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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1911
Page
2
A stream of quips on coronations, doctors, lawyers, and cultures, with stray notes about Vassar, professor garbles, and playful musings on cats, dogs, bees, and fashion. Nonsense phrases blend names, places, and dated references in a fragmentary humor column.
The senate shows a tight 30 vote margin on reciprocity tied to Taft efforts. Lorimer committee lines up with Dillingham Gamble and other Republicans plus some Democrats to probe Lorimer bribery, while new subcommittee members plan an independent inquiry.
In Baltimore the Fifth Regiment armory hosts a celebration for James Cardinal Gibbons golden jubilee of ordination and silver jubilee of cardinalate. Presidents Taft and Roosevelt attend alongside leaders as clergy and citizens hail the American church figure born in Baltimore in 1884 and rising to archbishop primate and cardinal by 1886.
W R Greene of Audubon elected to represent the Ninth Iowa district in place of Walter J Smith who was appointed by President Taft as a judge. Greene leads Democratic opponent W S Cleveland by 1192 votes with returns nearly complete. Cleveland opposed reciprocity while Greene supported it.
The mammoth lake steamer North West owned by the Northern Steamship company burned at the dock in New Orleans with damage near 600000. Its sister ship North Land was badly scorched. No injuries reported as both vessels were being overhauled for the season opening June 21.
A woman was taken to a hospital in Berlin Gor with suspected cholera symptoms. Bacteriologists conduct examinations to confirm the illness.
Rev John Bigelow once minister to France and noted author lies in serious condition at home in Highland Falls New York with Dr Howell of New York stating the patient may not recover.
Five passengers were injured when a Long Island railroad train from Sag Harbor derailed just east of Bridgehampton Junction. Authorities to inspect the wreck and determine cause. no fatalities reported.
Fire swept WieoleAfra aria in Springfield damaging the grandstand and box office. The blaze affected Threet leseua baseball park city and caused an estimated loss of about 2500 euros.
Six people drown when the launch Galilee capsizes during a storm on Utah Lake near Salt Lake City. Fifteen aboard attended a party celebrating the engagement of Miss Vere Brown and Howard B Holmes. among the dead are the bride and groom elect and two children of Captain Prack Brown, owner of the vessel.
Minnesota Senator Clapp signals hearings on Sherman Act revisions to probe transportation firms and industrial combines. The Senate session sees sharp exchanges as Underwood attacks the Payne tariff while Republicans defend the tariff revisions and revenue projections.
Topeka June 8 Attorney General Dawson warned five Hunnewell Kansas council members to cooperate with Mayor Ella Wilson and end trifling. The council faces possible mandamus to attend meetings and conduct city business or removal for dereliction, with fines up to 1000 dollars and a year in jail.
The cabinet of M Schollaert resigned. Schollaert had become premier and interior minister in January 1908, succeeding M De Troos who died the previous month.
The Tooele Commercial Bank cashier Shhaefer was bound and gagged during a bank robbery. Two mounted robbers escaped with $9,000. Police and posses pursue suspects through surrounding hills.
A severe storm across northern North Dakota and western Minnesota caused heavy rain and a fatal lightning strike on the Ellison farm near Wales. Clarence Elliofson and Adolph Thom, a farmer and a farm hand, died as they walked from a blacksmith shop to the residence. Additional damage included power interruptions near Grand Forks and Devils Lake as the storm's scale disrupted utilities and lit up the region.
University of Minnesota regents remove J. D. Bren from treasurer duties and appoint H. W. Decker to handle funds. They demand Bren turn over all money and property in his custody and probe the accounts with the public examiner reporting findings. The board also passes resolutions to pursue bond enforcement if Bren resists.
In New York on June 9 the United Wireless Telegraph defendants led by Colonel Christopher Columbus Wilson must stay in the Tombs as the circuit court denies liberty on bail during their ongoing appeal. The court indefinitely stays imprisonment pending additional error assignments. Dr William Vernon a black man, is named as assistant supervisor for the five civilized Indian tribes by the interior secretary. R D Whitehead longtime Humane Society official dies in Milwaukee at 79 after years of service.
Wisconsin Senate adopted a resolution calling for a federal probe into Senator Isaac Stephenson’s 1909 U S Senate election. The vote was 15 to 3 with Whitehead voting present. Assembly expected to concur midweek amid ongoing bribery and corrupt practices concerns._SIG_DO_NOT_INCLUDE
President Taft rejects an Astoria Oregon invitation and tells Representative Lafferty he plans to spend the entire August at Beverly. A Virginia Minnesota baby dies after accidentally obtaining carbolic acid. 10 month old John Markasch is reported to have died from the exposure.
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