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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1906
Page
2
A stream of mixed items mentions Prof OBrien and Prof Fitzsimmons, May Yolo divorce talk, Santa Domingo, Jacob Schiff giving 5000 dollars, the New Jersey battleship launch, a New York dentist held for murder, and various parlor gossip about celebrities, business, and politics. It weaves idiosyncratic observations about public figures and events in a whimsical tone.
The Bellevue Hospital superintendent supports Dr. Osler’s claim that deathbed visions are rare and adds that women show greater courage facing death than men in emergencies, highlighting gender differences in end of life experiences.
Mary Donate approves the dismissal in the Midshipman Cotten hazing case in Annapolis. President Roosevelt promotes Capt. Cowles to a top navy post. Debates over exports to France, Philippine desertion sentences, and political candidacy shifts continue as global events unfold.
Reports of fires in Convoy Ohio and Clarksville Tennessee cause damages. Accidents in Salt Lake City and Michigantown Ohio injure and kill residents. A steamer near Lake Superior is abandoned after a gale. Cedar Falls and Burlington fatalities occur from electrocution and accidents. A rescue saves fifteen skaters and iceboaters from a drifting ice floe near Sandusky.
Plans for 2 million dollars in Cotton Belt improvements gain approval by President and GM Brittain. Stafford Keenan, a news agent, is found dead in Waterloo Town from morphine overdose. Andrew Graft of Lucius reveals a method to temper copper to steel hardness in one second. Denison Prior & Co may face liabilities between 1.2 and 1.5 million dollars. The late President Harper of Chicago University leaves a life-insurance based estate to his widow. Aurelio Herrera defeats Young Corbett in five rounds at Los Angeles Pacific Athletic Club pavilion. Wisconsin steamer fleets face loss due to new ad valorem tax. trappers report wildcats on Boone river. Judge Munger supports the state in Burlington tax case in Omaha. American Reserve Bond Co and former Southern Mutual directors face a lawsuit for receiver. Henry Smith sues Helen Gould for 10 000 over injuries from spraying trees near Irvington-on-the-Hudson.
A church fire killed eighteen people and sent the congregation into shock. Authorities probe cause as survivors recount panic and flames engulfing the sanctuary.
Eighteen people die and many are injured when a fire breaks out during a church service at St. Pauls Colored Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Panic erupts as worshippers flee down a narrow stairway, causing trampling and a collapse of the bannister. The disaster strikes during a collection after Rev. E W Johnson's sermon.
Washington reports the United States is convinced of France loyalty to the Monroe doctrine and has given Paris a free hand to carry out its program for resolving the Venezuelan crisis. France plans the first move soon, but is keeping orders and ship movements strictly secret from Washington officials.
In Topeka Kansas January 23 a bold attempt to rob the Merchant's National Bank was discovered yesterday. Robbers tunneled eleven feet through solid rock from the basement to the vault floor and aimed to wreck the safe but failed their efforts.
Panic swept the Windermere hotel in Chicago after a steam boiler exploded in the basement. Engineer John Rapkoch was killed and guest Leeta May severely injured as the blast wrecked part of the hotel and damaged nearby residences.
Secretary Root announces American representatives to the Hague conference. Choate Porter and Judge Rose of Little Rock Ark ex president of the American Bar Association will attend.
Washington reports Secretary Stevens supports a 100 canal plan for the Isthmian region. The article notes correspondence with W W Mackay of New York and a planned testimony before Congress on canal matters. It praises Stevens and associates for handling the inquiry with commendation despite criticism.
Ironwood Michigan January 23 The body of James Bigneh was recovered from a Newport mine shaft after being buried under ore and rock for twenty four days. He is the last of eight victims of the cave in on December 23. Miners worked round the clock in six hour shifts to rescue the men. Seven bodies were recovered the week after the accident.
Roy Nelson Jack O Hearn Leo Angus and Joe Warren are in custody over the Lausten saloon murder and robbery in Omaha. Nelson Angus and Warren confess to involvement while O Hearn denies confessing. All are local men.
Six men were killed by a snowslide at the mining camp at Alla, Utah. Messages indicate the camp is cut off by fallen wires and deep mountain snow, hindering efforts to obtain further details. The nearest reachable point is three miles, Alta lies twenty miles from Salt Lake City.
Severe flooding hits Wisconsin with multiple bridges washed away delaying trains. A Darlington boy died after slipping into a stream while playing near water. Wauwatosa suburban bridge failure forces trains to take alternate routes. water levels easing.
Jefferson City Mo Jan 23 Charles Denny and Jere Hannigan former St Louis house of deputies members were released from the penitentiary after serving eighteen months for boodling and departed for St Louis.
Ice gorge on Turtle creek caused the old Brooks millrace to break. Frozen Rock river produced the highest winter levels in memory and flooded basements across the southeast flats of Beloit.
A south bound extra freight on the Rock Island struck a handcar on a foggy curve six miles north of Independence Iowa. Phillip Leyden was instantly killed John Canfield is dying Joseph Leyden and Fred Young were badly injured. All four men were section workers from Independence.
The chief of staff supports establishing chapels at army posts lacking houses of worship and has advised the war department to endorse the project.
Tokio reports Luke E Wright, former governor general of the Philippines, named as the first American ambassador to Japan. The appointment is met with general satisfaction.
William Vandalsen, 23, white, was hanged in Louisville for the fall murder of Miss Fannie Porter. While jailed he carved toys including a miniature gallows with a suspended body, which attracted an offer from a Kansas City man that Vandalsen declined, giving the trinket to the jail steward.
The house passed the Philippine tariff bill by a 258 to 71 vote, keeping sugar tobacco and rice duties at 25 percent under the Dingley rates. After April 1, 1908, free trade between the United States and the Philippines is planned. The senate then debated railroad rate authority and delegation questions.
Murray Relder of Selin Grove and Mary Cromwell of Sunbury were killed last night while attempting to cross the Pennsylvania railroad bridge over the Susquehanna River at Selin Grove, Pennsylvania.
Four persons were injured when a blaze destroyed five four story flat buildings in Chicago. The fire caused a panic among residents of a nearby seventy flat apartment block as alarms rang and evacuations were ordered.
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