Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 10, 1904, Page 1

A Pioneer WANT AD = Will Do Ir. midji Daily Pion { MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. eer The Pioneer Prints MORENEWS than any other news- and Crookston, St- Paul and the North Pole. VOLUME 2. NUMBER 96. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1904. TEN CENTS PER WEEK ATTACK RENEWED Begin Bombardment of Remain- ing Outer Positions of | Port Arthur. Russian Commander Reports Re- | tirement in Face of a Superior Force. Chefoo, hitherto Aug. 10.—From a source relinble it is said there is geod reason_to believe that the anese are renewing their attack on | the rewaining outer positions at Port Arthur. The ofiicers of the German cruiser Fuerst rek, lying at the outer edge of this harbor, express the opit- | ion that the firing heard during the! night was an cucounter between de- | tachments o1 the belligerent warships, | approximately twenty miles northw of Chefoo. From the eruiser's advau- tageous position the flashes preceding | the detonations could be seen. How- ever, three steamers which entered the harbor during the morning claim that they did not hear any firing. Two b alse icached Chefoo during the day, but they had no information of importance, JEPS OCGUPY WOLF HILLS RUSSIAN COMMANDER AT PORT ARTHUR CONFIRMS NEWS- PAPER REPORTS. | | St. Petersburg, Aug. 10—The fol- lowing dispatch from Viceroy Alexieit, dated Aug. 7, has been received by the czar: “General . Stoessel reports as fol- lows **At 5 in the morning of July the | enemy, having advanced a ong torce, their aciillery opened fire their whoie front, followed by a so i of attacks, onc ol which, diceted against Yupild wountain, was s | pecially vigorous. AL about & in the evening the eu-| weie everywhere repuised with | I remamed in advanced pusitions we have held 1o tWo days against an army very much than ours. “*AL 4 1 the evening of July Lo about five divisions ol Jupunese { the offensive against our posiion ou | the Woll hiils. In view ol the cnoe- mous superiority of the enemy’s 10rccs and the weakness of the position ou troops were ordered 1o reure W0 b mext position without fighting. ‘l.v emy (oK | the | around Liaoyang. i tion of the plant. HWOVement was euecled in Compice. order under the protection ot artiliery which, by accurate fire at short range, completely stopped the Japanese ad- Lce. *Our losses have not yet been as- certained, but they were not greal. The I of the Japanese were very considerable. In the engagements of July 26 and 27 the Japanese had about 70,000 men and a considerable number of siege guns. **The nmorale of the Russian troops is excellent and their health good.”” FIRING OF HEAVY GUNS HEARD. Report From Big Cannon at Port Ai- thur Audible at Chefoo. Chetoo, Aug. 10.—The firing of heavy guns al intervals of one minute has been distinctly heard in the direction of Port Arthur since 10:30 p. m. Mon- day, the acoustic conditions of the al- mosphere being unusually favorab! liring, continued to 3:30 o'clock ay worning. A junk which lert Arthur Aug. 6 reported that there had been no hostile movements since July 28 except exchanges between the batterie: 1e Russian battleships Pobieda, Ret n, Poltava and Peres- viet fire occasionally, which probably was what was heard Monday night. An engince who is familiar with Port Arthur states that it will take Japancse four weeks to fortify the captured_hills and plant siege guns which will require strong foundations in the face of the Russian fire. STOPPED BRITISH STEAMER. | Russian Cruiser Patrolling Coast of Spain. Piymouth, Eng., Aug. 10.—The Brite ish sicamer Manora, from Calcutta Off the RIGHTS ¢ NEUTRAL COMMEFCE. United States and Great Britain in Absolute Accord. London, Aug. 1u.—The ciated Press lear that absolute accord ex- ists between the United States and Great Britain in respect to the rights of ueutral commeice and when the declaration of Secretary Hay was pub- lished the state department was in- formed that it was in entire accord withh the attit { Great Britai order that Russia might under the similarity of the British and Amer- ican vie ford Lansdowne directed burg to protest agai definition of same lines as the de mitted through Amb: mick. t Britain would like the United States to take steps to obtain an international de ation deiining the rights of neutral it is not thought at the fore office here that Secretary Hay will do =0, it being un- derstood there that he proposes to re- tain complete liberty of¥action. For all practical purposes accord exists between the two governments. RUSSIAN PUBLIC AKXIGUS EAGERLY AWAITING NEWS OF EX- PECTED ENGAGEMENT NEAR LIAOYANG. St. Petersburg, Aug. 10.—No fresh June 29 for London, arrived here dur- | ing the day and repoiled that when | twenty-five miles south of Cape Finige | terre, on the northwest coast of Spain, ' she met a large ciuiser, with threa iunnels and two mas ying e Ruse sian naval flag. Theie weie gung wounted on the cruiser, which evidents Iv one of the formei German lme | evs recently purch; , a. The cruiser bore down on the Manora and signalled the latter to hoist her ens 1. When this was douc the cruis proceeded. =, SITUATION UNCHANGED, fi; | St. Petershurg Receives Dispatch Fronp Liaoyang. ¥ St. Petersburg, Aug. 10.--Lientenant weral Sakharoft telegraphs — that re i no change in the situatiom th A Russian cavalry detachment hag made a successful raid towards News | rhwang, burning a village and alarms Jug the Japanese outposts. Injunction Against Strikers. Sioux City, Ia. Aug. 10.—Judge| Reed, in the federal court, has gra ed an injunction restraining the strik- ers at the Culdahy packing plant from interfering in any way with the opera- About 100 strikers are restrained individually. Military Prisoners Escape. Butte, Mont., Ang. 10.—A Miles City (Mont.) dispatch says seven soldiers confined in the guardhouse at Fort Keogh Dbroke jail and took to the prairie. A company of cavalry is in pursuit, but none of the deserters has e B P ol e i Y B B o B i s e P B B s 30 B o 3B B 2o THE"FARU ..5TUMP PULLER... e 4 b Most Simple and Durable Stump Puller on the Market. E 2l S B P 2B B WES WRIGHT, sy Is what we are AUGUST for this season bring them out that is not our way. | take a loss now and show New Goods next spring. : : : : O’Leary & Bowser, Bemidji, Minnesota.. World’s Fair Prize. T Y O WO RO W RO WO g SEASONABLE | MERCHANDISE CLEARANCE SALE. Goods that have been bought ’s business; in many lines only a smallamount I=ft, but in perfect condition. Some storekeepers would pack them away and next spring LTLESS" - Local Ageni‘g . S offering at our as new goods; We will (no details it is evident the Japs i forces of e jon the advance. news of fighting or army movements comes from the front and opinion is still divided as to the coming battle, ne of the beginning. of which the public is expecting o hear hourly, whether it will be a general engage- went or only another rearguard ac- tion. All the newspapers expre: reliel over the reporls from Port Ai- thur. The army organ says that al- though General Stoessel's report have sulfered a very severe reverse. The paper also pays a tribute to the navy's share in the defense of the be- sieged for Reviewing Gen Kuropatkin’s movements it continues: “The retieat is in accordance with a plan laid down for the first period o the campaign, which is to weaken the ihe enemy by contesiing strongly the delensive pusitivus, thus impeding Japanese progress and com pelling the enemy to waste large num- ol men and much W material The result has been that in three and one-half months the Japanese have only covered a few estimates that the Jap- anese losses thus far as a 1esult of the siege of Port Arthur aggregate 23,000 men and says the mikado's in- Jjunction not to waste lives must have been ironical. REFUGEES REACH CHEFOO. Bring No Confirmation of Reported Jap Naval Disaster. Chefoo, Aug. 10.—During the last tweunty-four hours, 200 Chinese and fifteen Russian refugees have arrived here from Port Arthur. They almost there on Aug. 3. It has been bort of the sinking off Port Ar- thur of a Japanese cruiser, but that this occurred is not denied, as the ves- sel is said to have sunk in a place wilere mines have recently been iaid. Two French newspaper correspond- ents who attempted to reach Port Ar- thur by Junk saw the Japanese fleet They heard nothing of the alleged sinking of a Japanese cruiser. They counted twenty-four vessels of the Japanese fleet ranged in a double semi-circle in front of the harbor. The reingees report that the Rus- sian cruiser Bavan was struck by a fragment from one of the mines, Which the Japanese constantly send in toward the harbor entrance. The Bayan bears 218 marks of projectiles of various sizes. STARTS ON EUROPEAN TRIP. Nelson Morris Says Stock Yards Strike Is as Good as Ended. Chicago, Aug. 10.—Asserting that the stock yards strike is as good as at an end Nelson Morris, the packer, ac- companied by Mrs. Morris, started fol New York, where they expect to board the liner Baltic for Europe to be gone about three months. “Mrs. Morris and I go to Rurope every year about this time,” said Mr. Morris. “spending most of the time at Carlsbad. I had begun to think we would have to change our plans this year, but fortunately the situation seems to have settled down into tangi- bility and now I can go away feeling that my affairs are all right so far as the strike situation is concerned. My interests will be amply protected by my sons.” FOUR MEN DROWNED. Schooner Ella Francis Sunk in Colli- sion Off Cape Cod. Rockland, Me., Aug. 10.—A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., states that the schooner Ella Francis, of Rockland, was sunk Saturday off Cape Cod through a collision with the steamer Nantucket, Boston for Norfolk. Cap- tain Thorndike and three members of the crew of the schooner were drowned. One man was saved. HEAVY LOSS FROM FIRE. Building at Buffalo, N. Y, $400,000 Damage. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 10.—Fire in the five-story building at Numbers 251- 257 Main street caused a loss esti- mated at $400,000, and for a time threatened the Academy of Music next door, where a play was being pro- duced. The people left the playhouse without serious mishap, although there was some disorder. Suffers Minneapolis Mills Shut Down. Minneapolis, Aug. 10.—Pending a more certain outleok as to the flour demand and the price of cash wheat, all but five of the Minneapolis flour mills shut down indefinitely. SEN. VEST IS DEAD Passes Away After Lingering for Weelks on the Verge of Eissolution. Deceased Was for Many Years a Leader of His Party in Upper House. Sweet Springs, Mo., Aug. 10.—After lingering for weeks between life and death former Senator G. G. Vest passed peacefully away during = the day. He had begn so near death fov the past three days that tve end came without a struggle. 5 He was conscious until about 2 a. m. Sunday morning, when lie sank into a state of coma, from which he mnever aroused. At the bedside when the end came was his wife, Dr. Jarvis, the family physician; Senator Vest's son, Alex- GEORGE GRAHAM VEST, ander; his daughter, Mrs. George P. B. Jackson. and her husband, and Mrs. Thompson, a niece of Mrs. Vest, The remains will be taken to St Louis for interment. George Graham Vest was born at Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 6, 1830; gradu- ated at Centre college, Kentucky, in 1848 and in the law department of Transylvania university at Lexington, Ky., in 185 removed the same year to Missouri and began the practice ol law in the central part of that state; was a member of the Missouri house of representalives in 1860-61; was elected to the United States senate as a Democrat, in the place of James Shields, Democrat (who had been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis V. Bogy, Demo- crat): took his seat March 18, 1879; was re-elected in 1885, 1890 and 1897. His term of service expired March 3, 1903. 3 PRICES CONTINUE TO CLIMB. Wheat Market Affected by Reports of Crop Damage. Chicago, Aug. 10.—Wheat prices fluctuated wildly on the board of trade during the day, rushing up and down within a range of over 2% cents. Trad- ing began with an advance which was a continuation of the sensational buy- ing demonstration of the previous day, the demand being induced by a more aggravated series of rust reports from the Northwest, with the additional in- centive of damaging rains. September started at $1.01 to $1.02 Monday, clos- ing at 1 cent advance, and jumped to $1.03. TUnder ‘heavy profit taking the market broke to $1.00% and $1.003, but later rallied and closed strong at $1.017%, a net gain of seven-eighths of a cent for the day. MEMBERS OF NOTORIOUS GANG. Three Long Term Convicts Escape From Michigan Prison. Jackson, Mich., Aug. 10.—John Alli- son, Harry Slater and William Shell- man, long term convicts under sen- |tenca for bank robbery, escaped from the state prison here early in the day. Slater was a trusty employed in the engineroom. He was responsible for the escape. The three men were members of the notorious “Lake Shore gang” of bank robbers that blew the safe of the Richland (Mich.) bank in 1899. There has been no trace of them found. TRAIN TURNED OVER. Passengers of Flyer Have Miraculous Escape in Indiana. Plainfield, Ind., Aug. 10.—Running at the rate of sixty miles an hour Van- dalia train No, 20, a through train from St. Louis with 200 passengers aboard, struck a broken rail near the station here. Five cars were turned over and de- #troyed by fire caused by the explo- tion of a gas storage tank. None of the passengers was killed and only one, Mrs. E. X. Wigderson of Antigo, Wis., was seriously injured. RETAIL DEALERS AFFECTED. No Ice for Houses Patrunizing Strike Affected Packers. Chicago, Aug. 10.—With an army of more than 300 pickets the Ice Wagon Drivers and Helpers’ union tab- ed a blockade of the retail and cold storage meat market business of Chicago. In front of nearly evel meat market, cold storage warehou: and apartment store that handles meat one picket or more is on duty to try to prevent delivery from the stoch yards or elsewhere. The union determination to extend the strike to the cold storage waie houses came as a distinct surprise to the packers and this was accentuated by the action of the ice car helpers, ‘who declared an intention not to han dle ice for any dealer who patronizes the strike affected packevs, 7 e complication came a declaration from the business agent of the Market Wagon Drivers’ union that his men would have nothing to do with meat which the ice wagon drivers re- fuse to ice. Vice President Rath of the Packing- house Teamsters’ union gave out a list of dealers to whom he declared the union ice wagons would, under union orders, refuse to deliver ice. ‘The allied trades executive commit- tee has adopted resglutions denounc- ing President Edwafd Tilden of Lib- bey, McNeill & Libbey and demanding his resignation as a member of the public school board of Chicago. COLORADD RAILROAD WRECK LIST OF VICTIMS INDICATES A LOSS OF AN EVEN ONE HUNDRED LIVES. Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 10.—The death list resulting from the wreck FILIPINOS = SEE PRESIDENT. Party of Moros and Igorrotes Call at White House. ‘Washington, Aug. 10.—Picturesque- ly, but quite adequately garbed, a party of ecight Moro and Igorrote chiefs, constituting.a part of the Phil- ippine exhibit at the St. Louis exposi- tion, paid their respects to President Roosevelt at the White House. The exchanges between the chiefs and the president were informal, but happy in their tone. Through Antero, a bright fifteen-year-old Igorrote boy, who act- ed as interpreter, the Moro dattos and the Igorrote chiefs expressed their pleasure at being received by the pres- ident and told him he might depend upon their loyalty to the American government. TO STUDY AMERICAN SYSTEM. German Minister and Several neers Sail for United States. Berlin, Aug. 10.—Herr Schultz, un- Engi- der secretary of state in the ministry of public works, with three govern- of the ment engineers, have sailed for New World’s Fair flyer on the Denver and | York from Bremen on the North Ger- Rio Grande road, as compiled from the ' man Lloyd steamer Kron Prinz Wil- best ohtainable sources of information, ' helm to visit the St. Louis exposition show: a total of 66 identified dead, and various American ities with the total known missing 28 and unidenti- | 0Piect of studying municipal and other fied bodies 6, making an even 100 lives lost. This list will more than likely be added to. All night long the search for victims was kept up and an occasional body i engineering and building problems. The party will make a thorough study of New York’s underground railway. JEALOUSY THE -TAUSE. was located, but in the darkness work , 8t. Louis Negro Shoots Wife, Brother- was necessarily slow. The most treacherous of streams, the Fountain river, into which nearly all the dead bodies were washed, has fallen to nearly its normal condition and the work of rescue will be made easier although still dangerous from quicl sand. As soon as daylight came on many men again took up the work and the number was increased as the day wore on. Bodies have been re- covered more than ten miles from the scene of the disaster and rumors that bodies had been found even distant are heard. A cast of deep gloom has settled down on this city as a result of the disaster. Many business houses are closed out of respect for the dead and more than forty private homes are darkened and in mourning. The wreck victims will probably not be the only ones or the most to be pitied, as already cases of total loss of mind as a result of the shock when told of loss of loved ones are reported. ALLEGE SCALES ARE WRONG. Eight Hundred Miners Quit Work for That Reason. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 10.—REight hun-; dred miners employed at the Old Forge colliery of the Erie company went on strike during the day. The strikers claim that the scales with which the mine cars are weighed are incorrect and that they are deprived of the credit for half a ton of coal for each car. The miners asked that an expert make an examination of the scales. The company, they claim, agreed tn this, but before the inspec- i gaction w tion was finished the company co termanded the order. farther | in-Law and Himself. St. Louis, Aug. 10.—John P. John- son, a negro living at Kinloch Park, a suburh, shot his wife twice, wounding her severely; shot and killed his brother-in-law and then, with the same revolver, ended his own life. Jealousy is said to have prompted the crime. Johnson Kkilled his brothe cause he tried to protect his aw be- er. WISGONSIK FAGTIONAL FIGHT STALWARTS AUTHORIZED TO BE- GIN SUIT BY STATE SU- PREME COURT. Madison, Wis., Aug. 10.—The Wis- consin supreme court during the day ued an order giving the stalwart faction of the Republican party of the state authority to bring suit against | Secretary of State Houser to restrain him from placing the nominees of the La Follette staie ticket on the ofticial ballot under the regular party desig- nation of Kepublican and compelling him to place the stalwart nominees on the baliot under the designation of Republican, The court granted the request with- out leaving the beuch. The defendant is given twenty day n which to an- swer and the case will come up for argument Sept. 6. The La Follette ill contest the actioun. TO LEAVE HIS POST American Minister Will Quit Con- staninople if Negotia- tiions Fail. Secretary Hay Tells Why He Re- quested Warships for the Turkish Port. Washington, Aug. 10.— Secretary Hay occupied considerable time at the cabinet meeting in a presentation of the latest phases of the Turkish situa- tion. He recounted the details of his interview with Chekib Bey, the Turk- ish minister, at which the secretary forcibly stated the attitude of the American government. He explained also the reasons which had actuated him in requesting that the American European squadron should be sent to Smyrna, the most convenient port to Constantinople. It is not deemed wise by the secretary that the reasons for this action should be disclosed entire- ly at this time. Fresh negotiations with the porte have been instituted and. in the event of their failure, it may be that Minister Leishman may leave his post and go aboard the American flagship, thus creating a sit- uation of some seriousness. PICK JOHNSON FOR GOVERNOR. Minnesota Democratic Leaders Hold Conference. St. Paul, Aug. 10.—Twenty or more prominent Democratic leaders of Min- nesota held what was intended to be a secret meeting in St. Paul and de- cided upon John A. Johnson of St. Feter as a candidate for governor. At the same meeting Congressman John Lind was endorsed as a candidate for the supreme bench. A number of candidates were dis- cussed, among them Judge Pond, F. G. Winston and W. H. Harries. Captain Harries, however, declined to be con- sidered and is the man who suggest- ed the candidacy of Mr. Johnson of St. Peter. After the meeting Captain Harries admitted that Mr. Johnson had been agreed upon. LUNATIC KILLS FOUR. Man Acquitted on Insanity Charge ‘Wipes Out Family. 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