Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 12, 1905, Page 1

(XN Ay ’ . ¢ The Bemidji aily Pio: Hxsborical Socxezy Vv OLUME 3. NUMBER 121 X BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1905. TEN CENTS PER WEEK Typewriters and % Typewriter % Supplies. of all kinds . . BEMIDJI PIONEER opposite post office VISITS STRICKEN DISTRICT. King of italy Views Ruin Caused by] Earthquake. Monteleone, Calabria, Sept. 12— King Victor Emmanuel arrived here} during the day to visit the place He wi gtricken by the earthquake. received by Signor Ierraris, the min | a: of public worl and the popula- ! tion, which gave the emperor a demon | st nd grateful welcome. Signor Fer iously visited the vil lage of which presented aj terrible >. All the houses have} been destroyéd and the inhabitant. are in a condition of speechless terror During the railway trip from Tri parni Signor Ferrari aw on an ele | vation the of a v > complete | ly destroyed. i shows the im | mensity of the ¢ The westert | walls of all the buildings have L\xm[ bled down and the population we crying to be conducted to the minm‘v ter, who stood at the edge of a great fissure of earth where tormerly ed a portion of the place, now swal lowed up. | At Piscopio troops are burying bod | ies and everywhere officers and sol| diers are sharing their rations with the ]mpuhuum TORTURED BY ROBBERS. Two Aged Men Bound, Gagged ant Burned. Elgin, 111 . 12.—Yound, gagged, and tortured by fire by t! bandits | who soughi to make them reveal the; hiding place of treasure they though(l concealed in the hou Andrew anc| John Fohren, old and wealthy ers living near Spring Lake, yey 8 miles north of here, are in a sc 'mus} condition and it is feared that the| shock and injur may prove fatal tc} Andrew, the elder of the two brothers | Andrew, after the robbers hac| gearched the house and taken $1H;l|‘ managed to free himself from tlul thongs which bound him and started| across the fields to secure help. Thej soles of his feet were blistered and before he had gone far he fainted a fell in a ditch, where he lay unti| after daylight. Finally he revived and made his way to a cheese factory. | where he gave the alarm, but the ban dits had gained a 't of severai| hours and could not be fuuu(l ! Oil as Fuel on Battleship. London, Sept. 12 xhaustive ex- periments with the use of oil as a fuel | on battleships have proved so satisfac- | tory that the British admiralty has | ordered the erection of a great oil storing depot at Plymouth, with jet- ties at which (anl\ steamers can moor. Cana! Plans D:scussed Oyster Bay, 1. I, Sept. 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt during the day eon-| ferred with the members of the board of consulting engineers of the Pan- am1 cawal, who will go to the isth- mus in a few days. Plans for the ca- nal were discussed. ! Sept. 11, BOY LOVER'S CRIME. Wounds Two Girls and Then Ends His Own Life. Frederick, Md., seriously wounded Nellie Eichelberger and her friend, Maud Davis, and then Xilled himself because Nellie, who had been his sweetheart, discarded him. The tragedy took place in the pub- lic square of Thurmont when Weddlet took Miss KEi sending him his letter of dismissal | Upon her reiterating the sentiments she had expressed in the letter Wed: dle drew a revolver and fired at her Sept. 12.—Lee Wed | dle, a seventeen-year-old boy, shot ang| nelberger to task foz' DEATHS FRCM YELLOW FEVER. Larger Number Than Usual Reported at MNew Qrleans. New Orleans, Sept. 12.—Tollowing is the official yellow fever report up to 6 p. m. New cas 7; total cases, 2,298; deaths, 7; total deaths, 316; -new sub- foci, 11; cases under treatment, 296; cases discharged, L,677. The unfavorable part of the day’s report is the unusually large number of deailts. Another distinguished mem- ber of the Roman Catholic clergy is in the list, Father L. E. Green of the Jesuit college. He died at 4 p. m. after being ill a week. Reports from the country are: Patterson, 7 cases, 2 deaths; Tal- lulah, 11 cases, 2 deaths; Kenner, 2 cases, 1 death; Hanson City, 4 cases; Donaldsville, 2 cases; St. Rose, 2 cases: Pecan Crove, 1 death. Mississippi—Gulfport, 1 case; Vicks- burg, 4 cases; Natchez, 1 case. MISSING FISHERMEN FOUND. Part of the Cromwell’s Crew Picked Up by the Ella King. Booth Bay, Me., Sept. 12.—The fish- ing schooner Ella J. King, Captain | Lawson, arrived here during the day from the George banks with the eight | missing men of the crew of the Bos- ton fishing scheooner Joseph U. Crom- well. The Cromwell arrived al Bos- ton Saturday and reported that her commander, Captain Isaac Frazer, had committed suicide at sea and that the eight men had been lost in the fog )vhile fishing from dories. The fishermen were picked up last | Wednesday about thirty miles south- . west of Seal island. They had been in their dories two days and a night without food. Captain Frazer com- mitted suicide after he learned that eight of the men were missing. ! | FOUR PERSONS DROWNED. Cocheco River the Scene of Two Fatal twice. The first of the bullets went Accidents. th_xmlg,h Maud D'ns _arm '\ElfI- lI{fC‘ Dover, N. H., Sept. 12.—Four per- Mi chelberger's left shoulder, the! =77~ s 5 second wenetrating a few. dnehes ) PODS Were drowned in the Cocheco SECONG, LEn e = iy | river here during the day. Thomas the right of the first. & i e = 3 Keenan and George Jones fell over- As his victim fell fainting to the A -1 board from a small schooner and were ground the boy, believing he had - 2 z drowned. killed her, turned the weapon and sent two bullets through his own heart, dy- ing instantly. WHEEL IN BAD CONDITION. Ceroner’s Jury Verdict in Minnesotz State Fair Accident. St. Paual, Sept. 12.—The coroner’s jury in the case of Mrs. Ida Sepe thal, killed by falling from a Forris|about $40. wheel. at the state fair grounds last week, places the blame for the weo. who op- for his neglect to insure an absolutely safe condition of | man’s death upon G. G. erated the wheel, Gill, the varidus parts of the wheel. The te$timony at the inquest showed | at Mi that the wheel was not in good condi. | tion and that it had never been in- Edward Durkin lost his life in try- ing to save his little son who fell out of a rowboat. i North Dakota Postoffice Robbed. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 12.—Local ofi- cials have been notified to be on the watch for safeblowers who entered the postoffice at Christine and secured They dynamited the safe and overlooked an envelope containing several thousand dollars, taking the change in the drawer. BRIEF EITS OF NEWS. consin’s annual state fair opened ‘aukec Monday under the most | auspicious conditions, ! Timely rains in the Dajputana and { . W spected by the fair authorities to see! other drought stricken districts of In- whether or not it was dangerous to} dia are relieving 1o some extent the those persons attending the fair \'.1104 fears of an acute famine. chose to ride upon it. WARSAW FACTORIES CLOSED. Theodore A. Shurr, a well knowrn naturalist and taxidermist, aged sixty five, committed suicide at Baltimore General Strike as Result of Execution | by Shooting himself twice in the head. of Socialist. Wi w, Russian Poland, consequence of the ex v of Ivan Kaspshak, who was condemned by a cou for inciting political murde the factories in Warsaw st 2 the day. re patrolling the streets. A large number of arrests made in a theater at Lodz. Sept. 12. ecution o In house with revolutionary documents, whercupon the police surrounded the theater and arrested about 200 of the! SHOWS NO CHANGE. i Official Report of Cholera Situation in Germany. Berlin, Sept. 12.—An official bul- letin says that 16 cholera cases and 6 i deaths were reported from noon Sept. 9 to noon Sept. 10 and 15 cases and 6 deaths from noon Sept. 10 to noon and 58 deaths. NAARAAAAAY : is None to Good” This especially so in our prescription aepartment Bring us your Prescriptions, E.N.FRENCH @. CO. CITY DRUG STORE. a socialist Cossacks and infan- were | An in- dividual from the gallery flooded the! making the totals 180 cases l United States Ambassador Meyer | left St. Petersburg Monday for Berlin nd Paris, whence he will return home m leave of abscnce at the end of Sep- tembe A tch to a JLondon news agency rom Si. Petershurg says it is report- | ed there that Mr. de\amm Japanesc minister at V ington, will be ap- pointed minister of Japan at St. Pe- | tersbur; The eighth annual convention of the 1ational Building Trades Council met in Denvey Monday w about 160 delegates in attendance. The eight- hour workday and important ques- j tions in jurisdiction are to be consid- ered. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Sept. 11.— Wheat— Sept., §u%c; Dec., 81% @813c; May, 841, @S435c. On track—No. 1 hard 841yc: No. 1 Northern, 82%¢; No. 2 ! Northern, 79%ec. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. { St. Paul, Sept. 11.—Cattle—-Good to choice steers, $4.50@5.50; common to i fair, $3.75@ ; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.25@4.25; veals, $2.00@ 15.50. Hogs—$5.15@5.65. Sheep—Year- lings, $4.50@5.40; good to prime na- tive lambs, $5.00@5.50. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Sept. 11.—Wheat—On track —No. 1 Northern, 85¢; No. 2 Northern, 81c. To arrive—No. 1 Northern, 823%c; No. 2 Northern, 79%c; Sept. (old), 82¢; t. (new), 78c; Dec., 77iec. Flax—To arrive, §1.06%: on track, $1.14; Sept., $1.06%; Oct., £1.031%; ! May, $1.4 Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Sept. 12.—Cattle—Beeves, $2.70@6.35; cows and heifers, $1.25@ 4.€0; stockers and feeders, $2.40@ {4.30; Western, . $3.10@4.65. Hogs— Mixed and butchers, $5.35@5.90; good heavy, $5.40@5.90; rough heavy, $5.15 @5.35; light. $5.30@5.80. Sheep, $3.55 ' @5.10; Jambs, $4.35@7.60 DEFECTIVE PAGE |l | _pany. 'Three Licals Secede From MAY TIE UP TRAFFIC CHICAGO FREIGHT HANDLERS TO DEMAND +EN PER CENT IN- CREASE IN WAGES. AILROADS NOT LIKELY TO SUBMIT SAID PREPARATIONS ARE BEING MADE TO FIGHT THE PRO- POSED STRIKE. Chicago, Sept. 12.—Union freight mandlers have sent a request to twen- ty-two railroads for a conference with the companies’ managers by 10 a. m. ‘Wednesday, at which it is proposed to submit demands for a wage increase of approximately 10 per cent. If the request is refused it is the plan of the labor leaders to submit to a referen- dum vote immediately the question of calling a general strike of union freight handiers. What the railroads will do is a problem. It was reported that at least two of the roads, the Lake Shore and the-Illinois Central, had secured sev- eral loads of cots for the purpose of equipping barracks for strike break- ers in the event of a strike. “We do not anticipate a strike,” de- clared J. T. Harrahan, second vice| president of the [llinois Central com- “We have no objection to meet- ing our employes. This company is not in a position at the present time, however, to pay any increase in wages. Our men are paid as high wages as those of any other road. They are liv- ing as well and have all the comforts of life that fall to the lot of men who do the kind of work they are doing. I do not think they are foolish enough to strike.” Mr. Harrahan said the Illinois Cen- tral company’s earnings had been in-| jured by the yellow fever scourge in New Orleans. Union leaders, assert- ing that the organization of their craft is strongest in the freighthouses of the Illinois Central line, had looked for thyf line to make tbe first over- tures. What it does the leaders be- lieve other roads will do. FILES PROTEST AT HAVANA. United States Objects to Proposed! Anglo-Cuban Treaty. | ‘Washing Sept. 12.—An inquiry at the state artment into the status of the Anglo-Cuban treaty, w is | now before the commercial bod of Havana, for an expression of opinion as to its merits has developed the fact that as far back as last June the state | department, through American Minis- ter Squiers, lodged a most energetic protest with the authorities at Havana against the consummation of the treaty as it then stood. The principal objection was that it might operate in the future to prevent the conclusion of another treaty between the United States and Cuba in the nature of reci- procal favors to be bestowed upon the shipping of the two countries. Minis- | ter Squiers has been instructed that | the treaty would not be objectionable if a provision were attached that it! shall not be invoked by the British government as a basis for demanding favored nation treatment, such as would be enjoyed by the United States in any treaty to be entered into in the future thh Cuba. ENDS LIFE BY ASPHYXIATION. Illincis Man Loses $1,200,000 in Two Years’ Speculation. Chicago, Sept. 12.—Ruined by dis- astrous financial ventures Brewer Button, a former millionaire of West- ern Springs, IIl., committed suicide here by inhaling illuminating gas in a roominghouse in Indiana avenue. Button came to Chicago five weeks ago, since when he has been speculat- ing heavily on the board of trade. TWO years ago Button was worth $1,- 200,000, but is said to have lost it all by speculation. He left a ietter addressed to the landlady of the roominghouse asking forgiveness for the annoyance he was causing her and requested that he be buried in the potter’s field, as he de- clared he was penniless. CHICAGO TEAMSTERS REVOLT. Interna- tional Union. Chicago, Sept. 12.—Open revoit against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which practically amounts 1o secession, came during the of the best organized hicago, the ice wagon drivers, sand and terra cotla teamsters voted to repudiate the election of officers at the international convention at Phila- delphia, adopted the referendum and van teamsiers and brick, decided to withhold support from President Shea and the execnnve board. WIL3JN'S LATEST PROBE. Northwest Reserves to Be Object of Special Investigation. Washington, Sept. 12.—The bureau of foresiry of the agricultural depart- ment will be the special subject of an inquiry by Secretary Wilson. He will look into the workings of that bureau | during his trip through the West. It is said the immediate object of Secre- tary Wilson’s trip is to rectify irreg- ularities in the Black Hills forest re- serve. Actual graft in connection with the administration of the forestry bureau has not been suzgested, but there are ugly rumors concerning the doings of some of the agents in the Far West and Northwest, where a majority of the forest reserves are situated. The utmost reticence is maintained about this as with all other matters pertain- ing to department bureaus. Since the president turned down the secretary in the Salmon affair Wilson has be- gun an investigation that will affect every bureau. The Dbelief is gaining ground that on the return of the president and when he is here in touch with the situation he will order a thorough in- vestigation of departments in general and especially of those against which there are charges of graft. + GREAT PARTIALITY SHOWN. Report of Inquiry Into Purchase of Typesetting Machines. Oyster Bay, L. I, Sept. 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has made public the report of the Keep commission on its recent investigation of affairs in the government prmtlng office at Wash- ington. he inquiry was made by special direction of the president on account test which he had received the Mergenthaler Typesetting Machine company against the award of a contract by Public Printer Frank W. Palmer to the Lan- ston Monot, company for seventy- two mac s of its malke. The commission shows that a fair and iinpartial test of the Lanston and Mergenthaler machines was not made and reports that the purchase of so large a number of Lanston machin was “improvident” and indicated ‘“great partiality and bias on the par of the public printer.” The commi: sion regards the purchase as “malad- minisiration.” REMOVES DISCRIMINATING DUTY. Russia Puts American Goods on Same Footing as Others. Oyster Bay, L. L, ‘Sept. 12.—Sergius ‘Witte, by direction of the Russian em- peror, has presented to President Roosevelt a formal notice that the dis- criminating duties against American goods shipped to Russia have been removed. The notice follows: “Some years ago in consequence of misunderstanding in the interpretation of the most favored nation clause there was established in Russia on several articles of American produc- tion customs duties on a higher scale than those levied on the same articles when imported from other countries. ‘“His majesty, the emperor of Rus- sia, has commanded me to inform the president of the United States that he has been pleased to order the discon- tinuance of the levying of such higher duties on American products in order i that henceforth the American manu- facturers should pay the same duties | as importers from other countries.” DESERVES ‘PEACE PRIZ.. But President Roosevelt Cannot Get It This Year. London, Sept. 12.—Lord Avebury, formerly Sir John Lubbock, chairman of the London committee on the Nobel prizes, said during the day: “Blessed are the peacemakers. Pres- ident Roosevelt deserves the gratitude not only of Japan and Russia but of the whole civilized world for securing for us the once inestimable blessings of peace. I could gladly support him for the Nobel peace prize.” Bjornson Bjornestjerne, the eminent Norwegian poet, another member of the peace prize committee, said: “The stupid rules forbid us to give the prize to President Roosevelt this year, as we can give it only to one whose name has been proposed before the end of February.” NO GAMBLING IN MEXICO. Lotteries Share Fate of Other Games of Chance. Guadalajara, Mex., Sept. 12.—Word bas been sent out from the Cityeof Mexico that all lotteries in the repub- lic must be suppressed. The sup- pression will follow the expiration of the franchise of the public lottery. This franchise was granted for twen- ty-five years and has a year yet to run, The federal government will set an example by suppressing the national lottery, which is under government control, and the states will follow suit. The action will be in line with the efforts of the Mexican government to suppress gambling in every form. LANDS UPSIDE DOWN DERAILED CAR ON NEW YORK EL- EVATED RAILROAD FALLS INTO THE STREET. BWITCHMAN SAID TO BE RESPONSIBLE DISASTER RESULTS IN DEATH OF TEN AND INJURY OF MORE THAN TWO SCORE. New York, Sept. 12—Ten persons were killed and more than forty in- jured by the derailment of an elevated railroad train at Fifty-third street and Ninth avenue. The train was a south- bound Ninth avenue local and should have continued on the straight track instead of being switched to the curve 4y wkich Sixth avenue trains proceed on Fifty-third street from Ninth ave- nue to Sixth avenue. A Sixth avenue train had just passed and the switch to the curve was open. Owing to this open switeh the first car of the Ninth pvenue train took the switch, just barely staying on the rails, and turned into Fifty-third street instead of go- ing down Ninth avenue. The switch- man, it is alleged, when he saw his blunder turned the switch back again as if to send the train on the straight track down Ninth avenue. As soon as this was done the train was wrecked. The second car got around the turn, but the third car, owing to the switch being changed, was thrown off the track. 1t fell into the street, turning completely over and landing upside down. The dead are: Jacob M. Aus- pach, merchant and member of the Newark (N. J.) board of trade; Er- nest P. Scheible, electrician; Theo- dore Morris, colored; John Corcoran; Solomon Neuceus, employed by the Mutual Chemical company; Cornelius McCarthy, laborer; William Lees, electrician; Joseph Bach, policeman; James Cooper and an unidentified wo- man. The switchman, Chitles .)a(:kl;lson; and ftive members were arrested, but the motorman, Faul Kelly, disappeared. The switchman stoutly asserted that he set the switch as indicated by the train signals. He blamed the motorman. ’ Two Other Cars Derailed. ™. The fourth and fifth cars also left the rails, but did not fall into the street. - The fourth car struck with terrific force against the building at the southwest corner of Ninth avenue and rested against the fire escapes. This building is occupied in part by a Mrs. Crow, whose family was at break- fast. The passengers in the fourth and fifth cars were able to save them- selves and get to the streets in safety by climbing through the windows of My, Crow’s apartments from the fire escapes, against which the fourth car rested. The excitement among those in the derailed cars on the structure as they realized what happened hecame in- tense. In the forward car the men, deeming the motorman was responsi- ble for the wreck, attacked him and tried to beat him. He was dragged from his seat, but he shouted for fair play and convinced the crowd that it was the switchman “and not he that was respensible; “] am satisfied that the whole acci- flent was due to the neglect of the switchman,” said Coroner Scholer. “In the first place he made a mistake in turning the Ninth avenue train into Fifty-third street and then added to his blunder by turning the switch again in an attempt to divert the train into the Ninth avenue again. The last mistake caused the terrible accident and loss of life.” One of the incidents of the disaster was the jump of James Bowen from a window of the third car as it fell from the elevated structure into the street. He landed in the street clear of the car, but head foremost, and suffered a fracture of the skull. HELPED MAKE MEXICAN HISTORY Death of Woman Who Took Active Part in Country’s Struggles. Berkeley, Cal, Sept. 12.—Senora, Dolores C. de Miranda, widow of Gen- eral Jose Maria Miranda, one of the ill fated army of Emperor Maximilian, and also widow of Ramon Ocana, pay- master in the army of the Mexican republic, herself a conspicuous figure In the turbulent political struggles of ber country, is dead. The death of Benora Miranda brings to a clo ¢ one of the most energétic and brilliant careers in the struggle for the inde- pendence of Mexico. Throughout the whole struggle Senora Miranda took Bn active part. When the cause of the emperor was doomed she was banished witlr her hushand to Cuba and stayed there until the new goy- ernment had become settled. She was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1834. £ the train crew .