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N0TIOB! Books, Periodicals, Marcazfaca. &c, ( ro Kcito b2 Tckc;j l';::.jTho Library without permission. Any Ono (ojrid guilty of suet) offense, will be liable to prosecution. ASTORIA PUBLIC LIBR1RY ASSOCIATION ASTORIA, ORlXiOX, 1IU I) AY. AWit'ST 22, 1902. VOL. LV NO. mm WW CAN TalK? The Styles Speak Volumes! ES. paicES TALK! Quality Says Something! Our New Clothes are the Town TalK! Our Treatment Speaks For Itself! Our ONE PRICE System Does Its Own Talking! SUITS $10 1000000000000 BUY A DOZEN Of our lluntLsoinc ami Artistic riounted and $ iiii'l dictiraU' your home or your lem li cottage. 0 See the Window Display GRIFFIN 6b REED 4 000OK000000OK00C04004C00C0OC jTXtsix:?xxt:xx::xitxx:ixx:iixiJXXXxnxxxiixixxxixxxi' BRACES, BITS 8 A New Unc Just B Received at . 9 Fisher Bros., 540-550 Bond sr. 8 !?xsjxxi:xxnxxJtxxnxxtsiixxixxx::xT::xxj:xixxnxii:xxxaiJ CLOTHING From the largest manufac turers of up-to-date clothing in America. We are JUST OPENING UP A Large Shipment of the Smart est Clothing ever displayed in the City of Astoria, IT'S FOR SALE and will go rapidly at the low prices asked. Hats, Shoes, Fur nishing Goods Complete Stock. Call Early and make your selections. P. A. STOKES to $27.50 0000S0000040C Matted Pictures AND DRILLS BELIEVE WOMAN WAS NOT MURDERED Strong Evidence Showing That (Minnie Mitchell is Alive Seen Ten Days Ago. POLICE HEAR NEW STORY Wllliaiti Itiiiiliolin I Clnirtfed Willi the Murder of Ills .Mother-Thoiimoii un . Accomplice. CHICAGO. Au. 21. The second de cisive step toward imrnvcllng the tuugle of mystery about the Purtholln Mlt v-IJ murder tiie ' bt'ifun today by the xi(n when the proposed In-'tin-nl to 1utrmlne the cause of th dcuth of Mm. Aide Bartholin and tlx? r.-liii:Hlljl!l'y thereof was renewed. The police hoe for more substantial result from thin Inquest than r,ww fr.irti thi' similar proceeding yester 'day In thi! Minute Mitchell fuse. Doubt- fnl Identity will lie he burden of the .defense of i imnr Thompson, John Cltif-fi-y and IMward Counselman, who t ; v i tv held yit"Miiy to answer for th !supooe,i Mitchell crime j An yet nothing definite him been heard f the whereabouts of William jlUuiholln. MU'h exists, however, an ,lo whether Minn Mitchell In dead, j Tin1 early testimony today pertained largely to the finding of the body of .Mm , Bartholin by newspaper men. i(ettjrier uno nenrcnea me Basement of the Culumcnt-avenu house told again the story of the digging up of IIih body of calling In Dr. Noel to es tablish It Identity nnd of the latter identification by acquaintances of Mm. Hiirtholln. Some Interest was aroused when the Inquiry win temporarily sus- .Mnei In order thnl the Mitchell fnm- II y might produce ft witness. The po llre did not know who the witness Would be. A new clue to the possible solution 'of the Minnie Mitchell ease was found today when It was learned that a man resembling Counsclman haj culled up on Or. Wilgus, on August It. with n young I'nrnin, supposed to be Minnie Mitchell, Dr. Wilfcim ttiys the young man xvnnted him to take the woman at a patient, hut that he refused. This story, together with that told venter day that the glil was In a honpltal, 'lend further color to the theory that the girl inny he nllve. t '! I A 111 I K , WITH Mi TII KIS'S UKATII C'HIOAHO. Aug. III. The coroner's Jury at th InnueKt over the body of I Mr. Iiai thollit, brought In u verdict jrecommen.llus that her non, William jltartholln, be urrentej and hi Id us jprlnelpul for her murder, and that Os icar Thompson and Edward Counnel- nmn, who are under nrrent nccuged of complicity In the murder of Min nie Mitchell, be held as nccessorleu. SEVENTY -TWO SOLDIERS DEAD. Report ef Enlisted Mon In the Phil ippines for Month of July, WASHINGTON. Aun. 21.-UMwen June 25 r.nd July 10, 72 deaths occurred among the enlisted men of the division of the Philippines. Of the: total num ber of deaths, S5 were due to Asiatic cholera. The war department has received this cnblc from General Chaffee at Ma nila, together with a list of those sol diers who had died. In a Idlllon to the :5 who died of ebohri. 17 died of dvs- tntery, six of malaria) fever, nnd the remainder of various other diseases. Of those who died of cholera nine were Philippine scouts and natives. TO PUAC'ilCE BOCI VU3M. LONDON, Aug. 21. -The Rome cor- respondent of the l.'.ally Mall elates a curious story of a recent agrarlnn riot at Cassanonmrge, near Htu-I, where 400 peasant seized a large estate and began d'vbllng up the lands In ac cordance with their Ideas of socialism. The rioters only relinquished their booty after a sharp conflict with the military authorities, in which one of their number was killed. TO QVENCH FOREST FIRES. WASHINGTON. Au. 21.Aellnr Commissioner Richard!, or tho general mil olII'O, toduy ordered tir"e addi tional Hpocliil iff-ntu ) K:ir:ili,ga, Wyo., wlivro the forent file ure ti;- I11K. The BKentii have aii'lijrl'y to employ all th! help nu d.l to he, k the proiircrM of the flamm. I', . AKMY A Umill.M K, And Sayii That the I'm hI.Ii iu Te.v heii IIU Children to Fli-ht. MVHTK', fonn., Ailir. 2I.-AI today'H mcBlon of the rnlvemal Teare t'nlon, Krnent If. Crosby, ot New Vor'i, ma le nil addremi on the " ManllneHii of War." Il4 upoke of the ovation teri der'd to fiener.il Smith on hln return home and (laid thut jven the (idmln ltrntlon ilUnpproved of It 't'homiilt O. Whipple, of Kant fiioton. Corn., nab! thut the t'vldd Btt ar my 'n 11 dlftfracw to humanity. He (.aid that the 1'reiiiderit of the Tiilted Ktittea, who xhould Ik- a man of Hod, in teaching hl chlldrcu the mie of broadsword. OJNDKMNW WAIi WITH PI'VT.V. Professor Norton H,Kakn on the Pru talily of War. AHHKIti'IKLH, MiU!, Auif. At the 24th it mm;. I dinner In aid of the, fiander academy today the po ittlled doctrine of limn ri.ilUm was un Balled and the Hpalildh war wa a ub )ii t of i aim le (i ltd turn. I'rof. 1'harkn made the opcalnfs (id dren. In vlirorous woi Ib lie prolest ed UKalnut the brutality of war In ircn- ral and neverelv condemned the war with Spain. KIVK llODIKS ItKCOVKUrU FltOM TMK ItCINS. Have Jtn'n ldentltted, but one Work man I Now Miffing. WILMINGTON, Aug. Jl.-Flve more Ixil'm wen found In the ruins of the Jejeup ,t Mo ire I'apv'r Cotnpuny' dl getij room today. The 'jodie found weru thou.- of William Ittith. K. H. M.iuiloy, " liernard Kwe-ney, WiMlatn S'.ott and Jowph ilenry. Jil Hut ton in the only employe no missing The Injared In the hoiltil will re cover. ACS-TltlAN CKOP. KC1NEU. : Heavy Italnu Cause (Ileal Damagv Many Lives Ate Lout. VIENNA. Aug. 21. -Heavy rnlu Ntorm In Austria and ilohemla have resulted In severe damage to crop. jThe river Ktxch overflowed Its banks l at Merun In Southern Tyrol and imi Jed the collapiie of a house with th result that two pevHou were killed and eight seriously wounded. lSOXMAKKlIS t STItlKE. Demand an Increase of Twenty-Five Cents per Pay. SAN Flt.VNCISCO, Aug. Ul.-Aliout 1W box makers went out today and !p!unts of all the packing box mills are shut down. The boxmakcrs receive fi iwr day and sawyers JS.oO. The new schedule demands il'i't and :'.7'i re spectlvcly. LONGSHOREMEN GO ON STRIKE. HAVANA, Aug. 21. -The longshore men and lightermen of all classes and the dock laborers have gone on strike. They have several grievances, one be ing that coal should ho loaded per ton Instead of by day wages. Efforts are being made by the union leaders to bring out the men at Cienfuegos and Cardenas. WAS FOI'ND NOT Ol'Il.TY. WASHINGTON Aug. 21. Papers In the case of Captain James A. Ryan, Fifteenth cavalry, tried by court-martial on the charges of administering the water cure to natives in t!V' I'hil- Imilnes. have been received at the war department. It Is understood, that t' court-martial nciiuitted him. CHAMPIONSHIP FOR KNGLANI. NEWPORT. R. I., Aug. 2I.-R. l and H. L. Doherty defeated Holcomb Ward and Dwlght L. Davis on the casino courts today and won for Eng-. Innd the tennis championship In doub les for the first time In the history of the game in this country. The score was 170 to IBS. RAIN SAVES !NPI FROM FAMINE BOMBAY, Aug. 21.-Good rains have fallen In western India In time to save the crops and remove the fear of a famine. The central provinces and IJehar have also been benetltod. AMERICAN YACHT WINS CIT. COWES, Aug. 21. The American yacht Vtowura won the Earl of Craw ford's coronation cup In the sailing race, which started Monday from the Nab lightship. GENERAL SIEGEL EXPIRES. NEW YORK. Aug. 21.-General Franx Slegel died today of old age. He was In his 7Sth year. FACTS IN MERGER SUIT LEAK OUT VV. Bourkc Cockran and Several Other Prominent Men Are Implicated. ATTORNEY LAMB TELLS ALL rowrr AiMmmI to Stay Out of Court 'm .JurUilict Ion Plan to Scutl Him to rCtiropt. NKW TOI'.K, Aug. 21.-Lawyer Geo. A. Lamb, attorney for Peter Power, today told all he knew about the Northern Pacific merger isult He named several persons who, with Pow er as plaintiff, and Captain Henry Stern as go-between, he said, had hoped to conceal the connection with the litigation and keep their Identity hidden. Among those named was W. liourke Cockran. The story of Power's wanderings came out and the plan to send hltn to Europe was revealed. . Lamb declared Cockran was one of the persons for whom he was given to understand he was acting In pushing the suit and he v:ii one of those who advised Power to stay out of the court's jurisdiction and was ready to supply him with funds to enable him to do so. W. Rourke Cockran tonight characterize I all the testimony relat ing to him as false in every detail. LiESPEItATK BATTLE WITH NEGROS3. Three Am Killed In Flght-nesult of Killing a White Man. TITKIA Miss., Aug. IX-JTane Itandolph was seriously shot by re grocs and it is reported that three ne groes wer-j killed at Shannon, MIf?., today. Rogers, Randolph and Bar nett were deputized to arrest the ne groes for the shooting of white men negroes took refuge In a barn ind the fitht ensued. Everything Is reported quiet tonight. REPl'ISLICANS NOMINATE. John T. Morrison the Candidate for Governor Roosevelt Endorsed. RolSE, Aug. 21.-The Republican state convention nominated for con gressman. Burton L. French, of La tah; supreme Justice, J. A. Allshee, Idaho: governor, John T. Morrison, Canyon; lieutenant-governor, James iM. Stevens, Bingh.im; secretary of state, Will H. Gobson, Freemont; au ditor, Theodore Turner, Bannock; treasurer, H. N. Coffin, Ada; attorney general, John A. Bagley, Hear Late; superintendent of instruction, Miss May L. Scott. Bingham; Inspector of mines, Robert Boll, 'ustar. The platform endorses the Roosevelt administration and favors the revis ion of the tariff, which will put on the ,free list every article and product I controlled b' a monopoly; favors an amendment to the constitution that I will enable congivss to suppress all trusts and Injurious combinations of asryregated capital; favors the open ing of lands In forest reservations that are more valuable for agricultural than other purposes. The railway merger is opposed. SCI.TAN ACTS IN A HCRRY. Sharp Rwjolnder of United States Min ister II is Peslred Effect on Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 21. -The sharp rejolnedr of United States nln tster Lelschmnn to the Porte Is hav ing the desired effect of hastening the carrying out the Jatte.-s eflgagme.its for the settlement of pending ques tions. One of the minor American de- mans heretofore disregarded, namely, the return of a package of Insurance nolicles seized by the avthorltles, was complied with yesterday, while Indi cations point to .he Porte being de sirous of preventing further friction by sotttllng the other matters, Including the rebuilding of the American mis sion house at Khnrput, Turkish Ar menia, destroyed at the tlmeof the Armenian massacre there, and the granting of permission to Armenian womn and children to Join their hus band and father, who Are natura lised American!. - , MISSION WORK IN CHINA. M. K. Church to Have a I'ub'isdilnsr Houfie at Shanghai Rulldlns , In Ready. NAfeMVIIXK, Ten., Auir. 21-The bojk committee of the Southern Meth odic Publlnhlnir Houne ha rned the agreement for the Northern church and the church In 'h ?.-,ith to es tablish jointly a publlHhlng' houne at Hhanjrhal, China.. It I expected that the publlifhluff house will be In opera tion by July 1 next, as the building la only waiting for the Inatallatlon of ma chinery to make It ready for opera tion. Dr. R. C. Wllnon, of San Franci.uo, went to Shanghai om montli nr to take charge of this work. EXCCltSION TRAINS COLLIDE. Two Knights of Pythias Injured at ' Elko, Nevada. ELKO, Nev., Aug. 21. In a rear-end collision between the first and second wctlons of the etbound passeng-r train No. 4. whlcli occurred In the Eiko vard this morning, tv passenger? were bruised and cut about the body and face, but not serlon-tl lnj'irl. Both trains were carrying return ing Knights of Pythias excursionists. The first train w.n rtaidin? In the yard while the passengers were tak ing breakfast, and was crashed Into by the second section. 'GUrSTs OF THJJ PRESIDENT. He Will Be?in His New England Tour Totr.oiTOw. OYSTER BAY. ug . .'1.-Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, was the guest of the president at luncheon. The other guests were Congressman AVil- llam Alden. Michigan, and S. R Wil liam, chairman of the Ktate Republican coinmitte;, of Louisiana. The rresl- dent tomorrow will begin his New England trip. WILLIAM TO VISIT ROME. ROME, Aug. 21. Emperor William has sent a letter to King Victor Em manuel expressing the pelasure which he anticipates at their approaching meeting In Berlin,, adding that he de sires to fay him a return visit in Rome on the occasion of the unveili'ig of the monument to Goeih;, which the emperor presented to t:'ie -'itv. COAL MINE RESUMES OPERATION 3CRANTON. Pa.. Aug. 21.-The Von Slorch mine, of the. Delaware & Hud son Company, resumed oprations to day. ' The washery of the Nayaug Coal Company also resumed work to day. END OF STRIKE IN VIEW. DENVER, A'ig. 21.-A r-pecial to the Republican from Chey?nae. Wjo., says: It is reported here that the Union Pacific strike will prolmWy be settled In a week or 10 days. SENATOR FRYE NOT ENGAGED. LEWtSTON, Me., Ausr. 21. Senator Frye today asked the Associated Press to send out an emphatl? denial of his reported engagement to a Lewiston iady. CHILD FALLS OVERBOARD. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 21 Dorothy Day, a 5-year-old tidal, fell overboard from the steamer lone this evening and was drow ned. RETURNS TO WILKESBARRE. CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-President Mitchell, of the United Mlneworkers of America, returned to Wilkesbarre, Pa., tonight. E PLURIBUS UNUM I kfeSWri p. 1 !Si THE ECLIPSE HARDWARE COMPANY Plumbers and 527 BOND STREET i WOMAN CONFESSES SHE KILLED BABE Was Not Assaulted by an Un known Man Subject to Peculiar Spells. CAPTAIN BECOMES INSANE Loss of Son and IIarllifiM Inci dent to Search for tiold Dethroned Ifin KeuNon. riPOKANE, Aug. 21. A special to the Spokesman-Review from Wilbur, Wath., says Mrs. Jasper Hyatt hai confessed that she killed her baby yes-: terday and that the story of an as sault by an unknown man was false. The woman says she is subject to pe culiar spells and is not accountable' for her action. During one of these stalls she killed her baby. The woman and hr husband are under arrest. CAPTAIN BECOMES INSANE. SEATTLE, Aug. 2L Captain Coog- an, master of the little steamer John Riley, is reported Insane and a pris oner on his own vessel In the Kopbecls' river, 200 mijes to the Interior of. Kotzebu sound. Coogan two years ago proceeded up the Koubeck In search of a rich quart ledge of which he had been told by the natives. Last fall his son, a member of the party, died, and this with the exposure and hardships incidents to searching for- gold de throned his reason. PLEA FOR G. A. R. HOLIDAY. For All Employed la the United State! ' . Service. -'- v " WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. The citi zens' committee, of the G. A. R.. has requested President Roosevelt to Is sue an executive order permitting members of the Grand Army of the Republic employed in the service of the United States at Washington and throughoat the country to attend the encampment which would be held In this city during the week commenc ing October 6 next, whenever the In terests of the public service will so permit without loss of pay or with out having the time so occupied de ducted from the anual leave. BASEBALL NORTHWEST LEAGr-TB. At Butte Butte, 9; Portland, 2. At Helena Helena, 11; Seattle, 3. t t Tacoma Tacoma, 3; Spokine, 4. AMERICAN LEAGUE. At . Philadelphia Philadelphia, 13; St. Louis, 5. At Baltimore Baltimore, S; Detroit, 5. At Washington Washington, 6; Chi cago, 4. At Boston Boston, 4; Cleveland, L NATIONAL LEAGt;E. At Chicago Chicago, 0; Philadel phia, 2. ; At Cincinnati Cincinnati, 4; Brook lyn. 7. At Plttsbu'j Pittsburg, 2; New York, O; (second) Pittsburg, 1; New York, 8. At St. Louis St. Louis. 1; Boston, C; (second) St. Louis, 7; Boston, 4. Steamfitters, - ASTORIA, OREGON - . a i I