Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 23, 1905, Page 1

. VOLUME 2. NUMBER 275. BEMIDJT, MINNESOTA, “THURSDAY:,':MARCH‘ 23, 1905. Ifiillfllllillli 1llllllllillll HE/)e Skirt Sale- at the Berman Emporium l Is bringing huudreds of people to the store te inspect : our large and beautifully assorted stock and take advantage of the low prices we offer for New Spring Goods. New Tailor-Made Silk and Mohair Shirt Waist Suits, Cravenettes, and also a new line of those Neat, Nobby, Covert Cloth Jackets. Shipment of New Spring Wash Fabries in Shirt Waist Suits. Shipment of a new line in all shades of Fancy Silks for Waists and Shirt Waist Suits at from 50¢ per yard up. Shipment of Fancy Mohairs and Spring Wash Goods now open for your inspection. Shipment of New and Exquisite Tailor-Made and’Street Hats now on display. ~ SHOES. Never before has so large and complete a line of Ladies’ Shoes been shown in Bemidji. We have been fortunate in securing the exclusive sale of the famous ‘Portia’ Shoe for ladies in prices from $1.75 to $4.00. These Shoes are made in the latest cut in turned and Goodyear welt; also the Little Red School House Shoe for boys and girls. Our shipment of New ¢ Shoes is larger than our shelves will hold. g Shipment of An inspection of our enormous and stylish line will prove in- teresting and profitable to you. S o o o g Ve BERMAN EMPORIUM Next Door to Post Office. o lfiflfififlfififififlfim |EEEH!IHE!IIII lllllllllllllllilllllllll No Brewexy m the wcvfih can s‘mw as large a percentage of inwrease as the Big¢ Hamwp ¥ ook at 1] , ligores — 10 years ago we sold 430006 Phls. T%AS %%a&' we sal bls. > "New Brew’ is the result of years ex- perience in beer 300000 Bbis. making = Call for 9t when . you want the BEST BEER JAP PURSUIT DELAYED| DAMAGED ROADS AND BRIDGES IMPEDE PROGRESS OF MAR: SHAL OYAMA'S ARMY. LY : RUSSIANS MAY DECIDE TO FIGHT TIME MADE IN RACE WITH JAPA- NESE CAN BE USED TO CON- "’ STRUCT DEFENSES. Tokio, March 22.—No reports of.the | Russian retreat or Japanese pursuit were recelved during the day, which is strengthening the! belief that the Russians plan to hold the line from Changchun to Kirin: The Japanese continue to closely ‘follow General Linevitch’s rear guard, but the dam- aged bridges impede their progress and possibly will create sufficient de- lay to permit the Russians to recon- centrate, reinforce; partially reorgan- ize and construct works at Changchun and Kirin. L 1t is reported that a portion of the Vladivostok garrison. has been with- drawn and hurried o Harbin, hut no confirmation of the rumor is obtain- sble. The first Mukden prisoners are ar: riving in Japan. Th¢ government has chartered and fitted. out forty steam- ers to assist the transports in carry- ing prisoners and wounded. Revised figures of the Japanese 10ss- es at the battle of Mukden pl; the number at 50,000 and revised estimates of the Russian losses from the com- mencement of the battie of Mukden and ending with the fighting at Tie pass place the total at 175,000 Lilled, ‘wounded or captured. CONTINUE TO FALL BACK RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS ESTAB. LISHED AT CROSSING OF SUNGARI RIVER. St. Petersburg, Muarch 27.—General Linevitch’s headquarters has been es- tablished for the present at Chenchia- ‘watzu, situated at the crossing of the Sungari river, whence he is directing the retreat of the three armies and disposing of the fresh troops of the Fourth corps, just arriving from Eurc- pean Russia. The protection of the Sungari bridge is vital to the salva- tion of the army, as the river is not fordable below Kirin and cnce the line of the river is passed and the bridge blown up the Japanese pursuit will be eifectually checked. At the same time the Second army is falling back of the line of the rail- road, while the First and Third, with the transport, are retreating along the mandarin road to Kirin, both destroy- ing bridges and roads and denuding the country behind them and making it impossible for the Japanese o live in the immediate wake of the retreat ‘without their own commissariat. The Japanese are advancing over the grana trade.route twenty miles west of the railroad. However, they could prob- ably live on the country, the road just betore the opening of navigation ol the Liao river being crowded with Chi- nese provisions on the way to market southward. Apparently it is a question as to which army will outmarch the other, although the general stafi seriously doubts the ability of Field Marshal Oyama’s fatigued soldiers, with the dificulties of getting guns, ammuni- tion and provisions over the ruined roads, to continue the pursuit ener- getically. No information is available regard- ing the strength of the Japanese col- umn advancing along the grand tra route, but the war office says it_is hardly large enough to constitute a menace, with the dispositions Line- vitch is able to make of fresh troops. Nevertneless, St. Petersburg is in the dark as to the exact situation and, considering the resourcefulness of the Japanese, there is constant fear that they may manage to get astride of the railroad and bar the Russian retréat. CANNONADING AT TIE PASS. Feared Rennenkampff Has Been Sur- 3 rounded by Japs. London, March 20—Russian official circles in London, although without official news, are inclined to credit a Harbin story published in Paris con- necting the firing reported to have been heard about seven miles south of Tie pass with General Rennenkampff’s division. The dispatch from Harbin points out that the only explanation of a cannonade in that locality is that Rennenkampff has at length arrived at Tie pass, where the Russian armies were ordered to rendezyous in case of retreat, but only to find the place .oc- eupied by the Japanese. Consequent- ly it is feared that Rennen}.nmpfl‘ is surrounded. More Dactors Needed at Front. 8t. Petersburg,. March 22.—In view of the increasing number of doctors requiiad al the front an official order was_ puhllahefl durlng the day permit- PEACE PROPOSALS ARE TEN CENTS PER WEEK. 'ACCEPTED BY CZAR SAY 'ADVOCATES OF SUBMISSION DEATH LIST UNKNOWN |Associated Press Hears on High Authority That Actual Step Is Now Imminent. NOTHING BUT ASHES REMAIN OF MANY VICTIMS OF BROCK- TON EXPLOSION. FIFTY-FIVE BODIES ARE RECOVERED EXAMINATION OF BOOKS NEGES. SARY TO ESTIMATE NUM- BER OF MISSING. Brockton, Mass., March 22-—Under gloomy skies and with snow and rain falling upon them searchers contin. ued during the day to turn over the cinders and .charred timbers of the Grover shoe factory in the effort to find bodies of those who perished by the terrible bhoiler explosion. The work, which night had not been. suf- fered to interrupt, was carried on with greater celerity after daylight and by an increased force, but the results seemed to indicate that few bodies re- mained in the ruins. Up to 2 o'clock only two additional bodies had heen found, bringing the total number up to fitty-five. Of these sixteen had been identified. A few of the persons reported missing were accounted for during the day, the list of employes heard from at noon num- bering 253. There was still doubt as to the exact nxmber of persons in the factory at the time of the explosion and until this question is settled by an examination ol the books in the factory vault a more definite estimate of the number lost cannot he made. Bodies Heduced to Ashes. Medical Examiner Payne, who has been at the ruins of the factory almost continually, said he was convinced that nothing but ashes remain of many of the operatives who were caught in the factory, so that undoubtedly many victims never will be accounted for. The fingers of many of the victims laid out at the morgue are worn down to the second joints, indicating des- perate efforts to release fettered limbs before the onward rush of flames reached the vietim. When the boiler ])Ioughed its way upward through the factory many op- eratives were blown to pieces, it is believed, and this is offered as ac- connting in part for the discrepancy between the number of bodies recov- ered from the ruins and the number reported missing. At the Brockton city hospital and the relief hospital it is reported that all of the injured passed a fairly com- fortable night and are doing as well as cotild be expected. COMMITS SUlClDE, AT SEA. Son of Philadelphia Millionaire Jumps % Overhoard. New York, March 22.—Andrew M. Griscom of Philadelphia, who disap- peared from FPhiladelphia several weeks ago and was supposed to be in Europe, commiited suicide March 19 by jumping overloard at sea from the steamer Minnetonka. Griscom sailed on the Minnetonka from ILondon for this city. Griscom was a member of a well known Philadelphia family, Philadelphia, March 25.—Andrew M. Griscom was the son of W. M. Gris- com, a millionaire resident of Bryn Mawr, a suburb, Young Griscom, who was. a student at the University of Pennsylvania, left his boardinghouse during the first week in February and was not heard from until Feb. 9, when he visited the New York office of the Reading Hardware company, of which his father is one of the owners. The boy made a request for money and his father upon being communicated with ordered that his son be supplied funds. Nothing further was heard of Andrew until ‘Feb. 20, when it was learned that he had sailed for Europe. Later it was learned that Elsie Han- som, who had been a governess in the Griscom family, had preceded young Griscom and there were rumors of a contemplated elopement, but’this was subsequently denied. When Griscom'’s father learned that hisson was in Eu- rope he sent a friend to bring the boy. home and it is supposed that he was accompanying this man on the Minne- tonka. 3 LODGINGHOUSES CLOSED. One Hundred Put Out of Business in Chicage Chicago, March 2?.—One hundred lodginghouses, most ot*them in the retail district of the city, were closed during the day by-the-order of Build- ing Commissioner Williams for not | complying with the provisions of the building ordinance. fractions of the ordinance are prin- cipally against the sections: providing St. Petersburg, March 23.—The min- isters who advocate the submission of pacific proposals to Japan believe they have carried the day and the as~ sociated press hears on high author- ity that the actual step is imminent if it has not already been taken. ALLEGED WORK OF ROBBERS PASSENGER TRAIN ON THE ROCK ISLAND DERAILED NEAR HO‘MESTEAD, 1A. Des Moines, March 22 —Rock Island officials say that the wreck of the Rocky Mountain limited near Home- stead, Ia., early in the day was the work of robbers, who succeeded in escaping. 8ix persons were injured in the wreck, none fatally. An examiration of the track devel- 6ped the fact that the spikes for near- ly the length of a rail had been re- moved. The wreck occurred on a high em- bankment, the road being soft from the thaws and rains. The two Denver and Colorado sleepers landed in the ditch on end, the embankment at that point being about thirty-five feet high. ne, mail car and composite cars also went down the embankment. The following message giving the cause of the disaster was telegraphed from Homestcad to Assistant General | Manager Hobbs in Chicago by the division roadmaster: “The wreck was caused -by an un- known party removing spikes, bars "he nlleged in- | and angle bars and displacing the rall. Spikes were removed from two 1ails on the south side of the track. The engine and first four cars were thrown down a tl y-five foot em- bankmeut. The engine was complete- ly stripped, the mail car destroyed, the buifet car on its side and two sleepers badly damage DEBATE WILL BE EXTENDED. Bill for Separation of French Church and State Taken Up. Paris, March 22.—The chamber of deputies during the day began debate on the government’s bill providing for the separation of church and state. A large crowd was present and intense interest was shown in the proceed- ings. The discussion is considered of momentous importance, as both the | ministry and parliament are now fa- | vorable to a separation, so. the ques- tion, which has been pending for years, will probably be settled as a result of the debate, which is expected to last three weeks. Five More Jurors Secured. Chicago, March 2°.—Five additional jurors wete secured during the day on the special federal grand jury which is to hear evidence against the alleged Dbeef trust (n Judge Hum- phrey’s court. Summonses for enough men fo complete the jury were placed in the hands of deputy sheriffs to serve, FLOOD GONDITIONS WORSE HEAVY RAIN FALLING THROUGH- OUT INUNDATED SECTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Meadyville, Pa.,, March 22.—The flood situation during the night has grown worse. Many houses are inundated and the occupants are living in the upper stories of their homes, while others are housed with friends. A heavy rain began falling early in the day and the river is gradually rising. Railroad and the street railway traffic is suspended. Conditions at Sharon, Pa., are threatening. Rain is causing a rapid rise in the river and prepara- tions for a great flood are being made. GREATER .FLOOD THREATENED. Heavy Rain Falling in Allegheny and Monongahela Valleys. Pittshurg, March 2°.—Another and greater flood threatens this section. For twenty-four hours heavy rains have been falling over all the country drained by the Monongahela and her tributdries' and reports. received show that all the streams are rising rapidly. It is also raining heavily up‘the Alle- gheny valley and while that river is now receding continued rain may check the fall. : T'orecaster Ridgeway of the weather bureau has issued a warning to the effect that a much higher stage of water might be expected. Wil Reach Flood Stage. Cumberland, Md., March 2°.—There is no doubt now that the Potomac will reach the flood stage. The rain has heen constant and heavy for thir- ty-six ‘hours. The river is rising a foot an hour. The small streams are beyond their banks and Wills creek, running through Cumberland, is now higher than at any time in a year and is coming up rapidly. Will Go Above Danger Line. Marietta, 0., March 2°—The Ohio river at 10 m. reached thirty-two feet, rising six inches an hour. It will g0 ahove the danger line, thirty-nine feet. Heavy rain-fell all night through- out the Muskingum valley and it is still raining. Alleged Bribers Exonerated. Denver, March 2%—The legislative bribery investigating committee has agreed on a report exonerating James M. Herberf, vice president of the Cola- rado and Southern railway, and Daniel Sullivan, postmaster of Cripple Creek, from the charge made by Richard W. Morgan that they had given him a brive to vote for Alva A. Adams in the gubernatorial contest. lllllllllll..llll: Work and Outing » SHOES %= LADIES’ CRUISING BOOTS, made of tan viscolized calf; waterproof; Goodyear welt bottoms; I16-inch tops, $6.00; 12-inch tops, $5.00. < BOYS’ CRUISERS, made from the best grade kangaroo calf stock, $3.00 per pair. MEN’S CRUISING BOOTS, all the best makes in stock, - from $3.00 to $6.50 per pair. : MEN'S DRIVING SHOES, a large variety of makes at from $3.00 to $6.00 per pair. A Special Drive in LADIES’ SHOES.—One case Ladies’ ~ dongola heavy soled Shoes at $1.98 per pair. )