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insists.-,. f' sj: THE PIONEER ... Best Advertising Medium in the County. A I inely Equipped Job Det artment in connection. Baking Powder pie only Baking Powder made with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar —made from granes— Insures healthful and delicious food for every home—every day FIRE IN A BOSTON SUBURB REN DERS OVER 10,000 PEOPLE Five Hundred Buildings are Destroyed. Thirteen Churches, Public Libra ry, Hospitals, City Hall and Five School Houses. Boston, Mass., April 13.—An appar ently insignificant fire which started among rags on a dump in the city of Chelsea yesterday was fanned by a northwest gale into a conflagration, which obliterated nearly one-third of the oity. Five hundred dwelling houses and public buildings were destroyed, fif teen hundred families were driven from their habitations and 10,000 peo ple made homeless almost without warning. Three lives are known to have been lost, and late last night it was re ported that two other persons had perished, one a'woman, having shot herself in a frenzy over her inability to save her property. From fifty to one hundred were injured. Accurate estimate of the loss js im possible*. The city solicitor estimates it at nearly $10,000,000. The insur ance is estimated at $5,000,000. The fire, which was the worst Greater Boston has known in many years, raged before a forty-flve-mile gale for more than twelve hours, defying the utmost efforts of the com bined fire departments of Chelsea and several nearby cities and a large de tachments of Boston firemen and apparatus. The fire area, which was in the form of an eclipse, a mile and a half long and half mile wide at its broad est part, extended diagonally across the oity from a point near the bound ary between Everett and Chelsea to the waters of Chelsea creek, All the banks, more than three quarters of the churches, half of the business blocks and nearly all the achoolhouses were wiped out. One hospital and a day nursery were de stroyed. In the tarmoil many of the sick.and Lorenzo dent infirm found difficulty in ob taining assistance and several of them had narrow escapee. It was useless for the firemen to at tempt to check the onrushing flames before the gale, and their main efforts were to prevent a spread of the fire on', either- side. TWO DROWNED AT FORD. Mother and Son Attempt to Cross ...Swollen River and Meet Death. Lisbon, N. D., April 11.—Mrs. Ole Benson and her son Osoar* were drowned in the Sheyenne river about ten miles southeast of this city at the Pindall ford. They had been in town and returning home in their buggy attempted to cross the swollen river. Both lost their lives and the team al so perished. Coroner Patterson found the bodies and reported the acoident. Winnipeg, April 11.—Charles Hamil ton and Andrew Walker, settlers, were drowned when crossing" Knee •mil oreek on rotten ice, at Carbon, In Calgarg. 1... I U.i VOLUME 28, HOPE, STEELE COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA APRIL HUGE ROCK FALLS ON TRAIN One Man is Pinioned Under Engine and Scalded to Death. Winnipeg, April 10.—A huge rock, loosened by the thaw of the last few days, fell on a locomotive of a Cana dian Pacific railroad express near Ke nora, Ont., 100 miles east of this city. •Four'coaches were derailed. JN pass engers were hurt, but George Love of Kenora was pinfied under the engine and scalded to death. The train was coming from Montreal to this city. The wrecked cars contained immi grants' baggage. Farmer Fights Posse. Highmore, S. D., April 11.—Milton Mclzer, a farmer of this county, held a sheriff's posse at bay from early in the evening until noon the following day. Shots were fired and Mclzer warned that his life might pay the "forfeit of his folly, but he persisted in holding out against the law until an attorney advised him to surrender. In the end he was bound over in bonds of $1,000. CHICAGO BROKER A SUICIDE. Kneeland, Made Despen. Illness, Kills Himself. Chicago, Apr. 10.—Lorenzo D. Knee land, former senior member of the firm of Kneeland, Clement & Curtis, brokers, committed suicide at his home, 4932 Lake avenue, Thursday by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. The bullet penetrated the brain, causing instant death. Mr. Kneeland was a member of the Chi cago board of trade and the Chicago Btock exchange. He retired from ac tive business about two years ago. The act of self-destruction came as a profound shock to financial and other business circles. Recently Mr. Kneeland applied for more life Insurance, but the insurance company refused to accept him, and that is said to have led to the despon dency. CANADIAN OFFICIAL ARRESTED. American Immigrant Officer Takes Son Of Mayor Prisoner. Winnipeg, Man., Apr. 9.—Herbert Wright, a Canadian customs officer at Emerson, Man., was arrested at Noyes, Minn., Wednesday at the point of a revolver by a United States im migrant officer, on a charge of having smuggled into the United States May French, who had been denied admis sion to the United States two weeks ago. Wright Is a son of Mayor Wright of Emerson. He was taken to Crookston, Minn., for trial. There 1b much bitter feeling between the officials of the two governments at Emerson and Noyes. "Open Shop" on Great Lakes. Cleveland, O., Apr. 10.—The "open shop" policy will be adhered to by ves sel owners, in the operation of boats upon the great lakes this season. A stand of this character in dealing with organized labor was unanimously agreed to at the annual meeting of the Lake Carriers' association here Thurs day. Illinois Post Office Robbed. Kewanee, 111., Apr. 10.—The post of fice at Orion, Henry county, 25«mlles northwest of here, was robbed Wednesday night. About |200 ID mopey and (300 In itamoa were takML ROOSEVELT. Additional Laws Needed—House Passes Employers' Liability Bill Without Change—House Makes Progress Despite Democratlo Filibuster. Washington, Apr. 10.—Suppression of anarchy as the greatest question before the nation was called to the a This message, containing only about 100 words, is one of the shortest Mr. Roosevelt has transmitted to con gress. With the message he trans mitted a report reviewing the legal phases of the question by Attorney General Bonaparte. Boost For Hope For The County Seat SAYS PRESIDENT SPECIAL ME8SAGE ON ANARCH* I8TS SENT TO CONGRESS BY at tention of congress by President Roosevelt in special message. The executive submits what has been done under existing statutes, but says there should be further legislation. The anarchist is declared the enemy of all mankind and no paper, published here or abroad, propagating anarch ism should be permitted to circulate in the mails, the president declares. Message of the President. The message of the president fol lows: "To the Senate and House of Rep resentatives: I herewith submit a letter from the department of justice, which explains itself. Under, this opinion, I hold that existing statutes give the president the power to pro hibit the postmaster general from being used as an Instrument in the commission of crime that is, to pro hibit the use of the mails for the ad vocacy of murder, arson and treason. "I shall act upon such construction., Unquestionably, however, there should be further legislation by congress in this matter. When compared with the suppression of anarchy, every other question sinks into insignifi cance. The anarchist is the enemy of humanity, the enemy of all mankind, and his is a deeper degree of crim inality than any other. No immigrant is allowed to come to our shores If he is an anarchist and no paper pub lished here or abroad should be per mitted circulation in this country, if it propagates anarchistic opinions. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." 8enate Passes Liability Bill. The employers' liability bill, re cently passed by the house, was passed by the senate Thursday with out amendment, so that it is ready to go to the president for his approval. The scope of the bill Is limited to common carriers by railroad. The senate adjourned at 5:50 o'clock until Monday. House Busy, Despite Filibuster. Three times in the house the Demo crats caught the Republicans "nap ping" and forced them to produce a quorum. On one other occasion a vote by tellers disclosed the absence of a quorum but Speaker Cannon peremptorily applied the Reed rule .and declared a quorum to be pres ent. In doing so he had a brief but lively clash with Mr. Williams. Notwithstanding repeated roll calls, progress was made in the transaction of public business. Both the army and the fortifications appropriation bills were sent to conference the senate bill to increase the efficiency of the revenue gutter service was, with Democratic help, passed, and the bill to promote the safe transporta tion in interstate commerce of ex plosives was considered. It will be finally disposed of Friday. The Democrats prevented the adop tion of the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill and caused It to be sent back to conference. House After Paper Trust. Washington, Apr. 9.—Wednesday's session of the house will go down as one of the stormiest in its history. The sum total of the day's proceed ings was the adoption of several addi tional rules to further check the Dem ocratic filibuster and the passing of the two resolutions introduced by Speaker Cannon calling on the depart ment of justice and the department of commerce and labor for certain in formation regarding the so-called pa per trust. The naval appropriation bill author izing the construction of two Instead of four battle ships and eight instead of four submarine torpedo boats, and oarrying a total appropriation of $103,967,518 for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, was reported to the house Wednesday by Chairman Foss of the committee on naval affairs. Suicide. New Ulm, Minn., April 11.—The second suicide within a-week was dis covered in this oity yesterday after noon. Martin Bemiger killed himBelf with a razor by outting his throat from ear to ear. 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