The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-08-15
Crimes and Criminals.


| Walt Whitman and Artemus Ward.
Crimes and Criminals.
At Allentown, Pa, Leonard q Sc
fing's 3ewelry store was robbed Of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. Two young
men, who are missing, are suspected Of
having committed the robbery. One Of
them was an apprentice in the store.
"a special from Warwick. N. X, says
that William Miller, a resident OF that
place, who had been indicted for an as
sault on an eleven-year-old girl, was
shot and mortally wounded while es-
Gaping from q house in which he had
been placed by the sheriff.
Al young man was found lying by the
roadside two miles from Charlotte, n.
c., in an unconscious condition. He
was taken to the city hospital, where
he died an hour later. The coroner's
inquest developed a case OF murder and
robbery.
David L. Short and Morris Myers
Jointly indicted with Albert T. Patrick
in connection with the alleged forgery
Of a will of William Marsh Rice, We're
released from the Tombs, New York
city, on the deposit OF SIS, 900 cash bail
They had been confined since March
20.
John Adams and Samuel Large. en-
ployes at the Terre Haute, Ind, car
works, were fined 81 and costs each, for
calling Joseph Parish. fellow work
man, Mark Hanna" Parish was SO
tormented and provoked by the men
that he resigned his position. and then
preferred charges against them in a
Justice court.
Judge e. %. Rognon, Judge Of the
United States commissioners court at
Teller City, Alaska, has been indicted
BY the federal grand jury and arrested
on the charge Of misuse Of government
money 1t is charged that the Judge
used government money for the pur-8
chase OF supplies and a building, which
he claimed was for gov ernnent use.
General. BIZ
IA vegetable and fruit famine prevails
In Chicago. E i
Well diggers discovered an under q
ground river in Ohio. a Fl
The scarcity of potatoes all oyer the
country has become serious question.
Rear Admiral Howlson. the third
member OF the naval board of inquiry,
is said to be an avowed supporter Of
Sampson.
American citizens refused to testify
In the Nicely postal fraud case, on the
ground that Cuban courts have no jus
risdiction over them. & n
The refusal Of the Cuban consiitu-
tional convention to require ofiicehold-
ers to abdicate is taken to mean that
the coming elections will be farcical.
The appointment Of r. r. Malone as
assistant general passenger agent for
the Chicago Great Western railway,
with headquarters in Chicago. Is an
nounced.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made by
which Mrs Lillian Barnes Allen will
relinquish all demands upon the Toned
Rancocas stud farm bequeathed to her
by the late Pierre Lorillard.
Mrs. Dich Chatham died at her home
In Gainesville, Ga, of hydrophobia.
She was bitten by a mad dog several
days ago. Her daughter was bitten by
the same pet pug at the same time,
and it Is feared that she, too, will have
hydrophobia.
The idea Of destroying the old frigate
Vermont. which. for the past forty
years has done duty as receiving ats,
training ship, has been abandoned. All
that is of value on the old vessel will
be removed and the hull preserved as
relic.
The bureau OF admissions ann. enc =
the attendance at the Pan-American
exposition for the first three ms 1ths.
ending at midnight on July 81. as q
T24, sos. With the exception of r,e We.:
the admissions have shown a steady in
crease.
Space, or wireless telegraph con,
rniinication between Chicago srd Mii.
waukee. is promised in the near future.
The Chicago milwaukee, line, when
estsablished, will be the first in opera
ton in the United States for CONNER
cial purposes.
when ex- Speaker Reed. at his sum-
ner home In Portland, Me-, was in
formed that he had been mentioned by
a member of the committee of fifteen
as possible candidate for mayor OF
New York. he smiled at what he called
the absurdity of the proposition.
emperor william OF Germany viii be
invited to attend the worlds fair in st.
Louis. Mr.. ]. Schroers, OF the pubic
committee. has been In correspondence
with an official OF the German foreign
office at berlin, and, though no offitial
assurances have been received, ne IS
led to believe that the emperor may
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