The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-11-09
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| The weather: rain or snow Fri
day; moderate northerly winds.
The city of Hankow, China, ha!
been destroyed by fire over two
thirds of its extent. The lowest es
innate of loss is $4,000, 900. :. y
Margaret Wood, IS years old, ac.
eidentally was shot and killed late to.
day by Timothy O'Neil, Is years old
near Winnipauk, Conn, O'Neil and q
companion had been out hunting.
! Foo Chow has fallen into the hands
of the rebels after a short resistance
| The viceroy and Tartar general have
| escaped. Tamen has been burned but
all foreigners are safe and well pro-
tected.
Federals and rebels met in a bat
tie yesterday at Juchitan, Oaxaca, in
Mexico, according to information OBJ
tanned from official sources. Two
hundred are reported dead. The city
is cut Off from rail and wire commu-
nication.
Headed by Governor Foss,' a large
delegation of members of the Grand
Army and Of patriotic societies left
Boston this afternoon for the South
to attend the dedication. next week
| of the monuments erected by the
State of Massachusetts on the battle
field of Petersburg and at Valley
Forge.
The 59th annual convention of the
Wisconsin Teachers Association op-
ened in the Milwaukee Auditorium
today for three days session. Presi-
dent David Starr Jordan of Leland
Stanford university, Sarah Louise
Arnold of Boston, Dean L. H. Bailey
of Cornell University, and Booker T.
Washington, the negro educator, are
among those to speak.
DR.. Elmer Ellsworth Brown was
today installed as seventh chancellor
of New York University. After DR..
Brown had been invested with the
key, seal and other insignia of office
the assembly listened to addresses by
Senator Elihu Root, DR.. Lyman Alb
bott, President Lowell of Harvard,
President Hadley of Yale, President
Schurman of Cornell and other men
Of national prominence. -
- Nearly score of members of the
Committee on Appropriations of the
Houes of Representatives, left New
York today on three weeks jaunt to
Panama and Cuba. At the Isthmus
the congressman will inspect the pro-
gress of work On the canal and forti-
fications. On the way home they will
stop at Havana with view to deter
mining the advisability of further
appropriations to raise the wreck of
the Maine.
The movement inaugurated five
years ago by Robert J. Collier of New
York for the erection of a suitable
memorial to Abraham Lincoln at
Hodgenville, KY, the place of his
birth, is now an accomplished fact
Today, in the presence of a gathering
in which Mason and Dixon's line was
obliterated, Impressive exercises were
held in dedication of the magnificent
structure surrounding and covering
the old log cabin in which Abrah am
Lincoln was born, February 12, 1909.
The cornerstone for the memorial
structure was laid by President
Roosevelt on the centennial anniver-
sary of Lincoln's birth two years ago
last February. At the dedication. to-
day President Taft was the central
figure. The exercises were held at
the Thomas Lincoln farm, which was
purchased by the Lincoln Farm asso-
citation several years ago with a fund
raised by popular subscription. The
memorial building is an imposing
structure of white stone. It is of
| classic design, with giant pillars Or
| namenting the front and two sides.
The entrance is approached by a
broad flight of terraced steps.
The House Committee on Expendi-
lures in the Post Office Department,
of which Congressman Ashbrook of
Ohio is chairman, are in St. Louis
today to resume the investigation be-
gun in Washington last summer OF
the charge of E. G.. Lewis that Off
cials of the postal service were in a
conspiracy to ruin him. Lewis is
the financial 'wizard" whose alleged
get-rich-quick schemes have bothered
the authorities for several years an6
| incidentally have caused several me1
prominent in public life to regret
their acquaintance with him. Start
ing some ten years ago with capita.
about equal to the price~of a box OF
cigars Lewis organized the American
Woman's League, which he subse.
quently employed as a medium tc
promote innumerable enterprises in.
Guiding weekly and daily newspapers
cooperative colonies, banks, an6
realty and development companies
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