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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1911
Page
3
A jumble of quirky notes references and anecdotes touch on coinage, politics, marriage, crime, labor, and culture. It laments inflation jokes about Wall Street, crowns, and poetry while noting divorce rates, imports, pests, and a piano theft.
The debate stretched late as Bristow sought to keep supervision of senatorial elections with Congress, while the house preferred local control. Vice President cast the deciding vote as Democrats and insurgent Republicans clashed over presidential election implications and a proposed constitutional amendment expanding state authority.
Testimony before the committee revealed Heike as a stock rate for a man and a teller. he described unclear ties between the American Sugar Refining Company, the National Sugar Refining Company, and the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company. He admitted loans and collateral stock arrangements. details of ownership and control remained largely unexplained.
The Chicago Board of Trade rejected claims of a May wheat corner after a general committee report found no single manipulation. Large operators reportedly bought substantial May wheat positions, driving prices up as a group, though none individually could have cornered the market. Final outcome remains uncertain.
Senators dissect the Canadian reciprocity debate with reports from McCumber La Follette and Williama, amid calls for free list hearings. Lindbergh denounces Democrats, Gronna faces Bristow amendment backlash, and a Volga ferry disaster at Uglitch costs lives.
Work to remove water from the Maine cofferdam advances to ten foot level, exposing midship areas and deck sections where most bodies lie. Plans include blasting and fragmenting forward sections, separating ship parts, and eventually towing recovered portions to sea for sinking after full examination. Recovery of all bodies is hoped within a week to ten days.
Washington June 14 The president and Mrs Taft plan a June 19 reception for their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. More than 3 000 invitations have been sent and daily the president suggests names. at least 4 000 will be invited and three fourths are expected to attend.
London and major British ports join a broad seamen strike with 3,000 at a East London mass meeting. Demands include a minimum wage and safety measures, with protest against Asiatic labor. Reports link the action to Coastwise talks in New York as companies face a Friday deadline and possible general action.
Chicago gains the nation’s largest bank after Continental and Commercial Bank consolidate with the Hibernian Bank association. The combined entity totals $295,000,008 in assets. President George M. Reynolds announced the merger.
A wireless message from Morro Castle station reports the yacht Virginia chartered by C. Benedict of New York was floated off the Colorado reefs near Havana Cuba.
Chicago detectives hauled Til Elizur Yale Smith, a Yale founder’s descendant, back from Kingston New York and charged him with issuing worthless checks at four hotels in the city. He faced a local fur fraud allegation arising from the hotel offenses.
Ossining New York two men were put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison. Frederick Gebhardt convicted of killing Anna Luther in the woods at East Islip Long Island in April 1909 was executed first. Thomas Barnes a vegetable farmer known as Bangor Billy who shot Pack Leonard Went to his death after Gebhardt.
The University of California Glee Club sails on the Pretoria with 15 members aboard. They will give concerts in Paris London Berlin and other European cities during their overseas tour.
Washington reports a silver service to honor President and Mrs Taft on their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Senators contributed and Senator Bacon ordered the rush payment for the costly present.
The Wisconsin Railroad Commission backed the well-water system for La Crosse after a years long dispute over municipal water sources. It will recommend adopting the well system rather than drawing from the Mississippi River.
Former Speaker Jon Cannon rejects a rumor of a vaudeville stage appearance within ten weeks under a contract worth 93000 weekly, denying the claim with his characteristic vehemence in Washington.
Fourteen indictments against five men labeled labor slug gers and gunmen include Maurice Enright a plumbers union businessman who confessed to shooting William Gentleman a union labor agent. The charges stem from three murders amid factional fighting between union plumbers and steam fitters.
Federal agents and Pinkerton operatives unearthed a $150000 counterfeit streetcar ticket ring spanning Cleveland Indianapolis and Columbus. Twenty conductors foremen and a printer were implicated as plates and printing gear were seized. Arrests followed in Akron and Cleveland with bonds set at ten thousand for the Farris brothers and two thousand five hundred for Hart.
A fragmentary market page lists June 16 prices for wheat, oats, barley, rye, and malting grains at Duluth and Winnipeg, plus cattle, hogs, and sheep receipts and prices from Minnesota and Chicago markets. It notes strong cattle demand in Chicago and varied hog prices, with livestock receipts around 25 000 and 16 000 head.
Postmaster General Hitchcock designated 60 additional postal savings banks bringing the total to 700. The new banks include Fort Madison Osage Dowagiac Menominee Austin Grand Rapids Lisbon N C Hudson Menominee and Fort Washington Wisconsin.
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