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The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12
TO BLOW UP LINER
PLOT is THWARTED JUST IN The
NICK OF TIME BY DE-
TECTlvEs.
THEY FIND AN lNfERNAl MACHINE
BOX CONTAINING A HUNDRED
POUNDS OF DYNAMITE ON
THE PIER.
REVEALED BY WARNING LETTER
DECLARES THAT .MAFlA WILL
MAKE WAR ON BRITISH
VESSELS.

New York, May l2-An internal ma
chine connected With hundred
pounds of dynamite was found in a
box on the Cunard pier Saturday.
According to the expert opinion OF
the superintendent of the bureau OF
combustibles, the box was found and
put into the river just in the nick OF
time to prevent it from exploding and
demolishing the pier and the Umbria,
which was alongside and about to sail
The box was left at the pier in an ap-
parent attempt to have it placed
aboard With the baggage of the pas
sengers The UImbria sailed a few
minutes after the box was discovered
and all on board We're in ignorance of
the attempt to place all internal ma
chine aboard the vessel.
Greeting From Malta.
The discovery of the box was due 20
the following letter received at police
headquarters. addressed to Commits
sioner Greene:
Dear, Sir: The Malta greets you
and wishes you We'll At the Cunard
dock is box containing one hundred
pounds of dynamite. Inside also-is a
machine, properly set, and eXplodes
itself any time within thirty:six hours.
The society has declared war against
England and has ordered the destruc-
ton of every steamer flying the British
flag that sail out of New York harbor.
The undersigned received orders TO
begin operations by sinking the
oceanic. but SO many women and chill
dren took passage on the boat that the
society's plans We're changed at the
last minute The machine in the box
(the first made and crude affair."
is enclosed simply to show how easy
it is
To Sink a Steamer.
and to convince those interested that
the society is nc making idle lnreats.
The society has undertaken TO clear
New York harbor of British ships. and
it will succeed. The reason for this
movement the society does not wish to
disclose; suffice it to say that the so
ciety, in order to protect itself. must
carry the war into the enemy's coun-
try. and it goes without saying that it
proposes to wage war as fiercely as it
knows how. This is the society's first
and last warning, and those who pro
pose to patronize British steamers
must take their chances in the efnturc.
The society asks and gives no quarter,
so--lay on. lay on McDuff and damn,d
be he that cries hold-enough.
-"Pietro de Martini
"P. S. The. battery is not attached,
fuses without caps and lighters not
set. Consequently there is no danger
in handling the box
The box was left at the pier by two
men, apparently Italians who drove a
light wagon. and who told the baggage
master that it would be claimed by a
passenger.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12
NO MASSACRE OF JEWS.
Russian Government Makes a Sweep
inc Denial

Washington. May H. Ambassador
Mccormick at ST. Petersburg cables
the state department that the Russian
government has authorized a formal
denial of the truth of the story circu-
lated by the central committee for the
relief Of the ESishineff sufferers to the
effect that there have been terrible
massacres of Jews in that town and
much suffering among them in other
parts of -Bessarabia- or Southwest -Rils-
sia. The ambassadors dispatch is
very sweeping.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12
LAuNDRYWoRkERs WIN.
Disruption in the Ranks Of the En-
ployers' Association.

Chicago. May II. - All efforts to
reach a settlement OF the laundry
strike at meeting yesterday between
the special committee of the employ
ers failed of results and disruption
of the ranks of the employers asso-
citation is expected to-day. The Evans
ton laundrymen who announced that
they would open their laundries to-day
could not be Influenced by the associa-
ton. and a general break of the en-
ployers is expected to-day.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12
KILLED IN THE FIELD.
Farm Hand and Four Horses Struck
toy-l-i1iI1tfi ,@-s-z=s

Albert Lea, Mimi, May IL. - Late
Saturday afternoon While John CURT
man was plowing on the farm of Al
gust Richler, short distance from
conger. this county a bolt of lightning
killed fuirtman and the four horses he
was using. Deceased was about TWEEN
ty-one years old and had no relatives
here, but has sister in Winona and a
brother N the Northern part of the
state He was brought here some
years ago from an orphans home in
Indiana.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12
"PRETTY WELL MERGED"
Five Families Control Nearly All the
Packino House interests.

Sioux City. Iowa, May r. Michael
Cudahy, at the head Of the Cudahy
packing interests in Sioux City, yester-
day declared: There is no packing
house merger and no prospects Of one
We are pretty we'll merged now he
added Five families of US control 81
per cent of the entire packing industry
-@ss-"
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12
WAR UPON OURS.
Sheriff and His Deputies Are Killing
OFF Ii a "a lzrled Don,

Off Unmuzzled Dogs.
Armour, S. d.. May l2.'rhe boart
Of health Of this county has com
menced d war on dogs 1t lras1orderee
all cHrs to be Rl}yzzled and tho sheriff
and s deputies are out with rifles
shGo Trg all dogs when the ordervhas
MOI b tompliea With. The order is
the ult of an epidemic Of hydro
phobja. j. j. Walsh, a promin"ni
farmer just south Of here, has lost
thirty head Of cattle and two horse s
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12
MAN AND WIFE MEET DEATH.
Home Wrecked by an Explosion and
Both Fatally Injured. .:.,s--

Both Fatally Injured;
Buffalo, N. Y, May 12-Herman M.
Blaisdells of North Collins, former
assemblyman. after whom the town of
Blaisdell, N. Y, is named, and his wife,
were so badly burned in fire which
started from an explosion and which
destroyed their home yesterday. that
they died few hours later. An adopt
ed son, who was the only other occu-
pant of the house at the time of the
explosion, was slightly burned.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12
FATE OF MURDERESS.

Jessie Morrison Must Serve Her SEN
tence.
Topeka. Kan. May 12-The supreme
court affirmed the decision of the low
er court in the case Of the state VS..
Jessie Morrison. Jessie Morrison was
declared guilty of killing Mrs. Olin
Castle three years ago at the Castle
home in Eldorado The decision
means twenty years imprisonment
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12

Manila, May 12-Capt. Pershing and
cashier Of the government plant here,
has been arrested on the charge of em-
bezzlement. His accounts have been
found to be $4,000 short.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-05-12

Watertov. -. Nay u - man
who is supposed TO be Charles spour of
of Vincennes Ind, was found dead in
the woods with a bullet in his brain.
1t is supposed he was in charge OF
car of househould goods going to Alb.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
SCIENCE AND SAFETY.

Where will science concede to us some meausure of safety? It has lately been proved erimentally-which means that it is really so-that books may carry tuberculosis, and it is already
 known that they communicate many
 other infectious diseases. It is no long
 CT safe to borrow book unless we disinfect it thoroughly with powdered formOl. If we fly to the mountains to escape germs, we find that even the pearly raindrops that fall there contain them. Almost any one would suppose that in the middle of the sea we should find surcease from them; but certain conclusive observations lately recorded in the Zeitschrift fur Hygiene and h. fektious-k -krankheiten shows not only that even the water of the central por-
 ton of the North Atlantic Ocean is not wholly free from bacteria, but that the germs in sea water are increasing in number. No sea water and no rain water has been found perfectly de- void of germs, though the rain water over the deep sea is more nearly free from them the rain water that falls over the land. Not all these wandering germs are hurtful, but some of them
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
DEATH OR BEAUTY.

The inquiry into the cause of death of a young girl who had managed to acquire perforation of the stomach through eating raw rice with view to improving her complexion shows that the cult of beauty goes far beyond the region treated by Bond Street special ists. The lower down in the social scale the practice of fighting with unfriendly nature goes, the more unwise is 1t like ly to become. The high priests of Bond Street know something of the action of the drugs they recommend and the oper- ations they employ, and as their clients have for the most part some notion of hygiene they are compelled to give the assurance that their methods are not dangerous to health. Wigs and mas saged complexion may not give the look of youth which those who adopt them imagine, but at least they do not short en life, and the middle-aged woman
 who by their means seeks to keep up her pristine charm does so because life is still sweet She may seek beauty, but she will not risk life for it. But the young girl-and especially the young girl of the humber classes-who seeks
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
4 MICHIGAN NOTION.

4 Michigan legislator has made a ripple by introducing a bill providing for the killing by electricity of all chil- dren who are regarded as hopeless cases. He supports his bill with the plea that humanitarian interests de- mand the removal of children whose minds are such as to render them a burden to society and incapable of happiness for themselves. The bill is based upon the report from the super intendent of an asylum for the feeble minded to the effect that many of the inmates do not possess, nor ever will have, mind enough to know that they are alive.
 Of course this bill wont pass. Michi- gan is either too humane or not hu- mane enough to make it a law. But Representative Rodgers move will cause some talk and more thinking. We kill some of those whose minds are too wicked to make it safe for them to be allowed to live, but we don't kill idiots, even if they are hopeless cases. And we are very good indeed to some who are only feeble minded. They sit in high places and feel as big as if they were really competent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
A strike Bulletin.

Me ole man struck. away las June, an hasn't turned q lick He hasn't even cleaned de clay dat wuz stuck ter his pick. He didn't like de wages dat dey chuckeG inter his mltt- guess dat's what de trouble wuz, but any how, he quit, But, say. I guess de fambly's in de bigges' kind O luck De ole mans in the walkout but me mud der hasn't struck. Me sister Liz wuz woikin' in a place dat sells quick lunch, De boss, he makes some kickSs an dat starts trouble wit de bunch. Dey all goes out an won't go back--you Oughter talk ter Liz She's maxim speeches ever where's about de strikin' biz. Oats all she dOes-jest chews de rag about dc moneved duck, But still we's eatin' reg'lar, cause me mud. der hasn't struck. Me brudder Bill--he,,s strikin', too-been out sence May dc first. He says de sloh dat takes his job is lookin' fer de worst. Dey wants him back. but no, b'gee! He says dat hn won't stan Fer woikfn' dere, unless de boss will fire some udder man. I'm strikin', too. | hops de bells, an wants anudder buck. But dere at home we's eatin'. cause me mudder hasn't struck. Well, say! Now on de square, it's fun ter hear me brudder Bin An sister L.Z an de ole man start up a. talkin' mill About how dey've stopped woikin jest ter teach de udder dubs. An all de time me mudder keeps a hustlin at Ge tubs likes de ole mans backbone, but likes me mudder's pluck I guess we'd all be hungry if me mudder' gone an struck.
 -~Chicaco Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22

rious to Russia's commercial interests in that region. If Russian trade is to have anything like a fair chance in Manchuria. he said. the transport tariff must be reduced 75 per cent. China, he remarked, will never become an impor- tant consumer of Russian products so long as there are no flourishing Russian industries on the Chinese frontier, in Manchuria and on the Amur littoral. and until the Amur railroad is built. Under the existing state of things Rus sian trade and commerce in the far east are hopelessly handicapped, and sue cessful, or partly successful, competi- tion against the West European manu- lecturers and exporters and against American and Japanese enterprise is practically impossible. The politico- commercial policy of the Manchurian railroad-it was idle, he said, to dis guise the fact-had proved worse than abortive. Instead of gaining new mar kets Russia was losing old ones, and her project of industrial colonization and development in Manchuria and on the Amur had been blocked by the for eigner. Russia must devise means of preventing the entry of foreign mer- chandise into Manchuria. except through the ports of Nicolaievsk and vladivostock. and a general prohibition must be established in favor of Rus sian trade and commerce in the Amur region.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
SOME GooD KENTUCKY FOLKS.

This is a large country and there are many kinds of people in it. If the truth is told there is a pretty good kind in
 the mountains Of eastern Kentucky. A writer in the Berea College Quarterly
 gives an interesting picture of these
 people. About one-third of the area of the State, or about 1S,000 square miles
 divided into thirty-five counties, is classed as the Appalachian or mountain
 portion of the State. It is territory
 considerably larger than the State of
 Maryland and exceeds the combined
 area of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
 This eastern, or mountain part of Ken
 lucky, contains population of 476,0OO,
 about one-fourth of that of the entire
 State. Nearly all these people are en-
 tirely white there being only about 4S,-
 900 negroes among them. The tide of immigration has passed by them, and so the population is native born, with the exception of 2,000 of pure British stock. They are the descendants of the original pioneers, largely Scotch-Irish, who first occupied the land and drove out the
 Indians They continue, it is said, to exhibit the traits of their sturdy ances-
 tors and are a vigorous, robust, liberty loving people Their numbers have not been increased by immigration, and yet the population of the thirty-five coun- ties has steadily grown. In the last fifty years it has increased by the natural excess of births over deaths
 more than threefold. Families are uni
 formly large. over fl per cent. of the
 native white people being between and 20 years of age. This is about double the percentage in Massachusetts. These people are described as thrifty and nat urally intelligent. but they lack proper ] schools. Among them there are no signs of decadence or degeneracy
 This ought to cheer those who are complaining of the decay of the native
 stock. Recent events have shown that there are some bad people among the
 Kentucky mountaineers, but if most of
 them are good they are doing pretty we'll
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22

are. The conclusion is being rapidly de- veIoped in the fay mind that. the mil crobe being OmnipTesent, one is as safe from him in one place as another. This may be a highly unsafe conclusion, since there must be relative safety in relatively germ-free localities. But the lay mind is easily confused. We know of the case of a certain man, very tired of life, thoroughly willing to die, but unwilling to take his life by any active step, who for more than one weary year courted bacterial disease in New York by frequenting, and especially by eat ing in, the places where dangerous bac- teria are known most to abound. He made himself a mark for microbes. But none ever seemed to find him. If he had cold, or was exhausted, or run down" from any special cause, he straightway sought Chinese and other cheap restaurants. trusting to get hold of the typhoid bacillus and become it's prey. In vain: his health improved, rather otherwise, on the Chinese or the Syrian regimen. He is alive and in good health to-day. Ordinary expefi- ence. indeed. tends to confirm the im- pression that either there is a divinity that shapes our ends, regardless of germs, or else that preservation from bacterial disease depends on constitu- tional or inherent immunity than on deiverance from contact with the ubi-' quitous little monster.-Harper's Weekly
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22

to improve her appearance does not
 consciously or unconsciously analyze
 the matter so. She wants to look pretty
 now, and hardly reckons on her future appearance. Below the middle classes matrimony remains the aim and end of feminine being. We all know how after marriage the smart and pretty girls who once outsflone iii beauty the maids of a higher station lapse into plain and untidy s1atterns. The conquest of a lover once achieved, there is no need for further effort. To girls who look thus on life it is matter of course that they should ape the style of beauty that is fashionable in their circle, regard
 less of its ultimate effect on their health. If John objects to fred face" Mary will eat anything to change her rosy complexion to a dyspeptic pallor. We know of one servant girl who was persuaded by her mistress to stop drinking vinegar to make herself pale by the assurance that rosy cheecks were now the fashion. After that Mary Jane daubed hers with rouge.-The Hospital.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
USSJA IN M4NCHURFA.

Some significant remarks concerning the motives of Russia's policy in Man. churia were made the other day by M. Merkuloff, an acknowledged expert on the whole subject, in an address before 0 commercial organization in Odessa. He said that, in spite of all its efforts, Russia's export trade to China was comparatively infinitesimal China's imports last year were valued at three hundred and twenty-three millions of rubles, to which the Russian contribu- tion was twenty-eight thousand rubles. The high freight rates from European Russia to the far east partly accounted for this. He declared that the connec- ton of Kharbin with Dalny by rail had not in any way improved Russias far eastern trade; on the contrary, it had given an impetus to foreign competi- ton. The southern section of the Man. churian line had proved positively inju-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
4DDITIONIL.

There ought to be some good shoot ing around here"
 Yes; an there's some alarmed bad shootin'. I lost two COWS last week!"- Puck.
 Mrs. Wise (reading)~-I see by this that the Emperor of Japan has ten men to carry his umbrella.
 MT. Wise-That's nothing. I guess twenty men have carried mine.-De- troit Free Press
 'Is my daughter familiar with the great composers?" asked Mrs. Cumrox
 Madame" said the music teacher, with look of desperation, "she is not merely familiar with them; she is im- pertinent. Washington Star.
 Architect (doubtfully)--It seems as if there should be something on the top of your house when it is finished, Mir Mill lionaire.
 MT. Millionaire (meekly)-Might I suggest roof?-Chicago Record Her aid.
 Have you decided on name for the baby yet, Tanksley?"
 Yes, we've named her for my new automobile"
 "What?"
 Fact. We call her Gasolena. ."-Chi- cago Tribune.
 Spoiled His Romance.-George-I see nothing for. us but to elope; do you think your father would forgive us?
 Ethel--Tm sure he would.
 George-HoW can you be sure
 Ethel-I felt a little nervous on that score and-I asked him.-PickMe-U
 Old pedagogue-When you teach your pupils that two apples added to two ap- ples make four apples you believe In demonstrating the proposition by giy- ing them the apples, do you?
 Kindergarten teacher-Certainly, sir. By that means they get both the sum and the substance.--Chicago Tribune.
 Strange" said he to his partner dur ing the waltz, T remember when was about sixteen I solemnly promised my Sunday school teacher that would never learn to dance"
 And yet they say" she replied, that a boy at that age can never make a promise and stick to it."-Philadelphia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
IRON PRiohs AND pRoSpER17T.

There has been a decline in iron Ipriees, and the decline has made stir because it is an ancient and accepted theory that such a decline is an indi- cation of decline in prosperity" Perhaps this theory Is a sound one, but the New York Evening Post makes a pertinent point when it says that in ferences based wholly on these consid- erations ignore one salient fact-that the price of steel and iron went months ago so high as to embarrass very seri- ously the trades dependent on it. Pres ident Ramsey of the Wabash railroad, in his statement of last November re- garding the railroad situation, pointed out that the avefage cost of materials and supplies had increased, since 1897, no less than 237 per cent. By far the greater part of this increase was in steel and iron. whose use by the rail- road industry is extensive. and whose basic prices within the past six years have advanced from 80 to 15O per cent. Bessemer pig iron, for instance, which could be had at Pittsburg in 1897 for s9 per ton, brought nearly s2S last Jan uary.
 Those who have to buy iron and steel find them still high enough. Perhaps there can continue to be some prosper ity even if iron prices don't continue to soar.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22

The railroad in Uganda is practically finished. All the steel viaducts for the road, including twenty-seven bridges from the United States, have been com pleted, and there only remains the sub- stitution of steel structures for few small and unimportant temporary bridges. Trading vessels are being placed on Victoria Nyanza. At present there is a through train twice weekly in each direction between Mombasa and Port Florence.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22

It is related that the other day Dr. Poenaro Caplesco lectured at Bucharest on the dangers of smoking, illustrating what he said by treating two dogs with injections of concentrated solutions of nicotine. The dogs soon died in con vulsions, which caused many women to faint and the whole audience to hurry away, unable to endure the sight. Dr. Caplesco then calmly lighted cigarette and left the hall smoking it, without having convulsons, and apparently sat- isfied with the success of his lecture and demonstration.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22

It has long been known that ants are smart A French traveller has discov- cred new species of ant in Siam, or, at least, a new trait he has never before seen recorded. The creatures were small, of gray color, and lived in damp places. They travelled often and in troops which seemed to be under the direction of commander who rode on "horseback." M. Meissen, the French man who noticed this peculiarity, was attracted to these groups by discover ing that each company contained a large ant that traveled more rapidly than the others. Observing them more closely, he noticed that each large ant always carried a small gray ant upon its back, though the remainder of the troops were on foot. This mounted ant would ride out from the line, travel swiftly along the column from head to rear, and apparently overlook their n1aneuvers. M. Meissen concluded from what he saw that this species of ant, while on its travels, is under the direc- ton of a commander, though such "ant horses" as the general rides must be rare and valuable, for he scarcely ever found more than one mounted ant in a colony.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
Sales Still Climbina.

That's because we've get the Finest, the Daintiest, tie Cleanest,the Cheapest Under wear in New Haven.
 The people that come and buy are booming the sale for US. They send their friends. Ever so many have told us so.
 Isn't it nice to have it suc- cessful like that?
 That's the very pinnacle of success in a sale; when there is no let-up; when the goods fairly sell themselves.