Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 11, 1905, Page 1

VOLUME 2. NUMBER 242 ' TEN CENTS PER WEEK JEB o W M R P O o D The most important Ten-Day Bargain Sale is now mg full progress. dreds of people are taking advantage of this opportumty to procure the only first-class and up-to date Merchandise at a sacrifice. Hun- ONLY FOUR DAYS REMAIN OF THIS GREAT SALE The same liberal reduction prevails on all the stock cbfisisting of Dress Goods, Laces, Embroideries, Trimmings, Ribbons, Waists, Skirts, Tailor-Made and Shirt Waist Suits in silk voile and cotton, Ladies’ and Children’s Cloaks, Shoes, Wrappers, Kimonas, Hosiery, Underwear and Corsets. % BERMAN EMPO Sale Closes Tuesday nght | 3 eb’ Next Door to Postoffice. IUM %a & lllflllllllllllllllllllv llllllllllllllllllllll= ! 14 (O'LEARY & BOWSIR... We still have 8 Ladies’ Coats that we'll sell at 1-2 off 1 full length Oxford Coat, worth 1 full length Oxford Coat, worth 2 3-4 length $25.00 Coats, now 2 3-4 length § 20.00 Coats, now 1 3-4 length $15.00 Coat, now 13-4 length $18.00 Coat. now Other Coats, 25 °|, off. Ladies’ Suits, 25 °|, off. Ladies' Skirts, 25 °/, off. Men's Suits, 25°, off. Men’s Overcoats, 25 °|, off. Boys' Suits, 25 °|, off. Boys’ $20.00; now $18.00; now $10.00 9.00 12.50 10.00 7.50 9.00 Overcoats. 25 °|, off. Sale Closes Wednesday Night, Feb'y 15 womanhood. duty of life. Three Happy MRS. C. SEAMANN, of Greely, Neb.: great pain at the monthly periods. 1 MRS. TOM MURRAY, of Rocheport, Mo.: £ the winter in bed. rdui. My baby was born on Easter morning and y Every expectant mother should use this excel 1. G. SHELBY, of Monterey, La.: Vills for my wife, nine months after she gave birth to a thirteen paid any doctor bill sinee. Wine of Cardui is yours to take today. You can secure a $1.00 bottle Menstrual disorders, leucorrhoea, bear- ing down péins, sap the vitality out of motherhood possible because it cures these troubles—not simply temporarily relieving the pain, but driving out these diseases completely. Wine of Cardui fits a woman for every After using Wine of Cardui'I was greatly - relieved and two months ago gave birth to a fine boy baby. In February I commenced to take your Wine of 1was better at once and in a month was like a different person. health has been good ever since. ent medicine. Year Lefore last I paid $50.00 doctor After that my wife used one bottle of Wine of Cardni and Wine of Cardui makes Mothers was in bad health and suffered Two years ago I spent about pound boy baby and I haven’t from your druggist. EXONERATES ACCOMPLICE. Condemned Woman Assumes Entire Resgonsibility for Crime. Feb. 11.—Mrs. Kate , who is under sentence to be ! k- Samuvel Greasonw o ay next for tk murder of ner husband, bas made a statement to her in which she exonemates Grea-{ son from complicity in the murder.) Mrs. Edwards.and Greason, who is a colored man, were convicted of: the murder of Bdwards, and extraordina efforts have been made to save them | from the gallows. Mrs. ards' confession, it is:' thought; will place the case in an en- tirely new aspect before the board of | Tteading, Fa. i Ed\\an MRS. KATE EDWARDS AND'HE; DAUGHTER, pardons. The board will meet at Harrisburg Feb. 15, the day before the date fixed for the double execution. If the woman’s statement is accepted by, the board it may save the man's life. If the woman is spared it will be | entively on sentimental grounds, as‘ strong pressure is being brought be- | fore the board to not permit the wo-! man to be hanged. In the trial much testimony was presented to show that Fdwards was a dissolute character, that he drank heavily and that he treated his wife m a2 bmla] manner. MAN AND FUNDS MISSING. 1 i Grand Forks Bookkeeper €: Short $35,000. Grand Forks, N.-D. Feb. 11.—For ‘several days an expert accountant has been examining the books of J. E. Lewis, head accountant of the Grand Forks Mercantile company and a mem- ber of the firm, and it is stated that a shortage of about $35,000 has been discovered. . The misappropriations seem to have extended over a period of four years and to have been con- cgaled by skillful bookkeeping. This was rendered easier by the implicit trust which was placed in” Mr. Lewis, he having entire charge of the account- ing. Mr, Lewis left the city some ten days ago ostensibly on a business trip| and he has not since been heard. from. aid to Be Estimated Liabilities-$500,000. New York, Feb. 11.—A petition in bankruptey has been filed against Sullivan, Drew & Co., wholesale deal- ers in millinery, one of the largest concerns in this line in New Yi The assets are larze and the estimal liabuities are 3500 000. - { RECOBNIZES HiS SENTENGE AS JUST - Mobile, Ala. W'GUE ADMITS GUILT) e EX-MAYOR OF O'—IARLOTTESVILLE, VA, (.ONFES-EES BEF ING TO SCAFFOLD. DECLARES NO ONE BUT HIMSELF RESPONSIELE FOR THE MUR- DER OF HIS WIFE. Cha ille) “Vas;:“Feh, 11.—=T Samuel McCue, former mayor of this city, was hanged in the counfy jail here at 7:34 a. m. for the murder of his wife on Sunday, Sept. 4, 1904. McCue was pronounced. dead eight minutes after the trap had been sprung. i Immediately after the execution Me- Cue’s three spiritual advisers gave out the foilowing signed statement: “J.. Samuel McCue stated in our presence and requested us to make pyblic that he did not wish to leave this world with suspicion resting ou any human being other than himself; that he alone was responsible for the deed, ‘impelled to it by an invisible power beyond his control and that he, recognized his sentence-as just.” McCue met. his death without 2y tremor. He, listened calmly to tha! death warrant and when Sergea Rogers asked: “Do you think that i I gave you my arm you would be able|- to walk to the scafiold?” he replied! calmly: *I can walk without you aid.” On the way he stumbied once ov twice and the cfficers proftered assist- an 1t ~was' not. needed, however. There was no weakness. McCue had mereiy slipped on the frozen snow. Watched by a silent crowd of per- haps thirty people McCue mounted the scaffold. - The prisoner was piaced over the trap; his arms. were pinioned and his ankles strapped. The biack gown was lolded around him and tho neose was adjusted. All this while McCue stood withouf moving. Not a word. had he uttered, The guard took hold of the rope that was to rele: the trap. The trap fell and McCue's neck was broken. J. Samuel - McCue was forty-six years old and twice had been mayor of the city of Charlottesville. The tragedy for which he paid the penalty created more. interest. than any- other crime .,woods and kadly frosthitten. that has occurred in the state in the,. past quarier century. “ RIVERS AT FLOOD STAGE. Residents of ‘Alabama Lowlands Are Driven From Their Homes, Feb. 11.—A fiood stage is’ reperted in several rivers in the state. The Warrior is now 55 feet at 'l‘usr:umbm g in the lowlands ut. At Demopolis { Wednesday - SITUATION UNCHANGED. Russians Continue to Bombard Japa- « ... nese Positions.. TDHU, Feb. 11.—The Russians con- tinned to- bombard Field Marshal Oyama’s-center and extreme left -on and they shelled his ex- treme right on Thursday. ' Small bod- ies of Russian infantry attacked the Japanese Wednesday night, but were repulsed. The general -situation at the front is unchanged. A large Russian force remains on the right bank of the Hun river, but it shows no disposition to attack. There have been frequent clashes between patrols, but without any seri- ous resulfs. There is no prospect of-a general engagement. The weather continues very cold. GENERAL KUROPATKIN 8ald to Be Suffering From Peculiar Nervous Malady. St. Petersburg, Feb. 11--Dr. Bot- kins, who has returned from the front, ILL. | expresses himself freely that General Kuropatkin is suffering from a malady taking the form of loss of will power. Coming from such an eminent physi- cian this opinion causes a sensation. The revelations of General Gripenberg, en ronte here from- the front, are awaited eagerly. An official in a posi- tion te know said: “Qeneral Kuropatkin’s health- has suffered considerably during the cam- paign and his nervous tension conse- ' Quently is extreme.” MEXICAN RAILROAD WRECK: Thirteen Persons Reported Killed and Saventeen Injured. Laredo, Tex., Feb. 11.—Passenger train No. 4 over the National railroad of Mexico, known as the Mexico-St. | Louis express, collided with a freight train at Carneros, Mex. It is not definitely known how many persons were killed, but one rumor states thirteen people are dead and seventeen were injured. Inguiries at the offices of the National railway in this city elicited {he reply that noth- ing could be learned of the wreck here, the officials stating that they had no details. i WANDERING IN THE WOODS. Crew. of Wrecked Steamer. Found by | " Rescuing Party. St. Johns, N. F.; Feb. 11.—The crew of the British brig Vidonia, which was caught in an ice floe and blizzard while bound out of this port Tuesday. night, were found wandering in the The Vi- donia was broken up amid ‘the ice floes Wedresday night. The crew abandoned the wreck and reached land on foot on the ice. A rescuing party {rom Petty found them too fee: ble to walk further and-varried them: baci to tha.t vxllage on dog sleds. Wall of Water Coming Down the Ken- 2 i tucky: River. - R SWEEPING THE VALLEY CLEAR. |~ BIG FACTORIES AT ST. PETERS-I BURG AGAIN CLOSED BY DE- ‘SERTION OF EMPLOYES. MILITARY. ABLE TO MAINTAIN ORDER DISPERSE PARADE OF WORKMEN BENTVDN FORCIBLE CLOSING OF OTHER INDUSTRIES. St. Petersburg, Feb. 11.—The Pu- tllof iron works and the Franco-Rus- sian works are again closed, the men having walked out in a body in conse- quence of the refusal of their employ- ers to grant an eight-hgur day. The men of the Putiloff works, who Thurs- day started enforcing eight-hour shifts. returned to work in the morning but subsequently at a conference of the directors the latter adhered to their refusal to grant an eight-hour day and the men thereupon ceased work, in- duced their comrades to join them and the whole body quietly marched out and formed groups in the streets, The employes of the Franco-Russian works took similar action. The strikers at the Putiloff works number over 12,000 men. The troops continue to assure the mainténance of ‘order there and at the other Iactories. It is estimated that fully 50,000 men arc out. Some 5000 of the Putiloff works strikers later traversed the streets with the object of stopping work at other factories, but troops barred their progress on the Zaballanski Prospect and the strikers then dispersed. There were also some unsuccessful attempts to force an entrance into fac- tories. The men at, some of the other fac- tories joined in the strike during the day. During the afternoon - about 1,500 students proceeded to the Neveky Prospect and made a demonstration. Minister of Finance Kokovsoff has summoned a conference of factory in- spectors for Feb. 28 to discuss state Insurance, hours of labor, medical aid and labor unions. A proposal of the minister that the manufacturers hold a clmilur com‘erence was retused SERIOUS RIDT AT SOSKOVICE OVER ONE HUNDRED STRIKERS KILLED OR WOUNDED IN CON- FLICT WITH TROOPS. ‘Warsaw, Feb. 11.—Over a hundred strikers were killed or .wounded by the miiitary at the conflict which took place at the Katherinen iron works at Sosnovice Thursday evening. The strikers were attempting to put out the fire in a furnace of the smelting department of the works when troops appeared and a conflict ensued. The soldiers fired three volleys and iinally scattered the workmen. SYMPATHIZE WITH WORKMEN. Moscow Physicians Adopt Remarkable Set of Resolutions. Moscow, Keb. 11.—A remarkable series of resolutions was passed at a conference here during the day of Pphysicians residing in the government of Moscow. These, which will be pre- sented Lo the Moscow zemstvo, en- dorse the demands which the St. Pe- tersburg workmen formulated Jan, 22 and express indignation at the meth- ods of the bureau, whose aim is the | suppression by violence of all attempts of the nation lo’ secure political lib- nd the determination of the ans to aid .the liberal move- ment, although they cannot strike be- cause they cannot ‘leave the Musco- wvites without medical aid. _The resolutions - also express the opinion that the war should be stopped as quickly as possible and say that to this end the zemstvo ought to refuse 1o contribute further money to the nmiedical service in the Far East, “thus actively opposing a continuance of the ‘war, which is both foreign and perilous to the interests of the Russian na- tion.” MORE TROOPS AT LODZ. Strikers There Assume a Threatening Attitude. Lodz, Russian Poland, Feb. 11— There is great excitement here among the strikers, who are gathering about the miils in a somewhat threatening manner. - An additional regiment of Infantry has sgrived here. Troops are stationed in the streets leading to the Grand hotel, where the governor has taken up his headquarters. The manufacturers haye agreed to an ultimatum to the strikers to the effect that unless they return to work indefnitely. Stoessel at Aden, Arabia. Aden, Arabia, Feb. 11.—The French Hne steamer Australien, from Japan Mnulson, Ind., Feb. 11.—A message, via Shanghai and Colombo, with' Gen- ] d eral Stoessel and ‘his party on board, arrived here during the day. | RESUMPTION OF STRIKE \| ¥eb. 3 all the mills will be shut down | WILL DIE N COMMITTEE HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERS DE- CIDE ON PROGRAMME FOR STATEHOOD BILL. OPPOSED TO SENATE AMENDMENTS 'FEAR MEASURE WOULD BE CON- CURRED IN IF BROUGHT UP FOR ACTION. ‘Washington, Feb. . 11.— The ex- pressed opinion of Republican leaders of the house indicates that the result of the caucus to be held on the state- hood question will be a strict adher- ence to the caucus action of the party April 15 last on the same question. This action took the form of 2 resolu- tion that two states should be made of the four territories. With this res- olution repeated the disposition of the statehood bill will be a simple matter. It has, under the rules of the house, been referred to the committee on ter- ritories. There is nothing to indicate that this committee will bring the bill into the house at the present session of congress. This course will obviate the risk of subjecting the measure to a motion to concur in the senate amend- wents to the bill with the consecuent opportunity for the success of the mo- tion through a union of the Demo- || cratic vote and sufticient Republican members to make a majority. The ad- vochtes of the bill in its present form claim to have forty-five Republican members of the house who will vote with the Democrats to concur. This Is tihree times the number required. It is to obviate the success.of this plan that the bill will be allowed to Temain in-committee until the expira- tion of the Fifty-eighth congrefis, March 4, uext‘ - PHILIPPINE TARIFF BILL. House Committee Authorizes Favor able- Report. Washington, Feb. 11.—The house commiltee on ways and means has au- thorized a.favorable report on the tar- ifi bill for the Philippines. . 'The billis a complete revision of the duties col- lecred by the- Philippine governmsnt on imports from_all countries; ,The schedules, as prepared by the Philip- pine commission and revised by Sec- retary Taft, were not amended in any material particular by the committee. An unsuccessful effort was made by Mr. Williams (Miss.), for the minority, "to proyide absolute free trade on those articles which the Philippines have heretofore purchased from the United States and also to reduce the duty on tice. On motion to report the bill there was no party division. DIPLOMATIC CHANGES. Additional Important Transfers Finally Arranged. - Washington, Feb. 11.—The president has finally arranged for the transfers in the high diplomatic posts which he contemplates putting into force March 4 or soon after, In addition to those already announced Ambassador Mec- Cormick, now at St. Petersburg, will be transferred to Paris to succeed Am- bassador Porter. George V. L. Meyer, ambassador to Italy, will replace Mr. McCormick at St. Petersburg. Henry White, secre- tary of embassy at London, will be made ambassador®o Rome. Henry L. Wilson, at present minister to Chile, will be made minister to Belgium, suc- ceeding Lawrence Townsend of Penn- sylvania, who retires from the diplo- matic, service. PACKERS CORNER MARKET. Chicagoans Compelled to Pay 38 Cents for Storage Eggs. Chicago, Feb. 11.—The Daily News says: 1t is estimated that there.are 45,000, 000 eggs in cold storage in Chicago. Notwithstanding this a famine in the product exists and the householders are paying 38 cents a dozen. The big meat packers are said to have a cor- ner on the market. Last spring, when eggs were cheap, the meat packers and a few heavy dealers secured hun- dreds of thousands of cases of eggs which were at once put away for a time when, owing to natural condi- tions, the market supply of fresh eggs ‘would be unequal to the demand. The eggs were bought at a price ranging from 15 to 17% cents a dozen. JUDGE SWAYNE PRESENT. { Senate Resumes Hearing of Impeach- ment Case. ‘Washington, Feb. 11.—At 1 p. m. the senate resumed consideration of the Swayue impeachment case. Judge Swavne was present with his attor- neys. 5 After some preliminaries Mannser Palmer of the house commitiee made 8 statement of the case against Judge Swayne. Two Hundred Miners Out. Jellico, Tenn., Feb. 11—Two hun- dred _miners employed S