The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-10-12
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. OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. .


At Minneapolis Mabel Bowers, II,
and Keith Bowers, Ia, are dead from
eating poison mushrooms. II
Snow piling in huge drifts is caus-
ing much damage in southwestern
Montana. At Butte the blizzard was
SO severe that street car traffic was
suspended.
Returns on the woman's suffrage
constitutional amendment in Ca11for-
MIA show that the margin by which
it has been defeated is close. The
majority against the amendment now
is 4,1O3. -=.
Quebec is in holiday dress in an
ticipation Of the coming of His Royal
Highness the Duke of Connaught the
new Governor-General of Canada,
who will arrive here tomorrow morn
ing on the steamship Empress of Ire
land.
The blue and the gray Joined in
exercises this afternoon attending the
unwilling of a monument erected by
the Federal Government in Pitville
National Cemetery, in Germantown.
near Philadelphia, in memory of the
eco Confederate soldiers buried
there
At the prevailing high prices for
the two great American staples, an
abundance of wealth and happiness
may be expected to result from the
wedding at Marshalltown, Iowa to-
day of Miss Alta Cotton, daughter of
a prominent farmer. and Mr. George
Wheat.
James Dygart, the Jim wanted
in connection with the murder of
Mrs. Amelia Bolton and her cousin,
Frank E. RhOades, al the Bolton farm
in Anoka county, was lodged in jail
at Minneapolis last night, after he
had admitted his identity. He de-
MES his guilt.
The American Indian Association,
a national organization Of progress
i've Indians and friends of Indian pro-
gross, met at Columbus today for a
four days conference as the guest of
Ohio State University. Plans for the
general advancement of the race are
to be discussed by numerous Indians
who have won success in business.
the professions and public life
Exceeding the worlds record for a
cross country aeroplane fight by 1873
miles, and speeding through the air
at times at the rate Of seventy miles
an hour, c. P. Rodgers landed safely
at Marshall, Mo-, On his voyage from
New York to San Francisco. The
former worlds record, 1,265 miles,
was made by Harry Atwood in re-
cent fight from St. Louis to New
York. Rodgers has flown 1888
miles, according to railroad mileage.
He continued toward the coast.
One of the most notable gatherings
ever assembled in the history of the
United States in the interest of wa
terway development was called to or
der in the Chicago Auditorium today
when the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Wa
terway Association met for its sixth
annual convention. The association
is endeavoring to secure Federal aid
for the construction of deep water
way from the great lakes to the Gulf
OF Mexico, by way of the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers. Secretary of the
Interior Fisher, Congressman Under
wood of Alabama, Governor Harmon
of Ohio, Senator Cullon of Illinois,
former Governor Francis of Missouri,
Congressman Cannon of Illinois, Gov
ernor Hadley of Missouri and a num-
Der of other men of national promi-
nence will address the convention.
A procession of arch bishops, bish-
ops, monsignori and priests of the
Roman Catholic church, formed an
impressive prelude to the ceremonies
this afternoon at the laying of the
cornerstone in Washington for the
Gibbons Memorial Hall at the Cath
Ollie University. The procession across
the campus and through the buildings
of the university was led by Cardinal
Gibbons, who was attended by large
delegation of priests from the Balti-
more diocese. Upon arriving at the
new memorial hall, one wing of
which is already completed, the cor
nerstone was laid in the tower sec
ton, or central portion of the build
ing. Exercises of simple but i'm
pressive nature attended the laying
of the stone. In addition to Cardinal
Gibbons the speakers included the
Rt Rev. Mgr. Thomas J. Shahan,
rector of the university; the Rev.
Dr. Charles F. Aiken, dean of the
theological department, and the Rev.
DR.. D. w, Shea, dean of the school OF
science of the university. The Glib
hons Memorial Hall is to be added
to the already imposing group OF
buildings belonging to the Catholic
University as a permanent and en-
during memorial to the famous Bal
timore prelate. The memorial hall,