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NOTION! . Books, Periodicals, Masizinci, w , Aro Pel to b3 T:icn r::"i7'o Library w.thout p" r.uy.. , ""V '. ", ! ninn1 Iinninir irmnnumtAi, ji woa ruuuu LluliMI AttUlIAI.Ufl. II bo liable to P$tf ICWy VOL. LIV ASTQRIA. OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1902. KO. 40 JK aw Ay y Ayv,) IT'S MIS WAY OUR GREAT Price Smashing Sale Ends In a FEW days. If yoo don't buy NOW You'll be sorry later. It'll be a long time before : Suits, Overcoats, Pants Hats and Furnishings are Sold so Low THIS WEEK BUY JzwtanllJ&t mf H until , YOU WILL FIND .'. .:' .. ON Oint SIIKLVE.H. .'. All (ho latest book by prominent authors. Every popnlar matfaxine on the mat ket. All (lie local and the grant Eastern papers. Your every want in writing and artists' matorlalr. .. A large line of up-to-date standard sporting goodt 10,000 Other Thlnga Griffin & Reed onnnnnnutnnnnnnnnnAAnnAnnnnnnnAnAnnnuinwinnnnAAAnr f THE Finest Restaurant in the City till lfC Regular Meals 25 cents ALAvL Sunday Dinner a Specialty wuuanan SSSffSWS W. W. Whipple muwinnnuvuvtnnru iruwvwuuiruwuvruvuv Aunt Ebby's Rolled Oats in bulk at FISH E R BROS. Special Sale Of Framod Pictures. Wo intend to devote r . this week solely to closing out our line of framed pictures at'pricos which you can not re fuse to take advantage of. The . line includes water colors and oil ' paintings artist ically framed; platinum prints in beautiful Flemish Oak frames. ' New Stock of Picture RIouldlnS lust Received Chas, Heilbornj& Son, j sWssia COMMERCIAL ST. - - ASTORIA, OREGON THE WORST FIRE IN MANY YEARS Series of Disasters Occur in New York In One Day. THIRTEEN PERSONS KILLED Park Avenue Hotel Destroyed llj Flre-The Place Wan Crowded With UUONtt. NEW , YORK, Feb. 22.- For the third rime since New Year's day, Park avenue In thla city ha been the scene of the loss of human life. The final was a col Union I n the New York Cen tral tunnel, the" second ' eunif dyrmnrrlt explosion in the Rapid Tran It subway, and the third today was a fire which etarted In the Seventy first regiment arnwry at Thirty-third street, and then spread to the Park Avenue Hotel, where eighteen persons were killed and many injured. It waa the worst lire since the Windsor" Hotel m destroyed. The dead are: NORMAN ACTON, Colorado Springe. COUCH AS L. BfRDETTE, Hartford. Conn. WM, J. BERNHARDT, Chicago. MR 8. WM. J. BERNHARDT. LEE O. CONRAD. New Tork. FHED 8. HOVET. Uona. N. T. JAMES K. H AMES (not certain, may be Thoman Home), Denver. JOHN 1VERS0N. Denver. MINNIE F. LKX1ER, Denver. MRS. J. MMANL'S. CAPT. CHARLES UNDERWOOD, O'OONNELL. BX-CONORBBSMAN O. R. ROB BINS. Savannah. Ga. " ESTTrEtt SCHLE8SENOER, Chlra ga JACOB. PPAHN. Rochester. JOHN O. WALKER. Columbia, Tenn. COL. ALEX M. rrPER. IT. 8. A., re tired. . MRS. 8AIMB FOSTER, known us "Tombe Angel." Unidentified woman. The hotel waa crowded whh gueeta who had come to attend the festivi ties in honor of Prince Henry. More than 500 pereona were In the house. The Are was confined principally to the fifth nnd sixth floors near the elevator air ahaXt. THE MYSERY SOLVED. Milliner Telle of How Jamea Mc-Aul-Iffe Came to Hla Death. NEW YORK, Feb. 22 Solution of the myMery as to how James McAul- Arft.k-blerwtnesf4nga!iiat'bdli1uaiodlgq' Iffe, chief witness ngaln Wardman IGennan, and who was, found filially Injured recently on the ldewaJk II Sixth avenue, came to hla death Is de clared by! he Herald to have been set tled by the statement of Miss T. R. Bolton, a milliner, whose place of business' is opposite fhe spot where McAullfTe waa found. Miss Bolton Is quoted m saying that she saw McAullfTe milking along Sixth avenue and that he he fell and ws unable to rise. Finally another man who happened to be passing picked him u pand he was carried to the hospital where he died. RAILROAD PENSION SYSTEM. ' NEW YORK, Feb. 22. Announce ment has been made by the manage ment of the Delaware, Lackawanna St Western railroad that a pension lys tem will be placed In effect March 1, for the benefit o? employes. Udder the plan, aa arranged by President Truesdale, any employe engaged for 2S years In any capacity in the operation of the railroad proper who has per formed hla duties faithfully is to be retired at 5 years of age and receive a monthly allowance proportionately .... ma . ... to pay which hw was drawing ana tne lengeh of his service. WILLIAM STOCKLEY DEAD. . NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Wllllam A. Sbockley, three times .nayor of Phil adelphia, died last night In that city, aged 79 years. RAID ON BOWERY. Hundreds of the Habitues Taken to v Police Station. ' NEW YORK, (Feb. 22. Another wholesale raid has ben made in rsorts in iBaat Fourteenth street and the up per end of the Bowery. Hundreds of the habitues were carried to the police atatlols. This la the third raid In a brief period and it was mid the cru sade wilt be oontnued until the dis trict Is thoroughly renovated. Among the .places raided was Tom Sharkey's. Inopector Cross is said to have had a warrant for Shark-y but the puiflllst was out of the city. Suicide Hall was among the places raided. TEND THE STRIKE. CommltUre of : Mine Workers to Walt on Civic Federation. JAN FHANCISCO .Feb. J2.-A dis patch from W. A. MoArthur, who has been in attendance at the meeting of the National Ovtc Federation in New York Indicate that efforts are to be made to end the strike of the local Iron workers which commenced May, 20, wot. ;. . ' ." '. ;. .V A committee consisting of nine mem bers of the Civic Federation has been appointed with instructions to visit this city and endeavor to adjust the troubles between the principal ship building and Iron working Arms and the men still out on strike. The names of those compoitlng the committee were not .forwarded. t. , ', CHICAGO HONORS WASHINGTON Former Member : of French House of Deputies flueet of Honor. CHICAGO. Feb. 22. The Union League Club tonight observed Wash ington's birthday anniversary with a banquet to tts members. The guflrt of honor was Baron D. EsternHle De Constant, a member of the French house of deputies, who poke on the union of France and America in the past and future. TWO SENATORS COME TO BLOWS Tillman and McLaurin Engage in Fistic Combat During Open Session. MOST DISGRACEFUL SCENE MeLaurln . Hatd Tillman - Lied ' and Senior Beuator. Kained Blows ITjMm Ifift V Colleague. TRAGEDY AT VOMERS FATAL SHOOTING OF TWO YOUXO G1KLS. Iitxaiie Fondness For a Child The Supposed Cause of the , Awful Deed. NEW YORK. Feb. 2J.-A peculiar tragedy has occurred in the residence of William H. Simons at Carlyle, a su burban of Yonkers. It resulted In the serious wounding of Georgianna, the five year- old Simons girl, and the probable fatal wounding art her. own hands of .Amelia Foscher, a Hungar ian servant, gtrL The cause of the shtotlng, which waa done by the servant, is supposed to have been an Insane fondness for the child, whom she feared being sepa rated from her through dismissal. Mrs. Simons, mother of the child, went Chopping, leaving the little girl In charge of the servant When she returned there was no response to her ring and she had to effect an entrance by breaking a window. She instant ly detected a strong odor of gas and heard groans on the top floor, where are located the servant's room and the children's playing room. Hasten ing upstairs Mrs. Simons was horri fied t see the servant stretched out on the floor with the little girl lying by her side. A side bracket had been wrenched from the wall and the room and hallway were filled with gas. Mrs. Simons rushed to the telephone and notified the police. Two small bullet wounds were found In the child. Both were superficial and she soon recovered from the ef fects of the gas. Three bullets had penetrated the servant's body and she was removed to a hospital where it was believed Khe would not recover. Georgianna aadd she and the servant were In the children's room when Amelia said she was going down stairs to get some gum. She re turned in a few minutes and Immedi ately fired two ahots at the child who had tne ' into the servant's room when she heard Amelia coming up stairs. Then she turned the weapon on herself and fired three shots, fall ing on the floor by (he aide of the ohild. The revolver waa a cheap af fair of small caNbre. - Mr. Simons Is a wealthy la-ie manufacturer of New York. , , , ' : i WASHINGTON. Feb., 22. Washing ton's birthday was signalized In the ifnlted States senate br a fist : fight. The two senators jtrom South Cro- lin'a "were', the active participants the affray. ' Tillman, In the counee of a speech upon the Philippine tariff biH. made serious refiec'lons upon, the hon or of Ms colleague, McLaurin. In brief. he charged fhat his vote in support of the ratification of the treaty of Paris had been cast through the exercise of Improper influences. McLaurin was not in the chamber at the time, but ha was sent for and ap peared Just as Tillman concluded his speech. ' ' " " 1 " Pale as ashes, McLaurin rose to ad dress the senate, speaking to a ques tion of personal privilege. He review ed Tillman's charges briefly and tnen denounced the statement made by Ms colleague aa, a "wilful, malicious and deliberate Ita.".: y -'. -4 i Scarcely had the words fallen from his lips when Tillman, sitting a few seats from him, wit Teller between them, sprang at MeLaurln, and in an Instant these two senators, having wept Teller aside, were engaged In a rough and tumble fight McLaurin re' cetred a heavy blow -en the forehead, while Tillman got a punch on the nose which brought blood. ' ;- Assfstant Sargeant-at-Aras Layton sprang over the desks to reach and separate the combatants and himself received several blows. He got between them finally and by main strength wrenched them apart Senators War ren, of Wyoming, and cott of West Virginia, leaped to his assistance and caught the arms of the belligerents, forcing them to their seats. . Intense excitement prevailed Everybody was on bis feet Not a word, however, was spoken. The senators stood about -the chamber for a moment quite help less and pale to the Hps. Finally order was restored partial ly, and in the midst of Intense excite ment the senate went into secret ex ecutive session. For two hours it discussed the event behind closed doors. When the doors were opened It was made known that voth of the South Carolina senators, by unanimous vote, had been declared to be in con tempt of the senate' They" were per mitted by a vole of the senate to make apologies - to the senate. Their state ments were listened to oy both sena tors and the people In the galleries with breathless Interest Senator Till man left the capltol when adjourn ment was taken for recess and did not return for the night session. McLaurin waa in the chamber about 8 o'clock, but left early. Neither sen ator would make a statement SENATOR ARE IN CONTEMPT. Only a Vote of the Senate. Will Restore Their Former Status. WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-The status of Senators Tillman and McLaurin is that they are still In contempt of the senate, and only by a vote of the senate can either be recognised, cith er to speak or to, vote on any ques tion whatever. . ; . : ' railroad will be built to the San Ma teo county tine either by means of a tunnel or an elevated line. From there on a road wilt be built to Los Angeles to connect with the line Sen ator Clark is building o Sair Lake. At the Utah capital, Clark's road will connect with the Rio Grande ystem to .Denver, At Denver it connects with his Missouri Pacific to Bt. Louis. From the Missouri metropolis to To ledo he owns the Wabash road, which Is now, being extended to Pittsburg. It Is rumored that the Bay and Coast railroad to Santa Crux Is Involved In the Gould-Ponlatowskl scheme to the extent of giving the Gould road part their entrance into the city and county of San Fraiclsco with a branch to Santa Crux. When Prince Ponlatowskl was eon fronted with the online of the rumored big railroad deal, he positively denied that he was interested. In any such scheme. . ,,. . ., v, .... ., "If nothing Is published now." he added. "X may be able to give out a definite story.'" :: '- ,r - Mn Bullock admitted that eh ere was something in the, report, but neither be nor George Crocker would give any details. TERRIFIC STORJI AT PHILADELPHIA j INDICTED BY GRAND JURY. - SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. J2.-Charle R. Mains has -been Indicted- by the federal, grand Jury, here forusing the malls In a schame to defraud Dr. C. R. Bennett,, of,, Wauseon,- O. Mains represents himself as the attorney of syndicates with billion dollar caoltali- xatlon and has carried on an extensive correspondence. - LANSDOWNE INCENSED CALLS DOWN GEIC3JAN ' AMBASSADOR. The City Completely Shut C.'i From Communication With Outside World. THE SEVEREST EVER FELT Wire Broken In All Directions Four Persona Killed By lleavlly Charged . . : Wires.' ... NT3W YORK, Feb. 22. Mall advices from Philadelphia say that the ciity is aa completely shut off from all electric , communication with the outside world as though such a thing as telegraph wire or telephone wire never existed. tThe storm is the most disastrous sleet storm, as far as wires are con eeroed,' that ever ; visited that section. Within the city limits scarcely a sin Sle overhead wire is In working or der. The poles are down in all direc tions and the wires ure dangling from, housetops in nearly every street Four persons were killed In Philadel phia during yesterday and last nlgM by coming In contast with heavily charged wires. At least 23' horses were killed during the day by broken wires. .... CONCESSIONS IN CUBA Republican Members of Ways and Means Committee Reach Agreement. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. The Re publican members of the ways and means committee, who have been con sidering the question of concession to Cuba, finally reached an agreement this afternoon which is considered ' a vic tory for those who have favored, the tariff concessions to that islland. ,The action Is practically a proposi tion submitted a few days ago by Rep resentative Long, of Kansas, except that the amount of concession is cut In half and the condition precedent, that Cuba enact our immigration Uuvb, is added. Von Holleben's Note to German Press Outrages British . ,t Feeling.., . tl . '. 1.1 . "- , BERLIN, Feb. 22. Lord Lansdowne. British secretary of tsate for foreign affairs, has Unformed Baron Von Richthofen, ' secretary of the German ministry for foreign affairs that ' the British government has .taken note of the . publication by the . German German press of the.' dispatch from Von Hollemon, 'ambassador to the United States concerning the meeting of ambasadors held In Washington April 14. 1S98, without following the usual procedure of obtaining the con sent of the government. Lord Lansdowne and the British government desire Germany to know that it misunderstood the action of Lord Pauncefote, the British ambas sador to the United States In the meeting of April 14, 1898. Lord Paun cefote's part n that meeting was simply that' of the senior member of the diplomatic corps and nothing that he did was prompted by unfriend liness toward the United Sat tea. Baron Von Richthofen has not replied toLord Lansdowne's - dispatch . of which the forgoing is the substance, he Indication are that Geramny In her reply thereto- wiH point out that the British foreign office was first in giv ing information to the press coincident with the flret speech of Lord Cran- bourne, the British under secretary of foreign affairs. The German foreign office la seem ingly, taking cognlaence of the official British statement given to the Asso ciated Press January 21 - last that Germany, Russia and France support ed the efTort of Austria to persuade Great Britain to Join in European in tervention. . ... , BIG RAIIJROAD DEAL. Reported Combination by Which Pa cific Gets Outlet at San Fran ' Cisco, SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 22.-The Examiner says that every Indication points to the belief that a big railroad and financial dl Is on the trapis y whlqh George J. Gould's Missouri Pacifio system will gain an entrance Into San Francisco. Prince Ponlatowskl, F. S. Bullock, one of the partners in several enter prises and Senator Clark, of Montana, are reported as being connected with Gould In hla scheme to extend the Gould roallroad system west from Salt Lake to San Francisco. Gould will make a tour of the coast next month. While in the city he will be a gueat of Pondatowskl and William H. Crocker. . The alleged railroad scheme Is said to complete the erection of a fine depot and 'hotel on Market street In this city. Then, as the etbry runs,a WELL, THIS IS INDEED RICH. Englishman Attacks President and , Says Maine Should Enter " Canadian Federation. "'y"i'' ",'; 't. ,f 's,'-'"4.'' V, " LONDON. Feb. 22. David Mills, In an. article la the Empire Review, written while he was Canadian min ister of Justice, bitterly assails Presi dent Roosevelt's, and. Senator Lodge's Interpretation of Monroeism. He- ds care that the United States "are so long enamored of their own political institutions " and so devoted to self worship that they think no others are deserving of admiration." : Mills maintains that -it would be to the state of Maine's commercial ad vantage to enter the Canadian federation - u ROYAL YACHT SIGHTED. Will Reach Sandy Hook at 10 O'clock ' This Morning;. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. The K.ron prlns Wilhelm, with Prince Henry on board, was sighted at I o'clock this morning oft Nantucket lightship. : The yacht will arrive V off Sandy Hook at l o'clock this morning. M'GOVBRN BATS SULLIVAN. Put Him Out In the Fifteenth, After a' Desperate Battle. : LOUISVILLE, Feb. 22. Terry Mc Govern defeated Dave Sullivan tonight in, 15 rounds of as desperate fighting as was ever seen. From the first tap of the gong until the end it was slap bang, hammer and tongs, nearly every second, both men working away with all the energy they possessed. In the fourth round Sullivan was at his best and had McGovern plainly going. Nothing but the latter' splen did recuperative power enabled him to come out In shape for the fifth round. Sullivan was knocked out In the 15th. St. Louis, Feb. ist, 1902. Eclipfe Hardware Co., Astoria, On Owing to advances in material and increased cost of production we withdraw all previous quotations on Superior Stoves and Ranges. , Prices will be quoted on application. BRIDGE AND BEACH MFG. CO. We Have a few Left at the old prices. You can Save by Buying Soon. f Eclipse Hardware 0. i