The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-12-18

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3. Earthquake shocks in Mexico Sat
5urday killed 36 persons and did much
property dana e.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and
Mrs. Smith Hollins McKim, formerly
Miss Margaret Emerson of Baltimore,
were married at Rolgate near Lon
don, Saturday afternoon ss5=5ss55..
Dr. Lyman. Abbott, the noted
clergyman, author and editor, re-
ceived many congratulations in New
York today on his Is birthday anni-
versary. DR.. Abbott was born in
Poxbury, Mass. December Is, 1885.
Major General Leonard Wood, chief
of the staff of the army favors the
restoration of the canteen to the ar
my posts. He declared in the annual
report that the consensus of opinion
in the army is that the eanteen should
be re-esta blished. - e s. Sss HI.
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This week, the one before Christ
mas, is hangman's week in Chicago.
On Friday four men, Ewald Shiblaws-
XII, "a, his brother Frank, q, Phillip
Sommerling 81, and Thomas Schultz,
10, will be hanged for killing Fred
W. Guelzow, Jr., truck farmer. on
October 20. ..~... i -
The will of John P. Walsh, the
former Chicago banker who died
early in November following his re-
lease from the Leavenworth peni-
tertiary, was admitted to probate in
Chicago today. Mr.. Walsh left an
estate of $808,000. The will named
his widow, Mrs. Mary L. Walsh, as
the sole heir. = g
The Young Republican Club of
New York City, which was organized
recently to gather into it's member
ship as many of the younger Re-
publicans of the city as possible for
factional lines, has completed ar
rangements for it's initial dinner,
which will be given in Brooklyn to-
morrow night with President Taft
as the guest of honor and principal
speaker. +.
The feat of stealing a. mi lion feet
Of lumber and conveying it safely
through the treacherous currents of
He'll Gate at New York was success
fully accomplished by river pirates on
the night of November IA, according
to a police report just made public:
The theft has no parallel in the an
nails of the New York police. The
lumber was worth $4,000. Later
most of the lumber was recovered by
the harbor police.
Girl babies are now born taller and
with much more vitality than used to
be the case, according to Miss Char
lotte w. Dunn, assistant superintend-
ent of a Boston hospital patronized
by the stork to the extent of 5000
babies a year, says: "We have. no
ticed that girl babies are getting tai
Ter and they are appearing in this
world lately with more real vitality,
than formerly. Boy babies, continue
on an average both in weight and
height"
A $4,000, silver service, bronze
historical tablet and stand of colors
were presented to the battleship
Florida, the queen of the navy" at
anchor in Pensacola harbor, today by
a committee of eminent representa-
tives of the State of Florida, headed
by Governor Gilchrist. Rear Admiral
Lucien Young received the gifts in
behalf of the Navy Department and
Captain S. H. Knapp for the battle
ship The silver service is a gift to
the battleship from the people of
Florida. Funds for it's purchase
were raised by POPULAR subscription,
aided by a generous appropriation
from the legislature. - ~ +.
Stockholders of the Minneapolis
and st. Louis railroad met in Min
neapolis today to approve the new
financial plan by which the Mime
apolis and st. Louis and the Iowa
Central roads are to be combined
The Iowa Cen trail stockholders are
called to meet in Chicago tomorrow
for the same purpose. The combin-
ing of the Minneapolis and St. Louis
and the Iowa Central lines is part
of the plans of the Hawley interests
which aim to have through system
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