The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-10-31
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The weather: fair and Slightly
warmer: Wednesday; moderate north
erly winds.
General Booth at the age OF 8, is
so nearly blind he has determined to
undergo an operation IN London in
the hope Of restoring his sight.
The woods on the mountainside
near Catskill where legend says Rip
Van Wrinkle took his twenty-year
nap, are ablaze. Many acres have
been burned over.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson
has approved the recomme ndation of
the special committee that all 13, goo.
! employees of the department of agri-
culture be vaccinated against typhoid
fever.
"Ten thousand members within a
year and a minimum wage scale Of
| SIP a week. This motto has been
adopted by Chicago stenographers in
! their campaign for better pay. The
junior now has 300 members.
Complete control Of ala railroads
of the country by the interstate COM
| merce commission and virtual elimi-
nation of state commissions from
such control is foreshadoWed in the
! opinion handed down yesterday by
the supreme court of the United
States ~
The 4Sth anniversary Of the ac-
cession Of King George to the throne
OF Greece. was celebrated throughout
| the country today. With the excep-
| ton of the emperor OF Austria Hun
gary King George has reigned longer
than any other living sovereign of
Europe.
Because he allowed his prejudice
against automobiles to carry him to
the extent Of drawing a pistol on q
passing car, Sam ithsr, Of Char
lotte, a Gland county farnner, lost
his lie Icing the weapons
in WhIthe1 and L1cius Randall.
Ganney, business shot
Whittier twice, instantly killing him.
| MorgantoWn, " a., is in holiday
attire in anticipation of the coming
of President Taft and a number of
noted educators, tomorrow, for the
inauguration of Dr. Thomas e. sHodk-
es as president Of West Virginia Uni
Versity. Governor Glasscock, Sena-
tor Watson and a number Of other
leading men of the State will also
be in attendance.
Goats milk is the latest remedy
for the drink habit. DR.. Adeleide M.
Abbott, superintendent of the de-
partment of health and heredity of
the Boston Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union, declares that it is a
specific and recommends that the city
keep a herd of goats in Franklin
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twice a day to enebriates throug hout
the city.
After serving the State of Connec-
ticut for 40 years as supervisor of
hangings, George A. Bisden, warden
of the State prison at Wethersfeld,
ceases his duties tonight and retires
on pension granted in recognition
of his long and faithful service. Since
1894 all executions have taken place
at Wethersfeld, and it has been Bis
den's duty to place the rope around
the neck of the condemned and ad-
just the black cap.
Admission Day, the anniversary of
the admission of Nevada to the In
| ion in 1894, was observed as a semi
holiday throughout the State today
in accordance with custom. The
courts, banks and other public insti-
tutions remained closed.
A special term of court for Pembi-
ma county convened at Pembina. N.
D., today for the trial Of Ernest c..
Stewart, the Winnipeg man accused
of the murder of Philip WorraI1. The
alleged murder occurred last summer
in the immigration detention hospi-
tai at Neche, on the international
boundary line and attracted much at
tention On both sides of the border.
Taft surprised large audience al
the Hamilton club in Chicago yester-
day by what most of the hearers
construed as an admission of the pos
sibility of republican defeat in the
i coming national election. ..Now we
are at, some people think, a crisis in
the republican party with reference
to its continuance in the guidance oil
the nation. I am hopeful that the
good people of the country, who
know a good thing when they see it
have only chastened us in an off year
in order that we may be better here
after. but with no intention of shift
ing from the shoulders that are fitted
to bear the burdens of present prob.
lens and carry them to successful so.
luton to those which are untried an6
which have new theories of actor
that We do not believe IN, and thai
we don't believe the people. believe
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