Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 28, 1906, Page 4

BATTLE ENDSIN DEATH OF SIX Grusome Discovery Ma(_le by Minneapolis Police in Italian Rooming House This Morning, DEAD MEN WELTERING IN OWN BLOOD Minneapolis, March 28 —Six dead men weltering in their own blood were found this morning by the police in an old building on Tenth avenue south, between Washington avenue and Third street. Four were in the first floor and two in the basement. All had been terribly hacked. Four murderous dirks of razor like keenness and with long, heavy blades, were found. All the bodies were dressed as laborors and the men appeared to be Italians. The house was an Italian lodging place, as the rooms were full of cots. When the police broke dence was presented of a terrible while the beds and walls with ghastly splotches of red. COURT NOW ADJOURNED District Court Term Ended This Afternoon After Short Session. After a session of only eight days, the spring term of district court was adjourned by Judge Spooner at 2:30 this afternoon. It had been expected that the term would end last night, hut a couple of small cases kept the court busy until this afternoon. Another term will be held on April 16 for the purpose of issu- ing naturalization papers. 1n the case of the New England Furniture ‘Co. against Huseby the right of a trial by a jury was waived and the case will be tried in chambers. The case of the Hamm Brewing com- pany against Kincannon was tried and the court will file its findings later. Mrs. A. E. Win- ter won out in her action against the Parker Pen company, which involved a question as to whether sufficient service had been made in a previous action, During the term, which only lasted eight days, seven civil jury cases and one criminal case was tried. Four indictments were returned by the grand jury. The Men,s supper at Masonic Hall tonight. ENGINEERS MEET TONIGHT Sewerage Question Will Be Discussed—Special Meet- ing of Council. The engineers who it is expect- ed will prepare plans for the sewer system to be constructed in this city will hold a meeting this evening at the council rooms, when the matter will be thorough- ly discussed. A special meeting of the council has been called by Mayor Carter and the members of that body will meet with the engineers and take part in the discussion. Eight Jurors Secured. Grand Rapids, March 27— After the examination of ninety- nine veniremen, the jury which is to sit upon the case of George Gardner, held on charge of murder, is still incomplete, A thirty-six hour recess was taken yesterday to give time for the selection of another venire of thirty. Four more men are needed. The third venire will be reported to Judge W. S. Clenahan Wednesday morning, In all probability it will taks at least two days to examine the venire, unless the four men are secured before the venire is exhausted. - One week has al- ready been consumed on the drawing of the jury, which so {ar consists of the following: Thomas Codd, William McKinnen, William Noble, John Brokhan, George Rice, C. V. Mundy, MichaelMcCambridgeand Henry Voke. in all was still but shocking evi- battle. The floor ran with blood DINEHART OUT CANVASSING v "~ Candidate For State Treas- urer in Bemidji Today Building Fences. Clarence C. Dinehart, of Slay- ton, Murray county, candidate for state treasurer, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and is spending the day here. Mr. Dinehart is making his pre-con- vention canvass of the state and has been away from his home town for nearly a month and a half. He astended the Garfield banquet at Duluth and since that time has been making the cities and villages on the Great North- ern line east of Duluth, Speak ing to the Pioneer, Mr. Dinehart stated that he was makingstrictly an affirmative fight and that he had made ne combinations what- ever. Mr. Dinehart,at the termi- nation of his yisit to Bemidji, will go to Bagley and from that vil- |1age to the northwestern portion of the state. SENTENCED TO REFORMATORY % Curtis Franklin of Funkley Pleads Guilty to Charge of Grand Larceny. Curtis Franklin of Funkley, who has been held at the county jail in this city ona charge of grand larceny committed by stealing a watch from the George Newton building at Funkley, this afternoon plead guilty be- fore Judge Spooner and was EEEEEEEEE ECEEEEECEREEE ¥ CORRESPONDENCE X CUNNINGHAM. Cunningham Bros. are logging the M. E. Guptill place for the Stenke-Sidle Lumber company who bougLt the timber. Mrs. Sarah McLean is slowly recovering from her serious illness. Addison Baker of Minneapolis has been visiting relatives and friends in this vicinity the past week. Heis contemplating the probability of establishing a residence at Bemidji. Bart Wood, heretofore one of the reubens of this place, has recently become a Benedict and sentenced to the state reforma- |tory at St. Cloud. Franklin is a young man 2. years of age and was suspected of having a hand in setting fire to the Newton building at Funkley, for which Albert Conat was tried and ac- quitted. No charge ofarson was placed against him, however, the lighter allegation of grand lar- ceny being substituted. Supper Successful. The men’s supper of the M, E. church was a pronounced suc- cess last evening, numerically, financially and socially, and we hereby extend our sincere thanks to those who so generously pat- ronized us and to those who furnished music and amusement for the people and to all who con- tributed in any way to the suc- cess of the evening. Table clothes and cake plates uncalled for may be found at the parsonage. Committee. BEGINS AT PHILADELPHIA, First Rebate Case Ever Tried in This Country. Philadelphia, March 28.—The first rebate case to come to trial in this country, in which the defendants are charged with giving and accepting re- bates in violation of the Elkins law, began: during the day in the United is here now repairing the cabin for the newly made bride. Dr. Freeburg came out from Blackduck and spent two days doing dental work for the ladies at the Cunningham residence. We can recommend him to any who require such service. Miss Jessie Rose is now with her ‘sister-in-law at [dle Wild Villa. Dan Rose came home for a short visit last week. He reports the pulp business as booming every where he has teen. Judge Utley of Montivideo, Miun,, returned home tpday af- ter spending several days in these parts transacting business. Henry Cunningham has a fine new graphophone. Logs are being landed in Island Lake very rapidly, also on shore for vustom sawing. Miss Elizabeth Stumpf now teaching our district school is doing good work, giving general satisfaction. Miss Catherine Cunningham was given a surprise party and her father presented her with a solid gold watch on her 20th birthday, which came last week. There is no indication of the roads giving out as the snow is quite evenly distributed and the hauling is carried on the same as ever, Mrs. Vietor Fish who has been ill since the burning of their States court here before Judge Hol- land. ‘The indictments to be presented to the jury are those against the Great Northern Railway company, which is charged with offering re- bates to R. D. Wood & Co. of this city; C. E. Campbell, its local agent; L. W. Lake, New York agent for the Mutual Transit company; Walter Stuart, George and Richard Wood, members of the firm of R. D. Wood & Co., and Paul J. Diver, local agent for the Mu- tual Transit company, who is charged with offering a bribe to the National Essence of Coffee company. The rebate in the Wood case, it is zharged, was given on a shipment of 1,300 tons of iron pipe from Florence, N. J., and Camden, N. J, to Winnipeg, in October, 1904, and 200 tons from Emaus, Pa., to the same point. The published rate was 49% cents per 100 pounds, but it is charged the firm ob- tained a rate of 44% cents. The ship- ments were made over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to Fairport, O., thence by’ the Mutual Transit com- pany across the Great Lakes to Du- luth and thence by the Great North- ern to Winnipesg. AlIrea Anderson was run down and killed by a train while walking on the Minneapolis “and St. Louis railroad tracks near Hopkins, Minn. Emperor Francis Joseph has ap- proved the appointment of Charles Francis to be ambassador of the Unit- ed States to Austria-Hungary. The Marden theater, the largest playhouse in Meriden, Conn., was burned Tuesday morning. The loss is expected to reach $200,000. The - Seattle- (Wash.) city council has granted the application of the Chi- property, is convalescing. Mr. McHenry is visiting with “Hipe” Winas and Mr, Welsh for a few days. E O. Cunningham, whose claim was contested last summer through evidence misconstrued, has appealed from the Cass Lake decision to the General Land Office at Washington. His friends feeling that heis being defrauded of his rightful claims have sent to the general land commissioner at Washington a remonstrance against-such dealings with a man who has served so faithfully the cause of this new country and lived up to the requirements of the homestead law with no other intention but to make it of personal benefit to himself, be lieying that the transaction all through has been unjust and in no way called for. Land for a Sanitarium, ‘Washington, March 28.—Senator Nelson has secured the passage through the senate of the bil! -grant- ing to the state of Minnesota a tract of land in the state for use as a sani- tarium for consumptive patients. This bill was passed in the house at the re- quest of Representative Davis. Higher License in Ohio. Columbus, 0., March 28.—The Aiken bill, increasing the liquor tax through- out Ohio from $350 to. $1,000, has passed the senate by a vote of 25 to 11. -, This makes it practically a law, as Governor Pattison is known to cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad for a franchise to enter that city. Mrs. Sarah J. Wheeler, mother of Mrs. Robert Wilcox (Ella Wheeler ‘Wilcox), is dead at Short Beach, Conn., at the age of.ninety-two.years. Daniel F. Spires, a well known ex- slave, who purchased his-freedom in | 1 the sum of $600, is dead near xville. O.. at the age: 3 vears. favor it and will sign the measure. St. Paul Union Stock Yar St. Paul, March 27.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $4.50@5.50; common to' fair, $3.60@4.25; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.25@4. veals, $2.00@ choicé lambs, State Librarian Here Baby Dead. Reports Erroneous. Jesse James act is also denied by Miss M. A. Baldwin, state| The one-year-old adopted| A report circulated about the|Cass Lake people. librarian, arrived in the city to- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. city last night to the effect that day from St. Paul. Miss Baldwin | Newby died yesterday forenoon |a shooting affair had occurred at is on a tour of inspection of the |t 11o’clock. The funeral was|Cass Lake and that one man had 4 & i blete returns from the .city electi Dublic librarics throushout: the held from the residence this af-|teen killed was investigated by |ive Mayor W. G. Sears, Denmcmm: e o i % ternoon, Rev. Thos. Broomfield | the Pioneer this afternoon and |plurality of 260 over P. A. Sawyer, state and will make a thorough!,s ¢he Baptist church officiating, | proved erroneous. The recent Rep‘{:l’l'““s e Fen fonlicansed jam! a examination of the library inand the remains were interred in | report of a hold-up at Cass Lake fhe g:,:]gbung;g:;esm T;.Z Zfi,anfi (;; Bemidji. Greenwood cemetery. in which a woman played the Victory for Open Town. Sioux City, la, March 28—Com- evenly divided. Formal OPENING/ Of Spring Millinery @ Dry Goods | Thursday & Friday March 29-30 i_- We take pleasure in presenting an elaborate | exhibit of Fashions, most exquisite produc- | tions in hngh class EASTER GLOVES ~ BELTS, NECKWEAR Our Opening Display of Magnificent Spring Apparel in Tailored Suits, 3-4 length coats, silk coats of distinctive styles including most bhandsomely trimmed novelties. Jaunty covert jackets, full length stylish raincoats, furnishes a. most com- plete and elatborate assortment whxch will un- questionably appeal s To the Most Crntncal Taste Distinction In style and beauty always mark our garments } New Easter Waists Skirts An array of waists shqwing the pro- | A variety of dress and walking skirts § duction of the best waist makers in iy oxquisite styles, latest decrees, the | America. Taffeta, Crepe De Chine . : . 8 waists, soft habitary waists, lingerie n.e?v Voile and white Panama and Ci- waists, in the new colored check at |cilian are of special interest. extraordinary values. New Spring Dress Goods New Spring Silks In Dress Goods our display includes |In our excellent assortment of Easter every conceivable fabric upon which |sjlks you will find just what you J fashion has placed it’s seal of approv- want for your suit, waist, & trimmi al. We have made ample prepara- FORE S0, walst, & teimming tions for our enormous Spring and Summer trade, in that as in every Shoes and Oxfords other line we carry. We offer by far | gy Easter shoe display surpasses It WEn supecior S aisoretent. anything heretofore shown in Bemidiji You will find our large assortment.of in style, quality and price. When out | LACE CURTAINS worthy of your In- fy,ving your own or your children’s § spection and to your interest to ex- o amine before making your spring shoes it will give us pleasufe to show selection. you through our line. AS A MARKED APPRECIATION OF YOUR VALUED PATRONAGE which we have enjoyed, we endeavor to make this Spring Opening a pleasure to the Ladies’ of Bemidji and vicinity. WE WILL HOLD AN INFORMAL RECEIPTION in our new and handsomely stocked-up quarters. Friday Evening from 7 o’clock, Refreshments will be Served, while the Or- chestfa ’wil’l render Pleasing Music. Cordial Invitations Extended to all by BERMAN EMPORIUM, F FIRST NATIONAL BANK