Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 24, 1906, Page 1

W The Bemidji Daily Pione MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 4. NUMBER 52 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA. TUESDAE JULY 24, 1906 TEN CENTS PER WEEK RESULT OF COLLISION LIGHTNING FATAL TO FIVE GRANDSTAND STRUCK DURING BASEBALL GAME AT MAN- ITOWOC, WIS, TWENTY PERSONS KILLED AND TWENTY-FOUR INJURED AT HAMLET, N. C. I PASSENGER AND FREIGHT IN GMS“I Manitowoe, Wis., July 24—Five per- sons were killed, one paralyzed and two score were severely shocked by lightning during a terrific thunder storm here. The bolt struck the grand- stand at Athletic park just before a game of baseball was to begin. The FAILURE TO DELIVER ORDERS SAID TO BE CAUSE OF THE dead are: ACCIDENT. Raleigh, N. C,, July 24.—A collision between a freight train and a regular mall train on the Seaboard Air Line at 8:40 o’clock p. m. three miles south of Hamlet resulted in the death of four of the trainmen and sixteen others and injured twenty-four, Eight of the dead are white and twelve colored. The bodies of the dead are being prepared for burial at Hamlet and Rockingham, while the injured have been removed to Charlotte and placed in the hospital there. The wreck was due to the failure of the regular pas- senger train to receive orders at Rock- ingham. The freight was southbound from ¥ The baggage car and the second class coach of the passenger train were demolished and eizht cars of the freight were derailed and some of them piled up on other cars and crushed to picces. an extra and was leigh to Monroe, Revolutionary Demonstration. Kislovdsk, Caucasus, July 24.—The announcement of the d lution of the Russian parliament provoked a revolutionary demonstration in the streets of this city. Thousands of per- sons participated, carrying red flags and singing revolutionary songs. Albert Skuhra, aged twen- ty-cight years; Walter Handl, eight- een; Irvine Woeller, twenty-eight; An- ton Klauk, fourteen, and William Knut- zen, sixteen. Skuhra and Klauk, two of the dead, were in the stand at the time of the flash, The other fatalities were out- side the entrance to the grandstand. The lightning struck the roof of the largest stand, followed a wire along a support to the heavy roof and en- tered the building near the gate, kill- ing the two boys inside instantly. The three others killed were leaning against the stand securing shelter from the rain. FIRE LOSS $100,000. Fountain City, Wis., Suffers a Severe Scorching. Fountain City, Wis., July 24.—Fire nearly destroyed an entire block con- taining the Roettiger furniture store and barn, Fitzgerald's two dwellings and warchouse, the Schwartz & Clausen lumber yards and shop, Dres- sendovfer’'s blacksmith and machine shop and Shuster’s general store and contents. The sparks were carried several blocks and started a fire in Hueff s clevator, burning it and two ¢ of coal belonging to Captain Frank Fugina. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss estimated at $100.000, partially covered by insur- ance. in Pants T~ /// R l Bargains : In order to close out the balance of our stock of Men’s pants we will make a great reduction in our prices Look at our win- dows and you will be con- vinced that we mean what, we say. Gent's Furnishings 15¢ collars. 5¢ 25¢ suspenders., . Men’s 50c ties Dry Goods Look at our 10¢ Embroid- We some nnheard of values. ery counter. have Ladies’ Muslin Underwear Muslm Underwear at cos Ladies’ Some Good Values Collars in Ladies’ Collars at 15¢ and 35¢ A Shipment of La Them New Belts and Purses dies’ Belts. Over. Look Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Cheerfully Refunded. PHONE BEMIDJI, E. H. WINTER & (0. NO. 30 MINN. FIERCE FIRE BURNS TWO WAREHOUSES OR THE TO GROUND ENTAILING LOSS OF $4,000] corensce o ru rssosn. Major Bros. and Markham Buildi ngs, on the Grei’t fl'orthern Side Tracks, Completely Destroyed With Their Valuable Contents, Early This Afternoon—No Insurance Was Carried Either on the Warehouses or The Stored Property. Fire at 2 o’clock this afternoon totally destroyed two ware- houses, on the sidetrack of the Great Northern railway, together with their contents, entaling a loss approximately estimated at fully $4,000. The flames were discovered bursting forth from the ware- house belonging to Major Bros., wherein was stored two carloads of baled hay, which had in some unknown manner caught fire.l An alarm was turned in and the members of the fire department.i responded promptly but the fire had gained much headway and rapidly spread to the adjoining; warehouse, which was soon also a mass of flames. A engine was shunting a large string of freight cars alongside of the houses and it was only by |lire was kept ata safe distance. prompt action of the train crew| In the Major Bros, warehouse that the cars were gotten out|was stored $800 worth of baled and onto the main track away!hay and also a bowling alley, the from the burning buildings. property of Emil Hutleff, valued There was: considerable delay |at $600, all of which was totally in getting water onto the build- ings, as the hose that\was at- tached to the hydrant was inadequate. The fife engine was brought to the lake: behind the buildings but stéam came slowly and the warehouses were almost entirely razed before ade- quate water was got to cope with the lames. 3 The warehouse of the Standard Oil company was but a short dis- tance removed from one of the townand sash, doors, ete, $400, the property of Markham & destroyed. In the other ware- house was $800 worth of coal, valued at Schisel, also camp outfits, etc., belonging to A, T. Hatcher, esti- mated as being worth at least $1,000; all a total loss. There wa 3 noinsurance carried by any of the losers. It isthought that hoboes who were lying on burning buildings and it was the hay in the Major Bros. ware- feared that it would be burned |house accidentally set the hay on and the oil tank explode, but the| fire azd ran away. ADOPT ADDRESS TO PEOPLE MEMBERS OF RUSSIAN LOWER HOUSE HOLD A MEETING AT VIBORG, FINLAND. Viborg, Finland, July 24—Several hundred members of the lower house ! of the Russian parliament met here and after a prolonged debate adopted a manifesto in reply to the czar’s ac-| tion dissolving parliament. The text! of the address is not yet available,! but enough is known to warrant the assertion that it amounts to an appeal ; to the nation to seize the liberty which | the government has dernied. It cun-i tains a protest against the illegal dis- solution of parliament and appeals to the people to refuse to pay taxes, re-i cruit the army or to recognize the! issue of a government loan. | Just prior to the adoption of the| address the governor of Viborg ar- rived at the Hotel Belvidere and an- nounced that he had been ordered by the governor general of Finland im- mediately to close the meeting of the members of parliament and to use military force if necessary to disperse them. He informed M. Mouromtself that such meetings would not be al- lowed to be held anywhere in Fin- land. At the last moment the Constitu- tional Democrats, under the influence of the threat of martial law, swung into line with the radicals and the address to the country was adopted with practical unanimity. The Poles will adopt a- separate statement. The former members of parliament then adjourned, realizing the helpless- ness of refusing to recognize the edict of dissolution in the face of the bay-, onets of the government. IN REVOLUTION. Russian Member of Parliament Dis- cusses Situation. London, July 24—M. Alladin, for- merly leader of the group of toil in the Russian parliument, speaking of the @issolution, said they had plenty of promises from state, army and navy officers to support the demands of par- liament for liberty. Converts in the army were more numerous than gen- erally thought. “The emperor,” he declared, “is playing a great game which can only end one way—in revolution.” WILL END MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED. Serious Rioting Follows News of Dis- solution of Parliament. Kharkoff, Russia, July 24—The news of the dissolution of parliament has been followed by much rioting in this city. The cxcitement was in- creased by the escape of forty prom- inent politicians who had been thrown into prison on Saturday night. Twenty persons were killed and wounded in the effort for their recapture. The mob threw stones at the police and soldlery and many were wounded. Widespread Trouble Predicted, Saratoff, Russia, July 24—All the newspapers of this city have been suppressed. 'There were dozens of arrests. Immediate and widespread revolutionary outbursts are expected throughout the Volga provinces. AGGREGATE IS ENORMOUS. Casualties on American Railroads in Three Months. Washington, July 24. —The accident bulletin which has just been issued by the interstate commerce commis- sion for the three months ending March 31, 1906, shows the total num- ber of casualties to passengers and employes to be 18,296, 1,126 killed and 17,170 injured. This is an increase of seventeen in the number killed and fifty-two in the number injured over those reported in ! the breceding three months. GENERAL KODAMA |s DEAD. ‘Was Field Marshal Oyama’s Chief of | Staff in Russo.Japanese War. /IN FIGHT WITH PULAJANES Tokio, July 24—General Baron Ko- ' , ONE LIEUTENANT, TWELVE PRI dama died here Monday mornlng General Kodama was ‘educated at | Rutger’s cc’lege and had:been callad the Grau of the Japanese army. He was Field Marshal Oyama’s chief of staff during the Russo-Japanese war !_ @ENERAL GENTARO KODAMA. and later was appointed governor of Formosa. After the retirement of Field Marshal Oyama General Kodoma was made chief of the staff of the Japanese army. His wife, Sutlein Ko- dama, was educated at Vassar. HARTJE DIVORCE CASE. Defense Concludes Testimony in Pitts- burg Trial. Pittsburg, July 24.—The defense in the Hartje divorce case concluded its side and the testimony in rebuttal was started. ‘When court Scott Hartje, resumed Mrs. Mary the defendant, was i called as the closing witness that shc“ might have an opportunity of denying the Hotel Lincoln incident referred to in the plaintifi’s bill of charges. Before she could testify counsel for the plaintiff objected, saying the tes. timony was incompetent and irrev- elent. The objecflon was sustained by Judge Frazer, who said there was no' evidence to show that the respondent had gone to the hotel. The libellant’s attorneys, he said, were not able to prove that the wife had been guilty of wrongdoing with a man unnamed and he assumed that the woman was inno- cent, The respondent’s counsel then made an effort to get a denial from the wit- ness that she had visited a Watson street house, but this was also object- ed to on the same grounds and was sustained by the court. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. ‘Western Pacific officials are endeav. oring to secure 7,000 laborers in addi-! tion to a force of (10,000 men now ot work in Utah, Nevada and California Colonel Samnel: Donaldson, door keeper of rhe house of representatives ' during Mr. Carlisle’s term as speaker, dled suddenly of heart failure at ‘Washington. Charles D. Schmidt, an assistant’ in- spector for the Helena (Mont.) Water- works company, shot and killed his wife and probably fatally wounded himself. Jealousy was the cause. Frederick Rietbrock, aged sixty- seven years, a well known lawyer and formerly for many years one of ‘the leading breeders of high grade Guern- sey cattle in the United States, is dm\fl at Milwaukee, A dispute over the possession of a nickel is supposed to have resulted in the killing with a rifile at West New- ton, Pa., of Willlam Burkhart, eight years old, by his playmate, Ralph Bailes, aged twelve years, NEEECTIVE PACE VATES AND A CIVILIAN SCOUT KILLED. Manila, July 24—A detachment of constabulary, Lieutenant Williams commanding, encountered a band of 600 Pulajanes near Burian, on the isl- and of Leyte. Lieutenant Worswick, twelve privates and Civillan ‘Scout McBride were killed. The constabulary were driven back. The Pulajanes secuged .fourteen rifles and two revolvers. The bodies of ‘Worswick, McBride and ten privates were recovered. Reinforcements of : constabulary have been sent from the nearest station. Major Neville, commanding the mili- tary, has ordered a company of regular infantry to be hurried to the scene. Major Neville reports that there are from 400 to 1,000 Pulajanes in the field. Lieutenant Worswick was a gradu- te of the University of Kansas and was appointed to-the constabulary last | February. He gradvated from the constabulary school June 30 and this was his first battle. Burian is situ- ‘ ated in an isolated portion of Leyte. FOR RESTORING PEACE. Central American Republics Thank Roosevelt and Diaz. ‘Washington, July 24.—The state de- partment has dispatches from Presi dent Escalon of Salvador, President Cabrera of Guatemala and Presiden: Bonilla, of Honduras in which they ! offer their sincere thanks to President Roosevelt and President Diaz of Mex- ico for their kind offices in making peace possible between the warring Central American republics. NATIONAL LABOR PARTY. Platform Issued by Federation of La- bor Council. ‘Washirton, July 24.—The platform cf the new national Labor party has heen issued and the executive council of the American Federation of Labor has made good its declaration of sev- eral months ago to enter the field of politics in the interest of the trade union movement and to exhort all members and friends of organized la- bor to work for the election to polit- Ical office of men known to be favor- able to labor's cause. The announce ment is called labor's “campaign pro gramme” and is addressed to “all or- ganized labor and friends in the Unit- ed States.” It sets forth that the trade union movement has kept and purposes to keep pace with the rapid changes in industrial conditions and that the working people caanot hope to main- tain their rights or a progressive posi- tlon in the varying phases of modern society unless tlicy “exercise all those functions whic!:, as workmen and citi- zens, it is the!r privilege and their duty to exereisc.” It is declared that labor makes no demand upon government or society which is not equally nccorded to all the people of this country and that “it can and will be satisfled with nothing less.” Girl Shirtwaist Makers Strike. Philadelphia, July 24—Twenty-five hundred girls employed in the shirt- walst -factory of Putelman Bros. & Fagan went on strike because of pres- ence among the workers of a number of employes distasteful to a majority. of the glrls, Russian Securities Decline.” London, July 24.—On the Stock Ex- change a nervous tone prevailed and prices were heavy on the Russian sit- uation. The new Russian loan opened at 9 per cent discount and fell to 101 on Paris advices. Reports from Berlin and Paris show a similar feeling ou the bourses there. . GHEERS FOR THE RUSSIANS LIAMENTARY UNION MEETS' IN LONDON. London, July 24—The fourteenth conference of the Interparliamentary union was opened in the royal gallery of the palace of Westminster during the day. Five hundred adherents of international peace from all the par- llaments of Europe, as well as sev- eral of those of the Western hem- isphere, were present. The American representation was headed by Con- gressman Richard Bartholdt, while William J. Bryan occupied a seat on the platform. Lord Weardale opened the congress, his preliminary sentences of welcome being specially addressed to the Rus- sian delegates, whercupon the dele- gates rose in a body and, turning to- ward the delegation of the late parlia- ment, cheered them to the echo, Premier Campbell-Bannerman, in re- ply, especially greeted the members of the Russian parliament present and also paid a tribute to Emperor Nich- olas, who had done so much towards the enhancement of ideas of peace. 1t could, he thought, be safely assertad that the Russian parliament, although dissolved, was sure to again come into existence. Then the premier, in a sudden excess of enthusiasm, shouted: Long Live the Duma, “La duma est morte! Vive la duma.” (The Russian parliament is dead! long live the Russian parliament). The delegates rose to their feet ‘and a storm of cheering continued for a couple of minutes. In conclusion the premier said he hoped that at the next peace confer- ence at The Hague a general act would be drawn up providing for the submission of all questions of dispute without restrictions to The Hague tribunal for the universal good of hu- manity. l Then came the most dramatic mo ment of the opening of the session. Professor Kovalevsky, a member of § the Russian lower house, in a voi"el somewhat hroken with emotion, an- nounced the necessity for the with- drawal of the members of the Russian parliament. - The announcement was met with a storm of protests and shouts of “No,” “No,” and attempts on every side to induce the Russians to remain, but the latter insisted that they no longer had any official status | and must leave England for Russia at | once and return to the “battlefield. | The Russian delegates then left the | hall and the conference settled down | to business. But the incidents at- tending the dissolution of the Russian parliament were for some time dis- cussed far-more eagerly than the busi- ‘ness ofthe conference. - HUSBAND AND WIFE REUNITED, Acquitted on Charge of Murdering Woman's Paramour. Fulton, Mo., July 24—The jury in the murder case of Mrs, Edmund Bailey, charged with being an acces- sory to the killing of Jay Lawder, whom her husband shot dead, returned a verdict of acquittal after having been out forty hours. Bailey was ac- quitted on Saturday. When the ver- dict freeing Mrs. Bailey was read she and her husband clasped hands ‘and | both thanked each member of the | jury. They left the courthouse to- gether. Bailey, an employe in Lawder’s coal mine, shot Lawder dead upon learning of the intimacy existing between Law- der and Mrs. Bailey. The reading of sensational letters written to Lawder by Mrs. Bailey was a feature of the trial. In her lap Mrs. Railey held an Infant whose father she testified in the trial was Lawder. Farmer Killed by Mower. . Antigo, Wis,, July 24.—Otto Gartzke, a prominent farmer residing ten miles east of this city, met with an accident that caused his death. He had just placed his hoy on the mower when the horses staried, catching one foot in the sickle and terribly mangling it. The injured man was romoved to a hospital, wiere. the foot was ampu- tated. He oaly lived a few hears. i on the ocean. ESTATE OF $100,000,000 WILL OF LATE RUSSELL SAGE, IT I8 SAID, WILL CONTAIN MANY SURPRISES. FINANCIER'S DEATH NOT UNEXPECTED DECEASED HAD BEEN FAILING RAPIDLY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS PAST, New York, July 24.—Colonel J. Slo- eum and Colonel Osborne, brother-in- lsw and confidential man respectively of the late Russell Sage and co-exec- utors of his estate with Mrs. Sage, were in conference with the legal rep- resentatives of the Sage estate during the day. Mr. Sage's will probably will be probated shortly after the fu- neral. A former business associate of Mr. Sage expressed the opinion that the estate would aggregate well be- yond '$100,000,000 and that the will ‘would contain many surprises. DEATH NOT UNEXPECTED. Russell Sage Had Been Failing for Several Months. New York, July 24.—The death of Russell Sage, the veteran financler, whicn occurred at his summer home at Lawrence, L. I, Sunday afternoon, ‘was not a surprise to those in close touch with the family. Mr. Sage had been failing for a long time. He was very feeble all the spring and Mrs. Sage and others tried to get him to leave the city and go to his summer home as soon as winter disappeared, but he preferred the city. He was finally taken to Lawrence on July $ in an automobile by Dr. Edward Janeway and the latter’s son, Dr. Theodore C. Janeway. For the last three weeks Mr. Sage had several sinking spells. It was thought that he would die on Friday night. Both Doctors Janeway were sent for. Oxygen was administered and Mr. Sage's life was thus pro- longed. All Saturday his condition was critical, with occasional moments of unconsciousness. Sunday morning he brightened up considerably. He ‘was propped up in his bed on the sec- ond floor of the house and gazed out About 12:30 p. m. he grew faint and sank back in bed. Im a twinkling he was unconscious. Dr. J. Carl Schmuck, the local physician attending Mr. Sage, sent a hurry call to this city for Dr. Theodore Janeway, who went to Lawrence as fast as his automobile could travel. He reached the house some time before Mr. Snga expired at 4:50 o’clock. Although Mrs. Sage was at her hus- band's bedside when he passed away there were no farewell words spoken, for Mr. Sage did not know he was dying. He closed his eyes as he had done many times before when he was ‘weary and sank slowly to sleep. ‘ ESCAPE WITHOUT Mr. and Mrs. Longworth Thrown From Automobile. ‘Wuerzburg, Bavaria, July 24.—Con- gressman Nicholas Longworth and Mrs. Longworth were thrown out of their automobile, but beyond the jolt : and a bruise or two they sustained no Injuries and reached their destination, Bayreuth, in time for the opening of the opera. The Longworths had passed through ‘Wuerzburg and when a short distance out of the town the steering gear re- fused to work and the automobile, which was going at a rapid rate, careened off the road and fell down a short embankment into a ditch. The chauffeur, after a short wait, obtained a carriage, In which they returned here and took a train for Bayreuth. INJURY. Farmer Killed by a Cow. Edwardsville, Ill, July 28.—August Frickenstein, a farmer, was butted to death by a muley cow when he ai temp.ted to take the cow’s calf away from her for the market.* Ladies’, n suit. . .. Boy’s tranks, . Barefoot Ladies’, a pair. . .. Misses’, a pair. . .. Vacation Needs —— Outing Suits: Missoe’, a suit 8150 to ... $2.50 Men’s, a suit 5uc to Hammoeks 50¢ to $8 each'- Children’s, apair §1to. .. ... .. $1.26 8275 $1.50 15