The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-11-22
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| The weather.: fair and colder
Thursday, with northwest wind.
The annual season of the Chicago
Grand Opera Company opens in the
Auditorium tonight with perform
ance of Saint-Saens'' Samson ct Deli
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| Bishop Then of Lincoln OBLIGATED
at impressive exercises at Hastings,
Neb., today at the laying of the cor
nerstone of the new Catholic church.
When completed the church will cost
about 100000, and will be one Of the
finest Catholic edifces in Nebraska.
By jury of young married men,
completed at Denver yesterday, Ger
trude Patterson will be tried for the
murder of her husband, whom she
is charged to having shot on Deem
Der 5 last. The jury was unexpect-
eddy completed just before the close
of yesterdays session.
At London yesterday, suffragettes
Jared badly at the hands of the po-
lice. They had threatened to force
their way into the House of Com
mons, but they failed to reach the
entrance Of parliament Repulsed
by the police, who made more than
$50 arrests, the women resorted to
! campaign of window smashing.
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion began series of important hear
ings in New York today with the
object of determining whether the
rates charged by the big express COM
panies doing business in the United
States are reasonable and Just. The
| commission will endeavor to find out
why the express companies persist in
Keeping their tariffs practically Sc
cret. The basis of their division of
profits with the railroads also will re-
ceive attention.
Leaders of the Democratic party
| throughout the South have been in
vlted to attend the big banquet to be
given in Birmingham, Ala, tomorrow
night in honor of Congressman Oscar
Underwood. The affair is intended
as testimonial to the DISTINGUISHED
publis services of Mr.. Underwood
incidentally, it is designed to call the
| country's attention to the movement
which aims to make the minority
leader in the house the head of the
Democratic presidential ticket. -
Alfred Merritt, of Duluth, Mimi,
first president of the Duluth, Mesa
ba and Northern railroad, who styled
himself "a lumberjack," unacquaint-
ed with the methods of the s'money
trust,' told the house steel trust in
| vestigating committee at WASHINGTON
yesterday that through loans of less
than a million dollars from John D.
! Rockefeller. he had lost his holding s
in the Mesaba iron mines and rail-
road properties now owned by the
United States Steel corporation and
estimated to be worth today as high
as seven hundred million dollars.
Announcement at Washington, of
the appointment of Col. Leo Febiger,
commanding the Sixth Cavalry, now
in the Philippines, to represent the
United States as military attache at
the coronation of the King of Siam
draws public attention to the cere-
monies that will make the city of
Bangkok center Of attraction early
next month. The ceremonies and fes-
tivities in connection with the crown
ing of the new King will extend over
an entire week. The tenor of the
oath required on this occasion has
such phrases as: ave pray the pow
ers of the deities to plague with pois-
onous boils and with all manner Of
horrible diseases the dishonorable,
the disobedient, and the treacherous.
When they have departed this life
may they be sent to horrible hell. -
The new King, whose full name is
Somdetch Chowfa Maha Vajiravaudh,
succeeded to the throne upon the
death of his father year ago last o.
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