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Vol. XVHI.-No. 17. CORVALLIS, OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7.1905. B. F. Ill VI 1TB Bdcto? and Proprieto. DO YOU WANT Ulool Dress Goods at ost? If so, you can have an immense and up to date stock from which to make your selections. No reserve. To heavy stock in this department the cause. Don't fail this opportunity to save dollars. Call and See. Students! Don't Be Alarmed!! Unless it is by one of our Alarm Clocks, and you will be spared the annoyance of an alarm at the wrong time. Clocks guaranteed. A full line of Jewelry, 0. A. C. Pins, Optical Good?. Get one of our self-filling Foun tain Pens. We do all kinds of optical work. Eye strain, headache, relieved by a pair of our glasses. Pratt The-Jeweler 6c Optician. Licensed to Practice Optometry in the State of Oregon. A DOCTOR IS CAUGHT LEADING PHYSICIAN OF BOS TON INVOLVED IN CRIME. Performed Second Operation to Save Girl's Iife and, Failing, Cut Up Her Body and Cast it Into Boston Harbor Other News. WINTER RATES TO YAQUINA BAY. Oregon's Great Recreation and Health Resort at the Newport Beaches. As a winter health and recreation re sort Newport is the one par excellence. Recognizing this, and wishing to give the people an opportunity to breathe the fresh, pure ozone of the ocean, the Southern Pacific and Corvallis & East ern railroads will resume the sale of tickets through to Vaquina Bay on Sat turday, October 21, and will sell same throughout the winter and spring on ev ery Wednesday and Saturday. The rates will be the same as during the summer and will be good for return 30 days from date of sale. 1 Dr. Minthorn's sanitary sea baths will be in operation during the entire winter and treafments will be given daily. Hot aid cold salt water baths can be taken every day in the sanitarium, and for any , one desiring rest, recreation end health, . no place on the .Pacific Northwest oan be found equal to Yaquina Bay. Neat, clean, cottages eithei furnished r partly so; can be rented in the immed fcte neighborhood of the sanitary baths , about 5 per month. Plenty of fresh 9 vegetables, honey, fruit and all foosehold necessaries can be obtained at the lowest possible cost, while all kinds f fish and the famous rock oysters can le had in abundance for fee trouble of ' Uteuring them. Full information as to rates, time ta' - lies, etc can be obtained on application to JrC. Mayo, Gen.-Pass. agt. C. & B. S.. R.; Albany; W. E. Coman, G. P, A & P.: Uo. Portland or to any S, P. or . & E. agent. - - Bate from Corvallis to Yaquina, ft-50. Opera House THREE NIGHTS Starting Monday November 13tli 7 he Great New York EMPIRE THEATRE COMPANY Boston, Nov. 3. Following a brief conversation by officers over the long distance telephone, the ecene of developments in the fam ous suitcase mystery has shifted from New York back to Boston. Dr. D. Percy McCleod, a reputable physician of the Back Bay district, was arrested today on the charge of performing an illegal operation on Susan Geary, the Cambridge chor us girl whoee remains were found in two suit cases in the . waters of Boston harbor. Through the con fession of Lewis Crawford and Wil liam Howard, the two men arrested in New York yesterday, the author ities received evidence, which in their opinion, warranted the arrest. It is alleged that Dr. McLeod was called into the case after the first operation was performed In the Tre mont street office, and that he per formed a second operation of a des perate nature in a vain attempt to save the life of the young woman After Miss Geary failed to recover, it is alleged, Dr. McLeod in an effort to conceal the crime dismembered the body.. Dr. McL,eod will be arraigned in court tomorrow. No sum has been set to night as the amount of bis bail bond, bat District Attorney M. J. Saghrue stated that, owing to the gravity of the charge, it would be large. . Morris Nathan, the lover of Miss Geary, who was arrested in Pitts burg last Saturday night and brought to this city in a state of collapse, is gradually recovering at the city hospital, where he was tak en on bis arrival here, and will probably be arrainged in court Monday. While at first the police were of the opinion that Nathan was not directly connected with the case, they now say that he conducted the negotiations with the proprietors oi the Tremont street establishment, with which Crawford was connect ed, and that he was fully aware of the result of the operation. Following the arrest of Dr, 'Mc Leod, Captain Dogan sent out in spectors in search of a woman who, according to the police, had been employed as a nurse at a house in Roxbury, where Miss Geary was sent to recover after the operation. It is claimed that ,th nuree was present at the second operation al leged to have been performed by Dr. McLeod and knows the rela tions the Dr. bore to the office where tbe dead girl underwent the original operation. On the strength of the alleged statement by Timothy Howard, one of the New York suspects, that the head of the suitcase victim had been thrown from a ferryboat into the Boston Harbor in a weighted hand bag, the police today began dragging the bottom of the harbor. Police Captain Dugan today ob tained warrants for the arrest of Crawford and Howard on the charge of committing an illegal operation uo Susan Geary. A warrant was also iBBued agaiust Howard, charging him with being an accessory to the fact. Boston , police officials and . their witnesses. He had on the same clothing which be is believed to have worn in Boston while making bis alleged trip with the suitcases to BostOD harbor. In bis room at 72 West Eighty-ninth street the po lice found a gray suit and a long slate-colored raincoat, both of which resembled the clothing that Cab man Howard said tbe man wore when be drove from Boston to Chel sea. When the cab driver saw Craw ford be immediately identified him as one of the two men who were in his cab with suitcases on the night when the girl's body was thrown into the harbor. He also identified the prisoner Howard as Crawford's companion that night. Later the two pawnbrokers and one of tbe pawnbrokers' clerks identified the prisoners. The New York police announced after this identification, that Craw ford, who was reticent when arrest ed last night, said that be was one of the men who helped dispose of the body. The prisoners were ar raigned in tbe Tomba court, but were remanded to the police with out examination. MOB BURNS Kl I SHINEFF WHOLE CITY IS DESTROYED BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS. Portland, Nov. 3. Nellie Winzen ried of 4o8 Hall street this morning escaped a Berious accident and what might have been death. She bad come out from the Portland Busi ness college, where she is a student, and started acros6 Washington street at Park street. A covered de livery wagon hid an approach ing car from view and sbe stepped into the middle of the track just as the Willamette Heights car came up. The bolts above the fender caught her dd by the skirt and held her about the waist, pushing her along before the car for several feet. Mo torman Christensen stopped the car as quickly as possible and the girl was dragged out unhurt but shriek ing with terror. Her body bad been pressed against the front of the wheel but the bolt that held her kept her from being dragged under by pushing her forward. Mountain View, O. T., Nov. 4. At 5:45' this afternoon a terrible tornado visited this city on the southwest and plowed its way through to tbe northeast, totally destroying everything in its nalh. Seven were killed and 15 injured The Manhattan hotel has been cod verted into a morgue. This catas- trophe is second only to the great Snider disaster last spring. , More than a dozen buildings were wrecked, but the business district was not in the path of the cyclone and sustained but slight damage. Streets were flooded lifce rivers. There were trees uprooted and build ings wrecked. The 6 months-old child was found dead at 6:30. Its head was crushed almost beyond recognition. Washington, Nov. 4. The minister of foreign affairs at Pekin has re quested the Ameriean minister to inform this government that tbe Chinese government is profoundly humiliated and distressed at the massacre of five American mission aries at Lienchow and. has promised prompt and vigorous action. 18 Acting Members in a Selection of Popular Copyright ed Plays Monday Night "A Broken Heart'' Tuesday Night "The Great Diamond Robber Wednesday Night "The Man From Japan" . Popular Prices 15c,25c 6c 35c Price of 'admission will most cheerfully refunded, if en tire satisfaction is not given. New York, Nov. 3. Supt, Pierce of the Boston police, and Chief Watts, of the Massachusetts state police arrived today, accompanied by the witness in the suitcase mys tery. They, left Boston at midnight. When tbe BoBton party arrived at police headquarters today, the prisoners were brought out for in spection. Chief Watts recognized Watson and said : "I feel sure Crawford is' tbe head man in this case. He was the prin cipal at the house of Dr. Bishop, and it was through him, I believe, I that Howard, or Hunt, as he calls nimselt, was brought into tne case. umet Watts said tnat tne case against those who caused the death of Miss Geary was practically com plete now, but there probably would be l be other arrests in a few days. Crawford was dressed by order of the New York police in gray cloth ing, which was first seen by the All of Southern Russia convulsed by Furious Outbreak Against Persecuted Race Ten Thou sands Killed Soldiers Join With People. Kishineff, Nov. 4. Kishineff's streets run red with blood. Tews are being slaughtered by scores; homes pillaged, women despoiled. Never before has such a violent an ti-Semitic outbreak been known, even here, where slaughters of Jews only recently horrified tbe world. ' London, Nov. 4. The Odessa correspondents of the London Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph this morning wired their papers that Kishineff is in flames and absolute- y destroyed. They also add that three suburbs of Odessa have been devastated by mobs. It will be a week before all the horrible tale of Jewish massacres throughout Russia comeB to light and then, when the full number oi dead is known, its appalling total will be so h'-avy it will practically be beyond belief. Odessa, Nov. 3. A dispatch from Kishineff says:. A horrible massacre has occurred here. Hun dreds have been killed. All the hospitals, pharmacies and hotels are mil 01 wounded and mutilated per sons. A telegram irom JNicolaien says the whole town is in the hande of bandits who are devastating houses and shops, and beating people to death without the slightest hin drance. The authorities hear sim ilar news from other southern cities London, Nov. 3. A special to the Standard from Odessa, says. Three railway stations have been burned between Odessa and Shmer inks, and the postal service has been suspended. Collisions between armed forces continued until late at night in three' districts. Today's casualties are believed tobavenum bered about 500. AmoDg the incidents I witnessed today was the following. A stud ent and a girl were driving in a droshky, tbe girl wearing a rsid cross armlet. six Jossaeks were quietly passing, when suddenly the girl fired, wounding one of tbem in the leg. The Cossacks replied, shooting the student dead. The student attempted to flee, but was shot, and as she fell it could be seen that tbe feminine dress mask ed a student. The Chief correspondent of Ren ter's Telegram Company, under data of November 3, says: "The Jewish quarter has been given over to plunder, raids and murder ever since the emperor an nounced the granting of a constitu tion. On that day during a, mon ster demonstration in front of the town hall, a shot suddenly was heard. The Cossacks and dragoons immediately charged into the crowd, firing right and left, and the police and others dragged away the dead ' and wounded, numbering more than 130, into the neighboring court yards, while the terror-stricken demonstrators fled, pursued by a mob of ruffilans, who attacked them as they ran. "At 7 0 clock in the evening an organized attack on the Jewish quarter began, on the pretext that during the week a portrait of the emperor had been insulted in the town hall. The lower quarter of the town, Podlik, was sacked,' and, although the authorities promised a Jewish deputation protection, the pillage lasted all night long. Ware houses were looted and people rob bed; incendiarism was indulged in, and many were killed. Warsaw, Russian Poland, Nov. 3. A remarkable feature of the demonstrations here was the fra ternizing of tbe people of the sol diers. The latter were carried about on the shoulders of the crowd, and were furnished with champagne and cigarettes. All classes ' of the population participated in the dem onstrations. The orchestra of the Court Theatre . led a crowd singing; "The Marseillaise." All the stores were closed. . . The greatest rage is felt against the Cossacks, whose attack on the crowd before the City Hall was un provoked. Many were killed or wounded. At a socialist mass meeting tbia afternoon two infantry soldiers in full uniform delivered revolutionary addresses, assuring their hearera that the revolutionary propaganda was growing in the army, and that the time was not far remote, when' the army would join in a revolution to overthoow a despotic throne. The meeting resolved to exclude newspapers, bakers and butchers, and cafes and restaurants from the general strike. A bomb was thrown into the tel egraph office at Odessa today, and I2 telegraphers were killed or wounded. St. Petersburg, Nov. 3. It ia semi-officially calculated that in the rioting since Wednesday fully 10, 000 have been killed and as many more eeriously wounded in 50 lead ing provincial towns. . Berlin, Nov. 4 The Tageblatte prints tbe following dispatch from tbn Jewish owner of three bouses inKieff: continued on page four London, Nov. 6. The Odessa correspondent of the Standard un der date of Nov. 5, sends further sensational accounts of the riots 1 ib-re. He says: There have been more horrify ing massacres and fiendish cruelties, but the districts where theBe took place are now cordoned by troops, Probably the total killed will num ber 3500 and the wounded I2.UUU. In the suburb of Moldovanka alone 1,000 victims remained in the streets from midnight until noon, when the authorities hastened to collect and bury the bodies in great pits in order to conceal their num bers. Two private doctors attend ed more than 3oo children of both sexes who had been horribly g ash ed about the head and soldiers with sabres. "Heading insult, on injury the civil governor today, when tbe butch ery had ended, asked the household ers to subscribe $ loo, 000 to pay the police increased wages." Barred Plymouth Rocks. For Sale. A choice lot of breeding nens, puneis ana cocKereis at irom $1. each upward. All my young birds are from pen headed by an Arpo cock bird, (cost price $20.00.) W. G.Emery, Corvallis, Oregon. 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