Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 30, 1904, Page 1

'The Bemidji Daily Pioneer VOLUME 1. TRIAL COURT REVERSED EX-MAYOR AMES OF MINNEAPO- LIS GIVEN HIS FREEDOM BY SUPREME TRIBUNAL. HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF BRIBERY EVIDENCE HELD NOT SUFFICIENT TO WARRANT CONVICTION OF CRIME CHARGED. St. Paul, Jan. 30.—Dr. A, A. Ames, four times mayor of Minneapolis, is again a free man. The state supreme court has rendered. an opinion up holding the indictment, but declareg the evidence does not sustain the con- viction secured thereunder. The court’s opinion is unanimous as to result, but divided as to reasond. The majority opinion, written Wy Justice Lewis and concurred Chief Justice Start and Justice Col: lins, is a surprise alike to defense and state. It overturns the lower court on .a point hardly emphasized by the defense, while sustaining the state on the contention which the state feared most and which the de fense based all its hopes upon. The court says the indictment was valid and charged byt one offense, but declares that the state did not prove the offense charged. Dr. Ames is now a free man unless he can be indjcted again upon some other charge, Dr. Ames was under sentence of six years in state prison on conviction of the ¢rime of accepting a bribe from. women of the town. ACQUITTED OF MURDER. 8econd Trial of Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy-Kramer. Kansas City, Jan. 30.—Mrs. Prince-Kennedy-Kramer, on trial & second time for the murder in Janu ary, 1901, of her first husband, Philiy H. Kennedy, was found not guilty by a jury here. At her first trial she was convicted and sentenced to ter years -1 the penitentiary. The" cass was reversed and during her release P e = O Lulu in byl NUMBER 239. | | i I on bond last February she marnen| John Kramer, an attorney, defended her brother, Will who had Prince, ‘who Yater was”convicted on a chargé of conspiring with the defendant tc kill Kennedy. Mrs Kennedy killed Kennedy, who was local agent for the Merchants Despatch Transportation company, a month after they had been married. He had refused to live with her, bringing suit to have the mar riage annulled on the ground that he had been forced into it. The first verdict was reversed on a technicality. Mfs. Kennedy’s defense was emotional insanity and evidence ‘was presented to show that her grand: father and gfeaf grandfather had died in insane asylums, one in New Hamp shire and ‘one in Connecticut. The verdict of acquittal was found solely on the -ground that Mrs. Ken- nedy was insane when she shot her husband. The jury, however, found that/“the defendant has since re- gained her sanity,” which will save her from being sent to an asylum, UNDER SURVEILLANCE. Blackmailers Try to Secure $10,000 From Southern Pacific. San Francisco, Jan. 30.—It is stated that the Pinkerton detectives who are investigating the anonymous Iletters sent to the Southern Pacific company demanding $10,000 under threat to dynamite trains have centered their suspicions on five men now in the vicinity of Fresno and that one of them has beep picked out as the au- thor of the letters. The men are said to be under surveillance, but imme- diate arrests are not looked for owing to the absence of positive evidence. The detectives say that the activity displayed by the railroad in the effort to apprehend the authorg of the plot has frightened the would-be wreckers and that the danger of the threats be- 'ing consummated is entirely past. TUNNEL RAILWAYS, | Great System for Freight Planned Un- der City of Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 3¢.—The Illinois Tele- phone and Telegraph company -has sold all its property to the Illinois Tunnel company, with an authorized capital of $30,000,000. The sale gives the latter company the control of the tunnels, tracks, telephone cables, etc., forty feet underneath the city of Chi- €ago. It is the purpose to make the tun- nels term:nal transfers. The railroads will deliver freight at depot tunmels and trains will carry it to business houses. - 'BEMIDJ I, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY HERRIED DEFENDS DIVORCE MILL by the Chicago, Jan. 30.—Governor Charles N. Herried of South Dakota defended the divorce laws of his state @t the Palmer House, declaring that they were misunderstood by the public. “To secure a divorce ln/Somh Da- kota,” said the governor, “a person must be' a” bona fide resident of-the state. ' The only cases in which East- ern courts have held that South Da- kota divorces were not valid were ones in which it was shown that the appli- eanta far adecree were not bona fide ITCH ASSAILS WOLVES Disease Bids Fair to Wipe Out the Coyote Pest in South Dakota. Oacoma, S. DI, Jan. 30.—About roul years ago the commission firm of Becker & Degan shipped into Lyman county from Texas about 10,000 head of cattle for the range. It proved to be a bunch that was slightly affected with the Texas itch. The result was a contamination of the range cattle In a greater or less degree. Stockmen have by great diligence wiped the dis- ease almcst out, but still there is ap ‘occasional case let run until the ani mal dies. Now comes a strange development in the maiter. Wolves and coyotes that have eaten of the dead animals | have bacoma affected and it is no un BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA. - After Invertory Sale We have just completed our semi-annual inventory, and on aceount of the unusually large business done the past year we find a large amount of remnants on hand. REMNANT DAYS Frlday and Saturday we have desxgnat d as Remnant Days. sale and a great reduction in price. Our entire stock of remnants wil be placed on There will be Dress Goods, Wash Goods, Prints, Sheeting, Lace, Embroideries; Ribbon, Carpets and 0il Cloth, Five hundred yards of 5,6 and 8 cent Outing Flannel at 3 3-4 cents a yard. One hundred Men’s Fine Winter Caps, worth from 75 cents to $1.25, for 50 cents each. Friday and Saturdav will be the last day of our Clothing Sale. CARNATIONS: We expect a shipment of Carnations Friday morning for McKinley Day. Governor of South Dakota Says Famous Divorce Laws Are Misunderstood 30, 1904. Publie. resiaents OI the State, DUT naa gony to South Dakota for the express pur- | pose of securing a divorce. . “There is no sentiment in the state ‘against the present laws governing ai- vorca and I do not anticipate that they: will- be ohanged. Six months’ residence in tlic state is necessary to become a bona fide resident and even then residence is not considered bona fide if applicants-have gone there sole- ly for the purpose of securing a di- voree " D e SECRETARY ROOT RETIRES Portfolio of the Secretary of War Now in the Hands of Gov. Taft. “.Washington, Jan. $0.— presweu Roosevelt, Secretary. Root and Gov- ernor Taft were the principal figures at the day’s' meeting of the cabinet. All the members except Secretary Hay were present. Governor Taft arrived at the execu- tive offices soon after the cabinet had assembled and was shown. directly into the cabinetroom. He remained throughout the session, leaving in company with Secretary Root. The meeting, after the transaction of the usual departmental business, BECRETARY OF WAR ROOT. developed into a farewell for Secre- tary Root and & reception for Govern- or-Taft. The former formally sented Governor Taft to his ¢olleagues as his “successor, expressing at the severance of official relations which he so long had sustained to the presi- dent and members of the cabinet. Tribute to Retiring Secretary. President Roosevelt spoke with deep feeling of the retirement of Secretary Root. He wished it understood that, while in the vircumstances he could malke no public expression of his feel- ings without the appearance of trench- ing upon propriety, he was sincerely indebted to Secretary Root for the great work he had accomplished. No | one, not even a member of the cab- inet, could realize the labor, self-sac- rifice, generosity and disintereste ness which had characterized Secre- tary Root's entire career as a member of the cabinet, or how much his devo- tion to his great task had meant to the administration and to the coun- try. of the secretary’'s work during the past six months when he had ‘expend- without thought of credit to himself, | but-solely with the idea of advancing | the interests of the president, his suc- States, [ . In the president’s tribute to Secre- tary Root the other members of the cabinet cordially joined. / e e—————— Ly s commorn -TNIng 10 8ee a coyoe sniver ing on the prairie devoid of hair. Many of the animals have died from the ef- fects of the cold and stockmen believe | that the entire extermination /of the pests is only a matter of a short time. As the loss “from~the depredationé ot wolves is much heavier than that from the itch the exchange is a good one and cattlemen are not gorry ovel the result. VERY HARD PRES$SED. Kaffirs Join Hereros in/ Attack on Okahandja. Berlin, Jan. 20.—The commander of the German gunboat Habicht, Swakopmund, German rica, cables that he Las rece Ifrom Lieutenant Zuelow, in command of - the German forces—at Okahandia, pre-' same time his personal regret at the Especially had all this been true | ed lavishly of his energy and ahimy,‘ cessor and the people of the United/ that the Kaffirs have effected a junc- tion with the Hereros who are b i s Okahandja w: s St eHE i n'gunt caused concern at the colo- nial office here: The following dispatch from Lieu- tenant Zuelow, sent by messenger via Karibib, has been received here: “QOkahandja, Jan. 20.—Am holding Okahandja. Occupied it Jan. 15 with 200 men after heavy fighting. Am waiting for guns from the Pabicht. Ask for a division of artilery. Weak relief corps with machine gun from Windhoek repulsed 12th and 13th, Loss reported eight reserves. In order to establish connections with the rear and bring forward military transports we attempted today with sixty men to reach Karibib by rail.” A later dispatch, dated 8. Yesterday afternoon, near Kawa- tuerasane, between Waldau and Oka sise, there was a sharp fight. A divi- sion about seventy men strong, sent forward by rail, lost four dead and three slightly wounded. The enemy lost l\\(‘nl) to t\\\'nt) -five dead. BECAME HYSTERICAL. Fire in Chicago Building Results in a Panic. Chicago, Jan. 30.—Notwithstanding recent experience with smoke and | lame tenants of the Masounic Temple, a twenty-story structure, failed to scarec when a fire broke out in the Cosmopolitan building adjoining. The oc(‘np.u'(s of the Cosmopolitan made ¢ exit. On the upper stories of smopolitan a number of women became ,hysterical and, blinded by the smoke, made efforts to spring from the windows. Cooler heads, however, prevented this and the women were carried down the fire escapes. Mina Herma Verba was so severely burred that it is believed she cannot live. Chemicals. she was mixing on the sixth floor exploded and caused the fire. The woman in a dying condi: tion was carried down a fire escape by C. W. Randolph, secretary and treasurer of the Cosmopolitan Light company. Several other persons were burned, but not_seriously. The fire was confined to tlm fifth and sixth floors. BEdward Stokes, \\ho assisted in the rescue of Miss Verba, was probably fatally burned and was taken to the county ‘hespital. Of the thirty-five people on the floor where the fire started twenty-ive were girls and | women. ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT. Jan. 21, WOMEN .| Bechtels Make Charges Against Pros- ecuting Attorney. Allentown, Pa., Jan. 30.—Couusel on behalf of the members of the Bechtel family has made formal complaint be- fore Judge Trixler aghinst District At- torney Edwin J. Lichtenwalner, charg: ing gross and willful negligence in his conduct of the -prosecution of the Mabel Bechtel and the suicide of Thomas Bechtel. Mrs, Catherine Bechtel, her dnugh- ters and Mrs. Henry Newhard, a neighbor of the Bechtels, made/ afil- davits before Commissioner Leidy al- leging that the district attornoy wag in a state of “beastly {ntoxjeation” during two days of the mm, making | a postponement of the cm-)gw by the court necessary. It is alleged that he rr(‘pnm(-rllv kissed Mrs. Bechtel during a visit to the Bechtei home on Tyesday after- noon, Oct. 27, the date ¢f the finding of Mabel Bechtel’s lmdy Mrs. Brobst, Mrs. Béchtel’'s daugh- ter, alleges that the rict attorney made improper propg s to her and Martha Rechtel swears that Mr Lichtenwalner endgavored to make an appointment wifh her. | HAS NO SECOND CHOICE. | e Olney Insists Cleveland Should Be Democratic Nominee. Washington,/ Jan. 30.—Former Sec- retary of State Richard Olney of | Massachusetfs, who is in Washington in connection with the meeting of the trustees of/ the Peabody educational fund, is still of the opinion that Grover Cleveland/ ghould he the Democratic nominee /for the presidency. Asked for his réadons in believing the former president should be renominated he said: “I' can only repeat what 1 have al- ready/ said. There is no Democrat in the country who has-as much strength among the conservative pe ople as Mr. Cleveland. ‘T am still satisfied that if he/were nominated he would be elect- | eal” /The former secretary. had no second chokv and he declined to discuss the pogition of William Jennings Bryan in regard to the'Chicago and Kansas City /platlormq and his intention to an- | tagonize the Eastern Democrats, or | “reorganizer as he terms them. TRUSTEES MEET. { UNIVERSITY Those of Catholic Institution Decide on a Liberal Policy. Washington, Jan. 30.—The annual | meeting of the_ trustees of the Catho- lic university hetd here during the day. Among those in attendance were Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul and Archbishop ‘Keane of Dubuque. A decision ‘Was reached to add a de- partment of pedagogy and & bureau of statistics in Catholic education to | the university. This announcement ‘waq interpreted by Catholic students | and beneficiaries as indicating a liber- al and broad policy and a healthy con- dition of the finances of the univers-| ity. Thurgday’'s action will fnean the ad- dition of a new corps of Instructors. The worlk ta be done by the bureau of statistics of Catholic education will cover the entire United States. cases growing out of the murder ot/ TEN CENTS PER WEEK. ANSWER IS DELAYED RUSSIA'S REPLY TO JAPANESE NOTE WILL NOT BE,SENT UNTIL NEXT WEEK. ADMIT THE- SITUATION IS CRITICAL RUSSIAN OFFICIALS SAY EVERY- THING DEPENDS CON AT- TITUDE OF JAPAN. St. Petersburg, Jan. 30.—The au- thorities here now say that the Rus- sian reply to Japan will nct be trans- mitted until next week. 1t is said that the delay was neces- sary In consequence of the extreme care taken in drafting the document, Viceroy Alexierf's viev re also awaited before its transmission to the czar. It is fully realized forwarding of the a another critical stage tions. everything depending attitude.. It 1s feaved that, despitd pacific influences, the hands of the authorities may be forced on acegint of the extreme excitement of the press and people. A high o “0Of course we cannot xxlc!\'u;{t war. Russia will do her utmost fo offer Japan a hasis for durable péace, but there are limits beyond whig¢h we can- not go. In Korea we grany practict ally everything and in Mumyunh e al ready recognize all \hc/ln.u) rights of Japan and all the /othér powers. Should Japan reject ‘glur conciliatory propositions the worl/ must place the responsibility upon Japan.” An important ;?(ct in connection with the etuation Has been learned by the Associated- Pyess: Within a fort- night bath Rusfin and Japan have officially commuynicated to the United Stat and to/the European chancel lors their ]m\)llmh regarding some of the [mmh ay is This course was view of the ports disseminated. heve that the er will m 1 the nego! on Japan's/ INTERMEDIARY STEP. COnfecpnce of Russian Official Japanese Minister. Pafis, Jan. 30.—It {is understood that/ the conferences between Foreign Minister Lamsdorft and M. Kurino, th'u Japanese minister at St. Peters- irg, have permitted the latter to ad- Nise his government concerning the prnlnon Russia i8 likely to take in the forthcoming answer, but the officials was merely an_inter- ¥y owards adjusting the ronmlntng differences, as the answer {8 subject to change until officially communicated. It is further said that Russia will not answer until she feels reasonably assured that her answer will not- have the effect of precipitat. ing hostilities. The officials here are gratified at an apparently authoritative statement that Japan does not intend to fortify the straits of Korea. They say it will remove one of the main obstacles, as the most recent negotiations showed that Russia was unalterably opposed to the creation of any condition in Korea which would lead to closing that outlet from the sea of Japan, A strong mtimation has been- made that the maritime nations of Europe and the United States would have taken up the question unless this declara- tion had been made. and Korean Disturbances Spread. New York, Jan. ~Internal dis- turbance in Korea is ¢ ding, cables the Horald's Scoul ¢ spondent. It is the result of in x taxation. The governors of three provinces re- port that their officers have been cap- tured by o nized bands and govern- ment fuhds taken. FOUR DEAD AND NINE DYING. Many Girls Polsoned in German Cook- ing School. Berlin, Jan. 30.—A medical inquiry 18 being made into a stPange case of a number of girls belonging to a cook- ing schoge at Darmstadt who were poisoned recently by eating salad made from canned beans. Four of the girls are dead and nine dying. Up to the present the investigation has failed to define the exact nature of the poison, whether it was due to some new plant poison or whether it devel- oped from decomposed meat used in making the salad. MONEY- NEEDED IN FAR E&ao.. Flotation of Proposed Cuban Loan Postponed. New York, Jan. 30-—Negotiations “for. the flotation of the proposed .$35,. 000,000 Cuban loan have come to a temporary halt. The banking inter- ests which have this matter under consideration declare that the Russos Japanese situation makes such a transaction inadvisable. at this time because it would tie up a large sum of money which might be used else. where to lwum ndvnnmge Bryan Hastenlng Home. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 30.—W. J. Bryan is hastening home from the E: in order that he may see his si: Miss Nannie Bryan, who is very ill. Miss Bryan has tubercular peritonitis and an operation may have to be per- formed to save her life, although she is mow too weak to undergo it.