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Ore. Historical So.i.My ! g- 50VEBSTME MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA PUIUSHIS rULt At tOClATCO PRESS REPORT 33rd YEAR. NO. 186 ML STREET COTTON WAR Bulls and Bears Fight to Control Market PRICE DECLINED $2.00 Estimated That 150,000 Bales Have Been Liquidated in Past 2 Days LARGE BLOCKS EXCHANGED Liverpool Broken Wert Supporting the Market Even at the Decline, Think the Bui' Leaders, Who Were Obliged to Ceate Buying. , NEW YORK, Aug, 12.-Amidst the greatest excitement since the Sully year the big battle between the Wall street bull pool and the local bear interests for the control of the cotton market was renewed today, the cotton ring fairly seethed under the tremendous operations, blocks of 3000 and 4000 bales 'being flung back and forth like 100 bale lots in ordi nary times, until, fairly overwhelmed, the bulls were for a time obliged to cease buying. This precipitated a fresh outburst, during which October, after having sold early at 9.43, drop ped to 900, or over $2 per bale below the high record of the morning, and $4.25 per bale below the high price of last Friday, There wer,e rumors of dissensions among the bull leaders and even at the decline Liverpool brokers were believed to be support ing the market. It is estimated that at least 550.000 bales of cotton had been liquidated during the past two day. FLORIST'S HARD LUCK. But Will Get Free Railway Transpor tation Back Home. CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-The re sourcefulness, of a Maywood, III., wo man has caused the interstate com merce commission for perhaps the first time in its history, to recommend the granting of free railroad trans portation. A letter from James S. Harmon, a member of the commis sion, came yesterday to Mrs. Wil liam Ryan Snyder, promising his as sistance in obtaining transportation to California for Harry F. Post. Al though provision for such emergen cies is made in the Interstate Com tnerce law this part of the act 'how 'ever1 has been invoked heretofore. Until he was stricken with tubercu losis, Post was a florist in Maywood. Driven to California in his Sight for health he sought to sell the green house and was lured back east by a Kansas City man, who was found to liave nothing to offer but $300 in notes payable in his home town. Post was left without enough money to get back to California, and with no means of support for his wife and six child ren. . : A CHOLERA CASE. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 12.-A fatal case of cholera occurred yester day at Nizhni Novgorod. Thirty ca ses and 15 deaths were registered Monday at Saratov and eighteen new cases and thirteen deaths at Barasa tin. One case of the plague is reported at Khirzig. BASEBALL GAMES. National League. Philadelphia 2, Boston 1 Pittsburg 0, Chicago 3. Brooklyn 5, New York 1. . American Leagut. Cleveland 4, Philadelphia 3- Pacific Coaat League. Loi Angeles 2, Portland 0. San Francisco 3, Oakland 2. Northwest League. Seattle 4, Butte 1. Spokane 3, Vancouver 2. IN "A SQUARE DEAL." ; NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Announce ment has been made that Wilton Lack aye, the well known actor, has signed a contract for a term of years with Lleblcr & Company and will star un der that firm's management. He will open his season at the Crand Opera House, Chicago, September 23, In a new play entitled, "The Square Deal," by Cleveland Moffet, the magazine writer. The play is based on Presi dent Roosevelt's saying, "A square deal for every man. PARKER WILL SPEAK. Disliked to, But Will Address San Francisco Democrat SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12. YieldinK to the importunities of the Iroquois Club, the local Democratic organization, judge Alton B. Parker, former oresidential candidate of the party, will speak on political issues of the oresent campaign at a meeting planned for Saturday, August IS, in this city. Delancey NicoII who is ac companying the New Yorker will go to Yosemite valley today, returning for the1 meting of Saturday and then start north to attend he bar associ ation 'gathering at Seattle on the 23rd. CHINESE MUTINEERS 1000 Soldiers Revolt and Kill Three Officials ROB VILLIAGE OF $100,000 Because Comrade is Arrested For Gambling, the Soldiers Murder Officers, Loot a Village, and Then Join the Rebels. HONG KONG, Aug. 12.-One thousand soldiers stationed near Wuchow mutined yesterday because a comrade was arresed for gambling. The mutineers murdered the com mander, his clerk, and secretary, and then attacked the camp of soldiers at Onyung. The loyal soldiers fled to the roofs of cillages and the mutineers pillaged the village securing $100,000 in money, then they joined the rebels in the Tsiking mountains. GIRL IS FOUND. Daughter Of Prominent Wisconsin Family Is All Right. CHICAGO, Aug. 12. A dispatch to the Record-Herald from Portage, Wis., says Miss Edith Babbitt, "who has been reported missing, has been at the home of Rev. J. D. Whttelaw in ' this city since Sunday. She left Chicago 'hree weeks ago and has been in Indiana and Ohio, employ ed in a private family most of the time. Miss Babbitt made her 'home here for six months previous to July 1, and is highly regarded. She is a daughter of the late Congressman Clinton Babbitt-of Beloit, and her mother and sister live in that city. Professor R. W. Burr of Beloit Col lege and Judge Rosa of Beloit, rela tives of the Babbitt family were hare yesterday and had a conference with Miss Babbit and she will in all prob ability remain with the Whitelaw family in Portage. . ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1903 BRYAN'S 3RD N Formally Accepts Demo cratic Nomination LARGE CROWD PRESENT The Nebraskan's Appearance on Platform Brings Enthusiastic Cheers KERN MAKES SHORT ADDRESS Not a Single Incident Occurred to Mar the Proceedings Almost the Entire Republican Administration Represented at the Gathering. LINCOLN, Aug. 12.-Under the burning rays of an almost tropical sun, in the presence of vast assem blage which cheered him at Echo, Bryan today returned from Henry D, Clayton of Alabama, the format no tification of his nomination for the Presidency of the United States. Thrice honored by the Democratic party as its standard bearer, Bryan plainly exhibited the pleasure it gives him to once again proclaim the principles for which he stood. His nomination the third time, can only be explained, he said by the substan tial and undisputed growth of prin ciples, and politics, for which he, with multitude of others, had contended, The ovation accorded Bryan as he rode through the streets of Lincoln on his way to the state capitol, where the exercises were held, was of a non partisan character. . Almost the entire Republican ad ministration was represented, Gover nor Sheldon and many state officers giving their presence, both in the parade and on the platform. Bryan arrived at the hotel from Fairview shortly after noon and he and John W. Kern, the vice-presidential candidate, were the guests of honor at luncheon to the committee on notification.. The state house grounds was a mass of humanity and Bryan's ap pearance on the platform brought vo ciferous cheers and handclapping. Not a single incident occurred to mar the proceedings. Before the notifica tion and acceptance speeches were delivered, Norman E. Mack, chair man of the democratic national com mittee, who acted -as presiding officer called upon Kern to make a speech. He responded with a. few felicitous remarks in which he gave .unstinted praise for the non-partisanship char acter of the exercises. The speech of Bryan concluded the ceremonies and he and Kern retired to the capitol building where they held a public re ception. Tonight Mr. and Mrs. Bryan enter tained the members of the notifica tion committee at a dinner in their home at Fairview. NURSES ON OUTING. NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Through the kindness of Frank J. Gould, the nurses of many hospitals in New York will enjoy an outing - ort the sound and the Hudson today. Mr. Gould, who is commodore of the Seawanha ka-Corinthian Yacht Club, has ten dered the use of the flagship, the Hel inite to the fleet surgeon, Dr. Homer Gibney, for the outing. NOT! AT RAILWAY MAN DEAD. John Scott Had Been President Of Several Roads. NEW YORK, Aug, 12,-John Scott, at different times president of several railroads, died yesterday at his home in Tompkinsville, R. I., at the age of 61 years. Mr. Scott had been ill with a cancer for several months. He leaves a widow and four sons and four daughters. Mr. Scott came to this country from England in 1880 to become president of the Alabama & Southern Railroad, a place which he held until 1886 when he came to New York and became president of the Cotton Seed Compa ny, with offices in Beaver Street. In 1890 he visited Colorado where he be came interested in a silver mine and also accepted the presidency of the Colorado Midland Railroad Company. Going to New York in 1892, Mr. Scott acted as a consulting expert on railroad matters, after having served under the receivers for the Northern Pacific and in 1904 he reorganized the Seaboard Air Line. Two years later he became president of the Au gusta Construction Company, then engaged in building 261 miles of road through Georgia and Florida. FERNIE FIRE SPREADING. In Teeth of High Winds Fire Enters National Park District WINNIPEG, Aug. 12.-The forest fires which have raged around Fernie have spread to Canada's national park district near Baniff in Bray Valley. The fire burned fiercely on the heights of Goat Mountain this week and, last night in a strong wind 18 miles west of Baniff -the. fire spread over eigbt miles. The shifting wind has Jielped the fire-fighters. M IS BANKRUPT His Counsel May Take Case Out of New York MAY GO TO COUNTY COURTS And if he is Judged Sane he Need Not go Back to New York Where That is the Only Charge Against Him. ' - PITTSBURG, Aug. 12.-Thaw to day was declared bankrupt. Every move of the proceedings show the determination of Thaw and counsel to take his case out of New York and was the force of the hearing on the question on his mental conditions in th'e courts of Pittsburg. The attor news say any creditors' right to the appeal to the United States courts here have Referee Blair's order of adjudication set aside on the ground that Thaw is insane, and the question of sanity can also be raised at a meeting of creditors any one whom can demand Thaw's appearance at the meeting and a force examination of sanity by objecting to his being al lowed to testify on the ground that he is insane and tlrerefore not a com petent witness. Thaw's sanity may be takpn into the local county courts and if -he is adjudged sane he need not go back to New York where the only ground holding him is that he is an insane person. SOLDIERS FROM HAWAI. ' , SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12,-The Hawaiian national guard team arrived here yesterday on the steamer Ala meda en route to Camp Perry, Ohio, where the teams of the states, terri tories and the regular army will meet in a three days competition, commen cing August 24. Major W. R. Riley is in command of the team. CHURCH NOW IN POLITICS Methodist Episcopal De nomination Electors, IN . ACTIVE CRUSADE Movement Is Commenced to Farther the Interests of the Temperance Cause POLITICS AND RELIGION The M. E. Church Has Over 3,000,000 ftrnmunicants, and Wants to Have a Speaker of the House Who Will do Iti Will. ni H f '' BALTIMORE, Aug. 12.-The Methodist Episcopal church has be gun an active crusade for the election of a speaker of the house of repre sentatives, who "Will allow congress '.o vote on the interstate liquor ship ment bill." , The church, which has over 3, OOO.OHU communicants, has created a temperance society with authority to represent the denomination in all temperance matters. This so'ifty is managed by a board composed of a bishop and 15 mem bers named by the bishop and elected by the late general conference. FOR NEW TOWN SITE, British Columbia Settles Differences . Over Prince Rupert VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. 12.-An, agreemnt -signed by the lieutenant governor on behalf o fthe province and bv the representatives of the Grand Trunk Pacific, on behalf of the Railway disposes of all the outstanding differences with respect to the townsite of Prince Rupert be tween the provincial government and the railway corporation. The water frontage is in all 28,500 feet. The government, by the orig inal agreement, gets 8500 feet of this. By this agreement now consumated this is divided into 5 strips of unequal length ranging from 1,000 feet to 3000 :eet, and located at points which, in the opinion of the government engi neers, will prove of stragetic impor tance with the development of the northern city. The railway obtains all the land they require for terminal purposes, but concedes the govern ment 23 acres in other parts of the townsite for the surplusage of land they receive enbloc. LUTHER LEAGUE MEETS. More Than 700 Delegates In Session At Chicago. CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-The , eighth annual convention of the Luther Lea cue of America was formally opened by a reception and grand rally of del egates in Emanuel Swedish Lutheran Church last night. Moac than 700 delegates represent ing a membership of 60,000 from ev ery state in the union, Porto Rico, Canada, India, Africa, and China, are in attendance. Business sessions are to be held today and tomorrow in Handel Hall and the convention will close with a big rally and cantata in the auditorium tomorrow morning. A chorus of 500 voices will partici pate in the musical programme and Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota will deliver an address. PRICE FIVE CENTS OLD MEMORIES STIRRED. Photograph Of Chicago Pioneers Are Glanced At CHICAGO, 'Aug, 12.-Memories of. many years were stirred yesterday when the photographs and biograph ies of Chicago pioneer citizens of 50 years ago were removed from the Mo- sher memorial vault in the city hall to another vault in the temporary quarters at 200 Randolph Street. Five albums, full of the faces of men whose names for the most part are now known across the continent were opened, for a moment, and then clos ed up again to remain secure from light and air until 1976. Thirty five packages were left untouched. The dignity and old time courtesy depicted upon the faces of the men who made Chicago great, delighted the spectators. "There are no men in Chicago with faces like those," commented Com missioner of Public Works John J. Hanborg. f "I suppose the driving life we lead prevents it. In these pictures there is a sort of simple courtliness which is rare now, although I do not think we are the less polite in our intend ons than were our fathers. Perhaps the difference is that they had time to be courteous and we sometimes think we have not . And, if you notice, nearly every face is pleasant, humor ous, almost, and kindly." . . ; RETURNS ARE' IN. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 12. Governor Deneen has received com plete returns by tclgraph from ev ery county in the state. The returns as announced give Deneen 211,054 votes; 199,441 for Richard Yates; a majority for Deneen of 11,613. NO DOUBT OF GUILT Hassim Nemmer Is Held by the Coroner's Jury FOR MURDER OF YOUNG BOY Witnesses Tell Strong Stories That Point to Nemmer's Guilt, According to Testimony he Threatened to Kill the Whole Shashem Family. CHICAGO, Aug.'12.-Hassin Nem mer was held by the coroner's jury today on a charge of being the mur derer of Tuffa Shashem, the Syrian lad, whose body was recovered piecemeal a fortnight ago, from var ious r laces, including Mud Lake and the drainage canal. Witnesses told stories which pointed strongly to the guilt of Nemmer. According to the testimony he is a degenerate and had threatened to kill the Shashem fam ily and to drink it's blood. Nemmer, who is Turkish, is a devout Mussel- man. He insists he is innocent of the crime charged. WANTS ZEPPELIN'S FUNDS. President Of Airship Company Would Divert Them. FRI EDRICHSGAFEN, Aug. 12. Count Zeppelin, it is said, is opposed ; to a plan suggested to Emperor Wil liam by Walter Rathonau, president of the German Electrical Company, and who is also a director of an air ship company and of an aeronautic club, for the organization of a com mission to take over the funds that pvervwlipre in flermanv are bcinz subscribed for Count Zeppelin's use in carrying out his experiments in aerial navigation and administer them partly in Zeppelin's behalf and also treat them as a national fund for gen eral airship purposes from which to make appropriations to further ex periments. It is not known whether : Emperor William has approv.ed this plan.