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Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVII NO. 2G. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SEVEN DEAD IN TORNADO S PATH PORTLAND ONLY PLACE FOR HER PRAYERS CANNOT .DRY TENNESSEE BELIEVE BRYAN IS SURE TO LOSE HOLDS DISEASE BAR TO MARRIAGE REBELS ADVANCE PATTERSON WINS FOB OPTION AGAINST PROHIBITION. CONSUMPTIVE GIRL GIVES SWEETHEART PROPERTY. SPOKANE MAX THEREFORE LOSES HIS WIFE. 60 Pages SHOOTS WIFE WHO HAD SPURNED HIM RICH TORREON Twenty-Five Injured in Clinton, Minn. MANY BUILDINGS ARE IN RUINS Cyclone Blows Moving Train Off the Track. TWO CHURCHES DESTROYED S-torni Starts Three Miles North of Village and Wrecks Two Farm llouses Neighboring Towns Promptly Send Help. CLINTON, MIX.V. June 27. A torna do struck this town at 5:25 oVlock tills afternoon, killing 7 people and In juring 25, some seriously. Twenty houses, a printing office and two chinches were Mown down. The dead: MRS. VAXDEKMtRK. JIORTON HKiHIXS. THOMAS HOI'KWKl.I,. MISS KATE MII.I.S. SM'NKHKRRT. MRS. O. NICHOLSON AND DAUGHTER. List or the Injured. Mrs. T. M. Johnson Is missing. A partial list of the Injured follows, all these being seriously hurt: MISS LOTTIE ROCKWELL. BERT ROCKWELL. RACHEL HIGOINS. JAMES MORROW.. MRS. GEOROE PHELAN. REV. FATHER KEAVEV, of Graceville. Winn. The tornado, which was unaccom panied by rain, started three miles north of the town, destroyed two farmhouses that were In its path and swept over Clinton, which is a place of about 400 people. Train Blown Away.'" - A Chicago, Milwaukee' & ft. Paul mixed train was just pulling: into the station as the storm struck the town and 15 cars were blown off the track, as was als a passenger coach contain ing 17 people. All were injured, among them Father Keavey, of Qracevllle, Minn. The two churches destroyed are the Norwegian Lutheran and the First Episcopal. Telegraph Lines Down. Telegraph lines were blown down, but as soon as possible news of the disaster was sent to the neighboring cities. Soon help was on the way from Ortonville and Wheaton, nearby Min nesota towns on the Milwaukee road, and from Millbank, S. D., which Is but a few miles away. WILL MARRY SOLDIER Chaffee's Daughter Engaged ro Lieu tenant Howard in Philippics. LOS ANGELES, June 27. Lieutenant General Adna R. Chaffee, U. S. A. (re tired), and Mrs. Chaffee, now residents of this city, announce the engagement of their daughter, Helen Valentine Chaffee, to Lieutenant John Hastings Howard of ths Ninth Cavalry, U. S. A., now sta tioned at Camp McGratli, Batangazas Province, P. I. Miss Chaffee has spent the past five months visiting her sister, Mrs. George Hamilton, In the Philippines. PROTEST FROM GERMANY X'nwllling to Hare France Land Troops at Tetuan. TANGIER, June 27. It is reported that the German minister to Morocco has Issued a circular to the members of the diplomatic corps protesting against the threatened landing of French troops at Tetuan, claiming that this would be a violation of the Algeciras act. There Is rio actual confirmation of the report. "Let's Meet Hon Can I Put In a " "lce, Restful TtajV y ,? fy w-m mm, iiiw- w-zw wsm- . Bigelow Couldn't Endure Relatives Here and Spouse Found Life Dreary In Falls City. SPOKANE, Wash., June 27. Special.) Because Mae C. Bigelow refused to live with her husband in Spokane, saying Portland is the only city for her, a di vorce was granted today. "As I interpret the law as it now stands," said Judge Sullivan In passing on 'the case, "the husband, has the right to say where he and his family shall re side. If the wife cannot adapt herself to such a situation, I see no afternatlve but to grant the divorce." John P. Bigelow Is a bookekeper. Ma C. Bigelow. whose maiden name was ni disclosed, is said to come from a promi cnt Portland family. ' "I found it simply Impossible to live with my wife and have a moment's peact In Portland on account of her family," said Bigelow. "A year ago last July she packed up her belongings and went back to Portland. No, she didn't say she would never live with me again. She just said she would never live In Spokan ' again. I've asked her to come back an; offered to pay her way. But she can t hear me. She and I got on all right: the trouble was all with the relatives. Port land was her home and she couldn't see anything worth living for, even me, ill Spokane." COLLISION 0N ELEVATED Twelve Injured In New York Rail way Smash-up. NEW YORK. June 27. Two trains on the .Third Avenue Elevated Railroad col lided at One Hundred and Second street and part of one train -was left hanging from the elevated structure. Several ambulances were called. No one was killed In the collision, but 12 persons werj Injured, though probably none of them fatally. It was a, rear-end collision, both trains being bound uptown, when the following train crashed Into the other. The col liding trains were going at a moderate speed. BOMB RENDS SPANIARDS Explodes at Barcelona, Causing Panic and Injuring Many. BARCELONA, June 27. A bomb was exploded today in a lavatory in one of the public squares, seriously injuring two persons and slightly injuring many others. A panic followed the explosion, which did much damage, a policeman being badly torn by a portion of the wreckage. Many women and children were crushed and bruised during the stampede. The bomb exploded while a procession was passing, great crowds lining the streets and points of vantage. SHERMAN HAS GOOD DAY Condition Is Normal and Only Needs to Regain Strength. CLEVELAND, O., June 27. James S Sherman, Republican candidate for Vice President, passed a very comfortable day, and tonight his temperature, pulse and respiration .were normal. Mr. Sherman will be kept in the hospital a few days so as to recover his strength. Plans for leaving for his home in Utlca, N. Y., next Friday are going forward. He enjoyed a good night's sleep and awoke this morning with his temperature, fulse and respiration normal. GERMAN CAR IS IN LEAD Reported at Tomsk, June 2 6 Due in Moscow July 10. BERLIN, June 27. A local newspaper printed an item from Tomsk, Siberia, dated June 26, saying that the German car, In the New York-to-Paris race ex pects to reach Moscow in a fortnight and Berlin In 20 days. This car had made 572 miles in the 78 hours previous to Its ar rival at Tomsk. It is assumed that the American car is some distance behind, its German com petitor. HARRY Arrival of the Morning Mall, f C. C. Halloway, Jealous, Fires Five Shots. WOUNDS ARE PROBABLY FATAL Woman Had Rejected . Ad vances for Reconciliation. ASSAILANT IS LOCKED UP Los Angeles Expert Machinist Fol lows Wife Here and First Vainly Attempts Suicide .Sought Pos session of Their Child. Chester C. Halloway, an expert ma chinist, of Los Angeles, 50 years of age, shot and perhaps fatally wounded his pretty young wife, an operator at the central office of the Pacific States Tele phone Company, last night at the home of the woman's' sister, Mrs. Stella Daw son, 524 Ros;?lawn avenue, in Highland. Mrs. Dawson and her two small chil dren witnessed the tragedy, and her little 6-year-old son suffered a fractured arm In falling from a chair that was over turned by his aunt as she fell wounded to the floor. As the woman fell, her clothing, which was ignited by the close proximity of the weapon when it was fired, began to burn fiercely. Her sister, Mrs. Dawson, ran screaming towards the door in - the hope of calling neighbors, but desisted because of the piteous pleas of her sister. "Come back, and put out the fire," said the wounded woman as the flames en veloped her body, "it hurts more than tho wounds." With her bare hands Mrs. Dawson suc ceeded in extinguishing the burning clothing, but both she and her sister were painfully burned. ' " Halloway Starts to Run Away. , Meanwhile Halloway, seeing his wife prostrate on the floor and apparently satisfied in the belief that he had killed her, ran exulting from a rear door. He started rapidly towards the path leading through the vacant lots to the carline, but had proceeded only a short distance before he was seized by Dolf Huddleston and Policeman Drugg.- "Here's my gun," he said when appre hended In his flight, "take it, for I have no more . Jise for it. I have ruined her pretty doll face, and that's all I cared to do." He told his captors how he had followed her from Los Angeles, how she had spurned and refused to return to him, how she kept their child from him and finally how he "had spoiled her pretty doll face that haunted him always." The shooting was the result of years of domestic troubles. Ten years ago they were married In Kansas and a little daughter, Stella, 5 years old, has added to their difficulties. Each wanted posses sion of the child and it was through her that once they were reconciled. Divorces Wife to Marry Girl. Halloway was living in Indianapolis when he first became acquainted with pretty 17-year-old Mattle Beattle. She and her sister lived with their mother in that city, and she secured employment as a maid at Halloway's residence. Her pretty face captivated him, won him so completely that he offered ' to become divorced from his wife, if she would promise to marry him. Evidently she promised, for soon he left Indianapolis for a small town in Kansas. There he secured a divorce, provided a home and sent for Mattle Beattle. They were mar ried and in a short time moved to Los Angeles. They lived there in apparent happiness until two years ago. Domestic trouble arose, he claiming that another man had won her love, and she claiming that his Intense and unfounded jealousy had al most distracted her. She wrote her mother, who still lives in Indianapolis, and was sent sufficient money to come to Portland." Here she remained with her i (Concluded on Page 4.) MURPHY SPENDS A DAY (IN SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION) WITH A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT Also a Few Cantlldntrs for National Chairman. Women Pray and Sing .at Polls and March With Children, but Votes go Other Way. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 27. (Special.) The Democratic Gubernatorial primary held today was the most exciting in the history of the state. The candidates were Governor Malcolm R. Patterson, the present incumbent, and ex-United States Senator Edward W. Caemack. The prin cipal issue in the campaign was state- ! " ' & i Ml J j y yJ I V - & & ' I Mrs. Chester C. Halloway, Who Was Shot and Probably ' Fatally Wounded by Her Husband. wide prohibition and local " option, . Mr. Carmack standing for the former and Mr.- Patterson for the latter. Mr. Patterson won the gubernatorial nomination. Ninety-six counties will send 1138 delegates to the convention and of these Mr. Patterson will have over 700. His popular majority is be tween 8000 and 10,000. The feature of the day in this city and elsewhere was the prominent part taken by women and children for state wide prohibition. In Nashville 600 formed a procession that moved through some of the principal streets, the parade being witnessed by many thousands of people. They walked or rode in carriages dec orated with red streamers and carrying banners with various mottoes. ROBERT SEIVER IN JAIL English Editor Accused of Black mailing Barnato's Nephew. LONDON. June 27. A great sensa tion has been caused throughout Eng land by the arrest today of Robert Siever, editor of Winning Post, 9n& one of the best-known, sportsmen in this country, on the charge of attempting to blackmail Jack Joel, a nephew of the late Barney Barnato, the "Dia mond King." Siever was arrested at the Sandown track during afternoon racing and brought to Bow street in a motor car, where he was remanded to prison for a hearing on Monday. He is charged with having threatened to publish a defamatory article about Joel unless the latter paid to him $25,000. Wnntn n Job on the Strensrth of Knovrlna; His Father AY lien .He "Was In Grant's Cabinet. BusinessMenConfident Taft Will Win. GOULD NOT DEFEAT JOHNSON But Consider Bryan's Nomina tion Certain. BATTLE VIRTUALLY OVER Anti-Bryan Democrats and Many Republicans Sure Nebraskan Will ' Lose Election Convention to Play Republican Game. WALTER WELLMAN IN THE RECORD HERALD. CHICAGO, June 27. (Special.) Bryan will get the nomination, but Johnson could win the election. Such Is the opin ion of all the anti-Bryan Democrats. It is also the opinion of many Republicans. The Bryan Democrats believe the Ne braskan the strongest candidate their party could name. And in this view they are supported by a few neutral, inde pendent observers. Now that Taft has been chosen as the Republican standard-bearer, and the nomination of Bryan at Denver appears inevitable, it Is interesting to take stock of the great diversity of opinions held as to the outcome of the campaign by men whose judgment is usually of value. Nomination and Defeat Sure. ' It is the widely, prevalent belief among business men and men of affairs that Bryan is sure to be nominated, that he is as sure to be defeated at the polls, and that, with the Denver convention do ing that . which it Is generally expected to- do, the battle for the Presidency i already virtually over, and Taft Is as good as elected to sit in the high chair. To this view the business and financial worlds are already adjusting themselves and their affairs. They wait only to see If the expected happens at Denver. If It does, they will, for the most part, go about their affairs with a serene faith that nothing is likely to happen to place the result In doubt. Whether these men are or are not justified in holding that view remains to be seen. The important fact is that they do now hold it and are proceeding accordingly. And those who hold this opinion are Democrats as well as Republicans. Believe Johnson Could Win. Another phase of the public mind, so far as the men of whom we are now writing are concerned, Is an equally strong belief that, If the Democratic con vention should happen to name Johnson Instead of Bryan, then the election of Taft would not be a certainty, and that, till the ballots are counted in November, the outcome must remain a matter of doubt. The unanimity of this opinion among men of affairs, regardless of their usual party affiliation, is certainly a most significant fact at the present hour. If the Denver convention is to nomi nate the man the Republicans want It to nominate, because of their confi dence that they can easily beat him. It will name Bryan. If that convention is tj name the man the Republicans do not want it to name, because they fear him. It will nominate the Governor of Min nesota.. LEAD REVOLT AGAINST BRYAN Twenty Thousand Democrats of Con necticut Appeal for Johnson. HARTFORD, Conn.,' June 27. (Spe cial.) More than two-thirds of the Dem ocratic voters of Connecticut are In re volt, according to some of the Denver delegation, and tonight a remarkable manifesto against Bryan and his creed, and an appeal to the Democracy of the country, was made public by Harry C. t Concluded on Page ST) Drlritationn of ,Suf rraKMtea Want v A to Know Where He Stands, Learning She Cannot Rccaxrer, She Breaks Off Match, but Proves Love by Will. SAN FRANCISCO. June 27. (Spe cial.) Miss Maria Bernardine, of San Martin, a small town near Gllroy, CaL, renounced George C. Mangels after her trousseau had been prepared for their wedding, when she discovered that she had tuberculosis of the lungs, but as an indication of her love bequeathed him all her property In her will. On learning of the exact nature of the disease Miss Bernardine, as a mat ter of conscience, refused to marry, although Mr. Mangels with full knowl edge of the facts, urged her to do so. She was steadfast until the end. Her will showed that all her property had been left to her betrothed as part compensation for his loss. "I would have married Mr. Mangels," the will recited, "If I had been able to recover my health. As I could not, marrying was out of the question. I have designedly left him all that I possess as the best testimonial that lies In. my power to give." The story came to light today when a statement of the amount of collateral Inheritance tax from the estate was filed with the County Clerk. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 67 degrees; minimum. 52. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; westerly winds. Politics. Democratic committee r-hooses Bryan's men for chairman of convention. Section 1, page 2. Bryan's nomination and defeat confidently predicted by Walter Wellman; Johnson declared sure winner. Section 1. page 1. Great preparations of Nebraska Democrats to entertain at Denver. Section 3. page 2. Taft confers with Roosevelt and returns to Washington. Section 1. page 2. Prohibition defeated in Tennessee Demo cratic primaries. Section 1. Dace 1. Loeb refuses Republican chairmanship at conference with Taft. Section 1, page 2. Foreign. Fighting against Shah In several Persian cities. .Section 1, page 5. Remarkable story revealed by murder of - Remy. Paris banker. Section 1, page 3. Large force of Mexican rebels marching on rich city of Torreon. Section 1, page 1. Domestic. I Thaw gets injunction just In time to prevent return to asylum. Section 1. page 3. Railroad men in doubt about Roosevelt's attitude towards rate increase. Section 1. page 4. Sailor on warship kills man In San Fran cisco. Section 1. page 7. Movement to prohibit race-track betting In . California. Section 1, page 2. Everett and Wakeley martyrs in work for good of country. Section 1, page 3. Clinton. Minn., dpstroyed ; seven persons killed, 26 injured. Section 1, page 1. Two negroes lynched in Georgia. Section 1. page 11. Roosevelt delivered eulogy on Cleveland at funeral. Section lt page 4. Sports. Coast Leagua scores: Portland 5, Los Ange les 4; Oakland 5, San Francisco 4. Section 1. page 8. Belmont's Fairplay wins Coney Island stakes at Sheepshead. Section 1, page 9. Syracuse wins Varsity boat race at Pough- keepsle. Section 1, page 9. Two ring battles scheduled for th Fourth. Section 4. page fi. Tennis players of the state are ranked. Section 4, page 6. Wlckersham wins Ladd cup In tournament. Section 1, page 8. Pacific Coast. Oregon bankers report prosperous conditions throughout state; close session at Salem. Section 1, page 6. Japanese boat pullers allege discrimination In .British Columbia; appeal to Ottawa government for redress. Section X, page "Bud" Barnes convicted of murder in flrat degree. Section 1, pa-?e 7. Hill plans new Eastern Washington road to bring wheat to Portland. Section 1. page 4. Commercial and Marine. Local cheese market to advance. Section 4, page 9. Sharp rally In wheat at Chicago. Section 4, page 9. Stock market dull and bonds firmer. Sec tion 4, page 9. New York banks hold largest amount of cash on record. Section 4, page 9. British steamship Mandura will take last cargo of wheat from Portland for sea son of 1907-8. Section 4, page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Chester C. .Halloway shoots and probably fatally wounds wife. Section 1, page 1. Volunteer artillery will be formed for coast defense work. Section 4, page 8. Judge George H. Williams describes Chicago convention. Section 2, page 10. Definite step taken toward founding Reed Institute. Section 1, page II. New dwellings lead in building permits is sued. Section 3, page 8. Pacific Paper Company to build six-story brick warehouse. Section 3.' page 8. Nearly $5,000,000 spent In new buildings since January. Section 3, page i. Business men advocate repeal of fire in surance deposit law. Section 4, page 10. Wltrveess in Booth trial admits agreement with Kribs. Section 2, page 1. Report showing cost of Rose Festival. Sec tion 1, page 10. Little Advice About His Letter of Acceptance. Swarm inMexicanState of Coahuila. ARMY OF 4000 TO 7000 MEN Purpose Is to Loot City, Which Has Six- Banks. OVERTHROW RULE OF DIAZ Supposed Purpose of Outbreak, , Though Governor of Coahuila May Be Target Railroad Bridges Are Burned. Eli PASO, June 27. El Oorreo, the , conservative dally Mexloan newspaper of ; Chihuahua, in Its issue this morning, ; which arrii-ed here tonight, has a story that an army of a strength variously esti- ! mated at from 4000 to 7000 men is march-! ing on Torreon, one of the richest cities In the State of Coahuila. The story, after reviewing the attack' on Vlesca, tells of reported attempts to I rob the pay train of the Mexican Central ' Railroad, and says that the country i around Torreon, which Is so closely set-! tied that there are stations about every' four kilometers. Is swarming with armed ! men, who appear at the railroad stations with guns and cartridge belts. Thousands Take Cp Arms. "These same reports," says El Correo, "say that three bridges on the railroad between Parass and Torreon have been burned, p'robably with the object of Im peding the passage of troops Into Tor reon. The incendiaries also probably selected Torreon for Invasion because they considered it a rich city to- loot. Among the reports that we have heard Is one which says that about 4000 armed men, nearly ail of whom are Inhabitants of ranches, are said to have passed Hornos, in the State of Coahuila, on the Coahuila & Pacific Railroad about, 63 kilometers from Torreon. Object of Revolution. "Whether the movement is directed against the' government of Coahuila or against the federal government, no one is able to say. It is generally supposed the movement Is not against the state but against the federal government. One version says the revolution Is wholly against the State of Coahuila, that the Governor is not acceptable to the people of that state and that he was forced upon them by the President of the Republic. "It Is also said that a train of Infantry has been sent to Torreon from Monterey and a small detachment of cavalry." Six Banks to Loot. Torreon the town named by El Correo as the object of attack, is one of the richest towns In the State of Coahuila. There are six banks: The Banco Minuro de Chihuahua, meaning a branch there, a branch of Banco Naconlal de Mexico: the Banco de Coahuila: the Banco de Nueva Leon and the Banco de Durango. The Banco I.aguna, recently organized, has a capitalization of $6,300,000. There are about 25.000 inhabitants. MEXICO WANTS REBELS BACK Says Vncle Sam Shelters Chief Plot ters Against Republic. CITY OF MEXICO, June 27. The up risings In the northern part of this republic have become the subjects of international correspondence between Mexico and the United States. This condition arose out of the fact that the raiders who shot up the town of Las Vacos yesterday are now on American soil and claiming the proteotion of the United States. In an Interview granted to the corre spondent of the Associated Press, Vice President Corral declared the govern ment had succeeded in unraveling the (Concluded -on Page 3.) "And Pleaae Explain Ahnnt This-Anti-Injunction Plank, I"