Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 2, 1906, Page 1

- The Bemid VOLUME 3. NUMBER 241 JOHNSON IS MADE CHAIRMAN Governor Of Minnesota Is Presiding At Chicago Insurance Convention. UNIFORM STATE “ore than 100 & several gov- wers of insurance, i and representatives companies, were present at the opening session of the national convention called to discuss measures for control of insurance companies in the various states Thomas E. Drake, insurance com- missioner of the District of Columbia, presided at the opening session and <alled the convention to order. The report of the committee on per- manent organization was presented by A. I. Vorys of Ohio, naming Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota as chairman and Frederick H. Nash of Massachusetts as secretary. The re- port was adopted unanimously. Governor Johnson, in taking the chair, spoke brietly, expressing the hope that the action of the convention might have the effect of restoring con- i fidence in relation to insurance mat- ters throughout the country. “If we shall place one wise law upon the statute books of this Union, ! one wise law that will inure to the common good,” he said, “this meeting will not have been held in vain.” Committee to Draft Legisiation. The report of the committee on per- manent organization recommended that a committee of fitteen be appoint- ed by the chairman of the convention to formulate a bill or bills with a view to the establishment of a unitorm sys- tem of statutory regulation of legal re- serve life insurance companies in the several states. This committee of fifteen is to report at an adjourned meeting of the present convention at a time and place to be hereafter deter- mined. A motion by Samuel B. Davis, in- surance commissioner of Nevada, that a committee on credentials be appoint- ed by the chair, brought out a de- mand from E. W. Scoville of Pittsburg, president of the National Association of Life Underwriters, for a voice in the affairs of the convention. Mr. Davis declared that he desired to limit the voting power to the state in- surance commissioners and attorneys general. Mr. Scoville declared that he was present by a special invitation and re- quested rights equal to those of such state officials as might be present. Some trouble had been anticipated on the question of representation and a wave of subdued excitement came over the convention when it was | breached. Chairman Johnson an- nounced the committee on credentials and that body went into executive ses- sion at once. REPRESENTATIVE HITT ILL. Condition of Illinois Congressman Said to Be Alarming. Washington, Feb. 2Z.—Representa- tive Hitt of lllinois is seriously ill at his residence in this .city. Several physicians have been called to his bedside and his triends are alarmed over his condition. Ice Famine Threatened. Duluth, Feb. 2.—Ice men at the Head of the l.akes are becoming ex- ceedingly anxious over the prospects of the ice harvest. They are now short 38,000 tons of the required amount, with burt little prospect of get- ting it. The continued warm weather has prevented Lake Superior from freezing near the shore and unless a long cold spell comes there will be an ice famine next summer. Victim of Coal Gas Fumes. Jackson, Minn., Feb. 2.—Mrs. Annie Flicek was suffocated while asleep by gas escaping from a hard coal heater. Xer twelve-year-old son was in the room at the time and about midnight woke up and suspected that some- thing was wrong. He immediately summoned the neighbors, hut when aid arrived Mrs. Flicek was dead. | Middle West.” Minister Confirms the Story. New York, Feb. 2—No statement from Mrs. Yerkes was obtainable here during the day as to whether she had been married to Wilson Mizner. Rev. Andrews Gillies of St. Andrew’s Meth. odist Episcopal chureh, however, de clares that he performed the cere mony, LAWS PROPOSED TO LIQUIDATE FINE OF $1,000. Five Hundred Chicago Printers Ask to Be Sent to Jail. Chicago, Feb. 2.—Five hundred members of Typographical union No. 16 voted unanimously to go to jail. As they are on strike they estimated they might save the $1,000 fine assessed against the union by Judge Holdom if they were permicted to work out the amount in prison. After the resolution was adopted a committee was sent to Attorney W. H. Barnum to learn if there was any hope for the strikers breaking into jail and in that manner satisfying justice. They were disappointed when their attorney told them that if the fine was upheld by the higher courts it would have to be paid and that there was no pros- pect of the debt being liquidated by the strikers going to jail. BIG ADVANCE |IN LUMBER. Price on All Grades Increased From £ to i5 Per Cent. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 2—The most sen- sational advances ever recorded in the price of lumber in the South Atlantic states was ordered at a meeting of the North Carolina Pine association held here during the day. The price on all grades of lumber was advanced $2 per 1,000 feet for some of the better grades and $5 on some other grades, principally the lower. e This means a net advance in prices of from about 5 to almost 15 per cent, according to grade. ' { Following closely as it does on the several advances in price ordered by ; the North"Carolina Pine association last year lumber is now far higher than it ever before has been in the Southern markets. APPROVES FOLK’S ACTION, Resolution Adopted by Chanute (Kan.) Oil Producers. Chanute, Kan., Feb. 2.—The Chanute 0il Producers’ association has adopted resolutions emphatically condemning and repudiating the recent action of Kansas and 'Indian Territory pro- ducers at a meeting at Kansas City so far as it tends to disparage the ac- tion of Governor Folk of Missouri and Attorney ‘General Hadley in their ouster proceedings against the Sland-, ard Oil continue: ‘““We hereby appeal to the legisla- ture of the state of Missouri and of company The resolutions | all other sister states and urge the | enactment of laws similar to those passed by the Kansas legislature pro- tectine the oil interests of .the great Coal Combine in Gotham. New York, Feb. 2.—An investiga- tion concerning the dealings of the large coal companies with the city has been ordered by Mayor MecClellan. This step was taken by the mayor as a result of information communicated to him by the armory board that figures named in a bid for coal asked for by the board were about $1 per ton higher than the price charged on sales to individuals. The bids were for | $6.34 and $6.44 per ton. Anarchists Shot Without Trial. Warsaw, Russian Poland, Feb. 2.— Four more anarchists, making sixteen during the past fortnight, were shot without trial in the citade} here during the day. Of the total fifteen were Jews. INCENDIARIES FIRE TENEMENTS. Lives of Hundreds Imperiled in New York City. New York, Feb. 2.—Three big East Side tenements, containing in all be- tween 350 and 400-persons, were fired by incendiaries early in the morning, but fortunately each blaze was discov- ered in time and extinguished before serious damage was done. The fires occurred within five minutes of each other. Alaska to Have Representation. Washington, Feb. 2.—The senate has passed the bill authorizing the election of a delegate in congress from Alaska, ) near 7 EVIDENCE REVEALS THE FACT. Sult Against Transit Company Sug- gested by Rival Concern. Milwaukee, Feb. 2. — Attorney Charles Quarles, special counsel for the government in the prosecution of the action recently instituted in Mil- waukee against the Milwaukee Refrig- erator Transit company and eight other defendants for alleged violation of the Elkins anti-rebate act, .receives the major portion of his compensation from Emanuel L. Philipp, president and general manager of the Union Re- frigerator company of ‘Wisconsin. It was Emanuel L. Philipp, who, both by letter and by personal inter- view, suggested to Attorney General Moody the advisability of testing the Elkins act to ascertain the legality of accepting commissions from railroad companies by refrigerator lines. These two facts were fully estab- lished by the testimony of Mr. Philipp before Special Examiner Kurtz in an- swer to a galling fire of questions put to him by Attorney James Flanders, of counsel for the Pabst Brewing com- pany, one of the .defendants in the suit instituted by the government. Mr. Philipp . stated. that Attorney General Moody, during an interview, informed him that he had no money with which to pay extra counsel to as- sist in prosecuting the cases for the government, whereupon Mr. Philipp proposed to pay such portion as could not be paid by the government. WILL REMAIN TwWoO lWEEKS. Chinese Imperial Commission Arrives in New York. New York, Feb. 2.—The Chinese im- perial commission, which is investi- gating industrial conditions in the United States, arrived in this city during the day from Washington. The party was met at the ferry by the local Chinese Reform association and escorted to the Fifth Avenue hotel, where an entire floor has been re- served for the visitors. > Shortly after the commission reached the hotel General Frederick D. Grant, commanding the department of the Bast, accompanied by his staff, made a formal call. Later the com- missioners were conveyed to the chamber of commerce, where they were entertained by the members. The visitors will , remain here nearly two weeks: g e GIRL SAVES TWO LIVES. Falls Unconscious After Rescuing Companions, Mankato, Minn., Feb. 2.—Three young women, Misses Maud Cooper of Amboy and Anna Kowe -of Hutchin- son, students at the state normal school, and Miss McCabe, a milliner, had a narrow escape from death by asphyxiation. . Miss Cooper awoke at 3 a. m. to find the room filled with gas fumes. Although almost overcome and unable to raise the windows Miss Cooper succeeded in dragging the other two women from their rooms to the hall- way, when she herself fell uncon- scious upon the floor. The landlady was awakened by the noise. She threw open the windows and summoned a physician, who, with much difficulty, saved the victims. EXPLOSION CAUSES CAVEIN. Three Workmen Killed and Two Oth- ers Injured. Otisville, N. Y., Feb. 2.—Several workmen were buried under masses of earth in a cavein which occurred during the day in the Erie railroad tunnel which is now being constructed here. Three dead have been taken from the cavein and two in- jured. The accident was caused by an explosion. A great number of men, mostly ne- groes and Italians, are employed in digging a tunnel a mile in length through a hill. The men who were killed and injured were removing.the debris after a blast had been fired when a portion of the roof of the tun- nel fell upon them. The tunnel is be- ing built by private contractors; SECURE $1,000 BQOTY. Two Armed Robbers Hold Up Chicago Loan Bank. Chicago, Feb., 2—Two armed rob- bers entered the Empire Loan bank, 144 North Clark street, compelled the | two clerks to kneel behind one of the counters, looted the cash register of $300, filled a valise with watches, diamonds and other jewelry and es- caped. The jewelry stolen is valued at $700. The bandits entered the store when it was deserted except for the two clerks, who were counting up the day’s receipts, Only Two Hundred Men Affected. Boston, Keb. 2.—A strike was de- clared by the book and job printers against all firms that have not ac- ceded to the demands of the Typo- graphical union for an eight-hour. day. It is estimated that 200 Jjourneymen quit work. 1t is understood that about seventy-five printing firms have en: tered into an agreement to oppose the demands of the printers. i ' BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA. FRID R R R R R R R R R ORI R R R R R R R - Rl R RN R R R R R R R R R R ] T HISTORICAL {OPPOSES PHILIPPINE BILL. .Wisconsin Sugar Manufacturer Before Senate Committee. Washington, Feb. 2.—Richard G. Wagner, owner. of sugar factories at Chippewa Falls and Menominee Falls, Wis., opposed the .Philippine tariff bill during the day in the hearing before the senate committee on the Philip- pines. He declared that it cost 33 cents a pound to produce sugar in the United States and that Philippine su- gar could be delivered in the interior of the United States for 2 cents a pound if, the duty was taken, off. The passage of the bill, he said, would de- stroy the sugar interests of the United States within ten years at the outside for the reason that capital could not be induced to invest in the face of such competition and therefore prog- ress in the way of reducing the cost of produetion would be at a standstill. He took the position that with the en- couragement of protection the cost ‘of production in this country would be lessened at least 1 cent a pound with- in the next two or three years. This - statement was based on the fact that farmers of Wisconsin have taken so kindly to beet raising that the factories ars no longer compelled to solicit acreage contracts. Mr. Wag- ner said the farmers now average $5 a ton for beets, making the gross re- ceipts per acre about $75, and that with improved agriculture equipment they could afford to raise the crops for much less. TO ; FIND UNCLE’S BODY. Minneapolis Girl Will Seek Corpse of Valencia Victim. Victoria, B. C., Feb. 2.—Miss Bruer of Minneapolis, whose uncle, I. G. Bruer, a Minneapolis lumberman,_ was drowned on the Valencia, has engaged an Indian girl as a guide and is pre- paring to go to the scene of the wreck 40 search for her uncle’s body. . FEBRUARY 2, 1906, , . oW . o U ED President Mitchell Gaills: Mééting"of N - tional Convention of Miners for INVESTIGATION ORDERED. Government Wil Look Into Valencia Disaster. ‘Washington, Feb. 2.—Secretary Met- .calf of the department of commerce and labor has ordered a thorough and searching investigation of the- Valen- cia wreck off Vancouver ‘and the con- duct of officers and crew of that steam- ship, as well as the officers of the | steamers Topeka and Queen, ‘which went to the assistance of the disabled ‘vessel. Destructive Fire at Winnipeg. ‘Winnipeg, Man., Feb. 3.—The east half of the Canadian Pacific railway bonded warehouse was destroyed by fire during the nigl;t._ The portion de- stroyed ‘was 400 féé‘t’long by 60 wide and was filled, with liquors, silks, teas and: other goods. The loss will be fully $100,000. . l | This Afternoon. TO REJECT 0PERAT6R"S PROPOSALS Indianapolis, Ind.," Feb. 2.-“The joint conference of the Bituminous Coal Miners and Operators adjourned sine die today after the chair had de- clared carried the motion by F. M. Robbins, the Pittsburg’ operator, 'that the present wage: scale be continueé. Patrick Dolan,’ president of the Penn- sylvania Miners-voted ‘for tbe miners of that district in faver of the motion which carried it. President Mitchell immediately called the mational con- vention of miners to meet this after- noon and Dolan’s votee may be repu- diated,’ as the convention 'had' in- structed its -representatives to reject the operators’ proposal. ! Moritz von Baumbach, for 'almost half a century a banker in Milwauked and for many years the consular agent in that city of the German govern. ment, is_ dead, aged seventy-five years. Lol cRoR e Kook K- All m ailorders Promptly and Carefully filled o i > Specials | O°LEA feioe oo K] Eaficy Suiting Silk Mull Criseline For Thursday Mobhairs Crepe de Chines Folines =" Fancy Worsteds Chambray From 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. we place on sale 500 yards of bleached muslin, slightly damaged by water, the regular price was 10 cents, at this sale 5 cents per yard, 10 yards to a customer. Thursday, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. only folle ol o] seeLBISOBLL & All mail orders ol RY & BOWSER [ ¢ : Carefully filled g The new spring black and colored dress - goods and wash fabrics are now being » shown,suchas: % % % 2 Panama Albatros : ,a- Batiste Serges g Goisette Fancy Swiss A Remember the “time. Special for Thursday, Friday and Saturday We place on sale one lot of Pillow Tops. former price 50 cents. - For the three days your choice for 25 cents NEW SPRING STYLES IN LA- DIES NECK-WEAR NOW. ON DISPLAY. LADIES' SILK SHIRT SIS WAISTS FROM $2.50 TO $8.00° Special in Men’s Dep’ 25 per cent discount on Men’s /fland Boys’ overcoats.. cent discount on Men’s and Boys’ sweaters. _ one lot worth to $1.50 your choice 98¢. Men’s Viscolized 25 per Men’s shirts, just . received. it e e LTI Y Y Y ¥ T I T T T R TR R TR T T T e seasncnne