The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-02-02

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The weather: fair and warmer
with variable winds.
Knute Nelson, Minnesota's senior
United States senator is today 50
years old.
Mexico faces a new crisis as the
result of two revolutions and revolu-
tionists have proclaimed Gomez pres
ident at the same time denouncing
President Madero. J.
Edward Throckmorton, principal
witness of the state in the Snead
trial now on in Texas, died last night
at Fort Worth, Tex the last words
to his wife being, 81 was doped to
DEATH" -.--. .-s ~.
William Jager, prominent con-
tractor, was killed yesterday after
noon at Bismarck, N. D., by the ac-
cidental discharge OF revolver he
was cleaning. He had resided in
Bismarck 20 years, and leaves wife
and five children.
A three-cornered race for the
worlds championship between Long
boat, Kolehmainenr and Holmer, is to
be run tomorrow over the Powder
hill course at Edinburgh, Scotland.
The race is to be a fifteen mile event,
the winner to receive the stakes
amounting to $t25 a side and a gold
medal emblematic of the worlds
championship.
The members of the intercollegiate
Football Rules Committee met in New
York today for two days meeting.
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsyl-
vania, West Point, Dartmouth, Cor
nell, Chicago, Minnesota, Vanderbilt,
Annapolis and other leading institu-
tions were represented No radical
changes are expected to be made in
the rules this year.
At Los Angeles, Cal tomorrow at
ternOon Johnny Coulon will defend
his title to the bantamweight cham
pionship in a twenty-round contest
with frankie Conley. The champion
has trained faithfully and expresses
confidence in his ability to dispose of.
Conley. If he is successful he will
proceed from this city direct to New
Orleans to tackle frankie Burns iii
20 round affair two weeks hence.
With Governor Eberhart of Min
nesota and Governors of North and
South Dakota On the program for
addresses, the state good roads con-.
vention opened in Deadwood, S. D.,
today. The gathering will continue
in session over tomorrow The par
ticipation of South Dakota and the
neighboring states in the building of
the proposed transcontinental auto
mobile roadway is to be discussed,
also plans for improved highways to
the Yellowstone National Park and
other places of scenic interest in this
part of the country. 5.@.
A party OF prominent woman suf-
frage advocates who are making a
trolley campaign of Connecticut
reached Danbury today to begin a
series of meetings. The strolley
campaign" is regarded as one of the
most unique and successful plans yet
devised to bring the equal suffrage
cause before the people. The tour
began week ago at Bridgeport and
will be continued until virtually ev-
cry city and town of Importance in
the Nutmeg State has been visited.
The touring party includes a number
of the most noted suffragists of Eng
land as well as America.
Within the next ten days the big
gates of the State prison at Trenton,
N. j., will be opened for the exit
of George J. Kerr, one of the four
Paterson men convicted about eleven
years ago in connection with the
death of Jennie Bosschieter, the mill
girl, whose fate attracted country
wide attention. With the commuta.
tion allowed for good behavior Kerr
will complete his fifteen year term
one week from next Monday on which
date he will be set at liberty. He
will be the first of the four men con.
cerned in the murder to regain his
freedom. The young men convicted
with Kerr were William A. Death
Walter McAllister and Andrew J
Campbell. On Oct. 49,, 1900, The
four We're found guilty of murder II
the second degree for the killing O
the Bosschieter girl by the admins
tration of chloral and subsequent as
sault. The crime was described al
the time as one of the most revolving
ever committed in New Jersey. TIL.