The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-04
CASUALTY.

An Illinois Central passenger train
jumped the track on a sharp curve
ear Fulton, Ky. Two trainmen We're
killed and one fatally hurt.
Two men were killed and three
probably fatally injured by an explo-
sion of gas in No. 8 mine of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal company in
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The steamer Picton was burned at
her dock at Toronto. Miss Minnie
Hatch was burned to death and George
Kleskie, a fireman on the steamer, was
suffocated to death. The loss is $780,
600.
A gas explosion occurred in a big
sewer being constructed at Charleston,
w. Va. There were four workmen in
the w 1t does not seem possible
to rescue any of them. The fire is
burning in the sewer.
Cutting a corner at so high a rate
of speed that his auto skidded, ripped
off a tire and turned turtle. Roy Rehm,
a we'll known a%utoist, was instantly
killed In a fifty-mile race for tourist
cars at belmont, Cal.
Tossed into the air by a maddened
bull which vas about to trample her
to death, Mrs. Michael Guelff, who
lives on a farm four miles west of
Marquette. Mich, was saved by a
dog which kept the bull away until
help arrived. Mrs. Guelff is at her
home in a serious condition.
While out in the Ohio river at CALI
polls, Ohio, with a party OF twenty
two men, the gasoline tank of the
yacht Blanche M. exploded. All those
on board were thrown into the water
and four were drowned. The eXplo-
sion was caused by a lantern falling
from the root of the yacht to the en-
CINE, igniting the gasoline,
Domestic.
The California supreme court has
sustained the validity Of the grand
jury which indicted Schmitz, Ruef and
others.
able to visit her husband at the
Tombs the past week as she is suffer
ing from a bad cold.
The common council of Waupaca,
Wis, has passed an ordinance forbid
ding women to enter saloons unless
accompanied by their husbands.
The will of the late Robert Pinker-
ton, who died Aug. IL, has been filed
in New York. 1t makes disposition of
$4,000. 200. Nearly all the property is
left to his widow, his son Allan and
his two daughters.
tural school, the first building of the
kind in the state, was laid with i'm
pressive ceremonies at Menominee.
Mich. The building is to cost $25, 900
and will be completed by Dec. Is.
Senator Albert j. Beveridge of In
diana, accompanied by his wife. form
erly Miss Catherine Eddy of Chicago.
whom he married in Berlin during the
summer, arrived at New York on
board the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II.
One Of the largest timber deals
ever contaminated In California has
just been closed by E. H. Hartman,
who pays between $500, 900 and ST..
000, 900 for the timber and sawmills
Of the Albion Lumber company in
Mendocino county.
The Minneapolis, st. Paul, Roches-
ter & Dubuque Traction company has
been organized in Portland, Me-, for
the purpose Of constructing and ope-
rating an electric railway in Minneso-
ia and Iowa. 1t has an authorized cap
i%talization of $25, 000. 900. Eben Win
throp Freeman Of Portland Is presi-
dent and M. H. Boutelle of Minneapo-
lis Is secretary.
George w. Beavers. formerly of the
p~ostoface department, who was sen
fenced to imprisonment in connection
with the postal frauds several years
ago, has been released from the peni-
Tertiary 1t Moundsvills. w. Va.