Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 28, 1905, Page 1

V()LUMF 2. NUMBER 279 ies” Suits This would be a good time to select your Kaster Suit; the line is quite complete. Garments from the factory, and by the way, from a model factory; the only one of its kind. Kvery garment made under one roof, in light airy rooms. Our price is no higher than you will be asked for garments made under old conditions. 0’Leary & Bowser Remarkable Confes New York Ci New York, March 28 — Gressler 0s eaun yesterday convicted of send- ing an infernal machine to Cunard Line pier two years ago today de- | clared that the Battleship Maine was {destroyed in Havana harbor by a bomb of his manufacture. The comb was sent to ('upa to be used in blow- ing up Spanish ships, but the Cubans made a mistake and fastened it to the Maiue, Watching Russian Refugees. Paris, March 28.—The police are extens! surveillance over refugees in Paris owing to that they are organizing to e revolutionary movement in It is claimed that much com- ing correspondence has been EEEETEE W, W W W W A W Having bought J. P. one Door South of P. 0. Mhee o HSEES233 Rolls of Wall Pape;i Lahr's stock of Wall Paper ‘and added to it nearly 4000 rolls tresh from the factory, we will furnish Paper for w 5¢ and up adouble roll W THE GOLDEN GATE WALL PAPER & PAINT STORE R & COOLEY. Our Telephone No. 283. § A few cents keeps the papers on your desk in order, saves your tlme andr prevents you most mconvement losses. 3 b} fay Clip, per box 10c M'GILL THUMSB No. 1, 20¢ Patent Board Clips, One OFFICE HANDL Common Sense Clip, per box 15¢ Gem Clip, (long), per hox 20c FASTENERS—100 in box—Round Head No. 2, 25¢ WIRE TRAYS. ray, 25¢ Two-Tray, T0c CHALLENGE EYELETING MACHINE, - - BEST PAPER FASTENER MADE - No. 3, 30c 40c [Three-Tray, $1.00 $4.50 N0 PAPE HS CAN AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT ONE. Ghe Pi S w oneer sion of a Maker of Infernal Machines Convicted in ty Yesterday. Says Cubans Attached Bomb to the Maine by Mistake Thinking It Was a Spanish Vessel. FUND FOR CREDITORS SANTO DOMINGO PRACTICALLY DECIDES TO SET ASIDE POR- TION OF CUSTOMS. PROPOSAL DISCUSSED AT WASHINGTON FURTHER INFORMATION NECES- . BARY BEFORE AGREEMENT MEETS APPROVAL, ‘Washington, March 28.—Mr. Daw- son, the American minister at Santbo Domingo, has cabled the state depart- ment to the effect that the Domin- ican government has had before it for consideration several plans for the satisfaction of the claims of foreign- ers and to tide over the hiastus caused by the failype of the senate to act upon the Doriinican treaty the Dominican gavernment has about con- cluded to install* foreign agents in the customshcuses to collect revenues, 45 per cent of which are to be ap- plied to the maintenance of the gov- ernment and the remaining 55 per cent to be placed on deposit subject to disbursement among the foreign credi in the future after the sen- ate has had an opportunity to again consider the treaty This proposition was the subject of a conference at the White House dur- ing the day between the president, Secretary Taft, Senator Lodge, Sen- ator Spooner and Acting Secretary Adee, but it was stated that no con- clusion has yet been reached. It is not quite clear from Minister Daw- son’s dispatch just what part he has played in bringing about* this agree- ment, but it is gathered that it has not yet been consummated and it is certain that he has not scigned any formal undertaking binding this gov- ernment. It is probable that further informatjon wiil be required as to the details of the agreement before it is approved here, AMERICAN AID ASKED. Spain Unable to Recover Ordnance Left in Cuba. ‘Washington, March 28—Spain has never been able to recover from Cuba the ordnance left there at the ter- mination of the Spanish-American war and Senor Ojeda, the Spanish minister, called upon Secretary Taft to learn the position of this govern- meut in the matter. Under the terms of peace it was held that Spain was entitled to all of the movable ord- nance in Cuba and Porto Rico and in the Jatter case its claim had been rec- ognized and the ordnance transferred. But in the case of Cuba there appears to be some difficulty in securing the recognition by the Cuban government of the obligatien entered into by the United States. Secretary Taft caused a cablegram to be sent Minister Squiers in Havana instructing him to} notily the Culan authorities that the ordaance in question remains the property of Syain; that it was never possessed by the United States and ‘should be returned to Spain. FOR MINNESOTA MURDERS. Suspect Placed Under Arrest at Green Bay, Wis. Green Bay, Wis., March 28.—The police have in custody a man named Wesley, who is suspected of the mur- der of two persons, committed about one year ago on the Mesaba range in the northern part of Minnesota. Wes- ley is a Green Bay boy and came here to visit his parents. The polic:-have been on the lool for him for some time. It is understood Wesley is one of two men wanted by the authorities in Northern Minnesota for the murder of an old man and his daughter who lived alone on a claim in that vicin- ity. BEEF TRUST INVESTIGATION. Grand Jury Inguiry at Chicago Will Continue Two Months. Chicago, March - 28, —Investigation of the “beef trust” was resumed dur- ing the day by the federal grand Jury. The grand jury will have for additional advisers from now on Dis- trict Attorney Baxter of Omaha and Assistant District Attorney Goodman Subscribe for the Daily Pioneer|zzme s = HE MADE BOMB THAT BLEW UP THE mA KENTUGKY JUDGE AND SHERIFE CHARGED WITH COMPLICITY -~ IN FEUD MURDER. REFUSE ROCKEFELLER'S GIFT. )3 ¢ Advice of Moderator of Congregational General Coun Columbus, 0. March ' 28—Rev. Washington Gladden, pastor of the ‘First Congregational chureh' of Coium- bus and moderator of the general council of Congregational churches of the United Statcs; in a sermon dis- cussed: the gift of: $i00,000 made by John D. Rockefeller to the American board of missions. He said: “The money proffered to cur board of missions comes| out of a colossal estate whose foundations were laid in the most relentless rapacity known to modern commercial history. “The success of this business from the beginning until now has been largely due to unlawful and outrage- ous manipulations of railway rates. “The United States government is now engaged in a strenuous attempt to ferret out and punish- this injus- tice. “And now, on the eve of this bat- tle, we are asked to accept a great gift of money from the' man who more completely than any other rep- resents the system we are summoned to fight. “1 hope-they are not mean enough to take his mionev and then turn around and fight him. I hope they are not so faithless to their obliga- tions as to take his money and shut their mouths or become his apolc- gists. “We do not want this man’s money. To accept it will be to evoke thg con- tempt of millions of honest men; to reject it will strengthen our churches in the affections and respect of mil- lions who are inclined ' to doubt whether the churches love God more than mammon.” OFFICIAL DISPATCHES LOST. French Authorities Seriously Con- cerned Over the Affair. Paris, March 28.—The authorities here are seriou conceraed about the mysterious disap: sarance of two oficial dispatch bags containing or ders to the French squadron in the Indian ocean. The bags, which werc forwarded - to the captaiiis “of - the French warships Infernet and Ker- saint and which are said to have con- tained orders relative to the move- ments of the Russian Second Pacific squadron, disappeared between Port Said and Jibutil, French Somaliland. The investigations made have not re- sulted in finding any trace of the missing bags and some fears are en- tertained that they may have reached those interested in learning the plans of the Russian Second Pacific squad- Ton, COMPARES ECONOMIC FORCES. German Privy Councillor Writes on “The American Danger.” Berlin, March 28.—Privy Councillor Goldberger, author of “The Land of Unlimited Possibilities,” is about to publish simultaneously in Berlin and Brussels a pamphlet entitled “The American Danger,” which is a contin- uation and supplement of his boolk. He compares the economic forces of the TUnited ‘States and Germany from various standpoints and, although recognizing the resources, technical equipment and capabilities of the United States, he concludes that the American danger does mnot exist for Europe and especially not for Ger- mauy. Herr Goldberger contends that the commercial relations of the Unit- ed States and Germany ought to be readjusted by a peciprocity treaty. CAUSES APPREHENSION. France Worried Over the Situation in Morocco. Paris, March 28.—The situation in Moroeco causes serious apprehension In official quarters and it is under- stood that the French minister at Fez has been requested to bring to a speedy conclusion the negotiations whereby he seeks to secure the sul- i tan’s approval -of France's policy in administering the country. In tho meantime Emperor William's = pro- posed visit to Morocco promises to | cause the sultan to delay arriving at a decision and to encourage a demon- stration against the French policy. There is_a growing belief in high quarters that the German emperor's visit is coincident with Germany’s as- serting strong claims relative to Mo- rocco. ARMENIANS STARVING. Food Supply in Many Villages Nearly Exhausted. London, March 28. — Starvation threatens Armenia, according to a cable message from Van received dur- ing the day by the Bible Lands or Turkish Mission Aid society from the lccal agents of the society. ‘The mes- sage read: & “Suffering from poverty. = General food supply in many villages nearly exhausted:~ Deaths from hunger. be- ginning.” ; ; b No New Cardinals Created. Rome, March 28.—The pope held a secret congistory during the morning without creating any cardinals, mere- ly preconizing bishops.< The only American wa: tlie Right Rev. Thomas confirmed as RENEWED - INTEREST IN NOTED CASE ALL PARTIES CONNECTED WITH CRIME PROMINENT IN BUSI- NESS AND POLITICS. Lexington, Ky., March 28.—Judge James Hargis,~ his nephew, Elbert Hargis, and Sheriff Ed Callahan of Breathitt county have been held with- out bail on charges of complicity in the feud murder of James Cockrell in Jackson, Ky., three years ago, while Senator Alexander Hargis, arrested in the same connection, was released on $15,000 bail. nounced by Judge Parker of the Fay- ette circuit court, who heard testi- mony last week on the question of bail, and the trial of the case will be held at the present term of court. Cockrell was shot and killed from the courthouse window. Jackson and Curtis Jett, who had been convicted -and sentenced to death for connec- tion with the crime, was on Saturday granted a new trial, while Tom White is under life sentence for complicity in the crime. All of the men arrest- ed in connection with the crime are prominent in Kentucky business and politics and few murder-cases have created so much stir as has this one. COAXED AND THREATENED. Chadwick Finally Agrees to Come Into Court. Cleveland, March 28.—Mrs. Chad- wick was not in court at 9:30 a. m., the hour set for the beginning of the arguments on the motion for a new trial. . When the deputies called at the county jail to take Mrs. Chad- wick to the tederal building she an- nounced that she was suffering with nenralgia and that she could not be dressed. The government officials in- sisted, however, that. her presence was necessary and after much coax- ing and threatening she finally. con- cluded to get dressed and later, ac- companied by (wo deputies, entered the courtroom. J. P. Dawley, senior counsel for Mre Chadwick, at once began his arguments for a new trial Mr. Dawley made a strong protest against Juror Bentley F. Crane, who, he claimed, had served under the name of Butler Crane. In support of his argument Dawley read a number of afiidavits showing that Butler Crane had been summoned to serve on the jury and that the attorneys for the defense did not know that the juror was any other than Butler Crane until after the trial. Mrs. AFTER FOUR YEARS' Frank Ely Rogers, Missing Chicago Boy, Returns Home. Chicago, March 28.—Frank Ely Rogers, who returned- suddenly to Evanston Sunday, nearly four years after the mysterious disappearance of himself and his aunt, Miss Florence Ely, from the home of Charles Rog- ers, the lad’s uncle,- maintained si- lence during the day as to his where- abouts and doings since leaving his uncle’s Evanston home in July, 1901. The boy is said by his father, James C. Rogers, to have denied being with Miss Ely and to have denied seeing her since leaving home. “I have learned nothing more from Frank,” said Mr. Rogers. He has been in Pittsburg and I think in other Eastern cities. I am not going to bother him with questions and when he gets ready to tell me all he wants to say I shall listen.” ABSENCE. CHARGE EVIDENTLY PROVEN. Nebraska Senate Investigates Accusa- tion of Bribery. Lincoln, Neb,, March 28.—The spe- cial committee of the Nebraska state senate which is investigating the charge made by an Omaha newspaper that a $5,000 boodle fund had been raised by county officers in the state to help insure -the passage by the legislature of a bill which would en- able the present county officers to hold their .places two years longer, under a new four-year tenure plan, has asked for power to make arrests. This means, it is said, that an ofiicial of Omaha is to be arrested and brought to the bar of the sena‘z on the charge of:acting as go-between for the persons interested and a cer- tain member of the legislature. Young Woman Kills Herself. Chicago, March 28.—Suicide is: be- lieved to have caused the death of Miss Clara Hulbert, daughter of Bri B. Hulbert, professor of divinity at the University of Chicago. The young woman, who had been in ill health Some time, was found asphyxiated in her room. She was twenty-five years old. {3 = Pleads Guilty to Double Murder. Joliet, 1L, March 28.—William Rap- son, the New T.enox farmer who in January last shot and instantly killed his son, Herbert, and his son's wife and then attemptéd suicide; pleaded guilty before Juflge Dibdell to two. in- The decision was an- ON THE MOVE Again Pressing Forward to Do Battle With Retreating Russians. Gunshu Pass, Manchuria, March 28 —The Japanese are again moving for- ward. The Russian rear guard has fallen back from its position 13 miles north of Sipinghai to Chaoumia, 40 miles below Gunshu Pass. NEW. METHOD DISCOVERED. Counterfeit Bills Turned Out Almost as G~ad as Genuine. New Haven, Conn., March 28 —Two men supposed to be William Gober and Samuel Fastow of New York ‘were arrested early in the day at the point of a revolver in . a boarding- house here, where they had stopped three days. In their rooms was found a new counterfeiting outfit: which had turned out several spurious $1 biils, the police asseri, almost as good as the genuine. The police believe that an entirely new counterfeiting method has been discovered, as the plan of turning out bogus bills is a departure from the engraved plates and other methods generally employed. The plan ap- parently was to take a new bill of any denomination, pour a fluid said to be from Russia over the biil and then stamp the bill on plain sheets of specially prepared paper. —After the pieces are pressed together for some time the whole is taken off and placed on a cylinder much the samc as a record is placed on a phono- graph. This is followed by an elec- trical process that makes a perfect reproduction on the white paper and, after a drying process, the bill is peeled off apparently. as good as the one from which the copy is made. The original bill is not spoiled and the process, it is alleged, <an be re- peated as many times as desired. BLOWN TO THE SURFACE.’ Submarine Tunnel Mirac- ulously Saved. ‘New York, March 28,—Four men who were at work in the forward compartment of the railroad tunnel under lyn and the Battery were saved from either death or serious injury in miraculous fashion when all four were blown out of the tunnel and up to the surface of the river by the force of compressed air in which they were workiu Bystanders who saw the men shoot to the surface say that Richard Creedon, cne of the four, wa: shot twenty feet into the air trom th. level-of the water and that his stai tling appearance so trightened severa. Italian laborers cn the mnearby pier that they took to flight. Contractors say that this is the first instance in which the workmen have escaped with their lives when a submarine and subterranean tunnei has -buf&t and been filled by water. There have been numerous instances in which the men have lost their lives. Workmen in ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. Two Shots Fired Into Home of Polish Priest at Winnipeg. ‘Winnipeg, Man., March 28.—Mys- tery swrrounds a sensational attempt to murder Rev. W. Blozowiski, priest of an independent Polish church, at 2 o’clock in the morning. As he sat at a table in a lower room of his resi- dence two shots were fired from the street, crashing through the window within a few inches of his head. One of the bullets struck an oil lamp, which expioded and set fire to the room, the contents of which, “includ-/ ing several oil paintings, were de- stroyed. Since coming to Winnipeg Blozo wiski has been active in religious con- troversies among the Poles, with the result that he has incurred the en- mity of some factions among the for- elgners of the North End. SAILOR BLOWN Steamer Pretoria - [Experiences tremely Severe Weather, New York, March 28.—Three days behimnd her record time for the pas- sage the Hamburg-American line Steamer Pretoria came in during the day from Hamburg with a story of ex- tremely severe weather on the Atlan- tic. Constant westerly gales and head seas, varied only by periods marked by an increase in the adverse conditions, was, in - brief, the Pre- toria’s experience as related by her officers. One life was lost, that of 3 seaman who was blowh into the sea during a hurricane. The Pretoria’s passenger list was increased by three during tle vovage. All the births ‘were in the s#cerage quarters. INTO SEA. Ex: Agree to Accept Old Scale, Cleveland, March 28—An agree- ment was reached during the day at the wage conference between the Lake Carriers’ association and the Marine Firemen, Oilers and Water Tenders’ union whereby the men wm Teceive the Kast river between Brook- | ASSASSIN'S AIM BAD BARON VON NOLKEN, WARSAW'S CHIEF OF POLICE, TARGET OF BOMB THROWER. ESCAPES WITH SERIOUS INJURIES MISSILE FALLS BEHIND OFFI- CIAL'S CARRIAGE INSTEAD OF UNDERNEATH. Warsaw, March 28.—Baron vom Nolken, chief of police of Warsaw, who was injured by the explosion of a bomb, owes his life to the bad aim of his assailant, who threw the bomb behind instead of underneath the car- riage.. The body of Von Nolken is full of innumerable splinters of the bomb. His assailant has not yet been arrested. : The man who previously threw a bomb into the police station at Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, injuring six po- licemen, is believed to be dying. He was injured by a fragment of the bomb as well as by bullets fired at him by the police. He refuses to re- veal his identity, but declares himself $o be a socialist. The greatest excitement prevails throughout this city. Baron von Nolken is very unpop- ular. He is hated by the masses of the Polish population, who hold him responsible for the sanguinary sup- pression of the disturbances here at the end of January. He has been here only a yéar, having come from St. Petersburg, where he was chief of the mounted division of the po- lice. MAY HAMPER NEGOTIATIONS. Said Japan Would Restrict Russlan Naval Construction. Paris, March 28.—According to members of the diplomatic corps here one of Japan's peace conditions is likely to hamper the negotiations. This is that Russia” pledge herself to build no more warships for a term of years. Diplomats say that such a condition would be the most effec- tive means of securing Japan against Russia’s carrying out her cherished project of naval rearmament for the renewal of hostilities under better conditions than those at present ex- isting. It is well known that Russia con- templates a huge plan of naval re- habilitation. Admiral Doubasoff, the head of the technical board of the ad- miralty; Captain Clado, formerly chief tactical officer under Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, and other Russian au- thorities have taken the position that peace was desirable uniil naval con- struction could be completed. This appears to have stimulated Japan’s diplomats to.consider means of avoiding a peace that would be equivalent to no more than a truce during which Russia would have time to forge an effective weapon and therefore the intimation is now given that limitation of Russian naval arma- ment may figure as a means of ensur- ing a prolonged peace in the Orient. Concerning the recent preliminary approaches toward peace it is now ac, cepted in the highest diplomatic quar- ters that these preliminary negotia- tions did not occur here, although Paris may have been the channel through which the results were trang- mitted to St. Petersburg and Tokio. STILL IN ST Report That Grand Duke Alexis Had Fled Is Untrue. St. Petersburg, March 28.—The re: port published abroad that Grand Duke Alexis had fled from Russia in- cognito is untrue. He has not left 8t. Petersburg, As showing the faith existing in Temote sections of Russia that the im- perial rescript of Dec. 25 agsures the establishment of a parliament peti- tions are already being received ad- dressed to the ‘“national assembly” and last week the parents of school children at Ekaterinoslav, South Rus- sia, met and adopted foérmal resolu- tions. for submission to the parlia- ment asking for the enactment of laws giving the public a share in the administration of the schools and the free admission of children without re- gard to rank or religion, etc, & Subject of Peace ignored, London, March 28.—In the house of commons Swift MacNeil (Irish Na- tionalist) tried to elicit information regarding the peace negotiations. Ha asked Premier Balfour if he could muke any statement on the subject, but-as no_ prevlo\ls noflce had been | the PETERSBURG,