Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 22, 1904, Page 1

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer VOLUME 1. RUSSIANS NUMBER Vague Romors of Big Land Engagement in Which Czar’s With Heavy Loss. Port Arthur Deserted by Panic Stricken (Citizens, and So Will Remain. London, Feb. 22.—Vague ru- mors of land fighting have been the feature of today’s war news. Many reports are circulating, the majority of which lack official confirmation. The St. Peters- ‘Muslin Underwear This week we will sell all Muslin Underwear thathas been mussed by handling at a discount of 33 1- Ladies> Muslin Gowns worth from 50 cents to PER CENT. $3.50, now two-thirds of regular price. Ladies’ Muslin Chemise worth from”$1 to $2.50, Drawers worth from 50 cents to $1.50, now two-thirds of regular price. Ladies’ Corset Cover worth-from-25-cents to-$1, now two-thirds of regular price. O’Leary @ Bowser DEFEATED Army Is Repulsed on Only Garrison 1burg correspondent of the Paris edition of the New-York Herald cables the rews of a decisive en- gagement between considerable bodies of Japanes an troops on the Yula river. The; Russian army was repuised with | a reported loss in killed and cap- tured of 2,500 men. St. Petershurg, Feb. 22.—A dispatch | from Fort Arthur says the first land | encounter occurred during the day. A‘ picket of Cossacks attacked a small (1(‘- tachment of Japanese troops on Ko- | rean territory. The Cossacks captured some Japanese prisoners on whom | they found maps and papers. The collision was presumably be- tween reconnoitering parties. A g¢ eral engagement is not anticipat immediately. A special Port Arthur dispatch says the Japancse fleet was observed Feb: | 18 cruising off that port. Reports from Northern Korea say the Koreans are showing a decidedly friendly attitude to the Russians. The Manchurian railroad is convey- ing troops without difficulty to the | warious points of concentration. [ Native 1eports say that the Chinese pirates, since the outbreak of hostili- | ties, have been displaying such activ-| ity in Fastern Asiatic waters as almost ! to paralyze the coasting trade. Civilians Leave Port Arthur. Further advices from Port Arthur| say that all the women and children ' and most of the male_civilians haw\ left that place and that pmctually; only the garrison remains. i With reference to the sensational| stories of a disaster to Russian troops | at Lake Baikal (one report saying| that three regiments were drowned while attempting to cross the ice cov-; ered lake) it is explained that the; Transbaikal line was blocked- at the. PBaikal station during the night of Feb.! 18 by an avalanche of snow which fell from a neighboring mountain. A train | having trcops on board dashed into the obstruction, the I6comotive was derailed and in the succeeding five cars one soldier- was killed, five were | severely injured. and fourteen wuc. slightly hurt. Traffic was expected to| be resumed the following day. The wave of patriotism sweeping over the empire seems to be swamping racial feeling, even the wild tribes ol' the Caucasus, the discontented Finns -and sullen Poles forgetting their griev- ances and coming forward-to volunteer ) their services to the common father-| | land. REPLY IS QUITE BRIEF. ; Russian Acceptance of Secretary Hay's Proposal. i 22.—It is learned that, | Paris, Feb ;the Russian foreign minister, Count Lamsdorff, has received from lhel ‘Washingten govemment a Lommun\» | cation announcing that Russia’s reply | was- considered responsive 10 the American note on China and would be | | transmitted to the governments of | | China and Japan. The terms of the! ‘ Russian reply are substantially as fol- ' lows: “Russia will be glad to join with i the other powers in the recognition of | rChmese neutrality on three condi- | tions: | “First—That China shall maintain; | neutrality. “Second—That Japan shall loyally | support this neutrality. | “Third—That Manchuria, being the| fleld of military operations, shall not | be included.” | | The reply is quite brief, not con- | taining any language beyond the fore-| going three conditions and the intro- ! | ductory sentence. | DISORDER IN NORTH KOREA. | | 2 " American Women and Children Will | Be Removed. ‘ New York, Feb. 22.—Disquieting | news regarding disturbances in North | | Korea nas been received, says a Her- | ; ald dispatch from Chemulpo. |~ United States Minister Allen is 1 sending the transport Zafiro to remove | ]the American women and_ children (from the Pingyang district to Che- | fmulpa The men will remain there ' for the present. There are about forty | | American residents in the district, in- | | cluding children. | ~A dispatch from Seoul says an Amerl(an gold mining company which | has been operating a valuable conces- sion sixty miles from the Korean fron- | tier at Wiju and employs over sev- !enty Americans fears trouble from | Chinese and Korean bandits. infesting | that region. which is rough and moun- ‘tainous. The focal manager-has tele- | graphed for protection. ] If the surface machinery and work- | of Korean | tric BEMIDJI, MINNE: | ings are destroyea tne company will nancial loss and work e year sustain heavy be set hack t ORDERED BACK TO KRONSTADT. Russian Fleet at Jibutil Not Going to Far East, The St. l‘oterflmr: of the Figaro —cables Paris, Feb. correspondent ! that the Russian squadron at Jibudl, French Somaliland, on the ~Gulf of Aden, has been ordered to return to | Kronstadt. Island of Perim, Red Sea, Feb. 22.— A squadron of warships pd»ml hme at midnight, bound for Suez, It is said to be the Russian smmdmn recently at Jibutil, French Somaliland. SAIL FOR SHANGHAL Cruisers Cincinnati and Albany Leave Manila. Manila, Feb. 22.—The United States | Al ‘prumcwd cruisers Cincinnati and fleet bany of Rear Admiral Evans' bave sailed for Shanghai. Koreans Attack an American. Washington, Feb. 22.—~United States Minister Allen has cabled the state department from Seoul that a company soldiers attacked an elec carriage belonging to an Amer jcan citizen Wednesday night, damag: ing it and injuring the operator. American seamen quieted the disturb- ance. Political Su"pects as Soldiers. St. Petersburg, Feb. 22-—According %o the terms of an imperial order just issued political suspects under police surveillance are permitted to enter the army in the field as privates, after which the minister of the interior and the minister of justice can order the withdrawal of police supervision over such persons. TURKS X(x -\1\' VICTORS ALBANIANS DEFEATED WITH A LOSS OF FIVE HUNDRED DEAD OR WOUNDED. 99 Salonica, Macedonia, Feb. 22—An- other battle occurred between the in- surgent Albanians in North and the Turkish troops Feb. 18. The Albanians were beaten, losing 500 men killed or wounded. The lost heavily. Shemshi Pasha, who was in com- mand of the Turks at Diakova, has been superseded owing to the sultan’s. displeasure at his unduly severe treat- ment of the Alb'mnns HURTS GERMAN TRADE. Grain Merchants Heavy Losers on Ac- count of War. Berlin, Feb. | war already are noticeable on German commerce. It is reported from from Russia into Germany has come | to a standstill. their orders, ways to government use. The German export trade is affected. The Alsatian textile indu records an appreciable falling off exports to Russia and large Ru firms have not wnt Umn vsual orders FOURTEEN PERSONS KILLED. Explosion Occurs in a Paris Celluloid Factory. Paris, Feb. 22.—Fourteen employes of a celluloid comb factory at the cor- ner of Boulevard Sebastopol and the Rue Etienne Mariel lost their lives during the day in a fire which was started by an explosion of gas. About twenty olher ()mnloye% were injured. STATEHOOD OR INDEPENDENCE. bly of Porto-Rico Makes Demands. San Juan, Porto Rico, Feb. 22.—The federal assembly, by a vote of 60 to 15, demanded that Porto Rico be ad- | mitted to statehood or that the island Ye "mmul independence. Federal Assem Mormon Elder Suicides. Kansas = City, Feb. 22—Lorenzo Crossby, said to be an elder in the Mormon church, while en route from Atlanta, Ga., where he had been sta- | tioned until recently, to Holbrook, | Ariz., shot and fatally wounded him- |self in a berth in a Pullman on the southbound Chicago and Alton train near Higbee, )\10. Ligquor Dumped Into Gutter. Bloomington, 111, Feb. 22.—A supply of whisky smuggled into Colfax to be used in a political celebration was ! discovered by the temperance women of the place. They marched into a restaurant where the intoxicant was SOTA. MONDAY. { leaving Albania | tall Turks also! Wil | at a great height. ; doctors and | returned i pxopw" : plosion was caused by ! panes iu FEBRUARY 22, 1404 TEN CENTS PER WEEK. EXPLOSION IS TERRIFIC CAR OF DYNAMITE BLOWS UP AT JACKSON, UTAH, CAUSING WIDESPREAD RUIN. TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE ARE KILLED OF THE FORTY-SIX PERSONS IN THE PLACE ONLY NINE ES- CAPE UNINJURED. LOSS IS VE HEAVY, Brooklyn Worth York, e Fire in Property Nows i to haracter buildings the wed—The- 1 their effo to prevent of the fire to adjacent sisting of tenement houses. Over 100 tamilies were eviceted from the tenements and given temporary refuge by bors.* There was no loss of 1i It is be Heved tween $400.000 and $500,000, frg cause : flammabl of the soon dest men—Hirested v the spread property, con- the loss will be he- on which | there is'said to be §210,000 insurance. Twenty-five ! ed, fifteen oth- ers injured, several, it is believed, fa- tally. and a Pl amount railroad | destroyed by an explosion of oad of dynamite at Jackson, a telegraph station on the western end of the great Ogden-lLucien cutoff on the Southern Pacific railroad. The ex- Utah,—Feh. 32— ve been k of a coilision bes trains; ~due; it s to the failure of the airbrake ap- paratus (0 operate. Kight of the dead and five of the injured are Americe the others arve Greek laborers, The cxplosion following thie collision | between two - trains, which met! head on aimost in front of the tele graph station, was terrific. Bvery- thing within a radius of half a mile was wrecked. The town of Terrace, fifteen wiiles to the north, was shaken as though by an earthquake; window | station at Colon, filtecn | away, were shattered and: thel the explosion was heard in | this city, ecighty-one miles from lh»,-] scene of the disaster. The ground! upon which the trains were standing was torn up tor over a thousand feet, I a great excavation I Thirty Feet in Depth; I | tween said, two ight the the miles sound of and redible | coun- s of a dozen {reight ¢ ines were thrown for in - the surrounding . the station huilding was blown toy splinters, and the dead and injured were scattered for hundreds of feet in directions, most of them having, ¢iothing torn off. Telegraph wires and poles were torn down for a tho nd feer and the lirst knowledge of the disaster came from Terrac fitteen ‘miles away, thé operator that point reporting to headquarters that he saw-an immense cloud of white smoke ascend from - Jackson and spread A relief train with was hurriedly Phe ~train were stretehes from ithis city. the injured, who dispatched with placed in the company's general hos- i pital. 22.—The effects of the ! Ko- | nigsberg that the importation of grain | The grain merchants | are unable to obtain the execution of | Russia having diverted | all the rolling stock on the state rail-| also | the city. | ing temporarily cared for at the ¢ | fore an | attendants fought | and hooted like wild | ed to plunge back into the stored and seizing the supply emptied | |it into the - gutter. Morgan’s Last Canal Speech Washington. Feb. 22.—After routine business in | canal question was taken up and Mr. Spooner, Mt. Morgan, who spoke in opposition to the ratification of the canal treaty, saying this would be his last speeck on the subject. House Considers Naval Bill. Washington, Feb. 22.—The house, apon convening, went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Hepburn (Ia.) in the chair, the senate the Panama | here, who held the floor, yielded to | and resumed considera-i tion of the naval appropriation mn.: Mr. Dayton (W. V&), a mémber of the naval affairs committee, spoke for the Bl life among the for by the fact that they occupied outfitting ¢ 5 which were standing near the spot where the explosion occurred. Of the forty-six persons at Jackson at the time of the explosion only ‘nine es caped death or injury. The great rail- road trestle over the lake w not damaged, the explosion occurring a short distance beyond the western end of that structure. ALL THE INMATES Insane Asylum Near Racine, Wis., stroyed by Fire. Wis., I —All that 1 the Racine county insane mouldering ashes, with aj ating $115,000. The laun-| and pumphouse w saved. All of the 133 patients escaped, the rescue in many cases being made with the greatest difficulty. The fire originated in the attic and was duey to a defective flue. The flam read | rapidly and soon the entire main struc- ture was enveloped in flames. The local fire department dispatched two full companies to the scene and one steamer ‘and hose wagon were alsoj sent, the asylum being four mil ran The water supply was soon exhausted and the firemen could do little to check the flames and turned, their attention lm'unlx the adjoining buildings. { The patients of the institution were finally corraled and brought to the city | on a special train, where they are h:- | The Greeks great loss of is accounted ESCAPE. De- Ricine, 22 mains of asylum hall, police office and the courthou Many of the patients were thinly clad and suffered much from the severe cold. The fire started about 8:15 p. m and was fought for nearly an hour be- alarm was sent to this city. time the. blaze was beyend Meanwhile the keeper and heroically in rescu of -whotiyeled and want- ! flames. By that control. ing the inmages, many beasts THREE PERSONS KILLED. Thirty-four Others Injured in Powdet Mill Explosion. Paterson, N. J., Feb. 22—An explo | sion dt the Laflin & Rand powder| mills at Wayne, seven miles from caugsed the death of three men. Three mills were wrecked. i Al Jackson and James Weir were killed instantly, their bodies being blown to piecess-Frederick. Weimer died an hour later. Thirty-five ulhml employes were injured, several seri | ously. The cause of the explosion is| unknown. Its force was felt here, in Newark and in other nearby cities The town of Little Fal five miled| from the mill, was badly shaken and| many windows were broken and sev- eral large brick chimneyxs t‘o}la;)wd' Poctors and nurses were sent from| here to"the scene of the disaster. L $615,868 | found elovated s | deliver Ptional advance was due larg | elamor Lexcitenient { Armour, who for | off i the | PE ' as secretar MONEY FOR House Committee Completes Annual Appropriation Bitl. Washington, Feb. 22--The committee on Indian pleted —the - Indian—approp The m recarries a total tion of INDIANS. house ation appropri stimate he amount 108 s this hill carvic 100 fifitling & 3 ohligation 077.764: gratuitios, $566,000; incide expenses $76,0005 miscollane $3.651.868 . schools, Murder Is Suspected. 22 =I5 DI Kumler, 11, was the South Side structure near Tweltth stroc It is believed by the policethat the man was slugged on the elevated st tion platform and his body thrown over the railing. WHEAT GOES TO $1.07 | SENSATIONAL ADVANCE ACCOM- Chicago. Feh. Jr., o young stockman of dead beneath PANIED BY ENORMOUS TRANSACTIONS. 22 for: May at wis extremely Chicagzo, I'eh. Wheat during the day The market sold 8 bushel factive and the volume of trading was of enormous: proportions. The sensa who were afraid to fes over a two days’ anxioty of shorts, maintain open tre recess of the board. The Pit wae (he center of uproar and which never ceased or abated from the opening of the sesston until the gong announced its clo respect the day was unlike any ous since excitement over Russo-Japanese war began no varying degrees of intensity in (he whish reigned and (he of oevery trader were at tl tengion every minute of the The advance was irresistible. months has Heen the almost - undisputed monarch of the wheat pit. sold millions of bushels of the grain, but for every hushel offered there w two demanded by the pro- fessionals or outside traders, imbued with a desire to buy that was little if anything less (han frantic. The market hesjtated somewhat prev nerves highest on, at i the outset and a momentary calm pre- wave | suddenly a buying It faigly swept brokers their feet. By leaps and bounds May price; “which slipped from $1.04 at the opening off to $1.02%, went soaring to $1.07. accompanied the mlmxue {RY HEATH 180U’ vailed, but struck the pir. TENDERS RESIGNATION AS SEC- RETARY OF REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE. Cleveland, Feb. 22.—Perry S. Heath, former first a ant postmaster gen- eral and secretary of the Republican national committee, has wired his res- ignation of the latter position feom here to Acting Chairman Payne at Washington as follows: “Due to the death of Chairman Hanna I tender to you my resignation of the Republican natio committee, effective immediately Mr. Heath stated that the telegram told the entive story and he bad noth- ing to add to it. al TRAMP SECURES DAMAGES. Court Decides He Has Rights Train- men Must Respect. Des Moines, Feb. -The lowa su- preme court has decided that a tramp hag rights which a trainman must re- spect, affirming a decision from Potia- wattamie county, in which Joseph juries sustained by reason of forcible i Johnson secured judgment for in- ejectment from a moving train. The lower court first held that a tramp had no rights and that the train- man was justified in throwing him from the train, no matter what the re- sults” might be. A new trial was| granted and a favorable decision ren- dare” ~Four Passengers Seriously Hurt. Pittsburg, Feb. mer avenue electric car, with all brakes off and carrying twenty passen- | down Fifth meunr‘: gers, raced madly from Grant almost to Market street. For fifteen minutes after the car came | to a stop it blazed-like-a farn The blowing out of the motors caused pa A 5 Lor | *of startlin $1.07 | ; to the | v Inoone | | the | there were. Pandemonium ! 22.—A blazing Larl- ats Four- of the passengers were seriously hurt. {1n the water at Bowleys wharf. FEAR EUROPEAN VAR WILDEST EXCITEMENT ON PARIS BOURSE AS A RESULT OF TLING REPO STAR RTS: ALL SEGURITIES DEPRECIATE HEAVILY RUMORS INCLUDE POSSIBLE MOB- ILIZATION OF FRENCH AND GERMAN ARMIES. FEELING NOT SHARED BY BRITORS ARE PREPARED FOR EVENTUALI- TIES BUT DO NOT EXPECT HOSTILITIES. 222-Wild s excitement tho-resnit Parfs. Feb prevailed on” the hourse countradictord v ceruing possible world comp growing cut of the Ovient rumaors the mobilization the French The also that 3 exercised by the veport betwren (he United Spates and in consequence of the refusal of Rus- sia to arant an exequd r (o Mr. Mor- gan as United States consul at Dalny. Financiers asserted the market was in such a sensitive condition that the wildest rumors taken up and might lead to serious complications. The fizancial authorities claimed that not since 1882 has a wilder scene oc- | curred on the bourse. Almost from the opening the lead- ing fall. French rentes were particularly affected. Rus- slan imperials dropp as did other foreign honds. During the early { hours heavy depreciations occurred on all sidas brutal sacri- Fflces of value Spanish- rentes were specially attected by the great I fusion which prevailed over the foears Lor international complications, This state was aggravated during the clos- ing hour and the excitement, which amounted to panic, was ubled. Freneh, Spamgsh and Tuckish rentes WOTre Ot |'~\|‘*)um| a great upr AL the “Close the market was voery agi- tated. - neluded of HIMOS pros; Gi aveni suid infl o were sccurities began Lo alsol leading up to Con- NOT SHARED | Uneasiness on Continent Regarding European War. London, Feb. The on the Continent in regard to the pe sibility that a kurog 1 WAl may en- sue from tho struggle in the Far Bast is not shared by Great Britain, No power has made such complete navial preparation as Great Dritain and yet powherc is confidence greater that the hostilities may be conlined to Russia and Japan than it is in London. Tho naval and uilitary proparations an- nounced trom the Continental capitals are reparded here as being mere com- mon senge measures, which any power must adopl. however remote the con- tingency ot their employment may ap4 pear. 1t is also thought that the lu in the actnal war news has led many | European correspondents to use thelr | spare time in exaggerating the Con- tinental action and In applying such steps as have heen actuelly taken to erroncons motives. The latest of these, the dispateh from Madrid an- nouncing that preparations have been made to send reinforcements to the salearie islandsy; mects with an em- phatic denial in inte el quarters and the additional statement from Madrid that Great! Britain intends to seize—Spanish points i the event of war has nol eéven the semblance of probability. The stock markel was heavy very weak during the day. IN LONDON. 94 and IS OFFICIALLY DENIED. the Mobilization of the French Army. Fely -The foreign denies the report circulated on the | bourse of the mobilization of the French army and no information has been received that such a step has been taken by Germany. All that has® beer done has been-to take measures of a precautionary character, not be- cause of any fear of immediate trou- ble, but to be for possible eventuali oftice offi- cials also lared that the bourse panic was utterly without reason, ETAKING DEFENSIVE MEASURES. [Ur\usual Naval and Military Activity in Sweden. Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 22—Un- usual npaval and military activity is {digplayed_in connection with neutral- ity med 5. The coast artillery has been ordered to be in readiness, war- shlpc are being sent to Gothland isl- ' and and the coast defense battleships | and torpedo boats have been ordered to be prepared for active service. Report of Paris, office One Death in Baitimore Fire. Baltimore, Feb. 22.—It was thoughd¥ that not a life was lost in the fire here, ibut a charred body, supposed to be .that-of a colared man, has been found. The body is so badly burned as to ‘be un< recognizable.