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

[ e R R R VOLUME 3. NUMBER 261 s President Mitchell of United Mine Wo'rk 3 ers Calls Officers to New York to AR Consider Proposition. PROPOSE INCREASE 5.55 PER CEN Indianapolis, Feb. 2¢.—President Mitehell of the Unitéd Mine Workers of America has called to New' York a number of the officers of the organiza- tion to consider the proposition of the Bituminous Coal operators to restore the Scalé'of 1903, which'is an'inorease of 5.55 per cent ‘over the present scale: ( £l BIG DIAMOND ROBBERY. Trunk Containing $25,000 Worth of Jewels Missing. Vincennes, Ind.,” Feb. '26.—Unless some mistake has been made by''rail- road officials” a “$25,000- diamond rob- bery occurred either at-Terre Haute or between Terre Haute and Vincennes on” the Evansville and Terrc Haute railréad during the ddy. Thé diamonds were in a trunk and dre''the property of the Notterham Jewelry eompany of Cincinnati. Early in thé day William Pflueger, representative of the jewelry company, checked ' the ‘trunk in'''the Union station at Terre Haute for Vin- cennes. Soon after arriving at Vin- cefmes Pflueger sought” thé trunk' for the purpose of getting the diamonds to show to customers and found that the trunk was not’ his, although al- | most a duplicate. The stub ‘of the check was that belonging to the one held by him. After'discovering his loss Pflueger notified the police and a search for the trunk was begun. POSSIBLE EMERGENCY IN CHINA. Preparations Continue in Military Cir- cles at Manila. Manila, Feb. 26.—Active prepara- tions continue here for a possible emergency in China. Major General L.eonard Wood hag postponed his con- templated trip to Mindanao. A list’ has beén ‘circulated among the packers and teamsters of this city requesting the names of those who are willing to enlist for service in China. The necessary outflts will ‘be lssued to thein. Grand Army Chaplain Dead. Chapman, Kan., Feb. 23.—Rev. Father J. F. Leary, chaplain-in-chief . of the Grand Army of the Republic, is dead here after a long illness, aged sixty-one years. He was born at Og- densburg, N. Y. g BRIEF BITS OF N:w:. The house Saturdny passed 416 pen- | anarchists-had brought: such unpleas-|: sion bills in sixty-four minutes. Rev. William Walter Webb, D. D, has been consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Milwaukee Episcopal diocese. * The repatriation of Russian prison- ers in Japanese hands, the number of whom' isiestimatéd-'at 1,424 officers and 70,476 men, 'will be finished dur- ing the present year. Benjamin E. Valentine, a wealthy Brooklyn lawyer, has been sentenced to an indeterminate’ term of not more than five years'and:three months in Sing Sing prison for forgery.: - WHITE ALONE HOPEFUL. Other Delegates at Algeciras Look for Disagreement. Algeciras, Spain, Feb. 26.—Conver- sations with 'the principal delegates except Ambassador White show: that they have little real hope of a success- ful issue of the Moroccan conference. However, Mr. White remains*hopeful that some solution may be found. Swedish Franchise Reform Bill. Stockholm, Feb. 26.—The govern- ‘ment’s franchise reform bill, presented 0 the Swedish parliament during the ! day, fixes-the membership of'the sec- {ond chamber at 165 rural and 65 urban i representatives. All men of good char- acter and twenty-four years of age are entitled to vote. ' Candidates for elec- forwhich they are nofiinated,- .- Trustee Morris Quits Mutual. Philadelphia, Feb. 26.—Effingham B. Morris of this city has announced that he has resigned his trusteeship in the Mutual ~Life ' Insurance company - of New York. He gives as the reason for his resignation' the pressure of I business;” He is ' the president:of the | Girard Trust company of thig city. Took Poison by Nistake. ‘Wooster, O, Feo. 26—Dr. J. Hugh Sullivan; coronér of -Wayne: county, and died a few hours later. 'Sullivan arose during the night to take some medicine, but took hold of the wrong bottle by mistake, took a fatal dose of poison by mistake ; 15 tion must be voters in'the constituency, 3 T 3 BURIED IN" POFTER'S - FIEL‘D. county rsud\ at; - Dunning; -while: the undfiralga_r who. had agreed to inter/the. ll Hoeh was hahged vdm vt - buflal'plaee At tery refused to! allow Hocl ied there, as dld the of by telephone D Hoch, bt all’ of them refused; saying | that the.owners of : cemetery lots-ob- | Jected to ‘the intermient of murderers. It was ' not expected that objection would" be!offered at Waldheim, as-in that ‘cemetery Spies; “Parsons, Engel and Fischer, the executed anrachists, are buried; bat: the:officers: of “the Waldheim' cemetery were adanidnt. They "declared ‘that" the ‘burial’ of ithe ant notoriety to'the cemetery that un- der no circumstances would they ‘ever |' allow ariother' executed: ';m'son torbe | buried'in the place.: UAfter repeated eflor[s to secure a final - resbmg place for: the -body:- of Hoch in“one of the ‘city'cemeteries the two ‘clergymen ‘finally. despaired: and shortly “before noon!the 'body “was: in- | terred ‘in the. potler's -field! adjolnlng the county poor farm at: D\mnmg $a Former Presldent of Cornell Talks to} B Students. . - - tars New. York, Fel. 86— Dr. Andrew D. ‘White, former ambassador to Germany'| and-first president.of Cornetl univer-| sity, ‘addressed'the students.there:on “High 'Crime in ths United States”’ He said: a: - v “The number of homlcides that are punished by..lynching: exceeds those punished by due process of law. When ‘we consider that out of every forty-six homicides committed in the United States only one‘in forty-five is legally punished it is:no wonder that people look somewhere else for the solution. “There is' nothing more nonsensical or: ‘ridiculous ‘than the goody-goody talk tabout lynching. Much may be said in favor of the quotation of the famous . Englishman, Goldwin Smith, ‘There are somecommunities in the United ‘States” in. which their lynch |- law:is better than any other’ “have'|” 16 sympathy for the criminak murdered, for their familles and for their children.” . RUSSIAN OFFICIAL SLAIN. Director General of Vistula Railroad Assassinateds: i@ ‘Warsaw, Russian Poland, Feb. 26.— Privy Countillor Ivanoff; director gen- ‘eral of the:Vistula railroad; was shot and killed on: Bracka street during -the day by an unknown man. M.: Ivanoff: was energetic. in sup- pressing the recent,railroad strike and; dismissed many employes: for partici-. pating in it. IF you are going to reline that last year’s Overcoat or Jacket we can furnish you with 36 inch, yarn dyed, Skinners Satin it to wear two seasons. -— in all colors at $1.50 a yard. Makers guarantee - 'whlte and Norway-pine in the three v'statesqof 123y628,029;000 - feet,: against N T M xsympa.thy is for:. those ;who: wIIl be S and/ Minnesata. -+ 6—A statement of »be!nx the thirty-third _ment. According to the statement thore . was lasg :ye tal zproduction; of 4,220,917,000; in'.the year 1904, showing decrease of 592,888,000 feet. ‘Glancing back n ‘any one year was in 1890, 8,597.- 623,000 feet. The output of last’year was but a little more than 40 per cent of the total of 1890. ° In 1892, under the stimulus of pros- “ perity ‘and the extraordinary demand caused by the building of’the Colum- bian exposition buildings and general preparations for that event;.the total ‘ rose. nearly to that of 1890, reaching ,594,222,802 feet, but since thaf vear ‘ the - decline has been gradual,:with variatloma n ratio from year to year. | MONT fiELEE AGAIN ACTIVE. Inhabltan!x nf Martmlqun Fear Recur- ‘rénce of Gréat''Disaster. =-~ New. York, Feb. 26-—A “Barbadoes dispatch to the Herald says that Mont Pelee, in' Martinique, is again dctive : ang the inhabitants. of .the island are ‘in teryer: of:a recurrence; of. the great eruptions of four years ago. Five per- France who were. struck by tanlng . rocks thrown up by the volcano. A trading'schooner which-arrived at Bar- badoes Friday reported that-the' vol: cano is in:violent activity.- By day a column of heavy 'bluck & noke: several| * miles high Tising from the crater was] visible to those ‘aboard:the: schooner’ thlrty miles- away ‘and at misht: ‘the, figmes could be 1xla1rly seen at a "re-tt er-distance: PRAYER FAILED TO SAVE GIRL.v. C gt B ] Father of Child and Minister Held for L $5% TS Lot Tiak Phlladelphia Feb. 26.—At the con- ¥t clusion of the coroner’s inquest intei: the death of: Grace Bates, three years old,- Daniel Bates, the child’s father, ang :Rev. Ambrose, Clark, assistant| | paktor.of Faith tabernacle, were com ted .. without bail for. trial:. father is chm‘ged with eriminal negle Jand the clergyman is held as.an acces Church. of {Christ and .both. testified| that: 'they” endeavored to:accomplish] the recovery.of the.girl throughprayer and that medical attention was not provided for ‘the -child;, whe:died of typhoid fever.n: apo ok all Henderson's' Condition” Critical. Dubugue,' 'Ta.,” “Feb. ' 2<—Former change for the worse during the atter- noon. s His. condition. is critical. FOURTEEN PERSONS INJURED. Milwaukee Street Car Hit by Passen- ger Train. Milwaukee, Feb. 26.—The passenger, train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul-road due here‘at 9:30 a.:m. from Chicago ran into a South Mil- waukee street car at the Kinnickinnic avenue crossing, injuring fourteen peo- ple and completely overturning the car and delaying raiiroad traffic for over an hour. The car is badly wrecked, the trucks | dows smashed, crossbars loosened and the. street covered with splinters and rbroken glass. The crossing is one of the most dan- gerous in the city and Bayview people have fought for years (o have the tracks elevated to prevent accidents. Engineer - Collins of the railroad train said he was running about six curred. He said he did not think the accident would have happened had it inaot been for the dense steam and smoke that enveloped the crossing. DEED OF IOWA FARMER. Kills Girl, Suicides. Burlington, Ia;: Feb. 26.—Florence, twenty years old, daughter of County Physician R. B. Allen, was instantly killed and Mrs. Allen was seriously in- jured at night at Mount Pleasant by bullets fired at them .in their home by I Carl Becker, a young farmer. Becker’s ibody: . was found on:the outskirts of - town later, where he evidently - had committed suicide.. leved to be unrequited love. I St R s e Confesses to Wife Murder. Albany, N.'Y., Feb. 26.—John Cross | Hammond, whose wife’s: .body was found in a trunk in their home in the south end of this city last -November, ‘nearly two ‘weeks after she .is: ‘sup- posed to have been murdered. and.ten | davs after he himself had disappeared, waiked ;into police headquarters here fduring the day and: surrendered him- ‘self.. He confessed :to havlng killed his wlfe. : ‘thouse of parliament. . “| proposes to abolish university repre- Speaker David B. Henderson took a'| being ripped out of it and all the win’ miles an hour when the accident oc- | Wounds Her Mother and The cause is be- | h}_ Excellent 3 25 the largest total|. A IEEKING “BETTER® ‘PRICES.“ T o i Farmers' Organization to Hold Prod- . - ucts Aften'March 4 ¢ 4 Indianapelis, Feb. 26:42A" strike of the :200,000~ farmers- composing the AmericanSociety. of Equity, L ization: with beadauarters in I,ndka rapolis, has, been.called. for, Mareh, 1, Every one:who responds w-ill;mee,not to market:agricultural:products.except at prices:that have: beenidecreed..as equitable’ byuthe omcials of - the organ‘ fzation. + The organization claims that pro ,ducers ought. to.get, at, Jeast $1 per bushel for wheat, i espoctive of the size,of the.crop. (Itiis.claimed; that the price, nyi ;agricultyralicommodity can. be- contralled :b; J'egluatlng ithe | marketing - i R : Kansas and Minnesotu are ‘being ‘canvassed. It is claimed that if these gtates: hold out for :the-higher prices the:triek will be turned, as Minnesota raises g-large percentage of the spring" wheat crop and Kansas raises trollmg Dbercentagi Oi the winter, wheat L s | SWEEPING SUFFRAGE. BILL PR IDNRDATY PeEtaRn e a1 Women Qualified.*to Sit in British “Parliament. 4 London; Feb.: 26.+8ir.Charles Dilke, member; of parliament fer. the Forest lof Dean: division -of « Gloucestershire, ihas actively- entereq the lists:as cham- pionof the: enfranch‘isemem of ' women men-soon may of commons and peereszes be'.acting: !ie‘redltary legislatresses.. in. the house of lords. The measure provides that' every .man: and woman; shall; qualified | to..votei at, . pacliamentary and other elections 'and that no person shall be disqualified by ;sex or mar-# riage from; being a>member of either | ‘The. bill .also sentatives in the house of commons. v.y INJURY IS PERMANENT. King Edward Can Never Walk Again 3 ‘Without Aid of- Cane. New York, Feb. 26.—According to the London correspondent of the | World King Edward can never walk again without the aid of a cane. The king's fall while shooting in Windsor forest last November result- ed in breaking a tendon achilles. The World correspondent states this on indubitable authority. It was an- nounced at first that the king had sprained his ankle. The king is sixty-five years old and nature, even with surgical assistance, cannot completely repair the broken ! | 1 tendon achilles of a man of that age, the correspondent says. - Leaning on a stick King Edward. walks very slow- ly and with a pronounced limp. 5 TURKS ARE DEFEATED. Arabian Rebels Gain Important Suc- cesses. . Island of Perim, Feb. 26.- —The reb» els; of Yemen' province, Arabia, .are gaining important successes over the Turks. The latter, after sustaining losses at Samoa, retreated to Tais, with the Arabs in pursuit. Fighting is proceeding at Tais. The rebels, whose headquarters are at Khamr, have occupied Jeb el Doran and Masber and have surrounded Am- ran. The ‘4bnormal rains which have flooded the country have increased the difficulties of the Turkish troops. : TO MAKE JAPS TALL. Baron Tekaki Has Pian to Increase ¢ National ‘Stature. Philadelphia, . Feb.. 26.—~That Jhe will increase the size of the Japanese race to the normal stature of the Caucasian race by teaching his people how and what to eat, was the declaration made by. Baron Tekaki of Japan at the Uni-: versity of Pennsylvania. Part of the programme for'making the people tall, as he explained it, will consist in mak- ing the children stretch themgelves land use all their muscles, wherever possible, instead of allowing them to squat on the floor in the schoolrooms and in their homes. ~with the p: no:criticism at all, -what. the.president thinks :about Till- FRIEH S PREDICT ITS P{\SbAGE YT o Wwashington, Feb. 26.—President Roosevelt is.said .to be.in’ excellent (-{-spirits:;over.. the favorable'repont. of the ‘Hepburn railroad Tate bill by the aenate committee +OR -inter,state} com- merce. :iiian 2855y 11 i Y'Fhe presxdent is dellghted * is the 'way ‘Representative: Hepburn, the-au- thor ‘of the measure, put it. } % 1%The. president. is, greatly pleased i said Senator: Dolliver; asmember of the i8enate committee, after his conference ‘with: President Roosevelt.: . .. g _ Several. members. of the house and senate:who are: particularly interested in rate-regulation had talks'with the ‘president during ‘the day. Senators Dolliver and Clapp of the senate inter- _Btate commerce oomnmtee and Speak- .er ~Cannon, and - Representative Hep- burn dlscussed iefly the situation dent, " “There Jne gloom around here s remarked Senator Dolliver, as, he was Jeaying . the, executive:, offices., '‘The president is-greatly. pleased .and offers Yes, I believe. the - bill will pass the senate, perhaps with- out amendment. It will go through in i practically its preseqt shape e . “Is_Senator . Tillman | have a con- terence w,lth thg pr@s:@ent about the il b Premnem'l Opmlon of Tlllman. “Iidon’t ‘know;about.that,!t. respond- ed Senator. Dolliver,“but I do, know man....He told.me ten. days.ago that he egarded Tlllma ms ‘ganre. fighter’ discuss the rate sltuatioq,, but adi- cated that the president was gratified - that'the pending measure should have 1 igan, who has been identified with jzate legislation from: the inception of .the propesition, said.after talking to ;the president: ’ “The president is happy. I cannot say he is perfecily satisfied, for per- ;haps he might like to have had some /points of the measure in different shape On the whole, however, he is in fine spirits. In the selection of Sen- ator Tillman, a Democrat, to make the’ report it strikes me that some mem- bers of the:committee, realizing they were defeated, took this means to slap those who were supporting the Hep- burn bill. The prospect for the enact- ment of the measure, I think, is very good.” 4 LONG GIVEN UP FOR LOST. Steamer Dora Reaches Port After Re- markabie Experience. Seattle, Feb. 26.—The little Alaskan steamer Steamship company’s line, which has been missing for upwards of fifty-four days and was given up for lost with all on board, has limped into Port Ange- lus, Wash., having gone 2,000 miles out of her course, and after one of the most remarkable experiences on rec- ord on the Pacific ocean. The Dora was blown out to sea in a fierce gale from the entrance to Cold bay on New Year’s eve and had since been buf- feted about in midocean by storms with no coal on board. She made port with sail. All on board were well and had plenty to eat. LABOR ASKS VETO OF BILL. President Urged to Disapprove Urgent Deficiency Measure. Chicago, Feb. 26.—Labor leaders in Chicago have appealed to President Roosevelt to veto the urgent deficiency bill passed by congress, which abol- {shes the eight-hour workday on the Panama canal. The names of Pres- Adent John Fitzpatrick and Secretary E. N. Nockels of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor were signed to a tele- gram sent to Washington as follows: “Organized labor is unanimously protesting . against the . urgent de- ficiency bill so long as it contains the provision repealing the eight-hour law or any part of it and most respectfully requests a veto.” Duluth Wheat and. Flax. Duluth, Feb. 23.—Wheat—To arrive —No. 1 Northern, 79%¢c; No. 2 North- ern, 77%c. On track—No. 1. Northern, 79%c: No.. 2 Northern, 77%c; May, 81c; July, 82%c. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.13%; May, $1.16%; July, $1.17%; Sept., $1.16. . Dora of the Northwestern -,