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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
DIETRICH ON TRIAL
Prosecution of Nebraska Sena-
tor to Begin Today.

OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 3.-Monday
morning the trial of United States
Senator Charles H. Dietrich will begin
in. the federal court. Senator Die
trich has been indicted on three differ
ent counts on alleged violation OF the
revised statutes; alleged conspiracy
with Postmaster Fisher, Of Hastings,
to violate section 1871 and for the al
legged illegal leasing of buildings and
receiving benefits therefrom while a
member of the United States congress.
Indications point to legal battle as
to which of the indictments will first be
tried. Senator Dietrich's counsel has
already stated to the court that he
will attack the validity and sufficiency
Of the conspiracy count, and this mo-
tion, when presented no doubt will re-
ceive extraordinary attention.
District Attorney Summers has an
nounced the wish to first try Senator
Dietrich on the conspiracy charge,
while the senator's counsel has stated
that the court will be asked to first try
the case on the indictment charging di-
rect violation of the statute.
Judge Munger, considering the i'm
portance of the case, has felt that it
will be advisable to transfer the Die
trich case to the circuit court and thus
call in a circuit judge to sit with him.
Judge Willis Vandeventer, of Chey-
enne, has been named by the members
of the circuit bench to preside and he
will make the rulings on evidence and
other matters of similar Importance.
: The case is thus brought before a
court equal in significance to court Of
appeals. For Senator Dietrich will ap-
pear as counsel Gen. j. c. Gown, of
Omaha. and j. r. Batty, of Hastings.
For the government District Attorney
William S. Summers, assisted by As
sistant District Attorney John r. Rush
will conduct the prosecution. About
125 witnesses have been called to tes-
tify in the Dietrich cases. They in
clude for the greater part business and
professional men and clerks in the
Hastings postoffice. A new petit jury
of fifty members has been called. the
members of which have been in the
ity for a week.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
DOCTORS FlND OUNCE OF
SHOT nv MANS STOMACH
Surgeons Believe Chris Larsen Swallowed Leaden Pellets While
Eating Wild Came

tions of vegetables as he was able to
raise on the farm. Although eccentric
and peculiar, he was thrifty and man
aged to work his eighty-acre tract to
good advantage.
When taken ill recently, not having
friends or relatives to care for him, he
was neglected, and when brought to
the Bethesda hospital here succumbed
In few hours to exhaustion. At the
autopsy the doctors learned that his
intestines had been perforated several
hundred times, and the consequent
condition of his abdomen was awful.
The cause of the perforations and
the mans death was found when the
appendix was opened and forty or more
fine No. shot extracted. The doctors
believe that Larsen swallowed the shot
while eating the spoils of his hunts and
that the perforations of the intestines
and his consequent death were due
to no other cause than the action Of
the shot in his system.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
SHORT TIME SERVICE
FOR TROOPS IN ALASKA
Globe Special Washington Service,

Globe Special Washington Service,
1417 Street.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. s.-The
hardships of army life in Alaska, es-
pecially at the Yukon river points, are
so severe that the war department pro-
poses to require soldiers to serve there
for short periods only. 1t has been
suggested that service time in Alaska
should be counted double, but legisla-
tion by congress is necessary before
the plan can be put in practice.
Gen. Greedy, the chief signal officer
Of the army, who is familiar with con-
ditions in the territory, and many OF
whose men have endured special hard
ships there, has recommended that an
amendment be attached to the army
bill this winter permitting service
time in Alaska to be counted double.
Several cases are cited in which SOL
diers have become insane after long
service at isolated points in the far
north, and 1t is maintained that life
there for a protracted period has bad
effect on the men, both mentally and
physically. Walter e. Clark.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
ROME DENIES REPORT
Pope viii Not Appoint PrImate
for United States.

ROME, Jan. 3.-The report circu-
lated in the United States that meet
ing of the American hierarchy of the
Catholic church would be held in
Washington, Jan. 81, for the purpose
of discussing the project of creating
a primate in the United States prob.
ably originated from the rumor that
the pope was considering the conges-
tion of work at the Vatican, especially
of such work as comes under the direc-
tion of the congregation of the propa-
ganda, and that he desired to put into
execution some form of Capitalization
of this work.
From this runor the conclusion has
been drawn that besides the primate
of all Ireland, which nominally exists
in the person of Cardinal Logue, arch
bishop of Armagh, other primates were
to be appointed for Great Britain, the
United States and Australia, am that
these primates were to be respectively
the archbishops of Westminster, Balti-
more and Sydney. The Vatican auth
critics. however, disclaim that any
such plan has been contemplated and
they add that the primates, even after
their institution in the sixth century,
exercised merely nominal powers and
were not considered satisfactory.
The only change which SO far as
been introduced by Pope Plus x. for
the purpose of dealing with the con-
gestion of work, has consisted In the
appointment of extra clerks for the
congregation of the propaganda. The
project for expediting the work of the
Catholic church in the United States
was studied for long time by Pope
Leo, who partly solved the problem by
increasing the powers of the apostolic
delegate at Washington, giving him
control of certain questions of discip-
line. The Vatican authorities at that
time went so far as to ask for list
of prominent American prelates, the
intention being to form a kind of adj
visory board to assist the apostolic
delegate in arriving at his decisions.
This project, however, was not carried
out
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
THE NEWS INDExED.
PAGE l.

PAGE !.
Far East Situation.
Congress Resumes Work.
Many Injured in a Dance Hall.
Cry of Fire Alarms Chicago Mourners.
PAGE II.
Ex-Mayor Ames Writing a Book on
Municipal Graft.
Confirms a Cosmopolitan Class.
Says Socialism Would Settle Race
Problem.
Grand Jury Will Convene Tomorrow.
Peoples Church Celebrates Sixteenth
Anniversary.
Is Badly Burned by Gasoline Ex-
plosion.
Trades and Labor Assembly Makes
New Years Declaration.
Organized Labor Shows Big Increase.
PAGE I'll.
Pine County Review.
PAGE w.
Editorial Comment.
PAGE v.
Sporting News.
Minneapolis Matters.
PAGE vi.
Globe Popular Wants.
PAGE VII.
Market Review.
PAGE VIE
Fraternal Societies Declare War on
Dryden Bill.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
MANY INJURED IN
DANCE HALL PANIC.
Five Hundred Men and Women
Fight Their Way From the
Wrecked Building.

WOODBRIDGE, N. j., Jan. 3-An
explosion wrecked the hotel and hall of
Joseph Galaida and more or less seri-
ously injured thirty persons at Keas-
bey, four miles from here, today while
the St. Johns Benevolent society was
celebrating it's anniversary by dance.
There were about 500 people in the
hall, and one of the two exits was
closed by the wreckage. The people
became panic-strieken and fought to
get out, many being trampled and seri-
ously injured.
Galaida was burned about the head
and face. His wife was thrown against
the ceiling and fell unconscious to the
floor Miss Gertrude Elton had one
eye destroyed, her nose broken and her
jaw dislocated. She may not recover.
Michael Ponger had his right arm torn
off at the elbow.
1t is believed that some one with
grievance against Galaida or the So
ciety used dynamite. The walls of the
building were blown apart and it may
collapse at any time.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
CROOKSTON, Mimi, Jan. "a post
mortem examination held yesterday
over the remains of the late Chris
Larsen, of Mcintosh, revealed one of
the most peculiar physical conditions
ever known to medicine and surgery.
Doctors Holte and Bertelson, who per-
formed the autopsy, were in doubt as
to what had caused the mans death.
Larsen, who has been living on farm
near Mcintosh during recent years.
has been rather nomadic character
and has had many eccentricities and
peculiarities, which have furnished
food for all of his gossiping neighbors.
He has slept On couch of straw be-
hind his horses and cattle for over
year and has had nothing as cover
lid but an old binder cloth. His diet
consisted mainly of wild game, such
as rabbits, prairie chicken, ducks and
geese, supplemented with such addi-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04

subject of fire, and 1t needed but the
one shout to bring all the people to
their feet, and many Of them started
for the door. Policemen O'Keefe and
Peterson, who were stationed in the
church, called out to the people that
there was no danger and urged them to
resume their seats. Their advice was
not headed, however, the pallbearers
went to the side of the casket and stood
in readiness to remove 1t and the fam
lily of the dead girl prepared to leave.
Suddenly a cloud Of smoke came in
through the open door, and the sight
and smell maddened the people in an
instant. The two officers had barely
time to swing the doors open when
the rush came. This was all that saved
a severe crush and probable loss OF
life, as the crowd plunged though the
doorway. No one was injured in panic.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-It was a day Of
funerals in Chicago, and for the first
time in the history of the city all the
people who desired to bury their dead
were unable to do so. The unprece-
dented demand for hearses and car
riages would have been enough in itself
to tax the resources of the underta-
kers, but the heavy snow fall of the
past two days has increased their diff
ficulties enormously. All of the ceme-
teries in Chicago are miles from the
business center and residence districts,
and with good weather and the streets
in passabIe condition, it is matter Of
several hours to reach one of them.
Today when every hearse was in urg-
ent demand it required about twice as
long to reach cemetery as under nor
NAL conditions.
The cemeteries were compelled to
keep men at work all through the night,
digging graves and in some of the larg-
er cemeteries they barely managed to
make them with sufficient speed.
The funeral services over the re-
mains of Ella and Edyth Freckelton,
sisters, were held in Boulevard hall at
Fifty-fffth and Halsted streets, fully
1000 persons being in attendance and
500 stood outside in the biting wind
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-One of the most
hideous features of the lroquois theater
Indignation of all civilization, is the
shameless robbing of the poor victims
from the moment the fire ended down
through many channels until the rela-
tives finally secured the bodies. There
are hints that officials either assisted in
these robberies or winked at them.
Even while the bodies were being drag
aed from the smoking ruins hundreds
of ehouIs flocked to the scene and be-
gan their work. None of them was ar
rested, although their work was open
Relatives of the victims are besiegine
the city hall and coroner's office de-
manding vauabIes that in many in
stances are known to have been stolen.
The vaIuabIes taken from bodies
were placed or supposed to have been
placed in envelopes marked with
number corresponding to the body
bearing a tag with a like number.
Bodies have been identified, and when
claims were made for valuables known
to have been in the possession of the
victims, the envelopes have been found
to contain nothing but collars, or like
bits of clothing. NumberIess instances
are being brought to light where bodies
were in a perfect state of preservation,
and the removal of valuables must
have been made by the officials or
their subordinates. However, they
have mysteriously disappeared.
CHICAGO, Jan. "A serious panic
occurred this afternoon at the funeral
OF Miss Carrie Savers, one of the vic
Tins Of the fire. The services were in
progress in the South Chicago Con-
gregational church, at Seventy seventh
and Saginaw avenue, in the suburb of
South Chicago, and the building was
filed with the friends and relatives Of
the girl. A fire broke out three doors
from the church, and the first intima-
ton of the fact was conveyed to the
people in the church by a cry of fire"
in the street. Chicago gatherings are
somewhat nervous alsthis time on the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04

PEKIN, Jan. 3.-In the various for
eign legations here the opinion is prev
alent that war between Japan and
Russia is inevitable. This opinion is
based on the latest dispatches from
Toxic and on the conviction that it
is not question of detail which sep
arates Russia and Japan, but the vital
principle as to whether Japan possess
ses the right to a voice In the settle
ment of questions connected with the
Russian occupation of Manchuria.
Russia all along has denied this right.
and unless her reply shows that she
has receded from this position, which
is not expected to be the case, it prob
ably will provoke an ultimatum from
Japan, whose determination to resort
to arms in support of her claim is un-
questioned.
Advices from Manchuria represent
the Russian officials there as being sur
prised at Japan's readiness to fight.
They expected that she would sub
nit at the last moment, as she did in
1895, when she surrendered Port Ar
thur at the bidding of the European
coalition. The Russian officials rely
for support on the same powers which
aided the Russian government on that
occasion. Moreover, the Russians
have confidence in their ability to win
in the event of war. Among the junior
officers this feeling takes the form of
despising the enemy
Gen. Yuan Shat Kai, commander-in-
chief of the Chinese army and navy,
has memorialized the throne, praying
to be relieved of all his minor offices,
so that he may devote all his energies
to the reorganization of the army.
While the government is determined
to remain neutral as long as possible,
1t fully recognizes the possibilities of
becoming involved in the event of war;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
No Change in Situation.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. 3.-Ca-
Diagrams received here today from
Toxic show the situation in the far
East to be unchanged. and at a late
hour tonight it was declared at the
Japanese legation that nothing had oc-
CURED to dispel the gloomy view TAX
en- there of the prospects for peace.
The fact that Mr.. Takahira, the Japan
ese minister, regards the situation as
extremely critical does not prevent
him from hoping that way may yet
be found by which the questions be-
tween Russia and Japan may yet be
settled without recourse to arms. The
Japanese government, it is said, is not
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
CALLS FOR MILITIA
Bloomington Officials Cannot
Control Street Car Strikers.


BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Jan. S.-Riot-
Gus scenes marked the street car strike
today. Windows in six cars were badly
smashed by missiles thrown by strike
sympathiZers who congregated several
hundred strong at various points along
the line.
J. G. Knocks and John Morrison were
dragged from their cars and severely
beaten.
The mayor admits that he is not able
to cope with the situation and Presi-
dent Demange, of the street car COM
pany announces that tomorrow he will
appeal to the mayor to ask for mill
tia to protect the street car property.
Three arrests were made during the
day. After 4:3O p. m. the company
abandoned all efforts to run cars.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04

by the recent shut down In the reaper
factory, and cheerless Christmas was
relieved only when Miss Grace Tuttle
sister of Mrs. Pond, bought theater
tickets for Mrs. Pond, her two children,
Raymond, aged fourteen years, and
Helen, aged seven, and herself Mr.
Pond volunteered to stay at home and
care for the youngest of the children
Mrs. Pond, her two children and Miss
Tuttle perished in the disaster. When
the husband heard of 1t he disappeared
1t is thought his body is in the lake.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
Situation Extremely Critical.

TOXIC, Jan. 4.-The situation is ex-
tremely critical. Russia maintains a
profound silence. Failing some concil-
iatory action on the part of Russia, Of
which there is now no appearance
whatever, Japan will certainly adopt
within a, few days active measures to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
TEN MONTHS Old BABE ALL
THAT IS LEFT OF FAM/Z Y
Father Disappears When Little Ones Mother Brother and Sis.
ter Lose Lives in Chicago Fire.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe
CHICAGO, Jan. 8. = In a darkened
cottage at 1872 Layman avenue there
is left no one to mourn for four lives
that were lost in the Iroquois horror,
or for the head Of the household who
has been missing since the disaster.
Next door sympathetic neighbors are
caring for a 10 months old baby, all
that is left of the family of Fred Pond,
who until recently was an employe of
the Deering Harvester works.
Mr. Pond was thrown out of work
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
READY FOR ROBBERS
Dowie Has Armed Guard Wait
ing for Sneak Thieves.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. 3.-Fear-
ing that sneak thieves would raid his
private car and rob him Of his treas
ures. Alexander Dowie, the Zion City
restorer, had a guard Of prophets and
attendants armed with revolvers near
him today He is said to have re-
ceived secret information he would be
robbed. Dowie got chilly reception
here.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
PERSIAN HAD PLAN
TO WIPE OUT JEWS
Plot Frustrated by Russian Vice Consul
and Ring Leaders Are Arrested.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. IA semi
official dispatch from Urmia, Persia,
reports that an attack on the Jews,
which had been panned by the Persian
population. was frustrated by the en-
ergetic intervention of the Russian
vice consul. The ring leaders were ar
rested.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
JEWS WOULD HOLD
NATIONAL CONVENTION

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Jan. "a
largely attended meeting. under the au-
spices Of the Jewish League Of Amer
lea, was held in the Synagogue B'Nai
Abraham here today, at which 1t was
decided to hold a national convention
In this city Of all the societies of Jews
religionists in Russia.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
small BOYS Freeze to Death,

BAD AXE, Mich, Jan. 3.-Three boys
about 10 years of age, two named Louden-
berry and the third named butcher, were
frozen to death ON the bay at Bayport
during last nights terrific storm
The boys were fshermen's sons and
had gone out to their parents fishing
shanty on the ice and had become lost
in the binding snow.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-01-04
CRY OF FIRE ALARMS
CHICAGO MOURNERS

Stricken City Has Another Panic but Fortunately No
Lives Are Lost-Work of Burying Dead Delayed by
Lack of Hearses-Coroner viii Resume Investigation
Today.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-29

Bar TIL. r II. Wind. Weather. Prec.
a. m. .30.22 26 IS S'wst. Clear. 90
p. m. .30.12 80 So S'e'st Clear T
Maximum temperature, 40; minimum tenn
perature, "a.
Comparative statement of mean tempera-
ture ard total precipitation on March 2S:
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WATER COMPANY WANTS
BROKEN LEvEE REBUILT
Official Urges Board to Authorize
Reconstruction of Embankrnent
on Fall Creek.
CALLS IT PUBLIC DUTY

To urge that the Fall creek levee might
Davis, general manager of the Indianapolis
Water Company, appeared before the Board
of Public Works yesterday morning. Sew
eral breaks in the levee Saturday inundated
Cerealinetown and put the water companys
north pumping station out of service.
Mr.. Davis represented to the board that
the levee was constructed some years ago
by George w. Stout, who plated an addi-
ton, which it protected, and placed the
lots on the market. Mr.. Stout, Mr.. Davis
stated. built the levee under a contract
with the Indianapolis, Logansport & Chi
cago Railroad Company, by the terms of
which that road was to run it's line along
the top of the embankment, although this
road was never built. At the same time
the water company constructed a levee on
the south bank of the stream and on the
river bank.
I'VE have kept up our levee ever SINCE"
said Mr.. Davis last night, but we claim
that our neighbor, Mr.. Stout, has not done
so. We are not so concerned to who
shall build the levee as we are that ii shall
be built, and before June
Mr. Davis represented to the Board of
Works yesterday that the city has the
right to build levees just as il has to i'm
prove streets and alleys and to do other
public work, paying for the construction
by the assessment of benefits and damages
against resident property holders. In the
present instance the cost of the new leyee
would, under those circumstances, fall upon
Mr.. Stout and those people to whom he
has sold lots west of the levee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-29
FAMILIES ON NORTH SIDE
HELPLESS THROUGH FLOOD
With Homes Watersoaked and
Household Goods Damaged
Many Are in Pitiable Plight.
PARK ANIMALS ESCAPE

Sixty or seventy families abandoned their
homes on Northwestern avenue between
Twentieth and Thirtieth streets yesterday
afternoon and sought shelter on higher and
drier land. Pitiable and helpless was the
condition of those families yesterday as
they were carrying their meager wardrobe
and leading their children to abodes of
safety and shelter. Although the water
went off from their piazzas and general
access to the dwellings could be obtained.
the damp condition of lower floors rendered
habitation impracticable.
On West Twenty-seventh street the house
of Thomas Jones was submerged to the
extent of eighteen inches and in a like
state were the dwellings of his five neigh
bors.
With water everywhere Mr.. Jones was
unable to get drop to drink and had to
go through five houses of his friends to
fill a bucket with the plentiful yet precious
fluid.
Although the menagerie survived with
out suffering to any noticeable extent, sew
eral thousand dollars would be a rough
estimate of the injury to Riverside Park.
The buildings were under several feet OF
water yesterday afternoon, although the
water was receding two inches an hour.
All of the animals but the deer had to be
moved to higher ground, which task caused
great trouble TO the keepers and even last
night an occasional whelp of a diSsatiS-
fed wolf broke the evening silence.