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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
6
A collage of observations and jokes from The Standard-8B. DAK. covering global politics, fashion, and New York society. References include Japan Korea policy, Chinese travel plans, Taggart remarks, counterfeit money in Hawaii, a judge on habitual drunkenness, a copper train shed, divorces among the counts, and the New York horse show amid an Insurance investigation.
The revived story of King Alfonso XIII marrying Princess Ena stirs chatter about royal match prospects. A Boston preacher critiques the era’s money mindedness, likening the times to a centralized fury that erodes public spirit. Rockefeller’s income nears forty million this year, noted as proof of wealth and lifestyle.
A New Jersey man who put out a wife ad received thousands of replies from across the country and then married someone else. The remark about his future honeymoon evokes the irony of reading all those letters.
In a New York theater a woman in the balcony amid the excitement of the scene where Bill Sikes strikes Nancy cried distinct tones Now stop that a notable compliment to the realism of the play highlighting the performance.
Washington reviews Indian affairs including a reform school and tuberculosis sanatorium proposals. The article notes commissions and hearings, with names such as Prandy E. Leupp and references to enforcement actions against public figures, along with several crime cases and political indictments across states.
A string of deadly and damaging incidents is reported from Tennessee Ohio Wisconsin Michigan and Pennsylvania. Fatal shooting near Evinsville. Fires destroy stock and buildings at Nashville foundry Winnpes Congregational church damaged. Several deaths and injuries from explosions and collisions. Drowning and trolley crash deaths reported in Pennsylvania. Fire losses cited in Hoboken New Jersey and New York. Lindsay Pennsylvania fire kills six children. a mother saves two, suffers severe injuries.
A blaze at the Carraca arsenal destroyed two torpedo boats under repair and caused further damage. One worker was killed. Across Europe, six hundred Danish-Americans head to Copenhagen for Christmas with favorable views of the United States, while a violent wind storm damages Neapolitan steamers. In Venice a launch capsized with five drowned. A wind toppled a twenty-one car freight train at Sarno and southern regions faced floods. The schooner Florencia wrecked near Port Limon with several fatalities including the British consul. King Alfonso is expected to visit the Riveria to meet Princess Ena. the betrothal is regarded as assured.
The year’s end shows Yale funds up by 1.35 million dollars. Western Pacific Railway plans rapid Los Angeles access per Treasurer Brown. NY Stock Exchange seat sells for 88 thousand dollars, a record. Winnipeg mayoral race yields 1,200 vote margin for Thomas Sharp. Mme Helene Modjeska’s mountain home near Santa Ana sold to Leopold Moss of Chicago. American Tobacco Co. case upholds refusal to sell to small retailers. Sarah Bernhardt to tour Texas in a circus tent. Rockford-Janesville line extended to Stoughton with Chicago through cars. Indiana editor assault fined one cent. Donovar found guilty. G A R convention set for August in Minneapolis. Gov. Chamberlain to Nome Oregon Senate seat goes to Gearin. Protestant missions report 6,003 male, 6,154 female missionaries and 1,825,825 communicants at 20,641 stations, up 103,782 in the year.
Two men boarded the Northern Pacific passenger train near Hillside siding Yakima county Washington on a Saturday evening. They forced the crew to stop the train and blew open express safes with dynamite taking money and valuables while fleeing toward the river. A sheriff's posse searched for clues as a glove and overalls were found near the hillside.
British steamer Arranmore arrives at Boston after a perilous Antwerp voyage. Fire broke out in the after hold with fifty barrels of dynamite chemicals aboard. A French steamer acknowledged signals but passed by as the blaze raged, later disappearing.
A man giving the name Samuel Harris is held for the next term of the state circuit court in Siroux Falls to answer burglary charges. He is accused of robbing the home of Mr and Mrs E H Halsted of cash and jewelry.
In Toledo on December 19 a carriage at Main street crossing was struck by a passenger train. Mrs John Lashaway aged seventy died at the scene with her daughter Insaw Mrs L J Lashaway and the two year old baby perishing shortly after. The horse also died and the carriage was demolished. The women died instantly and the baby only survived five minutes.
Beaumont Texas December 19 a negro district shooting left Byron Meyriett a motorman and Elisha Perita a deputy constable dead. Henry Powell a nineteen year old negro was shot after killing them by Deputy Sheriff Trevis.
A blaze at Max Piasecki and Co. wholesale furriers and manufacturers of automobile garments in New York caused the destruction of furs valued at two hundred thousand dollars. The fire and water damage occurred early yesterday, harming stock and facilities.
Smallpox has become epidemic at the University of Oregon in Eugene with many students ill and others seized by the disease in Portland reporting.
A late dispatch from Shienzo reports the Chicago National Bank and related institutions failed. Depositors are said to be protected by Chicago house banks. Assets include railway and coal properties of the Chicago National Bank president. Rumor hints at a Washington rumor and possible wrongdoing.
A devastating blaze in Red Lake Falls Minnesota kills a father Martell mother Jane and their three children Edie 27 Dan 1 and Anil 3. Martell awakens to smoke and attempts rescue as the upper floor collapses trapping the family beneath the flames. Firemen arrive too late leaving a charred scene in the center of the wreckage.
Five men were killed in a Dupont dynamite works blast at Marquette Michigan. About 1,400 pounds of nitro glycerin exploded in the mixing house, destroying the building and smashing windows across the town. The plant suffered extensive damage while thirty buildings were affected and several were wrecked.
In La Crosse Wisconsin on December nineteenth the Manufacturers and Jobbers union plans a meeting to demand immediate repeal of the smoke ordinance. A dozen leading manufacturers were arrested for violations, with cases adjourned to January. the arrested men will attend and help push the repeal effort.
Two farmers described as first-time criminals were arrested in a Wausau saloon after holding up the Colby State Bank on Saturday. They offered no resistance, confessing hunger and unemployment as motives. All stolen money recovered. suspects jailed in Marathon County.
D C Thomas sold his 160 acre farm north of Watertown just outside the limits to a nine man group from Indiana for 107 dollars an acre. This is believed to be the highest land price in the state. The buyer plans to plat the tract into home lots for resale as residence sites. The land lies just beyond the city limits but near enough to attract future demand for housing.
Fire yesterday ruined a five story Chicago manufacturing building with total losses about 119000. Principal damages included Lanz Owen Co leather dealers at 75090 and the building itself at 20000.
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