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A Pioneer WANT AD ‘Will Do It. _Several—Persons—injured: V OLU\IE NUMBER 2 17 Bl‘u\lll)ll \IlNNES()’l‘ DU l\\l) AN MAY. 12, 1904, The Pioneer Prints MORE NEWS than any between, Duluth Crookston, -St. Paul wined the North Pole. other news- TEN LL. S-PER-WEEK- CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENCY Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, Would Like to be Roosevelt’s Running Mate. Washington, May 12.—It is stated that Senator Fairbanks of Indiana has informed the president that he desires the honor of running with him. If this is the case It settles the ques- tion of the vice presidency. Senator Fairbanks, unwillingly, was the fore- most man for the place, and it is quite, will- certain that Senator F @xb{mk:, 1Dg aud €ven Qesirous Of FUNUInE, Wikl be the choice of most of the big lead- ers. The president himself might find some one whom he would like better for a running mate, but he has no ob- jectlons to Senator Fairbanks and, as a matter of fact, theypresident has an- nounced that he would not interfere in thé selection of a candidate for the second place on the ticket. HAYTIAN BANK SCANDAL. Many Germans, English and Ameri: cans Imprisoned. ‘Washington, May 12.—Mr. Leger, the Haytian minister at Washington, has cabled his president requesting to be fully advised as to-the situation in that country. The minister has had no intimation of the impending trou- Dle there, although he knew that his government was prosecuting a num- ber of cases growing out of the Hay- tian national bank scandal. As a re- sult of this prosecution it is said a number of Germans, English and Americans have been imprisoned. ‘Whether they are still incarcerated or are out on bail is not known here. They are charged with issuing false bonds to the amount of $2,000. = ¢ AMERICA AS COMMON FOE. Colombla and. Venezuela Plan Latin- American Alliance. ‘Washington, May 12.—The state de-- partment has information that Gen- eml Reyes of Colombia and President Castro of Venezuela are attempting to organize the republics of Central and South. America into an alliance that will be unfriendly to the United States, gspecially in a eommercial way. This long has been one of Castro’s pet schemes and the state department officials are not surprised that Colom- bia is suporting him. They do not be- lieve the movement will become seri- ous, for Castro recently failed in re- yewed efforts to secure the co-opera- tion of the other Latin-American coun- tries. RIDICULOUSLY EXAGGERATED. Reports of Peruvian and Brazilian Bor- /der Skirmishes. Rio Janeiro, May 12.—Reports from Europe recelved; here show that the Dborder skirmishes which have been go- ing on between the Peruvian and Bra- zilian troops in the Alto-Purus and Alto-Jurua districts have been ridic- _ulously exaggerated. ‘The Associated Press correspondent is authorized by the Brazilian government to say that successful negotiations for an amicable settlement bétween tlic two govern- ments are fully expected. The depar- ture of the Peruvian minister to Bra- zil was purely a personal matter and without any political significance. May: 12.—A head-on south- Atlanta, collision Ga., between mnorth and __bound: passenger-trains-on-the-South- ern-occurred near Rockmart; Ga: last night. Several were mured. but not _meriously. o s “APPENDIXLESS CLUB.” All “Veterans” of Operations Are to Be Eligible. Sioux City, Ia, May 12.—The Ap- pendixless ‘club is to be the name of a unigue social organization promoted by Hamlet A. Rye of the National Bis- cuit coinpany. -Mr. Rye has called a meeting of all who have lost their vermiforms and PUTPOELST permanent organization. « “It will be something like a G. A. R.,” ' Mr. Rye said. “We can talk of our wounds and our battles within the [ g prison walls of the hospitals.” FOR MAN- AND WIFE DEAD. Probably Swallowed Poison and Then ‘Turned on the Gas. _Chicago, May 12—Secretary Edward Jarnigan of the Potter Paper company and his wife were found dead in their home Tuesday. Ajpearances indicate that both had sualloned poison and 4 then turned on the gas. STEP TO REOPEN THE IROQUOIS. for Remodeling Laid Before Building. Commissioner. Chicago, May 12.—A step towards opening the Iroquois theater has been taken, Plans for remodeling the in- terior in strict compliance with tlie or- dinance have been laid Dhefore Com- missioner Williams by the new own- ers, Hyde & Behman of New York and Harry Davis of Pittsburg. A seating capacity of 1,600, which Is not far from the old capacity, provided for. -The steep pitch gallery is modified. . In the rear of the main floor of the balcony and of the gallery are planned fireproof walls, which will make passageways lea to exits. i BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Plans Queen Liluokalani, former sovereigr of the Uawaiian islands, is ill*at her apartments at°the St. Louis world’s fair. Brigadier General Peter T. Sw U. 8. A, retired, is dead at his at Los-Nietos, Cal, aged seventy-four years. Part of the Russian loan issued in Paris has-been taken by ‘New York banks, the National City being among those participating. The Chilean cruisers Esmeralda and _Chacubuco have been definitely sold to Charles R. Tlint of New York. The contract price is $5,150,000. > The French government has made M. Philippe Bunau-Varilla, first minis- ter of Panama to the United States, an officer of the Legion of Honor. A strike of 2,500 journeymen bakers. has begun in Berlin. They demand higher wages and a discontinuance of the system of baarding with their em- ployers. Ope ' of the largest dry goods:job- bing houses in the country, Sweetser, Pembrook & Co. of New York city, es- tablished in 1854, has adopted a puh(,y of gradual liquidation. Colonel Henry E. Bristol, U. S. A, tetired, 1§ dead in New York city. Hc entered the army under General Lewis Cass and after the Civil war served in several Indian campaigns. Professor Henry Clark Johnson, at- thor of many text books and an as sistant corporation counsel of New York city since 1899, has been found ‘deadin his ents there from heart disease. . * VMAR’KET ‘QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, May 11.—Wheat—May, | 9314¢; July, % @S07KC. on track— No. 1 Northern, 9 St. Paul Umun Stock Yards. St. Paul, May 11.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $4.50@5.00; common to fair, $3.50@4.2 and heifers $2.85@4.25; veals, $3.. $4.20@+ Sheep—Good Lo yearling wethers, $4.73@5.15; $4.75@5:10;- good — to-—choice $5.10@5.65; fair to good, §4.7 Chicagé: Grain and Provisions. Chicago, May 11.—Wheat— May, 9134c; July, 853 @85%%c; old, 8(. 5 Sept., 80% @80%c; old, 81%c¢. May, 473%c; July, 48%c¢; Sept., | 4814¢; Dec., 43%c. Oats—May, 4l%c July, 38%c; "Sept., 31@31% Po choice hea lambs; 5@5.00. May, $11.10; July, $11.273%; Sept 50. Flax—Cash, Northw sleln South July, $1.0416. 5018‘ c; dairies, $1.01% enefl '~m, Tlc; ‘springs, 1% to 2 50@6.00 per dozen. pounds, $ 33333333333 UN ATU We will sell 333323333333 Waiters’ Barhers’ Commencing ] NIGHT Fancy VESTS at s off! 75¢ Black Coats fi 85¢ Coatsfor....... Store will close at .7:30 P. M. mfl““\‘ : --i‘?eifi'eé‘:‘ TIL RDAY choice of our .59¢ '!\ or Monday, May 16, North-as Harbin. St. Petersburg, May 1 |fice announces (hat il Kuropat kin has ordered a gencral fetreat. ior {the: momeunt will Holid onto Liao )m.., but there is no intention on his Japancse garris ted_stoutly and | succeeded -in- driving off the cnemy Later Japanese reinforcements arrived from Pingyang. ions point fo the prescnce of | i > Wit of; s aR an force at Yongbyong, botw ,,n;p.\n to fight a general action there if Anju avd Unsan, DUL it probably fs LS €Al possibiy Gvolt it e plain Small. It is evident that these Rus:| Ut W5 that Kutopatiin s not e oaval O nt i fos ronougll troops on the gronid (o risk ¢ : W goneral action. Pendine the arrival | 1g the Japan-fof reinforcements he will. if hard ese flanks and lines of communication. | pressed, vetive-from Linoyag to-Mu den, and from Mukden, if to Harbin. o REVIEWS RUSSIAN TROOPS. Fifty Thousand Men March Be'orc the Czar. Petersburg, who w and sev s and a’ brilllant staff, y 60,000 troops on the Champ de Mars during the morning. al - con- course viewed the brilli spoctacla: As each regiment marched past the emperor the soldiers shouted, “Good health, your majes A grand charge of Cossacks ended Lhu review, RU!Ng IN WAKE OF RUSSIANS. The Japanese report of the fighting at Anju does not give-any losses Reoul, May 12—A Russian forc timated fo number 200 men, is at- tacking Anju, about sixty miles south- west of Wiju, Korea. The small | anese garrison of that place is fight- ing fiercely. ‘Phe fighting at Anju commenced early in the morning. The Ja ! garrison has sent a telegram to nearby posts on the Wiju road for reinforce- men The sudden attack on the Japanese garrison at Anju by 200 Ru con- jous reports of the presence n scouting parties behind the ese lines. The small Japanes at Anju indicated that the blow was not. e\peuud St May 12—Emperor ral of Set Fire to Villages and Burn Stores in Hasty Retreat. ANOTHER POPULAR LOAN. Kobe, May 12.~In the haste of thelx e 5 retreat from Newchwang and other Japanese Cabinet Decides to Raise pomis (o cseape being cut off by (he Money:at Home. Japanese armies, which landed Tokio, May 12.—At a cabinel meet- [ on both sides of the Lioatung penin- ing during the day it was decided to | Bula, the Russians have burned and destroyed their stores and set fire to many villages. REVISED CASUALTY LIST. Thirteen Hundred Dead Russians on Yalu Battlefield. Antung, May 6, via Scoul. May 1 An official report of tie casualties al the baitle of the Yalu shows a list of ficat another popular loan of $50,000,- 000, at 95, redeemable in five yeurs, with interest at § per cent, payment to be made in ten Installments coni mencing in June, nexi An imperial ordinance providing for the:loan will be issued about May 20. *Should-the loan be over subscribed an equal dj tribution will be made among the ap- plicants, instead of giving preference to small subscribiers as was done in dleslannnesaregiicoimitLng fd o) WILL DRAW THE JAPS ON. men were: found Qead on ' the feld, i are in Japanese Hospi- 475 wounded 1 Kuropatkin to Remain on the Defen: tals und sive Until'August. - * Paris, May 12.—A dispatch (o the Temps’ from St. Pctersburg says Gens eral Ruropatlkin will not take the of- fensive until the end of July, ag it-has Dbeen decided to draw the Japancse as far._as possible—into-the—interior of Manchuria. men were taken pri "lhrl captured” Russian munitions of war being brought to Antung include 20 field pleces; 10 machine gins, much small arm ammunition, 20 transport wagons, 2 ambulances and band fnsiru: lets. 5 TRAIN REACHES PORT ARTHUR. No Japanese Troops Observed Near the Railroad. Swedish Minister Explains. St. Petersburg, May 12.—The Swed- fah-Norweglan minister, in an inter- view during the day, explained that ~ The Jap Fleet. th of Lieuten- ring that | i 12 No-mews | BATTIE tho repute] St Fetersuite, Miy {2mOTRERS lant Oetiorl Znssalitcl, Bus been received from the seat of [ B HEC o possinility of a | war confirmatory of the many mnmmm"” engagement ai Watungticn iy ad- | of heavy fighting which are drifting in | pjjiieq, although no information has | from abroad, mainly through Japan- |been received. jtul if an engagenient | ese sourecs. There have been violent ! has occurred there they insist it conld thunder storms over Siberia and the [ not have been of importance, as the telegraph is working badly. Whatever | garrison is smail. : ] official information has reached th The Russian foree at Newchwang is the place was sl | to the Jast advices. " POSITION. emperor has not been made public | withdrawing, his majesty left Tsarsko ly in the | beld, according morning to attend the revi HOLD STRONG not returned late in the The general stafl admits it is v advices as to whether the railroad or telegraph to Port Arthur ar Upon several poin information is vouc Tibetans Will Stubbornly Resist Brit-| ish Advance. 12 —Mounted infan Camp-on-t t—the b New York, ments, the-latter perforated-with-biul--{— JAPANESE FORCES STEADILY AD- Newchwang turning Lo (he city. tillery is ready for instant tran 8h tion. i The raports of fighting at Ligoyaug have ot been confirmed. sibility that it was merely a brush witl hrigands Haicheng b Japs Drive Off Force of Cossacks Who Attack Korean Town. VANCING ON RUSSIAN STRONGHOLD. May 12.~-The Ru in the vici and some of then The Ru anhaikwan Theve is e e troops from Linoyang. with MINE “flo'RR’()R Six Men Killed and About One Hundred Sermusly Injured by Powder Explosion. Toklo, May 12—Details of the af- S ; : tack Dby Russia ks at Anju tack by Russion Cossacks at auin| oroens aenemar retreat. |GREEPING ON PORT ARTHURY . _ a, liave been received heve. The ! Murphysboro, 11 May 12--Six men | The mine was badly wrecked, mak- Russian—cavalry numbered, 200 men | Kuropatkin May E\cn Retire as Far il were Killed and a lavge mumber hupned | i0g the work jcult: Thirty and their attack spirited. The as the Toof an explosion of pow. | wine niul der in shaft No. 7 of the Bis Muddy | PUlngiminety Conl and Tron*Mine company.at Her- | 5e Sl e oliine rin,_ Uventy-milos -from-t o ey 10 assist with the res: men are emplosed-in o broth i iug reachod: nawed Williaws. ) DATE OF LAND SALE CHANGED 1t s toportod teredthat the Jupancso e Lako roseryation lnndi ag Thief River are Groeping-closely to Dot Arthur, Washington, May 110 Owing Lo o padis, sisty mifes from Crookston, 1t is belloved. that the 1Mirse Japan ut-mhu( of dates with the ~u‘iv of the hwm - 2 instemd of the da a6 nmny Corhs 15 Gl at Fonghman, | Chippewa Tudinh lands at Ceankston, | 19 Vel | Tha (opletor and re cheng Ainitg on® dund Commissioner | civor of the Crookston land office lichuds, of the 1l Land ol il be at both openings to- expedite State Department and Report of Rus sian Official. NARROW ESCAPE “OF FIREMEN. RESULT OF FAMILY TROUBLE. Washington 3 ~Tha state patlmeit his condluded ot (o make [ Wreckage Jmprisons “Them in a Burn: | Michigan Man Kills Wife and Attempte an_oficial protest to-theHussian oy ing Building. Suicide. ernmont araiist the lrest ulteran . May Five firemen e | Menominee, Mich., May 12— One of. Of Mo iyt RASRIanN miisior 10 oscaped death fn o haiaing | Che most tereiblo erimes {n Uhe history Koten, retative to tie conduct of the [huilding at 61 Lystitute place carky -t ofMonomiiee s eommited—duting offirors~ ot the Umnitod - States &l [the day, the day Fred Ziemain of Neenah Vi cetion with (heSu Whon (he firemen adved the three [murdered his wite by cutting het earing of Ui Variug and Lupper (oors of - the stretinre, which fAhroat sithoa razor, then he hall sevs Koriotz, {8 tonanted by eabinet and: pinne ke eEeT= hts own-—head —with the same Naval officors Hore have shown con: [ prs, wag blizing hody, DHres plpemen [weapon.CThe crdme was done i the gidepable fealing over the criticlms [ elimbed ladders to the thivd foor and [ house James Smith, brother-in-law. “cting e honarof the Unitod | toread «heir way into the cenrer of |0l the del woman. avy and-are desirous the bullding, Binding the et oo | The Zicmanns Tad not lived together made s Lo great they toied oo cotroat and then [for fonic ttme. — Mes. Ziemann - h statements were given publication i (discoveftd the door bl been caaeht {lately artived. Gom Neepah and w thie Official Mossongors thus stamping L by ralliog wierkige: - When ten s flolosed by hee fisbiad. Al Tast ag them 45 official, * Thestate department | e Al e (e e did ot | pounits Zicmann wis atill-idive, - with ofiidials, Nowover, are dishosed Lo :N ap) firemen Wont Lo e ros: | SHATL Chanies OF ieovery. : nore the incident, one of them explain- feye and careieid them from the build 7 t ing that M. off's titterancos are, Hng,. They were soon revived. ALLEN MAY RETIRE. in a measuro, donable, A yiew of | A few ‘minut far two pipeme f 7 {io himiliations. which he - las: sut: Lwere om the roof, whan iU wave way; | Resents. Interference of President in fered in being expelled from Korea. | They saved themselves by clinging to His Department. Making due allowance for his state of | the wall until ladders cauld be rin up Washingtan, May 12--There is a mind, sccording={o the stato depart o them. 2 % 3 fek L Allen, ment officlals, (he department will not > sloner of paténts, will retire nuuu' the matler. MURDERED BY NEGROES- of It forence with his official s i S Presfdent Roosevelt, - No GUNSOAT ASKED FOR- Kansas City Printer Killed in Presence His Wifs & Belligerents Expected to Protect Brit- e A “ish Interests at Newchwang.. DiihcT rdent. London, May 1 sarl Perey, under iy vt el KL To Wi lhu applica- 5 during the pursuit that the Russian squadron at Port it the force ) e s being destroyed to prevent its | after the f !’ o .oBpo v“‘ Ffalling into the bands of the enemy is | advance of oucl Younghushand's | i ys a Tim pateh from scouted at the admi V “We. are noL going 1o repeat [ mistake Tane at »m“«.,.» | Vice Admiral Roj: V. | der cf the Baltic fie Tibet rongly forii- | comman- | fled Jor | Worst Comes to the Worst ot | the squadron will put to sea, engage | S import | the enemy and inflict h-dam- I.’Hasa | age as possible before to the nastories { wbr;l.um But you can s that it is a 1 | Hlittle early yet to talk ot such despera- | | tion.” | The general has lu € ive that tienling | that the | stafl Emperor Censured Ministars for Neg- lect of Duty. Both New- ‘ chwang are from on | Fenghuanche Thérefc 1 5 R imporiance is impos- ! gible for at least two days. The gen- eral staff is witbant joformation re peror having e hleh for negl arply ured_his min ‘ ct of their duties. wi British con asked for a gunboat for the protection of i heavy. ILL MAKE NO PROTEST. Bl t ish interosts thore o view The 1 L0 4 Uk tion in the hunse of common ul at Newchwang had not toduy divected that the sule of the Red o wor Thomas A, inven- o patet conneciion [ tion® of fo in home some time in the southern p.m of the city during the j: | Lo d340n, m/ 1 dey n ho ceopd IN ILLINOIS mino and they had just ‘n were . A car containjng fiity & Vil plo- oxploded. The cans s ral is-not knowt Al noon of the tollowiy f woulided may beshut-off from the res- wine 1 cuers and that they way die before be- g (o Miss Miye T refiorted L in o | matter to the police, wo neerocs. en i i stdent ord; 1 O | fared ULe st —g—gtto i i Tomplaint - by L which \H\ shad refused. the mining of the port of Slite, on the { Londor tha—posstiit worning, While one held i woman | igland of Gothland, and-other—Swedish-{Central Now ands. New to prevent her giving the Ui | b 3 ey? ports was in order to preserve the | A train hence fied Port Aviur | ter of war his majestyis g other strugeled with Meyer, slashiig | 7 neutrality of Sweden in the event of | Tuesila d officials say | some time ago ook the on him with . razor on the head, theoat | ONEY EIGHT THOUSAND MEN. complications in_the . Baltic avising {that no Were o 7 fing the Lelli Wi hody. s Meyer beenime S from (e War in (e Far Bast. near the o i Us of Briti selous, anil did- not recover untl-muny (Small Japanese Force on the) Lidotung = ane angoyernment prom | pours Jater, whea she found hee b Peninsula. Prospectus of Japanese Loan, ised—that-ull=—precantions— wonld 5 hand dead. The howse had been pdu | Pavls, May 12 The St P London; May 12=="The prospecius of taken: Should the Rus: fire from [ spefed. Mhi police have fonud e | porraspondent of the Il the Japanese loan of $50,000,000 was | Gensan say that 450 Cossacks are still | Newclhwang he (fhe secretany) did Pirace of the negroes. <% It Is now certain that the Japanese issued during the day. The issue price |at Songjin, about 150 mil north of | mot suprose there would be any pro o bavee yot landod mord than 3,000 men . {48 93%5. Jengan. {ection for British lfe-or property Serious Riot in Chinese Town. Pt Plisewo. Only a few detachments against brigandage until the entry of Sl et May 1 : s a tjot | oL the advanee guard reached the rafl- the Japnnese info thoilown, at Clhinkiang duri 1oh sl they et i sevorl place ‘ R o Bl ¥ then recelved « s to fall back I | P I St Petersburg, May 121t iy L '{\..',':1",,,. 4 or | nuljoin - the main force, leaving. the mored here that Licutenant Gene ) | 7 e fioc Zassnlitch wis kitled in the battle at | WOURAes : | [ Maoticnting pass Tuesday, when Gen instructed for Roosevelit. l Another Japanese Bond Issue. . — eral Kuroki's troops cume up with the New Haven, Conu, May 12 —Fhe ad Loniadon, M 12 ~The correspond- Russians and-drove (hem from (heir | minisfration. of President Roosevelt bentof the Central News-at-Tokio-ca- P A h tposition, ; : : wirs endorsed gl-the Connecticat Ree [ bles that a second lssne of exchequer While (ke rumor has not been sub- ghblican convention during the day honds, amounting o 350,000,000, will worSt Comes TO WorSt At Ort rt ur stantinted by official reports it secnmi ulum it was recommended that th fonrs probalily be made ot 3l!w Lof ‘the = 5 5 certafn that the battle was hard fought | teen delegates chosen for the national month. ~ The cabinet- will hold ‘a con- RUSSlan Shlps WI“ Engage and (hat the nlosses were | eoivention At Chicago vl as. @ ublt (eronce on the subject with- bankers 4 and financiers for his l»umlunliou War-Lord of the Far Is a close personal study of the Mikado by one who knows him, illustrated with drawings by native Japanese -artists in the May number of the Metropolitan Magazine R. 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