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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1903)
,NOT.iqri! Hooks, P:rK;licc.bt tu'uzhr, i I !y of u.ic.h'oiTenSO fed vill he liab pj to prosecution. . VOLUME LVJ1, ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1903. Nimnrr; 0. U U ill . 1873 am i;9.03 This U m short storr on overcoat detail. We'll past over all about the propriety of the styles, and the fit, and the uperiorlty, and the variety of slzei, and the material, and ao on, and come right down, or rather up, to a little Should Wl-dom. All gar. gent made by Crouio ft Brandegee.Manufac luring Tailors, Utlca, Hew York, are made with Ceaotvt houldetrt and clote-fittlng collar. The result of this Is very apparent. These overcoats how It at a glance. When you get before the mirror you will 'notice It even more. It doesn't look pad ded. Some shoul ders look as though made by the uphol- terer.but there is none ofthatinours. It looks clean-cut, well-built andgivestheshoulders an added breadth, but withal attractive. The secret In the making. The same, too, with the entire garment. The care that's put In the shoulders Is put in all over," and thus the genuine goodness P.A.ST0KE FISHER BROTHERS Agents for the Famous Atkins Saws, Sharpie's Cream Separators, Hardware Dealers and Ship CHANDLERS Cor. Bond and 12th Sts. Astoria, Oregon LATEST SHEET MUSIC Received as soon as pub lished. Large .Stock on' Hand. & jz?j&j&j& J. N. GRIFFIN 11 fey l ow Shirt Waists I Fleeced Back Oxfords -White Oxfords French Flannel L Alpaca Shirt Waists LADIES SWEATERS Fancy Sloevo Blouse Sweaters Fancy Weaves, white and THE BEE HIVE WHERE YOU CAN ALWAYS BE SATISFIED. . ' S. A. GIMRE Opp. Fishor Bros. Store on Bond St.",' Astoria Bells at Close p'-P1 VLGI -'A CrrkM. lies Bad Plumbing will catch the man who put it in. Our Plumbing is hon est nml we wntch the details of onch job and see that every piece of pipo is sound and every joint perfect. Tinning - and gas fitting. WJ.SCULLEY 47M7J Commercial. Phone Black tut . $2.75 colored, $2.75, 3.75, 4.00 CARRIES A FINE STOCK OF I f x w M ctnikM. m emu a s Boots and Shoes Figures DELUGE IS EXPECTED ... ,. ANY HOUR Repetition of the Johnston Horror May Occur at Patenon, Where Situation Is Alarming. Danger Signal Fired and People Ar Prepared to Fly When Dam Gives Away. IMMENSE DAMAGE ENTAILED If Dundee Dam Ilrenka the City Wilt Be Inundated, With I'rubublu Apimllliiff Lom of Life. fatin. N. J., Oct. ,10. The sltua tiou tonight In very grave. The water is higher by W Inched than In 1902. The damage In estimated to l over2.000,000 M"n are guarding the gate house at the mill rate, and hi the first Indication that the gate will break the house will be blown up with dynamite, so aa to turn the water Into .he chxtm of the PaJc (all. The people are expecting t go at any minute and a (run has been flrd ur a signal of extreme danger. The dam xrectel to collar la the great Dundee. Should thin give way, It I feared there -,vlll be a repetition pt the Johnntown disaster. The bridge are giving away one by one, causing panic. Already five have gone down. MAST ARE DROWNED. New York. Oct. lO.-It Is fearel that there hn been conalderable loa of life In the village of Duttonvllle. N. J., through the bursting of the Westbrook dam, Pailc river. In yesterday's flood. The village wo In .the path of the flood which wept dpwn upon the town of Passaic, t A score of houses were carried with It Thor were about 25 persons belonging In the village who bad not been fully accounted for at an early hour today nnd It In thought akely that 10 wre drowned. During the night guns were constant y liivd by person urrounded on the roof of their houoe In the Walllngton flal. to mailt the attention of rescu er, nnd score were taken off In boat. Tha town of WoJllngton Is from two to six feet under water and J300 fa.n llle are homeles. Volunteers in boats rescued many Inhabitants from the roor of their houses. They were cared for InPassalc where many hou were thrown open to the sufferer. A reports of the storm's havoo accumu late the estimates of the damage In and about Greater New York grow to sturt- ling figures and undoubtedly the total loss will run far Into the millions. An extraordinary occurrence is re ported from Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. As the result of half a do en land slides on the hills of the beau tiful burying ground, tombs were open ed und headstones torn from their fas tenings, rontons of coffins were scat tered about a large area, and In other sections the slide cf dirt, weighing many tons, had swept away the monu ments and burled scores of graves so that It may be Impossible to again lo cate them. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TO BE MADE. Seattle, Oct. 10. Th United States geological survey will have parties next year Investigating the mining resources of south eastern Alaska, the formation in the Tukon country and oil deposits m Alaska. If the appropriation' la am ple parties will study the geology of the Nome district and will conduct an in vestigation of che coal supply of Nome The Copper river country la also de manding Investigation, but tt Is not likely that any work will be done in that district during the coming year. ODD DEATH OF MILLI0N1ARE A. II. Krohit Mysteriously nt Sun Franctaco. Dies San Francisco, Oct. 10 Abraham H Krohn, son of the 'ate Henry A. Krohn a millionaire banker and merchant of Chicago, has just died here under clr cumstances which have aroused grave suspicions through the mysterious anil secretive conduct of those who attend ed him during hts last hours. Kohn, who was 32 years of age, arrived here from the east on Mondey last ncoom panled by a young woman, who was registered with him at the Palace Hotel as his wife . On Thursday evening he was taken to tha Alder Sanitarium, suffering from nervous prostration, the result of an attempt to abstain from the use of morphine, to which ho was addicted. At midnight he was found dead in bed beside his wife. , For some reason not yet explained every effort clnce then has been made to keep the death and the facts concerning-- it a secret and while the coroner was In time notiiled of the occurrence with the request that it not be made a mat ter of pub) lo record until late last night, the physicians and sanitarium people Insisted '.ImtKohn wa alive and getting along nicely, During the Inter val which elapsed between" the death of Kohn and the admission of the fact of his demise, the news had been wired east to his relatives from whom Instruc tlons were at once reeeivd to have the body 'embalmed and .sent on there In care of his valet. He oxpected to leave lit the east today with the remains but the coroner bas ordered the body held. The widow bas already started for the east with the alleged Intention of avoiding publicity, after a few hours' stay In another hotel here, where she registered as Mrs. Webb. In an Interview In whhh she detailed the circumstances Immedlatelysurround lug her huiband's death, she said she had been secr rtly .narrled to Kohn by a justice of the peace at ISeulah, Wis on May 1? last, that her maiden name was Edith Webb, and that her home was In Kentucky. Her hurried mission east she stated was for the purpose of communiratlnl with her husband's rel atives. All that has been obtained In the way of Information so far from the physlclsn wh attended Kohn toward the last 1 to the effect that his death was due to natural cause. In view of the peculiar action of all concerned and the determined effort to suppress all the circumstances lonnected with the case, a rigid invest'gatlon wi'l now be made by the coroner Into the death of Kohn and Its cause. , THREAT OF UNION MEMBERS Will Withdraw $300,0! 0,000 n ltctnlintory measure. Chicago, Oct. 10. "Organ lied capital through Its anti-boycott andEmployer Associations, must stop Its raid on the savings of the trade unions or the un ion men would withdraw $390,000,000 from the banks. Such is the statement made by Tho. I. Kldd, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, after art investi gation of the damage suits which the American Anti-Boycott Association and Employers Associations have filed against trades unions within the last three months. Mr. Kidd Intimated that It was with in the power of union labor to throw this country Into a financial panic by taking from circulation the $300,000,000 which he says labor controls. In this connection it may be stated that the money stock of the country approxi mates $2,273,000,000. " BAD FOOD FOR SAILOR! New York. Oct. 10. The Seamen's branch of the local aid society here Is considering complaints made by some of tha crew of the United States Col lier Areihosa. James Henry Herbert who describes himself as a native of Wisconsin and a graduate of Beioit colleg has made an affidavit covering alleged experiences on the Arethusa since last November. - , According to Herbert's complaint men w ho reported to the officers loaves of wormy bread were confined tn tne brig, an iron cage between decks,where tho temperature varied from 90 to HO degrees. Sometimes they were , put there for 2t hours, he alleges. Other charges of similar nature are Included In the complaint - The Arethusa has bfen employed re cently In Porto Rloan waters. BURIED IN A TUNNEL New York. Oct. 10--Twelve men had desperate fight for life In the Pennsyl vania railroad tunnel now being dug under the Hudson river. They were at work under the Hoboken eaid when, without warning, the' water and loose earth bemn to rush through the shield and In a few moments 200 feet of mud had caved In. Owen McConneU was burled alive under the river bottom. Two other laborers were taken out un conscious. - The big tunnel which is to cross un der the Hudson to New York Is already advanced seven hundred feet and work Is being pushed with night and day shifts. The twelve men were working in the pressure tank behind the great shield which squeexes out the mud abend of It like a giant sieve, when sud denly the earth became loosened anti a gush of water followed. The, prevailing air pressure at the time was only twice the normal. The only thing to be done to stop the cave in and save the Uvea of 12 men was to instantly Increase the pleasure hold back the water. Forty pounds were thrown In Immed iately upon the men struggling in the rapidly rising mud and water. Mc ConneU could not get away; The oth ers were dragged to safety but two fainted under the strain and were car ried out In time to Baye their lives. RATE WAR PROBABLE. New York, Oct. 10 After a" confer ence of the managers of the various atenmship lines running across the At lantic, formal announcement has been made here that the agreements of the north Atlantic conference, which estab lished the minimum rate for first and second oabin passengers traveling on tho steamers of the lines bound by the agreement, will be annulled today. Thereafter each 'company wlU be at liberty to make whatever rate it pleas es, and a rate war may follow. One of those who attended the meeting went so far as to declare that rate cutting will begin Immediately and that It will be the greatest and sharpest thing the country nas seen in sometime. WRECKAGE LINES THE SEABOARD Many Vessels Lost During Preva lence of Storm Which Has Raged Along At lantic Coast Communication Is Cut Off, but Reports Come of Loss of Several Vessels. NEW YORK FLOOD HAS PASSED Haiti Still Falling There, but Not in Volumes Sufficient to Excite Fear of An other Flood. Norfolk. Va.. Oct. lO.-The Virginia coast from Cape Henry to Damneck Mills, 12 miles south, is strewn with wreckage of ill-fated craft tonight. All communication with the seaboard Is cut ott, but three vessel have been wrecked and several live lost. Th east train arrived from Norfolk und brought many refugees. They re ported" a large five-masted schooner in the surf between Virginia Beach and Cape Henry, and near her a big pass enger steamer was fighting a battle with the northwest gale that was blowing TO miles an hour. The surf Is piling over the sand hills and back Into the mainland. At the Norfolk navy yard the cruiser Olympla Is In the dryiock with her bot tom plates removed and fears are felt for the cruiser's safety. Hundreds of small craft have come ashore tn the harbor, Norfolk ex perienced the gale and flooded streets all day. - New York. Oct. 10. So far as New York City Is concerned the great flood storm Is a thing of the past, with the exception of Interruption of surburban trantc. . v. ". . . .,., ,, . , f:uln began o fall again tonight but not in such volumes as to excite ser ious alarm in this city. Tlie Norwich line passenger steam bout City of Worcester was blown on the rocks on Execution light in Long Island sound tonight and lies in a dan gerous position seven miles off shore. Olimpla is In the drydock with her bot- HaUlmore, Oct. 10. Several steamers were blown ashore by the severe north west hurricane which prevailedyester jday and last night, but as far as Is known no serious damage was done. CABLE COMPLETED. Seattle, Oct. 10. The Alaska, cable THE A. DUNBAR CO. T That good reasons must exist for the popular ity of our store and the large growth of our business. What are they? 5c Fast black hose ' Lonsdale cambric 2 Spools of cotton thread Apron ginham 8c Towels THE A. THE A. DUNBAR 1 from Junean to Sltk.i bas been coniplet ed and an office established at the Capital city. Connection with Sitka was made Wednesday. Today theltum side leaves Sitka paying out cable smith. She probably has enough cable remaining to lay a 400-mile stretch to wards this city, the terminus. MACHIN'J REWARD. Belgrade, Servia, Oct. . 10. Colonel Alexander Machln, the former minlstes of public works, who took a prominent part In the assassination of King-Alex ander and Queen Draga, has been ap pointed to the . command of the Bel grade and Danube division of the army. The Skuptchina will adjourn next week for month so as to give the govern ment time to draw up contemplated bills. " ' FAMOUS STAUJON SOLD. Jew York, Oct. 10. Richard Croker' famous American stallion Dobbin has been destroyed on orders from its own er, says a World dispatch from London The old sire bad developed an enlarg- ment of one hind leg from which be suffered greatly. RUSSIA PREPARED FOR WAR Getting Ready for IIoNtilitieg In tfcs Far East. London, Oct. 10. The Times corres- porrespondent at Tokio says that In reply to Corea's proposal to opeil) the port of WIJu Instead of YongampbA M. Pavloff, Russian minister at Seoul, ob jected on the ground that there were no trade prospects at WIJu and that the unsettled state of Manchuria rendered the opening of WIJu dangerous. The Vienna -xprrespondent ' of the Times received information from two sources confirming tne reports tnai Russia Is making extensive prepara tions in view of the contingency of war with Japan.. ' WAR SEEMS CERTAIN. New York, Oct.10. Information from two sources, says a Times dispatcn from Vienna, is to the effect that Rus sia is making extraordinary prepara tions for the contingency of war with Japan. v : A well Informed personage who was lately at St. Petersburg says the Rus sian military authorities expect the out break of hostilities within the next few weeks. The whole trans-Caspian ter ritory as far as Samarkand is seriously crippled as regards railway traffic by, the large drafts of men and material for the far east. The Russian troops in trans-Caspia are alleged to be em bittered In consequence of the manner in which their province is neglected in favor of Manchuria and he Pacific coast. T" . ..'' LEFT tTNDER SEALED ORDERS. New York.- Oct. 10. The Ru 'an fleet left Port Arthur with sealed or dera. according to a Herald dispatch from Chefoo. Its destination is suppos ed to be Corea. THE A. IS A SURE THING .We know what smart buyers want. "We purchase the right goods at the right time. We sell the best goods at uniform low prices. We observe absolute fairness with all. LARGE BARGAINS IN SMALL 10c Pear's soap,2 cakes 25c 10c Hooks and Eyes per card 1c 5c Hairpins, per paper ' Ic 6c 75c corsets 49c 5c 35c Towels 25c 25c DUNBAR COMPANY. Commercial Street CO. 11 THE A. NOSUCCESS IN HUNT FOR MURDERERS Men . Who Escaped From Ut-S's " Prison Are Still at Large, Though Posses Are v on Trail. " Both Are Desperate and Ouickls Believe They Will Not Be Captured Alive. WEAPONS WERE SMUGGLED IN Thought Victor Provided Con victs With Weapons Dig Keward Offered for C'ajiture. Salt Lake, Oct. 10.-Lynch and Ha worth, the condemned murderers wh suecee'ed In effecting their escape from the state prison here last night, are still at large. " Posses with bloodhounds scoured the bills all day without find ing any trace of them ark! the prospect for their capture is not bright. Both, are well-armed, and, aa they are thor oughly desperate. It Is believed neither will be taken alive. ' ' Dayton, the convict killed by one of the guards, was buried today In the prison burial ground. When hi cloth- . Ing was searched a slung shot wa found. A similar weapon was founl In Abe Major's cell. Guards Wilcken and Jacobs are now In the hospital. Jacobs was badly in jured about the head, having four scalp wounds and a cut on the chin. Wilcken has a bullet wound (n the right leg which may necessitate ampu tation. - The wountfed convicts will all recover. Prison officials say the re volvers were undoubtedly smuggled In by some of the many callers during:' Governor Wells has offered a reward of 500each for Haworth and Lynch, and the prison officials have ottered an ad ditional $100, making a total of m each. . . ' AMERICAN GIRL ROBBED. Paris, Oct. 10. Thieves broke into a boarding house In the Avenue Victor Hugo during lunch time yesterday anil stoic $1,400 In money, besides some Jew elry, from the room of an American... pained Miss Maude Wollinood. RIOT AT BUDAPEST. Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 10. A riot of striking compositors occurred here. Several . policemen. detectives and strikers were Injured before the disor ders were suppressed. DUNBAR CO. ITEMS DUNB.P, C