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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29

to vote against ship subsidy" said Mi
nority Leader Champ Clark of Mis-
souri,
1.-THE house leaders are rushing
everything to get the appropriation
measures through and that subject
and the ship subsidy proposition seem
to be about the only two things that
are to be taken up. We favor a river
and harbor bill. I look for adjourn
men of congress in April, certainly by
May t."
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
Giant Celtic Attire in Hold
for Five Days.
PASSENGERS ARE NOT TOLD
Captain and Crew Carefully Guarded
News Of the Blaze and the Others
Aboard the Vessel Enjoyed Pleas.
ant Passage-Efforts Now BEING
Made at Liverpool to Reach. the
Source of the Fire.

Liverpool, Dec. 29.-Fire was dis
covered in the hold of the White Sta1
liner Celtic, one of the largest passen
ger steamers afloat, last Wednesday
when the vessel was four days out
from New York. The liner arrived
here safely. The fire was still burn.
ing, but it's presence was known to
none of the 400 passengers.
Immediately upon arrival the dis.
charging of the cargo was begun in
an effort to reach the origin of the
blaze. The work is still being contin.
ued. The fire started amid bales of
cotton in hold No. 6.
The Celtic sailed from New York
Tor Queenstown and Liverpool on Dec.
IL. The voyage was without special
incident until the following Wednes.
day, when smoke was discovered
creeping up among the cotton bales.
Captain Hambleton at once ordered
the matches closed and sealed Effort
to find the fire were then begun, but
the matter was carefully guarded from
the passengers, whose passage was
not made less pleasat by the anxiety
CT. the crew. Above decks there was
nc evidence of anything unusual, but
fer the next five days the fire was
burning steadily below.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
St, Paul Live Stock.

st. Paul, Dec. 2S-Cattle- TO
choice steers, $6.75@75O; fair to good,
s5.oo@675; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $4.25@525; veals, $5.50@7.25.
Hogs-$S.10@8.35. Sheep-Wethers,
$4.50@5.30; yearlings, $625@7.0O;
spring lambs, $7.5O@7S5.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD
Anniversary Of ItaIy's Last 'Destruc
tive Earthuuake

Rome, Dec. 29.--Tolling bells, me
mortal services and general display OF
crepe on public buildings throughout
Italy mark the first anniversary of the
earthquake which destroyed Messina
and wrought such devastation in Sicily
and Calabria.
The anniversary brought many large
gifts for the benefit of thousands OF
the victims who are still suffering
from the devastation.
The Naval league presented the con
suls of the United States, Russia, Eng
land, Germany, Spain and France rich
ly engraved bronze plates in apprecia
ton of the services rendered by those
nations at the time of the quake.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
Strikebreaker Killed at Staples.

Staples, Mimi, Dec. pa strike
breaker named Charles Messick,
whose home is in Wilmington, Del,
lost both his legs while at work in the
Staples yards. He died soon after the
accident. No one saw the accident
and just how the man met his death
will never be known
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Dec. .-Cattle-Beeves,
$420@8.00; Texas steers, $4.1O@490;
Western steers, $4.1O@6.25; stockers
and feeders, $3.10@5.3C; COWS and
heifers, $s.1o@5.6o; calves, $IO0@9.-
rs. Hogs-Light, $SO5@S.55; mixed,
$8.20@8.70; heavy, $S.35@8.75; rough,
$8.35@8.50; good to choice heavy, 49,
50@8.95; pigs, $7.15@S.15. Sheep
Native. $3.60@5.65: yearlings. $500
7.40; lambs, s5.75@8.35.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Dec. .-Wheat-Dec.,
$1.1S; May, $1.19%; July, $1.011a.
Corn-Dec., 62%c; May, 66kc; July,
66A @66%c. ,Oats-Dec, 44Ac; May,
45kc; July, 43A @49%c. Pork-Jan.,
$21.60; May, $21.621k. Butter-Cream-
cries, 27@35c; diaries, 25@9Oc. Eggs
Poultry-Turkeys, tic;
chickens, 1870; springs, 14c.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29

Slain While on Way to Complain Of
Providing Negroes.
Denver, Dec. 29.-Discovery in the
Platte river of the body Of Mrs. Ernest
Rupp, aged twenty-eight, mother Of
six children, revealed what is believed
to be a brutal murder.
The woman's outer garments had
been torn from her body and it was
evident that she had died from blow
which fractured her skull. She dis
appeared while on her way to the po-
lice station to report that a number of
negroes had been proving about her
house.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Dec. 2S.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. hard, $1.12%; No.
1 Northern, $1.11%; No. 2 Northern,
$1.09%; Dec, $1.09%@109%; May,
$1.10% @1.10%. Flax-In store, ST.
0eh; to arrive, $1.991h; on track, ST.
99%; Dec, $2001a; May, $780,.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
BUMPER CROPS THE CAUSE
Saskatchewan Farmers Buy Automo-
biIes by the Carload.

biIes by the Carload.
Detroit, Mich, Dec. 3D.. J. Coe,
a Saskatchewan farmer, dropped into
Detroit and by the time he had fin
ished his errand he had purchased
thirty automobiles for his farmer
friends of the Far Northwest. He is
not an agent. He told his neighbors
he was going East to buy an automo-
bile and they gave him their orders,
accompanied by bank drafts. The
deals were mostly cash and aggregate
nearly 100000. Coe paid $4,000 for
his own machine. The cars were all
high grade, several being in the $4,000
class. Bumper wheat crops in the
Northwest were the cause of so much
prosperity.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, Dec. 2S.-Wheat-
$1.10; May, $1.10K@1.1OM; July, ST.,
10@@1.1O1A. On track-No. 1 hard
$1.11A @1.12A; No. 1 Northern, ST.
liz @1.12A; No. 2 Northern, $1.09A
@1.10A; No. 3 Northern, $1.O7A OIL
09A.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
Jealous Woman Ends Her Life

Pittsburg, Dec. 29.-Because her boy
sutton was paying attentions to a little
girl with dresses to her shoetops and
twenty-five years her Junior Lillian A.
Ashley, a trained nurse of Cleveland,
committed suicide in this city by
shooting.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29

The wine crop of France is said to
be short. We hope that certain
friends we wot of will bear this in
mind when seeing the old year out
prior to turning over the new leaf"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
CAUSTIC COMMENT.
la. G.. Rutledge.]

1t was rather Impractical of hard.
headed Jim" Hill to deliver his
advice to economic, just before the
season of Christmas shopping.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29

Every form of Christmas activity,
formality or enterprise suggested,
involved a certain amount of coin
separation. Glad it's oyer-that is,
Christmas.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
Carnegie's Injury Not Serious.

New York, Dec. 29.-Andrew Carne-
gle slipped on an icy spot while walk
ing around the reservoir in Central
park and suffered a painful injury to
the left knee. At the Carnegie home
it was said his condition was not Sc
riOus ...
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
TRIES TO CREHATE CHILDREN

NeIghbors Prevent Murdcrous Deed Of
Insane Mother.
Cincinnati, Dec 29.-Mrs. Mary
Lipp, aged thirty-eigkt, attempted t.
cremate four of her eight children
The lives of the tots were saved by
neighbors. Mrs. Lipp suddenly be
came crazed. She set fire to an out
house and hurled into the blaze dog
and many Chickens Next she seized
two children and attempted to clut
them into the fire. She felIed the first
rescuer with a chair, but was over
powered.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
satoIii's Condition UNCHANGED.

Rome, Dec. 29.-The condition of
Cardinal Francesca Satolli, said to be-
dying of uremia, remains unchanged .
The doctors say he may linger for sew.
eral days, but that his recovery is
practically IMPOSSIBLE.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
PELLAGRA IN MISSISSIPPI

NInety-one Deaths Caused by Disease
During Present Year.
Jackson, Miss, Dec. 29.-Statistics
announced by the state board of
health shows that 1873 cases of pellagra
were under treatment in Mississippi
during the year just closing. An ad.
ditional twenty-one cases were treated
at the state charity hospitals at Vicks-
burg. Ninety-one deaths occurred.
The heaviest mortality is reported
from Lauderdale county, where out of
forty-three cases twenty-six deaths oc-
Cured
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
MINE SHOT FIRERS KILLED
Four Men Are Victims of Coal Dust
EXPLOSION in Illinois,

Explosion in Illinois.
Centralia, ILL.,, Dec 29.-Four men
were killed in the No. mine of the
Centralia Coal company, two miles
south of here. They were shot firers
and had gone into the mine to fire a
charge. The other miners had left
the mine. An explosion of coal dust
followed the shot and the men were
instantly killed.
One of the men was brother-in-law
of two of the victims of the Cherry
mine disaster.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
CONVICTIONS ARE QUAsHED

validate Indictments.
Chicago, Dec. 29.-Because two su.
perfuous words we're written in an in.
dictment charging forgery William D.
T1lden and Chauncey L. Graham are
free from convictions obtained against
them two years ago. The convictions
have been auashed by a decision OF
the state supreme court that will serve
as precedent in Illinois. . ...@
The court finds the Indictment value
less on account of the words lin sub
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29
TAFT WORKING
ON HIS MESSAGE
Document Will Go to Con-
gress on Jan. 5.
COVERS TWO SUBJECTS

Chief Executive Will Recommend
Changes in the Interstate Commerce
and Sherman Antitrust Laws-WiiI
Also Bring Forward His Ideas as to
Issuing Federal Licenses to corpo-
rations.
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DEMOCRATS FOR ECONOMY

They Will Also Oppose Ship Subsidy
Champ Clark Says.
Washington, Dec. 29.-"The pro.
gramme of the Democrats in the house
at this session is to keep down the
amount of the appropriation bills and
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-29

Washington, Dec. 29.-President
Taft has begun the preparation of the
first of his special messages to con.
greSS
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GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES

prosperity.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-27
THAW NEVER WAS
INSANE SAYS
EXPERT
Inventor OF Term brain Storm
On the Stand
JEROME IN FULL CHARGE
District Attorney Cuts Short Vacation
to Take Part in Pro-
ceedings

White Plain, n. Y, July 27.-Alien-
stage in the Thaw case yesterday
The efforts of Stanford Whites STAY
er to obtain his release from the Mat
teawan asylum for criminal insane are
eliminating in the testimony of the
experts called to prove him sane and
when they are through the prisoner
himself, will take the stand.
The proceedings yesterday were a
continuation from July Is when adj
iournment was taken to enable both
sides to examine the voluminous rec
ords of the two homicide trials. In
two respects the hearing yesterday
was a reminder of these trials. Dis
trict Attorney William Travers Jer-
ONE of New York who at the request
Of the attorney-general's Office broke
off his vacation to aid the state, APP
peared in court and took entire charge
of the states case.
Mr.. Jerome deeply Drowned by the
sun. and Thaw greywhite with ais
prison pallor, sat side by side so
close that their chairs touched, and If
the prisoner had any fear of the man
that sent him to the asylum his face
did not show IT, All but one of the
witnesses were Tnaw's and his equan-
unity was undisturbed At times he
and the New York district attorney
chatted and smiled like old friends re-
united.
The other familiar feature of the
hearing was DR.. Britton ID. Evans of
the New Jersey State insane asylum
at Morris Plains. famous for his intro
duction in the murder trials of the
term brain storm" DR.. Evans was
on the stand when court adjourned.
DR. Evans testified that Thaw has
not now and never mas had the partic-
ular kind of insanity known as para
nola" which the state and county au-
thorities contend still aflicts him.
The oldest practicing physician in
White Plains and one of the youngest
also testified. Both said that Thaw
was mentally sound. DR. Henry Ern-
est Schmidt, aged so. qualified as an
alienist while the younger man, DR..
William J. Meyer testified in his cap
acity of White Plains Jail physician
which gave him numerous opportuni-
ties of seeing and talking with the
prisoner.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw did not come
to White Plains. Mr.. Jerome said
that she was still under subpoena and
might be called for cross examination
after Thaw testified. DR.. Evans said
that during a recent talk with Thaw
in tae Jail here the prisoner declared
that his wifes assertion on the stand
week before last that Thaw had threa-
tened to kill her was false.
Thaw is expected to repeat this on
the stand and the state may call his
wife to make the charge once more.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-27
EXPIRES. DAUGHTER DEAD
Mistress of White House During Ad-
ministration of Zachary Taylor

Winchester, Va, July 27.-Mrs.
Elizabeth Taylor cambridge daughter
of Zachary Taylor, President of the
United States, and mistress of the
White House during the administra-
ton of her father, died Sunday even
lug at Winchester, Va, after an i'll
ness of a month. in the eighty-sixth
year of her age.
Mrs. cambridge was born near
Louisville, Ky. April 20, 1924. She
was married to Colonel William Wal
lace Bliss of her fathers staff in Tex
as during the Mexican war. Colonel
Bliss died of yellow fever in New Or
leans shortly after the death of Presi-
dent Taylor. Some years later she
was married to Philip Pendleton
cambridge, a lawyer who died at his
home in Winchester in 1881.
Mrs. cambridge was a sister of the
first wife of Jefferson Davis, Presi-
dent of the Confederacy. and also of
the wife of Surgeon General Wood of
the United States army When Cen
eral Taylor became President his
daughter took the place of ner in
valid mother as mistress of the White
House Mrs. Taylor died during the
administration of her husband.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-27
Smaller Legislature Idea Growing
LARGER.

The number of newspapers which
are urging the adoption of tne plan
to reduce the size of the House of
Representatives without increasing
the numerical representation of the
cities and larger towns is becoming
larger to a gratifying degree, and ii
is difficult to see how the committees
appointed by Governor Prouty to con-
slider amendments to the constitution
of Vermont to be presented at the
coming session of the Legislature can
overlook this important reform and
measure of economy and efficiency
combined. The Vergennes Enterprise
well says in this connection: THE
movement for a smaller Legislature,
or rather for a smaller House of Rep
resentatives continues to grow. TIE
people fully realize that the present
body is too large for good work and
that most of the faulty legislature,
the failure to do things the great
mass of the people of the State de-
mand, is chargeable directly to the
size of the lower body of the Legis
lature."
Let it be borne in mind that the
proposition is not TO overthrow Jne
control of the Legislature by the
smaller towns as a whole, for we be-
live this will yet prove to be a valu-
able bulwark against extreme radi-
calism. Distribute the members of
the House according to the population
of the different counties limiting the
large towns and cities to one repre-
sentative each and providing for re-
tatlon of representation wherever 1t
is necessary to put two of the small
est towns into one representative dis
trict, and the thing is done without
injuring any location At the same
time provision is thus made for a
House as large as that of New York.
increased efficiency is secured and
the amount saved will amount to an
immense road or school fund in ten
sessions of the Legislature. Think 1t
over again.-Burlington Free Press.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-27
CANCER is INCREASING
Medical Authorities Making Research
in Methods to Control the Disease

Albany, July $50 rapid is the in
crease in the number of deaths from
cancer that the medical world is Civ
ing much attention to the statistics,
the cause of the disease and measures
to check it. Experts in medical re-
search are experimenting with cancer
in tne hope of finding some specific
remedy which will reduce the number
of fatal cases. New York State has
taken up the research, maintaining a
State laboratory for that purpose in
Buffalo.
The records of the State depart
month the number of deaths from
cancer was $50, which indicates that
the record will be broken this year.
In 1908 the total number In this
State was 1854 a monthly average of
$40. There has hardly been a year
since 1885 that has not shown a mark
ed increase in tne nmber of fatal
cases.
In the year mentioned the total
number of deaths in this State was
only 1887. In 1886 it had jumped to
1850. in 1897 to 3,02S, in 1897 to 4,12l,
in 1901, to 5.O33, in 1905 to 6,055, in
1906 to 6.169, and in 1907 to 6,420. In
other words, while in 1885 the rate in
1000 was 1886 in 1908 it had increased
to H. In New York the lowest pro-
portion of deaths from cancer appears
to be in the maritime district, while
the highest proportion is found in the
central portion of the state.
This increase is not confined to New
York 1t is just as marked in the Uni
ted States and. in England 1t is even
greater. Statistics collected by the
federal government show that while
the number of fatal cancer cases in
1890 was 1886 in 1909 the number
had grown to 29,475. OF the latter
number IL ,436 were males. In the ten
years mentioned the proportion of
deaths from cancer in this country
had grown from 1908 in 100000 to o.
S37. 1t is also noted that the largest
number of deaths occurred in Maine
and Vermont while the lowest number
occurred in New Jersey and Michigan.
Scientists by experiments with rats
mice and other animals are endeavor-
ing to find a serum by which cancer
may be treated as diphtheria and tet-
anus are being treated. Thus far,
however. the experiments nave given
little encouragement.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-27
c CHAUFFEUR HAS
HIS LICENSE
REVOKED
William H. Beware Who Killed
Boy In Burlington
WITH GOV. PROUTYS CAR
Accident Occurred During Tercenten-
ary-Driver Must Answer Man.
slaughter Charge

Essex Jet, July 27.-After careful
consideration of the facts presented
by Henry B. Shaw, states attorney
for Chittenden county, relating to the
revocation of the special operators Ii
cense of William H. Benware, secre-
tary of state, Guy W. Bailey has revok
ed the license. Mr.. Beware was
chauffeur for Gov. G. II. Prouty and
was driving the machine which ran
down Hector Mongeon of st. Hyacinth
in this city on July Z. Mongeon died
within q few hours of the injuries re-
ceived and Beware is now held on a
charge of manslaughter.
The secretary of state has also re-
voked the automobile license of Harry
r. Clark of Charleston. Clark appear
ed in Orleans municipal court on July
II in answer TO charge of reckless
and negligent driving. He was found
guilty and fined $50 and costs. Mr..
Clark had been fined twice before for
driving his automobile wnen intoXica-
ted
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-27
LIFE TERM FOR MILLIONAIRE
Charles n. Smith, One of Mississip.
pts Wealthiest Men.

Jackson, Miss, July 27-Charles r.
Smith, a millionaire and one of the
wealthiest men in Mississippi com
menced a life term Sunday on the
convict farm in Rankin county. Ac-
companied by his daughter. Estelle
aged twenty eight, his only child. who
on the witness stand swore that she
could not lie, even to save her
fathers life" Smith arrived in Gus
tody of state officers, who permitted
the old man and his child to enter the
prison without a guard. c. r. Smith
killed Il. A. Laurent, st. Louis
travelling man, at Artesia last Janu-
airy In his defense he offered the
unwritten law, also lunacy. but Miss
Estelle's testimony that she had
never been betrayed shattered her
fathers defense. Mrs. Laurent,
mother of the murdered man, is suing
for $4,000 damages Smith has
decided his fortune to his daughter,
Estelle.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-27
DEATH OF PROMINENT DIVINE
Rev. Or. William Reed Huntington
Died After Lingering Illness.

Nahant, Mass, July 27.-Rev. Dr.
William r. Huntington, yactor of the
Grace Episcopal church in New York
and one of the leading divines in
America, died here early yesterday af-
ter a lingering illness. After a hur-
ried trip from Europe. his daughter.
Miss Margaret Huntington, arrived
Friday and was at her fathers bed
side when the end came.
Rev. DR.. William Reed Huntington
was born at Lowell, Mass, Sept. 20,
1888 He graduated from Harvard in
the class of 1859. The degree of d.
ID. was conferred on him by Columbia
Princeton, Harvard and Yale; the de
gree of ID. c. l.. by the University of
the South; the degree of l.. II. ID. by
Hobart college, and the degree of
LII. ID. by Union. In 1863 he married
Theresa, daughter of the late DR.. Ed
ward Reynolds of Boston and a niece
of Wendell Phillips. He was ordain-
ed as a deacon in 1861 and a priest in
1862.
Rev. DR.. Huntington was curate of
Emanuel church. Boston, from 1861
so, and rector of All Saints church,
Worcester, Mass, from 1862 to 1888.
Since 1888 he has been rector of
Grace Episcopal church, New York
city.
Among his best known works are
The Church Idea" Conditional I'm.
mortality" Popular Misconceptions
of the Episcopal Church, The cause
of the Soul, THE Peace of the
Church." Short History of the Rook
of Common Prayer" THE Spiritual
House" Psyche, a Study of the
Soul" -Four Key Words of Religion, -
"Sonnets and Dream" and "A Good
Shepherd and Other Sermons" He
also wrote various pamphlets and
sermons on liturgical revision, Church
unity and woman's work in the
church.