PAGE . SIX.
ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15.
AID CHINESE;
j t t .
ARE ARRESTED
Authorities Break Up System of
' Smuggling Mongo
lians. 1
FIVE IN ALL ARE ARRESTED
Chinese Expected to Pay (inkles
$270 and Had Paid $23
False Ortlfieate
Cost $50
-Detroit, Oct. 14. With two Chinese
under arrest at Lansing and two white
men, arrested with them, detailed at
Adrian, the local Chinese Inspectors
believe Ihey have broken up a sy
stem of Chinese smugglers that has
long been causing Inspectors con
siderable trouble. A third white man
has been in jail at Detroit tor a
month awaiting trial for aiding a
Mongolian to Illegally enter ' the
United States. Windsor, OnU Just
across the river from Detroit, was the
headquarters of the smugglers.
It Is stated that the two Chinese
bow in jail at Lansing confessed that
they expected to pay their guides 1270
Confessions of a Priest
Rev. Jno. S. Cox of Wake, Ark.,
writes, "For 12 years I suffered from
yellow jaundice. I consulted a num
ber of physicians and tried all sorts of
medicines, but got .no relief. Then I
began the use of Electric Bitter and
fee'l that I am now cured of a disease
upon their safe arrival at St Louis, naJ me Its grasp ft 12 years."
and that they had paid $25 on the con
tract They were rowed across the
Detroit river Sunday night, landing
south of the city limits of Detroit
and with their two American guides
had proceeded as far as Adrian.
Mich., when they were discovered and
placed under arrest. One of the Chi
nese naa a certificate purporting to
show that he had been born in San
Francisco. - This paper, he said, cost
him $59. ,' ;
board, and as he was in oilskins and
rubber boots he was unable to swim
and sank before assistance could
reach him
Paul Bowles, a ten-year-old son of
a Bolivar (N. T.) merchant lost his
hair by fright. A , runawaw horse
threw the boy Into convulsion
which caused all the hair on his heAd
to fall out
SHOT HIS fiance:
Claims It Was Aeoidtntal Carried
Loaded Pistol.
San Francisco. Oct. 14. Ernest K
Bales, a druggist, shot and killed
Mrs. Annie , Engelberger, to whom he
was engaged to be married. Accord
tng to Bales' story the shoot
Ing was"5 accidental. They' had
been out buggy riding tonight
and had stopped in front of
Mrs. Erigelberger's residence. In get
ting out ' of the buggy Bales says a
pistol he had In his rear pocket was
accldently discharged, the bullet sev
ering the femeral - artery of Mrs.
Engelberger and she bled to death.
The police are disposed to credit
Bale's story. '
SOME STRANGE ACCIDENTS.
Odd
People Have Been Injured at
Times in Queer Ways.
From the St Louis Globe-Democrat
While carrying a keg of beer In
tended for a picnic In Reading, Penn,
one day last week, Elmer KerchofT
stumbled over a wire. The keg slipped
so suddenly that the jar dislocated his
heck
Only a short time ago Miss Carrie
wugmn, oi janesvine, Wis, was so
tightly hugged by her lover that two
of her ribs became interlocked. After
suffering severe pain the young woman
confessed that strenuous love making
was the cause of her distress.
Emmanuel Beveler, of Sterling, III
cut his. throat on his high collar. - He
was riding on a bicycle, and in trying
to avoid a passing horse was thrown.
In his fall his collar 'cut his throat
Margaret KIrchbaum died of eating
hot potatoes. She was in a hurry
to go out and gulped down several
not potatoes. She died In great
agony. The autopsy showed that
' her throat and the lining of her
stomach had been so badly burned
that the swelling had caused her to
1 choke to death.
Jasper Gomers, while waiting for
car at midnight in St Louis, sat down
on a barrel of tar. and fell asleep
When he awoke he found the tar had
softened and he had slowly sunk
down Into the sticky stuff until his
feet arms and head only were out
side. He was chopped out with an
axe.
William P. Steele, of Princeton, Md
died a few months ago while setting
up a monument over his wife's grave
The stone fell, crushing his head and
chest
Francis J. Blrdwell, a Boston oral
thologtst, climbed high up In a tree
at Rio Pecos, N. M., after a bird's
nest The rope he was using caught
on a limb and, when he slipped and
fell, a loop caught him around the neck
and he was slowly strangled to death.
His bride of a month stood at the
toot of the tree, but was unable to
help him.
A Jersey mosquito caused the death
of a barber named Rosho Dorso at
Harris, N. J. The barber was shav
ing, and a mosquito lit on his . nose.
The razor was directly under the
barber's chin, and in making a slap to
drive It away the mosquito he cut a
deep gash in his throat. A physician
arrived too late to save him. ' ! '
A sword fish caused the death of
Auguste Sylvia, about thirty-live miles
out at sea. Sylvia was one of the
crew on the fishing sloop Klondike,
from Gloucester. A 2000 pound
swordflsh had been ' harpooned, and
Sylvia entered a dory to make an
other line fast to the fish, which was
only about two lengths away from
the sloop. -In its flurry the fish made
a break for the dory nd broke Its
word by running it " ' through : the
p&rklng. The shock when the fish
trucWthe "dory' jtfcrew.' Sylvia VerV
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Chatham, Mass., Oct 14. At S
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