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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
2
The Standard reports a string of deaths and accidents across cities. Notables include Hildebrand Fitzgerald and Bishop Edward Wilson, while disasters strike Ohio and Pennsylvania دار and a Panama Canal dynamite incident kills two. Ship and rail accidents cause multiple injuries and casualties in several states.
The report lists a series of dire events including the death by suicide of Chaster Mutr, a New York bank teller, after a 63,000 shortfall. Amanda Wettenge’s shooting in Pittsburg. a Providence lynching in Kentucky. Jake McDowell’s lynching confession and killings. Marmas Schnabel’s suicide linked to core price shifts. and a federal sentence of eighteen months with a $7,500 fine imposed by judge Bradford in a United States court.
Reports detail suicides in Northwood and Providence, a breach of promise arrest in Montreal, a Chicago union robbery, tobacco beds burned by night riders, Russian imperial visit to Windsor, a capsized barge with Chinese prisoners, bubonic plague cases in St. Thomas, a challenger match involving Henry Farman, Wake Island shipwreck res ection, Swedish king visit to Berlin, Warsaw court martial deaths, Pachula flood devastation, and a French gendarme clash with rioters.
Rev A Coffman who murdered his wife two weeks ago died in Fairmont W Va hospital from nervous collapse. The American Anti tuberculous league held its annual convention in St Louis. Daniel Ritchey aged ninety died in Corning Iowa a Black Hawk War veteran who ran a hotel in Adams County in 1865 and hosted abolitionists on the run. J J Hill told Saskatchewan boards of trade plans to extend Great Northern to Calgary and through Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta. Jacob Fisher of Nashville sold a $10 1849 token to Virgie McBrand president of the Chicago Numismatic Society for 1750. A forfeited ball bond judgment against Kingdom Gould was entered in New York though he was absent. he sailed for six weeks in Europe. English women led by the Countess of Jersey Mrs Humphrey Ward and others formed a movement against granting suffrage to women. Former President Grover Cleveland recovered from rheumatic gout and indigestion and returned to Princeton in a touring car.
Terrible accident aboard the armored cruiser Tennessee off Point Hyena Cal. Four men killed instantly and two died at San Pedro after a steam pipe burst under 236 pounds pressure in the starboard engine room. Admiral Sebree escaped serious injury by moments. Twelve others assisted and heroism noted as official investigation ordered.
A raging cyclone tears through four southern Nebraska counties with towns like Carleton Fairfield Deshler Shickley Geneva Frenkling Ong and Riverton struck. At least dozen dead and many injured, thousands homeless, livestock and crops wiped out. Bank loot case in Pittsburg yields ten year terms for Henry Rieber and John Young. nearly $2 million stolen, mostly cash, with little recovered.
President Roosevelt plans a year abroad starting next April to hunt Africa's biggest game. He will travel with his son Kermit, first stopping in Cairo for a hunting party, then into the jungle regions. He will also study animal habits and collect material for a book upon return.
In West Haden Ind on June 7 a racial clash erupted after black men were hired as hotel waiters displacing white girls. Two sticks of dynamite exploded under the hotel corner housing the black waiters. no injuries were reported.
Rob Fergus Falls Minnesota June 6 A daring burglary stripped the jewelry store of M. H. Call of Fergus Falls of jewelry valued between 100 and 500 dollars last night.
In Des Moines June 7 a criminal court jury convicted Frank Brown, a negro, of attempted assault on Mrs. Mary Mann, and a second white woman was noted in the case as involved. The jury rendered verdict on the first ballot.
On June 9 in Eufaula Oklahoma a street brawl between about fifteen Checotah residents and local citizens left Deputy Constable F M Woods gravely wounded and Joseph Parmenter of Checotah injured with non fatal wounds after Woods tried to disarm Parmenter. About fifteen shots were fired in total.
Paris June 9 attorneys for Mme Anna Gould said serious matters delayed their client and Prince Helie de Sagan from marrying immediately. They expect a ceremony within a month. George Gould’s presence is uncertain due to business interests in the United States.
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, June 9. Ben Werner, a local druggist, took his own life at noon by shooting himself in the head. He had been melancholy for a long time, reasons not apparent.
An unknown man was struck by an Omaha passenger train at Mlazel Park last night. The body was severely mangled with both legs cut off and the head crushed. Police report injuries, awaiting identification and cause.
New York reports a beef shortage raising prices across the United States with talks of high-grade beef imports being returned from cold storage. Chicago announces a 1 to 2 cent per pound beef price rise due to cattle and canned meat shortages. Sixteen major butter makers plan to oppose freight rate hikes before the Interstate Commerce Commission, warning tariffs could raise costs 54 to 100 percent and trigger a broader butter famine affecting Midwest states and others, risking over a million dollars in annual losses for creameries.
New York June 10. Seventy six men named by the American Olympic team committee at Astor House will represent the United States in the London games next month. Review of entry lists shows strong prospects in most events except rowing with a hopeful outlook for a creditable share of honors.
June 10 report describes Mayor Bryson’s curb weed crusade turning vagrants fined into forced labor on weed removal under police guard. Citizens witness a steady harvest of dandelions as bums labor to pay fines.
Charles P. Corlett head of Corlett Engineering killed his wife in a hotel in Willoughby, a Cleveland suburb, then took his own life. The double tragedy, linked to jealousy, follows the couple's prominence in Cleveland society.
A posse of farmers and constables combed nearby woods near Newton seeking Edward Schiriman the man charged with fatally shooting Ida Potter on Main Street last Saturday. They returned without locating him.
Anthony Colligan, once an Evanston police officer, shot and killed his wife while intoxicated yesterday and then fatally shot himself, dying several hours later.
Police arrested several individuals in Galesburg WL yesterday afternoon on suspicion of violating the local option law. The group includes some locally prominent figures.
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