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-"4 : LAN AN 1TBH Socialist Committee Announce Armed Parades. RUSSIAN MAY DAY CHOSEN Strike Will Break Out on: Railroads and Governjncnt Sends Soldiers to SiberiaEnforccd Kol Jday in -Warsaw. ST. PETERSBURG, May &-(Z A. .M.) "Undeterred by the complete order which rrevailed In St. Petersburg -on Mayday, (according to' the .TVestern European cal endar), and the-energy and potency of the government's measures to prevent. dis orders, tho Social Democratic committee is going ahead with plans- for grea.t dem onstrations on May 1, according, to the Russian calendar. -vhich falls on. May 14, according to the "Western calendar. The committee has, placed the' public fend police in possession of its plans ina widely circulated proclamation, issued to day, but doubt-is expressed in wellposted Liberal and industrial circles of its abil ity to accomplish much in the line of demonstration and disorder. The proclamation announces, a, .number of parades in various quarters of the city, convening at a central point. It .also1- de clares the intention of offering armed re sistance, if the police or troops .endeavor to disperse parades, but, though the most active revolutionists and anarchists are provided to some extent with bombs and firearms, the gTeat mass of the Industrial population, on which they rely for- the suc cess of the demonstration, arc ' said to bo unprovided with weapons. Much de pends on the temper of the worklngmen, which varies from day to day. At present, the worklnmon appear to tie disinclined to a programme of rioting and pillage, but it is quite probable that a strik on a large scale will be declared on May 14. Railroad strikes especially are anticipated. The employes of the St. Petersburg-Moscow railtoad are said to be planning a tlt-up and on the Trans Caucasian. a well as on the Ttans-Slbe-rian lines strikes are so probable that the government Is now sending trained men from the railway division of the army over the roads to acquaint them selves with their operation in order to be able to step in in case of a strike. Reports of disorders In European Rus sia, as well as in Poland, continue to filter in. Th latest dispatch "rom Sim feropol said- that a renewal of pillaging was expected there last night, and that the stores and shops had all been closed and boarded up. No further report had been receivcd up to 3 o'clock this morn ing. LASH DISPEKSISS CROWDS. Brutal Cossacks Use Whips, and One Carves Boy. WARSAW. May 4.-(ll:50 P. M.)-With the exception of a few minor distur bances the day passed quietly. Crowds which gathered here and there were quickly dispersed by troops armed with whips, and several persons were seriouply injured. Great popular unrest continue and it is being . Increased by wanton cruelty of soldiers. For instance, thin afternoon a 10-year-old boy, jeered a Cossack, who pursued him and cut hira from the shoulder to the waist- with one -blow of his sabre. Crowds continue to gather around Jesus Hospital, In Jerusalem street, wbtxe 41 persons- have died as the result of in juries received in the May day distur bances. The "people wish to prevent se cret. burial by the police. A strong force of police maintains order. TXJSJES AT THREAT OP DEATH Eamons Opera Singer Condemned for Betraying Polish Rebels. WARSAW, May Mile. Kawecka, a Polish opera singer, has left Warsaw suddenly under Xear 'of death at the hand of the revolutionary party. She was a great favorite with the of ficers of the garrison, who recently pre sented her on her benefit night with a diamond butterfly worth 515,000. The rev olutionary party thereupon sent a dep utation to her stating that she could well afford to give them $259 for their fund. She gave them $25. and promised- them Xhe rest on the morrow. In the meantime sne guoweu uic puuee iu near ui ai fair, and when the revolutionaries called next day for the money they were .promptly arrested. Mile. Kawecka short ly afterwards received the following tel egram from Brussels: "Condemned, No. 49." She at' once took train for the frontier. The jeweled butterfly was. stolen from her baggage. during her Journey. WHOLE CITY FORCED TO 3IODRX Polish Socialists- Compel General Idleness in Honor of Dead. WARSAW, May 4. All business, and street traffic, particularly, ceased at noon. The offices and stores arc closed and have their shutters up. Some of the houses arc barricaded. A few merchants who tried to keep open were visited by pickets of work men, who ordered them to shut their places of business immediately. Nearly all the street-cars have been stopped and the cab service is entirely suspended. Many cabs earlier in the day were stopped by parties of youths, who compelled their occupant to alight, in some instances forcibly throwing them out of the vehi cles, and then ordered the drivers to go heme. Immense crowds have pone to the cem etery, where ,thc victims of Monday's shootings are buried. In the Wola district workmen forcibly stopped the street-cars and cab3, and Cossacks were summoned. A man in the crowd fired a revolver and wounded a soldier. The Social Democrats appear deter mined to enforce their manifesto pro claiming a general strike, aid the obser vation of today as a dcy of mourning for the victims of the 'May day disturb ances. No newspapers appeared this morning. COSSACKS FIRE IXTO CHURCH Seven Die by Bullets for Sinking Rebel Songs. LODZ. Russian Poland, May 4. A ter rible riot occurred at the Church of the Holy Cross yesterday. When a number of Roman Catholics around tho edifice began singing revolutionary songs a Cos sack patrol came up at a. gallop and be gan firing Into a crowd of people hud dled on the church steps. Some of the bulletb entered the sacred edifice, strk Ing the altar. Seven persons were killed. A panic Inside the church followed and many people were Injured in the rush for the doors. After the crowds had' dispersed work men in groups fell upon a member of the secret $lce wao was feuad alone in the street, and he was nearly beaten to death before rescued. ALIi PRAISE .CZAR'S DECREE Hassian Papers Comment on Relig ious DIbcrty Jews Come Is'cxt. ST. PETERSBURG, May 4. The presa continues to eulogize the grant of re ligious freedom. The Bourse Gazette says: "The news Is so unexpected and full of significance that It is not yet com prehended. If the decree is executed in Its entirety. It will be the noblest act of Emperc Nicholas' reign." " The Sveit considers the decree to be the first step toward the separation of church and state and as marking the commencement of the reorganization of the government of the empire. The Russ expresses the belief that, when the text of the freedom accorded to religion is fully realized in Poland, it will remove the sharpest thorn .In the side of the Poles and lead to bet ter relations between the two peoples. The announcement is made that the committee of Ministers will take up the question of the betterment of tho condition of the Jews next week, but the Viedemostl declares that a special commission will probably be created to make preliminary Investigation. The president of the Joint meeting of students and professors held here Feb ruary 20 has been arrested and charged with presiding over a prohib ited assembly, and Professor Swlaloff sky has written an open letter ilc nouncing the accusation: cs an outrage, pointing- out that the meeting was au thorized by the police and that the president was in nowise responsible for the desecration of the Emperor's portrait on that occasion. MAY ARM FOR HIS DEFENSE Sugar Refiner Allowed to Form Mil itary Company. ST. PETERSBURG. May 4. The gov ernment has granted permission to M. Tereschtenko, a rich sugar refiner of Kieff, whose property was greatly dam aged by rioters in Marcn. to organize a military company of 150 men to protect his factories and other property. This is the first time that the organization of a private military force has been author ized in Russia. Bomb Captured in Odessa. ODESSA. May 4. A man carrying a bomb was arrested on the streets here today. Experts later exploded the bomb in the center of a large field In the pres ence of officials and many fashionable people. A secret store of flrcarms-has, been found. Xcw Polieo Chief at Moscow. ST. PETERSBURG. May 4-MaJor-General Shuvaloff. .hitherto attached to the Miaistry of the Inferior, has been ap pointed Prefect of Police of Moscow In place of General Volkoff. who has been transferred to the Governorship of Tau rlda, Southern Russia. The Equitable Life Is -the strongest assurance company in the world. It is and always has been conducted on a mutual basis, and its surplus of over Eighty Million dollars "Is the fund from which policy-holders receive their dividends: IT CAN BE DIS BURSED IN NO OTHER WAY. since the charter and policy contracts ftfrbld participation in surplus by any other In terest." The amount distributed each year' in dividends to policy-holders for ten years past is a sum much larger than any other company has ever dls tributedt In a like period. E ACTS FOR ALL States. Will Await Hendricks' Report on Equitable. HYDE TO OUST ALEXANDER Declines His .Resignation as Trustee and, Will Sue in Court for' Ac counting, Holding He " . Betrayed Trust. . ,-. NEW YORK. May 4. After a lengthy conference, the Insurance Commission ers of Washington. Kentucky, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Tennessee today an nounced that they had Informally consid ered the situation in the Equitable So ciety and talked with State Insurance Superintendent Hendricks, of New York, who had assured them that the investi gation of the management would be com pacted by June 15. and had decided to await the result of this Investigation. Further than this official statement the officials would not discuss e the matter. The Commissioners adjourned late this afternoon. t Among the Interesting reports in circu lation today was one that Henry M. Alex ander, son of the president of the com pany, would succeed his father as one of the directors of the Equitable. Mr. Alex ander made a formal denial of the re port. Make Alexander Show Down; Announcement was made tonight that James II. Hyde intends to continue his suits to oust Mr. Alexander and demand an accounting. In a letter made public tonight, addressed to Mr. Alexander, Mr. Hyde and W. H. Mclntyre refuse to ac 'cepfx Mr. Alexander's resignation as a trustee of the sto.ck and announce that proceedings against Mr. Alexander will be taken in the courts for an accounting of his administration of the trust. Mr. Alexander, Mr. Hyde and Mr. Mclntyrc arc the present trustees of the stock. The letter says: Betrayed His Trust, Hyde Says. . As you alrrsdy ktvw that a olt was about to be brought against you to remove vou as a trustee on Ih charge that you I t rayed your trust and conjured to deetroy the -tatr- entrusted to your care, your attempted resignation In the fac of thf.v? charces Is virtually a confession that you have bcea an unfaithful truster. Hi. solely by virtue of the trust Mock hrld under thls agreement and Its control in tn election of directors th4t you fecurcil and" hare continued to hold your position as a di rector and president of the Mclety. Your prfent attitude in seeking to deatroy the value of that Mock and at the same time escape ref ponMMltly for doing no. while con tinuing to enjoy the fruit of the tru.t. is an anomolbus position and one that cannot be permitted to continue. Now that you b&ve catwd yourself to be elwted a director and prrsldtnt of the to olety by the vote of the mock C which you are a trustee, your voluntary resignation of the trurt is especially Inadnitsilble. in view of your announced intention not to relinquish the. office? which you owe to the truM stock. Mr. Trewltt ald today. lftcr aswrtlng the right of the superintendents to exam fine wltneiMCs and the books of the so ciety: "We don't expect any trouble Ic that direction. The officers of the poclety have offered' us facilities for esadwetiag any 'investigation that we may decide upon, and have told us we could have access to any books wc want. While we will, of course, discuss the Equitable mat ter, other matters will also- be talked of, but we have no intention of investigating any other company at presentf We be lieve the Equitable la absolutely solvent, but we want to find out what Its futur policy is going to be." s It was discovered today that tho res ignation of James W. Alexander as trus tee of the Equitable Life Assurance So ciety stock held by the estate of Henry B. Hyde makes his son. Henry Martyn .Alexander, his successor on the board of trustees. The deed of trust provides that In case of the resignation of the elder Alexander the young man shall im mediately become a trustee. , JEWS MOBBED. IN CRIMEA Beaten, in Battle With Mob. Which Sacks Their,, Dwellings. ST. PETERSBURG. May 4.-News of the anti-Semitic disorders in the Crimea arriving here show that they were on a larger scale than the first reports indi cated. At Melitopol the people set upon the Jews and fought a regular battle with stones and revolvers. The few polieo and 20 soldiers in tho town were power less. When the Jews fled defeated, tho Christians front noon until midnight held a carnival of pillage and plunder. Every shop except two Jewelry' stores was sacked, the crowd only desisting when ex hausted. The arrival of M. Trcvoff, of Taurida province the following day re stored order. The number of killed or wounded is not given either from Melitopol or Slmphe ropol, where rioting against the Jews be gan as a result of the circulation of a story that a Jewish huckster had thrown a sacred Icon into a cesspool. At the village of Orloffsky, the Crimea, the rioting took tho form of an attack upon Baptists. The peasants under the direction of the village authorities. 5dl rccted an assault upon the church. No one Is reported to have been killed. The Baptists were captured. and held as pris oners in the church for ten hours, after which -they were released. LIVELY TIME AT SIMFEROPOL Cavalry Charges Mobs and Is Bad gered by Jews. SIMFEROPOL May There was. a succession of riots and disorders durinr the evening, which were quelled by a squadron of cavalry, which made free J use of the fiats of their swords and J whips. J There were also spirited conflicts be 1 twecn Russians and Jews. The latter. . who are In a defiant mood, several times i attacked cavalry patrols, thrusting scant ling between the horses legs and dis mounting the riders. Austria Shuts Door on Poles. ST. PETERSBURG.,M.ay 3.-(:20 A. M.) In order to stop the flood of Poles who are fleeing across the border to escape conscription, and on account of the trou bles in Poland. Austria has ordered that all Russian citizens desiring to cross the frontier must be provided with pass ports, vized by Austrian Consuls. Bread Famine Threatens Odessa. ODESSA, May 4. The bakers arc on strike and the city faces the possibility of a bread famine. Zcmstvoists in Session. MOSCOW May 4. Leading Zcmstx-oists from all parts of Russia have assembled her for the conirr-S; nimmnniil fnr tn- morrow. A preliminary meeting of lead- FINE CLOTHES FOR BOYS AT VERY SPECIAL PRICES Our lines of Boys' Clothes were never quite so broad and handsome as they are right now, and for the next x two days Friday and Saturday special prices will prevail. 100 Sailor Blouse Suits, ages 3 to 10, regular $4.45 to $7.45 values this sale $2.50 100 Juvenile Norfolk Suits, plain and with sailor collars, ages 3 to 7, regular $4.45 to $745 values this sale $2.50 150 pairs Boys' Knee Pants, all sizes, regular De valuesthis sale 25c Boys' Waists, all sizes, fancy patterns, regular 50c and 75c values this sale 25c We have the most complete line of Youths' Suits in. the city. SAM'L ROSENBLATT & CO. Cornef Third and Morrison Streets. ers was held privately tonight to lay out a programme. A considerable advance .over the programme, of the December congress is contemplated. Bed Bibbons Adorn a Grave. KAIilSZ. Russian Poland. May 4. Dur ing tho funeral today of the woman who and strewed the grave with red-ribboned wreaths, but there was no conflict with the police. ' Old Believers Will Give for War- ST. PETERSBURG. May 5. (3 A. M.) A meeting of leading members of ths Old Believers 3ect has been summoned to Moscow to plan for colleeting.a, war was killed in a church hero on Monday chest which will bo given as an evi- by troops who were firing on workmen dehce of gratitude for the recent tol ln the street, a great crowd assembled eratlon edict. HE EVADES NOTHING" Vote Saturday Polls Open From 12 M. to 7 P. M. Mark Your Ballot No. 1 4 X W. B. Glaf ke Glaf ke's Record Will Stand the Closest Scrutiny V Borp on a Farm in New York , State 44 Years ago German Parents. Learned the Carpenter's Trade. Came to Portland 23 Years ago. Seven Years with Mason-Ehrman Co. Six Years with Bell & Co. (Partner.) W. B. Glafke & Co., Founded 7 Years ago. W. B. Glafke & Co., Walla Walla, . Founded Two Years ago. Photo by XUfcr-SroE. Business Man's Candidate If you want such a man for mayor, vote for' V . V. B. GLAFKE -. Employ, W. B. Glaf ke For Mayor He Is Big Enough! . ' Young Enough! Old Enough! And Honest! READ THESE CLIPPINGS FROM THE DAILY PRESS - ; Glarke Will De as He Premises! , ' Mr. Glafke, in responding to a call to speak, said: "If elected. I will appoint a Chief of Police who will enforce" the law. and. If the first ono appointed dops not do his duty. I will find another who wllL" "I am allied with no faction, machine or special Interest. said he. "I have negotiated with none of these. I have gone forth on a platform of bonest enforce--ment of the law, faithful attention to the business of thejeity, and a. fair, square .deal for every man." Journal, April 26. 1695. Idr. Glafke. to refute stories which he stated had been circulated in regard to him. last evening reiterated his platform and announced tosltlvcly that fte Itad made no promises to anyono that were not contained In his platform, and that he had not. for a moment, thought of combination with any cabal or faction in Portland. Ho wanted to be Mayor, and was going to be Major of Portland If it were possible for him to do so. If elected, he would have a Chief or Police who would enforce orders, laws and ordinances to the letter, or he would kep trying until he got one, Jf he had to appoint a new Chief every X days. Evening Tcle gram. April 26, 1W5. Mr. Glafke was Introduced and gave a brief and clean-cut statement of his prin ciples and policies. He said that here tf are the business e lew cut had been shut out from participating in the administration of WbMc affairs, but under 'the direct primary law the business man could make himself felt as sever before. "Iy platform Is for a business administration, with no promises to anybody." declared Mr. Glafke. "If elected Mayor. I shall ga Into office wltlwit having, made a smgle pledge to any man or set of men. It .shall be my purpose to conduct the affairs of tho city- the same as I have my own business. Every" maw in 'Offtce" should be required to cam his salary, the Tame as any oter ecu ration. The Chief o Police must do his duty or there will be another Chief, and ctlll another, until a mtf-be -found who will oo lifs duty. My platform le 3t8os val tiaa leax or favor for no man." Sunday Oresontes, April , Uf. " Glafke Will Do as He Promises " "HE HAS EVADED NOTHING' The Platform ; "The Police Department will be com pelipd. to enforce all ordinances. Fire and Streqt Departments will be made as . efficient as possible. " . "I will not. pledge myself tb any faction or set of individuals. This leaves me free to carry out a policy that will be for tftc' besr interests of air" r - "If I am nominated and elected, I will, during my term of office, pledge myself to give to the City of Portland a clean, business administration, or what , is termed the Roosevelt plan, 'fear or favor to none; justice to all "The laws pertaining to gambling and other vices, as- well7 as all other laws, will be enforced.