Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 24, 1905, Page 1

n pet EA P " The Bemidji i | i ioneer MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 3. NUMBER 157. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY, OC’TOBER 24, 1905. TEN CENTS PER WEEK‘, PITCHED BATTLE IN THE STREET Mutinous Cbew of the Schooner Ida B. Gibson Attacks Officers After Landing. New York, Oct. 24.—Four men were |~ badly wounded in a series of battles | between the officers and crew of the| lumber schooner Ida B. Gibson of Sea- ford, Del., and afterwards between Mil-| ton Corderry, the cook of the Gibson, and the po For an hour about daybreak the cook, armed with a shot-| gun, stood off the police reserves of the De lLancey reet station and wounded a detective and night watch- mwan. Frank H. Medley, the mate of the Gibson, is missing and may have been! murdered by the crew of the Gibson, who were compelled to pump the craft| rom Norfolk to New York. INCREASE IN CIRCULATION. | Per Capita for the United States Now $31.08. Washington, Oct. 24.—In his annual report United States Treasurer Treat says that the continued increase in the circulation is a matter for just pride and has attracted the admiration | and attention of the financiers of the | world. During the year the general stock of money grew $79,605,729, mak- ing a per capita.circulation of $31.08.‘1 There was a continued increase in the ' proportion of gold and national bank notes in circulation and,no other gov- ernment has ever held as much. gold as the $748,425,923 in the United States treasury in the middlie of October. Ex- penditures during the past two yvears exceeded receipts by more than $64,- 000,000, accounted for by the purchase of the I:’a{xume_l canal property. 1 the crackling of the flames, EXECUTIVE MANSION ABLAZE. Governor Folk of Missouri Evicted by Flames. Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 24—The governor’'s mansion at Jefferson City was damaged to the extent of $10,000 by fire at 3 a. m. Governor Folk, his wife and guests had to seek quarters at a nearby hotel. ,Governor Folk, who was aroused by telephoned the fire department and then attempted to extinguish the fire, which was burn- ing in the second story hallway, with two fire extinguishers This proved in- effective and after seeing that his wife and their five guests were safely out ! of the manmsion the governor devoted himself to saving the portraits of his predecessors .in office pending the ar- rival of firemen. The fire is believed to have started from a fiue in the hall- way. After more than an hour’s labor the fire was extinguished. DEBATE IS POSTPONED. Question of Future Form of Govern- ment for Norway. Christiania, Oct. 24.—The storthing has decided to postpone the debate on 'the motion presented by the members 'proposing that the-future form of the government of Norway be submitted to a plebisc The posiponement was unanimously carried on the under- ttanding that the motion will be dis- tussed simultaneously with a motion which the government will introduce later on the same subject. OOQOQ’OOO0.0.0C..O... Skinner’s Satin It is 36 inches wide, yarn dyed, all colores, costs $1.50 per yard, just the thing for Ladies’ shirt waists. We sell it Bowser ' 1le served with distinction at various " posts and while secretary of the lega- tion at Washington mnarried Miss Mary Excursions Nov. 7 and 21; The cheap rates on look at the big crops. There are more and in the early days. Rock siand and Name. Address. Oct. 3 and 17; chance to visit Oklahoma, Kansas, Indian Terri- tory, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. Tickets good 21 days from sale. Go down into.the Rock Island country and If interested send quick ' for descriptive book- lets and full information. W. L. HATHAWAY, Dist. Pass. Agent, Please send me Booklet about — e full information. Southwest Dec. 5 and 19. above dates give you a better opportunities than 322 Nlcollet Ave.. MlNNFAPOuS (Name of state) TRAFFIC IS PARALYZED GREAT SECTION OF THE-RUSSIAN| EMPIRE ISOLATED BY RAIL- ROAD STRIKE. MOVEMENT STARTED BY SOCIALISTS ¢ PRESENT TROUBLE THE FORE: RUNNER OF A STRIKE OF ALL WORKMEN. 8t. Petersburg, Oct. 24—The rail- road strike situation shows no signs of amelioration. Traffic across the central belt is paralyzed, while a gen- eral strike which broke out during the day at Kharkoff has cut off communi- cation in another great section of the empire. Kharkoff is the most impor- tant railroad center in Southern Rus- sia. The strike affects among others the line to the Donetz coal region, on which Russia largely depended for fuel during the crisis in the oil reglions, and the line to Odessa and Sebastopol. Moscow is isolatga, except the line ta St. Petersburg, while the capital has an international line, via Fydtkuhnen, open to Berlin. The strike is part of a general scheme of the Social Demo- erats to compel the emperor to grant universal suffrage and complete polit- ical freedom, but the plan of the lead- ers is to avoid a collision with the authorities. Their present purpose is to malke tests of the strength of the| various organizations preparatory to! the inauguration of a general strike of all classes in support of the Radicals at about the time the national assem- bly meets. The congress of railroad employes row in session here has adopted a resolution in faver of universal. suf- frage, political freedom, amnesty, the right to organize strikes, the liberation ot the arrested strikers, an eight-hour day, sthools for the employes’ children and the aholition of martial law, the railroad geudaxmeue and capual pun- | ishment. Kharkoff, Russia, Oct. 24.—A general strike on all the railroads broke out here during the d: FACTORY WORKERS OUT. Strike Spreading to Various Cities of Russia. Kaluga, Russia, Oct. 24.—The strike here has spread to all the factories. Disorderly crowds are parading the streets and stopping the street cars. The employes of the Syzran-Vyasma road, an important connecting link in the transcontinental system. struck during the day. All traffic has.ceased. | Balashoff, Russia, Oct. 24.—The | workmen of all the factories, including the great grain mills and vodka distil- leries, have joined in the strike. 1 &t ! M. Bakhmetieff Will Proceed to Tokio at Once. St. Petersburg, Oct. 24—Regular diplomatic relations between Russia and Japan are expected to be renewed in six weeks. The Russian minister to Japan has already been selected in the person of M. Bakhmetleff, ‘the for- mer Russian diplomatic agent in Bul- garia, who probably will proceed im- mediately to his post after an audience with the emperor on Wednesday. M. Ralkhmetieff is regarded as being of the best type of a Russian diplomat. Beale, an American. During his serv- 'ice at Sofia, Bulgaria, M. Bakhmetieft rendered effective aid to Minister Leishman and Spencer Eddy in the case of Miss Ellen M Stone by direc-E tion of the authorities here. GIVEN MAGNIFICENT WELCOME. President Loubet of France at the Spanish’ Capital. Madrid, Oct. 24.—President Loubet arrived here at 3:30 p. m. and was accorded a magnificent reception. King Alfonso met him at the railroad sta- tion, artillery salutes were fired and enormous crowds gave him an ovation. M. Loubet was conducted to the palace and later visited the royal family. He was entertained at night at a'gala din- ner at the palace. The city is‘entirely given up to fes: ties in honor of the uistinguished visitor. More -Bears Killed at Duluth. Duluth, Oct. 24—Harold M. Thomas and Louis Wolfrom, both about six- ‘een years of age, killed an old bear i obtainin; ! bar and RUSSIAN MINISTER TO JAPAN‘i | missed the appeal of the Farmers’ i covered, are believed Pt o ciowy NOORHEAD THIEF CAUGHT IN LONDON Peter A. Ecklund, Who Embezzled ¢10,- 000 at Moorhead Surrenders to TEN RIOTERS KILLED AND HUN- DREDS WOUNDED AT SAN- TIAGO, CHILE. TROOPS ABSENT FROM THE CITY OUTBREAK OCCURS WHILE SOL- DIERS ARE ENGAGED IN * MANEUVERS. Santiago, Chile, Oct. 24.—A meeting called to petition the government to abolish” the import tax on Argentine cattle degenerated into a most serious riot owing to the absence of the troops, who are now engaged in maneuvers two days’ march from the capital. The police, ‘who were unable to maintain or&'r, charged the crowd and Kkilled ten persons and wounded hundreds. The rioters destroyed street cars and smashed electric lights. At 8 o’clock in the evening the rioting was at its highest pitch and the fire department was calléd oul to restore order. NEW MOVE BY PACKERS. Again &ttack Government’s Case in Beef Trust Prosecutions. ., Chicag}) Oct. 24, —Declaring tha{ tes- timony the packers were compelled to produce }before the secretary of com- merce tmd Jabor was used by United States District. Attorney Morrison in § an indictment against the packers dand alleging that inasmuch as the same¢ issues as mentioned in the indictmesit were raised and disposed of in-an ffjunction writ issued by Fed- eral Judge Grosscup the packers who are under federal indietment’ here charged wlth illegal consplracy again attacked Vthe famous go-called ‘“beef trust” pr’qceedmgs A addmona?spee)a] plea in bar were diled by counsel for the pack- ers. Thedature of the specxal plea in ‘bar was : officials, although they were aware of what would be pleaded in the addi- tional plea, the issuance of dan injunc- tion by Judge Grosscup. The special plea sets up assertions concerning in- vestigations by the commissioner of corporations and -alleged that the de- fendants were compelled to testify and to produce certain books and other data' and that thereafter the matter was submitted to the president of the United States and finally to the Unit- ed States district attorney here and that the district attorney used the ma- terial in seeking indictments against the defendants. Because of these al- leged facts the defendants ask that the indictment be dismissed. SIOUX FALLS WINS SUIT. Court Decides City May Construct Waterworks. ‘Washington, Oct. 24—The supreme court of the United States has dis- Loan and Trust company of New York and others- in their case - against the city of Sioux Fdlls, S. D. The case involved the right of the city officials to purchase or construct waterworks, the appellants contending that a prior contract with them and their prede- cessors to supply water to the city had rendered such proceeding illegal. The circuit court of appeals for the Eighth circuit decided the case favor- ably to the city and the day’s decision has the effect of affirming it. TUG RUNS' DOWN A CATBOAT. Five Persons-on the Latter Craft Sup- posed to"Have Perished. Yonkers, N. Y., Oct. 24.—Tive per- sons, the bedy of one having been re- to have been drowned during the day by the running down of a catboat by a tug off South Yonkers. Members of the South Hud- son Boat club heard cries for help out on the river and in the heavy mist that prevailed were able to make out the outlines of a capsized sailboat and of a tug that was running rapidly down _the river. The-cries ceased before the yachtsmen, who had put out to the res- cue in a rowboat, reached the cathoat, which they found deserted and with her side stove in. X 'SIX MEN PERISH. Launch and Barge Collide in the Dela. ware River. Beverly, N. J., Oct. 24.—A launch containing nine men, all of Philadel- Dhia, collided with a barge in the Dela- ‘ware river off this place late in the af- ternoon, resulting in the drowning of six ~of the occupants of the little ‘boat. ' The other three: were rescued ind two cubs near the golf links of the Northland Country: club. Young Thomas had a shotgun and Wolfrom'a rifie ‘and they kiiled their! big game ..with the. skill of veteran hunters. The »ld bear dressed 300 pounds. . by the crew of the tugboat Bristol, ‘which was towing the barge ‘when the accldent happened. The dead are ~Wflllam Winch, John Bilis, John Ste- venson, Samuel Heron, Norman De- laney and James Yonkers. surprise’ to the government - London DEMAND CLOSED SHOP. \ La Crosse Electricians and Linemen P on Strike. La Crosse, Wis,, Oct. 24.—All the electricians and linemen of the four telephone companies centering here struck during the day for recognition | of ithe union. The companies are pay- | ing the ‘union scale and working union hours and the question of the open or closed shop is the point in controversy. The Wisconsin - Telephone company and the La Crosse Telephone company are completely tied up so far as new work and repairs are concerned. The ! Lia Crosse County Telephone company, lthe Tri-State Telephone company and several smaller interurban lines are less seriously affected. Police. London, Oct. 24.—Peter Auguste Bcklund was remanded at Bow street police court during the day on the charge of embezzlement in Minnesota. Ecklund, who surrendered himself to the authorities at Scotland Yard, said that while he was secretary and treas- urer of the Clay County Land com- pany of Moorhead, Minn., he embez- zled $10,000. He fled on July 22, finally reaching Glasgow. No communication regardlns b ] lund has been received at the Amer- lcan embassy from the state depart- ment. Alabama Raises Quarantine. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 24.—Ala- bama’s quarantine was raised during the day for that half of the state from Phoenix City north. The south halt still remains under quarantine. The Largest Stock! The Best Makes! can be found at E. H. Winter & Co.’s Store. The price we guarantee to be as low as the The name “Hanan” stands for the best quahty and the best fitting shoe known SECURIT bill Wlll be less. Shoes' Sdes' » Shoes!! HANA DREW SELB Selby” Shoe once will always wear one. 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