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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1905
Page
2
A jumble of speculative notes and wry observations from a newspaper page. It taunts reformers, hints at wealth and celebrity, jokes about art and poetry, and lampoons politics, with references to Alfred Austin, the Rockefeller family, Jeffries, and King Edward, amid scattered anecdotes and social commentary.
Two prominent Paris officials fought a French style duel last week, described as unusually ferocious. One contestant, aged about 50, sustained a bad scratch to a finger amid the combat.
Ironmaster Andrew Carnegie commends the Duke of Manchester as a good man of integrity and devoted husband. The obituary notes show warm fondness and sympathy, describing the subject as a life well lived and loved.
Washington officials report key appointments and awards across government and military, with naval movements, Panama Canal purchases, and colonial governance reforms. Coverage notes changes in treasury leadership, frontier defense, and imperial administration, alongside cultural and commercial announcements from 1905 era.
A department store in Marshalltown loses 510 dollars in goods. thieves also plunder a Chicago jewelry shop worth 3 000. A Chicago concert singer defended herself, fatally wounding an attacker later identified as Charles Bennett. In Chillicothe Ohio, Officer William Wigan was shot dead by Oscar Evans during a burglary arrest. A deadly string of crimes follows a Walnut Mississippi River Valley dispute ending in seven injuries. A San Diego man kills four people before taking his own life. A Buxton murder near the end of a week sees a husband drugged and a wife shot, with three murders in one week in the town. Memphis sees a double homicide and suicide in a separate incident.
A compilation notes the steamer Thomas W Palmer sunk after colliding with Harvard off Stannard Rock in Lake Superior with no lives lost. Fatal injury to Mrs D W Carle in Cedar Rapids from a gasoline stove explosion. husband and two sons badly burned. John Kraemer killed by dynamite explosion in Butte copper mine. his mother in Calumet, Michigan, mourns. An unidentified man’s body surfaces in Red River at Winnipeg. presumed immigrant. Two Pennsylvania freight trains collide near Hydestown. engineer William Sitting killed, fireman George Biglan later dies, several injured. A coroner’s jury clears Pennsylvania Railroad of blame for the South Harrisburg disaster that killed 22 and injured 100+. Atlas Brewing stables fire in Chicago kills fifty horses. eighty in the barn, thirty saved by night watchman.
A dispatch from St Petersburg reports Ivan Kaleiff, who assassinated Grand Duke Sergius in Moscow, was executed. Mount Vesuvius grows more active with frequent explosions and dramatic lava displays at night. In German Southwest Africa, Capt von Rappard’s company was ambushed on May 3 at the Kutip Kuums river junction while marching to attack Chief Frederick’s force of about 300. six Germans were killed including Capt von Rappard. Capt Baum Geertel later relieved him by a 46 boar forced march.
In Chicago a white and Black conflict erupted after the shooting of a teen by two Black men near Twenty first and Dearborn. A mob attacked a saloon holding a bartender, Bernstein, who was wounded fatally by gunfire. Police struggled to quell violence as rioters damaged property and dispersed after Bernstein was removed to a hospital.
San Francisco May 28 A daring attempt to rob the stamp safe at the post office was foiled by Watchman O Connell who trapped one burglar during the drilling. The bandits fled with about $1400 in stamps found outside the safe. The main safe held $14000 worth of stamps and money, while a cashier room safe nearby held about half a million dollars.
Washington May 23 An nounced at the war department that Brig Gen Henry L Abbott retired engineer officer Mr Randolph of the Chicago drainage canal and Mr Schluesser an engineer of California have been appointed consulting engineers to the isthmus canal commission in addition to the consulting engineers previously appointed There are to be twelve engineers two of whom are yet to be selected.
Michigan City May 23. M J Sullivan a young man with good appearance en route from Ireland to settle at Alhambra Montana leaped from a west bound Michigan Central train near Lake Station and was killed instantly. A substantial sum of money was found in his clothing.
The Council of National Defense will assume control in wartime, aiming to unify Army and Navy efforts. The move places defense in new hands to coordinate resources and policy for coordinated national effort.
May 23 report describes Nicholas II's decree forming a permanent state defense council led by Grand Duke Nicholas and abolishing the old War Council. The move aims to coordinate military and naval administration and harmonize government agencies for national safety.
Washington May 23. The long standing case of Frederick McMaster is settled by issuing a commission to him as American consul at Zanzibar. He has reached an understanding with his wife's attorneys on the maintenance of their child, an arrangement approved by the state department.
In Nashville Tennessee on May 23 tensions rose as three Negroes were shot by policemen in two weeks, two dying. A mass meeting led to the formation of a league to raise funds to prosecute the officers charged with the killings.
In Richland Center Wisconsin a lynching attempt near the courthouse and jail was thwarted by the absence of a leader. Rumors that Miss St John the assault victim was dying sparked crowds calling for action. The sheriff spoke from the jail steps and calmed the mob declaring the city quiet.
Cattle and horse rustlers operate in daylight near cities and target eastern lands held by claimants. State Attorney Backus vows pursuit and a crackdown with special officers to end the depredations, expanding efforts to run the thieves from the country if needed.
Amery Wisconsin May 23 A Polk county pioneer Thomas Guanella seventy five was injured by an angry bull while caring for it in the stall. The animal forced him into the manger goring and trampling him, breaking his left leg and crushing his breast. Doctors attended but hope for recovery is small.
Mrs P J Peterson aged 82 longtime Duluth resident died at Fond du Lac yesterday She was mother of Duluth’s first white child Charles A Peterson Survived by two sons and two daughters She came to Duluth in 1857 from Chicago on the steamer Lady Elgin which burned on its return voyage Peterson had been a widow for thirty years
On May 23 in Helena Montana Judge Henry C. Smith sustained the demurrer to the information in the criminal case against five packing houses, ruling the state anti trust law unconstitutional. M S Gunn of Helena represented the defendants and said the state will appeal.
A clash in Langadina Macedonia between Graeco Macedonian insurgent bands and a Turkish detachment results in eleven insurgents and fifty Turks slain. The report notes heavy fighting with several casualties on both sides.
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