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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-05
FIGHTS a WHOLE ARMY.
Regiment Of Russians RSshes Into tiss
Jaws OF Death.

Jaws OF Death.
st. Petersburg, May ga story 10
circulated here Of q striking episode
during the lighting on the Yalu river
and the desperate bravery Of Rus
Sian regiment which, without artillery.
attacked two and one-half divisions Of
Japanese. The Russians, headed by q
chaplain bearing cross, fought like
lions, but were crushed and almost
annihilated by overwhelming numbers,
the scene after the fight resembling q
Shambles.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-05
s.m parks pies ia Prison.

va Sam Parks Dies N PF1son.
Ossining, N. ", May Sam Parks.
the New York labor leader. who was
sent to Sing Sing prison some months
ago after his conviction on charge
of extortion. died In the prison dur
ing the day. He had consumption ut
the time Of his conviction and had
failed rapidly since he was sent to
Sing Sing
Tried 70 XIII Booth In 1879.
So Keokuk, la. May 5.Mark Gray
lyon was buried here during the day.
on April 23, 1879, Shakespeare's birth
1ay. ne caused much excitement by fr>
~ two shots at Edwin Booth In Nc
lVicker.s theater, Chicago, daring the
spaay Richard the Second.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-05
INSTRUCT AaAINsT HEARST.
Virginia Democrats Plan Unusual AZ
if3 q ton In Convention.

Richmond, Va, May Plans are
being perfected to induce the Demo
cratic state convention. which will as
semble here June 8, to instruct the
delegates to st. Louis not to vote for
the nomination OF w. r. Hearst under
any circumstances. Otherwise the del
egates will be left free to support the
man most likely to lead the party to
victory. ,2fi 55& = n i g@ :za. f VA B
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
Rear Admiral Roiestrensky will hoist

Rear Admiral Rojestrensky will hoist
his flag as commander Of the formida-
Bile Russian Baltic squadron early in
July and will sail Immediately for Port
Arthur with six battleships, six cruisers
and two transports.
Pope Plus x. officiated at mass in
celebration of the thirteenth centennial
of St. Gregory the Great (who died in
GOA A. D.. The immense basilica OF St.
Peters, in Rome, was filled, more than
70 900 persons being present.
Russia demands the withdrawal OF
the Chinese troops from the Man
churian frontier to within a five-mlle
limit of the great wall.
Premier Maura, OF Spain, was attacked
and wounded at Barcelona by would-be
assassin, armed with a dagger, while
leaving the palace of the council general.
Senor Maura's wound is not serious.
A report comes from Chefoo that Port
Arthur again is under bombardment.
A report to st. Petersburg from Gen.
Kouropatkin says Russian sharpshoot-
ers drowned or shot to death SO japanese
scouts on the Yalu river, and that the
mikado's flag has been lowered at Wiju'
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21

weak, nervous and depressed; and again
he may have eruptions, swellings and
other blood humors. Whichever it is
the cause is the same-effete accumula-
tions in the blood.
Nothing is more certain within the
whole rangeof medical than that
a course of Peruna in early springtime
will perfectly and effectually prevent
or cure this almost universal affection.
Everybody feels it in some degree.
A great majority are disturbed con-
siderably, while a large per cent. of the
human family are made very miserable
by this condition every spring.
Peruna will prevent it if taken in
time.
Peruna will cure it if taken as directed.
Peruna is the ideal spring medicine of
the medical profession.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Pcruna,
write at once TO DR.. Hartman, giving a.
full statement of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
MINNESOTA NEWS.
COLONEL C. j. NIONFORT.

Colonel c. j. Monfort, who had beer
lowering between life and death FOL
ten days died April 9 at the Windsor
hotel, St. Paul For many years he
had operated the hotel, and he was
widely known through the northwest,
both politically and socially.
Col. Charles j. Monfort has been one
of the best known men in ST. Paul Tor
more than forty years. He assumed
charge of the Windsor hotel twenty
four years ago and since that time his
acquaintance widened throughout the
state and the Northwest.
Col Monfort was born in Colches-
ter, Delaware county, N. Y, March Is,
1s41. He moved to st. Paul when
young man and was connected with
the Peoples bank, of which his broth
er, D. A. Montfort, was cashier. Dur
ing the war he was in the Office OF
Maj. Phinney, paymaster for the de-
partment of Dakota. He assisted in
preparing Fort Ripley for defense
against an attack from .Hole-in-the-
Day during the Sioux outbreak in
1862
After the war he was associated
with his brother in the grocery busi-
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
LATER

In the senate on the 18th considera-
ton of the bill for government of the
Panama canal zone was taken up. In
an hour 219 pension bills were passed.
The house devoted the day to consider
alton of the Cooper bill amending the
law relating to the Philippine islands.
Knights of Columbus presented a
check for $4,000 to Cardinal Gibbons to
endow chair of secular history at the
Catholic university in Washington.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Teazer grounded during maneuvers at
Portsmouth, The crew was saved. The
craft may be total wreck.
Twenty-nine men were instantly
killed on the United States battleshlp
Missouri at target practice off Pensa-
cola, Fla, by an explosion of powder
| in one of the turrets Hasty firing is
believed by naval officers to have been
the cause of the explosion.
The Japanese drove back company
| Of Russian ,sharpshooters who at
tempted to cross the first stream of the
Yalu west of Wiju, killing 20 of them.
The Japanese fleet bombarded Port
Arthur in the early morning, and part
of the fleet met the Russian cruiser
Bayan outside the harbor and inflicted
damage, although the vessel managed
to make port.
The Russian battleshipP Petropavlovs1
was sunk off Port Arthur by mine or
torpedo, and 800 of her crew, including
Vice Admiral Makaroff, were drowned.
Grand Duke Cyril, in line to the Rus
sian throne, escaped death, but is re-
ported seriously injured. The Russian
fleet was being driven back by the Jap
anese squadron when the PetrOpavlovsk
was sunk.
Adj. Gen. Bell has taken back his
threat to put Judge Stevens in jail at
Telluride, COL, for criticising the gov
ernor and military, and says the court
is exempt while enforcing the law.
Payment of service pensions as re-
Gently ordered is opposed by the mi
nority of the house committee on ap.
preparations, which reports against
allowing $1,5OO,00 asked by the pen
sion bureau.
Japan's growing influence over Siam
is regarded with alarm by France,
which fears menace to Cochin-China
The British parliament, by vote OF
27O to 81, sanctioned the use of Indian
troops in connection with the mission
to Tibet.
Striking brass workers are suspect
ed of starting a fire which destroyed
the plant of the White Manufacturing
company, Chicago, causing a loss Of
S62 OO0
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
FOREIGN.

An earthquake April killed Is
persons, injured 40, destroyed 1900
houses and caused great distress in the
vilayets of Kossovo and Salonica, Ma.
cedonia.
Mail .advices from the new Alaska
district of Tanana indicate that the
winter gold cleanup will probably
reach 81, 100000.
1T is reported that the Russian squad
ron left Port Arthur and gave battle to
the Japanese fleet outside the harbor.
A treaty signed in London gives
France a free hand in Morocco and Eng
land full liberty in Egypt. France sur
renders shore rights in Newfoundland.
President Roosevelt has spent total
of 40 hours aboard the naval steam
yacht May flower, and always paid the ex-
penses incurred by himself and guests,
according to report of Secretary Moody.
Isabella. former queen Of Spain and
the grandmother of King Alfonso, died
at Paris at an advanced age.
The secret records of the Russian
army in Manchuria have been captured
by the japanese and carried to Ping
yang.
The Japanse warships off Port Ar
thur retired without firing shot when,
by means of the Russian searchlights,
their presence had been discovered
Bodies of dead Russian soldiers with
life belts on were seen floating near Port
Arthur by a steamer which arrived at
Chefoo.
A Tientsin dispatch says two train
loads Of Russians wounded in an engage
ment on the Yalu have passed through
Nukden.
Gen. Kouropatkin is to be provided
with an army of 100000 with which to
prosecute the war with Japan.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

| Frances Power Cobbe, the authoress,
is dead. She was born in 1922.
Commerce between the United States
and Japan has had a remarkable in
crease within the past 20years.
The wife of silk worker in Pater-
son. N. J., has sued for divorce because
her husband persists in smoking pipe
in her presence.
Mrs John Bowman, aged %, residing
near Red Bridge, Ind, swallowed rat
poison through mistake and died in
great agony.
| Sir Henry Irving, on arriving in Lon
don from the United States, denied that
| he said he would make only one more
"trip to the United States because OF the
treatment received from the critics.
The Pacific Steel company, of San
Diego, Cal, has purchased 10000 acres
of Alaskan coal land 20 miles west OF
Mount St Elias. The price was ST.
Loco, 900.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
Issued an order from Philadelphia to let
no woman wearing red skirt come near
the tracks because fast trains have been
tagged by them.
Austin Smith, of Clinton, N. Y. is the
Oldest living college graduate in this
country. He celebrated his one hun
dredth birthday recently. He gradu-
ated from Hamilton college in 1926.
Members of Grace Protestant Episce-
pal church in Brooklyn broke the collec-
ltion record in the 'city of churches by
contributing 100000 as an Easter offer
ling toward an endowment fund.
Advices from Nome, Alaska, state that
the spring cleanup of gold on the Nome
peninsula will be greatly in excess Of
ANY previous season, conservative esti-
mates placing it at 81 1,250,000.
Mayor Wells. of st. Louis, announced
that he would be personally responsible
for any deficiency in the $4,000 pledged
to secure the democratic convention.
The fund now totals SIG, 900.
Secretary Taft and Gov. Wright, Of
the Philippines, are attempting to de-
wise some plan for settling the church
dispute over the ownership of lands in
the Philippines.
The ST. Louis worlds fair manage
ment has prepared special programme
for the week of May 1921. when will be
held the meetings of more than thirty
state district press associations, the Ma
tional Editorial association and the
worlds press parliament.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
PURE BLOOD.
Blood Impurities of .Springtime-
Cause, Prevention
and Cure.

DIR. Hartman's medical lectures are
eagerly scanned by many thousand
readers.
One of the most timely and interesting
lectures he ever delivered was his recent
lecture on the blood impurities offspring.
The doctor said in substance thatevery
spring the blood is loaded with the
effete Accommodations of winter, derang-
ing the digestion, producing sluggish
news, interfering with the action of the
bowels and the proper circulation of the
blood.
This condition of things produces
what is popularity known as spring
fever, spring malaria, nervous exhnus-
ton, that tired feeling, blood thicken-
ing and many other names.
Sometimes the victim is bilious, dys-
peptic and constipated; sometimes he is
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Daily Proceedings of the Senate and
House Briefly Told.


The conference report on the indian
appropriation bill was submitted in
the senate on the 9Th. The bill as re-
ported from the conference carries
$9,247, 800. The house passed the Phil
ippine shipping bill and the bill ap
propriating $475,0O0 in aid Of the
Lewis and Clark centennial exposition,
to fbe held in Portland. Ore, in 1905.
In the senate on the 9th Senator
Spooner replied to the attacks on the
post Office department. He defended
the course of the postmaster general,
and also defended the president against
attacks made on him. The bill for the
aid of the Lewis and Clark expedition
was passed, as was the Philippine
shipping bill. In the house the resolu-
tion directing an inquiry into the legal
ity of the recent executive order relat-
ing to pensions for age disability was
laid on the table by voc of 1O3 to 100.
In the senate on the 18th the day was
spent in discussion of the bill to create
commission to Investigate the post Of
flee department. The house passed the
bill reported by the committee on rivers
and harbors appropriating $3,000,O00
for the restoration or maintenance Of
channels, or of other river and harbor
improvements.
In the senate on the 18th the post Office
appropriation bill was passed and the
bill providing form of government for
the Panama canal zone was taken up. In
the house the race question was again de-
bated following charge by Mr.. Scott that
Grover Cleveland invited Fred Douglass
to wedding reception. A letter from
Mr. Cleveland was read denying that he
granted any social favors to negroes
while he was president.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
DOMESTIC.

Col. Thomas Marshall Green, one Of
the most widely known historians in
the south, died at his home in Dan
Vile, KY, after short illness, of acute
diabetes.
John J. Combs shot and instantly
killed Greasy" Combs at Hazard, KY.
In 1876 John J. Combs was cut by
Greasy" Combs in a fight, cripplinS
him and causing partial paralysis.
Gen. Cronje and ,Commandant Van
Dam, of Boer war fame, accompanied
by $50 Boer soldiers, arrived in st.
Louis to participate , in the worlds
fair. After the fair is over they will
go to Mexico to live.
Three men were killed and one ia.
tally injured in an explosion at the
Pintsch Gas Comprising company's
plant in Southwest Washington, D. c.
A plan is under consideration in the
cabinet for the president to meet the
crisis in Chinese immigration affairs
by issuing an executive order excluding
celestials until a new treaty is made.
Dun and Bradstreet agencies report
slight improvement in trade; prices less
inflated; weather conditions more ia.
orable; iron and steel looking up.
William G. Greene, the copper mag
nate, caused the arrest in New York of
an Arizonian, who threatened to kill
him if he did not pay 100000.
Jack Tennell, Charles Haskins and
Smiley Baxter, three saloonkeepers.
were drowned in Lake Manawa near
Council Bluffs, Ia, while hunting
ducks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rocker, OF
Boone, Ia, are in Jail under an indict-
ment for murder. and Mrs. Rocker has
confessed to Attorney G.. A. Irwin that
her present husband murdered her for.
mer husband, August Schroeder, June.
80, 1900.
Flour children of William Burke were
burned to death at atSehastopol, a>suburb
of Pittston, Pa, in reWhich destroyed
their home.
In Washington the Daughters of the
American Revolution viii hold their
thirteenth continental congress In the
week beginning April 1s. The congress
will be interesting mainly because the
corner.ston of the Memorial Continen-
tai hall villa be placed in position.
One of the Edison eompany's street
cars ran off the track in Santa Bar
bara, Cal, and was turned over. Five
people were killed and 1s injured.
The high school building at Gales
burg, Ill.,, burned. Loss, $1G0 600. John
Slater, a fireman, was killed by fall
ing wall.
Charles l.. Tucker has been formally
accused of the mysterious murder OF
Miss Mabel Page. at Weston, Mass.
The steamer Panther, with 10000
seals, arrived at st. Johns: N. F.. from
the ice fields and reported that the re-
mainder of the fleet has somewhat
larger catches than announced in pre-
vious reports
Preventable diseases in New York
state cost over s94 900 900 yearly, accord
ing to the state health commissioner.
Gen Juan J. Jiminez, the Dominican
rebel leader, who fed from the victorious
forces of President Morales, has ar
rived in New York. Jiminez refused to
make any statement concerning his in
tended movements in this country.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
Facts You Ought to Know.

Facts You Ought tn Know.
I Season tickets st. Paul or Minneapolis
to St. Louis and return s25. .6O-Sixty
day ticket $21 35-Ten day ticket $500.
Q Fair opens about May 1st. and closes
December 1st.
8 Five daily trains to Chicago each max
ing close connection with st. Louis
trains.
4 No extra charge to go via Chicago.
Tickets good on the Fast Mail ana P1o-
neer Limited electric lighted trairs.
6 Full information about rates, routss and
accomm odations will be cheerfully fur
nished on application to
w. B. Dixon, N. w. P. A.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, e. ST. PAUL RY.
ST. Paul, MINI.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The managers of the Luse campaign
in Wisconsin announce that they have
given up hope of electing their candi.
date to the supreme court justiceship
and acknowledge the election Of James
G. Kerwin, of Neenah. Almost com.
plete returns give Kerwin's majority
as $3.50.
The house OF representatives on Sun
day conducted memorial services in
memory of the late Representatives
Foerderer and Burk, of Pennsylvania.
The Iowa senate, by a vote of 26 to
20, refused to pass resolutions favoring
the pardon of Mrs. Sarah Kuhn.
April % has been discussed in COM
mittee rooms and among senator's and
representatives as not at all an improb-
able date for the termination of the
present session of congress.
Charles l.. Tucker was arraigned at
Waltham, Mass, and formally charged
with the murder of Miss Mabel Page at
West Newton. He pleaded not guilty,
and the case was continued until April
21.
Az EdSC Ol LOUIS. ILL.,, SoASl CoSlldA1
Rodenberg was unanimously nominated
to succeed himself by the Twenty-sec-
ond' district republican congressional
convention.
The report of the Mccall committee on
the Bristow charges clears every men,
ber of the house of all suggestion of
wrongdoing and takes a parting fling
at Bristow.
The New York republican state con-
vention indorsed Roosevelt and in
structed delegates at large to use all hon
orable means to secure his renomina-
tion.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21

City. writes
fine medicine to take season OF the year:
the system and acts as fonl
STRENGTHENING vacation the fall and winter
colds and caarrh and also Hnd fhaf
is invaluable to acting agentes
liant ON the system. consider it whole medicine
chest" "-Miss Aariory Hampton.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21

The genius of hospitality is not SO much
| in making people meet, but IN helping
| them to parton good terms. Remember
| that!-John Oliver Hobbies.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
At the Wrong End.

II have called" said the foreigner, ITO
ask for your daughters hand" :.
"Have you spoken to her yet?" asked
the American father.
''No. I thought"
"Well, you're at the wrong end of the
Iine," interrupted the old gentleman. "She
runs her mother, and her mother runs
me"-Chicago Post.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
Poisoned.

The elaborate Easter services at the
Gethsemane Episcopal church, Mime
apolis, came near ending in tragedy.
Over sixty members of the choir took
part in the professional but the recess
sional was sung by forlorn hope.
Thirty of the members were poison
ID at a breakfast served by the church
after the early morning service.
For time it was feared some fatali-
lies would result, but now it it is be-
lieved all those taken are out of dan
ger.
1t has been the custom of the church
20 provide a breakfast for the men,
bers of the choir who appear to sing at
the $3.50 a. m. service on Easter, and
the usual meal was prepared.
News Notes.
The employing printers and the ty-
biographical union at Duluth are at
loggerheads and a strike may occur.
Fire at o'clock in the morning COM
pletely destroyed the interior of the
German Methodist church at Wiuona.
There is S1,3O1, ,o1461 in the state
treasury, according the monthly report
of State Treasurer Julius II. Block.
In fit of despondency John Noel, a
saloonkeeper at 1400 Fourth street NE,
Minneapolis, shot and killed himself
with revolver.
The promoters of the macaroni fac
tory at Virginia will at its completion,
Nav %. have barbecue and dinner of
uaacaroni. The visitors will be taken
through the plant.
Charles Anderson, aged IS, of Hills
boro, n. D., was found in a hotel be6.
room at Warroad, with his throat cue
froo. ear to ear.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21

Eddie" Fay, arrested lot TOppeTy III
Wisconsin,, is charged by the postal
inspector with taking part in $4,000
stamp robbery in Chicago several years
ago.
The gross postal receipts at the so
largest post offices in the United States
for March, 1904, as compared with
March, 1903, aggregated $6,45S,301, net
increase of 13 per cent.
o. S. Kelly, millionaire manufacturer,
died at Springfield, o., aged 81.
James w. Hinkley, former chairman
of the New York democratic state COM
mittee, died suddenly at his home In
Poughkeepsie of apoplexy.
The eighth annual convention of the
National Association of Clothiers is in
session in Philadelphia. About 100 dele
gates are in attendance.
United States Senator Quay is report
ed to be i'll in Atlantic City. No one is
allowed to see him. The senator, it is
said, must have absoluteNrest, and be
free for the present from all care. He
Is II years old.
A federal judge at Ouray, Col.
stirred to anger by the ignoring OF
habeas corpus writ, ordered the arrest
of two officers and hinted that Gov.
Peabody and the national guard were
the real rebels, instead OF the miners.
The original merger suit, filed by the
state of Minnesota, has been remanded
to the courts of that state by the United
States supreme court.
Clyde Ore, 35 years old, who halls from
Wisconsin, shot and killed Addie Bios
som, % years old at Batavia, N. Y, and
then killed himself. Baked by thegirls S
parents in his intent to wed her, he
sought revenge.
In Minneapolis, Mimi, the flour mills
will close down for an indefinite period
the latter part tof this'week as protest
against what the mi!lers consider rail-
road discrimination forcing them out OF
competitive markets.
The Edward Hines Lumber company
of Chicago, has purchased SC, 900, 900 feet
of lumber from the N. Lud1ngton COM
pany, Marinette, Wis, comprising the
products of two mills for year. The
consideration was nearly $1,0OO,000.
The tug Frank Garfield ran aground
on the outer bar at Point Sable, Lake
Michigan, and sunk. Three lives were
lost.
Mrs Joseph B. Hall, proprietor of the
Catskill Recorder, one of the Oldest
newspapers in the United States, died at
Catskill Of apoplexy, aged u years. She
was the mother of Ruth and Violette
Hall. the novelists.
The battle over the division of the
property of the Northern Securities COM
pany, begun in the federal courts in St.
Paul, is one of the greatest fights by
prominent corporation lawyers ever
waged in the country
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21

The best maxims may be on the lips of
the worst men.-Ram's Horn.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-21
Attempted Suicide.

AUCc"pCoN SulCAucs
Excitement was created at Brainerd
when the city was aroused by the ring
ing of bells and firing of guns When
large crowd gathered at central hose
house it was learned that Mrs. John
Brackner had left her home at six
o'clock, leaving word that she was
roing to drown herself.
Posses were formed and men went
out to the river banks with lanterns.
One party of men had not been gone
!ong before they spied the form Of a
woman on a floating cake of ice in the
middle of the river. They secured a
ooat and rowed out just in time to res
cue the woman who had evidently de-
.ided not to jump into the water but
was hanging on to the ice.
Mrs. Brackner is the wife of a local
blacksmith. She was recently re-
turned to Brainerd from the Fergus
Falls insane asylum.