Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 16, 1906, Page 1

LB LBOLVDY CHOVBILLLGLE FOBBIBLDDOL BLLBBROBHLS VOLUME 3. NUMBER 253, OCEAN LINER Steamer Donavon From. Liverpool Is Ashore off Massachusetts Coast. A SEVERE SNOW STORM IS RAGING Scituate, Mass., Fe.b 16.—Overrun: ning her distance in a heavy snow storm the Leyland line passenger and freight steamer Devonian, .which sailed, from Liverpool on Feb. 5 with four passengers and a crew of eighty- two, struck on the ledges at this place about 1 a. m. The officers of the Devonian had been trying to sight Minots Ledge lighthouse before enter- ing Boston harbor but missed it by four miles and brought up on the rocks. At daylight she was lying among the rocks and about 500 feet from the shore. A volunteer crew headed by Captain Stanley of the Third Hill lifesaving station, his own men, being off duty, rowed out:to the steamer. Captain Ridley of the Devon- ian informed the lifesavers, that his steamer was tight and in little danger; though hard on the ledge, and he asked that tugs be summoned from Boston. The volunteers returned to the beach -to ‘telephone for the tugs’ assistance. Later they went back again to be near the Devonian in case of emergency. There was no imme- diate danger of the ship breaking up. The Devonian.is one of the largest and newest transatlantic liners and worth $500,000. Her cargo is valued at $700,- 000. During the afternoon the storm in- creased. The tugs were unable to get near the stranded steamer and larger ones were ordered sent from Boston. THREE. TRAINMEN KILLED. Collision on Northwestern Road Near Janesville, Wis. Janesyille, « Wis,; Feb; 16-—Three persons dead and ten injured, .one probably fatally. is: the resulf of, a wreck on the Northwestern railroad near here during a blinding snow storm. The dead are: Thomas Laf- fereth, Baraboo, passenger engineer; Joseph Mohr, Janesville, - fireman, and Freight Fireman Ber- gish, Baraboo. The 'wreck was due to a mistake over orders. A special milk train was waiting here ready to go south as soon as the through passenger train from De Kalb, 111, for St. Paul passed. Be- fore the time the through train was due a local from Belvidere, Ill.. arrived heére and the crew of the milk train supposed this was the train for which they were ordered to wait. The milk train then pulled out for the south. Two miles south of here the passen- ger train was 1rushing north toward Janesville, going at a rate of sixty miles an hour. The two engineers saw | the danger before the trains met, but not in time to do more than partially check the speed of their trains. The passenger train was compara- tively little damaged. It was a heavy train and most of the coaches re- mained on the irack, though the pas- sengers were all badly shaken up. The trainmen on the milk train were not so fortunate. It was there that most of the fatalities occurred GRS OS FECBTBD DG B 0’Leary & Bowser, Bemidii, Thursday, Friday, Saturday BARGAINS! 1 lot of Men’s fine kid lined $5.00 shoes at, a pair, “Minn. | $3.60 pair, : 5 1 lot Boy’s $2.25 shoes a.t, a $1.75 1 lot little Boy’s shoes, regu- lar $1.25 values,jnow a pr. ‘98¢ 1lot of Ladies’ fine kid shoes, flight or heavy sole, stamped ou sole at factory $3.50, only, a pr. $2.95 the store. waists worth from $1.25 Ladies’ Tailor-Made Garments. We will give 33 1-8 per cent off from the regular price on any Ladies’, Misses’ or Childs]cloth coat]in Quite a large assortment® of{] Ladies’ and up will be "sold¥at 98 cents Each will be many 10¢ Counter. We are going to have a regular money saving 10c counter the last three days of this week. There 25¢ values offered at 10 cents. New Goods Arrived Thl.s Week: EMBROIDERIES, LACES " AND SKi RTS GHBBVCCVOV GO B OB DG LR R KoK R R R R R A - RoRoR R oRoRoRoRKoRolo MR- R R R R KRR R R R R R EF passenger|- CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED. New Yorker Makes Bitter Attack on . District Attorney Jerome. New York, Feb. 16.—A special to “| the Tribune' from Albany says: Charges including ,.subornation of | perjury,” bribery - of lawye&'s . miscon- version of miilions of dollars and the enllstment of District Attorney Jerome in a couspiracy to whitewash the of- fenders were made agalnst the M.etro- pollfan Street Railway company’ and its offi¢ials at a Hearing beforé! the as- sembly committee on ways and means. William' N. Amory of New York; for-* merly treasurer ‘of the Third avenue Surface Railway (ompany\, who' Has been fighting the Metropolitan ‘for’ sev- eral years, made a vxrulent attack on District Attorney Jerome. Amory.sub- mitted figures which,' he’said, proved that frauds amountmg to mxmons of dollars had been perpetrated by the officers ‘of the Metropolitan' ‘system on its’ stockholders and the public. The company, he charged, brlhed Judfles, juries and witnesses." Information, of . this m many cases, and eqpecially in one case;' wWhere he himself furnished’ the:material; had been sent to the district attorney; said M. ‘Amory, 'but 'instead ‘of acting to sconyict ‘the offenders he:-had -entered into a conspiracy to let them escape. Because of this; Mr. Amory decfared, he intended to ask Governor Higgins to remove the district attorney. SHIP SUBSIDY BILL PASSES FIVE REPUBLICANS VOTE WITH DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AGAINST MEASURE. ‘Washington, Feb. 16.—The senate has passed the subsidy shipping bill by a vote of 38 to 27. All the votes for the bill were Republican and five Republican senators voted with the Democrats in opposition—Messrs. Bur- kett, Dolliver, La Follette, Spooner and ‘Warner. As passed the bill establishes thir- teen new contract mail lines and in- creases the subvention to the Oceanic line, running from the Pacific coast to Australasia. Of the thirteen new lines three leave Atlantic coast ports, one running to Brazil, one to Uruguay and -| Argentina and one ‘to South Africa;. six leave ports on the Gulf of Mexieo,’ one going to Brazil, one to Cuba, one to Mexico and three to Central Amer- ica ‘and the isthmus of Panama; four clear from Pacific coast ports, two to Japan, China and the Philippines di- rest, one to Japan, China and the Phil- ippines via-Hawaii and one to Mexico, Central America and the isthmus ot Panama. The bill also grants a subvention .at the rate of $5' per gross ton per year to cargo vessels engaged in the for- eign trade of the Uniteq States and at the rate of $5.50 per ton to vessels engaged in the' Philippine trade, the Philippine coastwise law being post- rponed until 1909. Another feature of’the bill creates a naval reserve force of 10,000 offi- cers and men, who are to receive re- tainers after the British'practice. Ves- sels receiving subsidies are required to carry a certain proportion of naval reserve men among their crews. WITHIN NEXT FEW MONTHS. Commercial Traveler Predicts Upris- ing in China. San Francisco, Feb. 16.—C. E. Young, an eyewitness of the riotg in Shanghai, has arrived here from the Orient on the steamer Doric. He tells of tbe intense anti-foreign sentiment that exists among the Chinese and predicts that an uprising will take place within. the next few months. Young says that 200 Chinese were killed in" the riots in Shanghai and that only the presence of the foreign gunboats at Shanghai prevented the wholesale slaughter of Americans and Inglishmen. Young represents a local firm, but because of the boycott he was unable to transact any business with the Chines‘, merchants. MAY FIGHT BALFOUR. Liberals Aroused by Ex-Premier’s Lat- est Tariff Talk. London, Feb. 16.—An urgent meet- ing of the City Liberal association has been summoned to reconsider the sit- uation consequent on former Premier Bajfour’s latest attitude regarding tar- iff reform. It is said that he may yet have to fight for his seat in the city of ‘London ' which Alvan Gibbs, Union- ist, resigned after Mr. Balfour was de- feated for East Manchester in order that Mr. Balfour might be able to re- turn to parliament. Chinese Commission Departs. New York, Feb. 16.—The Chinese imperial commission, which has been studying ‘Amerjcan institutions, sailed during the day on the steamer Blucher, for Hamhurg As the steamer was leaving the dock every member of the’ commission ‘waved a small American flag ' and ‘were' ‘cheered - by several scores of Chinese on the wharf. DEFFCTIVE PACE NOT YET REACHED. Frdnco-German Conferences Continue ' at Algeciras. Algeciras, Spain, Feb, 16.—The sit- uatlon’ of the Franco-German contro- verby over the vital points bf the pro- posed: Moroccdn ‘reforms remains un-:f! ch&ngad _although a feeling prevails ng he delegates tha.t some de cisivq step’ is’ not''far off. ' They are particularly cautious just'mow in view: of the_ alternate waves: of optimism end pessimism and of the fact that the fnability thus far {6 reach an’accord |l does not ‘warrant overconfidence. : But at, the same time it is conceded that the continuance of the Franco- German potrparfers’ shows that the critleal stage has'not been reached. Ambassador. White, chief of the Anierican’ 'delegation, in his efforts to find'a compromise, has not varied from the course which he has followed since the conference began. With the co- operation ‘of the Marquis -Visconti Venosta, hedd of the Italian mission, the American ambassador has already |, vut forward several tentative plans for an ‘adjustwient, which havé' been un- sucoess[ul ‘owing to ‘the unyielding at- titude of one side or the other. These gat'es believe they will ultimately suc- ceed, although recognizing the increas- ing- ifficulty as one proposition after nnother fails to secure mutual accept- wémn POLITIGHL GRIMES i INCREASED ACTIVITY OF RUS. SIAN TERRORISTS SHOWN' BY THE RECORDS. St.. Petersburg, Feb. 16.—The Offi- cial Messenger prints the usual weekly summary of violent political crimes and seizures of bombs, explosives and ‘weapons, filling over two columns. Ex- cept for descriptions of the shooting at ‘Sebastopol Feb. 9 of Vice Admiral Chouknin, ‘commander of ‘the Black sea fleet, whose recovery is considered assured, and the throwing of a bomb into the assembly of “patriots” on the Schlusselbmg embankment here Feb. 9, the record consists mainly of a long ‘enumeration of cities where terrorists have been active. These include St. Petersburg, . Moscow, Odessa, Kieff, “Nizhni 'Novgorod; Vilma; -Warsaw, Sa- continue and the neutral dele- | -oner'‘was: *postpons mara,-Jursk, Sebastopol, Kazan, Tiflis, Riga and other principal cities, where officials have been Killed, patrols fired on, bombs, weapons and dynamite seized or postotfices, banks or other state institutions attacked. A num- ber of the crimes were committed by mere boys. Two dispatches iell of a grammar schoelar wounding a reaction- ary teacher at Kharkoff and the arrest at Berdicheff' of a fifteen-year-old lad having three loaded bombs in his pos. session. The steady lengthening of the summary each week is a reliable index of the increased activity both of the police and of the tel O’ 1sts SYSTEM OF OLD AGE PENSIONS British Premier in Sympathy With Movement. London, Feb. 16.—While declining to make rash promises Premier Camyp- bell-Bannerman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Asquith have declared ihemselves in entire sympathy with a deputation which called on them 'to advocate the establishment of a na- tional system of old age pensions. The deputation urged that the scheme should be comprehensive and include all citizens, men or women, the money being found by means of imperial tax- ation. - The premier and chancellor of the exchequer heartily approved of the suggestions. The only difficulty at present, they pointed out, was the question of ways and means. They thought, however, that with greater care in the administration of the coun: try’s finances it would not be impos- sible to find money for buch‘ a Dbene- ficient scheme. TWO MEN BLOWN TO PIECES. Terrific Explosion of Large Quantity of Nitroglycerin. Geneva, Ind., Feb. 16.—The maga- zine of the Hercules ‘Torpedo com- pany one mile from here was de- stroyed during the day by an explo- sion. Edward Gates of Hartford City and Lee Howard of Bluffton were blown to pieces and two teams of horses were killed. The men were engaged in unloading 1,500 guarts of nitroglycerin from the wagons -when ‘the explosion occurred. The explosion destroyed many plate glass windows in business houses here, tore the bark from trees within a radius of 200 yards and made a hole in the ground fifteen feet deep and twenty-five feet in diam- eter. § Swen Chudren Severely . |; jured. I"lint Mich., Feb, 16. Seyén school «children were severely lnjwed three of them pe;haps fatally, whgn a Pere Marguette freight train crashed into a wagon in which thirteen’ éhlldren were ' being driven from:the Potter. district school to Grand Blanc village. Operators and " M ers “of Anthracxte Fleld Meet In New York City. BOTH ‘INSURANCE. Jersey-City ' Man Accused ‘of Murder- ' - ing Brother: g New York, Ileb. 16..~Alccused of hav- ing'murdered ‘his ‘brother Carl‘on'Dec. 19,1905, “for ‘the purpose of obtaining life ‘isurance”‘money: amounting . to $3,000 - Alexander Legler, Jr..-was .ar- raigned in courtin Jersey City during the day. ~The examination of:the pris« & ‘however, <until |- SIDES FULLY REPRESENTED New York, Feb. 16.—The conferenee between the coal operators and the union mine workers of the hard coal’ fields of Pennsylvania, at which efforts will''be- made:to formulate an agree-: ment between tlie eémployersiand:the ‘men to go into effect April I, when the -award of the anthracite.strike commit- tee expires; was'begun -during the aft- ernoon: Al ‘“the ‘coal”companies are représented and''the interests of the -employes. are-1ooked after, by the spe- next‘Saturday: atithe Tequest-of Chief |' i ¢iall " scale| committee ;of thirty-six, of Police Mumh:,J who* ‘degired time' to" get together ‘his Wwitnesges: : | The * cns S oné. of the most extra- the police annals of Jer\-| n-- explmning sthe/ case ‘to:f. the. court Chief* Murphy:said” that thé prisoner'* wa§ isuspected:itof *having Dpoued: berzine dver His brother ‘Carl and’of 'having ‘set’ him ‘afire while he slept ‘and alded ‘that it was believed thdt when Legler saw that his brother wolild not, Sucéumb: to.his injuries he caused, the victim’s death by adminis- teringv‘some‘puwder, presumably-of a Doisonotfs 4 "nature;’ Thé ' police an- nourice that they will endeavor to have ‘which®is'/made up:of the Mine Work- ers’ Véxecutive hoards ' of - the' three | anthracite districts. President Mitchell is chairman iof this:committee. Among wlose: 'who! are .in .attendance at .the meeting are: - . v igs President George F. Bae1 ot the Pbil- adélphia' and -ReadingRailroad -com- pany;"'W. H: Truesdale, president of ' the Delaware, Lackawanna: and West- wern Railroad eompany; T. H. Fowler, president of the New York, Ontario and - Western railway; F.;:S. Under- wood, president:of the Erie railroad; E. B. Thomas, president of the dLehigh ‘Valley railroad; David Willcox, presi- the body'exhumed by the ‘authorities | dent of the Delaware and Hudson com- at Ba‘dey, Gai; whither it was taken by | bany. Legler soon after his brothers death. NECK DISLOCATED BY JERK The ‘independent .operators are represented by Frank Pardee of Hazle- ton; Pai, and J. L. Cake.of Pittsten, Pa, W. L. Connell of Scranton, Pa., an independent operator, who is pres- Girl Meets D”"‘ in Attempt to Hitch | ident of -the anthracite hoard ‘of con- Unruly' Horse. Fort Dodge, Ia., Feb. 16.—Miss Hulda Reeck:wag instantly killed here while attempting to hitch an-unruly horse to a buggy. She was standing “behind: the*anfmal” and-had:hold of ‘the| lnes by Which it was driven fwhen it gave a sudden jump forward, jerking her violently. She uttered a ecry, walked forward a few steps, tottered and fell dead at the feet of her mother, who was standing nearby.. The cor- oner’'s jury found that her neck had been dislocated. presumably by the jerk that she received when the horse Jumped forward. Doubles Rate of Commission. Chicago, Feb. 16.—The board of trade has decided to double the rate of commission to be paid to brokers on all transactions in the buying and selling of grain. The' rate 'heretofore has been one-eighth of 1 per cent and it will hereafter be one-fourth of 1 per cent. The vote stood 557 for the in- crease and 4a8 b ainst it. BRANDED AS BAREFACED LIES. Dolan Replies to Statements in Mit- chell’s Letter. Pittsburg, Feb. 16.—When the Pitts- burg miners’ convention resumed its sessions President Patrick Dolan made a caustic address to the delegates, re- plying to the ljjtter of President John, Mitchell, which: was read to the dele- gates the previous day by National Vice Freésident iewis. President Do- lan said-in part: “I want to say that Mitchell's state- i mients in his letler are barefaced lies. | He claims that the statement in the newspapers last. Monday was not writ- ten by-him, but I most emphaticallyi say’ that it was. “I want to g0 ‘9n record by saying that the present wage scale is the best | the miners ever had and we did not gép it by selling'out to the operators. John Mitchell and W. D. Ryan are not ihe only men in the country who un- derstand the actual situation.” FOR UPPER l_.AkE PORTS. Enormous Stores of Soft Coal Collected at Cleveland. : 4 Cleveland, Feb. 16.—The unprece—‘ dented rush of soft coal shipmiénts t this port as. a result,pf<a <possiBle | ‘strike by the miners continues and enormous stores of fuel have heen col- lected, mostly for shipment to upper lake points. When navigation opens it is said that atdeast eighty vessels— ciliation, also is ‘in attendance. The Pennsylvania railroad is not directly represented; it not-having been in- vited to.the conference, but will abide by any action taken by the presidents ot the other coal garrying railroads. “First Joint Session -BrieT. The joint conference met at 2 p. m. and remained in session about an hour. At the conclusion of the meeting the following joint statement was issued: “There was a full representation of the mine operating companies and the miners, The meeting was called to order with Mr. Connell in the ehair. Mr.. Mitchell addressed the meeting, stating in general terms the propesi- tion of the miners. After a brief'dis- cussion it was conciuded that the min- ers and mine ‘operators should"each appoint a_committee to represent them in the future in reference to the mat- ter, the committees to consist of seven each. 7The understanding was that after the commiiltee terminated their work they should report to the com- mittee of the whole.” The propositions presented to the mine operators Ly the union represen- tatives have not been made public, but more or'less accurate reports of their nature have leaked out. It has been learned from various sources that among the proposals submitted are the following: An eight-hour day, without any re- duction in wages, for all employes paid by the hour, day or week. A uniform wage scale’ in the three anthracite districts for the different classes of employes. Adcquate compeansation for “dead work” performed by contract miners. An increase in wages of from 10 to 20 per cent for all company, men. The adoption of a system by which coal shall be paid for by weight wher- ever practicable. Recognition of the union. Fire Chief Stricken Suddeniy. Boston, Feb. 16.—While responding to an .alarm of fire during the day Chief Wiliiam T. Cheswell of the Bos- ton fire department was stricken with heart trouble and died while being taken to the hospital. : Chief Cheswell "had heen connected with the depart- ment since 1862 and was one of the veést gnown fire fighte n.the country. He wasisixty:three” s old. Preferred Death to Insanity. Pawnee City, Neb., Feb. 16.—After writing 2 note.saying: “I feel that I am losing my mind and I would rather ve dead than crazy; to think about it ‘practically every one in the Cleveland | makes me laugh,” Howard L. Chap- harbor—will have: on board its cargo)| man, a wealthy farmer living near of ‘coal. ‘ahout twenty vessels have been load- Within the past two weeks| here, shot himself in the head. His wife, who ‘had been away on a trip, ed,; making a total of fifty that are| stumbled over his body as she re- ready to move when navigation shali opgn s’l‘he personal, gift of Emperor Will-{ iam of Germany.to Miss Alice Roose- turned to the house. House Leader Turned Down. Washington, Feb. 16.—The house bhas just amved in Washington. | 12s refused to consider the Payne bill It 18 2 finely wrought bracelet of rare| to wgsolidme customs collection dis- value. tricts by a vote ot 87 t0:163. i —