Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 2, 1904, Page 1

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I TR O U G g g g g g g Local Agen‘tng MINISTER BOWEN REPORTS. | Venczuean ) GaTest = i port to the asphalt lakes bofnrc notice Tells of Seizure of American Gom| of suit was served on the defendant pany's Property in Venezuela. | company. Washington, | Minister Bowen explains that while clal acconnt of the the statutes of Venezuela authorize eznelan government embargo proceedings such as th seizure of the properiies of ‘ the case of leases this would sca York and e phalt company | apply to the New York and Bermudez has come 1o the statc lepartment in | Asphalt company properties, which a cablegram from Min at | are held nnder concessions. Caracas. Mr. Rowen The custodian, Mr. Carner, seized was brought by the V. ! these properties on the 27th ult. and ernment against the on the ground carry out cert to dig canals, asphalt. elan government dredge ch: rivers and export other products th Because of failure in these matters the Venc sphall comps remains in possession. had failed to se requiring it | at Minneapolis. the compan d the court to order an embargo (corresponding to Iundred and the ordinary American injunction) Tegiment of infantry. and to appoint a custodian or receiver. Mr. McCormick, The court granted this application,| bassador to Russia, Iaid the embargo and appointed A. H. Carner as custodian. He sailed on a ' parted for St. Petersburg. ERIEF BITS OF NEWS. s i Gna | Fire caused $35,000 damage In tho n Chicago Great Western freight yards s Count Tolstoi’s son is leaving for the front as a volunteer in the Two Seventeenth (Kromy) the American am- suddenly nated his stay at Carlsbad and has de- termi- Men’s We will ' Shirt Waists, Skirts, Ribbon Remnants, Canvas Shoes. worth from Ge to Sc a 5¢c a yd. Jlothing, Wash Goods, 1)111(‘10 on sale rd; your choice Bemidji, anesota. % CLEARANC SDALE.. We are giving GREAT BARGAINS in Straw Hats, Douglas Oxfords and Button Shoes, Ladies’ Suits and Rain Coats, Shirt Waist Suits, Laces, TUESDAY Morning 5000 yards of PRINTS for Print sale closes Saturday night. O’Leary @ Bowser. FALL IS AT HAND Shantaihow, Important Defense of Port Arthur, in Hands Of the Japanese. Simultaneous Advance From All Points Against the Forti- fied City. Tokio, August 2.—Tt is veported here tha after theee days® desperate fighting the Japane:e captured Shuan- tai-kow, one of the importaut defenses f Port A thur. Faicheng, Aug, 2. raged all da: along the whale front, but the Russians hold their positions. | 'REPORTED BY KUROPATKIN reports from the scene of the battle | St. Petersburg, Aug. 2—The latest are to the effect that the Russians have so far successfully repulsed the Japanese attacks against Simou cheng. St. Petersburg, Aug. 2.—At last the decisive battle of the campaign seems to be in progress. Having completed his enveloping movement of the Rus- sian position General Kuroki has or- dered simultancously an advance from all points against Haicheng and Liao- yang. Fighting is raging on both fronts and still continues. The latest reports contain nothing yet confirma- tory of the rumors that General Kuro- patkin has been defeated. According to Kuropatkin’s official dispatch to the emperor the battle began for the Ppossession of the important position at Simoucheng, which is located at the Jjuncture of the Fengwangcheng and Siuyen roads. Two separate Japanese armies were launched from the east above the two roads, while a third, under General Oku, moved up east of the railroad from Tatchekiao to try to cut off the Russian force there from Haicheng. If the laiter move is suc- cessful this force will be crushed. A portion of General Kurcki's army at the same time advanced against Gen- eral Count Kellel position at Ik- havuen, east of Liaoyang, trying the favorite Japanese plan of ouniflanking him on the right. Still further north, on the Saimatsza-Liaoyang road, the Japanese moved forward against Hout- siatze, twenty-five miles from Liao- yang. At all points the Japanese em- ployed artillery to the best advantage. General Kuropatkin’s situation will be desperate in the event of his de- feat. The keenest anxiety is felt at the war office for news of the progress of the battle. The general staff seems utterly dumbfounded at the number of men the Japanese possess and consequently Kuropatkin’s statement that they are landing another heavy force at the port of Newchwang adds to the solici- tude. RUSSIANS HOLD POSITIONS CORRESPONDENT’S REPORT OF FIGHTING IN THE VICINITY OF HAICHENG. Haicheng, Aug. 2—The Japanese on Saturday attacked the heights of Kangwa pass, the right of the Russian position at Simoucheng. Under cover of their artillery the Japanese infantry charged, but the Russian guns drove them back in confusion and silenced two of their batteries. The Russian losses were slight. Between Haicheng and Tatchekiao, the same day, there was a long dis- tance artillery duel, which had little effect. On Saturday night the Japanese made a desperate assault on Kangwa heights with the bayonet and a hand- to-hand fight ensued, but the Japanese ‘Wwere again repulsed, fleeing down the hill in confusion. ‘The Japanese renewed the attack at daylight Sunday, training all their guns on Kangwa heights. By 6 o'clock the fight had developed along the whole front of fourteen miles and was especially hot against General Mist- chenko, The Russian artillery did magnifi- cently, several times forcing the Jap- anese batteries to shift their positions. The Russians are holding all their positions at the hour when this dis- patch is sent from Haicheng. The heat is almost unbearable and is urying to the fighting men. Seven Hundred Men Go Out. Lebanon, Pa., Aug. 2—The Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has inaugurated a strike at the Lebanon plant of the American Iron and Steel company. The 700 men who belong to the Amalgamated association obeyed the order. The men on strike issued a statement in which they charge discrimination be- cause of union membership. FEDERATION WILL ASSIST. Moral and Financial Support for Lynn Cotton Operatives. Fall River, Mass, Aug. 2.—Presi- dent Golden and Secretary Hibbert of the United Textile Workers returned during the day from their. trip to Washington for the purpose Of secur- ing for the striking cotton mill oper- atives here the support of the Ameri~ can Federation of Labor. They were given every sssumnce ot moml and f \g“ PO An artillery duel | TO REPLACE VOLUNTEER FLEET. Warships Will Be Used in Stopping Contraband. St. Petersburg, Aug. 2.—Prepara- tions have been completed for the de- parture, under the command of Rear Admiral Enquist. of the cruiser divi- sion of the Second Russian Pacific squadron, now lying off Cronstadt. The warships will weigh anchor and put to sea under sealed orders within three days. It is also believed that the auxiliary cruisers Don and Ural, which probably are the ships reported &s passing Copenhagen with two tor- edo boats, will be followed at once y oiher converted merchantmen, This time the admiralty has resolved that there shall be no question of the character of the warships engaged in stopping contraband. The Don and Ural will replace the St. Petersburg and Smolensk, which will come home and be recommissioned. Fredevickshaven, Island of Jutland, Aug. 2—The Russian auxiliary cruis- ers Don and Ural and two torpedo boats passed here during the night. At the Skaw, Cape Skagen, the north- xtremity of Jutland, the torpedo returned and proceeded to Ode- The cruisers continued their course. RUSSIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF DESCRIBES THE FIGHTING NEAR HAICHENG. St. Petersburg. Aug. 2—The em- Dberor has received the following dis- patch, dated July 31, from General Kuropatkin: “Three Japanese armies have re- mnewed offensive vperations on our southern front. Onr rear guard made an obstinate defense until the appear- ance of considerably superior forces of the enemy and then gradually re- tired in the direction of Haicheng. “The attack was directed against our right flank, which, from its posi- tion at Kanhua pass, inflicted great losses on the Japanese. “The efforts of the Takushan army and General Oku': army are being mainly directed to cutting our com- munications between Simoucheng and Haicheng, their operations starting from a line traversing Yanshukan, Tapuntse and Liaohantse. “On our eastern-#int.the Japanese began the - offensive - this morning against our Ikhavuen position, the en- emy’s main concentration being against its right flank, which was turned. “The enemy is also acting on the offensive between Liaoyang and Sai- matzsa, almost due north of Feng- ‘wangcheng, against our troops posted at Houtsiatse, twenty-five miles from Liaoyang. Japanese Landing at Yinkow. “Intelligence has been received of a considerable number of Japanese landing off Yinkow under the cover of several warships.” A further dispatch from General Kuropatkin to the emperor, dated Mon- day, says: “All our positions were retained at Simoucheng when the fighting ceased at 6:45 p. m,, July 31, but I have not yet received reports of the operations on our extreme right flank. ‘“We retained all our positions held by our eastern force at Yangse pass. General Keller, commanding, had chosen these as the point from which to watch the fight. A battery near him was exposed to heavier fire than any other and he was mortally wound- ed at 3 o'clock this afternoon. He died twenty minutes later.” General Kuropatkin also reported the retirement of the Russian van- guard on the south front a short dis- tance in the direction of Haicheng. After determined fighting near the village of Sancthengtse the Japanese apparently concentrated considerable forces on the Saimatsza side of Liao- yang. The Russian losses in the fighting on July 31 have not yet been reported, but the Russians hold their positions. GENERAL KELLER IS SLAIN RUSSIAN COMMANDER STRUCK BY PIECE OF JAP SHELL IN HAICHENG FIGHT. Mukden, Aug. 2.—It is reported that Lieutenant General Count Keller has been killed east of Liaoyang, St. Petersburg, Aug. 2.—The report of Lieutenant General Count Keller’s death is confirmed. He was killed July 29 while resisting the preliminary attack of General Kuroki’s army on the Yangse pass, thirty miles east of Liaoyang. The general was standing near a battery, which was subjected to a terrific fire, §ien a shell burst close to him and he fell, mortally wounded, dying twenty minutes later. Before he expired General Keller had: the salisfaction of knowing that the Japanese attack had been repelled. Lieutenant General Count Keller, at the opening of the war, was in com- mand of the Second Sibeyian army division. He was fifty-four years old and resigned the governorship of Eka- terinoslaff in order to go to the front. General Keller took part in the three campaigns of the Russo-Turkish war. In 1887 he commanded -the Imperial Rifle regiment and later was director of the corps of imperial pages, by ‘which Keller came in contact with the members of the imperial family, with whom he was in great favor. General Keller was considered to be the pos- sessor of cool judgment and to be a fine strategist. Though a strict discip- linarian Keller was a kind and careful officer and popular with his men. He sustained two rever: SAY STRIKE IS BROKEN Packers Add More Than a Thous- and Men and Women to Working Force. Over Seventy-fiye Thousand Head of Cattle, Sheep and Hogs Arrive. Chicago, Aug. 2—Declaring the strike broken and that the working force had been recruited by more than 1,000 men and women, many of whom had deserted the union cause, the pack- ers began the week’s operations with the largest receipts of live stock that have reached the stock yards since July 12, when the strike began. There were 915 cars, carrying 25,000 cattle, 35,000 hogs and 17,000 sheep in the day’s shipments from the West, and with this supply the killing gangs in the big plants were busily occupied. Assertions that the strike is broken were scouted by the strikers as being | manifestly absurd. Swift & Co. declared that nearly all their old millwrights and car workers had returned to work and further as- serted that the firm never intends to take back striking teamsters or barn men, the claim Deing made that the packers had learned to do without wagons here. All shipments to. Chi- cago branches will be made by rail- road. Retailers will take their wagons to the branches for purchases. Among the toilers who reached the stock yards during the day were 100 colored women, who were taken to Libby, McNeill & Libby's, where they will do scrubwork in place of the char- women who went on strike. Postpone Appeal to Roosevelt. A session of the allied trades result- ed in a decision to delay appealing to President Roosevelt till all other re- sources have been” exhausted. The decision was reached on the advice of Homer D. Call, who, as a Republican, declared he was averse to embarrass- ing the president at the present time or till all other means had failed. There was much discussion on this subject, it is said, seyeral delegates declaring that they did not care who was embarrassed so long as the strike was brought to a desirable termina- tion. - don’t think it right or advisable,” said Mr. Call, “to bring the president into this fight at the present time. He has troubles enough and too many people are trying to put a heavier bur- den upon him than any huimnan being can carry. It is not his fault that this strike was forced upon us. Mr. Don- mnelly brought the resolution to me asking the president to step in and I have thought it over long and thor- oughly, but I am convinced we should wait. We must be patient if we would win.” The matter of housing strike hreak- ers in the stock yards was taken up at a meeting of the allied trades, the | central organization of the strikers. The meeting appointed a committee to wait upon City Building Commis- sioner Williams and protest against the use of buildings in the stock yards as lodginghouses, boarding- houses or hotels, also contemplate a move against the sanitary conditions at the big plants. SECURE OLD POSITIONS. Several Hundred Kansas City Strikers Return to Work. Kansas City, Aug. 2.—Up to noon several hundred strikers had presented themselves at the different plants and asked to be put to work. Many were discouraged because of the non-arrival of strike benefits expected from the head organization at Chicago since last week. It is estimated that be- tween 200 and 300 of the applicants were re-employed. The others will be taken back, the managers said, just as fast as vacancies occur. It was as- serted by the packers that with the | acquisition of these men the strike here was practically broken. All as- serted that they now had full forces at work. SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE. Police Having Trouble With Strikers at St. Joe. St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 2.—The police have had a number of skirmishes dur- ing the day with the strikers who have stopped packinghouse delivery wagons and there have been several arrests. Chief of Police Frans has ordered the strikers to move their headquarters to a greater distance from the packing- houses, but they have refused and legal proceedings are threatened in case the police attempt to enforce the or- der. -~ The allied trades | | MAKES FORMAL PROTEST. Panaman Minister Objects to Action of Canal Commission. Washington, Aug. 2.—Senor Obal- dla, the Panaman minister, accom- &anled by his secretary of legation, r. Arosamena, called at the state de- partment during the day and made a formal protest against the construc- tion given the canal treaty by the ex- ecutive officers of the.isthmian canal commission. There is trouble grow- ing out of the location of the post- offices in the canal strip, under the commission’s orders, but the most serious matter of discord between the people of Panama and the commission is the latler’s location of a new cus- toms port near the city of Panama. The people of Panama contend that the commission’s assertion of a claim to customs jurisdiction over outlying islands and harbors will surely result in the total diversion of trade from Panama and will impoverish that gov- ernment through the loss of customs revenues. The agitation in Panama started with the retail shopkeepers, who feared that they would lose the lucrative business of supplying the vast army of laborers and officers who are to construct the canal. The con- troversy has extended rapidly and the situation in Panama now is stated to be really precarious from a political point of view. CRACKSMEN ARE NUMEROUS. Sioux Falls Authorities Warn Bankers and Others. Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 2—The i local authorities have sent out a note of warning to bankers and others in Sioux Falls and vicinity to take all possible precautions against robbery. It has heen learned that a number of expert cracksmen have again invaded this territory and unless extra pre- cautions are taken country banks and stores are likely to be raided. Merchants -and bankers in all parts of the state will be on their guard against raids by the cracksmen, who, | following their custom of the past, are entering the state just at this time when thousands of harvest hands are drifting in to secure work on the farms of the state. Strangers are so common from this time until late in the fall that t-e cracksmen, by mixing with the har- vest crowds, are not easily detected and have a better opportunity to carry on their (le}\redalmm COLLISION [INJURES FIFTY. Terrific Crash Destroys Two Cars and Hurts Many Persons. New York, Aug. 2.—Fifty passengers were injured, eleven of them serious- 1y and one possibly fatally, in a head- on collision between a runaway Mount Vernon trolley car and a Yonkers trolley car at Woodlawn, near Two Hundred and T! y-fourth street, just before midnight. Both cars were crowded. The Mount Vernon car ran away on a down grade and in its burst of speed crossed a switch at the bottom of the hill and | crashed into the Yonkers car, which plete and it seems miraculous that | some persons were not killed out- right. RELEASED ON BAIL. Parties Indicted in Connection With Slocum Disaster. i New York, Aug. 2.—All the officers and employes of the Knickerbocker Steamboat company, as well as the i United States inspector the federal grand jury in connection | with the Slocum disaster of June 15 last, were admitted to bail in the United States circuit court. Except in the case of President Barnaby, who was required to give bonds in $20,000, bail was fixed at $5,000. Tach of the defendants en- jtered a plea of not guilty and ob- tained leave to withdraw the plea and enter a demurrer on Aug. 17. The in- dictments charge neglect of duty and manslaughter, BUSINESS DEMORALIZED. Ten Thousand Teamsters on Strike at Vienna. i\ Vienna, Aug. 2—Ten thousand teamsters began a strike during the day, causing general demoralization in many branches of industry. The pub- lic is suffering great inconvenience, as the drivers of water carts and garbage wagons are among the strik- ers. The chief demands are an in- crease In wages and -eleven hours work per day. In the forenoon the strikers gathered in many parts of the city and attempted to prevent wagons being taken out by non-strik- ers. Disturbances ensued and many arrests were made. Leiter Secures an Injunction. pringfield. 1IIl, Aug. 2.—Joseph Leiter’s coal company has obtained an injunction from Judge Humphrey in the federal court prohibiting union miners from picketing or patrolling the premises of the company at Zeig- ler, 1II, or interfering with the men who wish to work. indicted by ! | at that moment rounded a curve on | the upward ascent. The wreck of both cars was com- | i | VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA Former Governor Robert E. Patti- son of Pennsylvauia Is Dead. Twice Elected Chief Executive of Leading Republi- can State. Philadelphia, Aug. 2—Robert B. Pattison, who was twice Democratic governor of Pennsylvania and twice controller of Philadelphia, died early in the day at his home in Overbrook, a suburb of this city. Pneumonia, complicated with a' weakness of the heart, was the cause of death. He was fifty-three years old. Mr. ‘Pattison was a candidate for governor on the Democratic ticket against Governor Pennypacker in 1902 and had not been a well man since his laborious campaign in that year, when his tour of seven weeks covered nearly every county in the state.” He was a member of the committee on ROBERT E. PATTISON. resolutions of the recent Democratic convention at St. Louis and his health failed under the strain. He remained in St. Louis a few days after the con- vention to rest and, returning home, resumed his business, dividing his ime between this city and New York. Last Friday pneumonia developed jand heart complications aggravated | Mr. Pattison’s illness. Sunday his condition was encouraging, but late at night he collapsed. Saline injections ‘were resorted to, but the patient sank rapidly and died shortly after 6 o’clock in the morning. MANY MINES ARE CLOSED. | Lack of Cars Compels Suspension of Operations. Potteville, Pa., Aug. 2—The shut- down at the collleries in the Schuyl- kill region during the day was com- ! plete with the exception of the Le- high Coal and Navigation company, | which continued to operate its col- ' Heries in the Panther Creek valley. All the individual operators along the Reading system were compelled to shut down by reason of the fact that no cars may be furnished until Aug. 8. It is conseryatively estimated that there are about 60,000 idle men in this county as the result of the suspension. IS OFFICIALLY DENIED. Report That Germany Has Presented Ultimatum to Venezuela. Berlin, Aug, 2—The foreign office here denies the report from Caracas that the German minister has present- ed an ultimatum to the Venezuelan government demanding the immediate payment of the interest on the indem- nity stipulated in the protocols signed by Herbert W. Bowen, representing Venezuela, in February, 1903, under penalty of the withdrawal of the Ger- man minister on Aug. 4. TROLLEY CARS IN COLLISION. Twenty-three Persons Hurt in Accl dent Near Nottingham, O. Cleveland, Aug. 2—Twenty-three persons were hurt as the result of a rear-end collision Sunday between two large trolley cars on the short line of the Cleveland, Eastern and Paines- ville railroad near Nottingham, O. Except Mrs. John Heinrich of No. 438 Harbor street, who is said to be badly hurt, the other passengers’sus- ulned only minor bruises. @@@@@fi@@fi@@@@@@@@fi@@@@@@@@@@@#fi#flfi “It is what you Save, not what you Earn, that makes Wealth.” Open a Savings Bank Account! Get a Home Bank Free! No Charge for the Little Bank It is loaned to you Free. The first dollar you deposin‘ is held -as a guarantee that you will return the little Bank. How- ever, this dollar belongs to you, draws interest and can be with- ‘drawn by you any time you re- ‘tura the little Bank. BETEEOTOEES T D ersoucausonT, e ATy T Trb b Savings Depart ment FIRST NATIONAL BANK Bemidji, Minn. 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