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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1906
Page
2
The Aberdeen National Bank held its semiannual meeting and declared the usual dividend. A statement shows a six percent increase in earnings over last year, with total income around 1,475,075 dollars and disbursements of 1,464,003.07 dollars for the fiscal year ending July 1, leaving cash on hand at the year's end.
Eleven new smallpox cases were reported to the Washington canal commission office, bringing total cases to twenty seven with no American deaths yet. The report also notes various violent incidents across cities, including shootings, a labor strike settlement at Corbett camp, and several accidents and fires with casualties.
Armstrong Whitmore Co. of Newcastle joins Brazil to build three sister battleships each over 5 million dollars. London says cabinet will restore naval estimates to two Dreadnought class battleships. King Edward will not visit Canada due to empire tour constraints. Queen Victoria rumored, Alfonso pleased, Ena now Victoria. Bogota hosts national commercial congress backs treaties with the United States and Panama. Sir Douglas Fox invited to draft channel tunnel plans. sanction to be sought next session.
In New York the financier and broker was linked to Jay Gould and the early options market. Sage originated trading practices for puts calls and saddles and built vast wealth through concealed operations. He opened his first office in New York around 1868 and guided a sprawling empire into the 1870s.
A head on collision between a passenger train and a freight near Rockingham, North Carolina, last evening killed several and injured many. Official reports from Seaboard Air Line indicate a range of casualties, with at least three dead confirmed and more injured. The wreck is blamed on a failure to deliver orders to the passenger train crew.
St Louis police continued a wire tapping probe into the Merchants' Exchange. Thomas P Lahey a broker's clerk was arrested on a warrant for meddling with a tele graph line and was released on bond. Neither party would discuss the arrest.
Nine people die when the steel steamer Princess Victo collided with the small craft Chehalis in Burrard Inlet Vancouver. The Chehalis carried fifteen including oyster bed owners and an English syndicate representative bound for Blunderharbor on British Columbia coast.
Fire at the Conger hotel yesterday reduced the building to ashes with contents, a total loss estimated at eight thousand dollars. The landmark structure was among the oldest in the region.
Fire broke out shortly after 3:30 yesterday afternoon in the yards of the Bruce Edgerton Lumber company in Mill City, almost destroying the stock and causing an estimated loss of $25,000. Origin of the blaze is not known.
Portsmouth July 24. Mr and Mrs Joseph Anthony of Portsmouth and their four year old daughter were drowned when their sailing skiff capsized yesterday. Local officials report a fishing party recovered the bodies and are continuing investigations into the incident.
A bold proclamation claims an alliance among rulers to assist the czar, while emperors of Germany and Austria are described as intent on suppressing Poland, signaling rising European friction and shifting power dynamics.
Prof Milukoff said the government would rather profit from dissensions than dissolve the Douma. Reports from Schoenbrunn near Vienna recount talks between the Austrian and German rulers on intervention in Poland if Russia cannot control it, framing a de facto holy alliance.
Paris reports Sarah Bernhardt finally receives the Legion of Honor cross after two years of agitation over whether the honor could be conferred on her.
Boston on July 22 reports former Governor J. L. Bates will oversee the Massachusetts Republican convention set for October 6. Gov. Curtis Gould enters the race seeking renomination as the party pursues its statewide contest.
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