The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-12-14


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Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio
will speak in Milwaukee Jan. Is, ac-
cording to announcement made by A.
A. Allen, Governor Harmon's repre-
sentative in Wisconsin. .+
Stephen M. Egan, county collector
of Hudson county, was placed on trial
today at Jersey City, N. j., under an
indictment charging him with the
embezzlement of public funds.
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Science has authorized the payment
Of $500 for the best poem on the
Battle of Brooklyn offered to the in
stitute before Oct. 1, 1912.
James Howe, a bank rObber, es-
capped from the Jail at .Nortonville,
Ka. Howe weighs 200 pounds. BY
removing his clothing and soaping
his body he was able to wriggle
through a hole only IL inches square.
The third annual exhibition of the
Midwest Poultry and Pet Stock as
ISOLATION opened in the Coliseum at
Chicago today and will continue un-
til next Tuesday. Cash prizes amount
ing to more than $4,000 will be dis
tributed.
Chauncey r. Simmons was shot
and killed at Spokane in the house
of his brother, A. H. Simmons, by a
burglar who had just attempted an
attack on Miss Libby Simmons, the
16-year-old daughter of A. H. Sim
mons.
The board of trustees of the Car
negie endowment for international
Washington today The annual re-
port of the executive committee was
received and plans discussed for the
future work of the organization.
=. In accordance with an annual Gus
tom a delegation from the Masonic
lodge of Fredericksburg, Va, visited
Mount Vernon, Va, today and placed
a wreath of flowers on the tomb of
Washington, in commemoration of
the anniversary of the death of the
first president.
The silver jubilee of Bishop Null
doon's ordination to the priesthood
was celebrated at Rockford, ILL.,, to-
day by visiting bishops and priests
and the people of Rockford and vi
entity. Bishop Muldoon vetoed the
plans for large public celebration,
but the clergy were not content to
allow the anniversary to pass entire
ly unObserved.
The Ohio State pardon board at
it's meeting at Columbus tomorrow is
expected to consider and act upon an
application for the parole of Charles
L. Warmer, who was sentenced to
six years in the penitentiary follow
ing his confession to having misap-
propriated $643,000 of the funds of
the Big Four railroad. Warmer was
for many years local treasurer of the
Big Four at Cincinnati. His arrest
and trial, in which evidence was in
troduced to show that Warmer had
given alleged "hush money in large
amounts to Mrs. eannette Stewart
Ford, attracted countrywide atten-
ton. With the usual allowance of
time off for good behavior Warmer
would complete his sentence in three
years nine months and IS days. He
has now been in the penitentiary
two years. During the whole of that
time ne has occupied one OF the best
clerical positions in the main Office
of the prison.
No federal grand jury that ever
met in indianapolis attracted the
amount of public attention that is
displayed in the body that began it's
session today. The Mcnamara con-
spiracy is to be probed to the bottom
by the grand jury. Specifically the
federal inquiry is as to whether or
not the statute governing interstate
transportation of dynamite has been
violated, but it is the general belief
that United States District Attorney
Miller will introduce evidence tend
ing to show the connection of many
persons in the dynamiting operations
of the McNamaras. Rumors are freely
calculated today that this evidence,
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