The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27

During the last year $40 crema-
tions took place in England.
In private life Grace La Rue is
known as Mrs. Byron Chandler.
Amsterdam ships large quantities
of wooden shoes to this country.
AS far back as 1850 it was custO.
mary to make pencils that carried
black lead. -.
A Chester (lll) man has succeed
ed in eating gallon of ice cream
in Is minutes.
Horse stock is increasing in this
country despite the introduction of
the automobile.
The government of Servia has just
ordered 100 American typewriters
Up to date the motor vehicles that
have been registered by the London
county council number more than
$1,000.
A New York man was sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary the
other day for stealing five-cent
hand mirror.
Pinchers that lock when closed
and which require considerable force
to open have been patented by a
California inventor. j
By means of a double antenna, the
direction from which wireless mes
sage comes may be readily determin-
ed by the receiver.
Mayor Jacobs of Rockport, Ind.
took away the star of Policeman
Hamilton because he arrested a small
boy for shooting frecrackers.
A cane fitted with lenses and mir
rors to enable person to look over
the heads of crowd has been in
vented by a French optician.
The municipality OF Berlin has
seen to it that women do not wear
hats in theaters. Managers of thea
ters are fined for every hat worn =.
Former Governor Ashton c.
Shallenberger of Alma, Neb., filed
his application as Democratic
candidate for United States senator
General Bernardo Reyes, the Mex
lean revolutionist, who surrendered
to President Madero faces death
penalty on the charge of treason. The
lightest penalty is 10 years in pris-
on.
James Nancy, who it is announced
will become general passenger agent
of the Duluth, South Shore and
Atlantic Railroad, succeeding Mart
Adson, has been in the service of the
company thirty. years.
In the presence of a distinguishe ed
gathering of clergy and laity Rev
William E. Toll was consecrated
Episcopal bishop suffragan of Chica-
go today. The ceremony was per.
formed in Grace Episcopal church.
Theodore Roosevelt is slated fol
election to the presidency of the
American Historical association
which began it's annual meeting al
Buffalo today in conjunction with
that of the American Political Sci
ence association
Governor Woodrow Wilson and DR.
P. P. Claxton will speak at the Unit.
ed States Commissioner of Education
at the 27th annual convention of the
New Jersey State Teachers Associa-
ton, which assembled in Atlantic
City today for three days session
Attorney General Simpson today
denied that he ever aspired to be.
come a member of the Minnesota su.
preme court. He admits his decis.
ion to retire from Office January 1 re.
suited from his inability to obtain
support OF, the Republican ors;aniza
tion in his ambition to become cover;
nor. -- y -
| President Nichols OF Dartmouth
College left Hanover, N. H., toda,
for his annual tour of the alumni
associations of the west. His tril
will take him as far as Omaha AM
will include meetings to be held il
Syracuse, Cleveland, Chicago, st
Louis, Pittsburgh, Washington, Phi
ladelphia, Hartford and several 9th
er cities. =za1 ,s@ss5
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