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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1905
Page
2
A long collage of quotes and jokes comments on journalism and politics. It mocks American newspapers and editors while touching on fashion, diplomacy, invention, and society. Witty asides reference Kaiser research, Lipton, Wylie, and Russia Japan relations.
Maryland secretary of the navy Charles J. Bonaparte sworn in. Maxwell K. Moorhead named U S consul at St Thomas. Michigan gets 47608 from treasury for Spanish War aid. Canadian authority okays taking US steamer Fern to Duluth via Lake Superior. Various military, political, and crime items with several deaths and accidents noted across the United States and abroad.
Obituaries chronicle Charles M. Otis Sr former Cleveland mayor and Lucie B Tyng temperance leader. Population figures claim Chicago reaches 2 760 in 1905 directory. International Leagues of Press Clubs plans Detroit meeting July 18 21 while East Northfield Mass hosts August 4 20 Christian workers conference. Yellow fever reports from Panama and Lincoln era figures Cobb Drake oil lift aims. Oregon hop growers form a corporation to stabilize prices across Pacific coast shipments.
Disorder on the vessel as officers’ cabins were stripped of valuables after the warship surrendered to Roumania and was delivered to Admiral Kruger.
Russian authorities await Admiral Kruger report on Roumanian stance before demanding surrender of mutineers from the Potemkin. Transfer of the vessel to Russia completed at Kustenji Roumania despite torpedo boat’s protest. Mutineers’ leaders and officers faced punishment as crews divided over capitulation.
Eight men cavers blown to pieces and two piers were torn apart by a premature explosion of rock powder near Taieburg Pa on July 11. The blast, fired by P Kermeh Co contractors for the Pennsylvania Railroad, killed several workers and injured others. An inquest found no blame attached to the contractors. the jury returned a verdict attributing the tragedy to unknown causes. The explosion shook surrounding towns and shattered windows as 1250 pounds of powder had been prepared but not disturbed.
In Portland, sensational charges accuse Dr Van Gesner and Martin R Biggs of tampering with prosecution witnesses Green Beard and Henry Beard. A letter from Gesner urged relinquishment of a neighboring land claim, suggesting a tip to the department and payments upon final proof. The court sustained objections amid questions of influence and bribery in the ongoing United States case.
A terrible accident at Little Falls Dam near Chippewa Falls yesterday left eleven men dead after a log jam broke and powerful rapids swept them away. A Chippewa Lumber and Boom Co crew of seventy four, under Kenneth McTeod, tried to break the jam with boats. Louis Gohey and Andrew Cagnon drove the overloaded craft as twelve men fell into swift waters and were lost. An arriving rescue boat capsized but saved no one else. Eddie Martin, a Chippewa Falls youth, survived. seven others drownings are reported in the same river.
Nine acres of nursery stock in Albert Lea Minnesota are being treated by the state entomologist with a kerosene and water spray. The experiment aims to kill the leaf hopper, a small insect that causes heavy annual losses to nurseries. The mixture is reported to kill the insect in the thousands and shows promise of success.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on July 11 James J Farrell from Plymouth visited a cousin with his two children. John Lee an ex asylum inmate rushed the group with a razor and attacked Farrell on the grass, cutting his throat then slashing his own throat. Both men died instantly.
Spokane July 11 PFc Boyd aged thirty five assistant general agent of the Hamburg Bremen Insurance company shot himself through the head. He was heavily involved with the Big Bend National Bank of Davenport Washington and his final act suggested mental imbalance.
Negotiations are under way by the International Harvester company to establish a flax fiber factory in Winona Minnesota. It has been demonstrated that flax can be grown successfully in this section and a factory will be erected there, with Winona the most likely location.
Rumors persist that Pope Pius may depart the Vatican but a high Vatican official states he will not leave this year. The remark does not preclude future action if circumstances demand.
Madison Wisconsin July 9 Insurance Commissioner Host sent letters to thirty seven old line life insurers urging compliance with a new law that requires surplus distribution to policy holders the rule in place since June 4. The supreme court had ruled that distribution under the old law was not compulsory.
Postmaster General Cortelyou issues order granting rural delivery holidays on New Year’s Day February 22 Decoration Day Fourth of July Labor Day and Thanksgiving Day. Rural carriers had petitioned for two years and finally secured them.
La Crosse Wisconsin July 9 After a year together J H Isbel a wealthy Bar Mills farmer was granted a divorce on grounds that his wife nightly slept beside him with a butcher knife under her pillow and frequently threatened to kill him he said he could no longer endure waking to the cold steel among the bed clothes.
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