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Today, 95c a E Today, Tuesday, is the last day of the half-year. July 1st we take our Semi-Annual Cloak Department Inventory, but for TUES DAY ONLY, we will sell EVERY GARMENT in our Cloak Department at a Greatly Reduced Price. None C. O. D. or on approval Every Waist Reduced Every Silk Suit Reduced Every Tailormade Suit Reduced Every Petticoat Reduced Every Sweater Reduced Every Skirt Reduced All Children's Garments Reduced A sale opportunity that comes for only one day in the quality at prices far below those of F Authorities Discover No Motive for Fiendish Crime in San Francisco. AUTHORSHIP IS MYSTERY Explosion Wrecks Saloon and Gro cery Store With Living-Rooms Overhead and Sets Fire to Ruins Three Are Injured. SAN FRANCISCO. June 29. A myster ious explosion, followed by a Are, which occurred at an early hour today at Dia mond and Chenery streets, caused the death of four persons, seriously injured three others and completely destroying two buildings and caused a loss of $30,000. The dead: John Sweeny, aged 50 years. Mrs. John Sweeny, aged 50 years. Ellen Sweeny, aged 11 years. Antone Dismeyer, aged 2. The Injured: Mrs. Mary Dismeyer, aged 17. Frederick Sweeny, aged 24. Thomas Hart, fireman. All Victims Were Abed. The explosion took place in the build ing occupied as a grocery store and sa loon by John Sweeny and S. F. John son. Both places were closed at the time of the disaster. The Sweenys lived just above the grocery store and the Dismeyer family resided in an upper flat. All the victims were in bed at the time. The elder Sweeny, his wife and daughter and little Antone Dismeyer were instantly killed. The baby's body was blown through a window and was found in a tree. Fred Sweeny was hurled through another window and bruised. Frederich Dismeyer made his escape but rushed back into the burning house and carried his wife out through the flames, both being badly burned. Mrs. Dismeyer is not expected to recover. An tone Dismeyer, Sr., carried his mother out of the house and both escaped injury. The cause of the explosion, as well as the motive for the crime, if one was com mitted, is unknown. Theories that coal oil kept in the grocery or a leak in the gas main might have wrecked the struc tures proved to be untenable as it Is now the belief of the police that dynamite was used. ' One Possible Clew. Johnson, the saloonkeeper, says there was a fight in the place last night and he thinks that some one involved in the trouble was the author of the outrage. The fact that a man named T. J. Gall agher held a joint lease of the saloon with Johnson led to the rumor that the building belonged to ex-Supervisor J. I Gallagher, the principal witness for the graft prosecution, whose houses in Oakland were recently dynamited, but tliis proved untrue. The ex-Supervisor has a brother of the same name as the lessee of the saloon who is no relation, and Detective Burns thinks that the men who caused the explosion may have con fused the men. This is admitted, however, to be merely a surmise, and the affair still remains a mystery. THAW'S CHANCES BRIGHT Justice Mills Says Jury Trial Is Due Prisoner. MURDERED m DYNAM TE WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., "June 29. Harry K. Thaw's chances for a jury trial as to his sanity appear to be very bright. At the conclusion of argument before Justice Mills this afternoon the Justice said: "I believe it should be only a matter of time when this man ought to have a jury trial. I am not prepared to say whether it should be now or later." The Judge then ordered that Thaw should be detained in the Poughkeepsie jail, and adjourned the case to July 13, when arguments and affidavits will be submitted. Thaw was taken back to Poughkeepsie this afternoon. Judge Mills adjourned the case until two weeks fron today, when Counsel will sub mit affidavits and arguments on the ques tion of a Jury trial. Thaw was remanded to Poughkeepsie Pair for $1.75 Kayser and Fownes ANNUAL very Jail for convenience of his counsel, Mr. Morschaueer, who lives In Potighkeepsle. Under the proceedings by which Thaw was brought here today, the question of his right to a jury trial was raised. In the first habeas corpus proceedings in Poughkeepsie this point was not brought up, as counsel for Thaw assumed that his sanity was perfect. Thaw enjoyed the ride dowji the Hudson and was in fine spirits. He declared that his stay in Poughkeepsie Jail had helped him, because of the better diet permitted. On arriving here, Thaw was taken to a barber shop for a shave. En route to the courthouse he was beset by photographers, whose efforts to ob tain snapshots at him greatly enter tained him. THAW IS DANGEROUS LUNATIC Therefore Justice Dowling Refuses Removal From Matteawan. NEW YORK, June 29. Justice Dowling today denied the application, of Harry K. Thaw to be removed from the Matteawan State Asylum for the Criminal Insane to some other institution. The decision says? "If. after sufficient observance. It is found proper to remove him to some other institution, the state authorities can so act." Justice Dowling's decision further de clares that Thaw is a dangerously In sane person, who is not to be punished, but to be kept under proper restraint, that he may not injure himself or any one else, and said that the affidavits submitted set forth absolutely no rea son why the change desired should be made. Justice Dowllng's order, handed down today, is not operative for the present at least, as Thaw is now in cus tody under the orders of Justice Mills by reason of the writ of habeas corpus on which he was taken In court at White Plains today. FAINTS IN MANIAC'S GRIP Hospital Matron Has Struggle for Life With Female Samson. SAN FRANCISCO, June 29. Locked in a cell with a raving maniac bent on murdering her. Matron Ellen Sweet, of the detention ward of the Emergency Hospital, engaged in a terrific struggle for life yesterday morning. The maniac was Maud Tochlo, who was taken to the hospital . Thursday night. She is an Italian woman of great strength. Dr. Reuben C. Hill, of the hos pital, and two stewards finally heard the sounds of the struggle and succeeded in rescuing the matron just in time to save her life. She had lost consciousness, and the grasp of the Insane woman was on her throat. Matron Sweet heard a noise In the room occupied by the insane woman and en tered with no thought of danger. She locked the door behind her as she en tered. Immediately she was set upon by the maniac and borne to the floor. After being subdued by the stewards and physician and placed in a strait jacket the woman raved, and it is thought she will die. BANFF HOT SPRINGS. Special round trip excursion tickets are on sale dally to the Canadian Na tional Park. 1800 mile ride for 35.00. A trip that is worth while. . Curtail Crude Oil Output. FINDLAY, O., June 29. James C. Don nell, general manager of the Ohio Oil Company, today issued a request that oil drillers of the country curtail their pro duction until a market can be had for the present supply of oil. He says it is im possible to build tankage for the produc tion, and that there is being produced daily in the Illinois oil field alone more than 100,000 barrels. Iife Sentence for Orchard. BOISE, Idaho, June 29. The case of Harry Orchard, sentenced to be hanged next Friday for the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg, will be considered by the State Board of Pardons Wednesday. In spite of the fact that Orchard is anxious that sentence be icarried out, it is believed the board will commute the sentence to life Imprisonment. Dead King's Gift to Pennav. LISBON, June 29. The Portuguese royal yacht Amelle, left this week for Rio Janeiro, having on board the gifts which King Carlos had intended to present to President Penna during his visit to Bra zil, which he had planned to make this year. , Spectacles $1.00, at Metzger'a. THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, CLOAK D Garment ReducedTuesday Only TEACHERS FLOCK TO Educational Association Opens Its Great Annual Con vention. PROGRESS OF PAST YEAR Thwlng Tells of Advance In Teach ing Agriculture, School Libraries. Schaefer's Anuual Talk Cleve land Wins Spelling-Bee. CLEVELAND, June 29. The largest and most varied programme in the his tory of the National Educational Asso ciation marked the opening of its 46th annual convention here today. Many thousands of delegates are here and the streets and buildings are gaily deco rated. The first session was a meeting of the National council. Tbls was followed by a meeting of the directors, where financial reports were made and resolutions adopt ed. The committee on resolutions rec ommended that Congress be urged to make appropriations and take up the work of educational investigation under the Government Bureau of Education. The active delegates met this after noon and selected candidates for the poirinating committee. This committee on Wednesday will nominate a board of directors for the ensuing year. At this session. President Charles F. Thwlng. of the Western Reserve Univer sity, spoke inpart as follows: Progress in Education. "Certain important changes have been made in the laws of the various common wealths, during the academic year just closing, touching educational affairs, il lustrative of continued betterment. Among such laws and among movements growing out of laws may be noted the progress of the study of agriculture in rural high schools. States as remote as Pennsyl vania and. Kansas, Arkansas and New Jersey are leading In such a movement. Michigan has established a chair of agri cultural education in its college at Lan sing. The endeavor, too, of putting li braries Into every public school building progresses. The movement is a general one. taking on diverse forms in different states and in different schools of the same state. Several states, also, have estab lished commissions either to study edu cational conditions or to codify school laws. Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Wash ington and Pennsylvania are eminent in these important relatione. "The enforcement of compulsory laws regarding the atendance Is receiving special atention. With such enforce ment is Joined a more rigid inspection of factories to Insure that children under legal age are not employed. Minimum salary acts still continue to be passed. The tendency to transfer the basis of taxation from the local district to the larger area, as the town ship, the county, the state goes for ward with increasing force. The en deavor for the establishment of pension funds progresses. Intimations abound that every state will presently possess pension funds. Despite these move ments it cannot be denied that the number of pupils who persevere in fol lowing out their educational course to its conclusion is still small. "The enhancement of the worth at tributed to the higher education for women still continues. But the sentiment rather a feeling than a conviction that the higher education of women should be differentiated from the education of men Is rising. Women have proved that they can do as acceptable service as is asked of men. They now, having made their calling and election sure, are asking this question: "Is it worth while to try to do the work of men?' The question is raised in some minds: 'Should not the higher education of women still have for Its primary intellectual interest studies which may specially relate to the calling to which at least one-half of the college graduates will devote themselves?' " At the evening session Vice-President Nathan C. Schaefer, acting presi dent in the absence of President Edwin G. Cooley, who is ill In Switzerland, delivered the annual address. In part, as follows: "What can the school do to fit the pupils for the several callings by CONVENTON 8W All year. Positively any other store in which they will earn their livelihood? is a question which is now more than ever before engaging the serious at tention of educators throughout the civilized world. This question is so Important .and all-absorbing that there is danger of losing sight of the other equally important question: What can the school do to make life worth living during the hours in which the indi vidual is not engaged in the struggle for bread?- "I have no quarrel with the tollers who seek recreation. Our insane asylums are filled with farmers' wives whose work was never done, who went through a ceaseless round of drudgery seven days in the week, year after year, until the nervous system broke down and the in dividual sank into hopeless Insanity. It is the inexorable demand of human nature that it shall seek and have relief from the drudgery of piece work in the shop and factory. What keeps me awake at night is the thought that if these toilers had been taught at school how to use and enjoy a good book, they would seek recreation and enjoyment by visiting the public library instead of going to the roof-garden and the saloon. "Education for avocation is quite as important as education for vocation. Man shall not live by bread alone," is a maxim spoken by the greatest teacher of all the ages." Andrew S. Draper, of New York, spoke on "The Adaptation of the Public School to Industrial Ends." Cleveland Wins Spelling-Bee. At the Hippodrome, where the general sessions are held, a spelling contest be tween classes of eighth grade pupils, rep resenting the schools of Cleveland, Pitts burg, Erie and New Orleans, began at 10 o'clock this morning. There were 115 contestants in each of the four classes. Cleveland won the match with a total of only 38 errors; Pittsburg second, with 47 errors; New Orleans third, 66 errors; Erie fourth, 85 errors. Mae Thursby, Pittsburg, and Mary E. Bratten, Cleve land, the latter colored, had perfect scores. The scarcity of teachers was the. sub ject that occupied the National Council of Education at Its meeting today. L C. McNeil, chairman of the committee of investigations, delivered a report in which he showed that instructors are underpaid. The permanent fund of the association was reported by Treasurer Arthur H. Chamberlain to be $170,000. an increase during the year of approximately $10,000. Boise Bank Reopens. ' ROISE. Idaho. June 29. The Bank of Idaho, which succeeds the Capital State Bank, which closed its doors last Janu ary, opened for business today. The re ceivership of' the Capital State Bank is continued for the present, the president of the new bank acting in that capacity, but It is the intention to take over the busi ness of the old institution later. Garfield Sails for Home. HONOLULU, June 29. Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield, who re cently came here on the battleship Alabama to investigate the commercial and industrial conditions In these islands, sailed for San Francisco late today on the protected cruiser St. Louis. ' Roosevelt Refused Mercy. WASHINGTON. June 29. Albert Brown, a negro 23 years of age, who was con victed several months ago of killing his younger brother, Harvey, in a quarrel over a girl, was hanged in the Jail yard today. President Roosevelt had refused to stay the execution. Blood Humors Commonly cause pimples, boils, hives, eczema or salt rheum, or some other form of erup tion; but sometimes they exist in the system, indicated by feelings of weakness, languor, loss of appetite, or general debility, without causing any breaking out. Hood's Sarsaparilla expels them, renovates, strengthens and tones the whole system. This is the testimony of thousands annually. Accept no substitute, but Insist on having . Hood's Sarsaparilla In usual liquid form or in chocolated tablets known as SarsatabS. 100 doses L WEDDING - AMD VISITING CARDS. W. G. SMITH 8 CO. WASHINGTON BtTILDINQ, Cor. Fourth and Washinctoa Sta. JUNE 30, 1908. 16-Button, Double-Tipped r INVENT Wash Suits for Tuesday only. Merchandise with Portland. Every garment reduced. PRINCE IS ON TRIAL Zu Eulenberg, Broken in Health," Faces Jury. CHARGED WITH PERJURY Round-Table Scandal Draws Curious Crowd to German Courtroom. Danger to Public Morals Makes Proceedings Secret. BERLIN, June 29. "Prince Philip zu Eulenberg appeared today before a judge and jury to stand trial on charges of per jury and subornation of perjury in con nection with recent scandals, the revela tion of which created such a sensation. The proceedings, according to the law yers engaged in the case, are likely to be gTeatly prolonged, owing to the large number of witnesses to be examined, while interruptions are not unlikely, ow ing to the precarious condition of the health of the Prince. Interest in the case has been growing for months, due to statements and alle gations implicating high personages, and it culminated In the arrest of Prince zu Eulenberg, who was formerly Ambassa dor to Austria and the intimate adviser rf the Emperor, on the demand of the State's Attorney, who charges him with falsifying his oath during the course of previous suits relative to scandals, and with inducing another witness to com mit perjury. Large crowds assembled today, both outside the hospital where the Prince has been under surveillance since his arrest, and in the street fronting the court. The Prince, however, averted a demonstration by entering the court through a side door half an hour before the proceedings began. He arrived in an ambulance, accompanied by a de tective, and was wheeled Into court in an Invalid chair. The prisoner looked cheer ful and conversed In an animated way with his wife and sons whll waiting for the proceedings to begin. 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