The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-03
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Senator Porter j.. McCumber o.
North Dakota today is Sc years old
Only one bank robbery took place
in Kansas in 1911, according to thu
report of the Kansas state Bankers
association.
Grief at the receipt of the news
of the death of her mother in Pitts
burgh, Pa, cause Mrs Loretta Blake
ly OF Minneapolis to become bott
blind and dumb.
An Italian war ship 1T Perrin, Ar.
abba, took ten prisoners from ma
tive pearl fishing vessel and killed
two of the men who tried to escape
by swimming ashore.
The plan of an American sydicate
to invest $3,00O,0O0 to make Bermu-
| da the Monte Carlo OF America has
fallen through owing to the opposi-
| ton of the authorities.
Starting from the explosion of an
automobile, a fire destroyed the At
| tleboro, Mass, opera house block,
| with a loss of 900. The business
section Of the town was for some
time threatened with destruction.
Indictments charging murder in
| connection with the lynching of lack
Walker, the negro who was burned
at the stake in Coatesville last Aug
ust, were returned against three of
the alleged participants at Westches-
ter, Pa. 4
A German squadron will be sent
to American waters this year to re-
turn the visit to kiel of the second
division of the United States North
Atlantic squadron under the COM
mand of Rear Admiral Badger in
June last year.
Gen. Sir Robert S. c. Baden-Powell
arrived in Washington this morning
for brief visit. This afternoon he
reviewed the Boy Scouts of Washing
ton and vicinity from the north por-
tico of the White House with Presi-
dent Taft and Ambassador Bryce. &
= Blackbirds, carrying infection from
the South, are responsible for the
death of great numbers of Kentucky
horses from a disease akin to pella-
gra, in the opinion of Kentucky's As
sistant State Veterinarian M. A. Pur-
dy, who analysed the brains of dead
horses.
Detective w. J. Burns is to be the
principal speaker at the annual din
ner of the Rockefeller Bible Glass,
which will be given in New York
Monday evening in the Cafe BOule-
ward The other speakers will in
clude President Faunce of Brown
University and George w. Perkins,
the financier.
The case ofs.Philip E. Burris, ac-
cused Of poisoning the Register fam
lily at Richards, shortly before Christ
mas, will be called for trial at Hen
derson, KY, Monday. Burris will
be tried first on an Indictment chhrg-
ing him with the wilful murder of
Henry Register and Rer Davis, two
of the victims of the poisoning trag-
! edy. >
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio,
! was sixty-six years old today and the
occasion was marked by the receipt
at Columbus of many congratulatory
messages from various parts OF the
country. Governor Harmon is the
oldest of the several Democrats who
are prominently mentioned for the
| presidential nomination this year.
He is four years older than Speaker
! Champ Clark, eleven years older
than Governor Woodrow Wilson, and
sixteen years older than Represen-
tative Underwood.
The Philippine exposition and car
nival, for which preparations have
been making for nearly year, was
opened at Manila today and will be
continued through the coming week
The exposition is held on Wallace
Field, large tract close to the bay
which was formerly used as camp.
ing ground of the United States
troops. The exhibits consist princi.
pally of rice, cocoanuts, fruits of al
kinds, hemp, rubber, n.aguey, palay
of many varieties, corn and other
products of the island. 2 @
| Great preparations are being made
in London for the welcome of Kins
George and Queen Mary on their ar
rival home from India where they at
tended teh great DuTbar at Delhi
. Their Majesties are expected to ar
rive at Spithead tomorrow night
i They will remain on board during
II tho oioht and par1v NTOnday morn