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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1906
Page
2
The piece stacks disparate blurbs from pop culture, politics, and society. It mentions Paderewski, Fitzsimmons, Osler, and various anecdotes from New York to Massachusetts, including a joke about liquor costs in New York and a Brooklyn divorce anecdote, with broad satirical observations on marriage, wealth, and reform.
A French scientist reportedly discovered a compound that causes worms to writhe and die, per the New York Telegram. The piece notes skepticism and contrasts this with continued faith in a familiar political party.
Washington reports Justice McKenna delivers the opinion in the Me Cabre Grande Copper Co. case favoring the company. Military patrols to shield Kort Wa reservation as it nears settlement, with notes on foreign affairs, rail accidents, and fires across major cities. Andrew Johnson, Anatole incidents, and local crime add to a broad dispatch.
A mob attack in Tiflis results in 350 people killed or wounded as bomb throwers strike crowds. Officials warn of continuing danger and call for urgent security measures amid the unrest.
Reports from Tiflis describe a deadly attack by Cossacks on an Armenian seminary, bombs exploding, a large fire, and hundreds injured or killed. Rebels captured in St Petersburg area. officials shift in Moscow Caucasus. infernal devices found in post. Siberia’s strike worsens before troops restore order. In Irkutsk and Omsk divisions, leaders are arrested and cities taken. workers call a general pacific strike on Jan 22 with international support.
Reports detail multiple murder convictions fraud charges and legal actions across the United States and Canada. Frank Sherrie hanged in Connecticut for a Somerville murder. B C Wilson found murdered near Colorado Springs. Mrs Sarah Jane Robinson dies in Cambridge. Joseph Philips arrested in Toronto for false government returns. Roy Hull sentenced for first degree murder in Iowa. A T Kelliher sentenced in Oregon land fraud case. Custer County officials probed for bounty frauds. Binger Hermann to be tried in DC. George Polaski arrested for $13 000 bank fraud. Peter Walsh Jr found guilty for dual precinct registration in St Louis. C C Meir shoots self aboard Carmania en route to New York.
James P. King pleaded guilty after being caught stealing a Bible from a store. In court Judge Moore questioned his knowledge of the commandments, to which King answered affirmatively. The judge then sentenced him to twenty days in the workhouse at hard labor.
Washington January 14 the senate committee on public lands reported favorably Senator Nelsons bill ceding Star Island in Cass lake to Minnesota for park or forestry purposes If the state ceases to use the island for those purposes title reverts to the federal government
After 24 hours in terror on board the Clyde steamer Cherokee, sixty passengers and crew were rescued by Captain Wark Caste and a picked crew aboard the sloop Alberta amid a northeast storm near Brigantine Shoals. Most survivors were exhausted, many had slept forty eight hours, and relief awaited at hotels as doctors treated them.
In Traverse City Michigan on January 16 Mrs. George Beder was in the barn when her Thompsonville home burned. Her two young babies perished in the fire with one burned to a crisp and the other suffocated by smoke.
Millville Minn Jan 16 James Hinds a farmer living about three miles from Zumbro Falls fell from his buggy while returning home from Zumbro Falls and broke his neck. Medical help arrived but he died within minutes.
A Portage la Prairie district farm residence belonging to H. A. Brazill burned down in January. The eldest child was fifteen and another was a month old. all three children perished in the blaze while the parents escaped with difficulty.
Three Belgian children aged six and younger died in a fire at the Cornell Coal company fields five miles northeast of Pittsburg Kentucky. The children perished after their mother, Mrs. A Guerin, locked the doors and left the house briefly, trapping them inside as flames consumed the home.
Cape Maitien on January 16 reports a bloody final battle near Guayubin between Gen. Caceres loyalists and insurgents. Casualties include several generals. Independencia seeks safe surrender after switching sides. Morales urges guarantees for officers.
Fred Thrapp an eighteen year old Washburn college student wearing a mask attempted to rob Arner Robenson a high school student of receipts from a school entertainment. After a struggle Robenson was shot in the leg and Thrapp fired three more shots before being captured. Robenson's wound is not dangerous. Thrapp had a revolver burglar's tools and false whiskers when arrested. He had previously borne a good reputation.
The Norwegian steamer Iris commanded by Capt Devig, sailing from New Orleans December 9 and arriving at Esbjerg January 16, was wrecked off Horns reef in the North Sea about twenty miles west of Esbjerg. All crew except one fireman were rescued. Vessel and cargo likely total loss.
Sacramento January 16. Guy Pardee commuted George Barker’s life sentence from Folsom prison dating to 1898 after T F Gorman confessed to committing the highway robbery for which Barker was convicted. Gorman had been executed in Nevada last month.
North Platte Neb Jan 16 The Union Pacific Railroad icehouses the largest on the system were totally destroyed by fire Nine buildings each 112 feet long burned causing about 50000 loss Fire started after tar roofing workmen reportedly set fire to tar roofings suspected cause of the blaze
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