The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-12-27
South Dakota
General State News Parasr.phsd.

General State News Paraaraphed.
John Merkel committed suicide by
hanging himself at Eureka He leaves
a wife and child. Dependency was
1 the cause.
From the state penitentiary to the
state insane asylum was the lot Of a
man named Kelly, whose mind gave
way just as he was about to regain
his liberty.
DIR. John d. Brooks, who has been
at Fort Meade for more than six
years, will sail on Dec 80 for Panama,
where he has much better position
awaiting him.
| The Masonic lodge of Pierre has Sc
lected as officers for the ensuing year:
w. NJ. W. E. Calhoun; S. W., ]. G..
Damn; ]. W., o. B. Linstad; treasurer.
B. A. Cummins: secretary, G. H. Aims
worth.
John, son of DR.. and Mrs. Archie
Templeton. living near Milbank, took
dose Of poison, installing it for
medicine. at 1880 yesterday morning.
and died before physician could be
procured
A telegram was received at Huron
that Dwight Sale, aged twenty-one
years, son of DR.. and Mrs. F. O. Sale,
former Huronians but now residents
of Urbana, Ill, had been killed in a
mine accident.
Mrs. Burns millinery store at Yank-
ton was destroyed by fire. The loss
on the stock is covered by $4,000 in
surance. The building was only par
TALLY insured, for 5000. A soft coal
stove explosion caused the fire.
Six young men narrowly escaped
death by drowning while skating on
lake south Of Arlington. They were
skating in single file when one after
another dropped through an airhole.
Help was near at hand and all were
rescued.
The rectors Of the Episcopal church
in the Black Hills met and organized a
deanery, which will be separate and
distinct from the deanery of the east
ern part of the state. Rev. Sparkling
of Rapid City, rural dean, will be the
presiding officer.
j. T. Booth, one of the leading res
idents of Nicer. Stanley county, was
found dead in rooming house at Fort
Pierre His death resulted from
heart failure. He went to South Da-
kota from Sioux City and was Ma
son and Odd Fellow.
Charging his wife with cruelty be-
cause she continually tortured him by
putting her cold hands down his back,
George w. Holmes of Mansfield has
brought suit for divorce against his
wife, Bertha. The case is now being
tried in the circuit court in Aberdeen.
Several trappers are spending their
time on Lake Andes, nine miles
southwest of Armour, trapping few
Of the thousands of muskrats, mink,
etc, that abound there. One trapper
recently shipped 800 muskrat skins
to Chicago-the result of one weeks
hunting.
John Ballheim, Stanley county
rancher. was seriously injured in a
peculiar accident. With two other
men he was breaking a team Of wild
horses hitched to heavy wagon. The
bronchos got beyond control. The
reach broke and stuck in the ground,
sending Ballheim up into the air.
Traders on the Cheyenne River res
ervation are reaping harvest Of sill
YER these days, the government max
ing the Indians a payment of their
lease money, amounting to SLIGO per
head. All the payments being made
in silver, 1t gives the Indians an op.
portunity to get ready for Christmas.
and they are doing so to the best OF
their ability.
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Mrs. Roland B. Molineux Scott
formerly of New York city, who with
her husband and son has been in
Sioux Falls for the last two months
will make her first public appearance
in the West on Friday evening at the
Majestic theater in this city in a sons
recital preliminary to making North
western and Southern tour. She will
be supported by Walter Howe Jones
a local pianist, and company.
At an adjourned meeting the statl
board Of railroad commissioner
granted the application Of Steel.