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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1910
Page
7
A chaotic miscellany frames April rhymes and July weeds with odd notes on strawberry crops. It praises Maryland strawberries, mocks optimists, and references diverse topics from Harvard physics to Belgian hare speculation, German jokes, and British rail concessions, all in a brisk, spoofing newspaper tone.
Patrick J. Gibbons, in a violent quarrel at his home, shot and killed his wife Mary and then killed Father Walsh at the priest’s residence. He surrendered at the police station after driving there in a panic, declaring I have killed the priest. The mob threatened lynching but authorities escorted him to safety.
Excavators uncovered ten foot thick masonry walls with grated windows about 15 feet below street level in Mexico City. Believed to be remnants of the ancient San Francisco monastery, a structure said to have taken over 200 years to build.
Rexford Illinois reports Rockford approves a new traffic ordinance regulating saloons. It bans treating and bars free lunch counters. 40 model saloons prepare to begin business as the city ends a five year dry period.
Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the honorary Doctor of Law by the University of Cambridge in a formal ceremony described as vivid and ceremonial. The vice chancellor praises Roosevelt as a statesman and peacemaker, with the audience responding to his recognition as a friend of peace and humanity.
Opinion says sinking of the Dewey dry dock resulted from carelessness by station workers who are Japanese, not deliberate damage. Experts expect the dock to be saved though the port side is submerged and resting on the bottom. The starboard is exposed but settled. pumps may be overwhelmed. Tug Piscataqua waited to assist as calmer seas permit. Electrical machinery operating the valves is badly damaged.
Mike Vevo, convicted of murder in the third degree, received a 14 year penitentiary sentence from Judge John Day Smith in Minneapolis Minnesota. The defendant claimed the name Mike Murillo and said his father Raphael Furillo resided at Frazzino near Naples. He was found guilty of killing Nela Mungen, a cook, in the saloon of Anderson and Johnson located at Third Street and Seventh Avenues South.
President Taft elevates his secretary Fred Warner Carpenter of Sauk Center Minnesota to the Morocco post to succeed H Percival Dodge. No immediate successor named. Rudolph Porster, the current assistant secretary, is considered likely to be chosen.
James J. Hill of St Paul head of the Hill railroad system was elected a director of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William H. Mitchell, father of John J. Mitchell, in Chicago Illinois.
Night riders are alleged to have operated within four miles of Cincinnati damaging the barn of F P Gosney a tobacco raiser from Campbell county Kentucky and destroying a tobacco crop estimated at eight thousand dollars in value.
London reports from Western Morning News Plymouth that Lord Rit a is practically set to be the next viceroy of India. The piece notes strong momentum and mentions the British political context guiding the appointment.
In South St Paul, parishioners of St Augustine condemn Patrick Gibbons after a murder suicide involving his wife Mrs Gibbons. Father Walsh is mourned as a dedicated church figure amid calls for justice and reflection on drink fueled violence.
Prof Robert Koch, renowned bacteriologist, died in Baden Baden of heart disease. Born December 11, 1843 at Klausthal Hanover, he discovered the tuberculosis bacillus and cholera microbe. He received German and French decorations for his scientific services and spoke at the 1908 tuberculosis conference in Philadelphia.
The Episcopal diocese of Minnesota wrapped its final session in St Paul. Laymen’s missionary movement work received hearty endorsement and plans were made to hold similar meetings by communication with the laymen’s committee. Delegates to theennial convention were elected and Joseph Blainger of St Paul was thanked for a $10,000 gift to the church home for old women.
Dublin leaders John Redmond John Dillon Joseph Devin and T. J. O'Connor plan a June 1 luncheon in London to host Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The event shifts from a full Irish parliament delegation due to King Edward's death and parliamentary adjournment. Roosevelt had expressed interest in meeting the Irish parliamentarians.
Governor Charles S. Deneen was arrested with a touring car party for exceeding the speed limit at midnight in Peoria. Charles H. May host of the party and publisher of The Herald Transcript was released on bond. No hearing required for the governor. Taft Howard U Trustee elected at Howard University. A large judgment awards W. Cawley $10 462 24 for lost legs against the Great Northern Railroad in Minneapolis court.
A fierce blizzard grips Lake Superior and surrounding areas with high northerly winds. Heavy seas lash the southern shore as boats seek refuges in port. No vessels are within wireless range.
Net profits of 10080 were realized from the actors fair held in New York to aid aged and needy stage followers. The event supported charitable care and welfare for performers.
John Patterson longtime Michigan figure died of heart disease in Marshall He was a state senator for four years a Hillsdale College trustee for 27 years and a leader in the Calhoun County bar He was 72.
A seven story brick block at Seventh Avenue and Third Street housing Great Northern Implement and Rock Island Plow companies caught fire. The blaze, rapid in spread, damaged Waterbury Implement and J. J. Case buildings and nearby hotels. Firefighters saved several structures as the roof collapsed, with no serious injuries reported.
Loula and Temple Abernathy aged 9 and 6 arrive in Washington after riding from Frederick Maryland 57 miles to meet Col Roosevelt on his New York arrival. They seek a wagon yard to tie horses then stay several days at a top hotel while their horses go to a nearby livery. In Atlanta Georgia Senator Tillman treated for rheumatism at a local sanitarium.
May 30 Minneapolis report states a man was arrested by a Sixth precinct motorcycle patrolman and escorted to headquarters astride a police bicycle. The charge is burglary. Also on May 30 Ludwig Berger, a tailor, who had been found unconscious, attempted suicide again.
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