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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-16

Fearing blindness and believing
that her failing eyesight would pro.
vent her from doing her part in sup.
porting her aged parents. Rosie
Courte, twenty-eight years old, com.
lnitted suicide in st. Louis by drink.
ing cartolic acid.
AS the result of an encounter with
isaac Martikkala at the Copper Range
railroad station at South Range.
Mich, John Lassila has been bound
over for trial on a charge Of intent to
kill. 1t is asserted that Lassila tried
to cut OF Martikkala's head with a
knife, his victim escaping with grew
Gus wounds.
Drew Marshall shot Mrs. Frank
Bechtel of Cairo, ILL.,, twice and then
turned the gun on himself. He died
instantly and Mrs. Bechtel is now ly.
ing in dangerous condition at the
city hospital. Marshall was angered
by the refusal of Mrs. Bechtel to
leave her husband and two small chill.
dren and elope with him.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-16
lnfuriated Mob in South Caro-.
lima City Bent on Lynching
Black Man.
SHERIFF SHOT DURING RIOT
Colored Prisoner Charged With At
tempt to Ravish White Girl
Militia Makes Good.

Spartanburg, S. c., Oct. 13.-In the
heart OF Spartanburg, with its 10000
population. mob of Infatuated citi-
zens, at times numbering 1000 or
more, fought Saturday and Saturday
night with the military and civil au.
thorities for the possession of John
lrby, a negro, who attempted to raw.
fsh Miss Lille Dempsey earlier in the
day, while the young woman was on
her way here from Saxon Mill village,
three miles away.
Four persons were wounded. one Of
them seriously, and John Sparks a
restaurantkeeper, was arrested and
held without bail On the charge of
shooting Sheriff Nichols, who was
slightly wounded in the exchange of
shots between the mob and the au.
thorit1es who were protecting the
trembling prisoner in the Jail.
Gathers at Noon.
Beginning about noon, the crowd
sullen and bent on vengeance on the
negro, roamed about the court house
square.
News of the assault upon Miss
Dempsey spread to surrounding mill
towns and factories, and operatives
poured into the city IN 9arge numbers.
The mob talked of blowing up the Jail
with dynamite.
A hundred regulation army rifles.
protruding from win lows, doors and
porches of the building presented a
formidable proposition for the consid-
GRAFTON of the mob leaders,.
Late at night the situation again
became alarming, when the crowd
was augmented by 500 persons from
Greenville, the home Of an engineer
killed in the wreck caused by the ne
gro Clarence Agnew, who is in iail.
There was some shooting in the
streets and the mob moved into the
public square.
More Troops Arrive.
The company of state troops from
Laurens, S. c., arrived on a special
train at 9:45 p. m. and went at once
to the county Jail. These brought
the number of soldiers on guard I'm
to $50.
The police arrested five alleged
leaders of the mob at midnight, this
action having sanitary effect. Short
ly after midnight the crowd on the
streets had diminished in number, ex-
element had diminished and the cri.
sis was believed to be passed.
Three companies of militia were
still guarding the Jail here Sunday
night, and conditions were normal.
Further trouble is not expected.
though the troops will be retained un-
til danger of an outbreak is passed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-16
TELLS ABOUT CANAL BIDS.
Col. GoethaIs Testifies at Inquiry Into
Charges Of Discrimination.

Col. Goethals Testifies at Inquiry Into
Charges Of Discrimination.
New York, Oct. 11.-Col. George W.
Cocktails, general director of the Pan
anna canal work, was placed on the
witness stand yesterday in the in
CURRY that is being conducted before
Inspector General Darlington as the
result of charges of discrimination
and favoritism in awarding galloway
contracts for the canal by govern,
ment officials.
Col. Goethals took the stand toward
the end of the session, which had
been replete with sensational Incl.
dents.
William A. Brothers, who brought
the charges, had publicly accused
Spencer Miller, representative of
the Lidgerwood Manufacturing COM
pany, of perjury, and had followed
this accusation by the charge that the
inquiry was not being conducted on
fair lines, saying the witnesses for
the defense were the only ones given
a hearing.
It was shortly after this that Col.
Goethals was called upon to testify.
In voice that betrayed his deep feel
ing over the charges made by Mr.:
Brothers, Col. Goethals entered into a
defense of the manner In which the
galloway contracts had been awarded.
In his endeavor to explain how con-
tracts had been awarded in as fair q
manner as possible, Col. Goethals
talked at great length and answered
questions put to him by Senator Sla-
ter and others interested. The wit
nese repeatedly said that the inquiry
was so quickly called that he had not
been prepared to combat the charges
made.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-16
W0NDtR-DRAMA OF CENTURIES
All Romaace, Legendary and Ragged
History Of Past Days Groaped
in Notable Display.

Philadelphia, Oct. Like pages
out of the past, torn from the great
book of history and heavy laden with
the memories Of 225 years, the living
scenes of the first great historical
pageant ever planned in this country
were unfolded yesterday before con.
course Of three.quarters Of million
people. In this wonder-drama of the
centuries, the eliminating feature of
Philadelphia's notable celebration of
Founders week. there we're 5000
men and women in costume.
Seventy Floats.
There were seventy mammoth
floats, representing months of careful
study and faithful to the last detail
in their portrayal of the scenes select.
ed from the long span of years that
have marked the passing milestones
of the city. All the romance, all the
legendary, all the rugged history of
the days of long ago were comprehen.
sively grouped in this notable display.
People fought to get glimpse of it
and hundreds of women were taken
crushed and fainting from the con,
gested corners.
Pages Out Of Past.
Through the long chain of events,
the pageant made it's way in a wealth
of color and fidelity to historic author
ity that fairly reflected the magnitude
of the undertaking, which enlisted the
willing service of notable historians,
artists, students, men of the profes.
sions and descendants of many of the
men who actually lived the scenes
that were pictured afresh yesterday.
Following the scenes of early settle.
ment there came the period of Will.
liam Penn and the Quakers. From this
time on events moved rapidly, and
Benjamin Franklin soon followed
Penn upon the scene.
Old Liberty Bell.
1t was not long until the spectators
found themselves gazing upon Wash
ington, Jefferson, Lafayette. John
Paul Jones, Rochambeau and others
in the various scenes of their patriotic
activities. They looked upon Betsy
Ross as she toiled upon the flag; they
saw depicted the scene of the voting
upon the Declaration of Independence
in the old state house, and then, out
of all this pageantry of believe,
there came touch of real history. 1t
was the old Liberty bell. On care
fully guarded truck and partly buried
in straw, the old relic itself was
shown as it was being hurried away
to Allentown in hay wagon for SAFE
keeping in 1777.
British Troops Enter.
On the heels of the departing bell
came the entrance of the British
troops into Philadelphia under Sir
William Howe and Lord CORVALLIS,
both of whom were pictured in yester.
days parade. There were about 1000
we'll drilled men in the lines and all
were costumed in the period of the
Revolution. Another thousand men
made up the Continental troops.
The period of the Civil war gave an.
other opportunity for military display.
The selling of war loans by Jay
Cooke was followed by a visit Of Lin
coin to Philadelphia, and lastly by the
return of the soldiers.
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Plan. Triple Alliance.

Hongkong, Oct. II. = It is learned
here from a reliable source that the
real reason Of Sir Robert Harris recent
visit to England was to bring about
an alliance between China, the Unit
ed States and Great Britain to con.
serve the interests Of the nations in
the Far East.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-16
GIVES LIFE FOR CHILDREN.

Mother Meets Death Under Wheels Of
Rock Island Train After Rescue.
Kewanee, ILL.,, Oct. 13.-At the sac
rifice of her own life, Mrs. Caroline
Barnhart Of Cambridge saved her two
small children from being ground un-
der the wheels of north-bound Rock
Island passenger train. The children
were on their way home from a visit
with their father, walking on the
track. They did not see the train
until pushed aside by their mother,
who did not have time to jump. Her
body was terribly mangled.
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Man and Woman Found Dead.

Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 13.-B. L. Shep.
pard, travelling salesman for the Mar.
shall Pennyweight Scales company,
and Mrs. Leona Bruner, stewardess
at the Lincoln Commercial club, were
found dead last night in the apart.
ments of the man. The room was
filled with gas. The superstition Of
the police is that they turned on q
gas jet. with suicidal intent, though
the possibility of accidental death ia
admitted.
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Exclamation Demanded.

Lisbon, Oct. 10. - Upon the repre-.
sensations Of Charles Page Bryan, the
American minister to Portugal, the
minister Of war has telegraphed to
the governor Of Angola, Portuguese
West Africa, demanding an explana.
ton for the recent expulsion Of al
American missionary. I
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Senator severidqe III,

Reno, New, Oct 13.-United States
Senator A. J. Beveridge of Indiana,
who was to have addressed a Repub-
Ican meeting here last night, was
obliged to cancel this engagement
on account of illness. His physician
IL said to have advised him. to do no
more public speaking for some time.
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Otherwise.

Spokane was unanimously chosen as
the meeting place for the seventeenth
national irrigration congress next
year.
A divorce was granted at Reno,
New, to Nat Goodwin, the actor, from
his wife, known on the stage as Max
inc Elliott.
Martha G.. Haskell Of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, has given $4,000 to Grinnell
college, her donation ranking among
the largest received by that school.
Miss Edna Wallace Hopper, the ac>
tress, has announced that she is about
to bring suit to recover $7,500,000 left
by an Irish uncle to British Colum.
bia official.
Angered because of a news item
printed in the Morrill, News, Perry
Boyer, marshall of Morrill,, shot and
killed J. H. schmucker, editor of the
News, and then committed suicide.
w. G.. Conrad of Helena, Mont, has
rendered his resignation as a candi.
date for presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket, because of the fact
that Mr.. Conrad is a stakeholder and
officer in national bank.
At the next session Of the Iowa leg
stature bills will be introduced in
both the house and Henate providing
that hereafter judicial nominations
shall be made in party primaries in
the same manner as all other nomina.
tons are now made III this state.
The Phoenix mines of the Domin.
ion Copper company shut down last
week, instructions To that effect hav.
ing been received from the head office
in New York. 1t is understood that
the company will be reorganized. The
necessity for this action, it is stated,
arises from lack of funds in the treas
ury.
A sensation has been caused at Port
Arthur, Ont, by statement by Rev.
X. S. Totterman, who declares that a
Finnish society numbering 200 people
here, under the guise Of socialism, is
practicing free love to an alarming ex:
tent, and already several children
have been born under these condi.
lions.
The Iowa board of pardons, it is
said, has discovered a woman who
can prove the innocence Of George
Weems, confined in the penitentiary
for fifteen years for mur der, but she
refuses to disclose the story or reveal
her true name, as she has reformed,
has grown son and says her confess
sion would involve a politician and
professional man now happily mar
vied. .
| A church with a theater, billiard
room. bowling alley. gymnasium,
swimming pool and other amusement
features attached, was proposed and
advocated by Rev. Frank q. Smith Of
the Warren Avenue Congregational
church Of Chicago In his sermon Sun
day night.
Thirty-one states and provinces Of
Canada were represented ct the sec
ond international conference on state
and local taxation, which assembled
at the parliament building in Toronto
under the auspices Of the National
tax association.
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Anniversary Of Cuban Revolution.
Havana. Oct. IA public holiday
was kept in Havana in celebration of
the thirty-ninth anniversary Of the be.
ginning Of the ten-year war for Cuban
independence. Public Offices were
closed and flagA displayed throughout
the city.
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Foreign.

The Japanese government has de.
cided to prohibit all gambling on race
tracks and strictly to enforce the laws
governing racing.
Annoy, China, has been officially de.
clared free from contagious diseases.
This includes the cholera and bu.
bonic plague. All consulates are is.
suing clean bills of health.
Following the London Times, the
Daily Chronicle is going into the book
peddling business. 1t has joined
forces with the Mcmillan firm for the
publication of a cheap edition of Nor.
ley's Life of Gladstone"
The crisis in the champagne trade
in France Is creating state of I'M
rest resembling that which existed
last year in the southern wine dis.
tricts. Champagne growers complain
chiefly of the ravages of mildew and
of the Importation into the champagne
district Of wines grown outside.
Interest, not unmixed with appre.
tension, has been aroused by the dis
charge at Wellington, N. e., of a
Maori patient from the leper station
with a clean bill of health. The man
was at the station for only eleven
months. The chief health officer de.
clares that the patient was cured by
injection Of cultures of the leprosy
bacilli. The treatment is known as
the Nastin system.
William and Edward Ives were each
fined $500 at the Old Bailey in London
for conspiring to defraud the finland
revenue by selling preparation for
the dilution of beer. The preparation
was mostly water. ut is very hard"
said William. as he left the court.
DAILY men are fined for drinking that
which intoxicates and we who have
made it so that it is not intoxicating
are fined more than all the others.
Surely the English law is peculiar"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-16
GARFlELD's AvENGER KILLS,
Man Who Attempted to Shoot Gui
teau Arrested for Murder

Man Who Attempted to Shoot Gui.
teau Arrested for Murder.
Washington, Oct. 49, - Noted for
having attempted to avenge the death
of President Garfield by shooting at
Guiteau, the assassin. William Jones,
locally known as ''I.ill' Jones the
avenger, farmer, la st night shot and
killed John A. Mcpherson of Detroit
Mich, at Bates farm near Brookland,
on the outskirts of this city.
Jones was arrested shortly after
the crime was committed, while he
was on his way to Baltimore, where
he owns property. He was brought
to this city and lodged in jail
Mrs. Jones, who is said to have
been an eyewitness t. the killing,
has not been found. Jones admitted
to Coroner hewitt that he shot Nc.
Pherson, but claims that he acted in
self-defense.
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sNEEzE is ALMOST FATAL.
Party Is Dashed Over Embanknent
.s and Machine Turns Turtle.

% anu WdcNtne IUFnS UFtIe.
Lenox, Mass, Oct. Is. Because
their chauffeur was forced to sneeze
and lost control of bis machine an
automobile party consisting of Mrs.
Walter Foreman of the Island of Ten.
eriffe, Lady Sutton and Herbert Ats.
ley of London, who were en- route
from Lenox to the villa Of ]. Nal.
colin Forbes of Boston, shot over a
three-fcot embankment at Palmer.
The machine turned turtle and the
party escaped from serious accident
because the machine shot clear of
them and they landed on the messy
bank of rivulet.
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Much Fish shinned .

Hudson, Wis, Oct. 13.-Eight tons
Of fish, mostly sheephead. carp, stur-
geon and catfish, were taken from
this point to the Chicago market the
past two days.
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CAN'T GET ENOUGH MEN.

WISCUH8In VSTItFdI SUnSTS shortage
Of Hands.
Chicago, Oct lit was announced
yesterday that traffic conditions on
the Wisconsin Central road have i'm
proved to such an extent that the
road now Is suffering from shortage
of men. The improvement has been
occasioned chiefly by the large move.
ment of wheat over the road. It is
coming from the West and Northwest.
Thele also is large movement of
coal in the opposite directions.
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HEAVY TRAFFIC BOTH WAYS.
Grain Moves With Record-breakina
- 4

Volume to Head Of Lakes.
Duluth, Oct. 8. The railroads con-
Meeting with the Head Of the Lakes
have no further cause for complaint
about dull times, the shipments of
coal and grain having increased pro.
digiously in the last fortnight.
The movement Of coal West is very
heavy, while the movement Of grain
to this port is record breaking, the
average being 1.400 cars daily.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-16
Killed by Live Wire.

Austin, Mimi. Oct. 10. - william
Lampkin. q lineman for the city elecs
trio light plant, was killed Saturday
BY touching . I've wire while ut wori|
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House Mover Killed

House Mover Killed.
Cutbank. Mont, Oct. 11.--Fred, Law
Ter, prominent business man Of Cut
bank. was killed while moving q
house.
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Accidental Happenings.

Clemens Meiley, youth, was acct.
dentally stabbed to death at Freeport,
ILL.,, by an umbrella, on which he fell.
the point piercing his abdomen for
six inches and causing internal hem
orrhage.
Great Hall and the Ocean View no.
tel, two of the largest summer houses
on the ocean boulevard at Winthrop,
Mass, were burned, together with sew
eral cottages. The loss is estimated
at $150.000.
Five hundred pounds of dynamite
and steam boiler exploded at the
Apache mine at Webb City, Mo-, kill
ing R. c. Feland, mine operator;
George Smith and Jasper Lee, injur.
ing Frank Holderby and Ed Johnson
and destroying the mine buildings.
After she had lain on the floor OF
her home for two days, suffering from
the terrible burns she had received
while fumigating her chicken coop,
Mrs. Mary Butler, an aged resident of
Clemens, Iowa, was found by her
sons. She probably will die. Mrs.
Butler lives alone. When her dress
caught fire no one was near to help
her.
Plunging headlong for 400 feet down
the main shaft of the Mount Olive &
Stanton Coal company's mine at
Mount Olive, Mo-, Herman Heron
and Monroe Yanischke, employed
were hurled to instant death. Their
bodies lay for three hours on the plat
form of the hosting elevator, fifty
feet from the bottom of the shaft, be-
fore fellow employees could crawl
down the shaft and remove them. 4
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THREE MEN KILLED.
Freight Train Backs Into Gang Of
IaAAl< nAnalaAna

Track Repairers.
Chicago, Oct. 11.-Three track re-
pairers were killed and one fatally in
jured yesterday when a freight train
backed into the group Of men who
were replacing ties in the switch
yards at South Chicago. The train
crew was arrested, as companions Of
the victims declared that no warning
signals had been displaced.
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Personal.


Mrs. Richard Yates, mother of For.
mer Governor Yates of Illinois, and
widow of the Illinois war governor, is
dead at Springfield, aged eighty-six
years.
Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, formerly
president of the Mercantile Trust
company, died from angina pectoris
at his home at Garrison on the Hud.
son. He was seventy-one years old.
RI Rev. Michael Tierney, bishop of
the Roman Catholic diocese of Hart
ford, Conn.,, is dead as the result Of a
stroke Of paralysis. Bishop Tierney
was born in Tipperary county, Ire.
land, in 1859.
Thomas Morrison, prominent in
railroad and business circles, dropped
dead in the Office of the Spring Grove
Cemetery association in Cincinnati,
Just as meeting of the cemetery
trustees, of which he was president.
was about to be called to order.
Rev. S. Edward Young, pastor OF
Second Presbyterian church of Pitts
burg, recently received q call from a
church in Brooklyn. His salary is
$4,000 year, but his congregation
voted to increase this to $4,000 if he
would stay in Pittsburg. He decided
to stay, but refused the increase in
Salary.
Fay Hampstead of Arkansas, now a
member of Ravenswood lodge, Chica.
go, has been crowned poet laureate
Of the Masonic fraternity. Mr.. Hemp
stead is the third poet to be thus far
honored, the first being Robert
Burns, the Scotch poet of immortal
fame, and the second the late Robert
Morris Of New York. The honor was
conferred by consent of all the grand
lodges.
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Sins and Sinners.

The State bank at Deweese, Neb.,
was dynamited and robbed. All the
cash, about $4,000, was taken.
J. E. Gooding. president of the de-
funct State bank of ROCKFORD, Kan,
was found guilty of wrecking the
bank.
In the circuit court at Lexington,
KY, the cases against Ebert Hargis,
Edward Callahan, Alex Hargis and
Jesse Spicer, all charged with the as.
sassination of James Cockrell, were
dismissed on motion Of the common.
wealth.
Mary Johnson OF California is q
prisoner at Ellis Island for violation
Of the laws Of New York in wearing
mems clothes. For fifteen years she
has masQueraded In male attire under
the name Of Frank Woodruff" be.
cause she felt that as q man" she
Dou1d bGtter earn her living.
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news OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
Digest Of the News Worth Telliss Cen.
densed for the Busy
Reader.
Washington.

Commander John b. Bernardou,
American naval attache of the embas.
sizes at Rome and Vienna, died at the
naval hospital in New York.
President Roosevelt will designate
Gen. Luke E. Wright, secretary Of
war, as the governments official rep.
resentative at the Southern memorial
congress, which will convene in Wash.
tngton Dec. and 8.
It is announced at the White House
that the president will not consider
its pernicious political activity on the
part of any employee in the classified
service in going to his home to vote
ut the coming election.
The cotton crop report issued by
the department Of agriculture shows
that the average condition of the cot.
ton crop on Sept. 25 was 69.7 per cent
of normal, against 7G1 on Aug. rs
last, 67.7 on Sept. Is. 1907; ZIG on
Sept. 25, 1906, and GIG the average of
the last ten years on Sept Is.