Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 14, 1906, Page 1

VOLUME 4. NUMBER 48 PRESIDENT’S UNCLE IS DEAD AT RIPE OLD AGE R. B. ROOSEVELT WAS DEMOCRAT Was Prominent In Affairs of State a Number of Years Age. Formerly Member of Congress and Ambassador to the Netherlands. Sayyille, L T, June 14—(Spec- ial to the Pioneer.) Robert: B. Roosevelt, an uncle of President Rcosevelt, died at his home here early tolay. He was 70 years old and a life-long democrat, Mr, Roosevelt had served one term in congress and was an am- bassador to the Netherlands and treasurer of the democratic national committee at the time of Cleveland’s second election, BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The rush, for passports by Amer- feans bound for Europe continues un- abated. All grades of refined sugar been advanced 1v pounds. James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern, hi purchased a residence in New York city. The rate war between the lines oi railroad running between St. Paul and have cents per 100 Chicago has been declared off. R. Department at Marl- nette Elects Officers, Marinette, June 14.—The Wis- . G. A, R, has elect- ed the following officers: Commander, John W. Ganes, Low- ell; senjor vice commander, Jason K. Wright, Marinette; junior vice com- mander, L. A. Brace, Eau Claire; med- ical director, Dr. F. R. Garlock, Ra- cine; chaplain, O. A. Britton, Superi- or; council of administration, H. C. Putnam, Broadhead; J. M. Botsford, Eau Claire; Edward Schofield, Ocon- to; D. J. Dill, Prescott, and Orville Strong. Department Commander Ganes ap- pointed C. A. Pettibone of Waupun assistant adjutant general and F. A, Bird of Madison assistant quartermas- ter general. After the installation of nfficers the encampment adjourned. Denies Reported Reverses. Washington, June 14.—Jorge Nuaex, the Guatemalan minister, has received a cablegram from President Bstrada Cabrera confirming previous advices that the government troops had won an overwhelming victory and stating the report of reverses is not true. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, June 13.—Wheat— July, 82%c; Sept., 81%c; Dec., 82¢c; No. 1 hard, 84%c; No. 1 Northern, 83%c; No. 2 Northern, 82%c. Duluth Wheat and Flax. “Duluth, June 13.—Wheat—To arrive —No. 1 Northern, 84%c; No. 2 North- ern, 83c. Onmn track—No. 1 Northern, 84%c; No. 2 Northern, 83c; July, 81%c; Sept., 827%c. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.12%; July, $1.13%; Sept., $1.13%; Oct., $1.13. ~ DOINGS IN IMPORTANT STOCKS Gent’s Furnishings. A look at our window will convince you of the good values we are offzring at very low prices. Summer We have a large stock of lawns and are giving Goods. special prices on a number of patterns. LOOK at our 5 They are well made and Shoes and Oxfords. A shipment of Ladies’ oxfords just received. We have them in patent, colt, gunmetal and vici kid. A chance to compare them with other makes is all we ask to make Remember we do not advertise all of our special Au inspection of our counters will prove our a sale. bargains. statements. E. H. Winter & Co. Phone Number 30, Bemidji. cent lace counter. 10 cent and 12 cent values for § ¢ Ladies’ Summer Under Garments. of the best materials. THREE PERSONS PERISH | STEAMSHIP. ESSEX DESTROYED IN BIG FIRE ON BALTIMORE WATER FRONT. DAMAGE WILL AGGREGATE $1,000,000 STUBBORN FIGHT ALONE SAVES THE ENTIRE HARBOR FROM DESTRUCTION. P e Baltimore, June 14.—The greatest fire since the conflagration of 1904, tnvolving a property loss of about 41,000,000 and the sacrifice of at least three iives, occurred at an early hour on the water front. For a time the entire harbor front was threatened with destruction, on the north side the flames being with difficulty kept within the confines of the wharf of the Merchants and Min- ers’ Transportation gompany and on the south side a stubborn battle being fought to prevent a wholesale destruc- tion of property by fire spread from the steamship Essex and six barges, Which were burned. Three members of the crew of the Essex perished and their bodies have been recovered. Five other men were rescued with difficulty by the tug Mary. On the south side of the harbor the packinghouse of Moore & Brady was damaged, the steamer Minnie Wheeler and a cotton shed of the Merchants and Miners’ Transportation company were partially destroyed. They caught fire from the barges and the Essex when they floated across the harbor after being cut loose from their moor- ings. Residents living in the neighbor- of the fire and whose houses were threatened Dbecame panic stricken and the police assisted many women and children to places of safety. Two old women living on Block strest locked_themselves in the room of a small house that was on fire and the police had to break in the door and remove them by force. KING EDWARD ATTENDS. Dinner to the Longworths Given by Ambassador Reid. London, June 14—A dinner and re- ception was given by Ambassador and Mrs. Reid at Dorchester House for Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth at which King Edward, by his presence and attention to Presi- dent Roosevelt’s daughter, marked his esteem for the United States and the chief executive. Park Lane, in the vicinity of Dor- chester House, drew immense crowds as the carriages of distinguished guests passed through the fashionable thoroughfare to the residence which, since Mr. Reid took it a year ago, has welcomed the most famous English- men and visiting Americans and for- eigners. In many respects, however, the gathering was distinctive, for be- sides King Edward and Mr. and Mrs. Longworth the company included cab- inet ministers, political leaders of both parties, diplomats and persons of prominence in English society. TROOPS SAVE NEGRO. Prisoner Threatened by Mob Safely Landed in Norfolk Jail. Norfolk, Va., June 14—The negro, William Lee, charged with criminal assault on Mrs. Robert Barnes and her cousin, Miss Frances Powell, of Kingston, Somerset county, Md., was brought safely to Norfolk by the Nor- folk and Portsmouth troops, who were hurried to Eastville, Va., by order of Governor Swanson to protect the pris- oner in the Eastville jail and prevent his being lynched. Lee has made a confession in which he admitted the assault on Mrs. Barnes and also admitted making an unsuccessful attempt to assault Miss Powell. The excitement in Somerset is still great. Immediately upon delivery of the prisoner at the Norfolk jail the militia was disbanded. CHARGED WITH PEONAGE. Prominent Missouri Planter Is Under Arrest. St. Louls, June 14.—Acting under instructions from Washington, United States Marshal Morsey and a force of deputies went to Staunton, Mo., and arrested James Smith, a prominent planter, on the charge of peonage. The accusation is that Smith and oth- ers for whom warrants have been is- sued have held negroes in peonage and made them work on a swamp land plantation in New Madrid coun- ty.” Smith will be given a preliminary hearing in Sikeston on June 21. st ey NEW RESPITE FOR PATRICK. Supreme Court Justice Grants Him a Stay Until October. Canton, O., June 14.—Justice Day of the United States supreme court has granted a stay of execution of Lawyer Albert T. Patrick of New York. Justice Day, after hearing the rea- sons of Patrick’s counsel, decided the case appealable and granted a writ to that eflect. It will he heard by the supreme court in October. M IMMENSE DA A SEVERE WIND ST¢ Hayre, Mont., m. Havre and I-‘orl $200,000 to $300,00 18 reported, though- escapes were note The handsome cen Ing of the Havr pany’s store received storm and is almost| The employes to thed ty-five escaped Wi George Travis, a with his team in struck by the falling; may prove fatal crushed into a pul his head to. keep away. Two other ho in the debris and killg Many plate glass windows facing wes the city were demg Great Northern sho are 300 panes of gl lights out. Engines the roundhouse had shattered by the hail were unroofed and were blown off a sidi The storm was Fort Assinnihboine, of here, and wreck seen there on all si sary building is baf the back end of the sled to the ground. in course of constructi roofs were blown sheds and all glass west sides is out. were struck by ligh also the civilian emp ONLY ONE POIN HOUSE COMMITTE] PROVISION OF AMEND ‘Washington, June of who shall pay- t of the meat inspection, the ernment or- the packers, is the only one remaining unsettled by the house committee on agriculture. All provisions of the in- spection amendment to the agricul- tural appropriation bill have been agreed to. The committee seems pret- ty evenly divided on the question of placing the cost. The sanitary inspection required by the Beveridge amendment is retained in the bill with slight modifications. The secretary of agriculture is given authority to create his force of in- spectors without reference to the civil service regulation, this rule to apply for a year. The label on the cans of food prod- uets is not to state the date of the manufacture of the article. This is a change from the Beveridge amend- ment. The question of allowing pre- servatives in meat products has been left to the discretion of the secretary of agriculture. The small butcher and packer are not to be included within the juris- diction of the inspection law. BRYAN AT ST. PETERSBURG: Will Confer With Leaders of Lower House of Parliament. St. Petersburg, June 14.—William J. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan arrived here during the day from Berlin, They will remain here two days and then pro- ceed to Stockholm and Christiania on their way to London, where Mr. Bryan will deliver an address on the Fourth of July. He expects to witness the coronation of King Haakon at Chris- tiania and is due to arrive at New York Aug. 29. Mr. Bryan came to St. Petersburg in order to get a glimpse of the Rus- slan parliament and study at close range the epoch-making political struggle which is convulsing Russia He has arranged to visit the house and confer with the leaders of the vopular movement. Mr. Bryan expressed his full en- dorsement of the plan of Governor Cummins of Towa for a meeting of the governors of states to secure com- certed action looking to a constitu- tional amendment providing for the election of senators by direct vote of the people. ROOSEVELT ' NOT Disclaims Any Participation in lowa Politics. June INTERFERING. ‘Washington, participation or interference in Iowa Ppolitical affairs and says that Secre- tary Shaw’s visit to his home at this bility.” The disclaimer was’called out by published statements that Secretary Shaw would represent the president in a speech he is (o make at Daven- -port, la, in opposition to Governor Cummins. 5 = Wi There is no improvament in the condition of Robert!B. Roosevelt, un- r.le of the m-eaidentl and the flocbors bi 14—President . Roosevelt absolutely disclaims any time is made “on his own responsi- | Hale, who will have charce of both these matters in the senate, believes | they can.be disposed‘of by Monday, June 25, or Wednesday, the 27th, at the latest. That would permit of an adjournment on the 27th or 28th. The programme thus arranged con- templates a vote on the canal type bill-in the senate, but no further ac- tion until the next session. Senator Spooner, with seeming authority, made the statement at the meeting that the appropriation for the canal carried by the sundry civil bill can be Expended With Equal Advantage. auring the coming year tor a lock canal or a sea level canal and that Chief Engineer Stevens can go ahead doing work which would be necessary to either type. It is agreed that con- gress cannot dispose of this question at the present session in view of the contrary opinion of the two branches. Statehood, railroad rates, meat in- spection and bills relating to a num- ber of other subjects of great public interest were considered by the steer- ing committee, but it was the opinion that all of these matters had reached stages that would offer no obstacle to adjournment at an early date. The meat inspection bill is the only one of these that is not already in con- ference and the house committee has | ahout concluded its consideration of this subject. When that has been done it will go to conference. There are no bills on the calendar scheduled for consideration at this session that are regarded as likely to lead to pro- longed discussion. In view of the practical certainty that no vote could be had on the Sen- ator Smoot case at the present ses- sion Senator Burrows, chairman of the senate committee on privileges and elections, after conferences with friends and opponents of the Utah senator, has decided that he will not call up the case for consideration until next session. the printing shops in Chicago, thi has'been-a remarkable increasohin the Dirth rate among the compositors’ families. The total number of births recorded during the period is twenty- four, which represents a 15 per cent better showing than gy peared for the preceding ten months. Another effect which the printers credit to the shortening of the hours of labor is a lowering in the death rate among the members. From the tables kept by the union in former years the average mortality in the organization has been forty out of about 3,000 men. For the last ten months the records kept by Secretary ‘William McEvoy show a death list of only fifteen members, JUNE 21 IN WASHINGTON. Date Set for Hearing Presidents of Coal Carrying Roads. Philadelphia, June 14.—The inter- state commerce commission has wired to its secretary in Washington to no- ify the presidenls of coal carrying railroads that the commission would be ready to hear from them on June 21 in Washington. The presidents who will receive notification are A. J. Cassatt, Pennsylvania railroad; Oscar G. Murray, Baltimore and Ohio; George W. Stevens, Chesapeake and Ohio; L. E. Johnson, Norfolk aund Western, and W. E. Newman, New York Central and Hudson River rail- road. Vessel Cannot Be Seized. City of Mexico, June 14.—The steamer Empire, now at Corinto, Nic- aragua, and said to be assisting the Guatemalan rebels, has been sold to the Nicaraguan government, accord- ing to advices received here from Sal- vador, and cannot now be seized by the United States. Clarence C. Cinehart. against a Scandinaviandemocrat- ic candidate, especially when that Scandinavian is John A. Johnson,’’ declarethese men who pretend to know. They admit that the republi- can nominee is a hustler and is capable of putting as much gin- ger and snap into the campaign as any of the other candidates could have done, but there are a legion of Norwegians and Swedes in Minnesota, the doubtful claim, who do not care whether the next governor is a republican or a democrat so long as he lines up right on the nationality. “Put a fellow contry man of Johnson alone in a voting tooth with hispeneil and his God and he will forget that A. L. Cole is run- ning,” is the way one put it to the Continued on page 4 column 1. Shirt waist suits that you see Those neat fitting, well-made shirt waists and shirt the Du Brock factory. We are Bemidji agents. DEEEATIVE PDACE Waists on the street are' made by