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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-12-14
The Salvation Army.

In the basement of The Ber-
man Dry Goods & Millinery store.
Meetings every night, except
Monday at 8 p. m. Sunday SER
vices, Christians Praise meeting
at 3 p. NJ. Everyone cordially in
Yited to attend these meetings.
God is no .respecter of persons.
Acts 1884.
CAPT. AND Mrs. KIMBELL, .
Officers in charge.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-12-14
Supper Tonight.

The Presbyterian ladies will
serve supper at the church this
evening from six to eight o CLOCK.
Everyone is cordially invited. The
Presbyterian ladies are famous
for their good suppers. Supper
will be served for 25 cents.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-12-14
Grand jury Too Hot.

Crookston Times: This after
noon while Ole Thorenson of
East Grand Forks was being ex.
amined before the grand jury he
tainted away and had to be car
ried from the room. He was
placed in the basement where by
evening he had apparently fully
recovered. What the nature of
the evidence he gave was, of
course is not known, nor whether
it was the testimony that was so
hot or the temperature in the
room that caused the fainting
spell.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-12-14
of Combs ever shown in this CITY.
The Bazaar
Change Location Dec. Is.

The Offices of the Bemidii
ToWnsite & Improvement com
pany, which have been located at
the law Offices of Gibbons & Tor
rance, will be removed on Dec.
Is to the Bailey & Mcdonald Off
ces in the Markham hotel block.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-12-14
Men Injured in Steam Boiler
Explosion Still Alive. at !,
oSta Anthony's. ~
SMALL HOPES FOR RECOVERY
OF TWO SUFFERS.
Injuries Sustained by Fred Elk
stadt and Albert Brewer May
h - PrOves Fatal.

The five men injured by the ex-
plosion of a steam boiler at the
farm of Fred Eikstadt Monday
afternoon are still holding their
own at St. Anthony's hospital, al
though small hopes for the re-
coYery of Eikstadt and Albert
Brewer are entertained. Elk
stadt has fractured skull be-
sides broken foot and broken
leg, and is otherwise badly
bruised and cut. Brewer has in
ternal injuries which may prove
fatal.
The other injured men are in a
better condition, although Alfred
Brewer is in very serious con-
dition and may not recover. as a
result Of his skull being fractured
and his thigh broken. William
Haberli and George Hand, the
other injured men, seem to be
in good condition and their in
juries are not considered serious.
Physicians have been in con-
slant attendance at the bedside
of the five men during the entire
day, and every effort to save their
lives is being made. Each of the
sufferers is making a gallant
fight for life, and in spite Of their
terrible pain little complaint is
heard from them.
The faces of each victim of the
explosion are literally covered
with marks, as the result of sand
being blown into the skin by the
force of the explosion, and it is
miraculous that a number were
not blinded.
One of the peculiar things con-
nected with the explosion is the
fact that of the six men injured,
not one of them heard the explo-
sion although the report was
plainly audible three miles away.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-12-14

Miss Speak, the popular trim
mer at the Berman Emporium.
left this morning for Minneapolis,
where she will spend Christmas
with friends and relatives.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-12-14
AMES JURY
DISAGREES
Fifth and Probably Last Trial
of Ex-May0r Ames Ends
With Disagreement.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Dec. 13-
The Ames jury was discharged
by Judge Elliot today because
they could not agree. They had
been out since 5 O'Clock Saturday
evening. This is the fifth and
probab bly, last trial Of Elk Mayor
A. A. Ames.
All SIS oyercoats will be closed
out at ST. at the Hub Clothing
house.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
BRIsTow BEFORE COMMITTEE.

Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow, in testifying before the House
special committee on the postofice re-
port yesterday claimed for himself re-
sponsibility for only the first seven pages
of the report which was sent to the post
office committee, and said the other pOr-
tons of the document were the work of
other officials of the department. The
clerk. hire section, he said, was prepared
in the Office of the First Assistant Post
master General, who was then Perry
Heath, and that part relating to leases
by inspectors and others in his own de-
partment. Mr.. Bristow practically
cleared members of Congress from wrong
doing, touching the clerk-hire section of
the report, by stating that it was the duty
of the First Assistants Office to ascertain
the condition of the work in an office
where an increase had been recommended.
Mr.. Bristow was asked particular as
to how the committee was to get posses
sion of certain of the confidential ex-
hibits connected with his report on the
postoffice investigation. These exhibits
have been kept secret because of their
bearing on pending prosecutions. They
were used in making the report touch
ing members that was submitted to the
House. Mr.. Bristow told thecommittee
that reports would be submitted to it for
confidential inspection.
The first open session of the committee
began at O. o'clock, with Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow on the stand.
Mr.. Bristow stated that he had been
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General for
seven years. He was asked how thes pe-
cial report was made up. In reply, he
said that on January % Of this year the
Postmaster General referred TO him the
letter from Mr.. Overstreet which appears
in the report. He personally prepared
the statement contained on pages and
5 and transmitted it to Mr.. Oyerstreet
with the letter appearing on pages 6 and
7, which was sent by messenger on the
forenoon of January %.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
News of the Day.

Governor Warfeld, of Maryland, yes
terday stamped his approval of the "Jim
Crow" bills.
Cotton in New York yesterday fell of
l04 points. This means $500 bale,
or on the whole crop of 10, 900, 900 bales
it means a depreciation of $50, 900, 900.
Gen. II. H. Thomas, recently ousted
as federal appraiser of the port of Chi
cago, dropped dead yesterday while
about to arrange petition for PEN
sion.
In the Federal Court in Raleigh, n.
c., yesterday, Receiver McBee, of the
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad,
was dismissed by Judge Simonton, the
order having been agreed to and sub
mitted by counsel for the State and for
McBee.
Mrs. John Barton Payne's "beauty"
luncheon took place in Chicago yester-
day. Ten beauties sat down to the
unique luncheon. If the type of Chicago
beauty is to be taken from Mrs. Payne's
"beauty show" it is dark, with brown
or black eyes, tall slender with all the
graciousness and viyacity that go to
make up charming woman.
Theodore G. Croft has been nominted
by people of Aiken S. c., for the unex-
pred term in Congress of his father, re-
Gently deceased. Mr.. Croft has accepted
and will begin a canvass of the district
right away. Col. James II. Tillnfan and
several others of the candidates who had
announced have withdrawn and will
throw their influence to Mr. Croft.
With the closing out of line of 20
900, 600 bushels of May wheat in Chicago
on Tuesday, the Armour people brought
to a close the most remarkable wheat
deal on record. Four million dollars
81 900, 900 for each month the deal was
the lowest estimate made of
the profits that accrued to the big
packer and his lieutenants. Several
careful calculators believe $4,000, 900
was added to the assets of the bulls.
Mr.. Cleveland, in an interview Oh
the recent decision of the United States
Supreme Court in the merger case,
says that during his last administration
he gave the subject of trusts much
but was blocked by de-
cisions of the Supreme Court, which at
that time tied his hands. He pointed
10 his last message, recommending that
additional legislation upon this subject
be passed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
Car Crashes Into Hotel.

After jumping from the tracks at West
Farms and Unionport roads yesterday
afternoon a crowded trolley car crashed
into Herbert's Hotel in New York, tear
ing through the front of the building
and injuring more than dozen persons,
most of whom were in the cafe. The
car was moving at such speed that it was
hurled into the center OF the saloon be-
fore it came to standstill, breaking
water and gas pipes and almost flooding
the place before assistance came. The
car was moving rspidly down the hill to-
ward Unionport road, when suddenly
the front trucks seemed to leap from the
tracks. The rear trucks followed and
the car lunged to the sidewalk, hurting
most of the passengers to the floor. The
front trucks landed high on the sidewalk
and crashed against the front door, rip
ping it from its hinges as though it were
paper. The car toppled inside the cafe,
SCATTERING all the glass in front of the
building and sending hail of glass and
wooden splinters through the place. The
men in the saloon were in panic. They
rbshed to the side doors, falling over
one another in their wild scramble. The
passengers in the car lay in tangled
mass for few moments. The broken
glass from the car windows rained on
the passengers and some of them we're
painfully cut. One by one they dragged
themselves out and made for the street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
williams is Hanged.

Roanoke, Va, March 1S.-Henry
Williams, the negro who so brutally as
saulted Mrs. George L. Shields and her
infant child in this city on the Both Of
January last, was hanged in the Jail
yard here today. Sergeant Tillett and a
guard took Williams from the Lynch
burg Jail last night and brought him here,
reaching the city at an carly hour this
morning. The departure of the criminal
excited no interest in Lynchburg and a
large guard was unnecessary. Williams
was baptized yesterday in the Catholic
faith by Rev. Father McHale, of st.
Francis Mission, who accompanied him
to Roanoke. In Lynchburgo on Wednes-
day he stated that he was born in Pitt
sylyania county; when boy moved to
Roanoke, where he stayed about ten
years, and at the age of 10 was sent to
the penitentiary for stealing gas pipe !;
stayed thirty-one months and six days
in confinement, then went 70 Washing
ton and drifted thence to Pittsburg, and
from there to West Virginia. Was put
in Jail for several months on charge OF
striking an Italian woman at Chester;
then, later was sent from Mount Pleas
ant, Pa, to Allegheny penitentiary for
four years for cutting the throat Of a
woman, of which he claimed to be inno-
cent he returned to Roanoke and cOm-
mitted the crime for which he was hanged
today, and for which he said he was very
sorry. Asked if he had any new facts
to give, he said the confession made TO
the Baldwins was correct.
Williams was hanged at II a. m. this
morning. His neck was broken by the
drop of four feet and life was pro-
nounced extinct in five minutes. An
hour before the hanging Williams
said there were only four gentleman" in
Roanoke, and they were those who re-
fused to serve on the jury which tried
and convicted him. There were no
troops needed today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
FOREIGN NEWS.

1t is reported that NJ. Sarafofl, the
Macedonian leader, has left Geneva for
Macedonia, where he will attempt to stir
up revolution against Turkish rule.
A platform from which a concert was
being given collapsed at Mayenne,
France, today, and one hundred singers
were precipitated to the ground. Thirty
of the singers were severely hurt.
At the opening of the japanese Diet
today NJ. Matsuda, the leader of the
Zikuiai party, was elected President Of
the House of Representatives Matsuda
has twice held Office in the japanese
cabinet
An official notification has been issued
to the British army stating that during
the far Eastern war no applications from
officers desiring leave Of absence to go
to Japan, China, Korea or Manehuria
will be entertained.
A dispatch from Berlin states that the
Kaiser has sent the German Parliament
another sketch giving the diagrams of all
the British warships built since 1900.
The belief is general that this is the pre-
cursor of a new government navy bill.
The Spanish minister of public works
will tomorrow ask Parliament for funds
necessary to send 100 workingmen en-
ployed in various trades to America for
a two years training there. Many of the
representatives sympathize with the pro-
posal.
General Ricciotti and General Carl
baldi, the Italian patriot, have been re-
ceiving much pressure from several as
sociations, especially from Catholic
youths, to form body of volunteers to
help Russia against Japan, for the tri-
umph of Christianity over Buddhism.
A violent debate occurred in Parlia-
meut in Brussels today, over the explo-
sion of an Internal machine in front of
the house of the Commissioner of Police,
in Liege. The conservatives accused
the socialists of being guilty of the at
tempt to assassinate the commissioner
A dynamite internal machine was ex-
ploded outside the House of the Com
missioner of Police in Liege, Belgium,
today. Seven men were injured, four
of them seriously. Major Papin who
had picked up the internal machine
and was examining it when it exploded,
has since died OF his injuries. Able
Lemmens. the chaplain of the Liege
hospital, is among the injured.
The Duke of Aista fell from his horse at
Turin yesterday and broke his leg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
Held ND by Bandits.

Chicago, Mar. 1S.-Within few
feet of saloon which they had just left,
three masked bandits held upaDd robbed
trolley car at north 46th avenue at
1:2O o'clock this morning. The con-
ductor and motorman were compelled
by the robbers 10 empty their pockets.
Cash to the amount Of S22. 90 was secured.
Then the bandits ordered the trainmen
to start the car Immediately. When the
motorman failed to get up enough speed
to satisfy the bandits two shots were sent
after the car. The shots attracted the
attention of four policemen who we're in
the neighborhood. They engaged in a
chase after the hold-up men, who, how
ever escaped.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
THE WAR IN THE EAST.

The Skorri, the destruction of which
vessel was mentioned yesterday, was
the third Russian warship blown up by
Russian mines. In fact, the japanese
declare that more than three have been
lost by the Russians in that way.
At the same time, so far as known,
no japanese boats have suffered from
Russian-laid mines.
The first to suffer was the armed tor
psdo transport Yenisei, blown up on
February 10 by mine just put down
from her deck. Ninety-fiye of the Yeni-
seis crew persisted.
The second was the 3, 200-ton protect
ed cruiser Boyarm, which accidentally
struck a mine and was blown up on Eel =
ruary 1S, her whole crew of 1875 PERISH
ing. 1t is said also that several torpedo
boats have been lost thus. The mines
were badly laid and, becoming detached,
many we're reported 10 be floating about
the harbor and out to sea.
General Kuropatkin announced that
the headquarters of the Russian army in
the Orient will be moved from Mukden
to Lao Yang, and that he will live in
his train. The new headquarters will
be nearer Port Arthur and nearer to the
place where it it is supposed the Japan
csc, will strike first.
At present extensive land movements
in Korea are directed toward cutting
communications between Port Arthur
and Vladivostok, which are now con-
sidered of prime importance. High
japanese officers frankly state that there
will be serious fighting on Korean soil
only if they are forced to it.
Everything points to paving the way
for the army, which will begin serious
work after crossing the Yalu. Russian
retreat tactics seem to permit this rend-
ering it probable the first stand will be
on Manchurian soil.
Correspondents proceeding north from
Pingyang have been stopped, thus the
japanese alone are giving out news.
They state the Russians have withdrawn
to Wiju.
The Rome correspondent of the Paris
Journal asserts that the congregation of
the propaganda has ordered the mission
aries in Japan to secretly give Japan IL
nanciaI aid in its conflict with Russia.
The French chief Of the mission has re-
fused to obey this order on the ground
Of patriotism and because of his friend.
ship for Russia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
Virginia News.

Mr. Anthony Priddy, one ofthe Oldest
residents Of Albemarle county, died yes
terday at his farm, near Stony Point, aged
eighty-nine years.
The D. Il. Spencer Sous, incorporated,
and the B. F. Gravely tobacco concerns,
of Henry county, have consolidated, the
former company taking charge.
The death Of former State Senator j.
B. Pennybaker, of Rockingham, occur
red in Richmond last night. He had been
an inmate of the Soldiers Home. He
had fine record in the war between the
States.
Miss Martha Wingfeld, sister of the
late Col. Fox Wingfeld, in his day one
of the wealthiest, and most influential
men in Albemarle county, died Wednes-
day night at the advanced age of eighty
four years.
About 800 non-union negro employees
of the American Tobacco Company IN
Richmond struck for higher wages. The
negroes say that by today the entire 3d.
500 steamers in the factories of the
American company will 60 out.
Upon glass of State library window
in Richmond, the shadowy form OF a
young girl with her bare arms plainly
cleaning in the darkness, has appeared
for several nights in succession, nnchang-
ed, unchanging and apparently I'M
changeable.
The lumber mill ofB. B. Detwller and
Z. l.. Detwiler, located in the center OF
the town of Herndon, on the railway,
was burned almost to the ground last
night between 10 and IL o'clock. The
building was filled with shingles and lum-
Der. The loss is estimated at 81, 500.
Attorney General Anderson said he
has no facts in his possession which would
warrant him at this time in bringing
suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad
for discriminating against Virginia ports
in favor of Philadelphia. He will make
no statement until he has read the deci-
sion in the Northern Securities case.
Miss Edmo c. Lee, daughter of Cap
tain d. NJ. Lee, of Stafford, and niece
of General Fitzhugh Lee, has been APP
pointed one of the pages in the Continent
al Congress, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, which will be held in
Washington next month. twenty-five
young ladies are appointed from the
various States to act as pages.
Orders have been received at Fort
Monroe from the War Department, call
ing for the removal from the reservation
of the ten houses now standing between
the St. Mary Star of the Sea Church and
the residence formerly occupied by Cen
eral Marye. The houses must be re-
moved by May LIST. Their sites will be
converted into park in connection with
the improvements now being made on
the reservation.
The Court of Claims has found that
the government should pay to the Catho-
lie Church at Winchester the sum Of
500 for damages inflicted on the church
by the union army. The Court of Claims
also finds that the government should
pay to the Presbyterian Church Of Lew
insviIle the sum of 81, $50 for the occu-
pancy of the church building during the
war, and for damage done the prop
erty. The church only assessed the
damage and rental at 81, 907.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
TOday's Telegraphie News

THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST.
London, March lS.-The Central
News this afternoon received a Port Ar
thur dispatch which states that from
private information received there from
Shanghai it appears that the japanese
have suffered extensively in the operations
about Port Arthur. The battleship
Mikasa is said to have been struck by
ten projectiles during the bombardment
of March 10th, and was seriously dam
aged. All of the docks in Japan are
occupied by warships, according to the
information on hand. which are repair
ing damages. Two thousand Japanese
wounded on land and sea are being
treated at hospitals.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
Fearful of Another Massacre.

St. Petersburg, March ia fanci-
full theory has started here to the effect
that the japanese are the last ten tribes
of Israel. The idea, while ludicrOus,
has been seized upon by the anti-Semite
press as a means of stirring up a new
anti-JeS outbreak. Novoe Vremya
not only backs the idea, but is daily
declaring that the Jews of Russia are
subscribing large sums to aid their
new found brethren in the conduct of
the war. In view of the approach of
Easter, the Jews are fearful that this
contention will cause a renewal of the
Kishineff massacre. The fact in the
matter is that the Jews instead of sub
scribing to Japan's war fund are heavy
subscribers to that of Russia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
Mp RnnSrvrIr IL dead hf

Mr.. ROOSEVELT is dead bent uoon
securing the nomination for the presi-
dency, and is using the whole influence
and power of the administration to that
end, regardless Of the cost to the people.
With one stroke of the pen on Wednes-
day he increased the expenses of the
country several millions of dollars on
account of pensions. Still the public is
annually Informed that the pension ex-
penses have reached high water marks.
But the public like to be humbugged,
and what are few million of dollars to
the tax payers when the election of Mr..
Roosevelt is at stakeY
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-18
To Fortify Cape Henry.

Norfolk real estate men are much in
terested in a proposal to erect fort at
Cape Henry to command the entrance
to Hampton Road. Bills favoring the
schme have been introduced recently in
the Senate and House of Representatives,
and it is considered not improbable
that effect will be given to surveys made
several years ago. BY an act of 1901
Congress ordered the making OF sur
vey to ascertain the cost of breakwater
in Lynnhaven bay, such breakwater
being implied in the construction of the
the fort The channel leading between
the Capes into Hampton roads is but
five miles from Cape Henry. From this
it follows that modern artillery at the
cape would effectually protect the en-
trance, which means that Baltimore and
Washington would be made more Sc
cure. Fort Monroe is not to be des-
pissed, but the audacity of the japanese in
entering the approaches to Port Arthur
is suggestive. Additional security is
wanted for the national capital, and the
fertilization of Cape Henry, it is urged,
will supply it. Incidentally the social
and commercial life of the region between
Norfolk and Cape Henry would be ma
terially affected by planting garrison
at the cape. The vogue of Old Point
Comfort might be transferred in part to
that side of the water, and improved
railway facilities would be likely to
follow. This would mean much for
Norfolk, which is already one of the
most progressive cities on our Atlantic
coast Baltimore Sun.