Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 15, 1904, Page 1

A Pioneer Will Do Iv. Bemidji Dai ly Pi The Pioneer Prints MORENEWS than any other news- er between Duluth and Crookston, St. Paul and the North Pole. [ VOLUME 2. NUMBER 100. BEMIDJI, MlNNESOT:&, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1904. TEN CENTS PER WEEK Commander cers were wounded. Several officers besides the rear ad- miral also were killed The battleship sustained severe damage. Her rudder was broken beyond hope of repair. Captain Matousevitch did not report — as to the whereabouts of the other vessels, but the dispatch adds that the protected cruiser Novik has left Tsing- chou. REPORTED BY ADMIRAL T0GO HIT BY A SHELL Cause of Death of Commander of Russian Port Arthur Squadron. More Than Two Hundred Officers and Men are Slain Dur- ing Naval Fight. BAYS FIVE RUSSIAN BATTLESHIPS WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED IN SEA FIGHT. 'St Petershure. Aug. 15.—Rear Ad- | Tokio, Aug. 15.—Admiral Togo re- miral Withoft, who was in command | poris that five Russian battleships ap- of the T an naval forces at Port Ar- | pear to have been heavily damagoed 4 thur, was killed during the engage- |in the engagement of Aug. 10. The ment on Wednesday. | Pobieda lost two masts and one of her The enpc 1s received a tele- {heavy guns was disabled. The flagship | Rety which was hit several times at a « ance of 2,500 yards, seems to ;Ilmc tained the greatest injury. | The damage inflicted on the Ru ise was comparatively slight. n has not appeared since the engagement., The damage sustained Dby the Japanese vessels has been tem- arily repaired. gram from Tsingchou, signed by Cap- tain Matousevitch, the rear admiral's thief of staff, reporting that \Withoft EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED DISASTER AT WASHINGTON DUR- ING REGATTA ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. ‘Washington, Aug. 15—A launch containing eight people, five wome i and three men, who had taken up a | position in the Potomac to witness the regatia, overturned and the occupants were drowned. Life preservers we'n thrown to the drowning persons, but the swift currenf carried them out of reach. The police boat Vigilant w! once went to the rescue, but was tc) ! REAR ADMIRAL WITHOFT. {Commander of Port Arthur Fleet.] late to render assistance. At 2:40 p. m. seven bodies had been met his death aboard the flagship | recovered, three of which were ide: .- Czarevitch. Both his legs were blown | fied as follow: Hi i off. M Captain. Wamoff of the C: HALF | I'Northern VIATHE RATES [ | ~Pacific.. Minnesota State Fair, Aug. 29 to Sep’t 3, inclusive. $60,000 expended this year for New Buildings and Tmprovements. Preminms and Prurses amount to $50,000, High Class Racing—0Over 300 entries in the tratting and pacing events. tures and lvening Pireworks tional and of the highest clg The Amijscment Feq will be very sensa- A Wonderful Stock Exhibit—The showing of Shorthorn apd Hereford Cautle will be National. Tickets on sale August 27 to September inclusive, good to return unti] September 5. It’s the biggest faje in the coyntry and an education. Don’t miss it. . Agent will cheerfully give full information. Any A. M. CLELAND, - . Mail Orders Promptly Filled. W , ~——ONLY Two Weeks More! Our August Clearance Sale will close the evening of the 31st. It has been a record- breaker for low prices and will clear ouy shelves of Summer Goods. : $ : W W W \ Don't wait until the last day, hut huy this week when we can shaw a good assortment of Light-weight Clothing, Wash Goods, Ladies’ Suits and Rains Coats, Ladies’ Oxfords, Sewing Machines, Straw Hats and Mackintoshes FruitJars,Ladies’and Misses’ Skirts O’Leary & Bowser, Bemidji, Minnesota.. Full Line of Fall Goods Sep’t I. s - = Samoff and several offi- IN HONOR OF HEIR APPARENT. Praise Services Held Throughout the Russian Empire. St. Petersburg, Aug. 15.—The news of the death ol Rear Admiral Withoft and the failure of the majority of the larger warships of the Port Arthur squadion to break through the Jap- anese [leet was not known when the brilliant array of oflicers and diplo- matists assembled in the magnificent Kazen cathedral to attend the “Te Deum” in honor of the birth of the heir apparent, Alexis. The slately edifice, adorned with military and naval trophies, colors, eagles and keys of captured fortresses, was filled with ambassadors, generals, admirals and court and government functionaries. The Grand Duke Alexis, wearing the resplendent uniform of high admiral, occupied the chief place as the god- father selected by the emperor for his first born son as a special compliment to the much tried navy. The metro- politan read to the congregation the manifesto announcing the birth and then the whole assemblage bended knee as the yrelate invoked God's blessing on the future emperor. Vet- eran warriors were shaken with emo- tion and many persons wept and prayed audibly. The congregation dis- rsed amid the sounds of bell ringing from all the churches. Similar services were held through- out the crupire, the priest in each case reading out the manifesto announcing the birth of the heir apparent. RUSSIANS NOW CONFIDENT. Say Birth of Czar’s Son Marks Turn in Tide of War. St. Petersburg, Aug. 15—With one accord the newspapers hail the advent of an heir to the throne with con- gratulatory editorials. They characte the action of the Russian fieet at Port Arthur in break- ing through the Japanese cordon as a greal succe fitting accompani- ment “to the birth of the child who [ ‘| will some time rule all the Russians and whose coming marks a turn in the tide of war, which henceforth will roll on to ultimate and certain victory.” ASKS PERMISSION TO DOCK RUSSIAN CRUISER ASKOLD AR- RIVES AT SHANGHAI SERI- OUSLY DAMAGED. Washington, Aug. 15.—Consul Gen- eral Goodnow has reported to the state department that the Russian cruiser Askold has arrived at Shanghai seri- ously damaged and wanted to dock. The taoti has written to the Russian consul general, Mr. Goodnow states, that the cruiser and torpedo boat must not remain more than twenty- four hours. The Russian consul gen- eral raises the point that they are en- titled to remain a reasonable time to make repairs. The Askold had her fifth funnel gone close to the deck, all the funnels rid- dled with shell holes, one gun on the ort side dismounted and several large shell holes above the water line. She lost one lieutenant and eleven men killed and fifty men wounded. HOPE NOT ABANDONED. Russians Believe Some Vessels May Have Eluded Togo. St. Fetersburg, Aug. 15—The ad- miralty entertains the hope that some | of the battleships after the return to Port Arthur managed to elude Admiral Taogo and join the Vladivostok squad- ron. It is pointed out that the admiral nowhere explicitly states that the Rus- sian squadron actually went back to Port Arthur. The Tokio report that the Novik coaled at Tsingchou before going out does not receive credence here, as the Rus! vessels undoubtedly filled their bunkers before leaving Port Arthur the previous day. Captain Matousevitch’s silence re- garding the battle is ascribed to the possible refusal of the German authori- ties to permit him to telegraph any information other than a mere record of his bwn casualties. The transmis- sion of a report of the battle was pos- sibly considered to be a breach of neutrality calculated to help one or the other of tho belligerents. Captain Matousevitch was slightly wounded. The admiralty has not received fur- ther advices at this hour as to the whereabouts of Rear Admiral Prince Ouktomsky’s flagship, the battleship, Retvizan. ' FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR, Jape Bombard Russian Fortress Day and Night. Chefoo, Aug. 15.—A junk which ar- rived here, having left Port Arthur on Aug. &, brings coufirmation of pre- Yious reporls of severe fighting day and night. One Japanese shell struck the corner of a building in Port Arthur and killed or wounded 200 peaple, Fifteen six-inch shells fell at one spot on the waterfront in one day, but hurt no gne, Tt is roughly estigiated that the Japanese are from five to eight miles from Port Arthur, NO CHANGE IN SITUATION. All Quiet in the Sphere of Operations in Manchuria, Bt. Petersburg, Aug. 15—The gen- eral staif has received the following dispatch from General Sakharoff: “All is quiet in the sphere of the | operations of the Manchurian army, “Bands of Chinese bandits are active iIn the Bontzc district, twenty-eight ‘miles east of Liaoyang, and in the vicinity of the Yanto coal mines,” ON SHANTUNG PENINSULA. Two Russian Torpedo Boat Destroyers. Stranded. London, Aug. 15.—A dispa | Tokio to the Japanese legatign here says that according e advices re- ceived there fram Chefoo two Russian tarpeda boat destroyers were Strand- ed Aug. 11, the day after the naval battle, twenty miles east of Weihaiwel, {on the Shantung peninsula. ¢ < {“3 from NEARING THE END Japanese Officials Will Permit Non-Combatants to Quit Port Arthur. Civillian Residents of the Doomed City to be Given Shelter at Port Dalny. Tokio, Aug. 15—The emperor, throygh Field Marshal Yamagata, chief of the general staff, has directed Field Marshal Oyama, commander of the Japanese armies in the field, to permit the women, priests, merchants and diplomats and the officers of neutral powers to leave Port Arthur and to extend to them shelter at Port Dalny. Oyama is give authority to remove other non-combatants not enumerated, providing it does not affect the mili- tary operations. Yamagata’s formal order declares that the emperor, prompted by humanity, desires to spare the non-combatants of Port Ar- thur from devastation and fire. London, Aug. 15—A dispatch from Tokio says: Another sign that a general assault on Port Arthur is imminent is found in the fact that the emperor of Japan has notified Field Marshal Yamagata, chief of the general staff, of his desire that non-combatants be allowed an op- portunity to leave the fortress. The chief of staff consequently instructed the Japanese commander at Port Dalny to accord the necessary faciii- ties for their removal. NOVIK LEAVES KIAOCHAU. Other Russian Warships Are Damaged and May Remain. Berlin, Aug. 15.—The Russian pro- tected cruiser Novik leit Tsingchou, at the entrance of Kiaochau bay, the German concession on the Shantung peninsula, where she arrived Thurs- day night, within the twenty-four hour limit, according to an official dispateh to the navy department from the gov- ernor of Kiaochau. Several other Russian vessels are still in the harbor in a disabled condition. The German government is not willing that the names of these ships and the details of the damage shanld be published on official authority, because such intelli- gence might be considered inconsis- tent with neutrality and as affording Japan valuable information. The in- structions sent to Tsingchou permit the disabled Russian vessels to repair sufficiently to proceed to another port, but the repairs must be strictly lim- ited to making them seaworthy and not to increasing their fighting capac- ity. Admiral von Prittwitz, the comman- der of the German naval forces in Far Eastern wafers, is assembling his ships at Kiaochau to prepare to en- force Germany’s neutrality against either belligerent. RUSSIAN HOPES DASHED. Failure of Port Arthur Fleet to Escape Is a Severe Blow. St. Petersburg, Aug. 15—The glad- ness of the people at the announce- ment of the birth of the heir apparent could not be fully shared at Peterhof. The emperor during the morning re- ceived a telegram from Tsingchou an- nouncing the death of Rear Admiral ‘Withoft and the result of the sortie of the Russian warships, as already cabled to the Associatedq Press, leav- ing no doubt of the severe character of the reverse sustained by the Port Arthur squadron, The contents of the felegram were telephoned to the ad- miralty and became quickly known throughout the city. The return of the wmajority of the Russian warships to Port Arthur has not softened the blow. On the contrary it is felt that their retreat towards the beleaguered fort- ress has dashed the hopes of a junc- ture with the Vladivostok squadron. Naval men believe, however, that the Japanese were badly battereq and that Admiral Togo will not be In a position to follow up his success, RUSSIAN PRESS INDIGNANT. famments at Length on Seizure of the Ryeshitelni. St. Petersburg, Aug, 15.~Indignation is expressed Dby the morning papers over the Ryeshitelni affair at Chefoo, They declare it to have been a mare ebvious breach of neutrality laws than the battle at Chemulpo at the begin- ning of the war. The papers call upon the authorities ta present the atter to the attention of the powers. Commenting at some length on the affair the Novosti says it is to be hoped that the powers, when the mat- ter shall have been laid before them, will take active steps toward enforcing neutrality under the guarantee of Secs retary of State Hay’s note, which ac. tion hardly could be expected from the “weak and shifty government of China on its own initiative” GERMANY WITHHOLDS VIEWS. Japan Preparing Statement on Rye- shitelni Affair. % Berlin, Aug. 15.—Japan has given the German government an intimation, that she is preparing a statement re- garding the seizure of the Russian tarpedo boat Ryeshitelni at Chefoo, The foreign office, therefore, is disin- clined to express its views on the Washington dispatches indicating that the state department ig eoncerned about the apparent breach of neutral ity on the part of Japam’s torpedo boats, Heavy Fighting s Rumared. Berlin, Aug. 15—A dispatch to the lokal Anzeiger from Tokie says that heavy fighting took place at Port Ar- thur all night Tuesday and Wednes- day and that the Russian losses are veparted to be enormous. 7l MANY NOTABLES PRESENT. Philippine Day Celebrated at St. Louis World’s Fair. St. Louis, Aug. 15.—The anniversary of Manila’s fall was observed at the exposition during the day, it being des- ignated as Philippine day. Among the distinguished guests participating in the exercises of the day were Sec- retary of War Taft, formerly civil gov- ernor of the Philippines; General Chaf- fee, chief of staff of the United States army; ( -neral Merritt, who received the surrender of Manila; General Fun- ston, who captured Aguinaldo; Gen- eral Charles King, General Bell, Gen- eral Humphrey, General Bates, General ‘Wheaton, General Summers, General Smith and General Metcalf. The programme of speeches was opened by Dr. W. H. Wilson, chairman of the Philippine exposition board. An address followed by Brigadier General Irving Hale.on behalf of the Army of the Philippines. Congressman Cooper, chairman of the committee on insular affairs in the house, spoke and followed by Honor Benito Legardo, president of the honorary board of Philippine commissioners. William H. Taft, secretary of war, was the final speaker. BRYAN LOSES Is Not Entitled to $50,000 of the Ben- nett Estate. New Haven, Conn., Aug. 15.—A de- cision adverse to William J. Bryan in his contest over the will of the late P. S. Bennett of New York and this city was handed down by the supreme court of errors after an all day ses- sion. The decision virtually denies that Mr. Bryan is entitled to the $50,000 mentioned in the sealed letter written by Mr. Bennett and addressed to his widow, to be read by her after his death. By this letter the widow was asked to give $50,000 to Mr. Bryan and his family. The decision sustains the opinion given by the superior court in the case last spring and also the decision of the probate court, before which the matter was first brought up. IN SUIT. NEGOTIATIONS NEAR cwsq TURKEY’S ANSWER TO AMERICAN | DEMANDS CONSIDERED SATISFACTORY. ‘Washington, Aug. 15—There was some expectation that the state de- partment would be able during the day to announce the successful con- clusion of the negotiations with Tur- key looking to the prevention of dis- crimination against American citizens there. An answer has been received from the Turkish government which is regarded as satisfactory and to make sure that there will be no mis- understanding as to the agreement the state department embodies its own construction of thiat agreement in the last chapiers of the <correspondentce. But there has been some delay in the exchange of cable messages so that it is not expected now that the last word will be said for a day or two. Mean- while Adm Jewell’s fleet will re- main at Smyrna awaiting notice from Minister Leishman. It may be said, however, that the incident is prac. tically closed with a victory for the state department on all points. URGES PROMPT ACTION. Minister Leishman Confers With Turk- ish Foreign Minister. Constantinople, Aug. 15—DMinister Leishman saw Tewfik Pasha, Turkish minister of foreign affairs, during the day and renewed the urgent represen- tations of the American government for an immediate settlement of the de- mands regarding the rights of Ameri- itizens in Turkey. It is understood important develop- ments are expected within a few hours, either the porte giving way or Minis- ter Leishman demanding his pass- ports. : After the interview with the minis- ter Tewfik Pasha proceeded immedi- ately to the pala BIG ATTENDANCE PROMISED. Advance Guard at G. A. R. Reunion Remarkably Large. Boston, Aug. 15.—Evidence that the national Grand Army encampment is to attract a vast gathering from throughout the country is attested by the fact that already the advance gnard is remarkably large. The hotels are filling rapidly and boarding and lodging houses are taking in people who have come from many sections of the Union. Headquarters have been arranged for all posts of Grand Army men and a special .hospital division has been detailed with competent corps at fre- gnent intervals along the route of the great parade ready to act in case of need DOWIE SAVES THREE LIVES. Rescues Party of Women Capsized in a Michigan Lake. Grand Rapids, Mich,, Aug. special to the Evening Press Whitehall, Mich., says that “Elijah” | Dowie rescued three women from a watery grave. The women were sail- ing unattended in a yacht belonging to George McDonald of Chicago when, in the middle of the lake, a heavy puff of wind capsized their boat. Dowie saw th¢ accident from the piazza of Ben MacDhui, his summer home, and with his son. Gladstone, Dowie ran to his laomch and went out through the heavy waves to the res- cue. WARSHIP FOR HAYTI. American Minister Reports Disturb- ances at Two Points. ‘Washington, Aug. 15.—The navy de- partment has directed Admiral Sigs- bee, commanding the Caribbean squad- , to send a warship to Gonaives and Jeremie, Hayti, Minister Powell having reported disturbances at those points. The Denver, now at Porto Rico, has been ordered on the mission. DEMANDS WAIVED Strikers Willing to Make Certain Concession to End Pack- ing House Trouble. Mayor of Chicago a Satisfactory Mediator to Striking Stock Yards Employees. Chicago, Aug. 15.—President Michael Donnelly of the butchers’ organiza- tion, admitting that he is ready to waive some of the demands that have caused the deadlock between employ- ers and employes in the stock yards strike, declares that he does not be- lieve there is any prospect of an im- mediate settlement. A statement to this effect came from the strike leader while a committee of retail meat dealers was preparing to call on Mayor Harrison to intervene and settle the strike. “We are willing to accept the inter- vention of the mayor or any third party, but I do not think the packers want any third party to intervene,” said Mr. Donnelly. He was asked if he was willing to make any conces- sions should Mayor Harrison tender his offices as a mediator. In reply Mr. Donnelly said: “l think we would be willing to waive the clause upon which we first insisted, providing for the reinstate- ment of all the men within ten days and all the skilled men within forty- eight hours. Such concession, how- ever, would have to be made by the allied trades’ conference board.” Will Accept Mayor as Mediator. Aunouncement that Mayor Harrison will be acceptable to the striking butcher workmen as a mediator caused considerable comment in view of the fact that the Chicago Federation of Labor has declared the mayor “un- fair.” President Donnelly said: “It is idle to hold that this strike is none of Chicago’s business—that the contending parties must settle their own differences. Chicago is vitally con- cerned—morally, economically, civ- fcally. Our 15,000 unskilled workers have been earning 18% cents an hour for an average of thirty-five hours a week. This gives them a weekly wage of $6.50. This wage, wretched as it is for an American family to live on, the trust now proposes to reduce to $5.50, the wage they paid four years ago. Chicago cannot afford this reduction.” President Lonneily has received offi- cial notification that a settlement has been reached with the Nebraska Pack- ing company, Nebraska City, Neb., through which over 500 union men re- turned to work after a lockout of more than a month. Union recognition and other points demanded by the union are said to have been granted. The Summer Girl at Play A series of beautiful illustrations in the August number of the Metropolitan Magazine R. H. Russell, Publisher, New York City Local Agents everywhere are enjoying comfortable incomes getting subscriptions for this ideal American Magazine_. 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