The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, August 21, 1900, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textr:oTi fiM !n,;;ils. N'...;-' ' ASTORIA FlfBUC UBJUKr ASSOCUTOR. Li one will L.j , 1 1 1 Mil. fKvKY v J l0 VOL. III. ASTOUIA. OREGON, TUESDAY. AUGUST 21, 1900. AO. 4t 1 1 BifflAm VrrY WE HAVE GOT 'EH AGAIN THOSE COLE'S AIR TIGHT HEATERS... ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. py ny tp my TO 0l! FARMER FRIENDS Order your Winter's supply of feed NOW. Our special offer closes this week. . . . ROSS, HI6GINS & CO. J- SUMMER BASEBALL GOODS, HAMMOCkS, , PISHING TACKLE BIRD CAGES, CROQUET SETS, CAMERAS, Etc., Etc. GRIFFIN CLATSOP MILL CO.: ASTORIA, ORE. Fir, Spruce and Cedar Lumber Boxes, Sosli arid Doors. Shingles otid Mouldings ...The Esmond Hotel., PORTLAND, ORE., FRONT AND MORRISON STS. Jtumno)ln.5ontoI.N)nirdav. OSCAR ANDERSON, M huh iter. v American plsn, 1.00 to 13.00 per Uy. C. J. TRENCH ARD, Commission, Brokerage, CM,,om HouM Broker. ASTORIA, ORE Insurance and Shipping. A,ntw.p.co,andr.cincKiBrfuc.. w a wtyyf i1 n GOODS. U REED WE LEAD, OTHERS FOLLOW and all In our procession nr glad they've fallen Into line. If you want to see th mok of aatlsfac tlon. Just watch the smiling crowd Incinerating our cigars. It'a an In traduction to the new pleaiur. to light one of our peerless creations for the first time. Doing so Is be Binning a habit that will not be changed. Will Madison. J Ci PKndkA8T, ChM C let k I ALLIES NEED REINFORCEMENTS Chinese Troops Are Surrounded in the Imperial Palace. TROUBLE FEARED AT CANTON Jipancit Cavalry tin Led Pcltla la Pursuit ol Empress Dowsjer sad Her 30,000 Troops Mors Troops Go t. Shasfail. LONDON. Auk. 21. Owing probably to th r. kin wire bring rut, llltle new of the conditions In the Chinese capital tut. cm through thin morning. What hrtM riai hcd Indn Indicate that the slllc are In nc-d of reinforcement. The ccihinnnder of the Kalian cruiser rii iunwioa telegraph frm Tnku. ac cording to the Rome correspond-nt of the Dallv Moll, that wry urgent r iti"ct fT coming from Pekln on Saturday for Immediate dcspaUh of f urt h-r Irootm. and lhat In answer to tliise, 0 Lallan martm were wtit "iff p. si hast. H.-rloii. trnutih' In now threatened In the neighborhood of Canton. The Ann-rli unit at Pwatow. according to the Pnllv Chronicle' Shanghai cr-r-ntioiulent. have applied for a tnrshlp In coniuence f rlou rioting, and the H.mg Kong cn-'-spoiident of the t i!) v Mull ty that a worship In on the way there, now. A Japanese wnmhlp ha left Yokoha ma for Hhnnghal. according to the Dully Mall, to land trooiMi and to protect Jmnne fub)i-ct. The Dullv Mnll al amiouin'cii that Ormany will send a d'i' hm"nt to Bhanshul. WASIIIXOTON'. Aug. 2o.-The Amorl can rtply to China's InWt appeal for rr.iaton 'of hoetllltlca. received today fmm LI Hung Chang, haa not yet Im made known, and It la likely that the matter will be one of the main sub ject for consideration at the cabinet min ting tomorrow. Put there la reason to believe that the condition laid down In the American note of August 12th have not been complied with, and unleaa , untied with the srovemment'a course must pmcecd without reference to China's aniH-al for a haJt In the pnx-eedlngs. The dispatch of Auut 12th wild pe clrtcally that the United Ptutes was ready to enter Into an agre-ment be tween the power and the Chinese gov ernment for a cessation of hostilities on the condition that the relief fcrces should be permitted "to enter IVWIn unmolested," and escort the lesntloners therefrom under such circumstances as the commanding general mUht lay down. But up to :he prem-nt time there Is no evidence that the allied forces are unmoleste) at Tekln or have received the sanction 'of the Imperial govern ment to convey the len.tloners to Tien Tsln without further trouble and un der conditions laid down by the com manding general. On the contrary all dispatches Indicate that the allies are meeting with stubborn resistance, and there Is entire lack of compliance with the conditions laid down by the Uiut-d States In Its dispatch of Au gust 12th. Aside from the fact that the condi tions of Auvust 12 have not been com plied with by China. It Is probable that this government would desire to take sulticlent time to learn whnt the other powers Intend doing on the same line as all are acting in unison. More over there are some unexplained fea tures of LI Hung Chang's application, one of them being that while he aks the allies to cease hostilities he gives no assurance that he has power to make the Chinese army and the re bellious Poxers cense their hostilities. The Japanese legation received a dis patch stating that the Chinese troops retreated on the loth within the lmp?r lal palace and that they were surround ed there with the Japanese military whose headquarters are located In the Japanese legation. Admiral Remev also transmitted an authentic report from Tekln on the 13th. saving: "Troops moving on Imperial city." These several dispatches from differ ent sources establish cleatjy' that the Imperial palace and grounds were un ea Side Soecialties VERANDA FURNITURE CHAIRS AND SETTEES A new line of these just reccivoil. Steamer Chairs, Folding Camp Chairs, Canvas and ftirc Ccts always cn Hand. CHARLES HEILB0RN & SON der seige. Hut not one of the dispatches Is cb-ur a to how lut thl: condition of affair existed. Today's dispatches seem to Itiako Hear thut the eniperor and enuir-ft dowager have made their tseape from I'ekln and that about the Wily present service of the lmp;rial pal nee and grounds Is us an asylum In which the demoralised Chinese soldiers are making th' lr last stand. The state department today Issued the following statement: "The acting secretary cf state, makes public the receipt of a telegram today from Cunsul-'Jen.' - dated the 20th Inst., reporting a statement of the governor of Hhan Tung, that the empress left I'ekln on the 13th for HI nan Fu In the province of Khen PI. and that Princes Chlng and Tuan and Viceroy Kan Yl are still at Pekln, "Hlnan Fu appears to be another ver sion of the name of the capital of Phen 81, where there Is an Imperial palace. It I oiherwlse Hsl An. 81 An and 81 Ngati, stifllt Fu. denoting city, which Is the scat of administration. The slate department today made public the fallowing: "Che V-hj. Aug. 20. lSOfl.-Uagsdille re ports Chinese troops surrounded In the palace grounds. FOWLER." linirsdule Is the consul at Tien Tsln. The sta'e department Is In receipt of a telegram from Levi 8. Cox, consul of the I'nited States at Hankow, Chi na, dated Shanghai. August 18, In whli h he state that he has removed to 8rnngr,al. as have the other AmTI'-ans who were Insllankow. LONDON. Aug. 20.-The Japanese cavalry has left I'ekln In pursuit of the empress dowager and her court, ac cor ling to telegrams from th? North, received at Shanghai by Chinese olH dais. ' This- dltatches aver that the em press and her treasure train, iiniteeted by troorw. have already arrived at Wu Tul Pan. In Phnn SI province. The field telegraph north of Yang Tsun is Interrupted and nothing under Pokln date appears to have reached Yang Tsun since August 17. Heavy rains have been falling In the province of Pe Chi LI. The landing of the British troops at Fhanghal Is not causing excitement among the natives. A detachment of 100 French marines landed there today, A customs cruiser Is reported to have a-one to Tien Tsln to take away the foreigners rescued from Pekln. Many Influential Chinese have in terested themselves In the fate of a Chinaman sentenced by an English court at H:na Kong to six months' im prisonment at hard labor because he was a member of a triad society. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-The Japa nese legation has received several Im portant dispatches. One received today from Toklo. dated August 19, says: "After entry Into Pekln was effected by the allied troops, the Chinese troops on August 15 betook themselves to and remained lit the Imperial palace. A body of Japanese troops was told off to guard the palace and there they met with obstinate resistance by the Chinese troop. Fighting Is still going on. The hendonnrters of the Japanese armv Is In the lecation. and the divis ion Is mainly quartered In the villages outside of An Ting Man." Another telegram, dated the 19th, gives the n port of the Japanese consul-general at Shanghai, raying Sh?ng credits the report that the empress dow ager and probably also the emperor hnd left Pekln. aa the privy council crossed the Luken bridge on the 15th, bearing the banner of the Imperial cor tege. Also that Prince Chlng is still In I'ekln, although Prince Tuan has followed the empr'ss dovag?r. WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-The Chi nese government, through LI Hung Chang, has made application to the i'nltnj States for the appointment of Minister Conger, or some other Ameri can cfbciul with authority to open ne gotiations for the establishment of peace and fixing definite terms for the settlement of the present trouble. The application came to the Chinese minister today, and was taken by him to the state department. LI Hung Chang'g application for the appointment of a peace commissioner expresses willingness to conduct the negotiations at a point desired by the powers, nnd It Is expected that this will be Pekln or Tien Tsln. A similar application has been made by Earl LI to all of the other powers Interested. His suggestion of Minister Conger as the commissioner 19 based on the Idea that as Minister Conger has been rescued he haa now the opportunity to TWO HUNDRED HOUSES WRECKED Two Destructive Tornadoes Ruin Buildings and Crops. CARS LIFTED FROM TRACK Leu la Wlicontla Over $309,000 -Every Ibloj Wrecked li the Storm's Pill Peaces tsd Sljns Harfcd Husdresi of Feet. MILWAUKEE. Aug. 20.-A special from Sheboygan. Wis., says: A terrific wind storm struck this city this afternoon. Eight large buildings were completely wrecked and two hun dred small houses blown down. The loss will be more than 1300.000. At noon It was as dark as night and Intensely hot. A few moments before 1 o'clock the storm broke, increasing In force until a tornado was blowing. Person were thrown down and fences and signs hurled hundreds of fet. The storm was two mile wide and wrecked everything In its path. All was over in ten minutes. That no or.c was killed seems al most a miracle. ST. PAUL. Ass. 20. A special to the Dispatch tell of heavy damage to property and crops in North Dakota by severe electrical storms. At Nichol son. Towel and other places, many buildings were wrecked and cars lift ed from the track by the fierce wind. The rainfall was over two Inches. SALMON PRICES FIXED. Alaska Packers' Association Announces Figures for Its 1900 Pack. NEW TORK. Aug. 20.-Representa-tives of the Alaskan Packers' Associa tion have fixed prices on the 1900 t ack of Alaska salmon as follows: Horseshoe, a trial brand. $1.20. and oiher table I1.12H. Against these fig ures, however, a concession amounting to 2"-4 cents per dozen Is made on all rtralght lot of five hundred cases or over of one brand which can be (-hipped Immediately upon arrival at San Francisco and on which the expense of holding until the arrival of other brands will be spared the association. The buyer Is to be given the full benefit of this saving, as all salmon In the quan tity named will be killed, at 1.1714 for Horseshoe, and $1.10 for other brands, No prices have been named on sock eye, medium red and pink salmon. It Is said, owing to the poor reports as to the pack made from the various can nerles. Estimates as ,to the probable shortage on the entire coast vary con siderably, ranging from foo.ooo cases to 1.0W.000 cases below the pack of ltst year. The actual shortage figures are. of course, not available, the returns from the various carmerles not being com plete. COULD NOT BE BLUFFED. Confederate General Proposes to Work for National Unity Regardless of Criticism. ATLANTA. Aug. 20.-General J. B. Gordon, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, has re plied to a resolution recently adopted by the camp of confederate veterans of New Orleans, condemning the Blue nnd Gray reunion at Atlanta, recom mending that no more similar reunions be held and protesting against Gen eral Gordon accepting his Invitation to the G. A. R, reunion at Chicago. General Gordon says: "My own conscience and my own conception of dutynust be my guide In the future as In the past. I must be the judge now and hereafter of the propriety of accepting Invitations from any section of the country or from any class of my fellcv countrymen. "I shall continue the efforts which I have made for thirty years In the Interest of sectional harmony and unity." ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPPING. Man and Woman Tried to Put a Weal . thy Man in a Sanitarium. ALBANY. N. Y.. Aug. 20. Henry W. Heist, of Elmlra, and a woman nam ed Mrs. Sigel, or this city, have been arrested on a charge of kidnapping. It is claimed that Heist Induced ex-Alderman Ebel, a wealthy man, to go to a hotel here, and preparations were being made to remove him to a sanitarium at Elmlra. The woman Is said to have been a former employe of Mr. Ebel. Heist finally Informed the police and the arrests followed. EARTHQUAKE AT DAWSON. Mountain Split in Two and Stream Changed Its Course. CHICAGO. Aug. 20. A special to the Record, from Vancouver, C, $ays: The steamer Cutch which has arrived from Kkngway brought news that an earthquake- on August 10 shook Hkag way for seventy seconds and was even more severely felt in Dawson. All the way d'uvn the river the shock was ap parent and at several Maces was par ticularly defined. At Dawson two small government buildings In course of con struction were toppled over. Arrivals from the Btewart river, half way down the Yukon to Dawson, say the mruntaln there was split In two. One stream was dammed up partially by fallen rock and It turned Into the newly formed canon at the mountain. Five miles of this stream and two mile, of the second tributary of the Btewart were left dry. SMALL WHEAT YIELD. r Indiana ProJucj This Year Little More Than Enough for Seeding. CHICAGO. Aug. 20.-A special to the Times-Henld from Wr abash, Ind., says: Reliable grain dealers from all parts of the state have collected statistics showing the total yield of wheat in Indiana for the pnfient year Is the smallest for many years, and not ex ceeding S.ooo.000 bushels against from 23,000.000 to 40,000.000 for several years In Succession prior to ISM. The crop Is a practical failure, there being but lit tle more than enough grain raised for seeding, and leaving a shortage of 1, 000,000 bushels. M'KINLEY ATTENDS G. A.' R. Will Make No Lengthy Chicago. Speeches In WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-Presld?nt and Mrs. McKlnley will leave Washing ton Friday afternoon to attend the an nual encampment of the G. A. R It was statd here today that Presi dent McKlnley intends to deliver no set or lengthy speeches while In Chi cago attending the G. A. R. encamp ment. Chief Detective Colleran said today that all distinguished guests Aill be amply protected at the G. A. R. en campment MINERS SHOT BY HOLDUPS. Two Were Killed at Florence. Colo rado. DENVER. Aug. 20. A special to the News, from Florence. Colo says: George Bonash and Joe Juhasx. min ers, were shot by holdups at Brook- side, a coal-mining town, five miles from here. Bonash being Instantly killed and Juhasx fatally, wounded. O. A. Havens and Joseph Graham have been arrested on suspicion. " FOUR DEATHS FROM HEAT. Cincinnati and Chicago Still From the Hot Weather. Suffer CINCINNATI. Aug. 20. The mercury touched 93 today. There were two deaths from heat and ten prostrations. CHICAGO. Aug. 20. The intense heat today resulted in a number of prostrations and tw-o deaths. ANOTHER GUST OF WIND. Bryan Has Completed His Topeka Speech to the Fopullsts. LINCOLN. Neb.. Aug. 20.-Bryan has practically completed his Topeka speech today. The speech will be only about half the length of his Indianapolis speech, and It will be a reply both to the Populist nomination and the mone tary league endorsement. NEW TURKISH MINISTER. Head of the Cipher Bureau of the For eign Office Will Come to America. CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 20 -Schelb Bey, head of the cipher bureau of the foreign ofFce. haa been appointed Turk ish minister to the United States la place of AH Forroush Bey. recalled. STILL ONE HUNDRED DEGREES. Temperature Reached 113 Degrees Kansas Yesterday. in ABILENE. Kas.. Aug. 20. This was the eleventh day of one hundred degree weather and the temperature rose to 113 with hot winds. Pastures and corn are badly burned. WON CHAMPIONSHIP CUP. Kansas City Firemen Will Bring It Kome From Paris. PARIS. Aug. 20.-The Kansas City firemen, in a class created at the ex position for paid firemen, won the world's championship cup. STEWART FOR M'KINLEY. Famous Silver Senator Will Unite With the Great Malorlty. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Senator Wm. Stewart, of Nevada, called at Republi can headquarters today and said he had decided to vote for President McKln ley. METAL MARKET. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Silver, lead, biokers. 4; exchange, 425. WILL BRING WHEAT BY ITS OWN LINE 0. R. & N. Will Run Down North Side of Columbia. COLUMBIA TO BE BRIDGED Right el Wy Secured From Portland to tbe River's Mouth via Vancouver I. R. N.. Co. Will Sill Out. PORTLAND. Aug. 20. The Oregon Ian tomorrow will say: "It Is considered by many as quite certain that the purchase of the prop erty of the Ilwaco Railway and Navi gation Company by the O. R. & N. will be consummated In the near future and that a railroad will be built by the O. R. N. from Frankfort, a point 93 miles below Portland on the Wash ington shore, to Ilwaco. This will give the O. K. & N. Co. control of Pea side travel between Portland and North Beach. "Behind this Is the prospect of the O. R. & N. Co. building a railroad from Portland to Frankfort. It Is known that L. Gerllnger. a Vancouver brewer, has secured the right of way for a railroad down the Washington shore of the Columbia and that a sur vey of this line has been made this summer. "It Is surmised that the survey has been made in the interest of the O. R. & N., and that It Is probable that if at any time the O. R. & N. Is forced to haul wheat to the mouth of the river, tt will, by building this road and a bridge across the Columbia, be able to do so over Its own line." DE WET NEAR PRETORIA. Fought Yesterday With the British Forces Under General Mahon. LONDON. Aug. 21. A special dls ftom Pretoria announces that General De Wet bivouacked five miles from the city and General Mahon was briskly en gaging him yesterday (Monday) morn ing. LONDON. Aug. 21. A dispatch haa received the following dispatch from Lord Roberts: "Ian Hamilton captured two Krupp guns at Ollphant's Nek. August 17. Three British were wounded. "Hamilton enggaed the Boers all day August 19 at Roodekopjea and Crocodile river. There were few cas ualties. "Rundle reports that 6S4 Boers Bui rendered In the Harrismlth district, on August 19." BRYAN CAUSES A BOYCOTT. Grand Army Posts Refuse to Send Delegates to the Encampment Be cause He Was Invited. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20.-James Morrison, state department commander of the G. A. R.. announced today that but three of the thlrty-slx posts In this city, with a membership of 7,000. ' will send delegations to the national encampment In Chicago next week. Commander Morrison stated that this act Is the result of tlw Invitation ex tended to William J. Bryan to attend the encampment. "It is customary," said Morrison, "to invite the president, but never a can didate, and old soldiers express indig nation because they objpet to politics being injected Into the encamnm-nt. The delegation from this city will con sist of about 150 men." MONUMENT TO FLOYD. Cornerstone Laid at Sioux City, Iowa. Yesterday. SIOUX CITY. Ia.. Aug. 20.-The cor nerstone of a monument to Sergeant Chaa. Floyd, of the Lewi and Clark expedition, was laid today. ANOTHER LYNCHER SENTENCED. The Fourth Who Will Go to the Peni tentiary for Life. PALESTINE. Tex.. Aug. 20. Walter Wilkerson was today convicted of par ticipation in Humphrey's lynching In May. 18S9, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Three others have been sentenced for the same offense. WHEAT MARKET. PORTLAND, Aug. 20.-Wheat. Wa:ia Walla. 54c! Valley. 54c 33c; blueatem, See's 37c. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 20. Wheat, December, 10S; cah. 10214. CHICAGO, Aug. 20. Wn.-at, Septem ber, opened. 727s. closed, 72V4; barley, feeding. 37; malting, 41. 43; flax. No. 1 Northwestern. 13S. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 20. Wheat. Sep tember. 5s. 11V4-1.