Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 25, 1905, Page 1

TEN CENTS PER WEEK To-Night:i ‘BEST SHOW: 33 of theweek 3 ! Last appearance of the’l Modern " Vaudeville Show! A Model Moral Modern Show 0 The Wonderful The Wonderful SEE The Funny Farces and Dances Troupe of ’i‘ramed Dogs Troupe of Trained Birds Fun Wlthout Vulgamty 150 Silver Presents Given Away to all who wish to take them home. 5 given away to the most pupu[.u' lady. T T || DIAMOND RING n Other presents. .Berman Empomum.. Contmuance of Sale! Saturday Nigh The Great Clearance Sale at the Berman Emporium will last but two days more and positively will close at10 O’Clock Extra valuable bargains in DRY GOODS, SHOES, READY-TO-WEAR GARMENTS in the latest makes. Do not fall to take advantage of these bargams whlle they last. | . | Berman KEmporium Next Door to Post Office. ' The Bargam Store.. Is the place to trade if you are on the look-out for a snap in the line of New and Second ILmd Stoves, Ranges and Furniture. 8 8 Cash Paid for Household Goods. M. E. IBERTSON D e 2D SR SRS P Phone 812 Minnesota. 405 Beltrami Av Bemyidji. - - BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. \ Sidney Dillon Ripley, a prominent fnsurance and club man of New York, ' is dead as a result of an operation for appendicitis, | Colonel C. H. Wood, proprietor of the West hotel, Minneapolis. is dead of general infirmities ‘incident to ad-| vancing age. President Willilam R. Harper of the University of Chicago has passed through the crisis of the after effects of his operation and is resting quietly. | H. C. Burbank, aged seventy-one, ror of the National Mexican War Veter- rolling up €51, fifty years a prominent merchant ot SL Paui, is dead at Tochester, nn., where he made his home of recent years. A falling elevator in the Rock Isl- and (Ill.) arsenal killed Edward { O'Toole and injured Leon W. Hunt and August Abel. The three were work- men in the gun carriage department. Sir Henry Ilvmg s condition, accord- ing to his physician’s bulletin, has “slightly changed for the better.” De- spite the reassuring reports the actor’s iliness causes alarm among his friends. Major James C. Carlton, president gus’ association, is_dead at Bedford, | to the army North Sea Commission Finds Amiral Ro- jestonsky Not Justified in Firing on British Fishing Fleet. : Paris, Feb. 25—-The decision of the International Commission to investi- gate the North Sea incident was made public this afternoon. The commis- sién finds that the opening of fire by Admiral Rojestonsky was not justi- fied. The decision is lengthy and sets forth the circumstances at great length and gives the opinions in full of all the admirals invalved. i€, £TWCTITUTS, Teb. 25.—A telegram from Huan Mountain, Manghuria, says: “The Russian talions and twelve guns into action. The gradual advance of the Japanese in that district continues, causing our outposts to withdraw, fighting, to their | main positions. *On Feb. 22 we had two officers and sixty-two men wounded. “All 18 quiet elsewhere at the front, with the exception of the usual ex- change of shots.” RUSSIANS USE HEAVY GUNS. Shell Points in the Vicinity’ of the Shakhe River. Tokio, Feb. .—Manchurian reports department say that the shelling of points in the vicinity of the Shakhe river and collisions between scouting parties of both armies con- tinued on Feb. 22 and 23. Commencing at 1 o'clock on Feb. 23 a Russian bat- tery of heavy guns posted west of Lita. Jentun began shelling Lapatai and its vicinity. The Russian prisoners in Japan number 44,400, of which 616 are offi- cers. DEED OF RUSSIAN RAIDERS. Partially Destroy Bridge From Newchwang. Mukden, Feb. 25.—A daring Russian raiding party under. the command of Colonel Slensmidt completely de- stroyed with explosives the bridge south of Haicheng, about ten miles east of Newchwang, Feb. 21, blowing up seventy feet of it. Not Far BOUND FOR VLADIVQSTOK. Large Jap Warship and Twenty Tor- pedo Boats. St. Petersburg, Feb. 25.—General Kuropatkin, in a dispatch dated Feb. 23, sends a report that twenty Japa- nese torpedo boats and a large war- ship are on their way to Vladivostok. POLICE FORGE WILL STRIKE DEFENDERS OF THE PEACE AT WARSAW DEMAND AN IN- CREASE OF WAGES. ‘Warsaw, Feb. 25—The police of this city, threaten to strike for higher pay. They constitute an independent force | paid by the city and at present re- ceive §$6 per month and their uni- forms. The police subsist chiefly on money obtained from other sources. The operating departments of the ‘Warsaw division of the St. Petersburg, railway have struck, but train service is maintained with the aid of the army railroad corps. The strike on the Vienna and Vis- tula railways continues. The military occupy the gas works, the employes of which threaten to strike. A policeman was shot and killed by & student in a disturbance at the Vienna railroad station. The police attempted to disperse great crowds which had gathered there and arrest- ed a student. A mob tried to rescue him and a policeman drew his sword, whereupon a student killed him and disappeared in the crowd. Cossacks and infantry are guarding the telegraph lines of the Warsaw-St. Petersburg railroad, fearing that the strikers will cut off communication between the two cities. The mails trom Warsaw to Lodz, a distance of | @, y miles, have to be delivered in Railroad strikers of Lodz, who are coming here to attend a conference with the strikers of Warsaw, are obliged to travel by road. Seiicved He Administered Poison to Mrs. Welker-Hoch. Chicago, Feb. 25.—Johann Hoch has been held to the grand jury without bail. The coroner’s jury, vestigated the death of Mrs. Welker-Hoch, found that the deceased came to her death from the effects of arsenic poisoning and it was the ex- pressed belief of the jury that Hoch administered the poison. St. Pau! Man in the Lead. Milwaukee, Feb. 25—C. M. Ander- son of St. Paul, bowling in the individ- ual class, smashed the score of 633 made by Otto Kupfer of Chicago and went the Windy City man 18 better, Anderson’s effort 4 heartily RDr-lAmled. ; reconnaissance in force in the Tsinkhetchen district com- | pelled the Japanese to bring nine bat- ‘which in- * Marie | e l SITUATION IMPROVING. . Ofcial Report of the Conditions In Poland. ‘Warsaw, Feb. 25.—Imperial Coun- cillor Mienkin, who, because of illness of Governor General Tchertkoff is vir- tually acting as governor general of | Poland, received the correspondent of made a | statement regarding the situation in | Poland. He said that with the excep- ; tion of Warsaw the condition of affairs throughout Poland was improying, the strikers were returning to work and | disturbances were decreasing. A dis- patch from Lodz he said, announced that 45,000 men were working in 402 | factories. In the coal district of Sos- | novice some mines are beginning to work. The districts of Radom and i Kalisch are also quieter and the strik- ! ers are returning to work. He further asserted tlat the agita- | tion undoubtedly was entirely socialis- | tic and said there was no trace of its | being of a revolutionary charactier. | the Associated Press and COURTMARTIAL ORDERED. Artillerymen Who Fired in Czar's Di- rection to Be Tried. St. Petersburg, Feb. 25.—Grand Duke Vladimir, commander of the mili- tary- district of St. Petersburg, has is- sued an order of the day ordering the trial by courtmartial of Captain Da- ! vidoff of the Sevénteenth batiery of the First regiment of horse artillery and three other ofifcers and three men of the First battery of the guard ar- tlilery brigade in connection with the fiving in ‘the direction of Emperor | Nicholas of a charge of case shot at ‘!the ceremonies of blessing the Neva i Jan. 19. The Grand Duchess Elizabeth has been appointed commander of the Fifth Kieff Grenadiers in succession to the late Grand Duke Sergius. MILITARY FORCE INADEQUATE. Sericus Disturbances Reported From the Caucasus. St. Petershurg, Feb. 25.—The late; private reports from the Caucasus sa; trouble has broken out at Balakhany, near Baku. The military force of the whole region is declared to be inade- quate to suppress the disorder and a spreading of the racial contest is gen- erally anticipated. Poti cannot be reached by telegraph. Thousands of Armenians are said to be leaving Baku and Batoum. The Armenians and Mussulmans are prac- tically in a state of open war. Only Military Trains Moving. Moscow, Feb. 25.—The employes of the Moscow-Kazan railroad struck dur- ing the day, as they had not received the management’s reply to their peti- tion. The men, however, decided not to interfere with military trains. Other trains will not be allowed to leave. Troops are guarding the railroad sta- ticns. CRANK - SUSPECTED - OF DEED. Machine Addressed to Sen- ator Penrose. Philadelphia, Feb. 25.—A small in- fernal machine was found done up in an innocent looking package in a pri- vate mailbox in the hallway of a butid- Infernal United States Senator Penrose. Captain of Detectives Donaghy opened the box without exploding its contents. The box contained gunpow- der and a liguid in a bottle supposed to be nitroglycerin: On portions of the wrapper of :he box were pasted clippings containing the nawes of different corporations. On another wrapper was the in- scription, “President Roosevelt, ‘we are not in any trust time limited, in- auguration.” There were other inscriptions on the wrapper and also on the box. It is the opinion of Captain Donaghy that the infernal machine is undoubtedly the work of a crank. There is no clue i to his identity. Mr. Penrose has no connection with the building in which the infernal machine was found.- | Three Hundred Corpses in the Streets of Baku. | New York, Feb. 25.—After the riots at Baku 300 corpses were counted in the, streets, according to a Times dis- patch from Paris. The dead are said o have been' largely Armenians. .. Lower Court Is Sustained. Porl au Prince, Hayti, Feb. 25—The court of appeals, in the case of the for a reversal of judgment in the mat- ter of the fraudulent bonds issned in 1902, upholds the decision of the lower ing at 205 Market sireet addressed to| eppeal of the National Bank of Hayti | REFUSES TO ANSWER MRS. CASSIE L. l‘;HADWICK ON THE STAND IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. FINALLY -CONSENTS .TO TAKE OATH DECLINES TO STATE HER NAME OR REPLY TO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. Cleveland, Feb. 25.—Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, when placed on the stand {n the bankruptey proceedings against her before Referce Remington, re- fused at first to be sworn. After a consultation with her attorneys she finally consented to take the oath. She was then asked to state her name. She refused to reply to this or any other questions that followed. Mrs. Chadwick sought remwe in her privilege as an accused person and she refused to answer most of the questions on the ground that what she said might tend to aid the prosecution of her criminal cases. Referee Rem- ington found in her favor, although he insisted against her counsels’ wishes in making her give quasi-explanation of her refusal. Mrs. Chadwick was forced to take the stand and be sworn. This she did very gracefully, smiling pleasantly and cheerfully as the referee administered the oath. “I want to do all I can to aid the trustee and help my creditors,” an- nounced the witness before any ques- tions had been asked. “I do not want to appear discourteous or disobliging, but you must not forget the circum- stances that surround me.” Mrs. Chadwick refused to give her name. It was in vain that Attorney Crossman declared that he had no de- signs of trapping the witness into an incriminating reply. Mrs. Chadwick simply refused to say that she was Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick and smilingly persisted in that course. Referce Remington Exasperated. Referee Remington vainly appealed to her, explained to her, cajoled her and almost threatened her, He went at lengtli into just what her privilege was and just -what amounted to con- tempt of court. Mrs. Chadwick was an interested listener to all he had to say, but his conversation moved her not a jot. Finally Mr. Remington grew a little exasperated at her cheerful in- difference. “Is this by your advice?” he sternly inquired of Attorney Dawley: “I refuse to answer,” was Dawley’s reply. “Counsel can take care of him- self,” he added significantly. “I am not under obligations to disclose to anyone, not even a court, the nature ot my professional advice to my client.” Dawley continued to grow more and more acrimonious in his remarks to the court and along at the close of a subsequent clash he frankly stated that he wished the court would com- mit Mrs. Chadwick to jail for con- tempt and get the thing off his mind. Remington took decided objection to this attitude and remarked that if Dawley persisted in'it there would be trouble. = The entire examination was a series of just such wrangles and disputes. Mrs. Chadwick answered a few ques- tions, but her answers were remark- ably free from information. Finally the court and counsel on all sides agreed that the examination might as well be stopped abruptly because there was no hope of securing any informa- tion from the bankrupt. Accordingly March 13 was set for a resumption of the hearing with the understanding that Mrs. Chadwick would testify free- ly on that date if the criminal cases against her had been disposed of by that time. DULUTH BRIDGE READY. Car Is Run Across Canal in Air for First Time. Duluth, Feb. 2 ‘The aerial steel ferry bridge across the ship canal was operated during the day for the first time with 230 local capitalists, busi- ness men; the mayor and members of the city council as passengers on the car. #E?EESEE&ESEEEEEEEEFESEE% * Our FirstInvoice of 12 Men’s 2 Spring Suits and Rain Coats Is Now in Stock. EEEEEEE CEFECEFEECECEEEFERFER Neat, nobby patterns; fit v like made-to-order gar- n n 5 ments and at less tha: half theprice /ot ik HOT SPRINGS IS SWEPT BY FIRE One Hundred Buildings Are Burned- Loss is $1,000,000 and 1,000 Peo- ple are Rendered Homeless. Hot Springs, Arkansas, Feb. 25— The entire southern section of this city was swept out this morning by a destructive fire. Morve than 100 build- ings have been burned including the court house and jail and three hotels. The loss is estimated at above ore million dollars and one thousand people have been made homeless. It is known that three persons perished in the fire and rumor places the loss of life much higher. The greatest confusion reigns, however, and it is impossible to. veriiy or disprove rumors. -_— NAMES NOT MADE PUBLIC. Grand Jury to Investigate Beef Trust Drawn at Chicago. Chicago, Feb. 25.—The special grand jury ordered by Federal Judge Kohl- saat to investigate the alleged meat trust was drawn during the day. The law requires that the names of the members of the jury be spread on the records. This will not be done, how- ever, until a few days before March 20, when the grand jury will meet, as it is desired to keep the names secret as long as possible. It is said that the government wishes to examine the record of each man. NATIONAL - RATE CONVENTION. Boards of Trade Will Meet to Discuss Esch-Townsend Bill. Louisville, Feb. 25.—At a meeting of the Louisville board of trade it was decided to call a national convention of the commercial bodies of the Unit- ed States to take concerted action on the Esch-’ Townsend railroad rate bill. Survnvor of Custer Massacre. New York, Feb. 24.—William Mec- Gee, an ex-soldier and former resident of Texas, who claims to be the only member of Custer's forcé to escape the massacre of the command on the Little Big Horn, has been placed on trial here on the charge of killing Frank Mitchell last December. Turkish Troops Mutlny‘ Constantinople, Feb. 25.—A battalion 8f 950 T urkish troops, while on the way to reinforce the garrison of Ye- men, Arabia, mutinied on board the Greek steamer Epiros, seized and im- prisoned their officers and compelled the commander of the Epiros to put back to Suez. THE AFFAIR A FAILURE. Attempt to Assassinate President of San Domingo. Washington, Feb. 25.—United States Minister Dawson, at San Domingo city, has cabled "ne state department that an attempt was made to assassinate President Morales; that the attempt failed; that five of his assailants were captured and that the remainder es- caped. No further details -are sup- plied, but the affair is supposed to have grown out of an attempt on the part of ‘the revolutionary element in San Domingo to prevent the consum- mation of the financial agreement be- tween the government and the United States. ENGINEER MEETS DEATH. of Wisconsin® Planing Mill Blown Half a Mile. Antigo, Wis., I'eb. 25.—The boiler in the planing mill of the Wunderlich Lumber company blew up during the morning, completely wrecking the mill and killing Engineer Plugert. A part of the boiler wrecked the residerices of Mrs. Cecil and John Herman, a half mile distant, passing directly over the high school, in which there were 600 Boiler Special Session of Grand Jury. Indianapolis, Feb. 25.—A special session of the Marion county grand jury has been called by Judge-Alford of the criminal court to investigate the bribery charges made by Representa- tive Ananias Baker against ex-Senator 0. A. Baker of Marion and other mat- ters relating to the same case. Twelve Hundred Inmates Escape Fr Burning Building. New York, Feb. 25.—Fire which started in the New York juvenile asy- lum spread so rapidly that-it was soon beyond control of the emergency fire brigade of the institution. There were 1,200 children in the building at the time, but fifteen minutes after the fire started it was believed that all had escaped. The firé was quickly extinguished, the flames being confined to the bake- shop, and the loss was small. None of the children was injured. MORE BODIES TAKEN OUT. Remains of One Hundred Victims Re- covered From Alabama Mine. Birmingham, Ala., Feb., 25—Up to moou 100 bodies of victims of the ex- Dplosion at the Virginia mines had been recovered. 'Three more corpses have been sighted. It will be impossible to Teach all the bodies until the water is _gotten out “of certain parts of the| ‘mine. Relief committees from Bir- 10 SIT DURING REGESS S8ENATE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE WILL CONSIDER RAILROAD RATES. PRESENT REPORT AT NEXT SESSION WILL TAKE TESTIMONY AND PRE- PARE MEASURE FOR EARLY SUBMISSION. ‘Washington, Feb. 25—The senate committee on interstate commerce has ‘wgreed to report a resolution asking that the committee be autherized by tke senate to sit during the recess of congress and take tbstimony for the purpose of preparing some measure for the reguition of railroad rates. A subcommittee, consisting of Sena- tors Foraker, Kean and Carmack, met and drafted the resolution. It pro- vides that a full committee or a quo- rum of-the committee meet after the adjournment of the present session of congress and thereafter at the. con- venience of the committee and report to the next session. Senator Dolliver, proceeding under a motion in a former meeting that the committee should continue the hear- ings and report a bill to the present session, ascertained by inquiry that the sentiment was almost wholly in favor of sitting during the summer. ‘Therefore he did not press his mo- tion. The resolution by Senator Newlands, creating a commission to frame a na- tional incorporation act for railroads engaged in interstate commerce, was ordered referred to the interstate com- merce commission with directions to report on the plan outlined by the resolution with such suggestions and modifications as it may deem advis- able. While no date.is specified in the resolution for the first meeting of the committee after the adjournment of congress the time generally favored is April 15, in this eity. FLOWERS ARE BARRED. Senate Adopts a Resolution to That Effect. ‘Washington, Feb. 25.—The senate began proceedings by adopting a reso- lution reported by Mr. Lodge from the committee on rules directing the ser- geant-ai-arms not to permit flowers to be brought into the senate chamber. The senate then took up the naval appropriation bill to secure at this time action on the provisions to which there is no objection. The reading of the naval bill had not been completed when, ten minutes before 12 o'clock, Mr. Beveridge was recognized and renewed his motion for the appointment of conferees on the Jjoint statehood bill. A general discus- sion followed and no action had been taken when, at 12 o'clock, the Swayne impeachment case was taken up. PENSION BILLS CONSIDERED. House Quickly Disposes of More Than One Hundred. ‘Washington, Feb. 25.—Immediately - after the house convened Mr. Hull (Ia.) presented a further conference report on the army appropriation bill, ‘which, under the rule, was ordered to be printed before being taken up. A number of pension bills from the Senate were considered, 1256 being passed. After passing a number of bills the house sent the Panama canal bill as amended to conference and began con- sideration of the sundry civil appro- priation bill. Four hours for general debate was allowed. EMPLOYES AGAIN OUT. Strike Resumed at Putiloff Iron Works in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, Feb. 25.—The strike has broken out ‘afresh at the Putiloft iron works. All the men walked out. The minority at first objected. to a re- newal of the strike, whereupon a con- flict occurred_ between the two fac- s