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A Pioneer WANT AD :: ‘Will Do Ir. VOLUME 2. NUMBER 42. BEMIDIE MEN \'l‘\ ll' ; PUESPAYS AUNE The Pioneer Prints MORENEWS any other news- ctween Duluth Crookston, St. Paunl the North Pole. 1004 Russian Report Says Four of the! Enemy’s Vessels Have Been Destroved. Squadron ag That Port Said to Have Caught the Japan- ese Napping. Iiaoyang, June 7.—Ii s persistently reported here that the Port Arthur squation made a sortie shortly betore dawn Saturda, destroyers leading, anid found the anese feet quite unsuspecting the pres: * ence of hostile warships, with the re sult that four of the Japanese ships were sunk during the attack. _KUROPATKIN MOVES SGiTi Jap: RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERSV NOW LOGATED FORTY MILES BE- LOW LIAOYANG. St. Petersburg, June tary attache of a fixst clas . telegraphed here thiat patkin’s headquarters staft hRs moved forty amiles south of Liaoyung (o & point bLetween Haicheng and D gzalo. Kuropatkin’s move 1is ot ered to possibly foreshadow - s fighting in the northern paic-of 4o Liaotung peninsula, but itds.u o tu assume that his action invoive change in the position of the main army, which, according best information, remains at Linoya.g. Kuropatkin has been subjected considerablée pressure to hglp el the tension at Port Arthu : to the Associated Press Saturda; sent several thousand men down railroad to see what-could be dune impede the Japanese opefations. ‘I force, which there is the best reu to_believe falls-far short-of-thige i sions, not exceeding 10,000 -men at i1e most, is reported to he advancing-6i -peninsula. “Kuropatkin 18 .on hoard a spe: ‘headquarters train, which is con Jy at his disposition. His trip nay ‘only for the purpose of personally ox- amining the situation. vele he e (s " war during the la: y 1s regarded hy the. puhh Tumor ridden by Dbattles. 2 The -admiralty has no infor regarding, the Tokio report that a ks sian gunboat of. the Giliak l,)llk_ J been torpedoed and d 3 Arthm‘ HUSSIAN GUNBUAT IS \" & HIT A JAPANESE TORPEDO WHILE REMOVING MINES NEAR CHINTAOSHAN. Tokio, June 7.—The destroyer flo- tilla engaged in watching Port Arthur from the ‘eastward reports that at 7:40 p. L ce June 4-# Ru n gunhoat of with the torpedo hoat it Chefoo, June T [t e Giliak tvpo s seeu o expiods 1. { and’ sink N Cheénaosh " The vessel; with anothe! 'desuu;ex and...othet. evidenily. engoged-cteartng " tHG Vicin: ity of mines. \When tho explosion-oc- curted the others hurried buck into PortsArthur. FIGHTING NEAR LIADYAKG HEAVY FIRING IN THAT DIREC TION IS REPORTED FROM NEWCHWANG. | g A Mientsin, June 7.—Fleavy firing was | heard ak Newclivang d s Lhe o . coming from the direction of Lo yang. The Russians bave »\(uunrnxl Sin- minwng, about thirty miles T ol It add is that the troaps which were at Simwmin Bulden, and its vicinit tung, are joiniug woops pn the road 10 Mukden, : Nothing is kuown at Newchwang ol the Japanese moy Appvehenslve of the Chinese, Perlin, June 7. ispatch Lokal Anzeiger from Harbin nititude of the Chinese continues (o have already recovered and ‘gone to the front. Japanese Ship Reported Sunk. e Russian con- news: that a sel las been sunk gul -here ha: large Japanesc v by a ming-oif Taliepwan. has not been confumed. It is believed N ESEA NABA RIVER. FOUND Body of Missing “Mayor of Negaunee, Mich., Rccovereg Negaunee, Mich., June 7 of Dr. Hudson, mui was found in the Sa i about two weeks ag araled.— The friend and- searching pacti ing the woods ever finding the doctor al WS 1epuled o be e, LGCKO\JT NOT Tl D heen in hope of Dr ealthy. Paper Miil_ Er'!ployes of Fox H\ver Valley Quit Work Applefon. Wis., June Not one union paper mill employe in the Fox Rivor valley went—to—work Montay= poLuds “The proposed lockout was not neces Usha! 1o, pi6Atice sary. - On a seeret ballot all but two The epot Wit ent men-votad to stay oul-and-on-an open ballot all voted to quit work. “The-manufacturers—are Teported (0. | be under $5,000 bonds each to keep to- gother in_an agreement against the imion, and for a long hour schedile. F/\RMER KILLS TWO MEN. BEBETBOEBEE convene in B GRBEBCBE GGG Ladnes Nursing Our _entire_stock of Ladies’ 19 cents. ® Our entire assoriment of at a discount of price. This is floor rugs at a hargain: & % " @ & @ # B great a & eB BB BB B Next week the Liquor Dealers worth up to 65¢ each, for Cnrpet Samples. | Y, oft from the regular || chance to secure SELELLETIBRE Y The news | Hudson | NECESSARY: | Shooting the Result of an_ Ancient 120 PLOTTLRS’ Vice Admiral Togo expiesses the Soiaton b e Score of Non-Union Men Killed or Iby @ Japanese lorpedo. The ndte of Patally [njured at Inde- royed is un Wi, bat é it had been seen belore om seveial oo pendence, Colo. | casions Ly the Japanese acting as | gnardsiilp at the mouth of bor RERRAR Charge Placed Under Platform Where Miners are Await- ing Train. Cripple Cr miners werce instav or 4en ofhers fatally i plosion that occuyred after midnight at | the Independence 2 L June T Killed and ence and Cripple Cr The canse of (he explosion has uot heen ascertained, but appa the result of a plot auion miners on tha night shiftat the S Teff. Rindlay and Last Dollar mines, whiy had just finished work and weie about o return to tffeir homes. These men had-no warning whatever of their impending fate, The explosi beneati (he fori on which (hey were staiding, Dl hurling mauy of 1 yinto U air, destroying the adjoining rending holé in the euth. awakén apprebension. Women und fis believed go quastily of dyui children -~ are Harbin, - Che Pmite had heen placed under tie pat- spirit of the Tussian troops, the dis-| form ani (hut it Was 56l oift by pateh adas, is uubroken. Numcrous | of slectiicicy or by the Cotiasion tounded men from the Yalu batule | caused by Uic appr s L ler detevtives found e which Sel oft the denamite under G platiorm. - [0l A Fesalve and 300 feet of sle . ATerevo Pyer was placed underneath the mu form close {0 the-powder; Pie C:her fastened toa dhas a lever froa cribbings of the Delmonico proje The whole disfrict is aroused over the catastrophie and further troi- ble is feared. Bodies Blown in All Directions. The train’ had not a Independence depot but short distance of it § W end of the wir leg, which W dved At the fs within Scplosion fitty miner l il and Last e al Ui depot- platform an e blown intg- the-—air-fn—eves man’s body, cut in 1o, I from-the scene ot |h Seven bodies weie 1 o : remnants of others O Lot the terrible nature of their dentification Wis difficnlf, o account wounds ed of iwo-large and was without as this, w fhe fivst teip. of the morning and [nd @ nas the first sla Lngers e expecteil. Phe-ground on-v-hich-i-stool v A gréat-gash, as it o Tt Pgnake had torn up the country -and {left this yawning cavity tofemiad the VAl o im people of a great telt in/every pact of (he_explosion- | direction. Most of the killed and injured were {nonunion miners cmployed i the ¢—mine;-which is confrotled by | Quarrel: wfeitn, president of Ui ington, Va, June T.—Edwardj McCormick, a - young - farmer of con Brownsburg, ~ sixteen miles from here, shot and insignily Killed suspirators evidently did not John W. Wade and Arthur Blackwell. | wish fo Kkill or injure e S The shooting was the result of bad lin charge of the frain which the fll feeling that has gxisted between the | fated miners intended to take for their men for three years. McCormick 8| homes in Victor and Crinple Creck under arrest. The dead men waylaid | When within seventy-five feet of the McCormick and started the fight. davot” at fndensndende. . tha cazine BHGSLEBBVICHIBEBIEER S You'll Want to ECORATE emidji. that is if they can get the material. week, our stock is complete. Buntmo. Flags, Crepe > Paper, Japanese Lan- * terns, Fans, Parasols and Floral Paper. : Veets. i \,\\tef 5ty pairs of La worth Nuising | ] Carpet Samples || | Botter ity about time to This week we | thin goods in i e HOWSER GBS HEER .Conventmn will Everyone will decorate, Only four weeks till the Fourth of July. Buy this Corsets. : odds and ends dies” Corse up to $1.50, per pair 25 cents. i Wash Goods. at new dress this weeks: just have it made up by the 4th. 2 of the Aoods it o ittt ane oL i e ““Jls and save your tickets. One will be a sure winner.—g ,H‘m et T o e Watch on exhibition. Ask for particulars. ! Pleads Cuilt S % (- B R R R-B-E-R-R-R-] VICTIMS, @l ments agains L WAISHO.-SOUNGGH RS- R imenat the_depol to honrd and o warn any In Tuake teif they-Wish cateh EHETTi Train Whistle Signal of The whistle was the i inr no sooner it ounded tha honvd and the o’ if rockad by an e | nnnin Lidden membe fopwar > harror st ht 10 and hasti that that wa [ by the & lauten by the (n\' Secon wiiong of I sl over (he il tand in the twenty-foot Folo nade hy the oxplosion were fouml sovered shkulls, arms, legs and han yer lohiect within a radius from o hi covered wi When news of the disasts I victor Mayor (Frunk {Comnany ... Coloyado nadion {And the sldicrs-are oW on Tho strik Dhocn in offect s (L all men now @ in e Cripple Crenk s neo Aug. 10 employed are ¢ o the + hefore iney belng put, to work. Troops Leave Hanging Rock { Arnorios. four companios lefl Hanging Hock Rostoffice Clerk Uhder. Arrest. Jdnne Fe=-Percy R in th a vl i ihe pos(oce for s, bias been arrested by it Maurshal- Grfmshosy. it almed thaf‘a large number ot lot tors siolen fpom the mail were found {n Roil’s pogsession: SITUATION IMPROVING. Recent Floods Caused Immense Dam: age in Kansas. City,. June Te—All except the' Walnut Veridigris, in the soutlcrn: oo tgtate, continue to falle Pl | named are slowly Kunsas aml thy (ol the Feing w0 drive arounsl Kan, river i ani frovs the Towlass ing families Arkansas ( iy Qoltey valle, but it is not hulw haf-thoy i go ouch uw waters subside thi® gréat of damage wrouzhi e continneus sweep the farms in the practically ynined many amount apparent. waler over month ha of 151 of the stocl suffering that forfood, esciped drowning Tain - serviee i THF’E/\TCNED IN CARNECT. Strike of -:l;(teen Thtmfi.}x d New York Lahore o of —New Yorl, June 7-- A sty 16, 000 membere of the Rockien and 1oy cavato union, which -was fo taken place May 1, i now In good ecarnes Bofore union made a dema onatl contrac tors through the city for o new wage scale and recoguition of Lhe union. { The strike w aboul to he declared when the matter was placed fo tha hanis of a committee for sottlement The men now claim nathi has been | heard since from the cmployers and they are determined 1o carry out the original Jan FLOOD IN THE BLACK HILLS DAMAGE AT DEADWOOD AND VI CINITY PLACED AT A HALF MILLION DOLLARS. DPeadwood, S, D, June 7—As a re- sult of the heavy rainfal rthe Dlack Hills, which has confinued for nearly a week, Whitewaod—Deatw and Choke creck D within the their banies, of barns niial o the city, and the ci 1 One large Two liv Matihew Bend ter City templ to save Boudy. a fain No trains jor leave Deadwo [Teither the Rurling L | was gieaic Lall the bn | being wash @ | Northwe |and the Columbns Minin: { plant nearly destroye:d A ¢ number of vilic w milos di ‘ away thi v is under water.' Creen Bay, W ) REMAIN have heen roc i i . 5 {son from Adinfanf Goneral Oy of 1he Mdbrs to the 1 ; in wediding presents—we-have: the best N e ! [ iow that the risis bas 1 S o & e ok Ll e ] ot i outhn ek Boleved L) things in town. Fiervhing from a deli- it it on (G (LAEHGSERS WIERCAIRG ety iy cate and inexpensive tokén of friendship " i tho capiives, Derdic 5;‘]"] e “:}:::'f‘,;‘}\ F festimoninl of esteem. Showing some v j";';;j,f"’;"‘,l"".} | ~.:\m1‘1m:1..j‘1.1 R fine things in Sterling Silverware, some B bénefivinl which diay il new and “dainty —ereations in wedding - hecomedd thew. mich of the foil-having heen | g waghed away, The witer has been| ™ : over (he whent, corn and aliaiia fields | > S0 long that the Jamners helic hatl Salias crops ave complgtely viined. The Lo |4 = - £ — 5 to- stk witi-be heavier than at Mst] s expected and o most of the farmiees | on the' hottams lost their cribs of corn | st -demoratized i (¢ SGOTRGTIT par | ol the e, althongh it is gradually i fmproying. VARSHIP Naturalist and Taxidermist 208 Second St. Postotfice Box No. 686 = ‘ BEMIDJI, MINN. American Naval Foree at ']',":i.-]‘; BIRDS, WHOLE ANIMALS, FISH, FUR RUGS AND ROBES and GAME HEADS mounted to order and for sale. | carry at all tintes a yood assortment of INDIAN RELICS and CURIOS, FUR GARMENTS made to order, repaired and remodeled Will Not be Reduced for | | ~ v Presi | ! the Presant. ‘ FURS In scason bought. | 1 guarantee my work mothproof and * | Believed by Washington Officials the most lifelike of any in the state 3 That the Critical Point i | s | MY WORK IS BQUALLED BY is Passed. , s Passed ‘ FEW, EXCELLED BY NONE | A Deposit Required on All Work | Eay | Chadwick, | SOLICITED (ed 1o 4 it is bl Towlil not The fecling e partment s in {0 tho pos: g growing ou flect in the hutle i a poriad of devotional warsiin invariably helivies the fnatical e further y it S af of Nioovish upil the fa 1 wins Jiume, the month ol Brides, finds that this Corveet things el Wl store has anticipated it the matter of @ dnd cood wishes to the'more substantial tho- Burepe: i matter has been lett in the bunds i | Admiral Chadwick. } | n ghi for a wedding occasion. vings—Iots of things that ave A telegram was peceived at the navy department during the day annomncl Lt ltimoi e, ¢ e sho the cruf the arrival of of {he Bufopenn squadvon, at (i from Tan 1115 assupmed i wenk to Gibraltar to ik b) Loss Estimated at $600,000. hoond, Vi, dune 7o Bire in tha | ceo district of Danville destroyil thtee warehons A 1,000,000 pounds of lonf tohacco—Fhe Ametican To- FhrErn-con Wi liRsea—o S bulldings. 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