The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, June 05, 1901, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextASTORIA PUBLIC lIBKAftlf ASSOCUTfOH, Ik 1 ASTOKIA, OKCCOX. WKDNEMjAY, .IL'NR 5, 1901. The Cheapest Yet A SIX STEEL FOR t3 ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. Plumbers and Steam! liters Diamond IN GREAT VARIETY Bats, Balls, Masks, Pads, Gloves And everything elm in (hat line to make the boys happy. If you do not piny hall we ran show yoa an elegant line of FISHING LINES, FLIES, REELS. BASKETS, ETC. J GRIFFIN BOILEDHAM Smoked EcIh All Kindt of CHcchc FrcHli Fruits Everything That's Good See what we have before purchasing U wiH j,av v Foard & Stokes Co. Fancy and Staple Groceries FLOUR. FEED, PROVISIONS, TOBACCO AND CICARS Supplies of all kinds at lowest rates, for fishermen, Fanners and Ixtggers. A. V, ALLEN, Tcnth and Commercial Streets ' ( 111.11 w It We Rent New c. J. Commlssioa. Brokerage, Insurance and Shipping. nl L TRBNCHARD. HOLE RANGE 0.00 Outfits AMD AT A Li. PRICES & REED REPUTATION REPRESENTS PUBLIC OPINION Reputation represents publlo opinion. How to get In your favor. Make a flrt-olass, re liable, article like the Char. terOak Stove and Range. Every Charter Oak la guar anteed. Fur sale In Astoria only by W. J. SCULLY. 431 Bond St., Between Ninth and Tenth. Typewriters. Many now improvements added. See our latest No. 2 Smith Premier Typewriter New Art Catalogue Free . , . L- M. ALEXANDER A CO. Exclusive Paoillu Coast Dealers 245 Stark KL, Portland, Ore, F W. M'KEPHMIE. I.ocsl Agent. Custom HowHt Broker. ASTORIA. flRF. W. F. A Ooh and Paolflo Kxbtm. Ooi. AGUINALDO SAYS TO SURRENDER Advises General Cailles lo Lay Down His Arms. MUST DECIDE BY MONDAY Sb.ll Noilly America Ocoer.lt .1 Paruoja. -Ti Defeat of Ibf Brillib .1 Vlok loolel. Ma.y Slsl. o. Both Side. MANILA. Jun. 4. B. Gueverra. al Jirtarrt -it Oe.ieral Calll"s. had a the hours' Interview with Agutnaldo today. He HuJd thtit Cillle did not bcllev thai Aa-ulnaldo had been captured and run. we,unt)y Issued a firix-lamatlon char aoterlxlng Aguln.ildw'. capture to the Killpln . nlf an an American trick. Agulnaldo, '.hrougti Gueverra, advised ('alll'n to ar!vid.T Immediately. After thin lntervl-w General Wade and General Sumner Informed GuevT ra that ("allies mum notify (hem at Pagxanjan. not later than next Mon day, of hlii decision In the milter. Tim Anvncin ge.vrula declined to ajuarannv that Calllc. would not be proseculJi. The commission tomorrow will resum the nnranlsatlon of the civil govern ment In the pmvlnc-. A bill has been pr'pnrd creating fourteen Judicial cir cuit. The salaries of the circuit Judge, range frim $JW0 to $."OQ0 a year. UltlTISII WEIIR SURPRISED. Viakfonteln Battle One of the Must Js berate of the War. ia.im).n. June 6. Details received regarding the fighting at Viakfonteln show that It was one of the most des-ii-rale enaagemen:. of the war. Gen eral Pixan's .xjlumn was traversing the dlilrtc't IHl mlibllnhlnK kwU when It was attacked by 1200 Ilocrs under Com- nianila:it Kemp. The Hoi' in were Close that fifty Ilrltlsh fell at the first volley. The yeo nunry held a poHlti i roteiting the aims until they were nearly devlmated. ami then finding it Impossible to ve the aunn. tho artillerymen shot the Kiinhorst-s to prevent the Boers moving the kumk. The column quickly recov ered frim the slnvk of the unexpected attu k. The Derby .-thlr-s chargel with bayonets. It In ,usert-d that while the Hiwrs had temirarlly ixxwesslun of the guns they shot two artillerymen In cold blood for refusing to work thorn again. their own comrade. The recrud.Kcence of such flghtlna brings funh -r demands for sending uu reinforcements. CASUALTIES AT VUOKFMNTEIN Dlxm's Iteport of Fight Sent to In don The Jamestown Surrender. LONDON. June 4.-Ird Kitchener. In dispatch from Pr.t-r1a, Juied June 4 says: inxons report or the fighting at Viakfonteln. forty miles from Johan. neoburg, May 29, has Just been received Our casualties were six officers and fif ty-one men killed, six officers and 115 men wounded and one officer and sev en men missing. One officer and four men have died of wounds. Forty-one Boer, were killed on the around. Helnfurvementa are being sent." The war offlVe tonight published the following Jlspatch from Lord Kitchen er, dated Pretoria, June 4: "Jamestown (Cape Colony) surrender mi to Kitxing.jrs command on the morning of June 2, after four hours' fighting. The town guard and local vol unteers were overpowered before ever the pursuing columns could come up. "Our casualties were three killed and two wounded. The Boer loss is said to have been greater. Stores were looted but the garrison was repulsed. "Have placed General French In hnrge of operations In Ca,'e Colony." POWERS ALL AGREED. How Indemnity Shall Be Paid Now Onlv Question. the WASHINGTON, June 4. As a result of the exchanges of the last few days (Commencement Bay WE CAN HELP YOU IN PRICE AND QUA LITY IN DRESSING FOR THE OCCASION WHITE - Victoria Lawns. 10, 12, 15. 20, 25. 80. 40c Organdies 2-ya wide, extra fine, 65. 85c India Linens. 12H. 15. 18, 20. 22. 23, 25. 80. 40c. Orgindles, 25, 30. 40, 45c. Chafe. Laces and Embroideries to trim with. i . SHANAHAN'S the Chlrn-Hf nu-Ht!on bus nsolvi-d Itielf to about the following bants: liter? is no furth-r Issue as in the Mill of th Ind-mnltv. thit having b-en iur'ed upon by nil th r"wrs and Icing inx.ooo.ooo. Hut ther- r-rmUns the tl n of how this amount shall b.- paid. The Ituwilun suggintlon. which appears to have thf; approval of a majority of llw nowers, Is that China issue bonds for ih full amount and that all the powers then unit In giving a Joint in dorsement or a guarantee of the pay ment of them. The dslr has been not onlv to se cure acnt of a maj rlty of the owers lo this scbeni" but :be unanimous ao proval of all of them. This, however. hs not been arcortitilsh,d up to the present time, and It Is for thst ra son that a modus vlvendl Is now b-lna cons derel as a ixlble means t bring ing about unit- action. NOT PltOriOULY HBf'OONIZED. Army Medical Officers Gmdd Below Heeond Lieutenants. HT. PAUL, June 4 A general meet lig of the American Mdical Asiwxia. tlon convened today. Presljent Charles A. I Heed, of Cincinnati. In his an nual address said: "Th army reorganization law of the lat congress was Inexplicable and In excusable. It grants the medical de. partment rank m l ty far beb.w every other department and a special c"rp of the army, and with the exception of second lieutenants. It 1. graded below the line. The ffert of this discrimin ation Is not only to lower the rank and nav of medical officers but must result In lessening the efficiency of the corps by repelling men of spirit and worth. It becomes the duty of every member of the medical profession to rertt as 1 personal matter between himself and every member of congress who voted fr this law. as an aotlon which ca. a stigma upon our profession, ATTACKED BY MASKED MEN. Sheepherders Made Prisoner and Many Sheep Slaughtered. DENVER June IVA .peoial to the Bemibllcan from Gunnlftin. Col., say. Hugh Colburn, a sheep herder. arrlvd today and reported thai twenty marked men attacked the camp where he was employed, six miles from Spencer, and mad prisoners of the herders and slaughtered 25o of the 5000 sheep the herd. in Th? mob Is supposed to have been comprised of cattle men. OFFICERS ELECTED. DENVER. June 4 -The Western La bor Union todav elected officers as fol- lows: President. Daniel McDtnald. of Butte, Montana; vice-president. J. C, Mcljemore, Leadville, South Dakota: secretary-treasurer. Clarence Smith, of Wallace, Idaho; executive board, Roadv Knehan. Denver; F. J. Pelletler. But'te; F. W. Walton. W!aoe. Idaho; F. M. Cronln. Butte; Reee Davis. Red Lodge, Mont. It. was decided to hold next year's meeting In Denver. ARRIVES AT HAMBURG. Firs: Steamer of the Chicago-Hamburg- Service. NEW YORK. June 4 The cable an nounced the arrival of the American steamer Northman at Hamburg today, from ChlMgn after a passage of thirty five days. The Northman is the first steamer In the new Chicago-Hamburg service to crows the ocean and her voy age has been watched with Interest as a 'test of the probable success of the undertaking. COMING TO AMERICA. NEW YORK. June 4. Gascoyne and Jenkins, two of the foremost English bicycle riders, will reach this country on Saturday next. Jenkins is the one mile champion and Gascoyne the flve mlle champion of England, and togeth er they hold the tandem championship. Both will follow the grand circuit. Cas covne's specialty is unpaced work. TO COMMAND THE ALERT. VALLEJO, Cal.. June 4 Commander Thomas S. Phelps has been detached from duty at Mare Island and ordered to the command of the Alert, Captain Perkins having boon ordered to succeed him In charge of ithe equipment depart ment at the navy yard. GOODS: WILL NOT CALL EXTRA SESSION No Change Is Necessary in Our Philippine Policy. TO FORM CIVIL GOVERNMENT Ab.nl First .1 Net I Mo.tb Fall Oover.. neat Will B EsUblliaea-Mrt. Mc Kl.lcy Oal.lnt Stre.(th Wast Visitor Slid. WASHINGTON June 4 -At a cabi net metlng today It was decided that existing conditions will not warrant the calling of an extra session of congress. NO CHANGE OF POLICY. Essential Points of Supreme Court's Decision Considered. WASHINGTON. June 4.-The su preme court decisions as viewed by the administration settle first, that the Foraker act, is constitutional; second that the collection of duties on Porto Hlco products between the tline of the cession of the Islands of Porto Rico and the Passage of the Foraker act was Il legal and must be refunded. These are held to be the main essential points of the decisions and nothing In them Is construed to apply to the tariff situa tion aa between the United States and, ths Philippines. The conclusion, of the cabinet are not ba?(J on any knowledge a. to the prospective Philippine decision of th supreme court, though it ts declared there Is little apprehension a. to the findings of the decision. If th present v.'em Is upset lit that decision... wtlch Is not anticipated, there win (wj iittle difficulty, it 1. belleviJ. in refundJor the amounts In the meantime collected ua- fler protest. GAINING" STRENGTH SLOWLY. No Material Change !n Mrs. McKin ley's Condition What Visitor Said. WASHINGTON. June 4-Dr. Rixev was at the White House an hour and a half this evening and cn leaving at half past 10, In answer to Inquiries con cerning Mrs. McKinley's conditions, said: ''There has been no important change In Mrs. McKinley's condition since we gave out our bulletin this morning. She Is resting very comfortably. Of course there are fluctuations In her condition: at times she is bett?r and at times wr.rse, but she is certainly not losing any ground. In fact she is possibly gaining very slowly. There is o more Immediate danger now than there has been for some time." While Dr. Rlxy was slightly more hopeful In his talk tonight, the patient's condition cannot be raid to show anv material change. One of the president's visitors tonight said that It was conced ed that Mrs. McKlnley was In a very a-rave condition. There was hope of the outcome, he said, but It was a very slender hope. FULL CIVIL GOVERNMENT . Philippine Commission's Policy to Be Carried Out. WASHINGTON. June 4.-About the first of the next, month a full civil government will be set up In the Philip pine islands, exactly as projected by the Philippine commission. As soon after that date as the administrate machinery can be made ready for it a Philippine tariff will be proclaimed al so following out the original plan form ed before the announcement of the de clslon of the supreme court of las week. CARNEGIE'S PREDICTION. Says Continental Powers Will Some Time Smash Great Britain. LONDON, June 4. "Mark my words." said Andrew Carnegie tonight, to a rep resentative of the Associated Press, "the ti ne is coming when the continental pavers will combine to smash up this little Island of Great Britain. When that happens she will have to turn to the United States for help. "I feel certain It will not he refused. The United States will step in and say don't." KITCHENER BEIKG CRITICISED Englishmen Want Details of the Viak fonteln Fight. NEW YORK. June 4 A dispatch to the Tribune from London .ays: The war office authorities have lost no time In saddling Lord Kitchener with responsibility for the not satisfying of nuhllc demand for trustworthy news from South Africa. Suspicions, not withstanding, .till extsu that the home official, are holding back some informa tion. The war office Is being Inundated T with numerous lno,uirles beciuse of the currency that has been given to a ru mor of a iktIouj British defeat. It would not Injure the British army If tne de tails of the Viakfonteln fight, which mum by this time have reached Lnri Kitchener, were telegraphed home at once anl It would relp to relieve the uneasiness felt by a million or more of Englishmen and women with rela tives at the fr.wt. DOUBLE MURDER. Illinois Marshall Killed While Arresting a Prisoner. CHICAGO. Jun 4 A special to th Tribune from Metropolis, 111., says: Marshal W. E. Oakes was .hot !n the lack Just blow the hart late last rla-ht and fatally injured by A. M. Cov ington, a hotel and saloon keeper. Covington in turn was shot three tim'-s and instantly killed by Marshal Oak?. The shooting was caused by a visit to the hotel by the marihil who de manded that certain women whom Cov ington had ben harboring be sent awav. Marshal Oake. having delivered his order turned to go. As soon as hi. back was turned, however, Covington shot him. Wheeling about Marshal Oakes brought his revolver into action and before he fell from his wound he had sent three bullets Into the body of his assnssin and killed him. Marshal Oakes was filing the unex pired term of Gus. H. Crouch, who was killed last Februiry while making an arrest. KILLED HIS OOOK. Wlthy Engll.i RaocW Becomes De - fnented at Golden. VAXCQWBR, a G, June 4.-A spec ial from Golden, B. C, say. that Hon. Frank Lascelles. a wealthy English ranch owner, residing on Thunder Hill, shot and killed his Chinese cook. Las celes !S related to the Earl of Hare wood and is a cousin of Sir Frank Lascelles. British ambassador to Ger manv. , . lascelles became demented through Drooding over a fancied Insult in con nection with his being; called to rive evidence In A suit over the ownershin of a horse and accused his cook, who had served him for five years, of being a burglar. After his arrest Lascelles became a raving maniac. Special Inter est in taken in the affair throughout British Columbia owing to the promi nence of the Lascelles family. FIGHT FOR A PRISONER. Mb at McKeesport Attempt at Lynch ing. NEW YORK. June 4. A special to the World from McKeesport, Pa., ays: Five thousand people a tempted 'to take Benjamin Fetty, arrested on the chanre of assault on a 3-year-old girl, from the police for the purposs of lynch ing bim. Anly the intervention of the P'ayor. who threatened to shoot the first man crossing the threshold of the Jail and the quick action of the police sav ed the prisoner. A patrol wagon full of policemen dashed up Just in time and a desperate fight took place for posses sion of the prisoner. After ten minutes the police were victorious. SAILS FOR NOME. Connemaueh Leaves Seattle With Over 500 Tons of Frenght. SEATTLE. June 4. The freight steamer sterner Connemaugh sailed for Nome this afternoon wtth 500 tons of freight for Alaskan points. The freight tariff amounted to $105,000 and the car go was valued at J600.000. The cargo included 630 head of horses, sheep, cattle and hogs. MINISTER EXPELLED. DES MOINES. Ia.. June 4. Prof. Geo. D. Herroti, ex-professor of applied Christianity In the Iowa college at Grinnell, is no longer a Congregatlonal- Ist. He was tried by a council of min isters 'today on a charge of "conduct unbecoming a Christian and a gentle man." The council decided unanimously to expel him from the church. TO BEGIN WORK. SPOKANE. June 4. Construction work will start tomorrow at Nelson. Wash.. ' on the Republic and Grand Forks railroad. It is expected that 1000 men will be at work by July 1. The contracts were signed here today. FEATHERWEIGHTS MATCHED. NEW YORK. June 4.-Tlm Callahan. the featherweight pugilist, leaves for San Francisco today. He will meet Tim Heggerty, of Australia, be fore the Twentieth Century Athletic Club on June 2S. WILL NOT RESIGN. NEW YORK. June 4.-Pres. Have meyer, of the American Sugar Com pany, Mid last night that he bad not resigned and the stories that he intend ed to do o were without foundation. CUP DEFENDER MEETS ACCIDENT Carries Away Mainmast While Under Full Sail. NO OTHER DAMAGE WAS DONE Wrcckaje Swept Sd M.I. Overboard bat He Wis Promptly ReKsed-WIII B . Refitted at Oace P.tM.er Steaners Ksc. NEWPORT. R. I., June 4.-Whilfl. dashing along m a good whole salt; breeze off BrentJn'. reef lightship this afternoon with three lower sails set the big hollow steel mainmast on the defender Conwftutlon collapsed like a blow pipe through the sudden break ing of ;he Miboard and wlmhvarj spreader, about three-fifth, of a length of the mast above deck, and as the top mast was carried away at the same time none of the spars gtruclc the deck except the boom, and; the lat ter hit it only a light Wow. which did not Injure the hull at Mil. None of the sails wi torn and sJl can t used again, FortunaUIy, three seamen had just coma down from the mast head after taking in the club topsail, but the ! 'wrsckags .wept over board the .ecoad 1 mate Edwl,a Ntem, Jjje was prompt ly hauled on, board, however, without sustaining anything more than a few bruises. The Constitution will be taken to Brls. tol tomorrow where another steel mast is lrly finished. The yacht Will fcr Immediate refitted, but K will be a week or ten day. before she I. ready to sail again, so that the races schedul ed ofT 'his port for June 15 and 17 will have to be postponed. ; PASSENGER BOATS RACE, "r One of the Prettiest Ever Witnessed on the Great Lakes. CLEVELAND. June 4The 10s-mlle race from Cleveland to Erie between the Cleveland passenger steamer City of Erie, owned by the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company and the Tash moo, Detroit's crack pasenger boat, owned by the White Star Company, wag In many respects the most noteworthy race ever sailed on fresh water. The Erie covered the distance in four hours, fourteen minutes and nine sec onds, passing the stake boat at Erie' 45 seionds ahejd of the Tashmoo. It was pronounced by old vessel men to be the prettiest race ever witnessed. Aside from winning the speed cham pionship of the Great Lakes, the Erie won about J10O.0OO for those who bet on her. ELECT OFFICERS. SPOKANE, June 4. The grand lodge of Odd Fellows today selected New Wharoom aa th next place of meeting and elected the following officers: George A. Elsperman, of Tacoma. grand master; R. M. Waters, Spokane, grand warden: W. L. Hart. Tacoma. grand secretary; J. H. Krelnbuhl, Spo kane, grand treasurer, and A. G. An sell. Spokane, grand representative. ASPHALT DEPOSITS FOUND. NEW YORK. June 4.-A cable to the Ecuadorian Association which has of fices in this ciry, announced the dis covery of wt deposits of asphalt on the island of Salango off the coast of Ecua dor. Trinidad is now the chief source of the world's asphalt supply, which Is controlled by the trust. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. MINNEAPOLIS. June 4.-The Ameri can woman suffrage asoclation today elected Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt as president; Miss Kate Gordon, corres ponding secretary. Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe said that work would go on stead ily in Oregon in spite of the defeat of the suffrage amendment. JAMES G. BLAINE WEDS. WASHINGTON. June 4,-Miss Mar. tha Hichborn, daughter of Rear-Admiral Hichborn, was married to James G. Blaine, the young-st son of the late Maine statesman, today at the residence of her parents. NEWSPAPER MAN DEAD. YOUXGSTOWN. O., June 4 R .E. Hull, aged 91 years, one of the oldest newspaper men in the country, died last night. Before the war, Hull was one of the seven organlxers of the Union Club at Louisville whhh kept Kentucky In the Union. MISS DALY MA3UUED. NEW YORK. June 1 Mis. Mary Daly, daughter of th. late Marcus Daly, was married today to James Watson, of this city.