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

VOLUME 3. NUMBER 291 REGULAR TROOPS NOW ON DUTY Street Car Strike Situation at Winnipeg Becomes Still More Threat- CARS CALLED OUT TO PREVENT RIOT rifles dssuried control of the main The regulars lined up at the corner of Higgins and Main streets with fixed bayonets. This did not awe the crowdiwhich attacked a car..attempting to pull off strike situation ds rap!dlv acqmrmg streets. grave proportions, The mob assumed | such a threatening attitude that the regulars were called out and a detach- ment of the Royal Canadian mounted Douglas Shoes for men, $3 10 $5.00 Scharood Shoes for men, $2.75 to $5.00 Cruising Shoes for men, $3 to $6.50 Pingree Shoes for women’s wear, $3 to $5 Shoes for women’s wear, $1.50 to $2.50 Ladies’ Quting Boots, $5.50 to $6.50 Little Giant Shoes for Child- ren, $1.25 to $2.50 American Shoes for Boy's & Youths, $2.50 and $2.25 Rubber boots:---Men’s Wo- men’s Boy’s, Youths, Misses,” Children’s the crew. Mayor’ SHarpe then' r&&d -the riot act amid the hoots and jeers of the crowd. The soldiers then'load- ed with “ball cartridge and, the mob| ° falling to disperse, a charge with'fixed bayonets was ordered. This had the necessary- effect in Keeping back the wildly excited gang. : The few cars that were operated during’ the day were called oft at 6 p. m. and this no doubt prevented bloody riots as the crowd is in a vio- lent mood. The feature of the 'day’s disturb- ances wis the arrest of two private detectives for assault. One of them attacked Mayor- Sharpe and City So- licitor Hunt, not knowing who they were. 2 ‘When the’ cars stopped running the mob quieted down someéwhat and: the militia was called off the streets, mtch to the relief of the peace loving citizens, wha feared the dire results that would have followed an order to fire, FOR FBHGING REBATES CR(M!NAL PROCEEDINGS TO ‘BE ASKED AGAINST BIG EAST- ERN SHIPPERS. RESULT OF COMMISSION'S HEARING DRASTIC ACTION NECESSARY TO STOP THE PRACTICE OF UN- DERBILLING. ‘Washington, April 2.—As a result of the investigation in New York city by the interstate commerce commis- “ion of alleged underbilling and dis- _rimination of goods by various shig- pers it was stated at the offices of the commission that the present intention is to certify .the cases to the depart- ment of justice for ‘Gifminal proceed- ings with the view to bringing about indictments. This action, however, will be deferred until after the com- mission has conducted further hear- ings in other cities, where, it is al- leged, similar unlawful acts have been committed. At present it is contem- - blated by the commission to examine "certaln witpesses in Buffalo and Phil- adelphia, where, it is-said;frauds of equal, if not greater, magnitude ‘than _those alleged to have been committed ir New.'York and vicinity have been berpetrated. These latter hearings will be conducted some time during the month of April. A member of thé commission said that it was the deter- mination of the commission so far as possible to break up the practice. . and that it was their belief that this.could be done only through drastic-action in the courts. lowa Operators May Fay Scale. Des Moines, April 2—At a joint. session of Iowa Mine - Workers and operators scale committees were ap- pointed to meet in Des Moines next Tuesday to agree upon the wage scale for the mext two years. This.action means that the 1903 scale will prob- ably be accepted by the operators of Iowa, with only the details to be ar- ranged. Hard Coal Prices Advance. Philadelphia, April 2.—Coal prices were advanced 25 and 50 cents a ton here during the day. Domestic. sizes sold for not less than $7 a ton and in some cases $6 was demanded and re- ceived for pea coal. Even at this in- creased price coal was delivered to the purchasers in small quantities only. FRENCH STRIKE RENEWED. Thirty Thousand: Miners in Riotous Demonstration. : Lens, France, April 2.—The strike is being renewed throughout the min- ing region. A sanguinary aftray has oceurred at Henin-Lietard. A striker was Kkilled, three gendarmes were wounded, houses were sacked and | Windows were broken. Over 30,000 strikers are parading| and have engaged in riotous manifes- | tations. A thousand addltional troops have arrived here. The parliamentary committse dur- ing the day began its investigation here into the catastrophe of: March 10 and the strikers made demonstrations before .the committee’s. headquarters. WIRELESS 'ACROSS ' OCEAN. Messages Sent From Coney Island to Coast ‘of Ireland. New York, April 2.—According to the statements ‘of employes and. offi- cers of a wireless ‘telegraph system 572 words were flashed across the At- lantic ocean from Coney Island to the | | st coast of Iretand,. a: distance of 3,200 miles, without the use of cables, wires .or_any other medium than the at- mosphere Wednesday night: “This transatlantic achievement is regarded as marking the greatest for- ward step yet taken in the department of telegraphy without wires. Benefits Six Thousand Men. Chicago, April 2.—Six thousand building laborers will be benefitted by an agreement which has been entered into between representatives of the Employing Plasterers’ association and the Hod Carriers and Building Labor- ers’ union. By the terms of the new agreement, the plasterers’ laborers-are PECTED.TO. RESUME WORK N A FEW DAYS, Indianapolis, - April ing during t! went inta 8ffect in the anthracite and try.-at the close of work Saturday. Men numbering 509,500 left the mines Snurday evening not to return till thelr employerB have signed the wage fcale demanded by the miners in national convention. In the Central competitive distriet, composed of Illi- nofs, Indiana, Ohio and Western Penn- sylvania, it is anticipated by members of the national executive board that the scale would be signed in all proba. bility by some (0f the operators of ‘Western Pennsylvania within twenty- four hours. No formal strike order was_issued; but '8t the close of work the men left the mines with thelr tools | and will not return un {lthe scale has been signed by have been .80 not officials. that every stel taken tp preven) mal declaration.. ding rioting or and urging thengs themselyves prol Members of were in favor pumprien, labor would be neces | mines to contin the operators wi the wages demas SUSPENSION Pittsburg Distr L " Work Shottly. Pittsburg, _April: 2--The. miners. district conventlon “resumed - its- ses- slon# during the afternoon. It is re- garded as certain that the convention will vote:to work in the Pittsburg Coal company’s mines under the conditions lajd down at the ‘national convention. -The advance of a little over 5 cents a ton will ‘give the employes of the Pittsburg Coal company $120,000 more a month in wages. As' the old scale has expired thexe will prohably be a brief suspension of work. at many mines in this district pending the formal signing and rati fication of the new scale. RESULT OF COAL STRIKE. Republic Steel Company’s Plant ai East St. Louis Closes. East St. Louls, Ill, April 2—The Republic Steel company suspended op- erations during the day, the announce- ment being made that the suspension is due to the impending coal strike situation. The plant uses 500 cars of anthracite coal a month and employs 1,500 men. Having no facilities for storing a large amount of coal to meet the strike emergency it was decided not to attempt to continue operations WILL MAKE SEPARATE DEALS. Soft Coal Miners Agree to Treat With Individual Operators. Indianapolis, April 2—The na- tional = convention of United Mine Workers adopted a resolution offered by President Perry of Illinols permit- ting the miners to sign the 1903 scale ‘whenever it is offered by the oper- | ators. IN ALLEGED BOODLE CASE. State Senator Ordered. to Answer Questions. Little ‘Rock, Ark., ‘April 2—The Arkansas ‘| 'supreme. court has hzmded down an opinion - affirming ‘the action of the lower court in requiring State Senator Butt to answer certain questions pro- pounded -by-the grand jury concerning alleged. “boodle!” 'transactions daring the last legislature. Butt is under in- dictment charged ~with accepting bribes. - He declined to answer ques- tions, claiming his right' under the constitution not to answer questions that would incrimlm\te himself. 3 POVERTY. CAUSE OF TRAGEDV. D, Lbllll Machinist Kllls His_ Wife ~and, Himself. ~ . St. Louis, April 2--Martin Giese- bell, a) machinist, aged sixty years, shot his wife, aged fifty vears, mor- tally wounding her, and then killed himself. rushed ‘into the house and found the ‘woman unconscious and - apparently dying. Giesebell lay near her dead, still clasping the revolver in his hand. The cause assigned for the tragedy is improvement assessment. SOME OPERATORS WILL SIGN SCALE PORTION OF THE STRIKERS EX- 2—The na- tional executive board of the United Mine Workers of America held a meet- -day to take up in detail ihe management of the strike, which bituminous coal districts of the coun- SUTCOME FAVORKBLE TO FRANCE] - ports;~ The duration of this’ agreement was, fixed at five yvears. —_— & friend in Europe except Austria. triple- alliance failed to hold Italy to of these months revealed that Italy is tion ,of its term, but the reliance of Germany on the constancy of Italy has been shaken for the present. also, upon whom Germany counted as of the Moroccan question, has been against, her. pointed out, regards it as a great gain |- to learn they cannot rely in interna: | tional politics on any one but them- | fiai seontodialilial tride for the future - and has checked for' some years the development of Freneh pauncal de- with Frante lias been' delayed indefi- have: beén pressed closely together in " $6.00@6.26; ‘cows and heilers, $1.60@ :5.20; stockers and. feeders, $2.80@ | in the dead man’s pocket read as fol- _ n 4.75. Hogs—Mixed and butches, $6.25 | lows: . Fort Wayne, ‘Ind., April 2.—As @6.50;° good: heayy, $6.40@647%; | “Whoever may read this will know | 62stbound Nickel = Plate passenger Neighbors hearing the shots poverty and inability to meet a street Lacey and' C. F. Bollacker, a mer- shant, were crushed to death under the falling wall of a burning threestory brick building here and™ it is feared that several other persons may also have been caught under the walls. Burglars Secure $5000: Bridgeport, Conn., April 2—The general store'of C. M. Hateh, in which the: postoffice 18 located, was broken into’ and robbed early in the day, the robbers getting $5,000 in money and stamps. FOREIGN MANAGEMEFM IS CRITISED ntinues : not Governor Pattison of to improve, but his docto say that he will.recover. I_ONG DISPUTE ENBE" FEAR UNJUST TREATMENT. Shicago Unlont Attack Munlelpal Ownership. ~Chicago, April 2.—Strong ' resolu- tions threatening a strike of 500 city employes and attacking municipal ownership of street railways were passed at a meeting of the Associated Building Trades, composed of twenty- A i nine unions and representing 33,00 lien -t , 5 | " New York, April 2—The special committee of the trustees of the Mu- Itunl Life Insurance company appointed ‘to exa.mina to the company’s affairs R AR TR O SRS ALGECIRAS CONFERE,NCE ‘ON MO- ROCCO REACHES AN AGREE- MENT ON ALL POINTS. building craftsmen in Chicago. PRACTICALLY: CONTROLS POLICE AND HOLDS MOST SHARES IN MOROCCAN BANK. * smploy of the. cu; of numerou: Algeciras, Spain, committee of the conferen consideration:‘and -.me: Street: Railway Employi requested to make a thol gation of municipal street railways before si : | " | operation of such a plan § The division and, the | 2™ uch a plan ports of Morocco was llows: ices Teutana and La franco-Spanish mixed po- stablished at Casa Blanca iand a French police force ve charge of Mogoboor, n the afternoon. ete accord resulted from ence held between M. of ‘the French mission, Agent of Bridge Trus Sandusky, 0. April Reed has s2ntenced Henry] Fremont, agent of the Mass| company, to pay a fine of the costs of his prosecutionili called bridge trust case in | was convicted of violating tHi 1 [tine antitrust, Jaw.. The costs wfll amount: to-about $500: the wr ting ar deferred dlvidend pol- icles be discontinued, - The”settlement of the question of the State- bank of Morocco. . gives France three shares, including: those of the French syndicate. The other nations have one share. Four bank supervisors will be appointed by the Bank of England, the Bank of France; the Imperial bank of Germany and the Bank of Spain, VISIT.. PURELY ' PERSONAL. NOT . CONSIDERED EXPEDIENT. Archbishop " Ireland “Denies Repofts L& Concerning Trip to-Rome. Rome, April”. 2.—Archbishop Ire- land’ is most aunoyed about the re- ports circulating in the United States. concerning his visit to Rome. He said: “I came here simply for my regular visit ‘ad limina.’ It is especlally un- true that I am acting as the represen- tative of the American government in the settlement of Philippirie affairs with the Vatican. My work here is purely personal and has no public sig- = whatsoever. Everywhere everybody I receive such marked demonstration of cordiality that it delighfs. me. I consider them to be addressed"to my country and to t Avhich T belons.” 3 bishop expects to remain in after Easter. No-indictments as Result of Ohio In. vestigation. Cincinnati, April 2—The gtand Jjury which has been investigating the rayment of gratuities and interest to county treasurers by banks in which public funds ‘were deposited reported duriang the day. No indictments were returned, the jury stating- that the banks were equally guilty with those receiving the money, but that as the money was being recovered by the proper officials it was not, in the opin- ion of the grand jury, expedient to bring any indictments in connection with the matter. ONLY ONE FRIEND IN EUROPE. Germany Learns Much at the Alge- ciras: Conference. Berlin, April: 2-—The- gains and losses due to Germany’s Moroccan pol- icy are being reckoned up at the for- elgn office. That it is Germany’s pur- pose to be consulted when other pow- ers are arranging the future of weak states is now regarded as established. In face of the diplomatic resistance of France, Great Britain, Italy, Spaln and Russia the Germans throughout the| - long controversy have been compelled to recognize, that they have not a The s a—— HELD TO THE GRAND .JURY. £ 111 i Faith Curist May Face Trial for:Deatl of Young Girl: Philadelphia, April 2. esle! Ankins, pastor of Faith tabernacle, h been held in $2,000 bail for the acji of the grand jury by Corgner Jefm as an accessory before the f4c¢ in the death of Grace Bates, a child who died of typhoid fever . When Grace Bates was stricken she was not given med- ical attention, it is alleged, her par- ents being followers of Ankins, who is ! 1270 SUE STANDARD OIL. #forney - General of Wisconsin Will Soon Begin an Action.” _Milwaukee, April 2. — Attorney General Sturdevant of Wisconsin ad mits toat he is about to bring proceed ings against the Standard Ofl com- pany in Wisconsin. ' He confirmed the story published in St. Louis that he, among the attorneys general of severai other states, will begin proceedings. Mr. Sturdevant refuses to discuss the evidence he has obtained, but declares it is enough to possibly oast the Stand- ard people from Wisconsin. He says the premature publication of this ‘would spoil the case. - the support of Germany. The strain in secret agreement with France and the triple ‘alliance, although existing as hefore on parchment, is considered to be virtually ended. Diplomacy may. reconstruct the alliance at the expira- a “faith curist.” After the death of the child about a month ago Ankins disappeared, days ago. but surrendered a few Russia remaining' neutral in the discussions| KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF. Minnesota Man Strangles Spouse, Then Suicides by Shooting. Mankato, Minn., April 2.—Mrs. Martin Ratus, a well known resident of Nicollet. county, was strangled to death by her husband, Martin Ratus, at their home on the Schumacher farm near North Mankato. Ratus then shot and killed himself. Ratus was a bricklayer by trade and was about forty years of age. His wife was forty-two years old. A wal- let containing $300 in currcacy was found in the inside pocket of Ratus’ vest. Ratus was of a quarrelsome disposi- Germany, however, it is Go TO POLLS ON RAFTS. elves and Austria. ‘Respecting Morocco itself Germany Flocd Does Not Prevent Votmq in lowa Town. i Elkport, Ta, April 2—Even a flood (hat drove twmthlrds of the residents of this village from thei.r homes and Dput some of the houses under six feet of water did not prevent the local elec- ‘tion from being held. Rafts were used by the members of the opposing fae- tions in order to reach the polls and reg:stetr ;heh— votes in the spirited contes 'hese improvised crafts were their mutual dislike of Germany. f"‘““figgk‘;’t‘omx‘g 3 B e et et | rowed to the icity hall and ladders . oo Unfon Stock veuds | turned over to the North Mankato ofi-| Wete Provided to' reach the -second Chicago Un(son Stock Yards. cers on a charge of -assaulting his| StO¥, Where. the ‘polling ‘booths were Chicago, March 31.—Cattle-Beoves, | wite, The fudge imposed a fine and | Sltuated. allowed him (o go home. A note found signs. The losses suslained by Germimy, and they are deemed great omes by those who are/opposed to her Moroc- can policy, arexthat a reconciliation nitely, while France and Great Britaia " Twenty-thres. Persons Injured, train No. 2 was approaching the town of South Whitley the smoker, day coach and five sleepers left thé track and turned over in the ditch, injuring twenty-three Dpersons, one fatally. Only Lhe baggage car and the rear trucks of ‘the dining car remained.on the track. rough: heavy, $6.25@6.35; light, $6.25 @6.50; pigs, $5.75@6.30. Sheep, $3.25 @6.25; yearlings, $5.75@6.35; lambs, $5.00@6. 65. C_hlcano Grain arnd Provisions. Chicago, March 31.—Wheat-—May, 1% @17%c; July, 76% @76%¢c. Corn —May, 44%c; July, 443;@44%c. Oats —May, 30%c; July, 29% @29%c. Pork ~—May, $16.25; July, $16.16@16.17%. Flax — Cash, Northwesterr, $1.12; Southwestern, $1.06; May, $1.14. —Creameries, “hat [ killed myself on account of my sifeiand a man by the name of Rome.” Sheriff Thomas E. Barrett is dead at Chicago after a lingering illness | from a cancerous -affection of = the " throat. Before being elected to the office of sheriff in 1904 Mr. Barret! was a prominent member of the board of trade. E Duluth, April 2—Delegates from ‘Gangrosa, a fropical disease more|the states- of Massachusel Tepulsive than leprosy, has become s0 Ml"ch\'gan ‘and ‘Minnesutn, _the island of Many Delegates Present. DNEEEr