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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-22
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
IN DAKOTA TOWN
MOSTLY INSURANCE MONEY
NEW YORK STATE sENAToRsHiP
WORTH ANYWHERE FROM
$4,000 TO 100000.

washington, May 22.-Some addi-
tional inside light was thrown on in
surance methods in New York by
Representative James A. Goulden of
that state before the house committee
on judiciary considering the Ames bill
for the regulation of insurance in the
District Of Columbia. Mr.. Goulden is
general agent Of the Pennsylvania
Mutual Life Insurance company in
New York.
Why" he said, "it was a we'll con-
ceded fact that to be a senator at AL
hany was worth anywhere from $780,
900 to 100000 a year and that the
money came largely from insurance
companies This is no secret Every
New York. man knows it.. l know it;
I know it we'll"
Touching on the subject of cam
paign contributions Mr.. Goulden said
that his company had been coerced
into giving $4,000 to national cam
paign committee in 1896. He did not
say which campaign committee re-
ceiVed the money, but remarked that
the same thing was tried in 1900 and
1904 but without success
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WEEDS HIS MOTHERS MAID.
Son of Pittsburg Millionaire Will Be
3 Disinherited.

.-.-<-a- D1SlnneriteQ. ~.
Pittsburg, May 22.-John Aston
Moorhead, son of John Moorhead,
Jr., and grandson Of John Moor
head, who was one of the group of
great Pittsburg steel magnates in his
lifetime, left the family home week
ago with his mothers French maid
and the pair were married in New
orll city.
The marriage has severed all rela-
tions between the young man and his
family. Friends of the Moorheads
have been informed that he will be
disinherited, which will mean the loss
of a great fortune, for the head of the
family is many times a millionaire.
Friends of the family have been in
formed that after the marriage in
New York young Moorhead and his
bride went to the home of Horace
Moorhead, the young mans uncle, on
Long Island. It is said that they will
stay there for time in the hope that
they may effect reconciliation.
The house committee on library has
authorized a favorable report on 3
bill authorizing the expenditure oi
&lOO,OOO for the erection in Washins
ton OF a suitable memorial to Chris.
tOpher Columbus. -
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CONVICTION AFFIRMED. Al
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
DECIDES AeAlNsT SENATOR
BURTON oF KANSAS.
LOSES HIS SEAT in UPPER HOUSE
MUST SERVE A4TERM OF NINE
MONTHS IN JAIL AND PAY A
FINE OF $1,000.

Washington, May 22.-The supreme
court of the United States has rem
dered decision in the case of United
States Senator ]. Ralph Burton of
Kansas. The decision was against
Burton, affirming the decision of the
federal circuit court for the Eastern
district of MissourI by which Burton
was sentenced to nine months impris-
onment in the Jail Of Iron county, Mo-,
required to pay a fine of $4,000 and
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NO CONCLUSION REACHED.
Cenferees ON Statehood Bill Hold An
other Meeting.

Washington, May %. - Another
meeting of the statehood conferees
was held during the day without re-
suit SO far as reaching conclusion is
concerned. The conferees, however,
are now considering the main point
of difference between the two houses.
The senate conferees have submitted
basis of compromise, which is under
stood to be on what is generally
known as the Foraker amendment,
namely, to allow the people of New
Mexico and Arizona to express them
selves on the statehood question at a
special election for that purpose.
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KILLS WIFE
THEN SELF
Farmer Murders Woman
As She Lies In Bed
With Child.
HloWs Off Top of His Own
Head Immediately
Afterwards.

New Salem, N. D., May ga
terrible tragedy occurred fifteen
miles northeast of here on Thurs
day when Henry A. Bradt, a
prosperous farmer, shot and in.
stantly killed his wife and then
blew off the top Of his own head.
There is no known motive for the
double crime.
Bradt had lived IN the county
about four years, having come
here from Minnesota. He had
been married five or six years,
and so far as known his married
life had been happy.
Mrs. Bradt, four days prior to
the murder, had given birth to a
child and was being cared for by
a neighboring woman and a
young girl.
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ARRAY At
BAUDETTE
Jealous Man Attacks Wom.
an In Dining Room
of Hotel.
John London of Duluth.
the Man; Mrs. Flett
the Victim.

AS a result of a stab bing affair
in Raudette last week Mrs. r.
Flett, a Duluth milliner, is lying
critically wounded in Baudette
hotel, and John London, a Duluth
business man, is lodged in the
Beltrami county Jail charged
with assault in the first degree.
He was taken before Baudette
justice of the peace Immediately
after the affray, but waived ex-
animation and was bound over to
the grand jury. Sheriff Bailey
brought him down Saturday.
The story Of the tragedy is fall
Of dramatic interest. There IS
the mans jealous rage; the terror
and flight Of the woman; the pur-
suit; and finally in the dining
room of a pu blic hotel, while the
victim was eating supper and
the room was crowded with other
guests, the stabblng.
The knife entered the back of
the woman and only a slight
movement On her part as the
stroke was descending, saved
her from a fatal wound.
Of scarcely less interest than
the details Of the happening is
the air of secrecy which has been
thrown about the whole affair.
Until the presentzdate not a word
about the stabbing has appeared
in print outside of a short ac.
count in the Baudette paper,
although it took place a week ago
last Saturday. Not a dispatch
has gone outof that village over
the wire, and the sheriff has
lodged reporters and courted the
most sphinx-like silence, refus-
ing to give out the names of the
parties interested.
And yet there is nothing to
suppress; it is merely that the
little village to the north where
the tragedy quite accidently took
! place, does not want the adver-
tislng: The people were not it's
people and it feels that it should
not be blamed for the affair.
London and Mrs. Flett left
Duluth several weeks ago and
were first heard Of in Fort Fran
els, just across the border from
international Falls. "
A week ago last Friday an In
ternational Falls policeman was
startled by the sight of a woman
rushing toward him evidently in
the utmost terror.
"Tell me a place where ! can
hide" she pleaded. "There is a
man after me and he wants to
i00ntinnpd On rara o01I1mn ~
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SOCIAL LEADERS INVOLVED.
Own Pittsburg Houses Used for I'm
moral Purposes.

OVvti ihSSNA'S S0SN i0s iIts
moral Purposes.
Pittsburg, May 22-The city ad-
xlinistration is determined to push to
the extreme the work of cleaning up
Pittsburg's moral side Warrants will
be issued against several persons high
up in society who own half dozen
houses each in the down town district.
all of which are used for immoral pur-
poses.
Some of these, who are women,
have had large incomes from these
properties, as they all rented for $1255
to $500 month. The property was
left them by fathers and grandfathers
and has helped them maintain social
positions for years. They are said to
have been fully cognizant of the pur-
pose for which the houses were used,
but overlooked that in view of the
handsome rental they secured
In addition to these individuals the
officials of over score of real estate
concerns are to be arrested.
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AMENDS CURRENCY ACT.
House Passes Si! Affecting Bank
Circulation.


Washington, May 22.-'The house
has passed the bill amending section
6 of the currency act approved March
II, 1900. The bill gives to the secre-
tary of the treasury authority to issue
gold certificates in denominations Of
not less than SIS instead of not less
than $40 as now provided by law and
also gives to national banks the au-
thority to place in circulation such
portion Of their circulating notes in
the denomination Of SIS as the secre-
tary may from time to time authorize
by regulation instead Of being limited
in their right to issue IS notes to one
third of the circulation as now pro-
vided by law. ~"
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RESERVOIR BREAKS.
One Hundred Thousand Gallons Of
Water Let Loose.

Saltwater, Mimi, May PA spring
water reservoir of the water company
burst anG the roar that followed
sounded like thunder. 1t held 100000
gallons of water and was overfowing
Many timbers fourteen inches square
We're broken off and many Others
splintered and shattered for block
all around. The tank was circled by
eighteen steel bands six inches wide
and half OF them were broken. The
water flooded gardens and let's in the
immediate vicinity and debris. includ
ing heavy foundation stones, was scat
tered about
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Carload of Horses Burned.

Webster, S. D., May pa carload
of fine draft horses, owned by Frelich
& Efnor and consigned to Barrett &
Zimmerman, st. Paul, was destroyed
by fire a short time after leaving here
The car was attached to a through
freight and was discovered in flames
when about five miles east. Eleven
horses were burned to death. two so
badly burned that they had to be killed
and two escaped.
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deprived of the right to hereafter hold
Office under the government.
The sentence Of Senator Burton was
in two parts, as hesWass convicted on
two counts of the Indictment. One
twas six months ID jail anu fine of
| $4,000 and the other three months in
jail and $500 fine, aggregating nine
| months in Jail and fine of $4,000.
The opinion was by Justice Harlan
All Of the points made in Burton's in.
terest were Overruled.
Senator Burton was prosecuted on
the charge Of violating section 1882 Of
the Revised Statutes, which prohibits
senators and representatives from re-
| ceiving compensation for services rem
dered before any of the government
departments in any matter in which
was specifically charged with accept
ing fee of $500 per month for five
months from the Rialto Grain and
Securities company of St. Louis for
services rendered that company in an
effort to prevent the issuance of an
order by the postoft1ce department pro-
hibiting the use of the mails by the
company. 81.
Burton Won His First Appeal.
This was Senator Burton's second
appeal to the supreme court. In the
first case the circuit court found him
guilty and imposed the same penalty
that was imposed in the present case,
but the supreme court reversed the
decision in the first instance because
it was made to appear that the money
was paid in Washington and not in
st. Louis, where the case was tried.
It was contended on behalf of Sen
ator Burton that the fee was paid on
account of a criminal proceeding
against one of the members of the
Rialto company and not because of
services rendered in the government
prosecution of the company. The law
under which he was prosecuted was
also attacked as unconstitutional on
the ground that the senate was the
sole Judge of the qualification of it's
members, but this doctrine was not
upheld by Justice Harlan's opinion
The statute was upheld in all respects
and held to be fully applicable to Bur
toms case.
Justices Brewer, White and Peck
ham united in dissenting opinion de-
livered by Justice Brewer. Their
opinion was based upon the theory
that the United States was not legally
interested in the case against the
Rialto company, in which Burton was
employed as counsel
Immediately after promulgating its
decision the supreme court granted a
motion to give sixty days to Senator.
Burton in which to prepare a petition
for a rehearing. The action will have
the effect of taking the case over ull-
til the next term of court beginning in
October, as the present term Will ex-
rire next Monday.
UNLESS He RESIGNS AT ONCE.
Senate Will Take Action to Unseat
Burton.
Washington, May 22-If Senator
a,
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Leading Officials Subpoenaed,

Philadelphia, May 22.-Subpoenaes
have. been issued by the interstate
commerce commission for several i'm
railroad. They will be asked to tes-
tify concerning car distribution and
gifts Of coal companies stock when
the commission resumes it's hearings
Wednesday,
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GIVEN THREE YEARS IN PRISON
Cleveland Business Man Pleads Guilt,
a<ll# to Bigamy.

Norwalk, O., May 22.-Harry J
Reynolds, until recently prominently
connected with we'll known Cleye
land iron ore and shipping concern
waived triaI during tire day, pleaded
guilty to the charge of bigamy and
was sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment. Reynolds was charged
with marrying Miss Mae Smith of this
city while he had a wife living in
Cleveland He maintained he married
Miss Smith while temporarily de
ranged.
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The Presbyterian general assembly,
in session at Des Moines, unanimously
adopted a resolution calling on the
Presbyterian churches of America to
raise 100000 for the relief Of the
churches which suffered from the San
Francisco disaster.
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HAY RATE CASE DECIDED.
Interstate Commerce Commission De.
feated on Appeal.

feated on Appeal.
Washington, May 22.-The supreme
court of the United States has affirmed
by a divided court the decision of the
circuit court for the Northern district
Of Ohio in the interstate commerce
case known as the hay rate case. The
case grew out of the change of hay
from the sixth to the fifth class Of
freight by the leading railroads and
the interstate commerce commission
sought to prohibit the change through
writ of Injunction. This the circuit
court refused to grant and the su-
preme courts decision sustains that
action. ..~-. ~
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Oldest Woman in Iowa bead.

Leon, Ia, May 22-Mrs. Mary Ann
Perigo. aged 1O3, and the oldest white
person in Iowa. died here from blood
poisoning caused by the scratch Of q
cat, which she was petting.
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WON By RANK OUTSIDER.

TokaIon at rs to Captures Brooklyn
Handicap.
Gravesend, L. l., May 22.-J. w. Full
ler's Tokalon, despised outsider at
rs to J. in the betting, captured the
Brooklyn handicap here from the sec
=ond choice, Dandelion, with The Picket
third. The time, 2:05sb, is within one
fifth of a second OF the track record
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Tunnel Under Military Prison.
.Pope,s Condition Much Better.

Rome, May 22.-When DR.. Lapponi
visited the pope during the morning
he found that the pontiff had passed a
good night, that the equity pain in his
knee had almost disappeared and that
his general condition had improved.
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PROMINENT GREEKS EXPELLED
Radical Action Taken by Roumanian
Government

Bucharest, Rouisnia, May -22.-As
reprisal for the massacre Of a party
near Grabena on May 13 the govern,
ment has ordered the expulsion OF
twenty three prominent Greek doctors,
merchants, ETC., who are alleged to
have been connected with the bands
responsible for the disturbances. The
Greek community is greatly excited
and further expulsions are expected.
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SLABS WOMAN IN
SIGHT or CROWD
IN RUSSIA
AMERICAN CONSUL AT RAToUM
A BRITISH SUBJECT, SHOT
AND KILLED.

Batoum, Russia, May 22-W. Fl.
Stuart, the American vice consul, was
shot and killed at his country place.
The assassin escaped.
Mr.. Stuart was British subject
and one of the largest ship brokers
and exporters of Batoum During the
revolutionary troubles of last fall his
life was many times threatened by
longshoremen and at Christmas a
deputation visited Mr.. Stuartfs Office
and practically compelled him to give
them $1,000 under the guise of holi-
day gratuity for dock lahorers.
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Washington, May 22.-Vice Consul
Stuart, who was killed at Batoum,
was an Englishman, forty-nine years
old and had filed the position for
about two years. At the time of his
death he was acting consul.
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RUPTURE IS AVERTED
RUSSIAN LOWER HOUSE IGNORES
czAR,s REFUSAL TO RECEIVE
ITS DELEGATION.
lo1HElDs sUccUAB TO ARGUMENT
CONVINCED RY5MoDERATEs THAT
FORCED CONFLICT WOULD BE
FATAL BLUNDER.
lOTHElDs sUCCUAB TO ARGUMENT
CONVINCED BYsMoDERATEs THAI

VASu OlOlLu OfS1 C1C CluJCl VI lCluSoA
to receive the delegation from the
lower house of parliament, appointed
to present to him it's reply to the
speech from the throne, has been
averted. The house during the after
noon adopted a resolution to proceed
with the regular order of business
and the discussion of the agrarian
question began.
The moderate leaders of the Consti-
tutional Democrats, after laboring
with the hotheads until the early
morning hours, succeeded in convinc-
ing them that it would be fatal blum
der to precipitate conflict upon
false issue and resolution was pre-
pared pointing out that the impor-
contents and not in the form in which
it is transmitted to the emperor. Some
of the Constitutional Democrats frank
ly expressed the opinion that the
house itself committed an error in ap-
pointing the deputation when the law
specifically provided that con1munica-
tions from the house should go
through the president.
The emperOr's action in refusing to
receive the deputation created much
popular excitement. The papers voiced
the fear that it meant a rupture and
crowds collected about the Tauride
palace before the opening of the ses-
oil Of NO r1i 10, Wyhilo hio i.
esty's action is in strict conformity
with the correctness and Journalism
which have characterized his career
nevertheless his failure to seize the
occasion to meet the peoples repre-
sentatives directly is sure to produce
bad impression in the country, where
the burden Of the popular outcry has
always been directed agasast the bu-
a llc mi e1 a4es.ia1ies. iIi,e lad
icals in the house wanted to make his
refusal casus belli, but yielded to
| the persuasions of the Constitutional
Democrats and decided not to present
a condemnatory resolution. A pacific
issue, therefore, Is assured
cEVERELY WOUNDED BY BOMB.
Russian Officer Prominent in Sup
pressing Disturbances.
Kaliszk, Russian Poland, May o.
Count Keller. a colonel of dragons,
was severely wounded by the explo-
sion of bomb which was thrown at
the officer while he was returning
from a review His horse was killed
and his orderly was injured. The
would-be assassin escaped.
Count Keller had been prominent in
suppressing disturbances here and in
this vicinity.
Colonel Keller is a nephew of Lieu
tenant General Count Keller, who was
killed July 20, 1904, while repelling
Japanese attack on Yangtse pass.
| Tunnel Under Military Prison.
+ Baku, Transcaucasia, May 22.-The
authorities here discovered that tun-
mel had been dug under the military
prison. They also seized secret
printing Office for anarchist proclama'
tions The workmen of the electric
plant at Bibieybat have struck and
those of the Oil factories threaten to
! follow suit.
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UNLESS He RESIGNS AT ONCE

Senate Will Take Action to Unseat
Burton.
Washington, May 22-1f Senator
Burton does not resign sat once" as a
prominent senator puts it, a resolution
will be introduced to declare his seat
vacant.
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Continued on page 4, column 5,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-02
4 LONG MISTAKE.

AS almost anything can happen in this world, wllat has happehed to Louis Dankey, of Birmingham, Alabama, is perhaps not surprising. Dankey, who is a negro. thought he killed another negro with a club thirty years ago and fled, being a fugitive all these years. A few days ago he was arrested and on his trial Wednesday it was discovered that the man he hit was not killed. He was let off with fine of $1O after liv- ing thirty years in fear.
 Thirty years is long enough for man to live under the mistaken belief that
 he is murderer. If Dankey is man
 of feeling he has not had a good time But perhaps he is not and hasn't suf- fered much more than other people do His case is an unusual one, and indi- cates either that Dankey didn't read the newspapers as he ought to, or else that the newspapers didn't have the news for which he was looking
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-02

ator Lodges bill which passed the Sem ate, the title of consul general is to be confined to posts where the rank is necessary in the opinion of the Presi- dent anl the State department. The list as given in Senator Lodges bill provides for fifty-one consuls general, but there are nine posts where the con- sular officers are ranked as consuls gen. eral omitted in Secretary Roots list. The places are Munich, Coburg, Dres- den, Christiania, Belgrade, Monrovia, Bangkok, Cairo and Monterey.
 If the Lodge bill passed the House these places would suffer loss in rank. The majority of the committee are op- posed to making any change in the rank of the consuls now holding them, and the arguments presented by the State department for readjustment have failed in this respect. In a way the action of the House committee, should the report be adopted, will cause confusion in the general scheme of promotion and inspection mapped out in the Lodge bill. This bill spe- officially classifes the consuls general in accordance with the importance of the posts which they occupy.
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CAUGHT.

May I read you my last poem?" You may, if it really is. .'-Cleveland Leader.
 Often confession is owning up when you are sure to be aught.-Saturday Evening Post,
 Pat-"Phwat is the first soign of spring?"
 Mike-"When ye notice it ain't here yet. New York Sun.
 Every time l take drink put fif- teen cents in this little pocketbook. Great scheme, isn't it?" Fine. I'd like to become million aire on that principle. Minneapolis Tribune.
 Paddy (oblivious to the track. with train advancing)- Where will I catch the express for Dublin?"
 Stationmaster-''Ye'll catch it all over ye, if ye don't get off the line mighty quick. Punch.
 Edna (writing composition) Dear me, l have forgotten which are the sev- en wonders of the world. I'll ask Mrs. | Brown" Tom Don't" Edha-"Why not?"' Tom-"Well, she has seven children n.'-Chicago Daily News. | MT. Honeynoon-''Ah, precious, see you have prepared some pudding with your own dear little hands, What kind is it, dearest?n Mrs. Honeymoon Tt hat isn't pudding; that's b-b-bread, sobbingly replied the bride, -Exehange.
 Bishop Goodman dmpressively)-- 'Only think, children! In Africa there are 100OO,OOO square miles of territory without single Sunday school where little boys and girls can spend their Sundays. Now, what should we all try and save up our money and do?"
 ClHss Gin ecstatie union)-"Go to Af- rica. Hebrew Standard.
 Mrs Crossly-"John, that gentleman with the big hair and long black tie is going to write a series of stories on Wild Animals I Have Met, "
 Mir. Cressly-"Well, what do you mean by inviting him to call at this house so early in the morning?"
 Mrs. Grossly (sweetly)- Why, I thought he would like to see you when breakfast is few minutes late" ."-Chi- cago Daily News.