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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1904)
THE MORNING ASTORI AN, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1901. PAGE TIIREK. ; f 1 : -f -n - - -- - '"" " MMMMMWWMMM II II 1 i BIG TRIP OF LITTLE BOY Five-Year-Old Lad Travel From Philadelphia to San Fran dsco Atone. RECEIVED EVERY COMFORT Conductor Look After Little Traveler Who In Tutrix! -Mont Unique Journey on ' Trans-ContliiAiital, Ban Francisco, May V-Among the passenger, alighting from the step. of the Southern FaclAc'tAtlnnUo ex press at the local depot yesterday, was Frederick E. Cogg.HI, a little 1-year-old boy who hue completed a journey believed to be unique In the history of tram-continental railroad. En tirely unaccompanied; tagged that he i might be properly directed and for warded, the child made the. trip from rnnaaeipnia in the cat e or conductors, who gave every attention to hie com fort and safety, CLOTHED FOR MEN rArA . in t riMK : Mil 5" " njkl PRICE OF ICE IS ADVANCED Trouble In Getting Product Our . in$ the Winter Works Hardship. SOUL DMTRI&UTOAS fCH Correct Cktba far Men COPYRIGHT 1904, The Clothes That Make WISE Famous. Sole Distributor For Astoria. STRANG! DISEASE PREVAILS. Several Children Die and Doctor. Are Muoh fuuled. New York, May S.Severat children have died within the last few days and muny other are suffering from a new disease which haa appeared In the neighborhood of Mttdlnon avenue and One Hundred and Fifth street. At lewst 20 caaoa are reported from one hos pital. The doctori have been wholly unable to diagnose the disease, but they believe It to be duo to germ oris In from the walla of old , tenements, the lower floors of which are being re built Into stores. The walls, ceilings and floors are being scraped or torn HE EMAN down and In the dust thus raised the germs appear to germinate. The symptoms of the new disease are headache, lassitude, rapidly developing fever and usually doth within U hours. The health department are now Investigating the matter. Eugene Canfleld Oead. , New York, May 8. Eugm Canfleld a well knwn comedian la dead here from pneumonia. Ills principal work In recent years bus been In the Hoyt farces. ' "' D0 If DEC0KAIE SB 0M .Y0UR--R00RIS'! Sco pur Burlaps, Loatheri, Lincrusta, Wood Imitations, Crown M(tuldinga, Plate and Picture Kails, Etc. B. F. ALLEN 0 SON, 3C5-3G7 Cobimercial Street. THE IRON TRADE REVIEW SPEAKS OF CURRENT MARKET Decision of Lake Ore Producers to Dis continue Association Produces no Surprise in Business Circles. ' NEW ZEALAND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Of NEW ZEALAND. W. P. TboDiaa, Manager, San Francisco. UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS. Has been Underwriting on the Pacific Ooaet twenty-five yeara. S. ELMORE 0 CO., Resident Agents. Astoria, Or. ALWAYSTIRED NEVER RESTED I. l'Ol To be tired out from hard wort or bodily exercise, if natural and rest Is the remedy, but tttere is an exhaustion without physical exer tion and a tired, never-res ted feeling a weari ness without work that is unnatural and shows tomo serious disorder is threatening the health. One of tk eiicl cjresea a that "Always-tired, never-rested condition" is impure blood and bad circu lation. Unless the body is nourished with rich, pore bleed there is lack f nervous force, the laus- , ' , . ,. ..v fl,.! over font years X Buffered wtth mml debfil. Cles become weak, the Ol- Ma(iBg a thorough bracking 4ewa of sij iriHs, U restion impaired, and coJ?,i Af"T efiie4 y a. a. a., ate !V , j ,. aboul It.. I trisd it aad It m: I beavttiy fa- funeral disorder occurs e.mm.nl a. a. 8. t n k auyjd the 9t a throughout the System. &orooBblygd Meed tenia. Jfew. t. . Debility, insomnia, ner- uT. JTlmth B., Oelambio, Teaa. rousness, indigestion, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, strength and energy, and the hundreds of little ailments we often have are due directly to a bad con dition of the blood and circulation, and the quickest way to get rid of them is by purifying and building up the blood, and lor this purpose no remedy equals 8. S. 8., which contains the bast ingredients for cleansi n g the blood and toning tip the system. It is a yegetable blood purifier, and tonic combined, that enriches the blood, and through it the an tire system if nourished and rafreahing sleep cornea to the tired, never-rested, body. TiiE SWSFT CPEGH7Q COs, A7I?TJ&, CA, Cleveland, May 5. The Iron Trade Review In Its current issue says: The decision of the merchant pro ducers of Ike Superior to maintain no association thla year, and an agree ment as to price or to output while contrary to the expectations encour aged by ninny recent expressions from high sources wits not surprising to lhue who have, been advised of the Hmtlnu-nt of the merchants' firm. This action is not so significant as it would have bt-en two-months ago, as In the meantime term contracts involving considerable amounts o! ore have been negotiated, leaving not more than, 3, 000,000 tons that will require to be bought In the open market this year. The prices of 1904 ore, under the new Herm contracts are somewhat lower than the 3.50 baae tentatively referred to In the resolution of the merchui4 ore men adopted In their separate meeting at New York two weeks ago. Standard Mesuba Bessemer are under stood to have gone at ubout S3. These contracts are on a sliding scale, based on the pig Iron market. More of them are likely to be made so that the neces sity of an association agreeing prom ises to grow less though the ore man expect to keep up their organisation for satlatlcal purposes. Ore for 190 is not expected to come down before June 1, but furnaces In most cases are well supplied, with many of them for weeks beyond that date. The lake labor situation la threatening, wages advancing on a declining market nat urally meeting determined resistance. The rail trade, next to ore, Is the mast Interesting feature of the week. Sales of standard sections " included 7500 tons 'taken by the Lackawanna Steel Company and 20,000 tons by the United States Steel Corporation, the New York Central railroad placed 10, 000 tons with each company. The Chi cago roll mill of the corporation la kept busy with western orders and is as sured of full operation until late in the year. The Edgar Thomson mill is operated to about only 60 per cent of Its capacity. When the rail news Is written about all that Is favorable In the week's de velopment has been said. In other finished material lines as well as in pig iron the dullness has been marked. The sentimental effort of the Ore As soclatlon's action will not be helpful in spite of what may be said as to the lower prices of ore having been dis counted In the pig iron market. ly introduced In -the British army. He put battery 58, Royal garrison artil lery, the champion shooting battery of the British army, winners last year of the first prize, through a series of trials. The-gunners In one minute with the 12-pounder breech-loading field gun fired 26 rounds and struck the target 20 times at a distance of 2500 yards. It Is believed to be a record performance. The controlling device worked perfectly. THE CONSUMERS MUST PAY Kecaitse of Severe Winter and Not in Spite of It ItaJxe Is Mad by Companies la tiie Business. Chicago, May I. Announcement Is made that the price of Ice in Chicago Is to be higher this year, not in spite of the rigorous winter, but because of it The ice companies claim the prod uct was so extremely thick and diffi cult to cut that they spent more than the usual amount of money for labor and forced to raise the price to con sumers. Last year Ice .old at wholesale at II and 29 cent a hundred pounds, accord ing to quality. It will be sold at 2 and 30 cents a hundred this year. Last year families were supplied at 30 and 35 cents a hundred pounds. This year ice will coat 35 and 40 cents a hundred, To the Notice. citizens of Astoria, The Railroad Guards Doubled. New York, May 5 Dispatches from Harbin to the Times say the forces guarding the Siberian railroad have been doubled at each station and bridge and that companies of mounted front ier guards make daily excursions on either side of the railway for a dis tance of 15 miles. The object of these excursions Is to clear the neighbor hood of Manchurian brigands, collis ions with whom bad become increas ingly frequent C B. F. P. Union Notice. The regular monthly meeting of the Columbia River Fishermen's Protect- Grfind Lodge of I. O. O. F. for Ore-jive Union will be held at Fishermen's gon will meet In Astoria on May 17. There will be about 600 persons to accommodate. Anyone having a spare bed or beds will please notify Jas. W. Welch, 654 Commercial street, with name, number of house, beds and street. JAS. W. WELCH. OLOF. ANDERSON. JOHN HAHN. hall on Astoria street, Saturday May 7, 1904, at 7:00 o'clock p. m. Shall this union affiliate with the Fishermen's Protective Union of the Pacific Coast and Alaska, and other important questions will come up. Members in good standing are re quested to be present and have their book or receipt along. H. M. LORNTSEN, Secretary. EXPLOSION AND RIOT. Fresh and Bright and full of news from far and near are the pages of THE MORNING ASTORIAN. Its num ber of readers is rapidly increasing, and it is acknowledged to be the best newspaper Astoria has ever had. Do you ADVERTISE in it? Italians Get Boisterous After Disaster and Wound Detective. Philadelphia, May 5. An explosion of a gasoline tank In the freight yards of the Pennsylvania railroad at Thir teenth and Market streets early today by which 12 firemen, were burned, was followed by a riot among Italian em I grants. Assistant Chief Peters of the fire department was seriously burned. Half an hour after t ne fire' started tralnload of emigrants arrived from New York. The newcomers tried to leave the car. and break through the Are lines. A fight ensued In which Railroad Detective Conner was .hot In the side by one of the Italians. Underground In the yards some dis tance . from Market street are tanks of gasoline. Fire started near them quickly communicated to the storage warehouse. Just as the city firemen got a stream on the building It ex ploded. All the men nearby were lit erally bathed In flames. mite, placing it in position when the explosion occurred. All of the men killed or wounded ore foreigners and it Is Impossible to secure their names owing to the absence of any means of communication. PEACE IN COAL. FIELDS. BALL BEARING awi Mowei At the Right Prices X? at DEAD ARE UNKNOWN. Sudden Explosion of Dynamite Causes Death of Foreigners. Indianapolis, May 5. Meager infor mation from fhe William Spencer rail road camp on the Indianapolis South ern railroad near Unionvllle, indicates that two men were killed, two fatally and three seriously injured. It seems that a doxen or more men were work ing; in a tunnel over a charge of dyna- Strike in Southern Fields of Colorado Declared Off. Pueblo, Col., May 5. From a tele gram received from H. M. Simpson, secretary of the Victor Fuel Company in this city, it la inferred that the coal strike in the southern coal fields Is de clared off. No details are given, but it Is understood that the reason for declaring the strike at an end is the failure of the national organisation of the United Mine Workers of Amer lea to further support the Colorado strikers. No communication haa yet been received from the headquarters of the national organization. Bishop Innocent Goes North. San Francisco, May 5. Bishop In nocent, who has been in this city tem porarily In charge of the Greek church will leave immediately for Sitka to which diocese he was appointed some months ago.. Bishop Tlkon Is expected back here to resume charge of the western territory under his Jurisdic tion. Test by Gunnery Export. Victoria, B. O, May 5. A gunnery expert from Halifax, N. a. Is here test ing the new fire controlling device late- N HISK FAVOR. do eat eg rre fro It Jnitm, deligfctfgi favors, pure carbonated water, mil and ice ereaaa whea deetred, and served ae we serve it is tm great demand. Ladle and go. Uemen. large and email, clamor for it, and we can hardly satisfy the numerous ealle for It But we try to have a glass for yon every time you call. EASTERN CANDY STORE. rnMrnAM:.! e. . . ..... 506-508 Commercial St., - Next Griffin's Book 8tore. CENTRAL MEAT MARKET O. W. Morton and John Fnhrn.an, Proprietors. CE0ICS3T FES3H ASD SALT MEATS - PROMT DELIVERY. 54a Ccmoerclal M. Phone .lain ji.