The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-21
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William Argo, president of the
State Bank of Clinton, ILL.,, died at
his desk Tuesday afternoon of heart
disease.
Philip busch, we'll known resi-
dent of Dubois, Pa, died last night
thirty minutes after being stung by
a honey bee. 4
A Georgia watermelon christened
"Hoke Smith" and weighing 81 1-2
pounds, has arrived in Washington
from Grady county, Georgia.
The water surrounding the wreck
of the battleship Maine in Havana
harbor has been so far removed that
all indications point to an explosion
from the outside. ~.
Archbishop Farley of the Roman
Catholic church is at Long Branch,
N. j., convalescing from an illness
which is the result of the recent heat
wave in New York city.
Casimir R. Holman, father Of Jo-
SET Hofmann, the famous pianist,
died of heart disease at his home in
Berlin yesterday. He had long been
a notable figure in the world Of mu-
sic.
Infatuated when informed by her
husband that he was about to desert
her, the wife Of George Abbott fired
three bullets at him, one taking eff
feet, at Bloomington, H., and he may
die.
New York city was overcharged
$17,S30 for the fireworks with which
it celebrated July 4, according to a
report made by Raymond B. Fosdick,
commissioner of accounts, to Mayor
Gaynor.
A heat wave struck Alaska yes
terday, the temperature in Valdez
rising to 80 degrees The warm
weather is melting the glaciers and
the streams fed by them are unusual
ly high.
John D. Rockefeller's real estate in
Cleveland and Cuyahoga county,
Ohio, has been appraised at $6,OO0,-
900, according to an announcement
made by the quadrennial board of ap-
praisers.
More than forty persons were
killed and large number were
wounded in collision of work trains
not far from Merelia, Michoacan,
Mexico. The collision occurred in the
zuincho canon.
William P. Chambers, father of
Robert w. Chambers, the novelist,
was stricken with paralysis in the
street opposite the family summer
home at Broadalbin, N. Y, Tuesday.
He died almost Immediately.
Because her husbands mother
made life miserable for her a New
York woman had her arrested and
Magistrate Mcclure of Flatbush de-
cided that mother-in-law's visit
should not extend over ten days.
Teaching Of theology by mail is
proposed in articles of corporation
filed at Morristown, N. j., for the
Correspondence School of Theology.
The Rev. S. G. Ayres of Drew Theo-
logical seminary is president of the
school.
Maj. George o. Squier, who was in
charge of the signal department of
turned to Washington from San An
tonic, enthusiastic over the possibili-
ties of the wireless telegraph in time
of war.
w. H. Dickinson & Co., grain
| brokers and owners and operators of
large chain Of elevators, have sus-
pended business in St. Paul and in
Minneapolis. Several large elevators
in the Twin cities are owned by the
concern.
Gladys Thompson, aged II; Lillian
Osborne IA; Lee Baker IS, and Vir-
Ill Wilson, II, by verdict of cor
oner's jury are held for the alleged
fe]cnious drowning of Clark L. Wolf
kill. rich bachelor ranchman, who
| was found in the creek near Clifton,
Col, last Wednesday.
Unexplained eruptions of large
quantities of water, steam, sand and
small rocks to height of several
hundred feet from the hot spring in
the Norris basin in Yellowstone Ma
tional park have been occurring dur
ing the summer. It is possible an
other geyser may develop in the park.
A gun that will carry it's projectile
clear out of sight is the kind that is
to be placed in the turrets of the new
battle ships of the New York type
The gun has shown that it is with
out doubt the most powerful naval
weapon in the world. The shell will
have range of fourteen or fifteen
miles.
Thomas P. Wickes, who was a
Yale classmate of William H. Taft,
and who, while in the county Jail at
Oakland, Cal, received an invitation
to the presidents silver wedding, was
given his liberty yesterday by the
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