The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-01-10
Domestic.

Senator Quay has secured control OF
both houses OF the Pennsylvania legis-
lature.
Benjamin Odell has taken Theodore
Roosevelt's place as governor Of New
| York.
Aaron r. Bliss Of Saginaw was In
augurated governor of Michigan at the
state capitol building.
Ex-Bandit Frank James is leading
candidate for the house OF representa-
4 tives doorkeeper at st. Louis, Mo.
Four hundred employees Of the Ma
tional Steel company at Sharon, Pa,
have had their wages cut 10 per cent.
A great strike has been made at
| Tanana, Alaska, and prospectors are
taking out gold at the rate Of s14 per
pan. 5}
Miss Helen Gould gives authoritati tive
4 dental to the report from Denver that
l she invested in mines at Two Bit
! GuIch.
Smith observatory, Geneva N. X. 4, an
nounces the discovery of three small
planets near Eros.
| Chief Pakeekamaque Of the Sac and
| Fox Indians at Tanla, Iowa. has
brought suit against H. M. Roheck,
former Indian agent, for $4,000.
About 1,500 people employed in the
| stemmery Of the Continental Tobacco
company in Louisville went out on d
strike for an advance in wages.
| A conference of representative clergy
men and laynaen was held in Philadel-
phia for the purpose Of inaugrating the
| movement to suppress vice in large
| cities. Il
| A Pullman car with sixteen passen-
gers and three trainmen is quarantined
1 in the mountains near Denver because
q California woman on board has
| smallpox.
Wesley Dugan, a public school teach
er near Petersburg, Ind, was the VIC
1 tim Of hazing at the hands Of his
pupils, which came near costing him his
life by drowning.
The Nebraska legislature met on the
j first. The Republicans controlled both
| houses and selected G.. r. Steele as
president Of the senate and w. q. Sears
speaker of the house.
4 Rev. T.. c.. Stackhouse of Lexington
KY, has assigned. He is one of the
most noted preachers in the Baptist de-
nomination in Kentucky and has been
for years a breeder of fine trotting
horses.
/ Samuel Riddles Sons, woolen manu-
tfacturers, with mills located at Glen
Riddle, Pa, have presented a petition
in voluntary bankruptcy. The assets
are said to be; S2s4,242 and the liabili-
/ ties 1901, 900.
One thousand structural iron workers
lin Pittsburg struck for an advance OF
f6 cents per hour in wages and a nine
hour day. Not single man Is working
and a number of important contrcts
are tied up.
/ +. K. McIlwaine, a member of the
American chamber of commerce In
Paris, is now in Philadelphia CLOSING
] negotiations for the sale of coal to the
French government. The order, he
says, may reach 100000 TONS
1 The Hartford sailed from Curacao to
La Guira, Venezuela. Tt Will remain In
! Venezuelan waters looking after Amer
1 lean interests, Capt. Hawley cooper
atfng to that end with Minister LOOMS
probably until relieved by the Lancas-
ter, a training ship.
William c. whitney and a number Of
/ his fellow New York mf1lionaires pur-
pose the establishment in the Adiron-
daeks of the LARGEST game preserves in
| the world, rivaling In extent of terri
tory and variety and size Of game tht
/ imperial preserve OF Russia.
The resignation of Bishop II. NJ. Tur-
ner as president OF the College of Afri-
4 can Methodist Episcopal Bishoas was
announced on account of disagree
rpent The trouble leading up to the
resignation is said to be due to dissat-
isfaction in the college certain bishops
ohjecting to assignments which has
been given them.