Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 18, 1907, Page 2

[ T THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED SVERY AFTERNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDII BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. LvoeJ, PRYOR | 1 A d. RUTLEDGE; Business Manager Managing Editor ‘Entered {n the postoffice at Bemidjl. Minn,, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM MISTAKE N RDERS Error of a Telegraph Operator Costs Twenty-five Lives. AS MANY OTHERS INJURED Express and Freight Traing on the Boston and Maine Railroad Collide | at Canaan, N. H., With Most Dis- astrous Results. Canaan, N. H., Sept. 1 .—By a col- Usion of a freight and an express train on the Concord division of the Boston and Maine railroad near here more than a score of persons lost their Hves and a greater number received injuries. According to a statement Issued by the railroad officials a blun- der In handling train orders was the bause, but the identity of the employe responsible for the error remains to be determined. At the rooms of the undertaking Arm in Concord where most of the dead were removed lmmediately after the accident twenty-two bodies are lald out in long rows. Of these thir- teen are considered as positively iden- tifled by relatives, while the identity of several others was believed to be sufficlently known. The revised list of identified dead follows: Timothy Shaughnessey, Manches- ter; Mrs. Timothy Shaughnessey, Man- shester; George L. Southwick, Worces- ter, Mass.; Fred M. Phelps, Ochiltree, @ox.; Mrs. M. E. Warren, Haverhill, Mass.; Mrs. Adolph Boisvert, Concord, N. H.; Miss Annie Barrett, Manches- ter; Augustine Royer, Manchester; Richard F. Clarkson, Lebanon, N. H.; Frank H. Lowes, Ipswich, Mass.; Mrs. E. 8. Briggs, West Lebanon, N. H.; John M. Congdon, Bethel, Vt.; Leon B. Cady, West Lebanon. The twelve bodles still awaiting Identification include that of an eight- year-old boy who died at the Mary Hitchcock hospital at Hanover during the night, four men and seven women, Twelve of the twenty-seven persons who were taken to the hospital suffer- Ing from injuries have recovered suffl- clently to leave that institution and but fifteen persons remain at the hos- pital. None of the injured persons still at the hospital is in a dangerous econdition, the injuries in the main osonsisting of slight concussions, bruises and sprains. Fearful Result of Mistake, The southbound train was made up at Sherbrooke, Que., where it picked up two sleepers from Quebec and two more on the way down. It consisted of the baggage car, passenger coach and smoking car in that order, with the sleepers In the rear. The train left White River Junction at 8:60 a. m,, forty minutes late, and was followed twenty minutes later by the Montreal express over the Central Vermont railroad. The Quebec train Is known as No. 30 and the Montreal train as No. 34. In the meantime a northbound train known as No. 267 had arrived at Canaan on time. According to the dlvision superintendent, W. R. Ray, J. R. Crowley, the night train dis- patcher at Concord, sent a dispatch to John Greeley, the night operator at Canaan, that No. 84 was one hour and ten minutes late. The order which Conductor Lawrence of the freight traln showed after the accident dls- tinctly states that No. 30, instead of No. 84, was an hour and ten minutes late. Conductor Lawrence, believing that he had sufficient time in the hour and ten minutes to reach the sidetrack at ‘West Canaan, four miles beyond, be- fore No. 30 reached it, ordered his train ahead. Superintendent Ray, after an inves- tgatlon of the cause of the disaster, gave out the following statement: “The accident was due to a misun- derstanding between J. A. Crowley, the night dispatcher at Concord, who has been In the service seven years, and John Greeley, the night operator at Canaan, who has seen twenty-three yearg’ service In transmitting train orders. One of these two men made the fatal error of taking a cipher for a four.” 0DD FELLOWS IN SESSION Sovereign Grand Lodge Meets at St. Paul, 8t. Paul, Sept. 1/.—More than 12,000 0dad Fellows are guests of this city in Mttendance at the annual meeting of Ihe sovereign grand lodge, the open- Ing session being held at the Central Presbyterfan church. Through Gov- ernor Johnson’s secretary, Frank A. Day, the state welcomed the host of visitors; through Mayor Smith the tity extended to them its hospitality. The Odd Fellows are divided into four branches—the Odd Fellows, the Encampment branch, the Patriarchs Militant, or military branch, and the Rebekahs, or woman’s auxiliary. These several branches will hold dally business meetings and competitive military drills each day until Friday. The delegates represent every state In the Union and Canada. All of the boverelgn officers, as well as the ma- Jority of the delegates, come from Eastern and Southern citles. Antwerp Strike Is Ended. ‘Antwerp, Sept. 1'.—The Marltime Pederation has presented a proposal, zmch was accepted by the striking laborers, calling for an uncondi tional return to work and the ap- pointment of a mixed commission with 'Wer to examine and determine upon ADMIRAL WALKER DEAD. Expires Suddenly at Home of Friend In Maine. York Beach, Me., Sept. 1/.—Rear Admiral John G. Walker, U. 8. N,, re- tired, died suddenly at the home of a friend at High Pasture, York Clifts. Admiral Walker was seventy-two years of age and a natlve of New Hampshire. He was known as the promoter of the famous squadron of evolution, which became known as the “white squadron,” and of which ha was appointed commander. After his retirement from the navy Admiral Walker was chairman of the Panama canal commission, H. H. ROGERS IN BAD SHAPE Relatives Testify Concerning Health of Financier. Boston, Sept. 1 .—That Henry H. Rogers is in a very weak physical condition; that his face is distorted and his speech affected; that his left side is not in its normal state and that he is unable to transact any busi- ness or even discuss ordinary affairs was the substance of testimony given by Mr. Rogers’ son-in-law, Urban H. Broughton, in the supreme court. H. H. Rogers, Jr.,, corroborated Mr. Broughton’s statements and testified that his father had signed but three checks and a power of attorney to open the vault since July 22. His condition, Mr. Rogers, Jr., said, has shown some slight improvement in the past few weeks. The testimony at the hearing was very conflicting. The matter was brought up by counsel for C. M. Ray- mond of Somerville, who is suing Mr. Rogers for $50,000,000 for certain petroleum royalties and who sought to prove that Mr. Rogers was able to appear in court in spite of the objec- tions of his counsel. The hearing was on a motion by Mr. Raymond's counsel to have the case, which was postponed last week to the April term of the court, re- placed on the present trial list. Mr. Rogers’ counsel last week told the court that their client could not ap- pear for several months because of illness and a New Bedford physician testified at that time that Mr. Rogers was too ill to attend the trial. Judge Hammond then postponed the case, but later he agreed to hear testimony regarding Mr. Rogers’ condition. Deputy Sheriff Walling of New Bed- ford testified that he saw Mr. Rogers in the First National bank at New Bedford last week talking with Pres- ident Walter P. Winsor and Rufus A. Soule and that later Mr. Rogers walked down the street, apparently in good health. President Winsor admitted that he talked with Mr. Rogers last week, but said that the latter spoke with diffi- culty and that his physical condition apparently was not as good as it had been earlier in the summer. He knew of no business which Mr. Rogers had transacted during the past two months. SUITS READY FOR FILING. Cases of Alleged Pennsylvania Graft- ers to Begin Shortly. Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 1 .—Criminal suits growing out of the state capitol scandal are almost certain to be brought within the next twenty-four hours. Attorney General Todd has ar- rived here from Philadelphia to con- fer with James Scarlet and other law- yers associated wita him in the prep- aration of these cases. At this con- ference it will be decided how many of the eighteen persons and firms mentioned by the capitol investigation commission in its report to Governor Stuart shall be prosecuted. By bring ing the suits at this time indictments could be submitted to the Dauphin county grand jury at the opening of the quarter sessions court mext Mon- day. Mr. Todd still declines to dis- cuss his plans or to say when and against whom suits will be brought. STREET DISORDERS RESULT Several Thousand New York Furriers on Strike. New York, Sept. 1.—A general strike, involving 8,000 furriers, or- dered at a mass meeting of members of the Furriers’ union, has begun throughout the city. The general strike order was the result of a lock- out of 3,000 men and women furriers on Saturday morning ordered by the employers’ association in the fur trade. Street disorders growing out of the strike of the furriers resulted in the arrest of a score of strikers. The strikers congregated in the furrfer districts and complaints were made that nonunion men were being intimi- dated. The police were compelled to make several arrests before the crowds could be dispersed. Five Hundred Miners Strike. Greensburg, Pa., Sept. 1..—Five hundred miners employed in the West- moreland Coal company’s mine at Claridge, Pa., are out on a strike, glv- ing as the cause the refusal of the company to discharge a weighmaster, ‘who, the miners allege, did not report . the welghts correctly. A ey HIS AIM IS DEADLY Dying Man Shoots and Kills Two of a Gang of Assassins. WAYLAID ON LONELY ROAD Kansas Mine Boss and His Sister At- tacked by ltalians and Mortally Wounded but the Former Manages to Fire After Falling. Pittsburg, Kan,, Sept. 1 .—At Crow- burg, a new mining camp in the north- ern part of this county, two persons were killed and two fatally wounded as the result of a grudge held by the Italian miners of the district against a mine boss. Charles Gardnmer, a mine boss, and his sister, Mrs, George Rexford, were waylald on a lonely road while returning home by a num- ber of Italians and shot and fatally wounded. Gardner returned the fire and shot and killed two Italians, names unknown. The Itallans are believed to have been drinking. They attacked Gard- ner and his sister without warning, firing upon them In the dark. The first bullet struck Gardner on the point of the chin, glanced and, enter- Ing his breast, lodged in the lung. At almost the same moment Mrs. Rex- ford was shot in the small of the back. They fell to the ground to- gether. The Italians started to run immediately after firing, but before they had gotten out of reach Gardner had recovered sufficiently to raise himself upon his elbow and fire upon them. Two of the Italians were struck by Gardner’s bullets and fell in their tracks. The Itallans endeavored to carry off their dead, but were com- pelled finally to desert them to es- cape. A number of Americans at- tracted by the shots assisted Gardner and his sister to this city, where they were placed in the Mount Carmel hos- pital. No hope is entertained for thelir recovery. ATTIRED IN CLERICAL GARB Polish Priest on Trial for Murder at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Sept. 1 .—Attired in the 1egulation clerical garb Ludwig Szczy- glel, the Polish priest accused of kill- ing Andrew and Stephen Starzyuski in their restaurant on the South Side a little over a month ago, was placed on trial in the criminal court here on the charge of murder. Szezygiel looked pale and haggard when arraigned, but stood erect and with arms uplifted and eyes turned upward pleaded not guilty to the charge. The work of selecting a jury ‘was then begun. Szczyglel was formerly an assistant pastor of a Roman Catholic church in Chicago. As the prisoner had no money with which to employ counsel two attor- neys were appointed by the court to defend him under an act passed by the last legislature. CONDEMNS ANTI-TRUST LAW Commissioner Knapp Declares Com: petition a Bad Thing. Chicago, Sept. 17.—“Co-operation, not competition, is the hope of the future,” declared Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the interstate commerce commission, as he explained his at- tack on the Sherman anti-trust law at the meeting of the American Associa- tlon of Freight Traffic Officers. “That law,” he continued, “defeats the purpose for which it was passed and if the railroads of the country did not violate it, as interpreted by the supreme court, we would have a cha- otic condition suited only for sav- agery. “As I am optimistic I hope to see either the supreme court of the Unit- ed States come around to my way of thinking or congress pass a law pro- viding a legal status to these traffic associations all over the country. They are absolutely necessary to the con- duct of railroad business if the pro- visions of the new rate law with ref- erence to discriminations are main- tained. “The anti-trust law was founded on the exploded belief that competition, the flercer and more bitter the better, is best for the general public. In the old days of stage coaches this may have been so, but the higher clviliza- tion which has brought railroads, steamboats, telephones, electric lights and all these modern convenlences can never thrive on that kind of nour- fshment. The ultimate end of such competition is that one of the parties to it must be forced to the wall. 1 cannot see that this is a thing to be desired.” ATTACK LEAVES HER BLIND Mrs. C&'!ssie Chadwick Suffers Nervous Collapse. Columbus, O., Sept. 1.—Mrs. Cassle M. Chadwick, noted witch of finance, who, posing as Andrew Carnegle’s natural daughter, swindled Ohlio and Eastern banks and capitalists out of millions in loans on bogus securities, was stricken with a nervous collapse at the penitentiary which has left her blind. Her condition is serfous and it is the opinion of the prison physicians that she will never live to serve out her ten years’ sentence, two years of which she has now completed. Mrs., Chadwick was carried to the hospital in the female department by female attendants and Dr. Garret, the day physician, was immediately sum- » i Non-alcoholic priss:, iwseie] moned. When Dr, Garret arrived at the female department Mrs. Chad- wick was lying on a bed in the hos- vital in a chill, Although she was consclous and very quiet mentally her circulation was almost stopped and she was blind. Dr, Garret immedi- ately administered nitroglycerin and gave her some hot whisky. “He also directed the attendants to bathe her feet in hot water. Under the strong restoratives the patient revived within about twenty minutes and resumed her normal state, although she was very weak and sightless. NOT AT ALL SURPRISED. Saloonkeeper Receives His Annual Visit From Burglars. New York, Sept. 1 .—Woolf Fish, who keeps a saloon in Allen street, on the East Side, when informed by de- tectives that his place had been broken into by safeblowers, expressed no surprise whatever. In fact he told the police later that he would have been surprised had no attempt been made to rob his saloon this year. In the last eleven years he has had no less than eighteen encounters with burglars. He has been chloroformed, drugged, choked, shot at, stabbed and beaten and now he is congratulating himself that he was not In the saloon when the latest attempt to loot it was made. The burglars got only $39 this time, for they were scared away by a policeman just as they were prepar- ing to get to work upon the safe. They were provided with the most elab- orate set of cracksmen’s appliances that the police ever saw. Indeed, they were so heavy that the robbers had to abandon them. The police say the tools are worth fully $500. None of the Hindus Destitute. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 1 .—Hon. Frank Oliver, minister of the interior, has received a telegram from A. S. Munro, health officer at Vancouver, stating that of the 900 Hindus who arrived by the Monteagle there are twenty-five old and sick men who will be deport- ed. There are nome of them desti-. tute, They have about $25,000 in the party. At present they are living in tents, but express their intention of building houses. Would Increase Membership. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 1'.—Supreme Counsel A. R. Talbot of the Modern Woodmen has issued from headgquar- ters at Rock Island, Ill, a proclama- tion asking all of the 12,000 camps of his order to hold anniversary celebra- tions Jan. 6. He asked each camp to initiate twenty-five members on that date, bringing the total membership up to more than 1,000,000, Hindu Refugees Located. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 1'—The mount- ed police along the boundary line be- tween British Columbia and the Unit- ed States report that 400 of the Hin- dus who were driven out of Belling- ham, Wash., are making their way into Canada in small parties. The rest, numbering 300 or 400, are mak- ing towards Seattle. COMES TO AMERICA. Famous Kann Art Collection Lost to Europe. Berlin, Sept. 1/.—Wilhelm Bode, di- rector general of the Berlin museums, sald regarding the sale of the Kann collection to Duveen Bros. that it had been the late Rodolphe Kann's fear for some time before his death that his great collection might be broken up or sold to English or American buy- ers. Talking to Director Bode about this Herr Kann three days before his death sent for a notary and dictated his wishes regarding the collection so as to prevent its sale. The notary promised to draw up & will immedi- ately so that Kann could sign it, but the latter died before the notary saw him again and, strangely, the notary also died at about the same time with. out disclosing Kann’s intentions, Director Bode, with other men dis- tinguished in art circles, regrets that the greater part of ihe best works of the Kann collection are lost to Eu- rope. The above dispatch appears to con- firm the reports, often denied, that the famous Kann collection would eventually become a part of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Arts. The price pald for the collection, Which consists of paintings, sculp- tures and art objects of various de- scriptions, was said to be $5,000,000. At one time it was stated that the purchaser was J. Plerpont Morgan, but this was denied by Duveen Bros. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS, John Schmidt of Brooklyn tumbled 200 feet down the Palisades at Wee- hawken, N. J,, and has only bruises to show for his adventure. A case of virulent tetanus, or lpck- Jjaw, has been cured by the doctors of the Willlamsburg (Brooklyn) hospital. There are, it is sald, only two other similar cases on record. Frederick McNally, for three years president of the publishing house of Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago, is dead. Mr, McNally had been i1l for three weeks of nervous prostration due to overwork. Peter Burger, eleven years old, of New York city, was killed by his chum, Herman Wehle, fifteen years old, in a struggle for a small rifle with which the boys and two companions had been playing, The annual report of the Chicago and - Northwestern railway shows a total of gross earnings of $68,878,900. The operating expenses and charges Were $63,138,300, leaving a net income for the year of $15,740,600. The United States navy department has, according to a dispatch from Car- dift, Wales, to a London news agency, contracted with- Welsh firms for 100,- 000 tons. of the best steam coal, the dellvery to extend over 1908. If you think you need a tonic, ask doctor. If you think you would| like to try Ayer’s non-alcoholic Satsaparilla, ask your doctor. - Jerciaetiiie: pog LEADS 70 ATHEISM Pope Issues Encyclical Strongly Condemning “Modernism.” SERIOUS DANGER TO CHURCH Refers In Detail to the Various Fea- tures of the New Belief and Asserts That It Is a “Synthesis of All Heresy.” : Rome, Sept. 1'—The Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican, has issued an important encyclical of Pope Pius X. on “Modernism,” which really is a completion of his recent syllabus. The document sets forth that Modern. ism is a serious danger to the church, refers in detail to the various features of Modernisin, condemns it as danger- ous in philosophy, faith, theology, his- tory, critielsm and reforms and arrives at the conclusion that Modernism is a synthesis of all heresy and must log- ically lead to atheism. The encyclical makes the following provisions: First—The teaching of philosophy, positive theology, etc., is to be carried on in the church schools and univer- sitie® Tt in a Catholic spirit. Secsnd—Modernists are to be re moved from professorships and the direction of educational institutions. Third—The clergy and faithful are not to be allowed to read Modernist publications, Fourth—A committee of censorship is to be established in every diocese to pass upon the publications which the clergy and faithful shall be per- mitted to read. Fifth—The encyclical of the late Pope Leo. XIIL prohibiting the clergy from assuming the direction of pub- lications without their bishop’s per- mission and providing for supervision of the work of ecclesiastical writers is confirmed. Sixth—Ecclesiastical congresses, ex- cept on rare occasions, are prohibited. Seventh—A council is to be con- stituted in every diocese to combat modern errors. MOORS DISCUSS PEACE Delegation From Hostile Tribes Meets French Officials. Casa Blanca, Sept. 1l.—A delega- tlon from two of the Moorish tribes had a long conference with General Drude, the French commander; Ad- miral Philibert and M. Regnault, the French minister to Morocco, on the subject of peace, but the delegation admitted that they did ‘not represent all the hostile Moors. The negotia- tions will be continued. Paris, Sept. 17.—Advices received here from Casa Blanca say that the tribal delegates accepted all the peace conditions fixed by General Drude and departed to seek delegates from all the other warring tribes. It is ex- Dected that the Moors will return from their mission on Thursday and effect a general submission of the hostile tribesmen. GUILTY WILL BE PUNISHED Jap Minister Has Confidence in Do- minion Government, London, Sept. 1’.—Baron Komura, the Japanese ambassador to Great Britain, who has just returned from an absence in the country, called on Sir Edward Grey at the foreign office and discussed the anti-Oriental dis- turbances at Vancouver. The ambas- sador took with him long dispatches which he received frcm the Japanese consuls at Vancouver and Ottawa and it i3 understood he assured the for- elgn secretary that Japan had the greatest confidence that the Canadians would punish those who were respon- sible for the attacks on the Japanese and was satisfied with the steps in that direction already taken, Made Desperate by Loan Sharks. Chicago, Sept. 1/.—John W. Miller, a railroad clerk, who was arrested on a charge of attempting to kill and rob Edgar M. Crumb, a diamond broker, confessed the crime to the police. 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