Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 23, 1914, Page 4

CHINESE BANDITS SLAY HUNDREDS Sack Town and Kill Men, Women and Children. TROOPS IN FEAR OF THEN Thousand Government . Soldlers . Converging on Enemy’s Stronghold Show Strong Inclination to Keep at a Safe Distance. Peking, Feb. 23.—The bandits led by White Wolf massacred 1,300 men, women and children when they sack- ed Liunchow, province of Nganhwei, on Jan. 29. On that occasion they murdered Father Rich, a French Jes- uit missionary, and captured and held two foreigners for ransom._ An army of 25,000 Chinese troops is converging on White Wolf's strongly entrenched position in the vicinity of Chengyangwan. White Wolf has a force “of 2,000, half of whom are armed with modern rifles. The opinion is expressed here that unless the opportunity is seized of ex- terminating White Wolf and his fol- lowers they “will form the center for another rebellion. The government troops, however, show a strong dis- inclination to come to close quarters with the bandits. Twenty.five Orlental Gunmen Strike, San Francisco, Feb. 23.—The very latest thing in strikes is on here. Re- cently Yim Tong, 3 Suey Sing Tong gunman, was “fired” from the or- ganization. Nineteen other expert trigger pullers immediately handed in their resignations. TELLS OF PEONAGE IN COPPER COUNTRY Strikebreaker Says He Was Held Prisoner by Armed Guards. Hancock, Mich,, Feb. 23.—With & $6 bill, said to have been given him by a member of the congressional inves- tigating committee, tucked in his pocket, Herbert G. Schamm, an im- ported strikebreaker, who testified in behalf of the miners ‘in the.strike probe here, is en route to his home in Bay City, Mich,, to join his wife and three youngsters. Schamm’s story, told in the inquiry into alleged conditions of peonage in the copper country, touched the hearts of the the congressmen and corrobo- rated stories of other witnesses for the miners. Out of work, he went to Detroit to seek employment as a machinist, he said, and when his search proved fruitless and he became penniless he joined a party of strikebreakers en route to the copper country under the impression that the strike was prac- tically ended. “I thought it was a free country up here, but I found out differently,” he told the committee. “Guards keptme in a bunkhouse and wouldn’t let me go off the company property. In- stead of being able to send my wife some money they told me after I had worked twenty-six days that I owed the company money. All I want is a chance to-get back to my family."” Would Bar Crime Pictures. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 23 —A move was made in the senate to prohibit Cana- dian papers from publishing the pie- tures of persons accused or con- demned of crime, except with the con- sent of the superior court judge or of the attorney general of a province. e . ] 5-8186 S-8211 $-8213 Free—A New LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL PATTERN During the week of Feb. 23d to Feb. 28th, 1914 we will celebrate Home Pattern Week and will give you without charge dress patterns No. 8211, 8213, 8186 in your size. There is a simplicity and exactness about these patterns that wins a woman every time. and they produce a dress that is distinctive. They save material The woman who uses one of the new Ladies’ Home Journal Patterns keeps on using them. That is why we can afford to give you one free. Select the style you prefer from those shown above. Get it at our Pattern Counter any day from Feb. 23rd to Feb. 28th, i1014 Spring Goods After you have selected your Free pattern our sales people would be pleased to show the Spring Suits, Coate, Silks, Wash Goods, Ginghams and Laces. Spring Goods arriving daxly, something new to show each day. DROWNED IN EFFORT T0 RESCUE OTHERS Fourteen Lifesavers Plflfll ont| the Irish Coast. i/ Queenstown, Fourteen when they went out from Fethard to rescue the orew of the Noorweglan bark Mexico, driven on the rocks near the Saltee islands, Wexford. Two liteboats answered the distress call of the Mexico, bound from La- guna, Mex., to Falmouth. The first|* to reach her was stove in, but the ‘Ireland, Feb, 23.— litesavers were able to scramble on board the Mexico, where they re- mained all night. ‘When the crew of the bark and the liteboat men landed safely on one.of the islands later they found that the second lifeboat had sunk with its crew of fourteen men. OFFICIAL NOTE IS ISSUED Britain Awaiting American Probe of Benton's Death. London, Feb. 23.—The British gov- ernment, for the present at least, will leave the investigation-of the execu- tion in Mexico of Willlain S. Benton, a British ranch owner, wholly in '.ho hands of the United States. The for- elgn office issued this statement: Great lifesavers were drowned|. To th .dglth&pe:nn;n:ngth:best cupy the space e. t luymmhaprlnr? e . Fort}:eueondbutld a cash fill i th blnekldupmem .in the blank s ith good con- somfi. showing why the is'the best range." The two winning" ads will be “mti’ef ing weeks, 8 weel Allcop mmm this store . night, Feb. at 88001: Competent judges will award TiZEs. - “At the request of his majesty’s|the pi ambassador at Washington the Unit- ed States government, which has promised: protection to British sub- Jects in such parts of Mexico where no British consulates exist, has in- structed United States consular rep- resentatives thoroughly to investigate the- circumstances of Willlam H. Benton’s death.” The formal statement by the for- eign office that the American govern- ment is handling the inquiry into the alleged killing of Benton by General Francisco Villa was the only official comment of the British government. All of the London newspapers fail- ed to comment editorially on the ex- ecution of the British ranchman at Juarez, evidently aweaiting some offi- clal statement before going into the ethics of the incident. But the en- tire press devoted much space to news stories of the affair, VILLA'S ARMY AWAITS HIM Attack on Torreon to Begin Immedi- ately on His Arrival, El Paso, Tex.,, Feb. 2 ‘The Tor- reon attack will begin just as soon as I can get at the head of my troops,” said General Francisco Villa, com- mander of the Constitutionalist troops of Chihuahua, before he departed on a special train for the south. He does not intend to return to the bor- der until after the battle, he said. General Villa took with him a car- load of ammunition. The cannon for which he had been waiting at the border did not arrive and when they do they will be sent south on a spe- clial train. The Constitutionalists will be han- dicapped in the Torreon battle be- cause of the inability to get shrap- nel ammunition in the United States to fit the foreign made pleces of Vil- la’s artillery. Anti-American Paper Suppressed. Mexico City, Feb. 23.—Ignacio Al cocer, minister of the interior, neti- filed. all the newspapers that anti- American attacks by them must cease. The minister also announced that “Mister Lind,” a new weekly newspaper which -was wholly devoted to attacking Americans, would be sup- pressed. FIREBUG IMPERILS DANCERS Hitchcock (S. D.) Opera House Incen-| diary Foiled for a Time. Hitchcock, 8. D., Feb. 23.—While a dance was in progress in the opera| house hall here an attempt was made to burn the building. Corncobs sat rated in kerosene oil had been placed against the side of the theater and set on fire, but they were extinguished, before the flames reached the build- ing. An hour later, after the dance had' ended, fire started in the general store of M. I Gifford, burning that hlllld— ing and the opera house. A serious fire in the village six months ago was also believed to have | been of incendiary origin. JAP SUBMARINE IS MISSING Naval Authorities Fear Vessel Has Gone Down With Crew. Hiroshaima, Japan, Feb. 23.—A Jap- anege submarine attached to the pro- GIVEN HARDWARE COMPANY _ BEMIDJI, MINN. r copy for this SUPERB UNIVERSAL GUILTY. CASHIER TO. PRISON Former Jamestown, N. Y. Banke Must Serve Four Years:- ‘Mayville, N: Y., Feb. 23.—Edward Morgan, former cuhier ‘of the First Natlonal' bank of Jamestown, sen: tenced to four years:in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of grand larceny, will be taken to Auburn prison Monda; 8 pleaded guilty was that of approppriat. ing to his use a fund‘of which he was trustee. ‘Morgan, it' was charged also appropriatéd’ * over - '§14,000"* of “‘the bank’s funds.” The' chaige of robbery bas not yet Been tried, HARRY. THAW TO STAY.IN JAIL No Definite:«Ruling on. Petition Bail ‘Untit Supreme Court Acts,, - Coticori, N. H., Féb. 23.—The Har. 1y K: Thaw. hue-u corpus hearing has closed. : Decision will -not be rendered for at least twenty da; that time has been grauted attorneys -for the fugitive and the state of New York in which to fille additional briefs. A pro forma decision, which will leave the case essenttally unchanged and’ will merely shift the responsibil- ity of decleidn to the United sm.n supreme coutt, is expected. - ‘SUFFRAGE TEST UNDECIDED Illlnol- Bupnml Court Adjourns Without Giving Declsion: Springfleld; -1ll,, Feb. 28.—The Il nois supreme' court adjourned for the February ‘term without giving ‘a de- cision on the’ woman suffrage test case appealed from Chicago. This leaves in uncertainty the right of the 2,000,000 women in Illinois to vote and may result in election” con- -tests in over 200 Illinois precincts in ‘which local option elections will be held in ‘April; and in which'the wom- en will vote pending the decision. e g FIVE CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE Perish. Whe Home of ‘Lumberman Is Destroyed by ‘Flames. Ashland, Me., Feb. 23.—Five of -the i| six children of Joseph Smart, a lum- berman, were: burned to death when their house at Eagle Lake was.de- atmyed by. fire. = AmeFicans " Escape Injury. mme. Feb,. 2! were 'killed Springfield; Til.,-Feb. 2. 1y P schmidt, conyvicted m the Adams coun- tected cruiser Hirado has been miss- | t¥ ing for three days. The naval author- ities believe she has met with disaster and that all on board have beem drowned. = The submarine had been dispatched to search for torpedoes lost during practice off Kakumajima. TO STUDY SOCIAL INSURANCE National Civic Federation Names Com. mittee. New York, Feb.. 23.—George W. 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