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

VOLUME 3. NUMBER 291 BEMIDJ], MINNFSOTF MONDAY APRIL 2, 1906. REGULAR TROOPS NOW ON DUTY Street:Car Strike Situation at Winnipeg Becomes Still More Threat- ening. CARS CALLED OUT TO PREVENT RIOT Winnipeg, Man.,, April 2.—The rifles assumed control of the main strike situation is rapidly acquiring; streets. The regulars lined up at the grave proportions. The mob assumed ; corner of Higgins and Main streets such a threatening attitude that the With fixed bayonets. This did not awe the crowd#which regulars were called out a}ld a detach- attacked. & car..attempting to pull off ment of the Royal Canadian mounted Douglas Shoes for men, $3 to $5.00 Scharood Shoes for men, $2.75 to $5.00 Cruising Shoes for men, $3 to $6 50 vme ReEs Strar Pingree Shoes for women’s wear, $3 to $5 Selz Shoes for women’s wear, $1.50 to $2.50 Ladies’ Outing 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 0’Leary & Bowser INTENTION Al 3 then redd the riot act amid the hoots and jeers of the crowd. The soldiers then'load- ed with “ball cartridge and, the mob failing 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 off at 6 p. m. and this no doubt prevented bloody riots as the crowd is in a vio- lent mood. b 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. ‘When the cars stopped running the mob quieted down somewhat and: the militia was called off the streets, much to the relief of the peace loving citizens,” who feared the dire results that would have followed an order to fire, FOR FORGING REBATES CRIMINAL 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 ship- 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 ctiminal 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- plated by the commission to examine ‘certain witgesses 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 perpetrated. These latter hearings will be conducted some time during the month of April. A member of the 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 next 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 affray has occurred at Henin-Lietard. A striker was Kkilled, three gendarmes were wounded, houses were sacked and |, windows were broken. Over 30,000 strikers are puradhlg and have engaged in riotous manifes-| tations. A thousand additional troops have arrived here. The parliamentary committee 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 coast of Ireland, 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 fis 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 to receive 40 cents an hour, an in- creage of 314 cents. & ¢ DIIPI ICATE CYDNACQIIDE HALF MILLION MEN 0UT STRIKE OF ALL UNION MINERS IN THE COUNTRY HAS GONE 2 INTO EFFECT. SOME OPERATORS WILL SIGN SCALE PCRTION OF THE STRIKERS EX- PECTED.TO. RESUME WORK IN A FEW DAYS. Indianapolis, - April 2—The na- tional executive board of the United Mine Workers of America held a meet- Ing during the day to take up in detail ihe management of the strike, which went into eftect in the anthracite and bituminous coal-districts of the coun- try at the close of work Saturday. Men numbering 509,800 left the mines Saturday evening not to return till their employers have signed the ‘wage scale demanded by the miners in national convention, In the Central competitive district, composed of Illi- nois, 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 .of the operators of Western Pennsylvania within twenty- | four ‘hours. No formal strike order was issued, but 'at the close of work and will not return until:the scale has been signed by the operators and they have been so notified the district officials. Meniber that every step-: taken tp prevent v mal declaration, ding rioting or and urging then themselves probgl Members of were in favor mines to contin the operators wo the wages denal SUSPENSION Pittsburg_Distric district- convention resumed its- ses- slons- during the afternoon. It is ¥ garded as certain that the convention will voteto work in the Pittsburg Coai company’s mines under the conditions laid down at the national convention -The advance of a little over 5 cents a ton will “give the emploves of the Pittsburg Coal company $120,000 more a month in wages. As' the old scale has expired there 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. Louis, 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 1,600 men. Having no facilities tor storing a large amount of coal to meet the strike emergency it was decided not to attempt to continue operations WiLL MAKE SEPARATE DEALS. 8oft 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 ators. IN ALLEGED BOODLE CASE. Arkansas State Senator Ordered. to° Answer Questions. Little "Rock, Ark., April 2.—The supreme. court has handed down an opinion affirming ‘the action of the Butt to answer certain questions pro- pounded -by-the grand jnry concerning alleged. ‘“boodle” 'tramsactions -during the last legislature. Butt is under in- dictment charged with acceptinyg bribes. He declined to answer ques- tions, -claiming his right under the constitution not to answer questions that would incriminate himself. POVERTY. CAUSE OF TRAGEDV St. Louis Machlmat Kills His Wife -and Himself. ~ St. Louis, il 2.—Martin Giese- bell, a, machinist, aged sixty vyears, shot his wife, aged fifty vears, mor- tally wounding her, and then killed himself. Neighbors hearing the shots | 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 poverty and inability to meet a street improvement assessment. 5 Accused of M mng Fuud. + Wilkesbarre, Pa. rants were issued -duri n@t‘h} u’i ‘the arrest of J. D. Shl!a the men left the mines with their tools | whenever it is offered by the oper- ! ‘| geles, Cal,, charging' them with false all points. lower court in requiring State Senator : [ tional politics on any one but them- pretense and with defraudimg some sixty men of this vicinity out of $60,- 000 which they invested in the Joa- quina Gold Mining company. Two Men Crushed to Death. ‘Reed City, Mich., April 2.—Plato ‘| Lacey and C. F. Bollacker, a ‘mer- shant, were crushed to death under the falling wall of a burning three-story prick building here and™ it is feared that several other persons may also have been caught under the walls. Burglars Secure $5,000. Bridgeport; Conm., April 2.—The general store of C. M. Hatch, in which the postoffice i8 located, was broken into and robbed early in the day, the robbers getting $5,000 in money and stamps, TR Governor Pattison of Ohio continues to improve, but his doctors-will not say that he will.recover. z| LONG DISPUTE ENDED ALGECIRAS CONFERENCE ON MO- ROCCO REACHES AN AGREE- MENT ON ALL POINTS. QUTCOME FAVORABLE TO FRANCE PRACTICALLY CONTROLS POLICE AND HOLDS MOST SHARES IN MOROCCAN BANK. Algeciras, Spain, April 2.—The |, committee of the conference on Moroc: can reforms reached an agreement on ¢ -This agreemept was sanc- iference in the afternoon. ‘The complete accord resulted from T_éong conterence held between M. il, head of the French mission, ‘ount von Tattenbach of the Ger- 0 The division and. the ces Teumna nnd La Franco-Spanish mixed po- established at Casa Blanca and a French police force have charge of Mogoboor, azagam and Rabat. This gives France four . Atlaptic ports:” The duration of this ice agreement was fixed at five years. - 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. ONLY ONE FRIEND 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- eign 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, Spain and Russia the Germans throughout the long controversy have been compelled to recognize, that they have not a friend in Europe except Austria. The triple alliance failed to hold Italy to the support of Germany. The strain of these months revealed that Italy is 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- tion .of its term, but the reliance of Germany on the constancy of Italy has been shaken for the present. Russia also, upon whom Germany counted as remaining neutral in the discussions of the Moroccan question, has been against her. Germany, however, it is pointed out, regards it as a great gain to learn they cannot rely in interna- IN EUROPE. nelves and Austria. - Respecting Morocco itself Germany has secured equal trade for the future and has checked for' some years the development of Freneh political de- signs. The losses sustained by Germany, and they are deemed great ones by those who are‘opposed to her Meroc- can policy, are’that a reconciliation with Frante has been delayed indefi- nitely, while France and Great Britaia lave been pressed closely together in their m\mlal dislike of Germany. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, March 31.—Cattle--B " $6.00@6.25; cows and heilers, § @ 5.20; stockers and feeders, $2.80@ 4.75. Hogs—Mixed and butcheis, $6.25 © @6.50; ' good . heavy, $6.40@6.47% rough: heavy, $6.25@6.85; light, $6.25 @6.50; pigs, $6.75@6.30. Sheep, $3.25 @6.25; yearlings, $5.75@6.35; lambs, $5.00@6. 65. Chicage Grain and Provisions. Chicago, March 31.—Wheat-—-May, TT% @T7%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. But- er—Ci alries, 15 Poultry—Tut- | recommended thie establishment of a Truesdale Committe Finds They Were Due to Ambition of the Management. FOREIGN MANAGEMEFM IS CRITISED FEAR UNJUST TREATMENT. Unions Attack Municipal | Ownership. Chicage, 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- nine unions and representing 33,000 building craftsmen in Chicago. In the resolutions it was charged |; that’ Mayor Dunne and the council fuance committee have refused to | make provision for the payment of standard wages to mechanics i) employ of the city despite the receip of numerous. requests from lnbor Shicago consideration: and .. memb Street: Railway Employ requested to make a tho gatlon of muniecipal o street raflways before si operation of such a a plan Agent of Bridge Trus! Sandusky, 0., April Reed has s2ntenced Henry Fremont, agent of the Massl company, to pay a fine of the costs of his prosecution called bridge trust case in (¥ | was convicted of violating [tine anti-trust, law. - The costs will amount to-about. $500. NOT CONSIDERED EXPEDIENT. No.Indictments as Result of Ohio In- vestigation. Cincinnati, April 2—The grand jury which has been investigating the rayment of gratuities and interest to county treasurers by bauks in which public funds were deposited reported during the d: 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 ju expedient to bring any indictments in connection with the matte HELD TO THE GRAND JURY. Faith Curist May Face Trial for:Death:lp of Young Gir Philadelphia, April 2. Ankins, pastor of Faith tabernacle, been held in $2,000 bail for the ac| of the grand jury by Corgner Jermi as an accessory before the facf 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 allezed, her par- ents being followers of Ankins, who is a “faith curist.” ' After the death of the child about a month ago Ankius disappeared, but surrendered a few days ago. KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF. Minnesota Man Strangles Spotise, 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- tion and on March 3 he was arrested In Mankato and was afterwards turned over to the North Mankato offi- cers on a charge of “assaulting his wife. The fudge imposed a fine and allowed him to go home. A note found in the dead man’s pocket read as fol- lows: “Whoever may read this will know “hat I killed myself on account of m)’ ~ife:and a man; hy the name of Rome.” Sheriff Thomas E. Barrett is dead at Chicago after a lingering illnesa from a cancerous affection of the throat. Before being elected to the off.ce of sheriff in 1904 Mr. Barrett ‘was a prominent member of the board of trade. Gangrosa, a tropical disease more repulsive than leprosy, has become so prevalent upon the island of -Guam that. Tdeutonant M¢Namee, U. S. N, the acting governor of the island, has ‘hospital for islation of the disease. | 1. Truesdale and John W. Auchincloss, esley 4 ‘the premature publication of New York, April 2.—The special committee of the (rustees of the Mu- tual Life Insurance company appointed to examine into the company’s affairs made public its fifth report during the day. The committee consists of W. another member, Stuyvesant Fish, hav- ing resigned. The committee finds that its investigation thus far leads it to belieye “that the troubles which have befallen the Mutual Life com- the writing of deferred dividend pol- icles be discontinued. VISIT. PURELY PERSONAL. Archbishop Ireland ‘Denies Repofis Concerning Trip to Rome. Rome, April’ . 2.—Archbishop Ire- land is most annoyed about the re- ports circulating in the United States. concerning his visit to Rome. He sald: “I came here simply for my regular visit ‘ad limina.’ It is especially un- true that I am acting as the represen- tative of the American government in the settlement of Philippine affairs with the Vatican. My work here is purely personal and has no public sig- nificance - whatsoever. Everywhere and from everybody I receive such marked demonstration of cordiality that it delighfs.me. I consider them to be addressed to my country and to the clersy towhich I belong.” he archbishop expects to remain in Wflnfil after Easter. ‘TO SUE STANDARD OIL. ttorney - General of Wisconsin Will Soon Begin an Action.’ Milwaukee, April 2. — Attorney General Sturdevant of Wisconsin ad mits taat he is about to bring proceed ings against the Standard Oil 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 this would spoil the case. GO TO POLLS ON RAFTS. Flocd Does Not Prevent Voting in lowa Town. Elkport, Ja., April 2—Even a flood that drove two-thirds of the residents of this village from their homes and put 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- Uons in order to reach the polls and register their votes in the spirited contest. These improvised crafts were Towed to the :city hall and ladders Were provided to' reach the -second story, where the polling booths were sltuated Twenty~!hret Persons Injured. Fort Wayne, Ind., April 2.—As eastbound Nickel - Plate passenger train No. 2 was approaching the town of South Whitley the smoker, day coach and five sleepers left the track and turned over in the ditch, injuring twenty-three persons, one fatally. Only the baggage car and the rear trucks of the dining car remained on the track. Many Delegates Present. Duluth, April 2.—Delegates from the states of Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota,, including several ministers and workers in the mission fields, are attending the fifth annudl convention of the Finnish Bap- tist Mission union of America, which is now in session In this city. .-