Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 7, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED VERY AFTSRNOON, BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. Tntered In the postofice at Bem!dji. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---85.00 PER ANNUM _—— RECUPERATION. On the last day of October, 1907, prices on the New York exchange showed that stock values had de- preciated $4,000,000,000 during that year. Prices on the exchange yes- terday showed that stock values had appreciated $1,750,000,000 since Nov. 1. In six months we have made up almost half of a loss in values so huge as to be beyond any real under- standing. And even its bitterest foe must admit that the stock market “reflects the future.” Where is the man who told us all last fall that “despite its recupera- tive power the United States could not recover from the October panic in less than three or four years”? OBSERVATIONS. LBy Doc.”] Congress is still marking the con- gressmen for action on election day. Ahe Ameer of Afghanistan seems to take a really American delight in twisting the British lion’s tail. In spite of the attacks of his enemies Senator Bailey has had rather smooth sailing in Texas. Perhaps the oil helped a little. According to 2 woman physician the soul of the dead travel due east when they leave their earthly dwell- ings. Starting for Paris, evidently. A Chicago minister suggests the theory that moving day was origin- ated by the devil. Rather an ex- treme measure for finding work for idle hands. A California woman has awakened after eighty-seven days of sound sleep. Not until she sees her friends’ spring hats will she realize how much she has missed by her nap. Boy Guts 1nroats or rive. New York, May 7.—A sixteen-year- old boy known only as Carmello and employed in a barber shop in Brooklyn cut the throats of his employer, An- tonio Peraso, Mrs. Peraso and three barbers while they lay asleep in Pe- raso’s apartments at 107 Fulton street.| The wounds of Peraso and his wife are believed to be mortal, while those of the three barbers are serious, but probably not fatal. The boy escaped. King Manuel Takes the Oath. Lisbon, May 7.—King Manuel of Portugal has sworn allegiance to the constitution. Lisbon was decorated and beflagged in honor of the cere- mony. Guns were fired at minute in- tervals, beginning .at daylight, from the inland forts and the port fortifica- tions. The populace was summoned to the churches by the ringing of the bels and listened to the singing of Te Deums. Canadian Crops Very Good. Winnipeg, Man.,, May 7.—In speak- ing of the crops in Western Canada Premier Roblin said that never in the past thirty-one years has he seen the Wwheat crop in such good condition. ‘Weather conditions are perfect and everything points to a good year. Re- ports from all over the country are the same, conditions being fine for both grain and cattle in Alberta. Assert Company Is Insolvent. Milwaukee, May 7.—Three of the creditors of the Koch & Loeber com- pany, paper dealers, with claims ag- gregating about $4,500, have flled an involuntary petition in bankruptey against that company in federal court. It is said the total liabilities of the company will aggregate $190,000, while the assets are estimated at about $150,000. Collins Jury Completed. Chicago, May 7.—The jury which is to try ex-Chief of Police Collins and former Police Attorney Frank D. Com- erford for alleged conspiracy to de- fraud the city of Chicago of the serv- ice of its paid employes by using po- licemen for political purposes in the last municipal election has been com- pleted and the taking of evidence be- "™ Admiral Evans Again at Sea. Delmonte, Cal, May J}—The spe- clal train bringing Rear Admiral Ev- ans from the Paso Robles hot springs arrived at the Monterey depot at 9:30 a. m. After a brief delay the rear ad- wmiral was taken on board the flagship Connecticut, which immediately sailed to rejoin the fieet. Warner Resumes '.ong Speech. ‘Washington, May J—Senator War- ner of Missouri resumed his speech on ,tha Brownsville affray which, owing to 111 health, he had been unable to oonclude. This was the fourth install- ment of his remarks on this subject. Hetty Green in Marble Halls. New York, May 6.—Mrs. Hetty Green, “the richest woman in the world,” has moved from the flat in Washington street, Hoboken, for which she has paid $15 a month for geveral years, and now lives at the Plaza hotel, where her rent is thirty times as much as it was in Hoboken. ARD FULL OF BODIES Sensation Follows Recent Quad- ruple Murder in Indiana. SOUTH DAKOTA MAN A VICTIM One of the Corpses Found Buried at Laporte Identified as John Heldgren of Aberdeen—Four Others Also Dug Up by Officials. Laporte, Ind.,, May .—Sheriff But- ler, under direction of John Heldgren of Aberdeen, S. D., began digging in the ground near the wrecked home of Mrs. Belle Gunness, who with three children was burned to death a week ago. At the depth of four feet the body of Andrew Heldgren, brother of John Heldgren, who came here Jan. 2 to visit Mrs. Gunness, was found. In another place the body of a woman was dug up, which is thought to be that of Jennie Olson Gunness, a six- teen-year-old girl whom Mrs. Gunness had reared and who disappeared in September, 1906, when it was said she had gone to Los Angeles, Cal, to at- tend school. It appeared that Andrew Heldgren became acquainted with Mrs. Gunness through a matrimonial agency. At that time Heldgren spent almost a month visiting Mrs. Gunness and oth- ers in this city. He was supposed to have started on a trip to Norway and Sweden. He has never been heard of since. At that time Mrs. Gunness was try- ing to make a loan from a local bank. ‘When Heldgren learned of this he offered to lend her the money. Early in January she borrowed $1,500 from him. Just before that Heldgren had drawn §$3,000 from Aberdeen through a local bank. ‘When news of the burning of the Gunness home was received by John Heldgren he started for this city to investigate the disappearance of his brother. Heldgren's body was found to be dismembered and the arms, legs, trunk and head put in different sacks and buried. Hired Man Under Arrest. Sheriff Butler and Prosecutor Smith say they are confident that Ray Lam- phere, now under arrest here charged with the murder of Mrs. Gunness and her children, knows of the Heldgren murder. Lamphere is a carpenter and the way in which the Heldgren body was dismembered indicates that some one familiar with the use of a saw did the work. Lamphere worked for Mrs. Gunness at the time of the disappearance of Heldgren and it is clated appeared one day in a local barber shop wearing a hat belonging to Heldgren and carrying Heldgren’s gun. Asked why he was carrying a gun he said, it is reported, he did not know what moment he might need it. It was cur- rent gossip at the time that Lamphere was jealous of Mrs. Gunness and Held- gren. Later it was announced that three | additional bodies had been dug up in the Gunuess yard. They were bodies of two males and a female. The searchers are still digging with the expectation of finding others. The body of Miss Olson was found buried two feet under that of Held- gren and covered with a mattress, on top of which it is reported the bodies of the other three unknown persoms were found. IMMENSE DAMAGE DONE. Btorm of Unusual Severity at St. Louis and Vicinity. St. Louls, May j—A thunder storm of unusual severity, accompanied by 3 high wind of almost tornado veloc- ity, swept over this vicinity, doing much damage to property and indirect- ly causing loss of life. A bridge on the Louisville and Nashville road near Belleville, I, was washed out and wrecked a freight train. Engineer Ward, Fireman Chasm and a trainman were caught under the engine and drowned. The train was piled up in a mass in Schoenlaub creek, which was swollen into a torrent. The village of Edgemont, Ill, was flooded and many persons were forced to take refuge on improvised rafts. The whole area of lowlands, known as the American bottoms, east of East St. Louis, IlL, and comprising thirty- five square mile, of territory, is under water. The first floors of houses in the American bottoms are flooded and farmers are utilizing rafts and boats in rescue work. It is believed the loss of live stock will aggregate a large amount. French Village, a town of 1,000 in- habitants, one of the oldest settle- ments in 1llinois, was struck by a minjature tornado #nd many houses were unroofed. The panic stricken inhabitants fled into the storm to es- cape injury by collapsing houses. Tel- ephone and telegraph Wires are down and there is no communication with French Village. ‘Traffic is impeded on electric lines running to various points east and north of East St. Louis, Ill, because of high water. In St. Louis the wind blew down trees, sign boards, broke in many store show windows and crippled tele- phone and telegraph wires to a large extent. ELEVEN OF THE CREW LOST 8teamer Off Oregon Coast. Hit by Huge Wave. Newport, Ore, May .—During a storm on the coast the steamer Minne E. Kellon shifted and sprung a bad leak. A few hours later a huge wave struck the vessel and washed her. deck and cabin, leaving the vessel waterlogged and unmanage- able. Eleven of the crew were drowned, some while trying to launch a boat. Four men on a raft tried to get ashore, but only one succeeded and he sustained & broken leg. The lifesav- ing crew of this place took nine men off the vessel and landed them on the shore about Tiftéen miles north of here. The Minnie E, Kellon was bound from Aberdeen to San Francisco loaded with lumber in command of Captain James McKenna. The vessel was picked up by the steamer Washington and towed to Astoria. Distinguished Norwegian Visitor. New York, May .\—Bishop Anton C. Bang, at one time secretary of the late King Oscar IL of Sweden and Norway, has arrived from Christiania on the steamer Helligolav. The bishop came here to unveil on May 17 the statue of the Norwegian poet, Henri ‘Wergeland, which was presented by Norway to the Normonne society of Minneapolis. Bishop Bang will pay a visit to President Roosevelt, to whom he brings personal greetings from King Haakon of Norway. Says Government Was Cheated. Washington, May ..—In a speech in the house Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska charged that the govern- ment had been cheated out of no less than $57,000,000 by the sale by the in- terior department of 8,000,000 acres of timber and stone lands at the mini- mum price. He contended that where- as only $2.68 an acre had been re- ceived much more could have been ob- tained if the department had not sold the land for the lowest price fixed by the law. Grady Going to Congress. New York, May .—Senator Thomas F. Grady, who has announced his re- tirement from the legislature at the end of his present term, is to be pro- moted to congress, taking the place of ‘W. Bourke Cockran. This announce- ment was made upon high authority in Tammany Hall and it was further announced that Senator James Fraw- ley is also to be sent to Washington { to succeed Francis Burton Harrison. ENDS ALL BY SUICIDING. Ohio Man Kills Two Persons and Wounds a Third. ‘Washington Courthouse, O., May 7. —Bert Devaney, aged forty-three, a well known horseman and driver of John Hancock, shot and killed Lida Bird, aged twenty-two, a colored girl, end shot her mother in the abdomen, inflicting a probable fatal wound. He then ran across the town to the barn of Silas Shackelford, where he took refuge.” Refusing to come out Shack- elford went in after him and was shot and killed by Devaney. Later Devaney committed suicide. It is thought Devaney was insane. Following the shooting of the two women the authorities organized a posse and Company M. Fourth regi- ment, was called out, permission hav- ing been given by Governor Harris. The officers surrounded the barn and threatened to burn it. Finally persons ventured up to the barn door and saw Shackelford’s body, TUnder cover they removed it to the outside. Nothing was then seen of Devaney, but several shots having been heard it was supposed that De- vaney had committed suicide and upon going into the barn officers found his body, he having sghot himself in the head. Devaney shot the girl and her| mother when he called at their hom and was refused admittance. The col- ored girl was a graduate of the high school. Devaney was separated from his wife, who lives at Darbyville, THREE STATES SUFFER. Portion of the South Visited by An- other Severe Storm. Memphis, Tenn., May 7.—Three per- sons dead, several others injured, con- siderable property loss and a demorali- zatlon of traffic resulted from the storm of wind and rain which swept over Southern Arkansas, Western Ten- nessee and Mississippl. The wind razed a number of small buildings and tangled telegraph and telephone wires, while the rain caused numerous wash- outs along the railroads, delaying traffic and causing other damage. The greatest damage and loss of life occurred in Arkansas. At Marche the Polish settlement was badly dam- aged, three persons killed and another fatally injured. Meager reports from Conway and Faulkner counties tell of damage by the storm. Watsen, in Desha county. is reported practically destroyed. In Western Temmessee and Missis- sippi the railroads suffered the great- est damage because of washouts, al- though reports from outlying .districts are that a number of small buildings and barns were destroyed. So far as can be ascertained, however, no one ‘was seriously injured. DELEGATION UNINSTRUCTED That of New Jerséy Not Pledged to Any Republican Candidate. Trenton, N. J., May 7.—The " Re- publican state convention to select delegates to attend the natfonal con- vention at Chicago named a delegation that is uninstructed. The convention also voted down resolutions endorsing the candidacy of Secretary of War ‘Taft for president and favoring the re- nomination of President Roosevelt. A resolution favoring former Gov- ernor Franklin Murphy for vice presi- dent was adopted without opposition. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Mrs. Russell Sage, it is said, con- templates making a gift to New York elty of sufficient money to restore the city-hall from top to bottom. Baron Albert A. Schlippenhach, for thirteen years Russian consul general in Chicago, has been notified of his appointment to be consul general in New York city. The American Tobacco company has declared a quarterly dividend of 2% per cent and an extra dividend of b per cent. This is unchanged from the corresponding quarter of last year. President Roosevelt has announced that he will shortly send to the senate the nomination of James J. Crossley of Towa to be United States attorney for the Third district of Alaska to succeed Nathan anlan, resigned, HOTHGHTONHARMON Bitter Opposition to His Candidacy for Governor of Ohio. TOM JOHNSON IN CONTEST Former Attorney General Alleged to Be Supported by the Liquor Inter- ests and His Connection With Labor Injunctions Is Revived. Columbus, 0., May .—A sensation was created preliminary to the meet- ing of the Democratic state conven- tion by the rumor that Mayor Johnson of Cleveland has prepared an address to the people of Ohio which he will give out shortly, saying that the can- didacy of former Judge Judson Har- mon for governor is a trap set by enemies of William J. Bryan to catch Bryan’s friends. Johnson admitted that he had prepared an address and said it was practically as stated. In addition he says that the Harmon movement “is a foolish attempt on the part of the liquor interests of Ohio JUDSON HARMON. to plaster the whisky label all over the Democratic party and sidetrack &ll other important issues.” “It js time to clear the atmosphere,” says Johnson, “It is foggy with deals, trickery and selfishness.” The temperance issue and an attack upon Mr. Harmon by the labor inter- ests came with suddenness. It is be- lieved that Mayor Johnson may be back of both, some of Harmon’s friends at least declaring that the Cleveland mayor instigated them. It is charged that Harmon is supported by the liquor interests. His connec- tlon with the famous labor injunction matter under Judge William H. Taft, now secretary of war, is also brought up by the labor interests, The Har- mon supporters are plainly annoyed at this attack and the fight is becoming more bitter. Harmon, however, still is far in the lead for the nomination for governor. A peculiar thing about- the Harmon candidacy is that Harmon himself is not here, nor is it positively known publicly that he wants the nomination. WAGE DISPUTE UNSETTLED Indiana Miners May Decide to Go on -Strike. Terre Haute, Ind., May .—The dele- gate convention of Indiana coal miners met to hear the report of the joint scale committee appointed March 30 and which has been meeting almost daily since. No agreement has been reached. The points of difference with the operators were discussed be- hind closed doors. Members of the scale committee desire authority to make concessions or to declare a strike, The operators say the ques- tion is up to the miners, POSTAL - SAVINGS BANKS. President Expresses Earnest Desire for Legislation. Washington, May 4. — President Roosevelt expressed to Senator Carter of the senate committee on postoffices and postroads his earnest desire to see a postal savings bank bill become & law at this session. Senator Carter told the president he thought the bill, which had been favorably reported to the senate, would be taken up by that body at an early date and that it { Would pass both houses and become a law_ without serious opposition. Italian Factions Clash, Marquette, Mich.,, May J—As the result of a vendetta warfare at Prince- ton, near here, Andrea Collio is dead and three other men are wounded. Italians from hostile provinces clashed and two men named Berrando and Dozi are accused of shooting Gollio, They are in jail here. REPUBLICANS HOLD CAUCUS But Adjourn Without Achieving Any Definite Result. Washington, May 7.—The Repub- lican members of the house of repre- sentatives were in caucus for three hours in an effort to agree upon a plan for currency legislation, but ag- journed without achieving any defl- pite result. The meeting was early resolved into a conference and pru ceeded with the understanding that the result, whatever it might be, should not be binding upon members. There was a large attendance. but no very marked enthusiasm except of ¢ personal character when Speaker Car non took the floor. It was eviden from the beginning that there were 80 many members who would desire to be heard that it would be impossi- ble to reach a conclusion at one sit- ting, and it was unanimously agreed to adjourn for twenty-four hours. The discussion was based on the following resolution, which was introduced by Representative Bennett of New- York: “Resolved, That the conference ap- proves the underlying principles of the Vreeland bill, namely, the recogni- tion of commereial paper through | clearing house associations as a safe and logical asset for emergenoy cur- rency, and also approves the proposi- tion for a currency commission, and be it further resolved that a com- mittee of five be appointed to perfect the bill, such committee to report the perfected bill at an adjourned meeting to be held in five days.” A number of speeches for and against the resolution were heard, notably one by Speaker Cannon warm- ly supporting it. Forty-four Governors Will Attend. Washington, May 7.—Forty-four governors of states and territories will participate in the White House con- ference on natural resources, which will be held here next week. All of these have definitely promised to at- tend, including Governor W. F. Frear, who is making a 4,000-mile trip from Hawalii especially for the conference. MARKET QUOTATIONS, Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, May 6.—Wheat—May, $1.08%; July, $1.07%4@1.07%; Sept., 91%c. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.11%; No. 1 Northern, $1.09%; No. 2 North- ern, $1.07%; No. 3 Northern, 99%c@ $1.04%, St. Paul- Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, May 6.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@6.75; fair to good, $5.00@5.75; good to choice cows and heifers, $5.00; veals, $3.75@5.25. Hogs —$5.30@5.50. Sheep—Wethers, $5.25; good to choice lambs, $6.25@6.50. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, May 6.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.10%; No. 1 Northern, $1.08%; No. 2 Northern, $1.04%; May, $1.06%; July, $1.06%; Sept., 90%c. Flax—To arrive and om track, $1.20; May, $1.19%; July, $1.- 21%; Sept.,, $1.221%; Oct., $1.21%. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, May 6.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.75@7.25; Texans, $4.60@6.50; West- ern cattle, $4.70@6.00; stookers and feeders, $3.70@5.80; cows and heifers, $2.50@6.80; calves, $4.75@6.25. Hogs —Light, $5.30@5.67%; heavy, $5.30@ 5.70; rough, $5.30@5.45; mixed, $5.35 @5.75; plgs, $4.40@5.20; good - to. choice heavy, $5.45@5.70. Sheep, $4.25 @86.10; yearlings, $6.25@6.80; lambs, $5.75@7.60, Chicago Grain_and Provisions. Chicago, May 5.—Wheat—May, $1.- 02%; July, 90@90%¢c; Corn—May, 70%c; July, 64%0; Sept., 62%c; Dec., 54l40. Oats—May, old, b4%c; May, 53c; July, old, 46%c; July, 4Bc; Sept, 36% @37c. Pork— May, $13.27%; July, $13.50; Sept., $13.77%. Butter—Creameries, 19@ 26c; dairies, 18@24c. Bggs—148ec. Poultry—Turkeys, 14c; chickens, 11c; broilers, per dozen, $8.50@5.50. 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