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' "Mil -;,;. , , . '"'''('.jn.'Vv, , , , , . . " MIL, VOL. LU. ASTORIA. OKKGON, TM (IKS DAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1900. KO. 61 A VY 0 WW WE HAVE GOT 'EM AGAIN THOSE COLE'S AIR TIGHT HEATERS... ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. JP A Few of Our Late Specialties First-Class Timothy Hay. First Glass Cheat Hay, Oats, Rolled Barley, Chop Feed, Shorts, Bran, etc. Corvallis Flour and other First-Class Brands. Chase & Sanborn's Teas and Coffees. Prime Fresh and Smoked Meats. ROSS, HIGGINS & CO. SUMMER BASEBALL GOODS, HAMMOCKS, PISHING TACKLE BIRD CAGES, CROQUET SETS, CAMERAS, Etc., Etc. GRIFFIN I HAVF. COME TO KEEP YOU WAPM AND DRY AND TO ECONOMIZE FUEL... WILSON AIR-TIGHT HEATERS A CAR LOAD OF THEM AT FOARD & STOKES CO. CLATSOP MILL CO.: ASTORIA, ORE. Fir, Spruce and Cedar Lumber Boxes, Sash and Doors, Shingles oticl Mouldings ...Tho Esmond Hotel.. PORTLAND, ORE., FRONT AND MORRISON STS. j CuroiMso plan. Coo to 1.90 per day. J American plan, $1.00 to 13.00 per day. C. J. TRENCHARD, Commission. Brokerage, CH,,om "" Broker. . ASTORIA, ORE Insurance and Shipping. i,.mw.r.AcndP1flctJprtMC... VV VP flP 1 GOODS. 0 REED OSCAR ANDERSON, Mansgor. J. C. PKNDEGA8T, CnUd CUm VIP LOSS OF NEARLY TWENTY MILLIONS Half (he Property on (he Island Swept Out of Existence. OVER FIFTY GHOULS SHOT Tnlai ( Supplies Ruth to Gilvtitog From EsM Hi West - Mayor Scads Ap peal lor Cub lor lit Komelcii. GALVESTON. TeX.. P-pr. 12.-S p. m. via lluton. midnight. An atti-mpta id burying th dead have been utte-rly i'biin.1ned and Ni.1l.-a are now be-lng dirne. ftf In the swiftest manner "- j slide. Score of ihi-m werw burial to j il.iv and hundred were taken out to sen ami thrown ovfboard. The rafe itv of the llvlnft In now the paramount I nni-.tlnn and nothing that will tend t prevent nn ou'.bp-iik of pestilence I In-lna n-'Kli '-t-l. This m-Tnln It wn found that largo nntnl'i i of boillt-a whl. h had, Ix-en pr-vlnu-iv tl.iown Into the buy wnshrd lm-k ut" n th shore. rJ the situation vii ihUK r-n-l'-r.-d worse than tn-for-th.y w re flr.et lak-n In barges and thrown Into the water. , It will n"Vr he Known Imur mnt.y Ti-ive lost thi'lr live .n this awful ca tastrophe. Mayor Join-) thinks the b ad will amount to several thou.tnnd an) other. whoa opportunities for III Istln-c. nr- Ima than that of the may or pl.t.e it a high hk 10,sX). n-llif rommltte-a frm the Interior of the Kline hnv comm.-nred to arrive. The gr.nt trouble now fe-m to be that thou tieople who are In the great iit n-rd ttr the If.st to receive aid. Many of them are no ba lly maimed and wounded that thev are unable to ap ply ! the relief committee and the committee, are o overwhelmed by di rect application, that they have been unnble to .ett-1 out meimenirera. Very little Mealing waa rtortod to day and there were no killing. Th? number of men ihot veeterday for rd) lilntx the d-uJ proved n aalutary m .on. Th Ion. of life -imong; the regular armv atatloned at the barnu-ka on the bevh no larg. lv overestimated. -There sre hut twentv-even missing, whereas i the first estimate of casual tie. In this! direction was nearly two hundred. Oeneral McKlbben. V. S. A., ha assumed entire charge of the city In a general way. Adjutant-General Scur ry belnix In direct charge- of the city. About b'oo women and children were taken to Houston t'Xlay. Another tra'n load of provisions and clothing, making the third w-lthln the lust Jt hour., arrives! In Galveston to night. Governor Sayres received over liort.iw in contributions today. The steamer Charlotte Allen arrived at men today from Houston with 10.000 loaves of bread and other provisions, WASHINGTON. Sept. 12. Quarter mnter Baxter, V. S. A., at Galveston, telegraphs the war department that the foi-tipratlon around Galveston are all destroyed and cannot be rebuilt on the present site?.. Ho says. "I fear that Galveston Is destroyed beyon.l Its ability to recover." CHICAGO. 'Sept. 12.-The following statement was rei-elved at 11 o clock toilrht: "Galveston, Tex.. Sept. 12. TharKs P, Plehl, Gereral Manager of the Asso ciate! Tress, Chicago: "A summary of the conditions pre vailing at Galveston Is more than the human Intellect can master. Briefly stated, the damage to property Is any tvpeve between fifteen and twenty mil lions. . "The loss of life cannot be computed. All is simply guess work. Those bur- Ld in the sea and ground will foot up a horrible total of at least 3,000. Many estimates of the loaa on the Isl and In the city of Galveston and Im mediate surrounding districts arc be tween 4,000 and 8.000 deaths. I do not make this statement In fright or ex citement. "The whole story will never be told because It cannot be told. The neces sities of those living are pressing. Not a slngla Individual escaped property ..REMOVAL SALE.. For the next sixty days our entire stock of furniture and carpets will be 61osed out at less than cost Call early and avoid the rush. CHARLES HE1LB0RN & SON loxK. Tho pr.ierty on the Inland la half wept out of exlM'-nee. What our needs are can be computed by the world at large ty a atatemi-nt here with submitted much better than I could po.lbly aummarlze th'.-m. IIIp nunt b"! Immediate. "Hlgned It. O. LOWE, t "Manag'-r Oalveta News." f.AI.VK3TON'. Tx., Hcpt. 12. To the Associated Press: We are receiving numerous tch-grams of condolence and offera of assl.tanc. As the telegraph wires are burdened we beg the Associated Press to com municate this reaponae to all. Nearby titles are aunplylntr and will aupply sufficient food, clothing, etc., for our Immediate, needs. Cltl'-s further away can aerve ua best by sending money. c'"hecks should ih? niade payable to John Healey, chairman finance commit tee. All supplies ahould come to W. A. Mv'ltte,.ch-ilrnnn relief committee. We have 2",000 people to clothe and feed for manv weak and to furnlxh with h'liiRehold gooln. Moat of th'-e are homeless and oth ers will require money to make their wrecked residences habitable. From thl. the world may understand how much money we n d. All communi cant lll plena accept th!a In lieu of a direct response and be n.sur-l of the hear.tWt gratitude of the entire population. W. C. Jones, Mayor; M. Lasker, J. D. r'klniu-r. r. U. McM.mter. R. O. Iwe. Cliiiriiee Owsley, committee. PALLAS, Tex.. Sept. 12.-A bulletin from Ouivst n. via Virginia Point and Houston, retvlvM here nt 11 a. m.. says: "The situation growa worse every minute. Water an-1 Ice are needed. People In freniv from suffering from thes cau-s. Scor-s have died since last night anl a number of auffererg have gone Insane." HOI'STON. Tex., Bept. 12.-The ghoula have Nvn holding an orgle ovfr the dead at Oalveston. The majority of thc men were negroes, but whites took part in the tie oration of the dead. Some of them were natives, and some had ben allowed to go over from the mainland under the guise of "re lief" work-Ts. Not only did they rob the dead but they mutilated bodies In order to secure their ghoulish booty. A party of ten negroes were return ing from a bxxlng expedition. They had strlppel corpse- of all valuables and the pot-kets of some of the looters were fairly bulging out with flngtrs of the dead which had been cut off because they were so swollen the t ings ci.uM not he removed. Incensed at this desecration and mutilation of the dead, the looters were ehot down and It has be-en determined that all found In the act of robbing the dead shall be num. Manly shot. Purlng the nibbing of the dead r.ot onlv were fingers cut off, but ears were stripped from the dead In order to se cure Jewels of value. A few govcrn nen' troops who survived and private citizen, have been patrolling the city ami have end?avord to prevent the robbing of the dead, and on several oc casions have killed offenders. It Is said that nt one time eight were kill ed, and at another time four. Alto gether, the total of those executed ex cee.ls 50. HOUSTON. Tex.. Sept. 12.-Order has begun to take the place of chaos, which has reigned In Galveston since Satur day's terrible, storm, and citizens are recovering from the stupefaction of the sudden dlsjt?r. All conservative es timates hav? been shattereel by the es timates of Mavor Jones, of Galveston, nnd other prominent and conservative men. who, in a statement to the As- j sorhit-'d Press, declare that 3,000 deaths win rejuit rrom tne storm, uver iw lives were lost at other points In Texas. T,.ate advices say 700 human bodies have been weighted and sunk at sea som, Identified, but more going to their graves unknown. Martial law prevails now and van dalism Is bdng brought to a sudden clierk. Sickening details of the vrk of ghouls In mutilating and robbing the dead have been received and half a hundred of these men have paid the penalties of their crimes by summary deeth.. The water supply Is now reported as adequate and thereby one of the worst feature of the situation Is eliminated for provisions are being poured Into the stricken dry by carloads. Many deaths are resulting from un avoidable neglect and the sanitary con- (Continued on fourth page.) KRUGER WILL 00 TO EUROPE beveral Transvaal Officials Leave on German Steamer. GUERILLA TACTICS ADOPTED Prtildest Krsjcr Hit Lost (sterol la the Slrnxile-Asitrlcass Who Fosjht WIH Botn Now li Deitl tale Clrcurailiicci. LOL'nEXCO MAKQUKS. Sept 12. I'realdent Kruger and several Trans vaal oftlclaia are staying at the house of Mr. Pott, consul of the Netherlands. here. It la reported that they will sail for Europe, September 21th. on the Ger man steamer Herxog. I.OUP.EN'CO MAP.QUES. Sfpt. 12.- Presldent Kruger arrived here last night. NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-A dispatch to the Tribune from London says: The Boers have decided to make a formal declaration of jruerilla warfare. General Botha !. understood to have dissented from this course but. accord ing to a Past correspondent with Lord Roberts' forces, he was overruled by the other members of the council of -1 war. The News correspondent In Belfast learns through a refugee from the Bo- ers thit President Kruger w-as at Nel- spruit on Saturday and that President 1 AN INSTRUCTIVE BRYAN AT TOPEKA. The Republican party nullifies every principle of the Declaration of Independence. And so today we are engaged In a controversy which will determine whether we are to have a republl: In which the government "derives Its Just powers from the consent of the governed." or an empire In which brute force Is the only recognlred source of power. If this Nation enters upon a colonial career, it must repudiate the doctrine that governments derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed. When such an Issue Is raised there can only be two parties the party (whatever Its name may be) which believes In a republic, and the party (whatever Us name) which believes In an empire and the Influence of every citizen Is, consciously or unconsciously, in tentionally or unintentionally, thrown upon the one side or the other. Steyp, Vlljoen, Christian Botha. Four- nle P.nd Delarey were with him. Lu cas Meyer has oeen deposed from his command but remains Mr. Kruger's mllltaiy adviser. President Kruger .'s said to be feeble and apparently takes little Interest In the mllltaiy movements. He remains In his railway carriage constantly reading psalms. It Is be'leved that his ulttn;ate intention is to take flight to ward Koomatiport. LONDON. ' Sept. 12. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state for the colonies. Ir. the form of a letter to the Durham Conservative Association Is sues an election manifesto. Referring to the settlement In South Africa, he said: "I ibould seriously fear that if. for any cause, the Liberals were now re turned to office they would be ready to throw away. In connection with the settlement, the position which has been so hardly gained. a "I hope every elector who feels that the arrogant and arbitrary tyranny of the Boer oligarchy culminating in an Invasion of her majesty's territories requires to be dealt with by a strong hand will support the Unionist candi dates at the polls." CAPE TOWN. Sept. 12. In the Cape house of assembly yesterday. Premier Sir John Gordon Sprlgg, replying to a auesthn concerning the fate of refu ge?s who hai not been permitted to re turn to their occupations, said that lf charltaLle funds failed the govern ment woul see to it that the refugees did not starve. LONDON. Sept. 12. The Cape Town correspondent of 'he Dally Mall, refer ring to the question put In the house of assembly to Sir John Gordon Sprlgg regarding the refues. said: "The distress among them la very se rious Largo numbers, mostly Ameri cans, are living In caves on the sides j cf TaH'; Mountain, owing to their In ability to pay rent." MAIL ROBI.EhV. Two Sacks of Register"! Mail Stolen nt the Metropolis of the Bkevna River District. VICTORIA. B. C. Kept. 12-Th steam t.t Quen City brings news of a big msll robbery at Port Esslngton, the metropolis of the Skeena river mlnlnj? and canning section. The mail was reidy to be brought to Victoria by the Queen City and was placed In the cor ner of the general store at Esalnaton, v here the postofhee Is located. Two days before the steamer arrived the store was entered during the night and two sacks of registered mall stolen. The letters !n these two sacks. Post master Cunningham says, contained over $3000 in eaah. checks and drafts. Suspicion fell on some of the half breeds who were hanging around the vicinity of the postofflce, and one of them was arrested. No evidence could be found against him and he was re leased. BATTLE OF BRANDY WINE. Anniversary Celebrated cn the Battle field. WESTCHESTER. Pa.. S-pt. 12.-The 123rd anniversary of the battle of Brandywine was celebrated yesterday pn the battlefield where, on September 1L 1T77. for the first time the contlnen tal army car.rlel the Stars and Stripes into battle. It having been adopted as the national flag by congress a few months before. The ceremonies incident to the cele bration began at noon when a salute Lf thirteen guns was fired. This was i roitowea by a nag raiBing. during; wnicn thousands of persons Joined In singing the "Star Spanglsd Banner." Two cannons presented by the gov ernment were olaexfd In positions mark PARALLEL. JEFFERSON DAVIS' BOOK. VOL. . , II. PAGE 29S. The whole science of a republi can ' government Is to be found in this sentence from the Decla ration of Independence: "Govern ments are Instituted among men, deriving their Just powers from the consent of the governed.' Who, then, had a right to-Institute a republican government for Louisiana? Under what princi ples, then, could a citizen of Massachusetts, whether clothed In regimentals or citizen's dress, come Into Louisiana and attempt to set up a state government? Un der no principles, but only by the power of the invader and the usurper. If the true principles of a republican govtrnment had pre vailed and could have been en forced when Major-General But ler appeared at New Orleans, he would have been hanged on the first lamp-post, and his successor, Major-General Banks, would have been hanged on the second. Ing the patriots' line of battle. The orator of the day was Judge Johnson, of Media, The celebration was under the aus pices of General George MejCall Post No. 31, Grand Army of the Republic. The visitors Included prominent G. A. R. men and persons from the sur rounding counties. GERMAN MILITARY MANEUVERS. Plan Is for Repulse of Hostile Fleet by German Army. BERLIN. Sept. 12.-The German mil itary maneuvers in accordance with plans prepared by Emperor William have now gone far enough to enable an analvalo of the scheme. The sup position Is that a hostile fleet can with stand a hostile army on the shore af ter . - the German fleet near Arcona. The enemy has attempted to push on quickly to Berlin w-here. how ever, an army Is formed which moves by forced marches toward Stettin, re pulsing the Invaders. Today the hos tile cavalry and Infantry divisions are near Pyrlti In Pomeranta. The weather has been cool and dry until last evening when a warm rain set in. Prince Henry of Prussia and the emperor have been participating. t-mperor William makes frequent and successful use of automobiles. He en camped near Wlldenbruch last nlfrht. RAINS BRING RELIEF. Total Number Receiving Famine Re- lief Now Reduced to Four and a Third Millions. LONDON. Sent. 12 I.or.1 Cin-zon of Keddleston. viceroy of India, has cabled the India office that good rains have fallen in Madras and central Bengal and on the Gang?Mo plain, relieving all present anxiety regarding the autumn crops in those tenitoiUa, The total number now receiving fam ine relief has fallen to -l,3ai,(W. METAL MARKET. NEW YORK. ScdL 12.-Silver. '"62: lead, unchanx.-d. WORLD'S MOST GIGANTIC STRIKE N2.000 Pennsylvania Miners Or dered to Quit Work. MEN WILL BE CARED FOR Mlocri ol Amtbraclte Coal Will Ccat Work' oi Mosdsjr Next Presides! of I'nltetf Mlacworkers His Sijsed the Order. INDIANAPOLIS.- Sept. 12.-This af ternoon President Mitchell and Secre tary Wilson of the United Mlneworkers of America affixed their signatures to a document which will call 142.000 min ers of the Pennsylvania anthracite re gion from their work Monday morning and precipitate one of the most glgantlo strikes in the history of the labor world. The document wa. an official en dorsement of the request of the an thracite miners to strike. The official order to strike was sent to the three presidents of the Pennsylvania districts. The order la simply a recital of the pro cedure of the three district bodies la applying to the national board for au thority to strike, nnd a formal an nouncement that the application Is en dorsed and a strike ordered. The order says: "Do not wait for any further notice to strike, but cease work In a boly on and after Monday, September 17. 1900." ' As to maintaining the men during the strike. Mitchell ?aid: "When men are fighting for wages they can subsist on very little. At any rate it is safe to say that nobody will starve or want for necessary clothing. Most'of the men live In the company housrs and we must consid er the probability of eviction, but these things have all been fully considered." ---TERRIBLE TRAIN-WRKC1.- Nine Persons Killed and Five Injured on the Illlnels Central. CAIRO, III.. Sept. 12. A1 terrible wreck In which nine persons lost their lives and five others were Injured oc curred at Beechwood. Illinois, a station on the Illinois Central railroad, today. "The dead are: Kate H. Ward. OI- lie Enright. Ella Williams, of Collins; Anna Allen. Madg? Margaret. Faith. Hamilton, Ella Williams, Ada and Pat Patterson (colored). Anrile Bell (color ed), all from Chicago. ' The persons killed were occupants of a special private car of Duncan Clark Specialty Company, composed of ten men and seven women, en route to Mound City, where they were billed to annar tonight. At the north switch half a mile north r of Beechwood. the nivate car. which was attached to the rear end of the passenger train, jumped from the rails to the west anl crashed across the front end of a switch engine which stood still upon the track. The car smashed Into bits of Kindling1 wood. The cause of the accident was the breaking' of the rear trucks of the pri vate car. Duncan Clark, manager of the company, was among the Injured. NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. After Some Bickering Succeed In Nom inating a Ticket. SARATOGA. N. Y.. Sept. 12. The Democratic state convention tonight nominated this ticket: Governor John B. Stanchfleid. of Chemung. Lieutenant-governor William Mack- ey. of Erie. Secretary of state -John T. Norton. 8. Atwater. of of Kennsaeler. Controller Edwin Dui-hesa. Treasurer John B. Judson, of Ful- ton. Attorney -general Thos. F. Conway, of Clinton. Engineer and surveyorRussell R. Stuart, of Onondaga. Ths head of the ticket was not se lected without a sarcPstlc exchange of compliments among the leaders. But when the will of the convention had finally been registered. ex-Senator Hill was the first to propose the unanimous nomination of Stanchfleid. WEDDING OF MISS M'KINLEY. The President Attended the Wedding of His Niece at Somerset. Pa. SOMERSET. Pa., Sept. 12. The wed ding of Miss Mabel McKInley. only child cf Mr. and Mrs. Abner McKIn ley, and Dr. Ilerminus Baer, took place tonlf.ht and was ma-la notable by the presence of Presldt McKInley, unci of thd brld". FAKLING HAS ARRIVED. 3 WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. The war department has lieen Informed of the arrival at Manila, on the ninth Instant, of the transport Pakllng. She ha cav alry horses on boarJ. ! f 1 I