The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-22

ed, the Black Diamond express on the
Lehigh Valley railroad barely escaped
a frightful wreck at Easton, Pa. Nc
one was Injured, though every passen.
ger was In grave danger.
Foreign.
Charles TAFT, mayor of Kingston, ia
maica, died as the result of injuries re
celved at the time of the earthquake.
Countess Cardigan, who was Lady
Beatrice Jane Craven, fourth daughter
of the second earl of Craven, is dead
in London.
The last formality in connection
State bank has been signed at the
Bank OF France.
Maurice Donnal, the dramatist, an F.
the Marquis de Segar, the historian,
have been elected to seats in the
French academy.
Gustav Leeman, an electrician OF
Switzerland, is winner of the 5000, 0oo
lottery prize of the Milan exposition.
He says he will give up his employ
ment.
Maj. John Harmon, a prominent
member of the American colony at
Guayaquil, and manager of the Quito
Guayaquil railway, died as the result
of a stroke of apopleXy,
A CONCESSION has been granted an
American company for the construc-
ton of a railroad in the state of Chi
chuahua, Mexico, from Madeira to Be
cera, on the banks of the Vahisps
river.
Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce were
given a farewell audience by King
Edward, when Mr.. Bryce kissed
hands" as the ceremony is termed, on
his appointment to the British embas-
sly at Washington.
The ameer of ~Afghanistan has been
initiated as a Free Mason. Gen. Lord
Kitchener, in command OF the troops
in India, was present at the ceremony.
deep oil being advanced Is cents a
barre! and shallow oil 5 cents.
COtIlSSlICs
The 2-cent railroad fare bill has
passed both houses of the Missouri
legislature.
Benny Yanger knocked out Johnny
Morrison in the seventh round at Hot
Springs, Ark.
Over $4,000 in gold has been found
in the barn of William Boche, a miser
who died at Norfolk, Neb.
The heaviest single advance in oil
ever made by the Standard Oil COM
pany has been announced, amber or
The Idaho senate has passed the bin
for the suppression of wildcat mining
promotions. 1t now goes to the gov
ernor.
The Hudson Coal company has Sc
cured control of every coal producing
mine in the center of the State of
Wyoming.
Frederick A. Busse, postmaster OF
didate for the Republican nomination
for mayor.
The Michigan beet sugar factories
have closed for the season of 1906-19O7.
The total beet sugar output Of the
state is about $50, O0O,0 900 pounds.
The Kentucky Republican state cen
trail committee has decided to hold the
convention for the nomination of state
officers in Louisville on June 26 next.
Since the first of the year Salt Lake
City has been in the grip Of an epidem-
ic of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Since
Jan. / there have been twenty-four
deaths.
Confederate veterans who lost a leg
or an arm in the service will now be
able to secure artificial limbs through
a bill which has passed the Arkansas
legislature.
The Texas Legislature has passed a
$4,000 be assessed against every ex-
press office in the state handing ship
ments of liquor.
All Chinese laundrymen have been
run out of Riverton, Wyo., by a com
of indignant friends of a syndi-
cate of widows who made their living
by taking in washing.
Overworked by the onerous duties
of journal clerk at the Iowa legisla-
ture, Walter G. Watt of Cedar Rapids
has been taken home in a p%recarious
and may be sent to a sani-
for recuperation.
Overseer Voliva's dream of estab-
fishing a new Zion City in the North
west has been abandoned with the an.