Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 26, 1906, Page 1

Y, s SES S VOLUME 3. NUMBER 235 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, NEAR THREE f BILLION POINT Foreign Commerce of United States For 1905 Reaches Very High Figure. DECEMBER EXPORTS BREAK RECORD ‘Washington, Jan. 26.—The foreign commerce of the United States ap- proached surprisingly near the three billion dollar point in the calendar year 1905, according to a report issued by the bureau of. statistics.of the depart- ment of commerce and.labor. “The total imports and exports of merchandise,” the report says, ‘“is $2,806,000,000, against $2,307,000,000 in 1900, an average increase of $100,000,- 000 a year in the five-year period. If to the $2,806,000,000 of foreign com- merce in 1905 were added the figures of trade with Hawaii and Porto Rico, formerly foreign territory and included in our statements of foreign trade prior to 1901, the total would ap- proach $2,900,000,000, or about $600,- 000,000 more than five years ago and $1,200,000,000 more than ten years ago. Another notable characteristic of the year’s foreign trade is the fact that the exports in the month of De- cember were practically $200,000,000, the largest monih’s exportation in any year prior to December, 1905, being that of December, 1904, when the total was $194,819,566.” The report adds: “The import record for 1905 is also in excess of that of any preceding year, being, for the twelve months ending with December, $1,179,358,846, against $1,035,909,190 in 1904. The growth of imports, while not rapid, has been steady and continues to be so, keeping pace, approximately, with the growth of pnpulation 2 ALLEGED ANARCHIST JAILED. Incriminating. Letters Found by Penn- sylvania Officers. Monongahela, Pa., Jan. 26.—Con- stantina Levi and Petro Foracika, al- leged secretaries of the anarehistic or- ganization whose headquarters at Baird, Pa., were raided early Tuesday auorning and the president and a mem- ber of the band captured, together with much literature threatening the assassination of prominent men, were arrested during the day in a miner’s shanty near West Elizabeth, Pa. Many additional incriminating letters, a shot- gun, two rifies and a number of re- volvers were also found. The men were lodged in jail here. Officers are searching the surrounding country for members of the band and say others will be arrested soon. GO TO CONGRESS SHORTLY Majority and Minority Reports of Ca- nal Engineers, Washington, Jan. 26.—The majority report of the board of consulting engi-, neers of the isthmian canal commis- sion, which was ri ntly signed at Brussels by the foreign members and forwarded to Washington by General Davis, has been received by Chairman Shonts of the commission. This, with the minority report, will shortly be placed in the hands of Secretary Taft for transmission to the president and by the president to congress. It is said that the changes which General Davis cabled had been made in the majority report do not materially af- fect the origmal draft. State Gets a Setback Indianapolis, Jan. 26.—Judge Carter has ruled that the suit brought to oust Daniel E. Storms, secretary of state, from his office is based on an unconstitutional statute and the court has no jurisdiction. The demurrer of | the defendant is sustained. The state will appeal. H = MURDERED BY ROBBERS. Young Chicago Man Killed in Hi Mother's Saloon. Chicago, Jan. 26.—In the presence ot his thirteen-year-old sister William Blelski, twenty-two' years old, was shot and killed while sitting in his mother’s saloon, The three men who committed the crime apparently had ~ planned to rob the saloon. They es- caped when they secured a cigar box containing $53. Northern Pacific Wreck. Spokane, Wash., Jan. 26.—A North- ern Pacific passenger train running over the Great Northern tracks has been wrecked near Trinidad. It is reported that three coaches went into the river and that one man is dead. Wires are down and details come slowly, i sent the conmstituency. COLLIJER ON THE STAND. Tells Origin of Editorial Alleged to Be Libelous. New York, Jan. 26.—In the Town Topics libel case against. Norman Hapgood, editor of Colliers. Weekly, Robert J. Collier, manager and pub- lisher of Colliers Weekly; was the first witness. Mr. Collier said: “In October, 1904, a copy of Town Topics was delivered at my house and I saw in it an article referring to Miss Alice Roosevelt, only by her first name. When I went down to the office I called Hapgood’s attention to that article and told him I thought it was the vilest article ever printed in any newspaper and suggested that he write something about it. He did so, an editorial headed, ‘The Most De- graded Paper in the United States. Hapgood, in his article, however, did not name the paper, but when I read the proof I wrote in the name ‘Town Topics,” telling Hapgood at the same time that my action would doubtless involve us in personal abuses.” After the arrest of Charles Ahle, the solicitor, Mr. Collier said, Mr. Hap- goad wrote another editorial and while he was doing so Mr. Collier told him to say in it that it was a disgrace for any judge to be connected with Town Topics. DENOUNCES HUSBAND. Woman Declares He Is Missing Mur- derer of Mabel Page. New York, Jan. 26.—A woman who caused the arrest of her husband in Brooklyn on a charge of assault de-! clared to the police that the man was an accomplice in the murder of Mabel Page at Weston, Mass. The man gave the name of John Maclsaacs. Mrs. Maclsaacs declared that her husband was known in Bos- ton as J. L. Morton. Following the murder of Miss Page a note addressed to “J. L. Morton” was found-in the Page home. Handwriting experts swore that the writing was that of Charles Tucker, who has been con- victed of the murder. All efforts by the police to determine the identity of “J. L. Murton" failed LIBERALS CONTINUE TO GAIN. Capture More Unionist Seats in House of Commons. London, Jan. 26.—Sir Edward Grey, the new foreign secretary, has been { heturned from the Berwick-on-Tweed division of Northumberland by the largest majority he ever had. This is typical of the general result of the ‘day’s elections, which practically were an Lubroken series of Liberal suc- cesses. Out of 21 returns the Liberals take 17 seats, 12 of which were cap- tured (rom the Unionists. were divided, Unionists 3 and Labor- ites 1, making the totals: Liberals, 328; Unionists, 142; Irish Nationalists, 81; Labories, 48. The new house of commons already contains thirteen Jews, with several constituencies to be heard from. This is a larger number than previously recorded. Alban G, H. Gibbs, Unionist, has re- signed hxs seat 1or the city of London in favor of former Premier Balfour, who has accepted the committee’s in- vitation to be a candidate to.repre- A writ ‘for a new election cannot be issued until parliament meets so Mr. Balfour will not ‘be present at the opening of the house, which will be his first absenceé from that ceremony for thirty-one | years. GOES BEFORE GRAND JURY. Former St. Louis Policeman Tells Sen- sationa] Story, St. Louis, Jan. 26.—Former Detec- tive Andrew Gordon (colored), who ‘Wednesday called on Circuit Attorney. Sager and related to him that while a member of the police department he was ordered by a high official to kill Oliver J. Beck, a judge of election, and John W. Wheeler, a negro editor, ! called on Mr. Sager again during the day and was at once conducted before the grand jury, presumably to retell his story. He told Attorney Sager that he had kept still about the matter until he found that since his dismissal from the police department his efforts, according to his statement, to secure work were being carefully thwarted. - The others ; TRIAL OF BEEF BARONS. I Lawyers Seeking to Agree Upon Facts I in the Case. ©Chicago, Jan. 26.—The efforts of the lawyers in the packers’ case to reach an agreement upon the facts in the case were fruitless up to noon, but the conference was still in progress. The packers‘base their claim for im- munity from prosecution on the fact that they were compelled by Commis- sioner Garfield to testifv against them- i selves. They have claimed through ! their attorneys that they were prom- ised immunity by the commissioner: The attorneys for the.packers offered to agree that no promise of immunity had ever been made to them by Com- missioner Garfield and that such a promise, if made, would not have had any bearing on the case. This offer was declined by the government law- yers. District Attorney Morrison declared to the attorneys for the packers that he was willing to agree that the evi- dence secured by Commissioner Gar- field was used by him during the in- vestigation by the federal grand jury which resulted in the indictment of the packers. “I used the report of Commissioner Garfield,” he declared, ‘“merely to verify the statements of witnesses. I could see no harm in that when the very report that I used was a state»' { ment of the beef industry made by the packers themselves and used by them as advertising matters.” The packers, through their lawyers, were willing to agree to a statement of fact that none of the defendants was served with a formal subpoena or ever produced testimony under oath before the commissioner. They de- slare that the commissioner said that Jde purposely withheld the oath in or- | der to administer it if he so desired after he had procured the evidence. The government refused to admit the last allegation. Mrs. Richard L. (}orman, aged sixty- one, the first white woman born in St. Paul, is dead in that city. l LIFE: HANGING BY THREAD. Lll\he Hope for Recovery of General! Joe Wheeler. Nt.w York, Jan. 26.—The condition of (General Joseph Wheeler, U. S. A, retired, who is ill of pneumonia at the hume of his sister in Brooklyn, is de- cldedly critical and little hope of his recovery is entertained. Dr. McCorkle called Dr. John A. Longmore into consultation in General Wheeler’'s case during the night and the two physicians remained with the pdtient all night. When Dr. Long-! more left the sick man’s chamber he | said General Wheeler’s life was then hanging by a thread. The general was only half conscious at that time and it Was believed that death might ensue &t any moment. Oxygen was admin- i,stered to the patient during the morn- ing gor the first time. Dr. McCorkle | #aid shortly before 10 o’clock: “General Wheeler has one chance in twenty of recovery. His condition is; very low and his strength is being | kept up on stimulants, but neverthe~i less he has a fighting chance.” At 2 p. m. General Wheeler was Very low and sinking rapidly. [l GENERAL HARRIS DEAD. Was a Prominent Resident of Mon- tana for Many Years. Butte, Mont.,, Jan. 26.—General John S. Harris, long a prominent res- ident of this state, died here during the day of uraemic poisoning. He was born in Vermont eighty-one years ago. General Harris came to Montana as surveyor general of the territory in President Arthur’s administration. He served in the United States senate as ! ember from Louisiana from 1869 to 1873 and also was prominent in Cali- fornia. He was a pioneer of Chicago | and removed from that city to Milwau- kee, where he lived a number of years. Governor Carter of Hawaii is seri- ously ill. He is suffering from a high | fever, with some mdleatlons of ty— phoid. FILIPINOS ARE MUCH DISTURBED Report That White Will Negotiate Sale| of Philippines Causes Big Disturbance. SEC’Y TAFT SAYS REPORT IS UNTRUE[ ‘Washington, Jan. 26.-—A cablegram to the secretary of state from Gov- erpor General Ide at Manila says that the Philipinos are much dis- turbed by the report that Ambassador Wright has been authorized to nego- tiate the sale of the islands to Japan. ! Secrevary Taft replied that the report was not only untrue but absurd. i MAY ADJUST DIFFERENCES. e French and German Delegates Hold | Long Conference. Algeciras, Spain, Jan. 26.—Herr von Radowitz, head of the German mis- ) sion, and M. Revoil, chief of the French delegation to the Moroccanl conference, had for the first time dur- ing the day a long private meeting, which was much commented upon as a move forward in the adjustment of the ] Franco-Germa.. differences. Although the results were not disclosed the meeting produced a distinct feeling of optimism among the delegates. Here- tofore the German and French repre- sentatives had maintained only cere- monial relations, but the other pleni- potentiaries, chiefly the Marquis Visconti Venosta, head of the Italian delegation, and Ambassador White, the chief representative of America, tactfully contributed to bring about the meeting with the view to securing a close personal exchange of views. Minneapolis, Jan. 25.—Wheat—May, 833.c; July, 833 @83%c. On track— No. 1 hard, 82c: No. 1 Northern, 811¢c; No. 2 Northern, 793%c. St. Paul Union Szck Y‘rdu. St. Raul, Jan. 25.—Cattle—Good to. choice steers, $4.50@5.50; common to |} fair, '$3.50@4.25; good to. choice. cows and heifers, $3.00@4.25; veals, $2.000. 6.25. Hogs—$5.15@5.35. Shflep—YeN‘ ling wethers, $5.50@6.25; choice lambs, $6.50@7.00. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Jan. 25.—Wheat—To arrlvo —No. 1 Northern, 81%c; No. 2 North- ern, 79%c. On track—No. 1 North- ern, 81%4c; No. 2 Northern, 79%0, May, 83%¢c; July, 85c. Flu—Tp arrive and on track, $1.15; May, $1.19; July, $1.20; Sept., $1.18%; Oct., $1.17. good: to | DEEFEFEOCTIV/VE DANEC A Spanish aeronaut named Der has crossed the Pyrenees in a bal- loon. He ascended at Pau and de- scended in Granada, covering about 560 miles in ourteen hours. I Destination of French Warships. Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad, Jan. 26.—It is now believed that the French cruisers Desaix and Jurien de la Graviere, which have sailed from this port for unknown destination, are bound for Fort de France, island of Martinique, and not for La Guayra, Venezuela, as at first supposed. One | French cruiser remains at this port. Jail Prisoner Burned to Death. Petoskey, Mich., Jan. 26.—Dennis J. Collins, a sailor, aged forty, who stole a coat for the avowed purpose of get- ting warm lodging in jail for the. re- mainder of the winter, was burned to death in the village lockup of Alanson, a few miles north of here. The cause. of the fire has not been discovered. Explosion of Firedamp Cause of Dis- aster In Indian Territory Mine. THRE’E BODIES HAVE BEEN RESCUED KOREAN RELATIONS. ENDED. Japanese Charge Takes Over Affairs at Washington. ‘Washington, Jan. 26.—Korea, during the day terminated its indepepdent diplomatic relations with the United !S;nles when Yun Chung Kim, the charge d’affaires of the Korean lega- tion, called at the department of state and said farewell to the officials. In the future the business between Korea and the United States. will be trans- npted through the Japanese embassy here. M. Hioki, the Japanese charge daflaires has taken charge of the le- gation of Korea with all the records and property of the Korean govern- ment. The building is the personal property of the emperor of Korea and will be sold in the near future. END NOT YET IN SIGHT, Charges of Hazing Filed Against More Midshipmen. Anpapolis, Md., Jan. 26.—The trial of Midshipman Richard R. Mann, pres- idential appointee, was continued dur- ing the day. Several additional wit- nesses for the defense were examined. There is not the slightest indication that the end of the hazing cases is in sight. Charges have been filed against Ned Leroy Chapin, a first classman from Pagadena, Cal., and George H. Melvin of Geneseo, Ill., of the third class. DISMISSED - FOR HAZING. < Midshipman Decatur, Great Grandson of Famous Commodore. ‘Washington, Jan. 26.—Stephen De- catur, great grandson of Commodore Decatur, first class, United States naval academy, has been dismissed from the navy by Secretary Bonaparte in conformity with the sentence of the courtmartial in his case on the charge of hazing. To Locate MilwaukeeEtension. St. Paul, Jan. 26.—President A. J. Earling and party of officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail- road company went West during the day to inspect and determine the route of the Milwaukee railway’s ex- tension to the Pacific coast. RESULT OF QUARREL. Rhode lIsland Man Kills His Wife, Her Sister and Himself. Providence, R. I, Jan. 26.—The bod- «.es of Charles Winn, a freight handler, his wife, and Mrs. Charles E. Riggs of Portland, Me., sister of Mrs. Winn, were found in Winn’s home. Winn apparently during the night shot the two women and then killed himself. It is alleged that he quarreled with them because they went out together during the evening. California Bank Suspends. San Luis Obispo, Cal., Bank of San Luis Obispo, the oldest institution of the kind in this city, closed its doors during the morning by order of the bank commissioners. Jan. 26.—The | Potea, I. T., Jan. 26.—ourteen liv: : were lost in an explosion in slope N 4 of the Witteville mine. The expl < sion, was caused by firedamp. Thre of the fourteen bodies have been r.- covered, but it is impossible to entc the ‘mine because of the gas to a.- tempt a recovery of the other bodie.. { MEETS AT INDIANAPOLIS. Joint Conference of Mine Worker:; and Operators. Indianapolis, Jan. 26.—Presiden Mitchell ‘of the United Mine Worke: of . America called to order the joii.. conterence between the miners’ orga: - ization and tne coal operators du ing the afternoon. On motion of }. L. Robbins of Pittsburg, president « the operators, John Mitchell was mac temporary chairman. C. L. Scrogg of Chicago was made temporary se retary. The committee on credentia. was then announced. It was understood that the operato: of the Southwestern field have notifie the. Central field operators that the were opposed to joining the latter : . conference with the miners. As the demand of the miners {: have the Southwestern field addc would fail in effect should the ope ators of that field stay out it wz thought possible that this would clez the situation and prevent a deadloc. on this question. CONVICTED OF PERJURY. St. Paul Man Goes to Jail for Thre: Months. Duluth, Jan. 26.—Edward J. Strass of St. Paul has been sentenced b. Judge Amidon of the United State court to three months in the Ramse . county jail and to pay a fine of $2(. for perjury. The witnesses for the governmer: were Miss Kate Fisher and Miss Be: .nice Farvell, teachers of St. Paul, wh, had filed on what Straw led them t ; believe was timber land, but whic.. i Is agricultural, i Straw declares he got mixed up i : assigning the applicants. It has ces. the girls $500 each and it will take a . luct of congress to restore their momne. and their timber and stone rights. The land that Straw showed th> sirls was heavily timbered and th: Jand they actually filed on is barren o timber and not subject to filing unde.: the timber and stone act. HOSE TURNED ON STUDENTS. lowa City Fire Department Stops s Class Rush. | Iowa City, Ia., Jan. 26.—The fresi:- men and sophomores of the Unive: sity of Iowa fought as the result the sophomores’ attempt to break u_. the freshmen's dance. The sophs a - itacked the freshmen with eggs, cal- bages and other missiles. The policc. unable to check the disorder, sounde : | a fire alarm. The fire departmer.’ turned the hose on the fighting crow.; and after tkoroughly drenching th: combatants managed to disperse then:. | Three members of the Towa footba.: ‘team were arrested. ..0O’Leary & Bowser... Wednesday, January 31. our sale on Straw’s shoes-clothing-ladies’ suits--furs etc. will close Panama Batiste Waistings Soisitte Fancy Worsteds Albatros : Fancy Swiss Chambrays Crepe Du Chine Fancy Serges Mobhair Silk Mull Mercerized Dott Eolienne Crispelene We are now showing the latest fabrics and weaves in new dress goods as follows: Checks Eolinnes Organdees Suiting