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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-13
INSURANCE LAWS.
Committee OF Fifteen In Session al
.. Chicago,

Chicago, Nov. 13.-The committee
Of fifteen appointed at the meeting of
Insurance commissioners, governors Of
states, attorneys general and insur-
ance attorneys held in this city last
February to formulate plans for the
regulation of insurance in the Central
and Western states met here during
the day. With them were officers Of
the American life convention, which
met at Chattanooga, Sept. %.
Unofficially 1t Is stated that the
committee, in relation to standard
forms of policies and standard provi-
sions for policies, will recommend
standardization, although the Ameri'
can life convention adopted resolu-
ton opposing it. It is expected that
the report will favor limiting invest
ments of insurance companies to
bonds of the United States or of any
county, city, town or duly organized
school district and to loans upon i'm
proved unincumbered real estate to
an extent not exceeding 80 per cent.
of the value of the property. The re-
port is also expected to favor invest
ments in buildings for home Office pur-
poses and in we'll secured promissory
notes.
1t is planned that the report of the
committee shall be followed by the
Introduction Of laws regulating in.
surance companies which will take
the place of the Ames bill which was
dropped some time ago.
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ERIE FIREMEN PRACTICALLY or
ONE MIND ON QUESTION OF
GOING ON STRIKE.
1'x1EEN HUNDRED Men INvolvEl
FURTHER EFFORTS TO BE MADE
TO GET TOGETHER BEFORE
ROAD is TIED UP.

New York, Nov. 13-Grand Master
Hanrahan of the Brotherhood of Lo
connective Firemen said that the poll
of Erie firemen has resulted in an
almost unanimous vote in favor of a
strike, so far as the returns have
been received. -,
"On the New York division between
Jersey City and Port Jervis the man
have voted absolutely unanimously to
STRIKE" said Mr.. Hanrahan. 1.-THE
poll of the entire road is not complete.
but the result thus far shows the
state of the mems minds. l shall do
all l can for settlement before order.
ing a strike, but there is no doubt OF
the mems temper"
There are 1000 firemen on the
Erie's various lines. The question at
issue in all the cases is practically the
same and the movement which has
been started by the employees of these
roads is said to be part of a campaign
which is to lie waged on all the great
railway systems of the country.
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MRS. RUSSELL SAGE WILL GIVE
AWAY THE BULK OF LATE
HUSBANDS ESTATE.
CHURCHES AND BEeeARs BARRED
INTENDS TO KEEP ONLY ENOUGH
TO GET ALONG QUIETLY
AND COMFORTABLY.

New York, Nov. 13.-Mrs. Russell
Sage will give away the bulk of the
fortune of about $SO,C0O,OOO bequeath-
ed to her by her late husband to in.
dividuals whom she considers worthy
It will not be given to endow churches
nor to those who write begging let.
tiers.
II shall keep only sufficient Of the
fortune left to me by my husband to
live quietly and comfortably" Mrs.
Sage said. "The fact that churches
are endowed put them beyond the ne
cessity of work, thus making them in
different and negligent along the lines
where Christian institutions should do
the most good. I mean to give to
those individuals whom think worthy.
When l have left only enough to live
comfortably perhaps l may not be an
noyed by persons indicate enough
to beg for help, as am now. l wish
to help men and women of the higher
or lower walks of life, who, through
no tault OF their. own, are so unfOr.
tunate as to need assistance and too
proud to ask. Such persons deem
it pleasure, a privilege and duty to
aid. Persons who were faithful and
kind to Mr.. Sage will be remembered,
as know he wished me to do So In
all my plans am carrying out his
desires, ] am certain"
Mrs. Sage said she will do all she
can, however, for struggling churches
and institutions devoted to the Care
of the needy and sick She declared
that she intended to buy a home for
a clerk in a railroad Office who was
kind to Mr.. Sage. The bodies of her
paternal grandparents, now buried on
a farm near Troy, will be removed to
cemetery in that city and the burial
place of her maternal grandparents in
Sag Harbor, L. l., will be cared for.
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PROPOSED BY cULLoM.
Non-Partisan Tariff Commission t
Study Disputed Question.

Washington, Nov. 13.-Immediately
after congress convenes next month
Senator Cullom of Illinois will intro.
duce a joint resolution in the senate
providing for the appointment of an
expert tariff commission to consider
and report on those schedules that
should be revised.
Such commission, according tc
the views of the senator, should be
non-partisan and should treat the sub.
ject solely in accordance with the
needs of the business and labor in.
terests of the country
In the judgment of Senator Cullom
the time has come to eliminate the
tariff from politics and to make it
what it should be-a practical bust
ness proposition. He has no sympa.
thy with the view of the ''standpat
tiers" that the tariff is like an endless
chain and that the modification of one
schedule necessitates the remodelins
of the entire system.
What he wants is a law that will
enable a change in particular SEIZED
ule, either increase or decrease. as
the interests OF working people re
Quire.
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IMMIGRANTS BOUND FOR NORTH.
WEST MEET DISASTER At
WOODViLLE, IND.
SIX COACHES REDUCED TO ASHES
BODIES OF THE VICTIMS GRE
MATED IN FIRE FOLLOWING
THE COLLISION.

Valparaiso, lnd., NOV. lo.-Fl1ty OUT
of 1877 immigrants on Baltimore and
Ohio train which collided headon with
a freight train at Woodville, ten miles
north of here, are missing and it is
believed their bodies were consumed
by the fire which destroyed six coach
es of the immigrant train.
The immigrant train was bound for
Chicago The accident was caused
by the freight crew failing to observe
signals on the first section of the i'm
migrant train that another section
was following. The immigrant train
caught fire and was entirely consum-
ed. There was 167 passengers on
board the train and 1T of the party
have been accounted for. All the in
jured were taken to the Mercy hos
pital at Chicago on a special train
after their injuries had been attend
ed to by a corps of physicians. All
the train crew on both trains escaped
except the fireman on the immigrant
train, who was killed. Both engines
were demolished. A wrecking crew
from Chicago is now at the scene OF
the accident, clearing away the wreck
age. The immigrants consisted of
Russian Jews, Servians and Poles and
were en- route, by way Of Chicago, to
the Northwest.
The immigrant train was the second
section of the regular express and the
first section did not carry any signal
to indicate that the second section
was following. The freight train pull
ed out on the main track and met the
immigrant train on curve. Engi-
neers and fremen saved themselves
by jumping, though the engineer on
the passenger was badly scalded by
escaping steam. The passengers were
asleep when the accident occurred
and many were killed while they
slept. The scenes that followed were
heartrending, for the cars took fire
at once and many were caught in the
wreckage and were unable to release
themselves before the flames reached
them and were consumed. Cries of
the dying filled the air and those who
were not badly hurt tried to save 9TH
ers, but they were not very success
full as the flames drove them back.
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PlTTsRURG TERRoRlzED.
Three Murders and Several Robberles
One Days Record.

~ ( 4
Pittsburg, Nov. 13.-Pittsburg ter
rorlzed and likened to mining CANT
or frontier town is the tone Of all
the morning issues Of the papers. With
three murders, number of rObberies
on the highways, accompanied by VIC
lence and an attempt at crucif1xion in
twenty four hours, added to the large
number that have occurred during the
past two weeks, there has been such
public demand for extra police that
Mayor Guthrie and Director of Public
Safety RidgWay have put on number
of extra police without legal provision
for their compensation, trusting to the
effect of public clamor upon the Sc
lect and common councils for favora
BILE action upon this move.
The crucifixion case was brought tc
light by the screams of woman in
a tenement on Forbes street, near the
Jones & Laughlin steel mills. Neigh,
bors rushed in and found Mrs. Jean
Mitchell, nineteen years old, in the
kitchen, huddled in a kneeling posi-
t1on on the floor with both hands nail
ed to the draining board of the sink
with the blood running down her
arms. IA
The woman was unconscious and
was taken to hospital. When she
recovered she merely said that when
she entered her fiat something struck
her on the back of the head and she
felt herself drawn toward the sink.
her hand pressed down against the
board and two nails driven in.
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GoMPERS IN The CHAIR
FEDERATION OF Ia.
49, Dor HOLDS OPENING SEES.
= SION IN MINNEAPOLIS.

Minneapolis, Nov. 13.-The twenty
sixth annual convention of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor opened in
Minneapolis with President Samual
Gompers in the chair and 300 dele
gates in attendance. Through the
opening session there was little to in
dictate that questions of unusual i'm
portance in their bearing on the eco
nomic and political conditions of the
country were to come up for discus
sion and settlement.
On the platform were President
Gompers, Secretary Morrison, Gov:
ernor Johnson of Minnesota, w. H.
Williams, state labor commissioner;
Alderman A. E. Merrill, acting mayor
of Minneapolis; j. H. McNally of the
trades and labor assembly and J. N.
Bell and A. Gee, the delegates of the
British trades union congress. In the
body of the hall the delegates were
seated at the sides of seven long ta-
bles, we'll stocked with stationery.
About twenty women delegates are in
attendance.
At the opening Of the meeting a
band of 10 pieces, picked from the
local Musicians union, played the "Star
Spangled Banner" President Comp
ers was the first to rise and the rest
of the convention followed his exam
pie. AS the band swung into the sec
ond measure of the national anthem
Rev. G. P. Magill, pastor of the OIL
yer Presbyterian church, made the
opening prayer and Alderman A. E.
Merrill welcomed the federation in be-
half of the city. President Gompers
was responding to the address when
an outburst of cheering gave notice
that Governor Johnson had entered
the hall. President Gompers at once
resigned the floor to the governor,
saying that while it would be pre-
sumption to introduce man of the
national standing of Governor John
son he considered it an honor to pre-
sent him. Governor Johnson said that
he not only welcomed the federation
but wished it Godspeed in it's work
for the uplifting of the labor men of,
the United States. p -
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AZ Arab Fi.hinx yam.

A fishing yarn from Algiers: Some
Arabs were fishing from a boat with
lines off the coast when a dolphin sew
enteen feet long, eleven feet in circum-
ference and weighing four tons swal-
lowed one of the baited hooks and
dashed off at a tremendous speed The
fishermen paid out as much line as
possible and then made it fast. This
brought the dolphin up sharply, but
the strain snapped the line. The mon
ster then attacked the boat and cap.
sized it, flinging the fishermen into the
water. Other Arabs ashore waited till
the dolphin was clear of the men and
then killed it with rifles.'
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Keen Sense of Humor.

'There is nothing like a sense of
humor," said naval officer, according
to the Philadelphia Bulletin I'm a
woman, in soldier, in sailor, in
clerk, sense Of humor is a help and
blessing through life. At the same
time even a sense of humor may exist
In excess. l, for my part, shouldn't
care to have so great a sense Of humor
as British soldier once heard about.
This soldier was ordered to be logged.
During the logging he laughed con-
t1nually. The lash was laid on all the
harder, but under the rain Of blows the
soldier laughed.
What are you laughing at7' the
sergeant finally asked.
Why the soldier chuckled, I'm
the wrong man."
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Jail Born Books.

Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress is the
most famous and of its class incom.
parably the best English beck ever
written in prison. Bunyan was pris-
oner In Bedford Jail from 1860 to 1872
and in addition to his immortal allie
CORY wrote "Grace Astounding and
The Holy City" during those twelve
years. Raleigh, who was prisoner in
the tower, 1603-14, occupied seven
years Of his captivity in writing his
History of the World 'eThe Kings
QUAR-" long and romantic love poem,
was written by James l., Of Scotland
when in prison at Windsor castle in
1923. Smollett, during his three months
detention in the Kings Bench prison
Cor libel, wrote 'The Adventures of
Sir Launcelot Graves" and during
similar experience at Newgate in 1903
Defoe wrote a recollection of Casual
ties and Disasters
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EMERGENCY CIRCULATION.
Bankers Would Name Commission .
Control Matter.

Washington, Nov Ia Committees
representing the American Bankers
association and the New York cham.
Der Of congress met in this city dur
ing the day to endeavor to form a
measure for the consideration of con-
gress looking to the giving of au.
thOrity to banks to issue emergency
circulation in cases of financial strin.
gency. The plan outlined by the
American bankers at their conven.
ton in st. Louis and that subsequent
ly presented by the legislative com.
mittee of the New York chamber of
commerce are not greatly different in
character and it is believed that they
can be harmonized to an extent that
a powerful recommendation for rem
edial banking legislation can be made
to congress at the approaching ses
sion.
These plans provide in a general
way for the appointment by the presi.
dent, with the approval of the senate.
of a commission of seven members,
of which the comptroller of the cur
rency shall be one. This commission
would have the same control over the
banking laws as, is exercised by the
interstate commerce commission over
transportation laws. It would be non
partisan, two of the members being
appointed for four years, two for eight
and two for twelve years, and after
that all members for twelve years, but
without being permitted to succeed
themselves. The commission would
be charged with the duty of consid
ering all applications of banks fol-
emergency circulation and would de
eide the necessity, the percentage OF
circulation compared with capital
stock to be allowed in order to meet
the emergency, and when the circula
ton should be called in. Safeguard
Ing against imitation would be one OF
the commissions chief duties in con
nection with such circulation.
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BIRTH RATE DECREASING.
French People Have Aversion t
Large Families.

Paris, Nov. 13.-Public attention
again has been drawn to the national
peril involved in the constantly di.
,minishing birth rate, by the publica-
ton of the vital statistics for 1905.
The births in France for this year
numbered S07,292, showing a decease
of 10,937 from the total of 1904.
The reason for this decrease is not
to be found in reduction of the
number of marriages, in which the
statistics show slight increase over
1904, but it apparently arises from the
aversion of the French people to raise
large families.
The national association, which is
studying this matter, has reached the
conclusion. that it is necessary to in.
culcate the idea that any couple that
raises more than three children mer-
its and is entitled to public gratitude
and protection.
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DON'T Tall Much 10 Your Horse.

Don't Talk Much TO Your Horse.
A horse who has always been made
to obey quickly will respond to COM
mands from any one, whereas the
creature who has been petted and talk
ed to accords, unless hungry, scant at
tention to any one. We talk to horses
altogether too much. and 1t Is silly
and dangerous custom. "whoam should
mean but one thing and, slip, slide or
fall, should meet with instant obedi-
ence. Not another word should ever
be used, beyond possibly the order to
stand over" in the stall although even
that Is best unsaiD except the ssclick''
OF the tongue for increased apeed. The
animals attention q Kept lie you are
silent. He does NOT know what you
will do next, and as he distrusts and
merely tolerates you. even as he fears
You. his anxiety Is always to find out
what you Wish done or what move you
VIII next make r. N. Ware IN Outing
Magazine.
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Isaac F. Taylor of Jersey City, one
of the most prominent lawyers at tbs
New Jersey bar, is dead at Newtown
Conn.
Fire at Dundee, a small town in
Delaware county, Ia, wiped out almost
the entire business district. Eight
business houses burned.
William Sloane and A. G. James
have been elected to the board of di
rectors of the Northern Securities
company. The other members Of the
board were reelected
Rev. Dir. Henry Martyr Baird, pro-
lessor emeritus of Greek and since
1902 dean of the New York universe
ty, is dead at Yonkers, N. Y, at the
age of seventy-four years. DR.. Baird
was one of the best known Greek
scholars in this country
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Maps and the Health.

Prolonged ''forty winks'' during the
day are severely condemned by many
doctors on the ground that they affect
ones regular sleep. Scientists have
found that in the ordinary course in
the human being there is the greatest
vitality between 10 a. m. and 2 p. m.
and the least between 2 o'clock and 6
o'clock in the morning. Long sleeps
during the day interfere with this or
der of nature and sometimes affect va
rious organs causing headache. The
nap Of forty winks, but only forty,
proves refreshing to many because it
is too short to have any injurious con-
seQuences.-LeaGon Telegraph.
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ENGINE BOILER ExPLODEs
Number of Persons Killed and In
" jured in Disaster.

San Jose, CAL, Nov. 13.-Two men
were killed, another fatally injured
and many passengers more or less
shaken up and cut by broken glass
in an accident to the Southern Pacific
Sunset express, No. 10, southbound
from San Francisco to New Orleans
opposite the depot at Sargent's Sta.
ton, eighty-seven miles south of San
Francisco. The dead are Engineer
Gillespie and Signal Construction
Foreman Goodfellow It is also be-
lieved that four or five tramps riding
on the platform or underneath the
first car were killed.
The accident was caused by the ex.
plosion of the engine boiler, the force
of which blew the depot to pieces,
tore up the track for hundred feet
on both sides of the place and turned
over the first four cars Of: the train.
The sleeping cars remained on the
track and none of the passengers in
the cars was hurt. .-..-. IL
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BLOWN up WITH DYNAMITE
THREE WAREHOUSES OF THE TO.
BACCO TRUST in KENTUCKY
ARE DESTROYED.

Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 13.-The
warehouses of the American Snuff
company at Eddyville, Princeton and
Fredonia, KY, have been wrecked by
dynamite. The Eddyville warehouse
was blown up early in the morning
Citizens Of that place were awakened
by the. shock Of the explosion, which
shattered windows for wide radius
Bloodhounds were secured and fol
lowed the trail of the wreckers for ten
miles into Caldwell county. ... ,
Several months ago trust ware
houses in the southern part of Ken
lucky were dynamited and growers
who sold tobacco to the trust received
warning messages from the might
RIDERS" ...f
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PREVIOUS RECORDS BROKEN.
Heavy Importation Of Precious Stones
During 1906.

New York, Nov.% 13.-With several
weeks to spare the present year has
passed all others in the total valua-
tion of the precious stones and pearls
brought into the port of New York.
Figures compiled by customs authori-
ties showed that the record of last
year, s37,146,337, the highest up to
that time, already has been passed.
The American demand for foreign
gems is mostly in diamonds and pearls.
Importers say that the tendency Of
prices Is still upward, because never
before has it been as difficult as it Is
now to obtain the better grade of
stones demanded by American buy
ers 49,.
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ENGINE RUNS INTO STATION.
Ono Man Killed and Several Injured
at Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 13.-One man
was killed and several injured, three
of them badly, when Michigan Gen.
trail railroad freight engine ran away
and crashed into the Third street
depot, tearing down large section of
the structure.
The engine was switching in the
yards a mile from the station when,
it is said, the crew saw passenger
train approaching behind them,
thought a collision was about to ,oc-
cur and jumped from the engine. 1t
was running at good speed and, I'M
checked, dashed into the station and
hit the west wall, tearing out a Sec
ton of twenty-five feet wide. The
second and third floors over this Sec
ton also collapsed.
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PRICES ARE TOO HIGH.

Government Quits Buying Silver fo,
the Present.
Washington, Nov. 13-The treasury
department during the day received
offers for the sale of silver to the gov
eminent at, u cents per fine ounce.
These offers were rejected and Sec.
rotary Shaw stated subsequently that
no more silver would be bought at
present high prices. The government
has ON hand, he said, silver enough
to keep the minis in operation for
some timeJto come and he regards
the present prices as too high to war
rant the government In making any
more purchases at those figures.
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Mother and Son Burned.

Beloit, Wis, Nov. j 3. BY accid ental-
" stepping on a match e. w. Clifton
ignited basin Of gasoline he was
pouring into the stove. Mrs. Edward
Merritt was probably fatally burned
and her son Garrett, aged five years,
was burned so badly that he died
later. SIS.
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The Logical Question.

A little Philadelphia boy was taken
by his father for his first visit to the
zoo. Stopping before an inclosure, he
asked, Papa, what animal is that?"
Reading the sign tackled up to one
side. his father responded, THAT, my
son, is prong horned antelope"
Kin he blow his horns?" was the
question that promptly followed.
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RIVAL is SUSPECTED.
Brooklyn italian Slain Fifteen Min.
utes After Marriage.

New York, Nov. 13.-Fifteen min
utes after he had married Maria
Aranstini in Brooklyn Augustine Syl-
vestro, twenty years old, was fatally
shot in his home, where he, was eel
ebrating his wedding. He died at
midnight in the Seney hospital, with
his bride at the bedside.
The shooting was done by six un-
known Iatalians, who entered the room
and started a row. It is suspected
that rival instigated the murder. and
the police are looking for this man,
who is known.
Pedro Depalino, wedding guest,
was seriously wounded during the me-
lee =,
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Texans Boom johnson,

Cooper. Tex, Nov. 13.At mass
meeting Of Democrats here boom
was launched for, Governor John "a.
johnson OF Minnesota for president
Of the United States Resolutions
we're adopted Affirming that Johnson
is an honest man with not q blotch on
his character and Of fine executive
ability.