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-ft-: .-y . 1 f NOT! mVt .. h Jru hoi toit len r;..M Tir,; r : t Pin .1 ;" VOL. L. ASTOiilA. OREGON. Tlll'JiSPAY. NOVEJiBKI. 3(1. I8H9 NO. 187 Q' The Eclipse Hardware Co. cvHi it t Tn ?' ifoOtl'o ffo(140o IIin Keinovnl to it New Quartern next to tho Columbia Kli'drinil it Kepuir Co., three i mum form tin old ntnm), where tiny will cout iuuo lo carry tin l'uuht htock of htovit In Astoria. BOND STREET. EIGHT THOUSAND BOERS ROUTED AT AlODD'ER RIVER ) Great Victory Won by General Methiien in Bloodiest Battle of the Century. V. PUBLIC ANXIETY AND SUSPENSE INTENSE; d a flr thiii morning (hot In )- than! four hour In 11 In ahi nearly fiur bl'K fcN nt busln-fw houia-a atxl caused an nttimated Im of vr f&OOO.OOQ. The h'-avlwt lon-m an: J. W. Llpptnortt 4. Co., book put)llthni; loaa HKlmao-d at t:.unK.M. Patrtdg Richardson, 100, "; Lltt Vrm. department store, 400,-M. In addition to the big hHia- mtra tloiwd, numerous anialU-r atoiva were either gutted or badly damagt-d. Chief among (hew? W'T9 Bailey's, $1W,000; j IbMetilarc's mllllnf-ry establishmenta, I 130,000. varoua otiv-r establishment were slightly damaged by smoke and water. I ICI1T r.U MHDCC DADTV jillaUUl UIUIIUIU. O 1 HIM I AGAIN HEARD FROM Code Message Received Yesterday by Admi ral Watson Through an Escaped Prisoner iHPORfAiH wmt : Yitrtlay rwvTis notice front I lie tutblUlier of Uie Waaxaa Kihthin or no Emt ixri.u JiaiTonirt, that uluir lo Hi" enormous InortjMU In the pries of paper ith In ll i werkt, tlivy oiilJ ahorlly witlnlraw tlif iM cil tlirir r'm-vcloirtolla at th imMnt irim, Our ontitrart villi llio Hi(liliri anaMia Ul In imk I In- aitliip ul Irr lirtnlnlura. Thirty latit Tolntiira i( the Enryclni ilia, no niililn U Hvattmatlo Ib-.IiiitC if lit Knryrlirlia, Onx I prnjlit Uk lHiki' ami na lru WcUtrr'a t.n i)ci.hIik ri of rliartfo, All Uie ulmva will Iw (MlTnri-il Uii llipmuall pay air i) I ( OiNR DOLLAR llalatjiv in aniall monthly aymrtita. Call anl luok intu llila i.lfrr. GRIPPIIN 6c REED. BOND SALE TO GO OS. 1 WASHINGTON. Nov. M.-Tha acre- Rerairkible Demonstration on the DepirlBre of Fresh Troops ury ot ,he p,r toda' "' . . . . . .... that be would continue until the cloae From Lon ion-Reviewed ly the Qneen Who ; u bu,lD, VrixmbtT t0 par. f chaae any United Btatft bond known ft ' ' aj four per renta of 1907 and Ave per centa of lOt at the prloea) heretofore : pal J. namely ill for flv. BighteM) million of the V,M.VA called for bare bn purc'haael ud to date. Mikes t Speech. i ? nne. Fat 1 3,000 lbs Fine. Fat Southern Oregon Turkeys ALHO ll Chickens, Geese and J Small Pigs for If Roasting. J9k JK rTk rX TV rTV TA y-s m. Tv Fal At r ... 1,, LONDON, Nov. :i0. 1.10 a. in. Twr lvo hours' reflection tijioii Ixinl Mttliucii't) brief (liinUli lias only wrvel to in (v! rcuh puhlic aoxittv ami !iUsn'HM'. All kimN t-pcculutiou IH IIMlulp',1 hi. ! In tin-ubx'iict' of uiiv iulicutioii as to wlu tliT the Ikxrs occtipifl tin-noilli or Mulli Imnk of MotlJi-r 'river, the beat opinion inclined to tho latter tlieory ami it i oint-d out that tin- Uritihli must haw letn utterly exhuu.-ted if they couM not follow uji tin1 retiring Hoer and crush them as their army iowlttiJ over the bridge, their comiulsory lint! of retreat. BX-COLLECTOH BLACK DEAD. i lOI;TLANP. Nov. . Ttromaa -J. Black, Ex-colleotor of cuatoma tjr the dmtrlct of rhr Wlllamti0, waa found dvid In hla apartment at the Inwprlal httH early thla mornlnf. Owlnj to th ' audd'.nnena of hla death the coroner dotmed It advisable to hold an in .-tst. ; which waa don-, vhn It waa found i that d-th had bn eauaed by aaChma, SEVEN MEN REPORTED ALIVE AND WELL Were Confined Twenty-Five Miles From Vi?io, Bot Now Bilievei to Have Been PelfiseJ ly Yoosf's Snc cessfol Alva nee. and brart dlaeamr. Mince Meat, Pumpkin, Squash, Nuts, Raisins. Plum PuaMing ij livery tliinj; new tun! iiii'f. I.ravr your unlrM early. , X'.i Wbb, HluulNS X GO. We Rent New Typewriters Many New Iiirovemenu AdJwl- SK.K Ol'R LATEST Smith Premier Typewriter NKW "r CATAIool'K KKKK jt 1 L. & M. AI.I.X VNDKK At CO., I'hoiic - Kxclnaivn IVilli' (tiwt lfalra. 'M Stark Main 571 turk M. 1'nrtlaiid I.ONPON, Nov. IS KnOnuiiaMii murk l th JtpArtutv t"luy of tlw flrat Oriui hiimit of the coniHMlif butu!ln of hniuu'hold cavalry tplug to Bouth Afrtui. Surjrtng niHM thronio'J Wlndxir ch-rlnit anil ulnifliiK. and aim tlar nwrni rr altmwd in ImhIiiI) In apltr of th iV-nae r. TltTf wa an Inti r-tlnit tfivinmjy at Wlndm r t lxy when tlu- qu-n liwi"-)!-r thr nu n nf the irixmulli-r ituarda who on'ittly rtitriM rin (iiii'lurin.in nn. rinvi'ti with thf Nlf ami famlll' hai K''H lo South Wlndmir dlNtrlrt. Afor th.' iiihMii1Hi nf tlii- tiMopa ln-i iiuiJ'-i:v In f t y mliln-nwM ( iMmti-l H.i- litm on I he Mll1l- KiMlilM In South Af- ilO i jtn'-wing ilm'ji rnt at th" . runlAllvd. jj i I In- IV" njni luniibw 01 hoiiii'-i- iifif I lion grouped In frmit of the royal run i.ik- ! I"T iuuj.fy nympitilMtlc. iiliv uil.li! --.l Hi-ill, itaylit how uuirn lie Ml for Uiimu and hopiiiK th-y miuM Iihvv cxixl iii'co'Jihs of their hue. UiihI and faLht'rx. T)h Ki. liu waa wiliU, Anxluua wlvt with crowinK b.iblfe In tlx-lr arm or In baby earriwa paiwed In front of the iU.en who leanivl forward dropping wnnln of tyinpitjiy and he. ' jf , i f I II- r who I i Afiloi freni Wllldi . Y ; Afo r th.' nihiKi' 'li, . .. ,;f iiwiJeHiv iiii-ny mliin-n ' ton, "lik'i.iliil.uniK lit ill. I i i ll'lll. t of Uie KUil ' I if1"- I txt-tlliol wj-n the llt of IlmUh can uulii" In niad known. Tlxrrv appeara to be no doul. M -thuen hajt Rained a i.il HdvanluK'. thoiiKh dtnalla must be' ,i.;iili' l U-fore tlv full effect of hi 10 ' hour' dmperate flirtitliifr can lie gauged, j Preiiimiilily. the bunrher anny waa' on th aouth la.'ik of toe river, butj whetier, ttlo-n the H.tw r. reu-d they EIGHT i ro-'d the river northward or lXin-d; In an e:mt.-rty dlnitlon Into the Ornnife1 Ki'-e ftnte, la unknown. I'lmslbly the lnw-rx had i puli d the brhltfe prevtu-j ly r'i"'ited destroy .-d and manaipM to, wiilixiaiul :hi- llrliiuli attack with their! e-.ir iomiiI whlU- llu-lr uialii Uxly -' iniM 'l over the bridge, then droyl;is . th. bridfie Ix hlnd theni. The rtrltish, i hoMi x-r. fpenr to lia Htiriiioiiiited , Hi,- iIiiIhuIiIi-s. crosrtliifr the river and! B4D TRAIN WRECK IN NEW JERSEY PASSEfGERS KILLED Buffalo Express Pun Into While Standing on Siding at Pater; son Twenty Injured. NE'-V YORK. Nov. '.-The ea. izli'K a piritbm on tin- mirth lde of I bound lluflalo exptvsu on the Delaware mmw-mmmmmmmmmmm Largest and Best Equipped Offices In the Northwest PORTLAND DENTAL PARLORS Top "lor Washington lug Crown andlJiiJiio Work, $1.50 ter tooth, BtiarHiitWil. IWst net Teeth. $5.00 tit Ktmraiiteoil. lli'"t FilliiiK", Mlo ttp, giiiiraiitoed. All Wtirk 1'ot.itivcly (JuarantccJ to give IVrfcct .satisfaction OK NO PAY. Wiwhinirlon Hiiildintf, Corner 4th anil Valiiiion Sta, Filth Floor, Kooiaa-47, 4H, CO, 61, 62. 'Phont Onuon, Urawn 403. Columbia J 1 l.ti.NUnN, Nov. 29. The war office Iiiih received (! folloJkjn dlKuiteh from tier.ort Huller: 'fills- Town, Ttlentliiy, Nov. 2S I'.cn eral M.'il.iiin isNrta: 'Nixlder river, Tli'Mdny. Nov. JS. lUs-oikiiiilteissI at 5 .1. m. Iht" 'iny' position on the rlwr ' N'idt'er and found ttwm utronirly e .tivni'lied onil cviiiC(mUhI. No meiuns nf outtlankliiR, the rlwr Ih4h& full. I Action cominenmsl with the artillery, ! mounted Irifmitry and cavalry at 5:30 1 11. in. Th (luarda on, tho right and the I Ninth bi-lgad 1 the left atitacked the puslti.xi In a widely extended forma tion, at 6:?0, and, aupported by the ar tillery, with two large jr"'"1. four Kruppa, etc. Tlw naval InlRade ren dered great axsltftanc from the rail way. " 'After denperate, hard flirhtUia;, which laitisl 10 hours, our mn, without water or food and In the burning un. nuidc the enmny quit hla position. Gen eral Pole I'arew waa aucceatiful In gvt tlnir a small party across the river, Kitllnntly amlnted by 300 Sappi-in. " 'I apeak In terms of high praise of the conduct of all who were engaged In one of the hardest amd moat trying tight In the annals of the UrttJsh army. If I can munition one arm ivartloularly, It is the two batterlea of artillery." " In Pateraon. several of whom may dl?. The dead are: Mm. Roe, and two daughter, of Ilhlea. S. Y.; Walter Welbrock, Cornell College; Mllte Craig, New Yorkj fvo unknown wmen, un known boy,' two unknown men and an unknown llt'.'e ulrl. The lnjuivil in clude Misw Agiiw McDomiid, of Oxford. N. Y.-, Samuel '.Mendelsohn, Wllkea barre; Mi?f Mair.le Doyle, Htnghamton; th.- !ii'Bm. This. HUceeHH of the ItrttlHh cleara an othir utage of the road to Klmberley, the aclge of w hich General CnnJ nmft have p-irtlally ral In order to give battle to tkn.ral Methuen. Theiv I little n amn to loubt, however, that the r.oera will ag.iln rally, as heretofore, aftvr a seemingly crualilng defeat, wn-l-sa they have kwt their guns, of which then" li no mention In the otllolal dla patchea. The burglxTji are understood to haw n Ktrong lunger at SpyfonteHn, 11 mile north of the Nooder river, no another engagement pmwlbly awalta the Brtlsh lief.in they can commence the Utst Ht.ig- of the 11 mllea from Spyfonteln to KimVtley. though It la pointed out t'roije will thereby run a great risk t fMl3 Llsxie Kane, lliiiKhumton, David i f lug caught ltvn Oenral Mothuen j iiK., ithlca; Oscar Arnnson, Scronton," and Colonel Kckewloh, the British com- penn.; John White. Ithlca; Louis Dar mandet at Klmberley. an Dover, N. J-I Loula FYeedman, A hel.it.il dispatch from Orange rlv- Scranton, Pa.; Charles Kcmeen, Brook- er (leneral Methuen'a troops are yp, William C. Oyse, Chicago and advancing under the greatest ditfleul- Daniel Maxwell, Hackettstown, N. J. ties, fighting an omnipresent but al- The Buffalo express was waiting for mont Invisible foe. A pclal dispatch the moving of a local train that had from Windsor says Methpen's dispatch beon delayed at t)? station and the to the queen after the battle of Kodder Phllllpbburg accommodation waa fol rlver says: lowing the express but a short distance "The battle was the bloodiest of- the behind, century. The British shelled the enemy The two rear cars of the express were out of the tranche and they oharged. broken to pieces, most of the passengers The result was terrible." in them being either killed or Injured. A revised list of the British casual- The engine of the Phtlllpeburg train tlea at Belmont shows: Officers killed, 4: ' was completely w recked, the engineer wounded, 22; noncommissioned officer's and fireman escaping by Jumping, The and privates killed, 46: 'wounded, 225, 01 nigine plungod Into the rear car of the wlilch number the guards had 3,"i killed 1 express, the rullman day c-mch and and 39 wounded. 1 plowed through heavy timbers aVinoat A nvls.il list, of the casualties sus-1 u -niir.- I.'ngth. This car was lifted talned by I'lllyiird'a forces at the battle! from the track and pushed next to the 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The following cablegram f has been received at the navy department from Admiral Watson: "CAV1TE, Nov. 29. Wild rumors have been received j fof the capture of Vigan, November 26, by the Oregon's S landing force under Lieutenant-Commander McCrackcn. uie innaouanis weicomeu me nag. lieutenant unmore is well, with seven of his men, about 25 miles from Vigan. Re ceived a Meyer code letter from Gilmore by Albert Sosichen, a newspaper artist, who was with Gilmore sevt'n months and 1. 1. l,n C rr, News from insurgents through a Spuni.-li sergeant, indi- cates that all the Urdanetta crew were killed t xcept the four i. following: Farley, Green, Powers and Burke. The names of the Gilmore party are: Walton, Vandoit, J? Ellsworth, Brisolesen, Anderson, Ed wards and Peterson. Some & of the wounded were left nt IUiltr. Gilmore has no news of them. . ' I Tin- above dispatch, taken in connection with advices re- ceived today from General Otis, describing the success of the $ i movements of the army under .Young, encourages naval offi- "ciuls" in1 the btlkf' that perhaps by this time the American m iirisoners referred to have alremlv been released. . 6 1 w SANTIAGO IS Ql'IETT. CJeneral Wood Says no Out break Need be Feared and Troops Can be Reduced. Lackawanna and Western railroad while standing outside the station at Yanwlnkle street crying, Paterson, N. J.. at 7.43 tonight, was run into by a awlf.ly moving accommodation train bound from Phlllliwburg, N. J., to Jersey City. At kat eight peopk- were killed andj Insurrection among the police there are now 20 injured at the hospital I force In Washington." WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-When asked If there was any possibility of an outbreak among the rural guards In Cuba General Wood, governor ot Santi ago, today said: "No more than there Concerning his mission to Washing ton, he said that It was merely for con sultation about the reduction of Ameri can forces in the island. " have recommended a reduction of about 20 per cent of the force in myde partment." It Is said on good authority that Gen eral Wood Is slated to succeed Goneral Sternberg as surgeon gwneral of the army, when the latter retires by law In June of the coming year. The surgeon, generalship would place General Wood at the head of the medical staff of the American army at but Mttla over 35 years of ag, making him the youngest officer ever holding this responsible po sition. It would leave him 25 years of active service. General Wood haa taken a house In Washington, where tie has moved with his family, and It is thought thla la another indication that be will make his permanent residence here at no wry distant date. of Beacon Hill shows: Killed wounded. 64: missing, 1; nrlsonres, S. I LONDON, Nov. 29 Tlve great battle at Nodder river has boon fought and General Melhuen has added another victory to his aohlevmnts of tho past week. That the Boers defended their position with all tholr old-time gal Bid riULADICLrillA FI1H2. Publishing Firm of Llpplncott & Com puny and Other Loo Heavily. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29.-An elec tric spark in the basement of Putridge IS: j bust car, also the Pullman, carrying oft its ei:d and almost eompMely teUscop 'ing It. j The engineer of the Philllpsburg train j was torn to pieces. The wreckage caught lire but the (lames were soou extinguished. From ! the wreck came groans and shrieks and prayers f.-r death or deliverance. It was Intensely darn at tne scene ierilloii Willi tuv iiii-ir um-viiiw j -i - - , lantry la amply proven by Methuen'a & Richardson' big department store, I and much difficulty was experienced In dispatch and it will probably be further Nos. 15 to 29 North Eighth street, start-! clearing the wreck. ; ' ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft The Credit of Selling The Best Clothes in Oregon. That's what we've had for years,' and we're making Steinbach clothes more popular every thiy. 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