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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-08-28
ENGLAND TAKES Big
Step IN PEACE PLAN
Foreign Secretary Discusses German
Demand for Freedom Of Seas and
Admits It is Fit Subject.
ALL MUST BE BOUND BY PLEDGES
Premier Viviani of France and Sill
Edward Grey Have Different Moods
for Receiving Peace Suggestions.
By J. w. T. MASON.

l NEW 1 OIhs Aug. lo.--IIcmlci Il
viani of France and the British for
eign minister, Sir Edward Grey, have
answered in entirely different moods
in tentative peace suggestions which
are coming from Germany. /
The French prime minister's reply
is a vague reference to Frances re-
solve to fight until Belgium is freed
and Alsace and Lorraine are recon-
quered. Sir Edward Grey goes much
further than his patriotic generality.
With the instinct for craftsmanship
which he possesses in large measure
England's foreign secretary discusses
the German demand for freedom of
the seas and admits it is a fit subject
for negotiations. This, indeed, is
the longest step toward peace Eng
land has taken since the war began.
Sir Edward links the demand for free
dom of the seas with the counterpro-
pOsal for limitation of armament and
with a suggestion for universal
peace Germany must be bound by
pledges as we'll as England, says Sir
Edward
Must Abandon Effort.
Germany also must abandon any
effort to collect war indemnity from
the allies and must not attempt to
impose her will on the world-which
means, in all probability, that peace
terms cannot be dictated by Ger
many, but must be made in a gen
eral agreement. While not reiter-
ated by Sir Edward Grey, England
will require the evacuation of Bel
gium as part of the price of peace;
but the future status of Alsace and
Lorraine must be a secondary mat
ter for the British empire. If France
cannot recover her provinces by her
self, England would scarcely be JUS
titled in killing off her own male
population to make a territorial gift
to the French. ..
.Arouses Interest. -,s..z.-.s.sa-44
Premier Viviani's declaration that
the war shall continue until Alsace
and Lorraine are won is not, in all
probability, arousing much interest
in Berlin. The speech was addressed
to the chamber of deputies, which is
growing restless under the strain of
an indecisive conflict, rather than to
the German foreign office. But Sir
Edward Grey's statement is altogeth-
er different. It is reply to the Ger
man chancellor's address to the reich
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-08-28
MAIL ZONES TO CHANGE.
Parcels Routed for Distances Of More
Than Three Hundred Miles to
Take Third Rate.


Bemidji users Of the parcel post
will be Interested In recent ruling
of the postmaster general, effective
September 1, which upsets the sys-
tenn which has been used since the
law went into effect. AS a conse-
quence a corps of mail experts is
now working out an intricate mathe-
matical problem. They are calcula-
ting the mail distance between some
1000 postoff1ces and other points
which have been classed within the
first and second zones Of these post
Offices under the parcel post law.
First Zone, 150- Mile Radius.
Under the present plan all points
within $50 miles Of given postoffice
'tas the crow flies'' take the first zone
rate regardless of how far the mail
must be carried to reach such a
point. The new ruling provides
that where the mail may be carried
more than 800 miles it must take the
third rate zone. 81
The local division of the railway
mail service, which includes the
states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and
the Dakotas and Northern Michigan,
have 1900 postoftices affected by the
new order. .
Some Rates Will Go Up.
The experts who have been work
ing out the problem came upon two
postoffices in western North Dakota
which are within a few miles of each
other, but the mail route between
them is 80 miles. The new order
requires that parcel post packages
between these points take an increas-
ed rate. In eastern Wisconsin there
are many postohces which are less
than 300 miles from other towns
across the lake in Michigan, but mail
between them has to travel several
hundred miles. Rates will be in
creased between such places. -
AS there are but a few days in
which to arrange the new rate
scheme, the mail experts have been
compelled to give up proposed vaca-
tions and endeavor to work out the
tedious problem. .~. .
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-08-28
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X =
X SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES +
X X X x X X X X X x 4 X r X X
Cofho1io
Catholic,

Low mass at z a. m. High mass
at 8 a. m. Sunday school at 1890
a. m. Vespers at 8 p. m. Father J.
J. T. Philippe.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-08-28
HOLD FAIR AT BAUDET1E
Two Days Exhibit of Farm Produce
to Be Held in Hustling Border
City, September 14-15.
PREMIUM LIST READY SOON

Farmers of Northern Beltrami
county, in addition to aiding the
county fair, are to hold a big exhibit
at Baudette, to be held Tuesday and
Wednesday, September IA and Is. A
live committee has been appointed to
arrange the details.
Rev. F. D. White is, chairman and
with him are C. S. Dahlquist and
William Robertson. They will have
large number of sub committees as:
sisting them.
At one time it was proposed to-
give Williams the fair this year but
arrangements were not completed.
The premium list and other details
will be ready within the next few
days and there is every indication
that the fair this year will equal if
not surpass any previous exhibition
at Baudette
Among the features will be an ex-
hibit by the post Office department.
showing the various devices used by
farmers in shipping produce by parcel
post. IS
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-08-28

]. D. Hamlin and J. b. Buitman,
prosperous and hustling farmers Of.
the Nebish vicinity, we're Bemidjis
visitors yesterday, making the trip
here by team.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-08-28
TO REBUILD SKOOGLAND HOME

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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-08-28
.Arouses Interest.

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
5,7l3,547 BALES 0F COTTON G|NNED
 PRIOR ID QCy.; 1
This Is Nearly Two Millions Below Figures of One
 Year Ago.

Washington, Oct. 25.-The third cot ton ginning report of the season, com piled from reports of census bureau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt and issued at lO> a. m. today, announced that 5,713,547 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales. of the growth of 1915 had been ginned prior to October IS. This compared with 7,619,747 bales, or 47.9 per cent of the entire crop ginned prior to October IS last year. 6,97S,- SIS bales. or 49.9 per cent in 1913, and 6.s74,2O6 bales, or 51.O per cent Tn 1912.
 Included in the ginnings were 54,- 422 round bales, compared with l4,239 bales last year, 39,o30 in 1913, and 4l,- 745 in 1912. ! Sea Island cotton included number ed 4o,257 bales, compared with 3O,O7S hales to October IS last, 3l,l39 Tn 1913 and 15,96O bales in 1912.
 Ginnings by States.
 Ginnings prior to October, by states, with comparisons for the last three years and the percentage of the entire crop einned in those states pl1or to that date in the same years, follow:
 States-Year-
 Alabama
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Trapped on Upper Floors of Burning Factory, 13 Girls
 and Young Hero Meet Death
Eight Other Young Women Seriously Injured When They Plunge from Film sy Pittsburgh Struc-
 ture Into Arms of Men Below.

Pittsburgh, Oct. 25.-Fourteen per sons, thirteen of them girls, ware killed and eight were seriously ii. jured in fire which swept the build ing of the Union Paper Box com- -pany here this afternoon.
 Three other girls are missing and it is feared that their bodies are among the debris.
 The two upper floors Or the four story building were occupied by the paper box company. The fire started in the feed store of James Brown &. company cn the first floor.
 An investigation has been ordered by Mayor Armstrong. The police. am coroner, together with the city coun- Gil will carry on the inquiry.
 Hero Loses Life.
 The hero of the fire paid with his life for his heroism. He was Peter Vallon, the only male victim of the tragedy.
 Vallon was at work when the alarm spread. He managed to make his way to the street, but when he heard the trapped girls cries for aid, he wrap ped wet handkerchief about his face and plunged back into the blazing building. Six times he returned to the street, each time bearing the bcdy of an unconscious girl. The seventh time he did not return. Bremen found his charred body on the second floor. Beside him was a girl Apparently, he had been over come by smoke and fumes while re-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
Czar Ferdinand's Troops in
 Flight, But Not Out < of Peril.
BULGARS DISPLAY POOR QUALITIES
French Commander Describes Their Advance as "Fantastic," Which Probably Accounts for Heavy Loss
 in Brief Engagement.

London, Oct. 25.-Bulgarian forces which invaded South |S4rvia, pene tratng to Istip, Veles and Uskub have been placed in great peril by a sharp advance of the French, who are now reported forty miles north Of the Greek border.
 The French, after effecting a june ton with the Servian army Of the south, fell upon the Bulgarians al Krivolak and inflicted upon them so severe a defeat that there is no ques- tion of their ability to take the in- vaders on their flank. Some reports say the Bulgarians are already in flight toward Strumitza, with the servian cavalry in pursuit.
 German advices via Amsterdam state that Turkish cavalry has ar rived at Egri Palanka, and is proceed ing toward Veles. Apparently, they arrived too late to be of assistance
 It is admitted in these dispatches that $500 Bulgarian wounded have arrived at Philippolis from Servia, and that the Bulgarian losses a, Istip was 5000 men. The Servians, It is stated, burned the intuition depots there before leaving Istip.
 French Control Railroad.
 In contrast with the experienced troops of Franco and England. the Bulgarians showed inferior fighting qualities, although the attack was furious. Along the entire line the losses are reported heavy. The Bull garians are retirin gup the Gradeskar valley, and the French have been left in possession of the railroad from Saloniki to 'Negctin. Beyond this lat ter point, the railroad is not threaten ed.
 General Serrail. commanding the French fcrces, statsd that the French losses were slight, while reports of Bulgarian advances we're characteriz- cd by him as fantastic. He asserted that the eBulgsrians had advanced only beyond a few undefended points Of no military value, situated clLs~ to the frontier.
 According tc' reports received ill Paris. three divisions of Bulgarians (about 96,OO0 men) were involved in the disaster at Krivolak. It is said the Bulgarian army was decimat:d. suffering chiefly from the terrible fire of the famous French "sevenry- fiyes," and that the remnant retired In disorder to Strumitza, which the French are now attacking.
 Invaders Checked Bulgarian operations against Tyrot, 1t is asserted. were fruitless. Their attacks are being centered on vranja. On the Timcs> the Burgarians it is added, are stopped, while the Austro- Germans are being held on the north western front, on the Save and Dan ube
 Despite reports from Nish, it is clear that the Austro-G German ad- vance in the north is continuing, sl- though progress is very slow. The main purpose of the invaders appar- ently is to open a way over the rail- road through Northeastern Servia. Inls appears about to be accom- plished.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
CHARLTON GUILTY; ID BE LIBERATED
 0N NOVEMBER 1
Allowance for Time in Jail Before Trial Leaves Him
 One Month to Serve.

Como, Italy, Oct. 25-Porter Charl- ton, who was found guilty this after noon of killing Mrs. Mary Scott Charlton, his wife, will be at liberty on November 21, next.
 Immediately after the verdict, Pres ident Sciacca sentenced Charlton to term of six years and five months As the young American has been in jail five years and four months, he will only have to serve another month, because of an allowance of one year granted to all prisoners by royal decree at the beginning of the war. frs
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26

turning on his seventh rescue trip.
 Inadequate fire escapes are the eX- planation of the tragedy, according to Francis srehan, state labor in sIector, who visited the building after the fir. Stories of he rescued agree with his assertion,
 Frenzied Girls Plunge to Death.
 The blaza, which started in the feed store, spread rapidly. Hardly had it been discovered when General Mana ger McKnsel of the box factory warned the girls to leave quickly. But even then it was too late The building went up like finder, and by the time 'the girls started for the street. they found the stairs and fire escape cut off by curtains Of Hams Terrified, they rushed to windows and several were killed by leaping tc the ground before the firemen ar rived with life nets. Charred bodies of others were found in dressing rooms, where they had gone for their hats.
 A. J. Saigal and J. L. Bass, em- ployed on the second floor of the building, saved the, lives of several girls by catching them in their arms as they jumed from the upper floors and then lowering them to tn. ground. sss1
 A driver of an express wagon, c. B. Carlisle, drove into an alley in the rear of the burning structure and threw rope togthe trapped and fren- zied girls, number sliding to safety down this makeshift fire escape. 3
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
RESUME DRILLING AT
 JEFFERSON OIL WELL
Additional Casing Expecte dtO Arrive Tomorrow, and Work Will
 Re Pushed.

Drilling operations at the Jefferson oil company's we'll O nthe Rutherford piace will be resumed tomorrow. Nine hundred dollars worth of casing, or oerec from the Arkansas Mill Supply company, is expected to arrive We'd nesday, and it is the purpose to rush the we'll to completion.
 !, A meeting of the stockholders of tae company vii lbe held tonight at s o'clock at the chambe rof commerce. wnen matters of vital import to the r"mpany and to the community will oe discussed. All who are interested m upbuilding the city, and develop ing the resources of the country are Delng urge dto attend.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
GERMAN CRUISER PRINl AOALbERT
 SENT TO BOTTOM
Berlin. Confirms Sinking of Warship by British Sub
 marine with Heavy Loss.

Amsterdam, Oct. 25.-According to press dispatch, the naval general staff in Berlin has announced that the Prinz Adalbert was sunk on Sat urday by two shots. A small portion of the crew was saved.
 Official dispatches from Petrograd last night announced that German cruiser of the Prinz Adalhert type had been sunk by British submarine near Libau.
 The Prinz Adalbert displaced 8,SS3 tons, and it's complement in peace times was 557 men.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
Fifth Man, Named in Com plairt by Secret Service,
 Being Sought.
WEALTHY GERMANS
 IN U. 5. IMPLICATED
Dragnct Sei by Federal Officials for Financial Hackers of Scheme to De- strOy Munitions Plants and Ships
 Within American HarbOrs.

New York. Oct. 25.-Developments today anl tonight in the most gigan- tic bomb plot ever known in America were as follows: -''--~-A
 Robert Fay lieutenant in the Six taenth Prussiaa artillery, admitted having received 5000 or more from inc chief of the secret service of the German government in Brussels, to ccme to this country and see what he could do to cripple the munitions trade.
 Dr. Herbert Kienzle was arrested, and made disclosures to assistant United States District Attorney Knox which were immediately communicate e5 to the department of justice In Washington.
 Kienzle is reported to have impli- hated persons high in the German government. Also. he is sad to nave mentioned prominent Gernnan-Amer- icans. As a result. special deputy attorney general and investigators are coming to New York to prepare special report for ,President Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing.
 As Fay tells it, the purpose or the plot was to wreck American intuition plants and ships carrying war supp plies to the enemies of Germany.
 Five men. Robert Fay, Walter Scholz. Paul Daeche. Dr. Kienzle and Max Brsitung, are charged in a com plaint drawn by Chief Glynn, of the United states secret service, with piracy in port. All but Brietung are under arest.
 Dragnet for Financial Backers.
 secret service dragnet Ia out for the financial packers of the bomb plot.
 It was learned from reliable sources today that Lieutenant Robert Fay, alleged head of the plot. has spentN s3O,oO0 in the past six months uerfecting his plans. Part of this has been accounted for. Another portion of the fund is said to have been furnished by a we'll known shipping and mining man for whom q warrant has been issued. This man has eluded arrest.
 The greater portion of the fund, however, it was learned in secret ser vice quarters. was furnished by more or less well-knoWn and wealthy men II the UnlLcu States. CllCl 1fyuu VI the United states secret service, and squad of picked men, are devoting themselves almost wholly now to- ~ounding up these men. It was hint- cd tonight that a sensational dis closure will follow their arrest. nss'
 'sGo Between" Makes Disclosures
 It was declared tonight that the secret service have got hold of a young German-American who acted as ego between" in the financial transactions. He is to be used as q government witness when the time comes. This man has already con fessed that he collected certain sums, of money from at least one wellyl known German in New York. and later spent the money for the pur- chase of explcsives which he turned over to Fay
 A list of other contributors to the fund has been furnished to the secret service. Each man on the list is9 under surveillance. Arrests will only be made where the proof is positive that money was furnished with knowledge of the uses to- which it was to be put.
 Not only at the port of New York, it
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26

Little four-year-old Finley Jay Shepard, Jr., the adopted son of MT. and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard (the for mer Helen Gould) who until his adoption on Thursday was known as John Doe 104, alias Austin McCleary.
 The little blue-eyed, fair-haired lad, who has been taken into the Shepard home at Irvington, N. Y., is a founding. He was discovered by a policeman in September, 1914, sitting on the steps of St. Patrick's cathed- ral in Fifth avenue, New York, and after all efforts to establish his identity had failed, was sent to the St. Christopher's home at Dobbs Fer ry. In visiting the home Mrs. Shepard became very much attached to the little fellow and finally decided to adopt him as her son. .'e
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
To Attend $. (. V. Meeting.

R. H. Williams, Jo Nichol, H. H. Humphrey, Calvin Burks, Harold Bluthenthal, John H. King, Garland Brewster. Roane Bell and H. Kemp Toney have been named delegates from J. Selden Roane camp, s. C. V.' 10 the state convention of the sons of Veterans, which meets at Little Rock today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
Record Cattle 3Receints.

Kansas City, Oct. 25.rAbout 45.OO0 cattle were unloaded at the stock yards today, 5000 more, it was said, than ever arrived here before in one day. Advances in prices attracted the large offerings.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
Attend Odd Fellows Meet.

J.. E. Baker will leave this morn ing for Little Rock, to attend the meeting of the grand lodge of the organization for Arkansas, which opens today. Mrs. J. E. Bond and Mrs. J. l.. Broderick leave this morn ing also for the capital city, to at tend the meeting of the state grand lodge of the Rebekahs. MT. Baker is delegate from the local lodge of Odd Follows. and Mrs. Bond and Mrs. Frederick are delegates from the Pine Bluff lodge of Rebekahs.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
Fish.Rodd.

Los Angeles, Cal. October 25.- John Fish of Newcastle. Eng. and Miss Emily Mary Rodd of Cardiff. Waies. were married here today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26

London, Oct. 25.-A fierce attack in the Tahure district of Champagne re- suited in the capture by the French of the important German position known as La Courtine." on the sal tent north of LeMesnil. according to Paris official communique. The French troops drove into the Ger man lines on a front of 120o yards, for a depth of about 250 yards. Heavy losses were inflicted on the defenders, it is stated.
 Battling desperately to eXpel the French from these important lines, the Germans kept up continual coun- ter attacks during the day, as a result of which they regained foothold in the center of the position, but were repulsed on the east and west, Heavy fighting is still going 0n with hand bombs ard machine guns.
 While Paris, in both the afternoon and midnight communiques issued at the war office, plays great stress on this fighting, the Berlin report re- ceived tonight merely states that the French were repulsed in their efforts to drive in the salient which has been a thorn in their side for weeks. Fight ing is still going on with great vigor, the German general staff reports.
 The French prepared their attack with a violent cannonade, in which masked guns on short front reduce ed the German defenses and swept away the entanglements. Their po- sitions had been consolidated with great effort by the Germans, being veritable underground village, the trenches being connected by deep tunnels for the transportation of ann munition and net work of commun1- eating ditches having been construct ed
 Outside of isolated artillery actions, the day passed quietly on other sectors of the western front.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
WEDDING BELLS.
Corn.Cohb.

Fl Paso, Texas, Oct. 5.-Miss Jes- sic Corn, was married to Stanton Cobb here today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26

c. L. Davis has been appointed regular carrier on rural free delivery routes No. 5 and 6, each of which has a tri-weekly service. He has already taken up his new duties.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26

* London, Oct. 23.-king George * is visiting the British army in
 * France, and while there, hopes al- * so to visit the lines of the allied
 * trench forces as we'll according :: to an announcement tonight by * the official press bureau. *
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
Germans Advance in Russia.

London, Oct. 25.-Fighting on the Riga-Dvinsk front has broken out with renewed intensity Though the Germans apparently have been losing heavily they have captured the will lage of Repe, southeast of Riga, and have taken Illoukst, northwest ot Dvinsk.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26
The Weather

u Fair and somewhat cooler Tuesday Wednesday. fair.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-26

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Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-22
nIRTIIs ANp DEATHS.

Births--I1raneisco and Guiseppa Anza-
lone 1873 Sollth Fourteenth. boy; James
and Jenfit Allos, 6is South Eighteenth,
gsnh~ LLOYD and Catherine Binstock, zsn
Horth Thirtieth, girl: Mikel and Mary
'Chrynish sel5 South Twenty-sixth. ooy,
Eleventh. boy; Frank and Rose Chula.
Ell Pierce, boy: Antomino and Mariana
Di stefeno 1922 South Fifth, girl; John
and Elizabeth Delinssi, 240e South Twen-
tieth avenue. boy; Frank and olive
Hayes. Thirteenth and Monroe, boy;
sixth and q. girl; Alfred and Eva Ely,
eo27 North Twenty-first, girl Eugene and
Edith Warren, Thirty-Hecond and X, BOY;
Joseph and Mary Hainy, 3lm South
Twenty-fourth. boy; Bernard and Frances
Hahn, 2ei3 South Twenty-sixth, South
60f North Forty-fourth. South Side, girl;
II. 1. and Catherine Jameson, @s4 South
Nineteenth. girl Edward and Helen
Lynch 31a5 South Seventeenth, girl; Wal
lace and Pauline Linns. 2Sii Amea avenue.
girl; Clarence and Esther Lind, 40i6 South
( Twentieth. boy; William and Edna Nc,
Cabe, 5i0 Capitol avenue. girl; steve and
Pauline MisnaloAki. 81 South Twenty.
/ eighth. South Side, girl: salvatore and
{ Cercsina AIicele, lio6 South Seventh. boy;
Peter and Elizabeth Meioy, 2576 Harney,
girl. Franklin and Hazel Piffer, 1914
North Thirty.thir girl: Paul Z. and
4 teenth, girl; Charles and Eala Whitney
f7ls North Fifteenth. boy
Deathe-Thural Taylor, g. bi9 South
4 Fortieth: Donald A. Wrede, 10 months
Z hospital: Mrs. Mary Boyce, ~ hospital
{ Nellie Cunningham. i1l5 South Twenty
! Eleventh: Richard H. MorFan, rs, 1915
3 Capitol avenue; William q. HouRhton, 81,
80 South Sixteenth.