The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-09-14
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The Weather.: Friday fair. Brisk
variable winds.
At Grand Forks an elephant in the
Gentry Brothers show was shot yes
terday The elephant had leg brok-
en- in a wreck. ..
The tenth anniversary of the death
of the late President William Nc
Kinley was observed with simple
| memorial exercises at Canton, Ohio,
today. This afternoon a number of
| magnificent floral pieces were taken
! to the mausoleum.
Four warships of the Pacific fleet,
the California, West Virginia., South
Dakota and Colorado, are to sail to-
morrow from San Francisco on a
cruise to the Hawaiian Islands, The
four cruisers will be accompanied on
the trip by eight torpedo boat de-
stroyers.
James Beaton, aged %, was almost
instantly killed and his father Dun
can Beaton injured late yesterday at
ternoon when their big 35-hors epow-
err Reeves threshing engine, broke
through wooden bridge across Oak
Creek six miles southwest of Bot
tinueau, N. D.
The northern Iowa and southern
Minnesota conference of the Free
Methodist Church began it's annual
meeting at Plymouth, Iowa., today
with Bishop Wilson T. Hogue, Of Ev-
anston, ILL.,. presiding. The sessions
of the conference will continue
through an entire week.
John, otherwise known as Dog
skim" Johnson last evening confessed
at Madison, Wis, to the abduction
and murder of little Annie Lemberg-
err, the Z year old child whose body
was found in Lake Monona on Sat-
urday morning last, and was imme-
diately sentenced by Judge Anthony
to life Imprisonment.
81 shall say" announced Attorney
Wilson for Whittier at the training
school hearing yesterday, that the
governor is cross between mistake
and a misfortune. The misfortune is
the death of his illustrious. predeces-
sor. The mistake is in his incum-
bency Of the position which he occu-
pies but can never fill"
President Taft's vacation ends to-
day, so far as his stay at his summer
home is concerned. Tomorrow morn
ing, accompanied by his secretary
and the ever-present secret service Of
ficers, he will motor into Boston. and
in the evening will depart from that
city on his 13,O0O-mile tour to the
Pacific coast and back to Washing
ton.
Distinguished visitors from many
sections of the country are in Provi-
dence for the fcrtieth annual reun-
| ION of the Society of the Army of the
Potomac. The reunion will begin to-
morrow and continue over Saturday.
Among the notable participants will
be Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, Gen. Ho-
! ratio C. King, Gen. John E. Black
and Edwin Markham, the poet.
General" William Booth was the
central figure at great public re-
| ception given in London today to
| mark the termination of his evange-
listic tour of the United Kingdom.
The tour was made in a motor car
and occupied twenty-six days. Not
withstanding his 80 years the vener-
able founder and head of the Saliva
| ton Army is looking forward with
eager interest to his coming visit to
| America.
The Wolgast-McFarland boxing
bout billed for Friday night was
called off at Milwaukee by the Ma
| tional Athletic club shortly after
midnight after a conference of club
officials following lengthy confer
ence between the club representa-
tives and county officials together
with acting Governor Morris. It was
evident from the stand taken by the
acting governor and Sheriff Arnold
with the backing of the district at
torney that any attempt to put the
contest on would not be permitted.
In the presence of the largest and
most notable gathering of dignitaries
of the Roman Catholic Church that
ever assembled in Ogdensburg, N. Y,
the celebration of the sacerdotal ju-
bilee of the Rt. Rev. Henry Gabriels,
bishop of Ogdensburg, began today
with pontifcial high mass of
THANKSGIVING. Among the eminent