks
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which drugs cannot reach
Electro-Vigor a relief from the old habtt-the drug
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Electro-Vigor is girdle dry cell batteries which
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-24

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opium morphine and codci n The Doctors livelihood @
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The Washington times., 1907-07-31
BUILDING UNIONS
CHOOSE OFFICERS
Council Accepts Offer to
Unionize Work on Elks'
Temple.

The Building Trades Mechanics Coun-
ell, conducting the fight against the lock-
out Open-shop proposition CT the En-
ployers' Association. met last night at
Mechanics Hall. John Marshall place
and Pennsylvania avenue, and held the
biennial election of officers, which re-
suited as follows:
President. James J. McCracken, of the
hosting engineers; vice president, sam
uel J. Bryan. Of the bridge and struc-
tural iron workers; recording and cor
responding secretary, John =. Heating.
OF the interior marble workers: treas
urer, William +. Rabbit, Of the plas-
terers; sergeant at arms. IL Oliver, Of
the electrical workers.
The council agreed to a proposition
from the firm of c. J. Cassidy Com
pany. constructing the new Elks' Tenn
pie, to unionize that. Job. This firm is a
member Of the Employers Association
and is constructing other work with
non-uniOn workmen.
There will be a meeting Of the COM
mittee of ten," of Central Labor Union.
tonight to perfect the arrangements for
the meeting of the convention here to-
morrow Of the national and international
officers OF the several building trades
who will come as delegates 10 discuss
the lockout and fight against the open
Shop.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31
COL. CHAILLE-LONG
HELPED WITH LIST
Major Huntington Assisted
in Record of French
Soldiers.
the Editor OF The Washington Times;

To the Editor OF The Washington Times:
The statement made in the cable
gram that Major Huntington prepared
a list of French soldiers iD the Ameri-
can Revolution is only true in that he
was q member OF a committee Of which
Messrs. Meron. NJ. Mclean. and myself
were members appointed by Ambassa-
dor Porter and NJ Oelcasse- The labor
Of the preparation Of the volume pub
lished by the French government in
French fell upon Col. Chaille-Long, who
also translated the volume into English.
adding an alphabetical list of the $500
names recently published under the
new title, Les Combattants Francais.
and Senate document Tan invaluable
book of reference for French on1
american governments and libraries.
may add that the library committee
of the Senate has recently conferred
rnon me the honor Of preparing sketch
Of General Mcclellan In competitor with
the monument recently dedicated
nv CHI. CHAILLE-DONG.