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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1910
Page
3
A collage of short curiosities and observations. Catholics, diseases, and oddities mingle with notes on science, immigration, markets, and Panama Canal work. A field professor, grafting extremities, and Chinese boycott ripple through a brisk, gossiping column.
Physicians have developed a stethoscope and telephone capable of transmitting a parent’s heartbeats to a seismologist on the Isle of Wight. The innovation promises heightened late hour patient monitoring and closer physician contact.
The battleship South Carolina returned to Norfolk after a sea trial involving target practice. It scored sixteen hits on shore targets with twelve inch guns, a tally that puts its crew in strong contention for top shooting honors among its peers.
The ex Shah of Persia reportedly plans to study medicine and become a practicing physician, a more honorable path than idle exiled life or plotting revolutions. Other former rulers are noted as emulating his example with credit.
Washington officials rely on preliminary data from the ongoing federal enumeration to gauge the nation’s population. Early indications suggest the final count may fall short of one hundred million, prompting revisions to prior estimates and renewed scrutiny of the census process.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a judge, fear of cuts, and an unclear reference to a prison or confinement. The text includes stray names and phrases about a friend and a wife, but lacks coherent context or verifiable facts. The readable portions provide no confirmed event or outcome.
After sixteen months apart, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft reunite at Nahant Massachusetts in a relaxed cordial gathering. They share laughter, exchange familiar salutations, and reminisce with colleagues including Senator Lodge and Mrs Taft as tea is served on the cottage veranda.
In Chicago Illinois, the jury in Judge McSurely's criminal division deadlocked on the Browne bribery case. Lee O Neil Browne, a legislative minority leader, faced charges of bribery linked to influencing Chas A White to back Lorimer for U S senator. The panel deliberated 116 hours before voting no verdict. State's Attorney Wayman said a second trial will be pursued, calling the case a flagrant instance of jury fixing.
Returns from the North Dakota primary show McCumber a likely long term senator with a lead around 7,000 votes, Gronna and Hanna favored for other seats, Johnson secure for governor, Burdick likely lieutenant governor, Gunder Onion set to defeat Bickford, Woods and Miller favored for state posts, Mann and Anderson renominated, Purcell expected to win, Norton vs Henry a close secretary of state race.
Dr. Angell retires as Marry Burns Hutchins is elected president of the University of Michigan, succeeding James B. Angell. Hutchins, born April 8, 1847 in LIndon New Hampshire, educated at Wesleyan and the University of Michigan, and formerly dean of the law department and organizer of Cornell Law School, returns to lead Michigan.
John W. W. Daniel senior senator from Virginia died in Lynchburg after paralysis and cerebral hemorrhage. His illness began with a stroke in Philadelphia last October, keeping him from Congress. Family present at his deathbed, funeral planned for Friday in Lynchburg, with no hope of recovery.
Pierre bans saloons for a year driving crowds into streets at 11 o’clock Thursday night. Meny left with supplies to celebrate the Fourth of July, marking the city’s first prohibition period in years.
Premier No. 1 finished the Glidden tour with the host road score in Chicago but final winner pending an American Automobile Association technical committee examination. Premier No. 1 has a nine point penalty while Chalmers No. 5 is second with 89 road penalty.
Osnabrueck reports the Deutschland airship wreck after a Tuesday evening incident. Count Zeppelin did not visit the scene. authorities indicate the airship is at total wreck. Reconstruction will not be attempted. available parts will aid in building a new airship.
The president issued proclamations removing nearly half a million acres from national forests and adding about 160,000 acres to reserves. Lands removed favorAgriculture over forestry and will be opened to settlement. A separate proclamation also cut 16 01% meres from the Deer Lodge forest in Montana.
Charles Kohner and Wilber Granger charged with grand larceny and Guy Brown serving a jail sentence for disturbing the peace broke jail in Sturgis Dakota. A bar was cut in a window allowing their escape.
United States Senator Samuel Douglas Mc Enery died at his New Orleans residence Tuesday after returning from Washington due to an indigestion attack. He was transported from the railroad station to his home where physicians attended him.
Berlin reports that a Hamburg prosecutor dropped the inquiry into Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company amid claims of German press slander and American methods. Manager B L Quarles was not charged and state costs cover the probe. The ruling marks a U.S. business victory in Germany. In New York, the US Circuit Court denied Wright company’s bid to modify injunctions against Louis Paulhan and Herring-Curtiss.
The 74 year old senator had shown moments of improvement after treatment but deteriorated, lapsing into unconsciousness. At his bedside were his wife Elizabeth Phillips of Monroe La, daughter Mrs. Warren B. Park, and sons Charles P McEnery and another son en route from Washington, D C.
Washington D C Twenty thousand dollars are to be paid July 1 to Richard Parr the New York customs employee whose vigilance in detecting frauds in underweighing sugar imports saved the government more than two million dollars Parrs total reward is to be one hundred thousand dollars For the remaining eighty thousand Secretary MacVeagh will ask Congress to make the necessary provision.
A major blaze swept a block of buildings in Wymore Nebraska gutting multiple structures. Firefighters battled flames for hours as smoke blanketed the area and neighboring businesses feared damage to their storefronts. Authorities investigated the cause and noted no injuries reported at this time.
In Chicago a special Central Passenger Association meeting was called to review a report by rate clerks on a uniform interstate rate per mile. Some officials argue a 2 cent basis could better streamline rates, potentially influencing interstate charges more than a 3 cent per mile plan, though proof remains unclear.
In Beverly Massachusetts Bishop Mo Vicker of the Protestant Epiacopa church has died. The obituary notes his leadership and long service to the congregation in the region.
Mrs James Iy Sherman wife of Vice President Sherman is reported to have passed a fairly good night at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland. Hospital notes say she has improved since arrival and that her case is not grave.
Smoke shrouds towns from Rainy River to Lake Superior as fires devastate timber camps and storage facilities along the boundary. Key losses include Pembroke Contracting camps and government timber, with trains halted, telegraph lines down, and flames advancing up to one hundred miles west. Moose flee the heat and new fires flare across the Minnesota side near International Falls.
About three million dollars worth of gold dust has been received by Fairbanks banks since the season opened weeks ago. More than one million worth has already been shipped to Seattle and more will follow shortly.
Market strong on July 2 with beef cattle ranging from 5.35 to 8.55, western steers 5.40 to 7.35, stockers and feeders 3.60 to 5.75, cows and heifers 2.80 to 7. Calves 5.50 to 8.25. Hogs slower with prices from 8.75 to 9.70. Sheep steady with natives 2.76 to 4.36, westerns 3.25 to 4.85, yearlings 5.06, lambs 4.75 to 8.40.
Market notes from Minneapolis and Duluth dated July 2 list wheat futures July at 1.11 and Sept at 1.05 in Minneapolis with No 1 northes 31.14 and No 2 northern 1.13. No 1 Durum 86c. No 3 corn 560. No 3 white oats barley and No 2 rye 720. Duluth shows July wheat 1.14 and Sept 1.01. No 1 northern 1.12. South Saint Paul reports cattleGreers at 5266.60, cows fair 64,000 for calves 5.00–6.00. hogs a.36 abeep yearlings. lambs HOLs6.
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