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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1899)
ASTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. ', L. " A. V-, KKY 4 mm Ay Ay .,.V'VzC AST0U1A, OKKGON, Tt'KSDAY MORNING. 8 KIT EM BE K 6. 18119 NO. 101 VOL L he ff U J I 7 We arc the -elling agonti in Astoria for the New Born Steel Range I'rlcc! frm 123.00 to $50.00. Every Ranyc Guaranteed. Eclipse Hardware Co. .oon Also sole iflcntn for the Cclcbntcd Superior Stof ind Rioqcs and Cole's Air Tldht Cote Burners. .4 GRIFFIN Here Is aXist 01 some High Grade Goods at moderate pi ices RALSTON HEALTH POOliS In great tartctv good things. ROSS, HIGGINS ?c CO TO THE LADIES! Send for Illustrated Catalogue of To Out-oMown Froplt : For fun or cloth w nay write to ua. We will eml botmU on approval miJ par xpreaa one way. Will givt yon fnll detail a to stylo and price. In iact we want your trade. lliuet price paid fur raw furs. The Silverfield Fur Manufacturing Co. aH33MH Morrleion St., ntarstb. rara iriunTjrurain PORTLAND DENTAL PARLORS Top Floor Washington Building -.Largest and Best Equipped Offices in the Northwest.. wwmmiiwiMiiM.nlwmnii Extracting by electrical process without pain, rtnvaruwi a Best Work at our prices because we have the largest volume of dental work in Portland. Ml H I M I Ml M ' t-WM Mill 1 1 11 1 1 11414 Take Elevator on Washington Street Near Fourth, and Dental Parlors, Top Floor. 'Phone Oreeon, Brown 493. Columbia, 569. y uunu i Ktu i Books... Blank and Miscellaneous. i Paper... New Crape and Type-writing. Waterman Fountain Pens llox Decorated Paper and Knvelope"iuo ', (S REED fresh from t be mills. AROMATIC SHCES guaranteed the finest. TILLMAXXS rl'Kfl EXTRACTS. CHASE SAXBORS'S C0PPEES are un rivalled. Together with a host of other FURS AiND CLOAKS TAILOR MADE SUITS HWHMIW.MMIH HI t.Ma,l...ltt. IW Best Crowa snd Bridge Work i ift a karat gold ft tooth $1t'V Set teeth, fully eartd rubfcer.$5.00 Best Gold Pilling: $1.00 up Best Alloy Filling 50c up Teeth extracted without pain 50c I'M Ml IM UIMJtl 1 1 1(1 1 III 111 1 I I Mil HMk MANY LIYES WERE LOST Forty People Killed ty Hurricane In Goadaloope. PROPERTY LOSS EN0PM0US Island Tartitened ty Famine - Steau ship Advil Founders Off Jmilc id Five An Drowned. WASHINGTON, Hpl. tt.-Consul Amy reports o the (lain department fMm fltiadaluupe that the loss of prop, rljr from th lecent tropical hurrk.no amount to at U-ust IS.oon.ooo. Forty deaths and over 200 sertouidy wounded are reported (rum vailou parts of the island. Th. city 1 a nuuK if wrockage, while the hurlmr front In llm-d with tfc debris of large and .mull boat. II tuiya the fr'Jlt crop I. total Iim and that a famine threaten, tlv Inland. HTKAMEIt AWL A LOST. Founder cf( Umait-a and Flvu Holl or Prowned KINGSTON, Jornada, Hept. K.-The Attn. Steamship Company' smer Aduln. Captain McAul.y. font Kings- ton for t'ulllmore. found.ivd today off Port Jlor.nt, on the nouth coturt of Jamlca. Flv people to.t their liven, Including Kr.t Ofllcer Percy. LOPEZ HAS Bl'mtENDEnED. Laid Down Ills Arm With 8lty-four Followers. WASIUSOTON, 8pt S5.-Two Im portant dlipalche from Otis at Manila were mad public today from OO. atjllnu at 10.J6;. A the big. battleship Manila were madiT'UtoJay by th (r(IUed the line under full headway war department. They are as follows; "Manila. Sept. 1& Adjutant (Wnerul. Washington: General Hughes, at Ho llo, reports that Lopes and ti armed men surrendered to Brynes, at Cas-t-llano Nesros. An election was held in that Island October X. Filipinos; beam. sought a conference. The chief ln.ur- The vessel passed the Potomac, the gents of Panay wished to know what second mark boat, .S miles from the promt. could be given them In case (art, at 10.60:45. shore time, covering of formal submission. They were to!d.,he dlBtRm.0 m 24 minutes and S see that no answer was possible until they nni) Th,B howJ a d of lUi kn0($i surrendered, and (he force disbanded . "OTIS." "Manila. Sept. 25-AdJutant General. Washington: Bittes returned from Jolo on th !lst of September, having plac ed garrloons at Slnssl and nurgam. In the Tawall groug. on comiany -t each place. "Affairs In the archipelago are sat isfactory. Pates saw chief of Insur gents. Zamboang. who Is still anxious to receive United States garrison on condition of withdrawal should Agul- .IHIUIIUimilHIIMIIIIIIHIUIII Electric devices and instruments take away all the old dread. vuuwuvu Dental Work We employ only the most modern methods, and guarantee satisfaction. 44'Mll4lllllltllIIIIIIMIIIIHIMMIHIt ask for the Portland naldo succeed In the Luton. The propo sition was nut entertained Zatnloanga li having trouble with mora Datos In Ihe vicinity, who have raised the United Htates flaw. Dato Cagayan, of Butu Isl and, vlalted Jolo and gav adhesion. ami delrd to ralxe th American flag Ir.tead of the Spanish flag on the Isl and, The American flag will be raised there for the purpose of giving lz nuinth.' notice In onler to ratabllah In Ihe arrhliwlwo cunlonx regulation under the protocol of HU between Spain, Ormany 'and OreeX Hrltaln. Date." report will be -nt by mall. UNXLE SAM HAS ANOTHER WARSHIP TILDLTKIP OK KKAKSAKGM She Mad Over Sfvrnteen Knots and Scored a Great Saecess for Her Constructors. HOHTO.V. flt'pt. The new Utile hip KvarMirge left her anchorage about four mllee off noatoa light today for her trial trip course off Cape Ann, where he la to have her ipced teat to dnv. The members of the naval trial board, rcprcaentaUves of the Newport NVws Ehlp bullilng A Drydock Com- pany, the builder of th big veeeel. and several men who had been granted a permit, went on board tb battleship Ju.t before she weighed enchor. Th weather was excellent at the start, the water smooth and the wind moderate. MAKES SEVENTEEN KNOTS. ROCKPORT, Mass.. Sept 15. The Kearaage started on her official trial trip oft this point today, crossing the her bow pushed up an enormous volume of water and great wares were thrown up astern by the screws. She made good speed, however, although the tide was against her and wind nearly From shore the third marks was in dlHtlnct, but the Kearsarge appeared to havo It abeam at 11:34. having taken 24 minutes 14 seconds on this leg, which would make her speed 17.0S knot. These are sections of the course over which formerly the slowest time tas been made.. At 11:24 the big ship was lost to view In the haxe. The Kearsarge crossed the finish line at 2: 47: It, having taken four hours 20 minutes and SO seconds for the run. An estimate, deducting 30 minutes for turning at Cape Porpoise, shows that she exceeded 17 knots by a fraction. $A Grand Exhibition of Woolen In the Piece PKIDAY AXD SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th and 30th. This will include all the Latest Novelties in Suit ings.Ovircoatings, Fancy Vestings and Troireeringp. A Skilled Cutter of long and successful experi ence will carefully take the measure of any of our gentlemen customers WITHOUT CHARGE. C. H. Cooper, The Leading ' Coining House of Astoria, JIM HALL KNOCKED OUT Goes Down Before Joe Choycski at Louisville. ONLY LASTED FOUR ROUNDS Crowd W11 Dlsappolated ltd Cried "Fake"-Mysterlopi Billy SoMt Bests Bob DODf 1ms. LOiriSVILLE, Sept. 25.-Joe Cbcgrn ski, of California, knocked out Jim Hall, of Australia, In the third round tonight, before the Xonpireil Athletia Cluh. It was announced that the fight was for the light heavy weight cbam - ...... . . - 1 pionsnip, iimiiea to 01 rounas ana tor a division of the box office receipts. The fight was lively while It lasted, with the honors possibly In Hall's fa vor during the first two rounds, but In' the third, Choynskl used hi right and' left effectively a number of times and when but half a minute of the third re - malned, Choynskl landed several rights and lefts in succession, sending Hall to the floor, where he remained until carried to his corner. Instantly there were cries of "fake" from all quarters ( The gunboat Petrel, sent to inves and a more disappointed crowd never( tlgate, returned and reported that the left the ringside. j L'rdaneta was beached opposite the OUT IS THE FOURTH ROUND, DENVKK, Sept. 25. Mysterious Billy Smith, of New York, knocked out Bob Douglass, of St. Louis, In the fourth round of what was to have been a 3 round contest before the Olympic Club tonight KID PARKER VICTORIOUS. ministered a terrible beating to Perry Queenan, of Chicago, tonight before the Colorado Athetotic Association, getting the decision at the end of the 20th round. METHODIST CONFERENCE. Favor Consolidation of versitles. Oregon Unl- SALEM, Sept. So. At the Oregon conference of the Methodist church, this afternoon, the day's proceedings having been taken up principally with a discussion of the report or the com mittee on education which was adopt ed, the sultstanoe of the same being as ioiiowb: "We recommend the consolidation of the Willamette university and Port- land university; request the Portland university to. close up Its work as a separate uchool by the end of the present school year; reeommend theCrew tg not & matter of record, being granUng to Portland the privilege to subiect t0 tt ehange. -wood was continue as an academy co-related te nava gc fnm Willamette umveraiiy, me itwier io . .t , , ... ,... . adopt the alumni of the Portland and j Cloths Oregon. w publish the name In its catalogue, pro vided It is agreeable to Portland's alumni." The conference tonight made appoint ments for the ensuing year, Isaac Pesrt i. assigned to Astoria, MADAME DIAZ ILL. CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 25. Presi dent Dial cannot go to Chicago on ac count of the Illness of Madame Diss. Be has appointed the Minister of foreign relations to go as bis representative. CAPTURED BY THE INSURGENTS THE GUNBOAT URDENTA 'TeO Officers and Men are Miss ing The Commander Ad ' Oregon Doy. MANILA, 8pt. 25. It Is reported that the Insurgents have captured the j United States g-ungoat Urdantea, in the Oranl river, on the northwest side of Manila bay. where she was patrolling. One officer and nine of her crew are rrdsslng. I town of Oganl, on the Oranl river. She j was burned and the following guns wtih their ammunition were captured: One dne-pounder. one Colt automatic gun and one Kordenfeidt, 25 mill meter gun. The crew of the Urdaneta are prisoners, or have been killed. Further details are lacking. WAS OREGON BOY. Cadet Welborn C, Wood. - . WASHINGTON, Sept 25.-The gun- boat Urdaneta, which was captured 'ta ner irew, about 25 miles from Manila, is a little craft of only 40 tons displacement, not much larger than a small tug. She was captured by the navy early In the var, and has been on police duty tn the bay for several months past The records of the navy 1 department show that she was one of tne 0f which the Oregon is the parent 8hlp that ,s he wu gUpposed to draw all her supplies from the bat tleship, to be manned from the Ore- 1 gon's crew, and to act under lnstruc- tlons of the Oregon's commander, According to last reports to the de- partment, the little boat was last May under command of Naval Cadet Wei- born C. Wood, but the personnel of the , , Oregon, had passed his academic i course and was performing sea service J at the time of the capture. 1 Naturally the department officials are vexed that difficulties of the negotatlons looking to release of Lieutenant Gil more, of the Yorktown, and his men should be added to by this last mis fortune. Stilt there Is no disposition unnecessarily to curb Junior officers of the navy who are rendering such gallant service In the Philippines. I MANILA STEAMSHIP LINE. j One Is Practically Secured for Port 1 land and Will Run via Honolulu. I PORTLAND. Sept. 25.-H. R. Lewis, of Portland, now In Manila, represent ing the Philippine Trading Association, of this city, writes to W. H. Chapln, secretary of the associaUon, that a steamship line between Portland and Manila, via Honolulu, Is practically as sured." He states that the promoters of the line have decided to come to Portland with their first ship, which was scheduled to sail from Manila Sep tember 15, and, If a sufficient cargo can be secured, a regular line will be put on. "t A uv uv v 2l5S2iuiriY Makes the food more 'FX THE RAAD ISANGRY Members Declare Motilizatlcn of Troops an Unfriendly Act. THE CRISIS IS APPROACHING CnambetUl'! Reply 10 Boert Says Farther DIscssstoi Is UseleM : -Boer Spies Evaded. LONDON. Sept 25.-A special dis patch front Pretoria says that members of the Volksraad believing that the British notes are Intended to gain time for the concentration of troops, urge the government to adjourn the Raad Immediately and to send Great Brit ain a note declaring that further mobi lisation will be regarded as an un friendly act. Trenches, earthworks and sandbags defences are being directed In all available approaches to the cap- MASSING TROOPS. DURBAN, Natal, Sept 25. Sfcveu hundred and fifty men of the Leicester shire regiment, ftO of the Royal Dublla fualleers, 200 mounted Infantry and the Eighteenth hussars have arrived at Dnndee from Lady Smith. ELUDED BOER SPrES. PEITERMARITZ3URG. Natal, Sept 25. The troop that have been moved from Lady Smith to Dundee will form new company at Glencoe, their places being filled by others from India. The movement was executed so smartly and unexpectedly that the Boer spies were unaware of it until It wa actually ac complished. - - ' TEXT OF CHAMBERLAIN'S REPLY. Says Farther Discussion on Lines Hith erto Followed Is Useless. LONDON, Sept SJ.-Offlciate of the foreign office this evening gave out th text of the'letter of Secretary of State for the Colonics Chamberlain to the British high commissioner in South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, dated Sep tember 21 The British 'reply will express regret that her majeety'ster of September 8th, had been refused and says: "The object her majesty's governmeut had in view In Ihe recent negotiation has been stated In a manner which can rot admit of misapprehension, via to obtain Immediate representation for the Outlsnders "ss will enable them to secure for themselves that fair and Just treatment which was formally promised them In 1891, under which her majey Intended to secure for them when she granted the privileges of self government to the Transvaal. No conditions less comprehensive than those contained in the telecram of September 8th can be relied on to ef fect that object ."The refusal if the South Africa gov ernment to entertain the offer thus made, coming as It does alter four months of protracted negotiations, closes the five years of extended agita tion and makes It usel? to further pursue the dlecussron on th j line hith erto followed, and the ltvperlal govern ment Is now compelled to consider the situation afresh and formulate its own proposals for the final settlement of the Issues which have been created In Pouth Africa by the policy constanUy followed for many years by the govern ment of South Africa. They will com municate the result of their delibera tions in a later dispatch." Continuing the reply says: "As to the use of the f ngllsh language in the Volksraad, the Imperial government re gards this as reasonable and Is aston ished that the government of the South African republic should deem It neces sary and muke a point of denying the government of the Sou'h African re public ever propossed the same to the British agent." THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEAVES. . SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. The Twenty-sixth regiment. United States volunteers, sailed today for Manila on the transport Grant in - - a tfdvmm Pure delicious end wholesome nnva.1 fjjivrwi pm-TH eo., Hrr y'- jaasmiMiiiiiiiOTmiiium