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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
JAMES l.. fCKtLS FOUND DEAD
FORMER CONTROLLER OF THE
CURRENCY DIES SUDDENLY
IN CHICAGO.

Chicago, April Thames III. Eek
els, president of the Commercial Ma
tional bank of this city n formerly
controller of the currency, died at his
home here early yesterday OF heart
disease. The death of Mr. Eckels &C.
CURED apparently while he was asleep
in his bed.
The fact that he was dead was dis
covered by a butler, Frank Evans, who
entered Mr.. Eckels' roo after hear
ing a telephone within ring continu-
ously without receiving an answer,
Thinking Mr.. Eckels had not been
awakened, Evans entered and found
him apparently asleep. The butler
called to him and getting no response
sought to arouse him and found that
he was dead.
Other members of the household
were summoned and DR.. Frank S.,
Churchill was hurriedly called. DR..
Churchill arrived within a short time,
and after an examination gave it as
his opinion that Mr.. Eckels had been
dead for some hours.
Family in Paris.
Mrs. Eckels and her daughter Phoe-
be, eighteen years old, are in Paris,
where the latter is attending a finish
ing school for girls.
The death of Mr.. Eckels came on
the eve of a breakfast party which he
had planned for a number of his
friends and relatives. A post-mortem
examination was held and a statement
issued giving the cause of death as
organic heart disease.
James A. Eckels of Princeton, ia
ther of James H. Eckels, died two
months ago. On the morning of the
death of the elder Eckels the son was
a host Of Former President Cleveland.
Mr.. Eckels was a stockholder and
was prominent in the management of
several concerns.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Crimes and Criminals.

Charles e. N%ewberry, a contractor,
was shot to death and D. Nj. Curry
and w. Mckinley, employees of the
Citico Furnace company, were fatally
hot as the result of a quarrel at Citi-
co, Tenn.
Anthony Comstock made three raids
in New York in which he seized 10 900
picture postal cards which he claims
are obscene. Four men were arrested
charged with having the cards in their
possession.
Joseph McKulecky and Josef Salava
We're poisoned by a stranger at Fort
Scott, evidently for the purpose OF
robbery. Both men died a few min
utes after they had been found in a
dark side street.
Emil Benoist, a we'll known banker
of Paris, was shot in the office of a
financial newspaper of which he was
the editor. The assassin. a customer
named CARROT, fired ten shots point
blank at M. Benoist.
Contrasting to the embezzlement OF
more than S2,400 from the Wells-Far-
go Express company, OF which he for
merly was an employe, Rudolph Crow
ell of Little Rock, Ark, gave himself
up to the indianapolis police.
During the noon hour a sneak HE
stole 81, 700 from the paying teller's
cage of the State National bank in st.
Louis, and escaped. The loss OF the
money was not discovered until the
cash was checked up for the day.
Burglars entered the house of James
Carroll at Billings, Mont, and secured
about $40 from the pockets of Mr.. Car
rolls trousers. They also tool a
purse belonging to Mrs. Carroll, which
contained a small amount of money.
There is no clue to the thieves' iden-
tity.
The business section of Sandborn,
Ind, was damaged by a dynamite ex-
plosion. The supposition is that per-
sons enraged at David Bruner, a drug
gist, who is alleged to have operated
his store as a blind pig" did the
work. The estimated property loss is
100000.
Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo
pold were convicted of the murder OF
Mrs. Margaret Leslie, the actress, at
Chicago. Nicholas was sentenced to
life Imprisonment, while Leopold was
given a fourteen-year term in prison.
Robbery is said to have been the mo-
tive for the crime.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19

The Gananoque inn, n OF the best
known summer hotels in Canada, has
been completely destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
Charles Turk ditd as the result OF
injuries received while working in a
saw mill at Menominee, Mich. He was
struck by a heavy stick of timber.
William Fatheringham is dead at
Burnt Fork, Mont, as a result of In
juries received in an explosion OF
dynamite which he was attempting to
thaw.
The office of the North Brick and
Tile company at Mason City, Iowa,
damaged by fire to the extent OF
81 600. A match thrown into a waste
paper basket fas the cause of the fire.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
TEN MILLIONS ARE STARVING.
Government Makes Heroic Effort =
Death Rate 5000 a Day,

0Sesi' 'AokO SSSOO q Cdys
Shanghai, April 14.-Telegrames re-
ceived here from twenty points in the
famine district report that the condi-
lions are growing worse.
The Chinese government and peo-
pie up to date have contributed over
100000 for famine relief, and the
sums received from all foreign
sources total 100000, including the
supplies On the way from America.
The Chinese viceroy and governor tel
egraphed yesterday to the American
consul, Mr.. Rodgers, their thanks for
the relief sent, saying that it is diss!-
pating the anti-foreign sentiment
which animated the masses.
Missionaries Are Busy.
There are fifty missionaries with
the higher class of Chinese engaged
in overseeing the relief distribution.
Confucianists, Catholics and Protest
ants are working together.
Twenty thousand famine sufferers
are employed in building dams and
canals to prevent a recurrence OF the
floods.
Ten million persons are suffering
from a lack of food and facing starva-
ton.
The people are pulling up the grow
ing crops for food. Whole families
have been founded cad in their houses
and corpses are lying by the roadside.
Probably 5000 persons are dying daily
from starvation.
A dollar, the relief committee re-
ports, will save one life until the har-
vest, June 25, and 5000 900 is need
ed.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washinaton Mates.

Anthem B. Trama was appointed
postmaster at Vining. Otter Tail coun-
ty, Mimi, vice Samuel Severson, re-
signed, and Herman Falk at Baden,
Ward county, N. D., vice r. E. Young,
resigned.
Senators Cullom and Hopkins rec
commended to the president the APP
pointment Of Daniel A. Campbell OF
Chicago to be postmaster of hat city
to succeed Fred A. Busse, who has
been elected to the mayoralty.
Secretary Straus. of the department
of m and labor, denied adj
mission to this country OF five Japan
est immigrants. These are the first
Japanese exclusion cases which have
reached the secretary since the pro-
n nlgation of the exclusive order
carrying into effect the new immigra-
tion law.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Casualty.

Fire Of %incendiary origin destroyed
the Daisy Rolling mills at Norfolk,
Pa, entailing a loss Of 100000.
A severe storm which swept Column
bus and vicinity did considerable
damage to property and resulted in
one fatality.
Three men were instantly killed at
Hillsville, Pa, by the explosion OF a
ton of powder at the plant of the Bur
ton Powder company.
Rev. j. j. Blackshear vas fatally IN.
jured by an explosion of natural gas at
Columbus, Ohio. He ven to Alonzo
Davis ROOF and lit a match. He was
blown through a window fifteen feet
to the ground.
The six-story Brickell-Mithoff build
ing at Columbus, Ohio, occupied by
the Evening Dispatch newspaper
plant, and the Hoster three-story
building adjacent were practically de-
stroyed by fire. The loss Is estimated
at 100000.
Ten persons. two Of whom were
rescued from death by Capt. Ethe-
ridge and his crew of l~ife-savers at
the Nagshead IN. CO. station, when
the four-masted schooner Louis Bos'
sart was blown ashore by the heavy
northeast gale that has prevailed
along the Virginia. Carolina coast fol
the last forty-eiKht hours.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
BfluCOSf JAPS ON BORDERS
ORlENTAlS ANGRY BECAUSE
THEY ARE SHUT OUT OF THE
UNITED STATES

Washington, April IA. - Secretary
Straus, after consultation with the
president, has begun a searching in
vestigation of conditions which pre-
vail at all of the immigration stations
on the Pacific coast, OF the Canadian
line and along the international boun-
Diary between the United States and
Mexico.
Angry at Exclusion.
The reports which have reached
here regarding the attitude of the Jap
anese who are being turned back at
the borders are disquieting, to say the
least. 1t was natural to expect that
the first immigrants to be turned back
would resent their exclusion and
would complain at once to the Japa-
nese ambassador. Most of them left
long before the exclusion order was
put into effect.
Clashes Are Common.
There are daily clashes at the from
tier now between the immigration Of
ficers and Japanese.
When President Roosevelt issued
his first exclusion proclamation he
caused regulations to be prepared for
the guidance of immigration officers
in administering the law. They We're
specifically warned under penalty OF
dismissal thai they must treat Japa-
nese Offering themselves for admis-
sion and excluded under the order
with extraordinary courtesy.
Japs Are Boastful.
Now immigration officers complain
that Japanese arrivals taunt them
with cowardice and try to provoke
them into the use of violence or bad
language for the express purpose of
securing their removal from the serv-
ice. AT any rate. Japanese arrivals
at almost every port are provoking
immigration officers to a condition OF
downright fury. and there is great
fear that a serious clash may result.
Many of them undoubtedly are bellig-
erent. They talk in a boastful way to
the immigration officers and when
turned back at the border announce
they will come in some day whether
we want them or not.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Domestic.

Detroit ice companies have reduced
the prices for ice for the coming sea-
son about AZ per cent.
Kansas City has inaugurated a cam
paign to secure the national Republic
an convention in 1908.
Two young men of Iowa Falls, Iowa,
are preparing to go to the Jamestown
exposition on horseback.
The Illinois legislature has passed
a bill raising the salary of the men,
bers of the legislature to $4,000.
Mrs. Grace Redpath, widow of Pc
ter Redpath of Montreal, who died re-
Gently, left $15O,0OO to McGill univer-
sity, Montreal.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has held that express companies
cannot give franks to railroad Off
Gals.
on common grades of gasoline has
been announced by the Standard Oil
company.
The Akron Printing and Paper com
pany of Akron, Ohio, has gone into
bankruptcy, with liabilities amounting
to $50, 1000 and assets the same.
Gov. Campbell of Texas has signed
a bill making it a felony for corpora
lions to contribute to campaign funds
or in any way aid candidates in cleo
ton.
The Standard Oil company has put
49,. AI~@ AZ sc oil ~,DJ. .1G--
oils half a cent a gallon. Quotations
on naphtha and gasoline are I'M
changed.
The Bank of Conception at Clyde,
Mo-, has closed it's doors by order OF
the secretary of state. Its liabilities
are given at 100000, with assets al
most equal to hat amount.
Engineer r. E. Peary, U. S. N, has
| applied for an extension of leave of
absence in order to resume his effort
to reach the north pole. The dash to
the pole will be attempted in 1908.
The recently chosen executive com.
mittee of the simplified spelling board
organized in New York. Prof. Calvin
/ Thomas of Columbia university was
elected chairman, succeeding Brander
Matthews.
When George AIDE was last in Pasa-
dena. Cal, he wrote to a Dayton
(Ohio) nursery ordering a car load of
fruit trees, but failed to specify that
they were to be shipped to his Indiana
farm. The nursery people sent them
to Pasadena, and now there is a
freight bill of $1,000 to be met.
Hereafter all employees Of the Pitts.
burg Railway company who drink in
toxicating drinks. smoke cigarettes or
gamble will do SO at the risk Of being
discharged. The management an.
nounces that it will employ only such
men are refrain from the use Of the
things mentioned.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
ThAW MUST FACE
ANOTHER TRIAL
UNABLE TO AGREE AFTER Al
HOURS DELieERATloN, JURY
is DISCHARGED.
SEVEN JURORS VOTED GUILTY
NEW TRIAL MAY NOT BE REACH
ED UNTIL FALL-THAW is
DISCOURAGED.
NEW TRIAL MAY NOT BE REACH.

New York, April 1i.-Hopelessly dl-
vided-seven for a verdict of guilty OF
murder in the first degree and five
for acquittal on the ground of insanity
the jury which since the 23d OF last
January had been trying Harry X.
Thaw reported yesterday after forty
eve hours and five minutes of delhi
GRAFTON that it could not possibly
agree upon a verdict. The twelve
men were promptly discharged by
Justice Fitzgerald, who declared that
he, too, believed their task was hope
less. Thaw was remanded to the
Iombs without bail, to await a second
trial on the charge of having murder
ed Stanford White, the noted archi
tect.
Must Wait His Turn.
AS to when this new trial would
take place no one connected with the
case could express an opinion. Dis
trict Attorney Jerome declared that
there were many other persons ac-
cused Of homicide awaiting trial and
Thaw would have to take his turn
with the rest. In that event Thaw has
another long summer before him in
the city prison, for his case already
on e crowded criminal calendar can
not possibly be reached until some
time mex fall. Smiling confidently as
he entered the court room, Thaw sank
lightly into his chair when Foreman
Deming B. Smith announced that the
Jury could not agree.
Thaw when he had returned to the
Tombs prepared and gave out the fol
lowing statement:
81 believe that every man in the
jury possessing average intelligence.
excepting Mr.. Bolton, comprehended
the weight of the evidence and bal
anced it for acquittal. All my family
bid me good-by with courage. | trust
Cd. W we may all keep we'll"
To his attorneys Thaw said he was
deeply disappointed.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
MONUMENT TO TROUGH RIDERS
President Roosevelt Makes Speech at
Dedication,

Washington, April Ia. President
touched mainly on patriotic and good
citizenship at the dedication yester-
day of the monument erected to the
memory Of the First cavalry, United
States volunteers-the rough riders"
-of the Spanish-American war, in the
National cemetery at Arlington. Mrs.
Allyn X. Capron, widow of Capt. Ca
prom of the rough riders regiment,
who fell at Las Guasimas, pulled the
cord holding the American flag that
covered the monument.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
HOUSE FALLS ON HIM.

Beam Protects House Mover From Ea.
tai Injury.
Faribault, Mimi, April 16.-Bert Ell
lis was seriously injured white assist
ing in moving a house in this city.
Something had stopped the rollers and
Mr.. Ellis crawled under the house to,
investigate and fix the roller, when
the house slipped from the roller and
fell to the ground, crushing him Sc
verely. A heavy beam partly protect
ed him from a fatal accident.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
STEAD sHowERED With MONEY
Plan to Raise Fund for Pilgrimage to
The hauue Makes Hit.


Pittsburg, Ajril 14.-At the close of
an address by William T. Stead, ed,
itor of Review of Reviews" London,
England, at the rededication ceremo,
MES of the Carnegie institute of Pitts
burg late yesterday, in which the
speaker announced a plan to raise
100000 to conduct a pilgrimage from
all countries to the Hague conference,
unbounded enthusiasm took posses,
sion of the large audience and money
was thrown to the floor of the stage.
The banquet given by the board OF
trustees of the Carnegie institute in
honor Of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carne.
gle was held. The banquet was the
most brilliant ever held in the city.
All the foreign and American guests
attended.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
DOG BABY.
Mother Finds Mad Brute Gnawino
ChiId's Face.

Schleswig, Iowa, April 16. - While
the infant child of Mrs. Louis Witt
was taking a sun bath in the yard it
was suddenly set upon by a strange
dog.
The mother heard the child's cry
and rushed out to find the dog gnaw-
ing at the baby's face. The animal
was frothing at the mouth and gave
evidences of being rabid.
The child was taken at once to town
and it's injuries dressed, but it is
doubtful ii it
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Riders Skull cru.h.a

Clarinda, Iowa, April 16. - Bert
Hoskens is lying at the point of death
as the result of being thrown from a
horse. His head struck against a log
with such violence that his skull was
crushed in.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
HUNGER DRIVES MEN INSANE.

Peter Elk Found Near Cascade, Mont,
Digging Roots for Food.
Great Falls, Mont, April 14.-An in
sane man named Peter Elk, clad only
in a shirt, was found by the roadside
near Cascade yesterday, digging at
grass roots. Callouses on his hands
and knees showed that he had travel
a stranger and is thought to ! ave lost
his way and to be temporarily insane
from hunger and exposure.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Wagner Named by Gamble,

Washington, April IA. = Senator
Gamble of South Dakota has recon-
mended to the president the appoint
ment of Edward E. Wagner of Alexan-
dria, S. d., to be United States dis
trict attorney of that state in place of
James d. Elliott, whose nomination
failed of confirmation at the last SEES
sion of the senate.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Furnace ExpIodes.

Mason City, Iowa, April 16. = Prof.
Jackson of the Memorial university
was dangerously burned by an explo-
sion of gas inside the furnace of his
home. 1t is feared that he may not
ecover.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
SAYS BOY is FlREBUG.
Desire to See Flame Fighters Run Is
Alleqed Motive,

Fond du Lac, Wis, April 16.-Wil-
liam handkerchief, the adopted son
of a former superintendent of the
county insane asylum, was arrested on
a charge of arson. Chief of Police
Nolan claims that the boy has con-
fessed that he set fire to a number of
frame buildings on Monday night and
then turned in an alarm. He said he
wanted to e the department run.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Heads Dakota Schoo,

Faribault, Mimi, April 16.-pr. II.
A. La Moure, n of the resident phy-
sicians OF the Minnesota school for
the feeble-minded, has been elected as
the superintendent of the state school
for the feeble-minded of North Da-
kota at Grafton.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
A FROM A NJ
Montana Boy Disappears and is Found
in Nebraska.

Billings, Mont, April 16.-Ralph w.
Sheffe, the twelve-yearold boy who
disappeared from this city a few DAYS
ago, has been located at Alliance.
Neb., and is now en- route home. 1t
has been ascertained beyond doubt
that the lad did not leave home
voluntarily, but was either enticed or
forcibly taken away by four hoboes,
as these men were e e to put him in
a box car at Huntley. 1t is not known
yet how the boy eluded these men at
Alliance.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
MAN SHOT; WILL DIE.

saIoonkeeper Says He Opened Fire in
S~elf-denfense.
Butte. Mont. April 12.-Nic Vanich
is in the hospital MORALLY wounded,
with a bullet in his abdomen, and
Ernest Nelson, proprietor of a saloon,
is in the county Jail charged with the
shooting and is held to await the re-
suit of Vanich's injuries. Nelson
claims that the wounded man came to
his saloon, commenced to attack him
and that he was compelled to fire in
se~lf-denfense.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Steamer Sunk bv Ice.

Charlevoix. Mich, April IL. - The
steamer NJ. ]. Nesson of Manistee was
cut through by ice and sank in two
minutes in South Arm lake yesterday
while bound from East Jordan to Chi
cago.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
PEACE NOW SEEMS ASSURED.
BonniIIa Takes Refuge on American
Warship After Fall of AmapaIa.

. Warship After Fall Of AmapaIa.
Managua, Nicaragua, April 1.-THE
Honduran forces which have been be-
sieged in Amapala by the Nicaraguans
capitulated Internationally yesterday
morning to the enemy. President Bo-
nilla has taken refuge on board the
American cruiser Chicago. and he
will not be permitted to disembark on
Central American soil.
The c%aDitulation was arranged by
Commander Robert NJ. Doyle, captain
of the Chicago.
The Salvadorean forces at Amapala
are returning to La Union.
Peace is now believed to be as
sured.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Fairbank. to Sneak.

Des Moines, April 12.-vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks has been secured for
the principal address at the local cele-
bration of the birth of Grant, at the
Grant club. on the evening Of April
n.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
AoRR DOESN'T GIVE UP.
Says Minnesota Will Surely Be Repre-
sented at Alaskan-Pacific Fair.

SeHteu at NIdSKdn-PdCIrTC FdIr.
Seattle, Wash, April IA. = Christie
pher w. Horr. president of the Mime
sofa society, while disappointed over
the action of the legislature in the
matter of the fair appropriation, says
there will be a Minnesota building.
An appeal will be made to the busl-
ness interests Of Minnesota to con
tribute the necessary Mount
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
From Other Shores.

Private advices received from Ven
ezuela say that President Castro has
suffered a relapse.
A bomb exploded at Barcelona in a
house or Boquera street. -Four per-
son were wounded.
King Victor Emanuel Of Italy has
gone to Athens to return the visit
last November of the king Of Greece.
Ten workmen were shot and killed
by strikers in the factory district at
LODI because they attempted to re.
sumo work.
The widespread floods caused by
the melting Of the snow are growing
more serious in Servia. Many towns
are practically under water.
Ex-President Jose LiZandro Barril.
las of Guatemala was assassinated in
Mexico City by a Guatemalan named
Cabrera, eighteen years old.
The seven alleged Mexican revolu.
~tionists who were deported from Ari-
iona were sentenced to five to eight
years in the %penitentiary at Hermo-
sillo, Mex.
At a general meeting at Essen,
Prussia, of the German iron and steel
manufacturers, unanimous objection
was voiced against the proposed
worlds exposition in Berlin in 1913,
the twenty-ffth year of the emperor's
reign.
DIR. Thomas, the chief health officer
of Stephey, England, during a hearing
on a charge of selling bad condensed
milk, made the remarkable statement
that "75 per cent of the canned goods
imported into this country from Amer
lea are not labeled, and English firms
afterwards put on the labels
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
TRAMPs BEAT CITY PLAN.
Refuse to Work on Street and Now
Rest at Ease,

Eau Claire, April 16.-The city au-
thorities attempted to make eleven
tramps work on the street improve
ments, but the tramps refused to work.
claiming it was illegal to make them
work outside of an Enclosure. Persua-
sion failed, and the tramps now are
resting comfortably in the Jail.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-04-19
Frost Damage aeache. Million,

Kansas City. April 16.-There was
a killing frost again last night in the
fruit districts of Kansas and Western
Missouri. Authorities agree that the
loss will reach millions Of dollars.