Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 11, 1909, Page 6

SUFFERERS GET LITTLE RELIEF Red Tape Causes Delay in Aiding the Destitute. HAYOR BUSSE IS AROUSED Wilt Demand That a_Portion of the Fund Raised in Chicago Be Turned Over to the United Mine Workers for Distribution—Specific Complaints by Investigating Committee From Windy City. Chicago, Dec. 1 .—Public officials and citizens of Chicago, stirred to ac tion by the reports that survivors ot ' the men who met death in the St. Paul coal mine at Cherry, Ill., are destitute and hungry in that doomed mining town, will make a detailed report tc Sincerity Glothes “rigid dictations, Hirsh Wickwire Clothes Harvard Brand Clothes Hercules Boys’ Clothes . Mayor. Busse and demiand that Tie take action at once. Aldermen Cermak.and Scully, mem 1 bers of the committee in charge of the | fund raised in Chicago, say that there is'too much red tape being used in the relief work at-Cherry. Mayor Busse will demand that a part of the funds raised in Chicago be taker out of the hands of the Red Cross and be placed in the hands of the United Mine Workers, it is believed, as he made a statement in which he said that “red tape must be cut out at once.” Some of the specific complaints of the Chicago investigating body are that there has been no coffee, tea, or sugar distributed in Cherry; that ng fresh meat has been given the be. there are no persons there to give medical attention to the needy and that no-less than half a carload ot breakfast foods and food of a kind that the miners’ families are unused to eating and preparing was found in a distributing station. ‘When the temperature was taken in the sealed tomb.at the second level it was 102 degrees—two degrees low- er than the previous day. It will be at least two weeks, officials say, be- fore the mine can be reopened. reaved survivors within a week; that| Y v ust G gardiess of Cost The fabrics are Domestic and Imported $12.5() values, $7.48 Worsteds, Cheviots, Scotches and Tweeds, NAGEL ONE OF SPEAKERS Many Addresses Made at Rivers and Harbors Congress. ‘Washington, Dec. 1i.—Words that rang true to the cause of waterway improvement, ‘and which came from speakers: representing every section of the Pnited States, stirred up en- thusfasm in the National Rivers and harbors congress. v .. That there was no reason for.delay ‘ln formulating the policy of making effective for navigation the water tourses of the nation and that the only thing’ to, be considered was a the opinfon of many delegates. Pointing out that the improvement of the rivers and harbors of the coun- try was one that neither private enter- prise nor state appropriation - could handle, Secretary Nagel insisted that the national government was bound to | improve those waterways. - He hoped that whatever would be dome would be so comprehensive as to insure the completion on a proper scale of any work undertaken. . - Senator Burton defended congress -against the charge of niggardliness in river and harbor improvement, saying that in fourteen years, elevea of which he was chairman of the rivers and project for national development was| ' . | Tiver and harbor improvement. savine SN gress had appropriated $300,000,000 for that purpose, which was more than had ever been devoted to a simiiar! purpose in an equal amount of time by any nation. 3 FIVE MEMBERS OF ~ THE GREWPERISH Big Steel Freighter Sinks Near ~ Buffalo, N, Y. Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 10.—The W, C. Richardson, a big steel freighter, sank, at a point five miles up the lake from | Buffalo harbor and five members of the crew went down with the ship. * Captain Griesser and the lifesaving erew went to the rescue and saved the other members of the crew, most of whom had grabbed lifebelts and Jumped into the water. Samuel Mayberry of Cleveland, chief engineer of the steamer Richardson, and four members of the engine room crew were drowned. Their bodies have not yet been recovered. The steamer was owned by the GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! Sale Opens Friday Morning at 9 o’clack HERE’S YOUR OPPORTUNITY As our $15,000 stock of high grade merchandise in regardless of cost. These Overcoats are the finest example of $1250 v | the charity corporation to which she Richardson Transportation corapany o' Cleveland and was in command of Cap ! tain William Burke. She was bound from Duluth to Buffalo with a carga| of 200,000 bushels of flax seed. The| boat was valued at $200,000; carga | $370,000. CLEARS WAY FOR CHARITY Highest Court Denies Last Application | of Wilder Heirs. St. Paul, Dec. 1 —The supreme! court of the United States has denied| the application for a writ of certiorari: in the litigation by which half a dozen California nieces and nephews of the' late Mrs. Fannie 8. Wilder hoped to ‘divert’ her estate from the hands of | left it into their own. This makes available for St. Paul charities about- $1,800,000 worth ot property, consisting mostly of real es- tate scattered widely throughout the Northwest. Probably fifty pieces of real estate, many of -them improved, are located in St. Paul. The rest is farm land in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, Iowa, Illinois and other states. This property comprised the estates left to charity by the late Mrs. Fannie S. Wilder and by her daughter, Mrs, Cornelia. Day Wilder 'Appleby. The mother’s estate is valued at about _ Men’s and Boy’s Wearing Apparel to go at a big sacrifice, Marvelous offerings of the season’s choicest productions in styles for Men and Boys. finest example of America’s greatest clothing craftsmen. Every Suit and Coat built strictly upon fashion’s most perfect in tailoring and equal to the most exacting demands of the most particular dressers. at Values in Wilson Bros. Furnishings Rosswell and Tiger Hats $1,200,000. The fortune was amassed by the late Amherst H. Wilder, wha also left $400,000 to charity. VILLAGE IS RAVAGED BY FIRE Flames Wipe Out Business District of Utica, O. Columbus, O., Dec. 10.—The village of Utica, a town of 900 people, in Lick- ing county, was practically wiped out by fire and orne man, Edward Daum of | Lancaster, O., a guest of the Hotel | Vando, was burned to death. Thirty- five other guests of the hotel had nar- row escapes and were forced to leave ; the building in their night clothes. The entire business section of the town was destroyed, the loss being esti- mated at $100,000. Strike Threats Lack Foundation. Chicago, Dec. 10.—There is no dan- ®er of an extension of the strike of the Switchmen’s union in Chicago un- til after negotiations have been held between the local grievance commit- tee of the union and the general managers’ conference committee. This was admitted by local leaders of the switchmen, who added that no strike vote had heen taken by the members of the Chicago lodge. TUntil such a vote ie taken, they sald, threats of a strike are without foundation. Geo. T. 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