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

washington Notes.

! GOV. Gen. Wood shows that Cuba's
affairs are In an excellent condition.
Secretary Long has issued an order
for the Seh1ey court Of inquiry to con-
vene Sept IL.
| Gen. Miles has made a formal recon-
mendation that a light battery be TO-
Gated at Fort Smelling.
/ The report that Ambassador Choate
was acting as an intermediary between
| the Britons and the Beers proves un-
true.
The postofIice department plans to
! give special money order blanks free 70
/ firms In the habit OF patronizing thai
branch Of the service.
| Col Dunwoody, acting chief signal
| officer, has ordered Lieut.. Mitchell and
| twenty men to go to Fort Egbert,
Alaska, for duty on the military teie-
graph line.
/ Capt. C. A. Flag1er has reported TO
the chief OF engineers that he has COM
pleted the work Of removing the wreck
| OF the CristobaI Colon from the en-
trance Of San Juan harbor, Porto Rico,
| where she was sunk by the Spaniards,
| Casualties.
| "A bride Of a day died while dancing
at her own wedding festivities.
| Fire In the rear Of the Bonneville
{Mo.) steam laundry destroyed $4,000.
worth OF property. 5
| Three men were drowned by the
sinking Of the whaleback barge Saga
more in collision with the Northern
Queen.
The British bark Lizzie Bell Capt.
| Whelan, bound for New Caste, n. s..
| w, was wrecked at Cape event, N.
g., and tvt Give of her crew a~S missing
| Fire destroyed twenty nine houses
and one convent cit La Prairie, quebec.
! The most inn o1tant structur: Durnei
was the Convent OF the Cor gregg ton OF
| Notre Dame. The loss was about $780,
00c.
At Nashua. N. H.. the ccoperage
plant OF Proctor Bros, and the stave-
drying she OF the White Mountain
| Freezer company and seven tenement
houses were burned, causing loss OF
100000.
The cooperage plant Of the Proctor
| Brothers and the stave drying shed of
the White Mountain Freezer company
and seven tenement houses burned at
Nashua, N. H., causing loss estinla-
ted at 100000.
| The st. Francis mill, owned by the
| Canada Paper company and Its con-
tents, valued at s250,000, at Windsor
Mills, Que, were totally DESTROYED by
fire. The burning Of the mills throws
about 1875 men out Of employment.
Henry r.. L,Hommediu, son Of Supt.
IL,Honmediu Of the Michigan Central,
was instently killed at Ann Arbor, by
an express train on the Michigan Gem:
ltral, while he was assisting Railroad
Engineer AGams In surveying IN the
railr Dad y; rds.
| CrIminnl.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Burr Ferguson of New
York, were relieved Of $4,000 worth or
Jewels at the Antlers at Colorado
| Springs. The room was entered ana
their trunks ransacked.
| Mrs. Corinne Shepardson Of Chicago
alleges that two fashionably dressed
women, who. she thinks were acting
for a mysterious stranger, tried TO
kidnap her fourteen-year- daughter
last evening. 1,
r. T.. Taliafero and wife OF Carroll
county, Mississippi. were found dead IN
bed with their heads split open. me
murder was committed by negroes out
of revenge for the recent lynching OF
colored man who attempted to poison
| the family.
r. M Smallwood of Indianapolis. q
clerk in the railway mail service, has
| been arrested. charged with taxing
money from the mails He admitted
his guilt. Inspector Fletcher alleges
THAT Smallwood has been stealing let-
tiers for three years.
| r.. Kirby, proprietor Of the Park h no.
tel Dodge City, an. shot and killed MS
wife and then shot himself. both dying
| instantly The wife was shot In the
| forehead, Kirby in the throat. The
cause assigned is a dispute over prop
erty. Kirby was forty and his Wife
thirty-six years old.
In a row at Forest City Park, Cleve-
Hand. Ohio, Otto B. Seefried, manager
Of the park, 1t is claimed, shot into the
crowd that was raising disturbance,
/ ana 1nJuTeCls Iolustso 4sihiteINkoAs,8 ~
| ably fatally. bullet passing through
his abdomen f iward Yarnham was
shot in the knee, but is not seriously in
jured.
| At Gleason, Ariz., Jack Koen, who
belongs to a prominent Boston family,
was shot and instantly killed by Con-
stable Mart Moore. The shooting oc-
CURED during the excitement incident
to the attempted escape of a prisoner
| whom Moore had In custody. Koen
was accused of aiding the prisoner,
who made a break for liberty.
| Foreign.
German newspapers again take occa-
sion to vent their spite on the United
/ States.
M. Santon-D umont astounds with an
exhibition OF his control over his ar
i ship.
i New customs duties in China viii
4 hanefit the -four business of the United