Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 8, 1905, Page 1

s i VOLUME 3. NUMBER 66. REBEL WARSHIPS BOTH SURRENDER Give Up to Authorities of Roumania- Crews are Landed.and Despatched To Various Prisens. Kustenji, Roumanla, July 8—The mutenous crews of the Russian battle- ship Kniaz Potemkir.e and her consort the reble torpedo boat, have surrend- STRIKE EXPECTED TO SPREAD. Parcel Delivery Companles Likely to Become Involved. Chicago, July 8—A spread of the teamsters’ strike to parcel and bag- gage companies is possible as a result of the action of the Teamsters' Joint Councll in directing all baggage and parcel ‘delivery drivers to refuse to make deliveries to strike-bound con- cerns. While the joint council was in, ‘session the Department Store Drivers’ union voted overwhelmingly to con- tinue the strike indefinitely. Action concerning deliveries by the express companies was taken as a re- sult of the announcement by Judge “Holdom th:#% he would issue injunc- tions against six concerns compelling them to deliver goods to “struck” houses. Although the express cempanies had been endeavoring to prevent a clash with their drivers it is believed they canot avold asking them to make de- liveries to strikéjound firms. The ered to the Roumanian authorities. The crews have been landed and are now being dispatched in small pa rties to various nlaces in Roumania. FOUGHT FOR BIG ESTATE. Chicago Woman and Her Daughter Indicted for Perjury. Chicago, July 8.—Mrs. Matilda Ben- der and her daughter Marie have been arrested on charges of perjury and conspiracy in connection with their attempt to secure for Charlotte Ben- der a widow's share in the estate of the late Colonel George C. Cline. The estate for which the Benders were fighting is valued at almost $2,000,000, The story which was told to Judge Cutting by Mrs. Bender and her daughter some months ago hangs on their contention that Robert Cline, now dead, and the dead millionaire, Colonel George C. Cline, were one and the same person. They declared that while passing as “Robert Cline, cattle buyer, from Texas,” he married Char- lotte Bender. During the proceedings before Judge Cutting and later before the grand jury the supposed widow of the mil- lionaire did not appear to testify, her mother and sister saying that she was being confined in an insane asylum. Judge Cutting refused to recognize the claims of Charlotte Bender and recommended that the grand jury in- vestigate the case, As the result the mother and sister of the claimant were indicted and the Indictments kept gecret until their arrest. No Bail for Gaynor and Greene. Montreal, July An application for bail for Me: CGaynor and Greene was refused during the day by Judge Quimet of the court of king's bench. firms (hat would Le affected by the QUARREL ENDS IN DEATH. OBSTRUCTION ON TRACK. Atiempt to Wreck Overland Limited on Union Pacific. Laramie, Wyo., July 8.—An attempt was made early in the day to wreck passenger train No. 1, the westbound Overland limited, on the Union Pacific. Only the watchfulness of the engincer and fireman, both of whom saw an obstruction on the track at the same time and prompt action on the part ot the fireman in applying the airbrakes, prevented a disaster. As it was the fiver was stopped as the nose of the pilot touched the obstruction, which consisted of tics, big stones and old timbers. Crookston (Minn.) Women Fight Over Potato Patch. 3 Crookston, Minn., July 8.—Because Mrs. Bertha Woods and her daughter, Mrs. Lien, went out to their lot just south of the pumphouse in the Fifth ward to hoe the crop of potatoes which had been planted upon the lot by Mrs. John Safford, wife of a Great Northern washer at the roundhouse, a neighbor- hood scrap resuited, it is said, and Mrs. Woods, the owner of the disputed lot, is dead as a result of the scrim- mage. Mrs. Safford, who claims to own the tax titles to the lot because of her res- idence of some sixteen years upon the property, is seriously ill at her home as a result of the wounds inflicted ! Br ST e G TS ; i, et s ans v | ELEVEN LOGGERS ~ PERISH daughter, M Dines American Officials. Paris, July 8.—President and Mme. Loubet gave a luncheon during the day in honor of the American special ambassadors and visiting naval offi- cer: The luncheon was of unusual elegance, the president showing marked courtesy to his American guests, Accused of Killing His Child. Chicago, July 8.—John Wicher, twenty-two years old, has been arrest- ed charged with drowning his six- months-old boy in the Chicago river. The a followed the recovery of the child’s body and identification by Anna Wicher, the mother. BOAT SWAMPS [N CHIPPEWA RIVER NEAR CHIPPEWA FALLS, WIS. Chippewa Falls, Wis, July 8— Eleven log drivers were drowned in the Chippewa river at Little Falls dam during the day. They lost control of the batteau in which sixteen men had crossed the river and the boat swamped. Following are the names of the drowner SAUL BRACKRTT, Ean Claire. LOUIS GOKEY. Matted Pictures 300 Pictures on Sale At 10 Cents 0’Leary & Bowser = MAX BILLARD, Flambeau. PATTOCK LEODEN, Stanley. OLE HOREN, Chippewa Falls. JOSEPH PELOQUIN, Drywood. ANDREW GONEYID, Jim Falls, OSCAR BARQUEST, Cadott. BERT LARRY, Anson. BYRON FERGUSON, City. ADOLPH TOUTANT, Cadott, Wis. BOSTON MAKES PROTEST. Hard Rap at the Interstate Commerce Commission. Boston, July 8.—An emphatic pro- test against the recent decision of the TUnited States interstate commerce commission on the subject of differen- tials on freight from the interior to seaports was made at a meeting of the Boston chamber of commerce during the day in a report from a sub-com- mittee appointed to consider the dif- ferential question. The repori reviewed the delibera- tions of the interstate commerce com- mission on the question at sessions held in New York, Philadelphia and ‘Washington, as well as the evidence presented by Boston to prove that the | rates’ prevuiling gave undue prefer- ence to Biltimore and Philadelphia and characterized the commission’s re- port.as defying analysis, as inviting ! rate cutting and as violating the spirit tof the Uniled States Constitution Chippewa Each 10 An Excellent Opportunity : || To Earn Money Is open to a limited number of people in your vicinity. If you are unemployed or if you have un- occupied . —Fhe work we offer is clean, dignified and profitable. : Particularly goa! results await your efforts in this field. : ~ Werite to-day for full particulars. e METROPOLITAN MAGAZI} 3 WEST 29t STREET, NEW YORK time, write to us. CIRCULATION DEPT. CI] E ‘AR BE- FORMER BECRETARY. O COMHS HEAD/ GIVEN TIME TO GLOSE- UP SUSIESS WILL NOT GO TO-WASHINGTON PERMANENTLY. BEFORE ~ SEPTEMBER. Oyster Bay, L. I, July 8.—Officlal announcement was 1ade here during the day that Elihu I}Awt has been ap- pointed secretary ot state. The an- nouncement was made on the author- ity of President Roosevelt in the fol- lowing statement: “Elihu-Root has accepted the office of secretary of statzl He will take the oath of office in a couple of wecks, but it will necessarily be some little time before he closes' up his business affairs. He will not go to Washington permanently until some time in Sep- tember.” B President Roosevelf is much grati- fied at Mr. Root’s a¢feptance and is deeply sensible of the” personal sacri- fices made by Mr. Root in again tak- ing up the burdens and duties of a member of the cabingt. It is the intentlon of Mr. Root to assume the duties of secretary of state practically at once, although it will be perhaps two weeks before he. formally will take the oath of office. His professional interests are so large that he will have to devote consider- able time to a satisfactory arrange- ment of them before he goes to Wash- ington to take permanent charge of the state department . ‘When he takes active charge of the department he will give up entirely his law practice. ROOT BOOM IS GROWING. Appointment as Secetary of State Forwards Plans of Backers. ‘Washington, July ®-—While the ap- pointment of Elihu Root is regarded as one of the strongest that could be made the opinion is ireely expressed here that it will {14 e complicate Republican national politics. Mr. Root’s return to' the cabinet is taken as a certain indication that he will be the administration candidate for presi- dent. The fact that he gives up one of the most lucrative law businesses in the country and severs his connection with his millionaire clients rather tends to confirm the theory that Sec- retary Root will enter the contest for a nomination to the highest office in the land. Eastern Influences and Eastern cor- porate interests, it is observed, have been quietly booming Mr. Root for some time and now that he again en- ters public life his candidacy is con- sidered as almost a certainty. HILL'S LATEST - SCHEME. Wiil Merge Great Northern With Ca- nadian Lines. Ottawa, Ont., July 8.—A Winnipeg dispatch says there is a rumor to the effect that a big scheme is being en- gineered by J. J. Hill to amalgamate the Grand Trunk Pacific, the Canadian Northern and the Great Northern rail- way systems. It is said that the scheme even includes the incorpora- tion of the Intercolonial, thus making possible the operation of two trans- continental lines, utilizing all the roads mentioned and the proposed extension of Mr. Hill’s road in British Columbia. CLEVELAND WILL REMAIN. Has No Intention of Retiring as Equi- table Trustee. New York, July 8—In relation to a report that Grover Cleveland was considering retiring from the trustee- ship of the Equitable Life Assurance society Mr. Cleveland authorizes the following statement: “Nothing has occurred thus far to dissatisfy me in the least and the idea of ‘retiring from the trusteeship has never entered my mind.” ROCKEFELLER THE DONOR. Preacher Gets Basket of Potatoes Each One Containing $5. Cleveland, July 8.—A basket of pota- toes, in each one of which was im- bedded a $5 gold piece, was presented here to Rev. Dr. Charles A. Eaton of the Euclid Avenue Baptist church, of which John D. Reckefeiler is a mem- ber. Mr. Rockefeller, who attended the presentation, is said to have been the donor. Imprisoned Men Alive. Paris, July 8—The ministry of ma- rine has received a dispatch from Bizerta, Tunis, saying that the sub- Thursday, is still lying at the bottom of the harbor and that her imprisonzd erew, numbering thirteen men, con- tinue fo respond to the signals of the divers. \ Fire Causes Panic in Court. REFINERY LAW KILLED . STATE SUPREME COURT DECIDES KANSAS CANNOT ENGAGE IN THE OIL BUSINESS. BIG APPROPRIATION KNOCKED OUT | LEGISLATURE’S WORST BLOW AT ROCKEFELLER'S TRUST REN- DERED HARMLESS: Topeka, Kan., July 8—The law passed by the legislature last winter. appropriating $410,000 to build an. in- dependent oil refinery at Peru, has been declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court in an opinion ren- dered by Assoclate Justice Greene. The cil refinery law was considered one of the most direct blows struck at the Standard Oil company by the last legislature, which adopted several measures tending to restrict that con- cern in the handling of the Kansas product. The oil refinery law provided for the erection at Peru also of a branch of the state penitentiary to house suffi- cient prisoners, who, it was intended, were to work the oil plant. State Treasurer T. T. Kelly and Warden E. R. Jewett, whose duty it was to issue the bonds, declined to siza them in order to first secure a decision on the constitutionality of the act. Attorney General C. C. Coleman filed mandamus proceedings in the state supreme court on behalf of the state to compel these ofticers to sign the bonds. The opin- lon declaring the act to be.illegal and unconstitutional was concurred in by all members of the supreme court. OUSTED FROM KANSAS. Delaware Corporation Declared an Outlaw Concern. Topeka, Kan., July 8-—The state supreme court has rendered a decision declaring that the Kansas Natural Gas rompany, a Delaware corporation, cannot ‘do business in Kansas. The decision, which is sweeping in its terms, makes an outlay of the com- pany, which, it declares. cannot hold property in*Kansas aud’ éannot oper- ate in any manner within the state. The company has already spent sev- eral million dollars, it is estimated, in laying pipe lines in Kansas. It scems that when the company applied to the Kansas charter board for permission to do business in this state that the board denied the appli- cation. However, the company went ahead laying its pipes and contracting to deliver gas to many cities. To date the company has expended millions of dollars laying pipe lines from the Southern Kansas field to the Missourl line and to a dozen or more Northern Kansas cities, much of which work has practically been completed. CLEMENT CASE ENDS. Fate of Aged Banker in Hands of the , © Jury. St. Paul, June 8.—Judge Page Mor- ris of the United States district court during the morning charged the jury which for three weeks has been hear- ing the testimony and arguments in the case of the United States againsu Thomas B. Clement, accused of wreck- ing the First National bank of Fari- bault. i ‘The judge charged the jury that the government had failed to prove the first charge in the indictment, the em- bezzlement of $1,000, and that on this count they would bring in a verdict for the defendant. The probability is that an acquittal will be returned on several counts, but the prosecution exjpects that some of the charges-will be upheld. The penalty for any one of the counts in the indictment is as severe as for all, except that with a younger man the court might not make the séntence concurrent. The minimum is five years and the maximum ten. GIVEN A YEAR' AND A HALF. Former Milwaukee Building Inspector Convicted of Bribery. Milwaukee, July &-—Michael Dunn, ex-city building inspector and former sheriff of Milwaukee county, has been sentenced by Judge Vinje of Superior to one year and six months in state prison. Dunn was convicted about a year ago of accepting a bribe of $1,500 while city building inspector from the Pabst Brewing company for a special building privilege permif. The case was appealed to the supreme court for & new trial, whick was denied. MUST DISTRIBUTE SURPLUS. Wisconsin Law Affects Old Line In- surance Companies. Madison, Wis., July 8-—~Insurance Commissioner Host has sent a letter to each of the thirty-seven old line marine boat Frafadet, which sa-nk?llfe insurance companies doing busi- iness in Wisconsin dlrei-un;u;elr at- ntion to the new law compelling the distribution of surplus to- : ers, wl i Jur { The supreme court decided distribu- .ftj;f under the old not nleoty ESTIMATED ‘AT $5,000,000. Total Losses Through the Outbreak at Odessa. e St. Petersburg, July 8.—According | to the Odessa correspondent of the Novosti the total losses through the outbreak ‘at Odessa are estimated at $56,000,000. The ity officers refuse the payment of claims, alleging that the state is responsible. The newspapers are not allowed to publish details of the doings of the Kniaz Potemkine or even the procla- mation issued by the crew guarantee- ing the. protection of foreign com- merce, The Russian fire insurance com- panies are disposed to fight the Odessa claims under the clause in their char- ters exempting them in case of foreign war or jnsurrection. -A dispatch from Odessa says the companies have al- ready refused payment of policies NEW SHELL VERY POWERFUL. Latest Explosive Will Easily Smash Heaviest Armor Plate. New. York, July 8.—That a 12inch shell loaded only with a small charge of Dunnite, the world’s most effective explosive, will crumple in the side of the heaviest armor-clad vessel, though the shell fall short of its mark by twenty feet, has just Dbeen demon- strated at the beginning of a series of tests at the government proving grounds at Sandy Hook. 5 The great value of this explosive lies in the fact that the shell will pierce armor plate and explode in the Interior of a vessel. The explosive substance is named after its inventor, Major Beverly W. Dunn, U. 8. A, and is a closely guard- ed government secret. Foreign na- tions have sought in vain to learn of its composition. GOES TO 'FEDERAL COURT MUTINEERS GET AWA MEAN PORT BEFORE ARRIVAL OF BLACK SEA FLEET. 8t. Petersburg, July 8.—The Kniaz Potemkine escaped from Theodosia before the Black sea fleet arrive there from Sebastopol and as the fleet afd not put into Theodosia it is pre- sumed the warships are in pursuit of the Kniaz Potemkine. The advices recelved by the ddmiralty, however, are meager and most conflicting. it is considered possible that “Ensign and Quartermaster” = Alexieff, wh commands the Kniaz Potemkine, was advised of the fleet’s coming and left Theodosla.! At any rate it is -clear that she coaled from a British ship, which she subsequently released, and - then sailed away. The reports as to. the direction taken by the Kniaz Po- temkine do not agrée. Admiral Wiren- ius, chief of the general staff of the navy, informed the Associated Press that one report said she had sailed Wwestward in the direction of Livadia, raising the suspicion that it is the in- tention of her *crew to bombard| the emperor’'s summer palace. rumor said that when the Knl,w temkine was last seen she was lead- ed southeast, as if bound for the Cau- casus Litteral. This subsequently ws -supplemented by a report from Sebas: topol that the Kniaz PotemKin put into Tuapse, half way to P had been captured in some myst fashion by soldiers, T The torpedo boat destroyer Smetil manned by a crew of officers and bl Jackets who volunteered to sink mutineer, reached Theodosia seycrd hours after the Kniaz Potemkine departed and after hurriedly coaling { the Smetilyy put to sea, pres . { 1n pursuit of the rebel battlesht ' s CASE OF CALEB POWERS, CON: VICTED OF COMPLICITY IN GOEBEL’S MURDER. Maysville, Ky., July 8.—Judge Coch- ran of the United States district court has taken jurisdiction in the Caleb Powers case. This means that the case will be tried in the federal court. Caleh ‘Powers, former secretary: of state of Kentucky, had four trials in the state“courts and . was under, sen- | tence of death for complicity ii the murder of Governor Goebel. His at- torneys filed in the circuit court at London, Ky., an ‘application to have the case transferred to the. federal court, claiming that Powers had been deprived of his constitutional rights | and that a fair trial was fmpossible in £ the Kentucky state courts. The state judge held that the point was one to be decided by the United States courts and formal petition for such a trans- fer from state to federal courts was made to Judge Cochran. ARRIVES AT CHERBOURG. vinclal governors in tl country. ‘Besides this | r has personally commiss 4 § Ignatieff, who is the head : lous toleration commissi the country, address the pacify them in his name. S The count made a spe 'k ;?@& Cherbourg, July 8—The funeral | beth during the day to a lar < train bearing the body of Admiral Paul | blage consisting of = provincial Jones and 500 American sallors and | tlonaries, zemstvofsts, land marines arrived here’ from Paris at Uree | 7:30 a. m. An enormous crowd sur- rounded the railroad station and wit- nessed the removal of the body to & mortuary chapel erected on the wharf of the American steamship line. The chapel was beautifully decorated with palms, flags and escutcheons from the naval arsenal. The American consul, H.J. . Hainneville, and many French oflicers took part in the ceremonies, The American sailors and marines were drawn up in battalion front fac- ing the Twenty-fifth regiment of infan- try. The body was borne between the saluting French and American sailors to a catafalque, where it was covered with flags and flowers, the band of the United ‘States flagship Brooklyn play- Ing the national anthem. The towns: people then filed by the coffin, re- spectfully uncovering as they did so. IN DYING CONDITION. Condemned Man Attempts Suicide on Day of Execution, Owensboro, Ky., July 8—While awaiting death on the scaffold for the murder of two men Robert Mathley tore the veins in his arms during the night and nearly bled to death before hls attempt to commit sulcide was discovered. In his weakened conditfon Mathley was led to the gallows before sunrise and hanged. Mathley on the scaffold declared that a woman swore his life away. The crime for which he was hanged was the murder of William A. Watkins and James Greg- son. Jealousy was the cause; 5 DISASTER THREATENED, Body of Paul Jones Placed in Tein- porary Mortuary Chapel. nce in forms, to co-operate with: th ties and not make the task majesty more difficult. 8aid Emperor Nicholas to Go to Moscow St. Petersburg, July 8 Nicholas is going to M connection the Listok that his majesty has de ) | fer the capital back W, BU( | & transfer having been agi after time on the ground that heart of Russia beats unde i ! of the holy Kremlin an e showy capital ‘on Neva. The last HANGED High Water May Cause Great Damage at Minneapolis. Minneapolis, July 8—High water in the Mississippi river threatens to break a log jam and let loose 165,000, 000 feet of lumber. Large crews of rivermen are busy trying to stay the break. Bridge piers and structur along the river would- be wrecked |