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VOLUME 1. NUMBER 27.
BUTCHERY OfJEWS
RUSSIAN POLICE CALMLY SMOKE
THEIR PIPES AND
LOOK ON.
ARE INttlffERENT TO MASSACRE
BUTCHERS WERE PROTECTED
AND EVEN AIDED BY THE
POLICE.
DESCRIBED BY AN EYEWITNESS
TERRIBLE SCENES OF BLOOD-
SHED AND CARNAGE AT
KISCHENEV.
St. Louis, May 20.A resident of St.
Louis has received a letter from a rela
ti ve in Kischenev, Russia, describing
the horrors of the recent massacre of
Jews there.
The letter was written April 17, and
says the writer and his wife were both
badly beaten and nearly killed, but,
with their two children, managed to
escape to the home of their eldest son,
who lives in a house owned by a rich
man, who paid the police to guard his
houses. This house was protected,
and not even a window in it was
broken.
The writer declares the massacre
was perpetrated by robbers, who were
protected and aided by the police.
describes at some length the terrible
scenes of bloodshed and carnage that
he witnessed, and concludes by as
serting that had the onslaught contin
ued one day longer the Jews would all
have been killed and none left to bury
the dead. said that during the
massacre he, from his place of con
cealment, saw police smoking their
pipes and calmly watching the robUers
butcher the Jews.
The cries of the wounded and those
who wer being killed could be heard
on all sides. Stores we re looted a nd
every piece of merchandise thrown
into the street.
When the soldiers and hussars ar
rived quiet was quickly restored, a nd
the^ Jews came forth to bury their
dead. Many bodies were so badly
mutilated th at they had to be buried
in boxes without immediate identifica
tion.
PRESIDENT FEELS FINE.
Says He Never Felt Reiter in His
Life, and He Looks It.
Berenda. Cal.. Mcv
on President
C. H. MILES
...WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER...
THE PIONEER WHOLESALE LIQUOR HOUSE OF NOR. MINN.
A Full Line of Imported and Do-
mestic Whiskies, Brandies, Gins,
Wines and Cordials Always on Hand
Large and Small Buyers
Can Save Money and Time
by Purchasing at Home.
Mail Orders Promptly At-
tended to
Special Distributing Agent for the Cele=
brated Old
Jas. E. Pepper Whiskey
CHAS. H. MILES
BEMIDJI MINNESOTA
rltJliMIHlX.llll.dil*MIWB
nooseveu Drone an road records for I
Yosemite Park travel when his coach
came from Yosemite to Raymond, I
where his train awaited, in ten hours
of actual travel. The distance is six-1
ty-nine miles. The president passed
Sunday night in camp at Bridal Veil
falls, a few miles from the postofflce
at Yosemite. "'ept soundly, and
when he awoke in the morning de
clared he had never felt-better in his
life. His looks bore out his words.
had lost all- appearance of being
tired and his eye was bright. The
members of his party, who had passed
Saturday afternoon and Sunday at
Yosemite, joined the president at the
falls.
CHINESE MASONS AID.
Employ an Attorney to Help Convict
the Murderer of Doc Lung.
Indianapolis, May 20.The trial of
Nim Davidson, the negro charged with
the murder of Doc Lung, the Chinese
laundryman, in his Indianapolis ave
nue shop over a year ago, was called
before Judge Alford, in the criminal
court yesterday. Chinese Masons of
the city have employed an attorney to
bring about a conviction. Three other
negroes will be tried as accomplices.
The murder'*was committed for fhe
purpose of robbery.
MEN AND BOYS LOCKED UP.
Were Using Offensive Language to
Strike Breakers.
Bridgeport, Conn., May- 20. With
few exceptions the runni ng of trolley
cars on the lines of the Connecticut
Railway and Lighting company,
manned by non-union motormen and
conductors, was not interfered with
yesterday. Fifteen men and boys were
locked up during the day on charges
of intimidation. The majority of the
prisoners were using offensive
language to the strikebreakers at the
time of their arrest.
DIED UNDER OPERATION.
Boy Receives Fatal Injuries Under
tine Car Wheels.
Tony, Wis.. May 20. -Matt Oswald,
while attempting to catch a Soo line
fast freight lost his balance and
slipped under tbe car wheels. The
doctors amputated or.o leg next to the
hip. Oswald died during the opera
tion. was itf-tee-n years old.
Deliberate Attempt tc Destroy a Great
Northern Passenger Train.
Milaca, Minn., May 20. Lemuel
Randall of Forest on. Minn., was ar
rested Sunday. He stole fifty pouudp
of dynamite from the Foreston depot
last Wednesday and placed ten pounds
on the track east of that place, in
tending to blow in.) the Willmar pas
senger train. Tbe section men re
moved it. The boy is eighteen year*
old and has confessed. says ho
wanted to see the wreck.
SEVERAL INDIClrO
CHARGED WITH LAND FRAUDS IN
DULUTH LAND OFFICE
DISTRICT.
FEDERAL GRAND JURY AT WORK
FORMER RECEIVER INDICTED ON
CHARGE OF SUBORNATION
OF PERJURY.
CLAIMS HE HAS DONE NO WRONG
CHARGED WITH INDUCING GIRL
TO SWEAR FALSELY TO A
CLAIM.
Duluth, May 20. Several indict
ments in connection with alleged land
frauds in the Duluth land office dis
trict have beeen returned by the fed
eral grand jury. The indictments are
the result of investigations made by
special land agents into charges that
timber and stone claims we re filed by
a large number of persons in pursu
ance of contracts which lumber firmn
instead of for tbe sole benefit of the
applicants.
One of those indicted is Charles P.
Maginnis, the well known attorney
and a former receiver of the Duluth
land office. He is charged with sub
orning A.nnie Stensland to commit
perjury. Several months ago Miss
Stensland entered certain lands in
5-64-14 under the stone and timber
law. According to the laws of the land
office it was necessary for her to take
oath that she had not
Directly or Indirectly
made any agreement with any persons
by which the title to the land should
inude in whole or in part, to any per
son except herself, and that tbe land
was paid for with her own money and
was for her own benefit entirely.
An abstract of the title to the land
shows that it was deeded to George C.
Stone of this city shortly after the
patent was granted. It is claimed in
the indictment that Maginnis suborned
Miss Stensland to enter tbe above
mentioned land under the stone and
timber act for the benefit of persons
other than herself, and to swear false
ly as to the manner in which slje had
secured the money to pay for it and
as to the ultimate disposal of the title
and the ownership of the land.
Maginnis, when asked if he cared to
say anything about the case, said:
"Nothing, except that there is nothing
in any of my dealings before the land
office to be regretted or ashamed of. I
have done no wrong there and never
will."
REJECT BOND ISSUE.
Blue Earth Feels That One Well Is
Enough for the City.
Blue Earth, Minn., May 20. The
special election to vote on the question
of issuing an additional $10,0(jK) of
water and light bonds was held yes
terday. Considerable interest was
manifested in this matter. A second
well is needed, it was claimed, be
cause the present, well needs repairing
and the city cannot be left without
protection and water service while the
repairs are being made. The vote on
issuing $10,000 of water and light
bonds was lost, however, by vot
to 51.
BAD BILLS PASSED.
Stranger From Fargo Ic Accused of
Being the Guilty Party.
Grand Forks. N. D., May 20. A
stranger said to hail from Fargo was
arrested here yesterday on the charge
of passing counterfeit money. Several
5 bills were put in circulation and Qte
authorities say that they are printed
on one side from a plate stolen from
the government, the reverse being
crude work. To cover this, two bills
were pasted together, the two sides
thus having th'- ^ame appearance.
TUG CUT IN TW O.
THE DAILY PIONEER.
BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA] WEDNESDAY, MAY -JO, 1903.
1
Duluth
Big Freighter in Collision in
HarborOne Drowned.
Duluth. Minn.. May 20.As the big
freighter Manna Loaoa was feeling her
way into port yesterday morning she
collided with the tug Edward D. Gillen
at the Superior entry. She struck the
tug on. cutting her in two and sending
her to the bottom. The crew managed
to escape save the cook, who was
drowned.
RACE AGAINST DEATH.
Business Man, Fearing InGanity, Flet'i
From Friends and Shoots Himself.
Battle Creek, Mich., May 20.Her-
bert Woodcock, a wholesale hardware
dealer from Bridgeport, Ohio, commit
ted suicide in a sensational manner
here yesterday. He raced against his
friends in an express wagon and a
squad of police in a patrol wagon.
Woodcock came to a local sanitarium
I for nervous troubles, caused by over-
application to ousjness. He was ex
amined yesterday morning, and he
made up his mind that he was about
to become insane. After dinner with
his mother and brother at the hotel he
rushed into the crowded main street I
tied.. Hotel attaches and Wood
k's brother pursued in an express
on, and the police patrol followed
all speed, but after a race of throe
blocks Woodcock ran into an alley,
where he shot himself through the
head and fell dead.
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PLOT TO EXTORT MONEY.
Robbers Threaten to Dynamite a Fast
Train.
St. Joseph, Mo., May 20.An effort
has been made to extort $5,000 from
the Burlington railway officials here
under a threat to blow up with dyna
mite one of the fast mail tranis mu
lling between Kansas City and Omaha.
A decoy in the form of a hag filled
with rock was placed at a spot desig
nated by the robbers near the town of
Watson. Mo. At midnight the form of
a man was seen to approach the bag
gage but rapidly disappeared upon dis
covery of a posse lying it wait. He
was captured and proved to be J. H.
Franklin, a young farmer. He declines
to give the names of others who are
supposed to be with him in the plot.
WOMAN IS KILLED.
Two Other People Injured in Collapse
of a Veranda.
Fall River, Mass., May 10.* One
woman has been killed and two per
sons severely injured by the collapse
of a veranda on Hie third story of a
house on Kins Philip street. Plvo.l
others who were on the veranda at.
the time had miraculous escapes from
injury or deaths The party of eight'
wore seated oh the veranda when if. i
collapsed[.without warning.
FRENCH REFUGEES ARRIVE.
Members of Relirpous Orders to Lo
cate in This Country.
New York. May 20. The French
lino steamerline steamer La Cham
pagne, which arrive 1 yesterday from
Havre, brought sixty four religious
exiles from France, four Sisters and
Sixty Brothers the latter with two ex
ceptions, being young student s. Forty
six of the latter g~b to Menu-hen. N.
and the others will go to Montreal.
VILLAGE DESTROYED.
Many Bulgarian Notabilities Have
Been Killed.
London. May 20.The Times' cor
respondent at Sofia, Bulgaria, tele
graphs that a "refugee has arrived
there fronfVNto rukop, European Tur
key, and siaoxs that several Bulgarian
notabilitiijsJiJ Nevrokop have T.I
killed and that the large village
Yaldevo has been burned and many of,
the Inhabitants perished.
Indicted for Murder.
Fremont, !llo, 20. IndicL-
r-turned yes-
Ala:
men ts for murder wei
terday afternoon by the grand jury
against Wheeler Kimbro, Lorenzo
Martin, Walter Stratton. Richard Pet
tiford and William Pettiford. all col
ored. They are charged with the mur
der of Otto Mischke, who was killed
by a bullet wound in the stomach. The
Pettifdrds are named as accessories to
the crime, in that they were advisers.
Two Men Burned to Death.
HinVington, \V. Ya.. May 20.How-
ard Pollette and Wilbur Cheatman
were burned to death at Campus,
Wyoming county, yesterday, and sev
eral other companions were so badly
injured that they may die. The men
were asleep a second story log
building and all xil was cut off when
the building was discovered to be en
tire. Th" men v.: re bimb.ermi n.
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Many Officials Fired.
London. May 20.The Daily Chrpn.
icle*s fleiieva correspondent learns
that the Congo Stale authorities are
investigating tri( charges of commit
ting atrocities upon the natives
brought against the Congo State offi
cials, and have already dismissed
many officials whose guilt was proven.
Struck by a Tornado.
Guthrie, Okla.. May 2d. A small
tornado here last night blew down
many trees and demolished several
chimneys. It blew down the new
house of William Murray and also the
old one near by. Mr. and Mrs. Mur
ray escaped by goin^ into the cyclone
cellar.
Booth Tarkington Very III.
Indianapolis, May 20. The condi
tion of Booth Tarkington. who is suf
fering with typhoid fever, is much
more serious and his temperature is
103. He is very weak.
Given Twenty- Years.
Rochester, N. May 20, Lclar.d
Dorr Kent, who was found guilty of
manslaught er in the first degree, was
sentenced to twenty years imprison
ment. Kent encouraged and assisted
Blanche Dingle to commit suicide.
Three Men Killed.
Latrotie, Pa.. May 20. Three men
wore killed and one was injured last
night at the Whitney mines when six
coal cart, ran into a dinkey engine on
a grade. _-
MAID STARTS ROW
MRS. M'BRIDE, FORMERLY MAUDE
GONNE, MAKES TROUBLE
AT MEETING.
GAELIC LEAGUE OPPOSES WEL-
COME TO IRELAND FOR KING
EDWARD.
WILDEST DISORDER, OCCURRED
CHAIRS ARE
AND MAN-
tinuiim his
semblance of
a resolution
object of lie
IRISH GET INTO JRff IGHT before'a crowded house he n- several
:rt\ws'o ^ttats -collapsed, injuring a.
number, three perhaps fatally, Tho
most seriously hurt are Mrs. Clyde
Hutton. Mrs. Joseph Miller and a
daughter of Dr. Shaw. A panic result
ed, but oi'der was soon restored and
the injured taken to their homes.
HURLED ABOUT
PEOPLE ARE
Dublin, May 20.Scenes of extreme
disorder were witnessed at a meetijng
citizen
hlM
lls
nthe
scones of the
lgUt inh thparlia-roe tunda in supportl otf Iris
mentary fund, owing to the presence
of members of the Gaelic league who
were opposed to giving King Edward
a friendly welcome on his coming visit I
to Ireland. Timothy Harrington, lord
mayor of Dublin, was in the chair,
While John Redmond was addressing I
the audience Mrs. MeUrido, formerly
Miss Maude Gpnne, advanced to the
platform and interrupted the proceed
ings by asking Lord Mayor Harring
ton whether In- intended, as head of
the municipality, to appose the pre
sentation of an address of welcome to I
the king. Mr. Harrington replied in
an evasive way. Mrs. McHrido in- i
sisted on a direct answer, whereupon
Chairs were hurl
to and from the platform and many
persons were Injured In the desperat
efforts made toejeet ihe disturbers and
restore order. John O'DonnHl, mem
her of parlbui'o'it from South Mayo
was badly injured in th-' head duriio.
the scullle. Many per ous llcM UTrToT
stricken from the liali
John Redmond persevered in
GHASTLY DETID OF CRAZY MAM.
Compels Sexton to Dicj Up 3ody of His
Dead Child!
Bedford, Ind May 20. William
Rock, crazi (I over the death of a
child and the accounts of the recent
ghoul cases, went to the cemetery yes
terday and compelled the sexton to
get his tools and dig up the body that
ho might know it was there. The sex
ton became alarmed bill bad to obey
to save his life, lie tried to delay the
work until he could gel help, but Rock
grasped the tools and finished the
work hims(
the ground
child, and. annlviiui endearii.ui names also lnsuected.
TEN CENTS PER WEEK.
to it he tinany gra&nea its moutn Wita
his own and literally tore its teeth out.
The police arrived later, overpowered
him and he was placed in jail.
PANIC IN THEATER.
Seats Collspse and Three Persons
Thought Fatally Injured.
Osceola, Neb.. Slay 20. During a
I performance of 'Tnelt Tom's Cabin"
FATAL PNEUMONIA.
Disease Causi-jj Astonishing Rate of
Mortality in Chicago.
Chicago. May 2i.Pneumoni con
tinues its fatal work ill Gtu u^o. Last
wt'ii it carried cut 172 persons, ami
since the first of the year, according
to the \v"- ehjy bulletin of the health
department^here have been 2,t"
deaths from pneumonia and 1,190 front
consumption, or nearly 126 per cent
more from pneumonia than from the
great wh+te plague
Fn
Wildest Disorder Occurred Helena". tit May 20. The su-
and 'prevented John Redmond fromJ_prem'e court yesterday decided the
continuing his speech. The members I fair trials hill, over which the prlnci-
of the Gaelic league tried to storm the pal fight was made at (he last session
platform amid cries of "put the out", of the legislature, to he unconstltu-
Fierca collisions between the Gaelic tlona}. The bill "provided for desi'gna
leaguers ami the other members of the tion by the supri iiiii court of, a district
assembly ensued
con
peccii, and eventually a
order was regained anil
in accordance with He
tun was
catTied.
Lakeside Bakery.
C. C. Doty. Admr.
East'3rd St. Telephone 118
A line of fre.sh baked
goods]]coiii-liiiiilv on
hand.
Goods Delivered Promptly 3
m
KILLED IN A WRECK.
Denver & Rio Grande Train Runs Into
Rockslide.
Grand Junction. Colo.. May 2d.
Westbound passenger train No. on
the Denver & Rjo Grande railroad tan
Into a rocKsliiii^iiear Palisades, killing
Engineer George Stewart and Fireman
W. A. Woods The mail car plunged
Into Grand river, where it lies sub
merged, and the two baggage cars
i were telescoped.
BILL IS ILLEGAL.
Monta|lV
Effor
Secur
Fai
Tria 8
Through.
court ju Ige to temporarily hold courl
in another district when the judge of
that district wau biased
disqualified
Despondency is i
cause of the 'let
Also a complete stock
of Fruits, (.'audit's and
Tobaccos.
We Handle
Ives' Celebrated Ice Cream
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Wlhfc.S SAD DISCOVER/.
She Finds Dead 3oo'y of"Her Husband
In the Cellar.
Aberdeen, S IX.Sluy 20. John Suer
of Rowdle committed suicide by shoo!
HTg liims- if in the load with a re
volver His witi was away from home
al llie time and on her return found'
her husband's remains In the cellar.
aid to have been th"
Killed Father in Self-pefense,
Ulonwood, Wis. May 20 The coro
ner's jury nderod a verdict in the
Sachse shooting case, linding-that
Herman Sachse came to his death by
revolver shots fin tl by his son Rich
aid on May I, In self-defense.
Dwyer's Inspection.
Duluth. Minn. May 2CL- Capt T. P.
Dwyer of Fori Snelllng, of the Twenty
first infantry, Inst night inspected
Lifting the coffin from Companies A and of the national
jrasped the body of bis guard^ The Third regiment baud was