Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 21, 1905, Page 1

HISTOR!CAL SOOIETY. VOLUME 3. NUMBER 181. HUSBAND AND WIFE KILLED. Boo Freight Trains in Collision Near Detroit, Minn. Detroit, Minn., Nov. 21.—A rearend collision of two freight trains on the 800 road north of here resulted in the death of Conductor G. W. Smiley and wife and the serious injury of their uine-year-old daughter Mabel. A special Soo freight was run into by a regular train which was follow ing it. The accident occurred at a curve. In the caboose of the extra freight was Conductor: G. W. Smiley of Glenwood and his wife and daugh- ter, who were making a trip on the freight in order to spend the day with the husband and father. The engine of the regular freight crashed into the rear of the extra freight with great force and so sud- denly that the occupants of the ca- boose had absolutely no chance ta escape. Conductor Smiley was injured so badly that he died within a few min- utes. The caboose took fire and the bhody of the unfortunate conductor was burned. Mrs. Smiley w killed in- stantly, but her body was thrown to one side and escaped the flames. The little girl was caught in the wreckage and her right foot was cut off near lhe ankle. THIRTY-RINE MEN PERISH MANY OTHERS SERIOUSLY IN. JURED IN LODGINGHOUSE FIRE AT GLASGOW. Glasgow, Nov. 21.—The most terri-: ble fire that has occurred in Great Ervitain for many vears broke out here in a cheap lodginghouse for men in Watson street and resulted in the loss jury of thirty-iwo others. The fla morning on were noti ithe fou th floor of th building, which was occupied by men. An alarm was raised and the firemen responded quick but flames! and smoke were then issuing from; most of the windows of the fourth tloor. A procession of almost naked men rushed out of the entrance to the building and against their frantic ef- forts to escape the firemen had ac-i tually 1o fight for admission. The dead men were mostly men in the prime of life. They pre- sented a horrible spectacle, their black- ened faces bearing evidence of terrible struggles to escape. ed early in the | CHARGED 30 Qfficial of Building and Loan Associa- | i of recovering the amount. Ithe society’s funds. | missing since Thursday last, {time he is alleged to have confessed to work- | AITACKS STANDARD OIL. Charges Made in Court by Rival Company. Cleveland, Nov. 21.—The Great ‘Western Oil company of this city, in an answer filed in common pleas court to a suit begun against it recently, makes a bitter attack upon the meth- ods of the Standard Oil company to obtain information concerning: the business of its rivals; charges that the Standard spies upon its competitors and that the present suit is a con- spiracy to secure knowledge of the Great Western company’s affairs. The suit was begun against the Great West- ern by Mrs. Annie E. Walsh, guardian of Michael J. Walsh, insane. Walsh owned 250 shares of stock in the Great ‘Western and his guardian began suit to compel an examination of the books. The company in answer says that the guardian has retained Fred W. Lotham to make the examination and that Lotham has been employed by the Standard Oil company for thirty-five years and for ten years was its chief accountant. The Great Western com- pany sets up that its business is not such as requires any special knowl- edge, but that any expert accountant can make the examination. It is charged that the Standard expects to get information about the Great West- ern’s business and that Lotham. be- cause of bis long and intimate asso- clation with the Standard, is an unfit person to make the examination. Serious GOVERNMENT LOSES TAX. Distillery Fire Costs Uncle Sam $891,- 000 in Revenue. Connellsville, Pa., Nov. 21.—Fire at the Overholt distillery at Broadford resulted in a loss estimated at $1,600, 000. Whisky valued at $648,000 was destroyed. The government will lose the tax of $1.10 a gallon on the whisky, amounting {o $891,000, and has no way | The 'total including the building. valued at lo 1 $75,000, was $1,614,000. The insurance of thirty-nine lives and the severe in-} was well distributed and no one (om-, pany will suffer much loss. WITH ABSCONDING. tion Missing. Milwaukee, Nov. 21.—Frank J. Grut- iza, a member of the Skarb Polski Loan and Building society, has sworn out a jwarrant for the arrest of Frank J. Hel- ler, secretary of the society, charging him with absconding with $5,000 of Heller has been at which Judge Michael Blenski that he was short in his accounts to a amount. 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AMONG TROOPS THE CHIEF CAUSE FOR ALARM. Chicago, Nov. 21.—Judge Bethea, in the United States circuit court, has de- this city is again somewhat disquiet- cided that the order issued by the in-|ing. A lrecrudescence of the disorders terstate commérce commission direct-|is threatened by the so-called loyalist Jll;k London's Weddlng Said to. Be Contrary to lllinois Laws. Chicago. Nov. 21.—Because of his ignorance of a new law governing the marriage of divorced persons in the state of Illinois Jack London, the ‘well known author; has placed himself in a somewhat embarrassing position and it may be necessary for him to re- marry Miss Charmion Kittredge, to whom he was wedded Sunday. The last legislature of 1llinois passed a law forbidding the marriage of di- vorced persons in this state until one RUMORS OF A MUTINOUS SPIRIT |year after the divorce had been in full | effect. The same law is in effect in California, in which state Mr. London was divorced from his first wife. The initial decree in this case was issued Nov. 17, 1904, and the final decree Nov. 8, 1905, Mr. London, assuming that Odessa, Nov. 21.—The situation in |the year commenced from the issue of the preliminary decree, considered himself free to marry as soon as one year had elapsed. It is declared by lawyers. in this city, however, that the large | ing that the railroad rates on livei stock between the Missouri river and;mutinous spirit among the troops. The | decree is granted and that the one Chlcago be lowered in conformity w1th members of the British colony held a |year of probation must elapse after conference during the day: under the|that time. the rates on dressed beef was illegal. ! | ‘The Chicago Great Western and’ were the- defendants in two suits brought by the interstate commerce commission. The first related to the’ decision of the commission, in’ which the lowering of the rates on live stock to a point where they would conform with the rates on dressed beef was ordered. The second was an applica- | tion on the part of the commission i for an injunclion against the railroads prohibiting them from refusing ta i lower the rates. Several weeks were consumed by the introduction of expert testimony and the court considered the evidence for I two weeks. No Power to Enforce Order. { In his decision Judge Bethea said iu | part: “It was the opinion of the commis- ! sion that the relation of rates en- forced by the defendants were higher on live stock than upon dressed meats or prepared products of cattle and hogs from points on the Missouri river and South St. Paul, Minn,, to Chicaga and that the rates as maintained con- stituted a discrimination in violation of the provisions of the act to regulate commerce. The railroads declined to obey the order of the commission di- recting them to'equalize the rates and the two suits were brought by the com- ! mission seeking to compel the defend- | ant corporations to heed the ruling of the commission.” In summing up the case Judge | Bethea declared that there was no | evidence of collusion on the part of the railroads and that the rates on live stock were not a discrimination. IHe held further that the interstate com- merce decree was not binding on the railroads and that the commission had not the power to compel the rail- roads to obey their rulings. GRAFT iN FUNERAL BUSINESS. Minister Accuses Preachers of Being in League With Undertakers. - New York, Nov. 21.—Describing the “graft” methods employed throughout the country in every profession, in which he said that no man was in a position not to be tempted to sell him- self for money, Rev. Dr. George S. Pratt of the Church of the Archangel said that the clergy in many cases were in league with undertakers and accepted ‘“‘gifts” to turn over businesg to them. & “I want to give just one instance of what business methods are proposed | to my own profession,” said Dr. Pratt. | “A year ago I reccived a letter from a celtam prominent undertaker in this . Enclosed in this letter was a prettily printed certificate redeemable for $100 in his establishment should I die before the yvear t letter a direct bribe to to use my influence anil knowledge of that most sacred thin-, among the pecple whose spiric- e v heart a S 2 the undertaker an portunity to send his men to get arrangements of the fnneral with much financial benefit to himself, at the same time offering me a commission o2 whaiever the unfortunate family spent on the funeral.” BAPTISMAL FONT IN MOU RNING. Pastor’s Method of Protesting Agzinst Dearth of Births. Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 21.—When the congregation of St. Peter and St. Paul's Roman Catholic church assem- i i bled Sunday they were surprised to ! find the Dbaptismal font draped in mourning. Father Francis H. Sinclair, the priest, had ordered the font draped as a protest against the dearth of births in families attending his church, there not having been a christening in the church for six weeks. Mother Unable to Save Daughter. Des Moines, Nov. 21.—Passionately kissing her mother goodbye at 5 n’clock in the morning Mrs. Floy An derson ran from the house and Jumned into the well near their home at Polk ‘ City. Her mother tried in vain to res- cue the woman, who was drowned be- fore her eyes. element and there are rTumors of a|gjyorce is not effective until the final TEN CENTS PER WEIK " WILL GCCUR WEDNESDAY. Exchange of Ratified Treaties Between Russia and Japan. ‘Washington, Nov. 21.—The exchange of the ratified treaties between Russia and Japan will occur in this city on Wednesday, Nov. 22, Football Player Dies of Injuries. New Orleans, Nov. 21.—G. C. Ficken, fullback on the junior team of the Southern Athletic club, died during the day. Ficken was, it is believed, struck on the head during a scrim- mage in a game between the South- ern Athletic club and the Queen and i Crescent team Sunday HOTTENTOT L LEADER DEAD. Succumbs to Wound Received in Bat- tle With Germans. Berlin, Nov. 21.—A cable message received here from Lieutenant General ivon Trotha, commander of the forces {in German Southwest Africa, an- nounces the death of ‘Hendrik- Withoi, the leader of the-~ Hottentot revolt. seventeen o_ther railroad corporations’ presidency of the consul and arranged at the first sign of disorders to assem- ble at the consulate and demand that the Russian authorities send a guard of soldiers to the consulate. ‘efused the male members of the Brit- 1sh colony w®l organize an armed | bodyguard and escort the colony on board' British vessels, which will be beld'in regdiness in the harbor. British consul applied for a collective passport for the entire British colony. The American, Austrian and Italian colonles propose to take the same measures. UNIVERSAL POLITICAL STRIKE. Latest Move on Programme of Russian Revolutionists. St. Petersburg, Nov. 21.—With the collapse of the strike the leaders of the “reds” say they energies to the preparation of a uni- versal political strike to sustain the revolutionary programme when the na- tional assembly meets. These plans, which were suddenly upset by the pre- cipitation of the railroad strike last month, are exceedingly ambitious, in- volving the co-operation not only of the workmen of the cities but the peas- entry and if possible the army and navy. The propaganda among the soldiers’ anu “®ailors will be pushed energet- ically. The leaders already claim that they have organized the peasantry in fve districts of Kharkoff province, the peasants having agreed not to work for the landlords when the strike is called. They anticipate that the famine, which is at the doors of almost 15,000,000 peasants of the Central provinces, ac- cording to estimates, will prove an ef- fective ally of the agitation, as they can promise to give the peasants land to an unlimited extent. The plague, which is moving northward from the Kirghiz steppe, if not stamped out in the Vistula region may also be made to serve the purpose of arousing the ignorant and superstitious peasants. 'The leaders will urge the proletariat everywhere to secure arms and he pre- pared to tight for their rights. While no further information has been received regarding the false em- peror who was said to be marching at the head of thousands of peasants in the province of Penza the turbulence there has become so threatening that the government has placed the prov- ‘lnce in a state of siege. RUSSIAN CRUISER AT HONOLULU, Officers Refuse to Explain Her Unex- pected Arrival. Honolulu, Nov. 21.—It is reported that the Russian cruiser Lena, which unexpectedly arrived here, went near enough to Vladivostok to get into wire- less communication with that port and was warned to keep away unless in eympathy with the people in their up- rising against the government. It is gaid that the officers were divided in _cpinion and that the crew was in sym- ;athy with tke uprising. It is impos- eible to confirm this report because the captain of the Lena will not be in- terviewed and the officers will not dis- cuss the voyage. The appearance of the Lena at Hono- !fulu has not yet been explained. She * left San Francisco for Vladivostok with enough coal to carry her to her destination and at a time when she iwas to be in that port she steamed Into Honolulu harbor with very little coal in her bunkers. -Securities Advance-Sharply. St. Petersburg, Nov. 21.—All issues | on the bourse advanced sharply on the collapse of the strike. Government lotteries jumped 30 points to 450 and lmperial fours went up over a point, tlosing at 851%. R ik A Consuls Ask Protection. ‘Warsaw, Russian Poland, Nov. 21.— The consuls have asked the authorities to protect.the foreign residents owing to the. precarlo s conditions prevaxlmg James J. 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