Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 19, 1905, Page 1

iy " The Bemidji )i I | .,_‘]L_m*_...m.«-w‘,...__,m EESEE SR (e VOLUME 3. NUMBER 102. BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, SATURDA Y, AUGUST 19, 1905. TEN CENTS PER WEEK STRIKE ON BOTH ROADS IS OFF Telegraphers Vote to Return to Work on Both Great Northern and Northern Pacific St. Paul, Aug. 19—The oper- ators strike on the Northern Pacigc was officially declared off this morning following a similar course in the case of the Great Northern last night. Stole Rifle From Naylor’s, At some time yesterday after- sioon a sneak thief entered the furniture store of E.L. Naylor on Third street and made away with a new .22 caliber Savage re- peating rifle which Mr. Naylor had recently purchased. The rifle was in the rear end of the storeand it is thought that the thief entered the establishment through the back door. No clue as to the identity of the culprit has been found, but the police have been notified and will keep a sharp lookout. Reception This Afternoon. A reception in honor of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Thompson was given this afternoon by Mrs, A. Lord and Mrs. E. R, Ryan. It was largely attended and proved | a most pleasant occasion. ! Northern League l GAMES YESTERDAY. Grand Torks 0, Crookston 5. Duiuth 5, Superior 0. Winnipeg 0, Fargo 1. | Lost $100 Check. Wm. McCuaig this afternoon lost a check drawn in his favor, the amount being $100. Mr. Mec- Cuaig received the check from G. E. Carson and placed it in his pocket. While walking from the postoffice to his grocery estab- lishment on Third street the piece of paper slipped from his pocket and up to the present time it has not been found. Mr. McCuaig’s endorsement is upon the back of the check, and itis feared that it may have been | picked up by some unscrupulous person and cashed. RESULT OF WASHOUTS. Traffic Delayed on Several St. Paul- Chicago Lines. La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 19.—Traffic on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and the Chicago, Burlington and | Quincy main lines between Chicago and St. Paul is badly disarranged on account of a heavy storm resulting in washouts of large parts of the tracks north of La Crosse. The Burlington has partially repaired the damage, but trains on the Milwaukee, including all mail trains, are runaing ten hours late and a large number of stations have been cut off from railway traffic altogether, LR RCR R R R R R R R R R R R R The School Season will soon be with us Above Linss BREVEGOLLDBLIVLLLVRVPLL LDV LDBBOHURBBEROLD Our Stock of Misses, Child- ren’s «a Little Men’s School Shoes is Complete :: a3 The School Children Will Want New Shoes, and You Will Not make A Mistake In Buying Any of We Carry The ™ Little Giant Independent Sharwood Selz American Boy Pingree School Shoes The . . . GOV BBVCISI VTV BID ORI DOOD IOV BB e . . . O’Leary & Bowser: X R-R-R-R-X-RoR-E- -3 -E-E-F-F-X-5-F- X% ADJOURN TO TUESDAY NEARLY NINETY KILLED RUSSO-JAPANESE PEACE ENVOYS PREPARING FOR THE FINAL STRUGGLE. ACTICN ON ARTICLE Il DEFERRED LAST CLAUSE IN.THE TREATY IS THEN TAKEN UP AND DIS- POSED OF. Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 19.—At the afternoon session the peace plenipo- tentiaries were unable to agree upon article 11, relating to the limitation of Russia’s sea power, and it was de- ferred. Article 12, providing for the grant of fishing rights on the Russian littoral, was unanimously agreed on. The protocols will be drawn up dur-] ing the three days’ interim and on Tuesday the final struggle will come. The next sitting of the conference will be held at 3 p. m. Tuesday. NO AGREEMENT REACHED. Forenoon Session Devoted to Discus- sion of Article 11. Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 19.—The deadlock between the Russian and Japanese plenipotentiaries over article 11 of the peace conditions (the lim- itation of Russia’s naval power) had not been broken when the envoys ad- journed for luncheon at 12:30 p. m. The forenoon session was entirely given up to consideration of the arti- cle and the official statement issued after adjoursment said that the dis- cussion would be resumed at the aft- €rnoon session. ‘While article 11 was the subject of consideration as a matter of fact the discussion was not limited to that article. It was general and covered all the questions at issue. It is ex- pected that article 11 and the last article, No. 12 (fishing rights), will be completed shortly .and the pleni- potentiaries will then revert briefly to} the articles that have been passed over. This will be for the purpose oi drawing up the final protocols to bej presented next week. The Japanese| continue to show great reserve inside the conference chamber and apparent- ly have successfully mystified the Russians as to their ultimate tactics. The Associated Press is able to state that telegrams received from St. Petersburg during the morning by M. Witte, which were deciphered at the navyyard, do not change' the situa- tion so far as the Russian plenipoten- tiaries are concerned. No imperial indications which would acquiesce in yielding up either of the main issues have been received. RUPTURE IS PREDICTED. Japs and Russians Too Far Apart to Reach Agreement. Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 19.—The general opinion here is that the Russo- Japanese peace conference will end in failure, although final disruption is not likely for several days. The Russians in the final test may yield one of the two main points in dispute—indemnity and the cession of Sakhalin, They will not do more, if they will do sc much. If the Japanese, therefore, do | not yield at least one the conferenc is wrecked. That can be regarded a. certain. If the conference threatens at the last moment to go to pieces the Japanese hint vaguely at an at- tempt at rescue by President Roose- velt. They offer no explanation; they furnish no specifications. Where, how, in what way they da not say. Per- haps if they personally beheve in yielding one of the main points and their government is still obdurate they will ask President Roosevelt to in- tercede to bring pressure to bear at Tokio. The president might be asked simultaneously to urge both the Rus. sian and the Japanese emperors in the name of humanity to make mu- tual concessions. But old hands at diplomacy say the situation created would be so delicate as to preclude the poessibility of President Roosevelt stepping into the breach. Both sets of plenipotentiaries here are in continuous communication with their governments. Accounts of each day’s proceedings are cabled nightly to Tokio and St. Petersburg and. mes- sages are constantly arriving from both capitals. The reports of the Japanese are much longer and more complete than those of the Russians and ‘the secretaries of both delega- tions work day and night preparing and deciphering messages. Cannot Discuss "Boycott. Hongkong, Aug. 19.—The applica- tion of the Chinese Commercial union in this city to meet and discuss the anti-American boycott has been re- fused by Sir Matthew Nathan, gov- ernor of the colony. 1 Equitable Trust DEATH LIST IN ATLANTIC COAST LINE DISASTER REACHES AP- PALLING FIGURES. VICTIMS . AT BOTTOM OF RIVER ONLY TWELVE BODIES ARE RE- COVERED, BUT EIGHTY PEO- PLE ARE MISSING. Norfoll, Va., Aug. 19—TUp to the present time only twelve bodies have been taken from "®: wreck of the "At- lantic Coast Line railwey’s Kinston and Greenville (N. C.) excursion train which went through a drawbridge near this, city, though there are some eighty of the colored excursionists yet missing and the probabilities are that the bodies of many of these will be found in the bottom of the river. The Melritt & Chapman Derrick and Wrecking company raised the two submerged cars, but as they did so the ends fell out of the cars and what dead were therein went to the bottom ¢f the river with debris from the interior of the coaches. There: are about sixty persons slightly injured or bruised, besides twenty-three injured at the hospitals, with twelve known dead, which leaves between seventy and eighty of the excursionists yet missing. The blame for the disaster has not yet been definitely located. It was Engineer Reig’s First Run over the Atlantic Coast Line to Nor- folk, he having just come from Rast Radford, Va., to this line, his former employment having been with the Norfolk and Western railway. He did not know that he was approaching a draw at the time. The faded danger flag, it is declared, was so small that the engineer did not see it and when he saw the “stop” sign, just before he reached the trestle leading to the draw, his train, which was moving thirty-five miles an hour, could not be stoppeq in time, though he made every effort 'to make the danger brakes viork, [The small, unseen danger flag is said to have béen only 100 yards from the trestle, which is a short one. The tug for which the draw hadj been opencd was just in the act of passing through when the train dashed into the water. The tug reversed her engines quickly and just avoided be- ing caught by the engine. J. J. Thompson, aged sixty years, a farmer, rushed with an axe to the scene of the wreck and, leaping twen- ty feet to the top of the second coach, cut a hole in the top of the car and rescued thirty-five people just befors ihe car dropped into the water. LIVED AT A RAPID PACE. Young Clerk Charged With Shortage of $15,000, Chicago, Aug. 19.—The sudden dis- appearance of Walter P. Kraft, em- ployed as clerk by the Equitable Trust company, and the simultaneous discovery that a block of National Bis- cuit stock was missing led officials of the company to unearth a shortage of $15,000 in (he young man’s accounts. “Playing tbke market” on margins is the story o the clerk’s undoing. Kraft is only twenty-three years of age. He has been employed by the company fourteen Yyears, entering its service as errand boy. He comes of a good family, his father being a Lutheran minister. Al though only a minor clerk Kraft owned an automobile and his salary of $1,000 hardly sufficed to pay his garage bills after he had deducted liv- ing expenses. His employers have found that he took to “playing the markel” on margins. For a time he prospered and on the ‘“unearned in- crement began to live high.” The familiar story of “secing life,” with drives in the touring car with chorus girls and jolly little suppers is said by oflicials of the company to have made one chapter in the $1,000 a year clerk’s career. ONE DEAD, ANOTHER WOUNDED. Result of Second Meeting of Muilin- Fleming Feudists. Cincinnati, Aug. 19.—A Times-Star special from Pikeville, Ky., says that in a second meeting of the Mullins and Flemings on the pike at the Letcher county line Monroe Seward, a member of the Mullins faction, was killed and Henry Mullins dangerously wounded. The shooting was general, but 31l escaped save Seward and Henry Mullins. Creed Vanover of the Fieming faction was slightly injured. Fail to Identify Marsh. Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 19.—The Chi- cago men who came here fo see George L. Marsh failed to identify him as the man wanted in Chicago in connection with the: murder of Will- iam Bate in November last. | rate is giving such a feeling of satis- PRES. ROOSEVELT - TAKES A HAND Steps Into Breach Between Russia and Japan in Last Desperate Effort to End War. Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 19— President Roosevelt stepped in- to the breach this morning in a last desperate effort to saye the peaceconference from shipwreck. The president’s course is nohl publicly announced, but it is re« garded as certain that he has ap- pealed to both St. Petersburg and Tokio to make concessions. Baron Rosen, the Russian enyoy, left this morning for Oyster Bay. ey NEW CASES T00 NUMEROUS \ YELLOW FEVER SITUATION NOT YET UNDER CONTROL AT‘ NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, Aug. 19.—While the low death rate from yellow fever in New Orleans 'is gratifying there is considerable public anxiety to see a diminution of the number of new cases, which will indicate more surely the control the authorities have of the situation. Malaria continues to be mixed with the yellow fever list that is reported daily. The Louisiana state board of health | was advised during the day by one of the physicians who has been on duty among the sick on the Riverside plan- tation in St. Marys parish that there has been a total of forty-eight cases of fever and three deaths there. FAIL TO OBEY INSTRUCTIONS. Yellow Fever Continues to Spread in Italian Section. New Orleans, Aug. 19.—An analysis of the report for the preceding twenty- four hours shows that thirty-two of the seventy-four new cases of yellow fever appeared in the heart of the originally infected quarters. The ex-| planation given by the inspectors is that after their own houses are disin- fected and the mosquitoes killed some |. of the Italians go around and pay vis- its to sick friends, become infected themselves and carry the fever with them. The situation above Canal street continues to improve. In that! section obedience to the federal reg- ulations is more general and the re- sults are plain. The unexpected decline in th'e death | faction here that people are beginning to believe that the possibilities of the visitations have been overdrawn. The doctors, however, say that the low death rate is due to the fact that prac. tically the whole community has been educated up to the necessity of call- ing a doctor the moment temperature developed. - % ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGED. Former Member of Parliament Under Arrest. Lordon, Aug. 19.—A great /sensa- tion has been created by the arrest of Hugh Watt, a financier and formerly a member of parliament for the Ca- lachie division of Glasgow, on the charge of attempting to procure a private detective to assist in the mur- der of his former wife. Detective Marshall testified in police court that ‘Watt offered him $25,000 if he would induce the woman to come to Watt’s flat, where he proposed to-kill her by the administration of chloroform and then to remove the smell of the chloro- form with peppermint. Watt was re- manded for trial on bail of $3,000. The police found both chloroform and peppermint in Watt’s apartments. ‘Watt was in the divorce e¢ourt some years ago when his wife sued for a divorce, the co-respondent being Lady Violet Beauchamp, daughter of the late Liord and Lady ®Roden and the divorced wife of Sir Reginald Beau- champ. Watt has since married Lady Violet Reauchere, . el Rt BOY STEALS ' $10,000. Chicago Messenger Leaves With Large Bank Deposit. Chicago, Aug. 19.—Gus Bobbs, af messenger boy employed by the dry goods house of Charles A. Stevens & Bros., has disappeared with $10,000 of the firm’s moncy, it is charged, and a reward of $600 has been offered for his capture. Bobbs was employed in the place of the regular messenger, who is on a vacation. He was sent to the bank to make a deposit, carrying $10,000 with him. 4 : e e R { and several matches. CAPABLE OF CAUSING DEATH INFERNAL MACHINE SENT TO OFFICE OF JACOB H. SCHIFF, NEW YORK BANKER. New York, Aug. 19.—An explosive package capable of causing death was: sent to Jacob H. Schiff, the banker, at the oflice of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of which he is a member. Mr. Schiff was at Bar Harbor and when the ma« chine, enclosed in a wooden box about six inches long, was received at hig office clerks immediately sent it to the police. At first the police reports ed that the affair was a joke, but fur< ther investigation by an expert re< vealed the presence of thirty-one grains of a high explosive power and two 32-caliber loaded cartridges. Ar« ranged so as to fire this charge meres ly by ordinary handling of the packs age was a cylinder of emery papeér lying in contact with both the powder The flash of this powder would have .discharged the cartridges, which had been care« fully filed at the fulminating ends. Lead slugs were packed in beside the bullets, evidently to make the dis< charge more dangerous. Throughout the machine there was an oily saturation to insure the flagit of any one of the matches reaching the powder. The whole mechanism was concealed under a newspapéer wrapping of Wall street stock quotas tions. A second infernal machine, resems bling that sent to Jacob H. Schiff, was received through the mail at the office of M. Guggenheim’s Sons at 71 Broad- waey. The contents were nearly theé same as those of the Schiff bomb, TO FIGHT FOR RECIPROCITY« Chicago Conference Launches Pers manent Organization. Chicago, Aug. 19.—After launching a permanent organization to be known as the American Reciprocal Tariff league 'and adopting a platform whick declares that a dual tariff is the only and most practical way to secure res ciprocal trade relations with other countries the reciprocity convention adisurned. 5 MINNESOTA LUMBER STOLEN. Reports of Wholesale Trespass ReacH’ State Timber Board. St. Paul, Aug. 19.—Reports of wholes sale timber stealing in Northern Min« nesota have been flled with the state timber hoard by the state cruisers, who have returned from a cruise, and the board has decided to make a de< termined campaign to arrest the of- fenders. The evidence which the state hag collected is kept secret that the board may the more easily apprehend the offenders. Members of the board, after an all day session, refused to divulge the information they had re- ceived further than to state that some startling discoveries of timber tres- pass had been made. ;i It is said that several milliop feet of timber are involved and thaBf the board carries cut its plams it will col~ lect many thousand dollars. It is thought that the trespass was delib- erate and the state will insist on treble damages. The trespass was committed about two years ago and is of such a nature that no blame at- taches to any present or former state official. COMPELS DAUGHTER TO SUICIDE. Father Then Ends His Own Life by Taking Poison. Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 19.— Frank Ward, foreman of a yard gang at the Pueblo steel works, caused the death of his daughter Frances, aged sixteen, by forcing her to swallow a quantity of poison and then committed suicide by using the same drug. Neighbors said Ward had been drinking heavily and had threatened to kill himself and the ‘glrl. ‘Ward was a widower.