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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1905)
r UlLISHKt rUUU ASSOCIATED MPOrlT OOVIR THE MORNINQ PJILO ON THI LOWER COLUMBIA ASTOrSvIEGOK, MONDAY, -JULY 24, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS u L.U ill n lit 1 1 v. iv L RECEIVE CZAR NICHOLAS IS EN ROUTE Will Meet German Emper or on Board Yacht Hohenzolleren. Officially Announced that Cur Bit Sail ed oa Polar Star to Meet Imperor William ia Cu.f of Finland, rrtnch Press Arroueed. fct. Petcrburg, Jul 23. At mlJnlgUt an official atatement wa lued U th effect that Emperor Nicholas sailed to day on the yacht Polar Sur, accompan ied by tha Grand Duke Mirhaal Alexen dcrvitch for the Archipelago to inter view Kmpcror William, who la crula Ing In tli yacht Holienaolleren, in the ntr d th lUltle aa and th Gulf of . Finland. , Tl-ftr4.iiwvlew of tha sovereign expected to take place tlila evening IT th Finnish port ofBorgo, at tha month of tha Gulf of Finland, near HrUlngfora. , Thla will be followed hy another In terview tomorrow after which Xicho In will return to St. Petersburg and Kmprror William will continue hi cruise. It la notable that there are no representative of the Riiin foreign office among the nicro' entourage, lir the Germ An amllr, (omit Ahcn ahben on board the Polar Star. "lTi"givea color to the report that tin meeting wa arrunged between the twi emperor directly, without the recoiirm of the tiual diplomatic, channel. Many diplomnte have Wn tukcti completely by surprise by the new of today. Ku tiinr that the meeting wa conti'inphiteil which were current atnee Friday, havi nwt with the fjattet deiiiala in ollUift! rjimrtera and the tiermnn ainlmadoj having etated tlmt he knew nothing of any atirh plan Mim on foot Emperor William' action ia Inntiintly connected with the Morwvan qtiction aud'adml-n-aliing liU opportunity i expi'i-nxed on all Hide. There U no act program, or the unlijcct for iliwimi(iii bmmIc (ioiu the getiernl conxlileration of the jfnotnr in the prenent altuution affeetlng the two eiiipiie, but it can be atated that the Ciiiinif meeting of the tiiio-.lapane4e lili'liipotelitinriea will (H'Ciipy a phu-e In the foreground. The action of Kmpcror William in aeeking the. conference n tlii moment Ih generally Intcrpivted a on aHHiirnnce of hi moral aupM)rt of I;iiln In tho coining "pour parleur" at Wellington. FOUR MAY HAVE WILLIAM LIVES IN WRECKED YACHT I-cwea, Del., July 23. Four men are believed to have been drowned by the sinking of the yacht Markecte near Btandywine lighthouse in Dele ware bay. Dr. Iloliart It. Hure, a prominent pliy shian of Philadelphia, and Lucious S. I-amlreth, also of that city, were rescued and brought here. The four men believ ed to be dead constituted the crew. The Markecte, accompanied by the yachts Zealand ami Circe, left the Cor inthian yacht club anchorage at Phil adelphia a few days ago for a cruise. Late yesterday afternoon the Markeete grounded on Brandywine shoal during ParUan Comment. ' I'aria, July 23. Emperor Kicholaa crule In the Gulf of Finland to meet Kmpcror William, of Germany, U the auhject of much comment in the prr, Certain ncwipoMra expreaa the fear that the German emperor will Intluence the cur In certain matter anf binder the tarrying out of the peace program, while othera are of the opinion that Emperor William will eeek to estrange Ruia from France. Journal IV Debate eay the flrat acta of Emperor Klcbola on hie return to Rula will be looked for ward to with particular Intercut. Editor Held far Libel. New York, July. 23.-Robert W. CrU welt, publUlier of the Xew Yorker, who la charged by Congreaaman Jopn Ilhlnock of Kentucky with libelling him in an article beaded "An Immlt to Mia Itimwvelt," waired examination and ta held In $1000 bail fo rapeciat aeluna, ORIGIN OF ATTEMPT ON JUL I AIM A VVLLUL alta aja a ai ftiHin m ConnUntitmple, July 2.1. Three commiMion are Inquiring Into the attempt upon the aul tan'a life on Friday, but are not able to find the allghteat clue to cither the author or the origin of the outrage. The majority of the victim were coachmen. Eye wiineMMMi deftcrihe the scene aft er the exphwlun a beartrend ing, with men and horc lying dying all around. A hole, two yard wide, wa made in the ground by the explosion of the bomb. FUNERAL OF 0. A. R. Commander-in-Chief Buried in Boston. Members of G. A. R., All Affiliations and Other Patriotic Bodies Are Partici pants in Funeral. Ten Thousand gaze on Body While Lying in State. Bohton, Mn., July 23. Veteran of the Civil war, Son of Veteran, mem ! r of the Woman' Relief Corp, and other patriotic aocictlc paid honor to the late Wilmou W. Blackinar, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. During tho morning the body lay in tate lu the memorial hull of the tte home, Ten thousand peron pnaaed through tho hall nnd gazed on the dead comma nder. Early in the afternoon thirty Mas AcluPctt pot of the G. A. R. fol lowed by the funeral party and a troop of atato cavalry cwted the body to the Second Unitarian church. At the conclindoti of the aerviiva at tho church the ImhIv wa escorted to the Cedar Grove cemetery by tho cavalry, where the interment took place. LOST a stllf East storm. The Circe was sig nalled and responded, taklug Dr. Hare and Mr. Landreth from the apparently doomed yacht. The crew of four men wero left aboard to care for the vessel with the understanding that a tug be aent at once to pull the yacht off the shoal. Th tug Juno wa communicated with at Dehnvare breakwater and when she arrived at the shoal the found the yacht aunk in the ship channel. No sign of the crew could be seen anywhere in tha bay at which that place is almost twenty miles. GEN BLAH nEMffliEEn IN OREAT BURIAKOF SAILORS Simple Ceiponies Mark Funeral of Bcnnlng- tons Crew. " Fifty-Two Men. From Gunboat Chief Mourners. Ill-Fated "Blue Jackets" Placed Betide Veteraas of Mexican War, All ia Common Grave. San Diego, July 23, A careful compilation of the caeualtic to- night ia aa follow: Burled in the 4 military cemetery today, forty- seven; dead now (n the morgue 4 awaiting shipment to relative, eleven; dead in the Are room of the Bennington and still unre- e covered, two; total dead, alxty. ;; 4 Injured at the varioua Loapitala, a forty-nil1 1 fcnlMpng, eSsMenf , grand total, ona hundred ' and twentyflve. Of the injured at ) the hopitala aeven or eight are exiiected to die. San Diego, July 23. They buried the Benrdngtm'a dead to. y orty-seven of them in a common grave. On the crest of the promontory of Ixma, high alwve the simmering water of San Diego bay on one aide, and within the sound of the booming surf of the Parilic on the other, they were laid to rest in a peaceful little mllitiiryTurlal ground. Without the crash of drum or sound of brasa, without pomp or parade, yet the imple impressivene all honor was paid the Nations dead. c They have honored dead to keep them company, these brave boys of the Ben- nington. Alt about them lie those who died in the Nation's sen-ice in more try ing time. Gravestones, yellow with age, War the name of men who died at Monterey, in the Mexican war; others who pue up life in the conquest of Cal ifornia and who followed Commodore Stoekton at Old San Pasqual. These are their neighbor in death. Surely they should rest well. Tins nro.v an. I nn.-i. I tout Inl.nlu i (A 'MS t M Pf'- If I . . it, . .. . , . , 'pected to eventually float the Penning no les sincere than the simple grief;; ... . . ', Lof the representative ' of peace, who made the long journey around or across the great bay. But the most impressive body of mourner were the fifty-two men from the tattered Bennington. San Diego is a city of mourning today. Thousands filed, through tho morgues thi morning with anus filled with flow ers, dropping blossoms here and there on some unfortunate's fing-drnpped colliit. Promptly at noon the long line of ve hiclcs began the long journey around the bay to the burial place. : Owing to steep hills and rough roads, it wn found im practicable to use hears es or even dead wagon and the bodies j were stacked in heavy express wagons and other ordinary vehicles. There were no bands of music to stir the people with doeful melody everything was quiet and business like. From noon until 3 o'clock these dead burdened wag ons toiled toward the burial ground and not until almost half past four was the last casket placed in the rock-ribbed trench. The deep trench in which the bodies were placed in two rows, feet to feet, is seventy feet long and fourteen feet wide. It wa finished but a few minutes before th arrival of the first load of bodies. , Without a moment's delay th work i of lifting tiie (yllinn from the wagon and arranging them in the trench wa carried on. 'Shipmate from the Ken- ningtoti f-rfornied thi Md duty. In jiiHt one hour an., fifteen minute the lat Uxly wa de(olted in the trend. It only remained for the representative of the church to pronounce the final bleing orer the dead. Rev. Mr. Richcy, rector of fit. Paul' Epicopal church, read the burial aer vit. .The venerable Father L'baeb, of tlie Catholic church, attended by two 1)Itcetior bearer atepped forward and In a rich and renonant voice read tbe aer vice of the dead and bleed them with water and incense. Captain Drake Statement Kan Diego, July 23. Captain Drafce consented to make a atatement to the Anaoclated l're thi evening. Ife wa naked if he had read the opinion of Rear-Admiral Rae, chief engineer of the navy, a telegraphed from Washington, concerning the caune of the explosion. "Ye," lie replied, "I have read it. It la of course bated upon uppoition. I can atate that there were no high ex- ipIoive on the Bennington and there fore, the theory of high explosive a the caune I dUpoel of. The accident waa du to the boiler, the exact nature of which ha been fully and correctly decrild by Captain Young. It waa one of thoe unfortunate accident that may occur at any time and for which no atifactory explanation can lie made." "1 not the exphwion of a boiler in a' naval veiwel a very unuual accident l wa aked. ' '" "Yea, it i unuual, very unusual, In deed," he replied. j "Will you say anything in regard to the condition of the boiler, when they were lat inspected and whether any report wa made of defect recently t" "The condition of the boilers of the Bennington wa known in the depart ment at Washington. The report wa mad and I on file in the department regarding their condition and it I not neceasary for me, or for Captain Young to aay anything about the matter." Captain Drake aaid be believe the Bennington mar be floated within a abort time, probably within 48 hour. He, like Commander Yoong. believea that tbe miaing. now given a sixteen, were drowned. Their bodies, he believes, will be found in the bay from time to time. Washington, July, 23, Rear-Admiral Goodrich, commander-in-chief of the Pa cific atation, who i expected to reach Sari Diego Thursday, is clother by reg- illations with full authority to order such investigation he deem necessary in the case of the Bennington catastro phe. With his flagship, the Chicago, and the Iris at "San Diego he w ill have a sum cient number of officers from which to appoint the investigating board. It is expected that he will enter into communication with Washington, fully advirdng the officials here of the steps he will take. In telegram coming to 'lie department over night from Captain Drake, that officer announced that he ex- ton. It is stated also that he had or dered the board of investigation to de termine the extent of damage done to the hull and machinery. A revised list was given out today, making the total 4!) identified officially reported to the department and one un identified liody. The moment the depart ment i officially advised as to the find ing of an additional body, a telegram is ent to the nearest relative of the de ceased announcing the death- and ex pressing the sympathy of the department 'FRKCO WILL HAVE. BIG X CHINESE DAILY. . . ' San Francisco, July 23. It was announced - that Chinatown is to have an 8 to 10 page morning daily paper printed in the Chin- ee language. It will be the only morning paper of it kind pub- lished outside of China. It is said that the paper will be pub- lished along American lines and 4) 4 w ill be an illustrated paper, to 4) represent the new party formed 4 in China and in thia country. 44)4)44)44444444)4444) JURY! STAR! PROBING TODAY CRIMINAL PRACTICES Alleged to Have Existed in One of Executive Departments. Grand Judy of District of Columbia will Look into Matters. Stated on Auth ority That Department of Agriculture Is Concerned. Washington, D. C, July 23. District Attorney Beach tonight announced that the grand jury of the District of Colum bia, in pursuance of a call issued in July 20, will meet tomorrow to consider, among other things "certain criminal practices alleged to exist and to have existed in one of the executive depart menta." Mr. Beach declined to admit which one of the departments, this statement had reference to, but it is known that it relatea to the department of agri culture, whoso crop statistical report have been today been put under inves- tlgatloa. PANAMA BEATS WASHINGTON , FOR COMFORT, CLERK WRITES Not Afraid of Yellow Fever and Weather Not So Hot Washington, July 23. W. D. Mab-y, formerly a clerk in the office of the office of the auditor of the war depart ment, and now in the employ of the ca nal commission on the isthmus, writes to a friend in this city, painting a more cheerful picture- of life on the isthmus than that gained by stories told by re cently returned employes. Mabrey writes that he and' his wife are staying at a new government hotel at Corozal, three miles from Panama, where the board is excellent. The tem perature, he says, is juorc comfortable than in Washington at this season of the year, and people go about their business with no more thought of "yellow jack than of pneumonia or typhoid fever in Washington. "If I were back at my desk in Washing ton," he says, "knowing what I know- now, 1 snouid come with less hesitation than I experienced before coming here at all." CONTESTS OVER IMPORTED SOUVENIR POSTAL CARDS Customs Authorities And Importers AI- Most Constantly at Variance. New York, July 23. The importation of foreign souvenir postal cards has as- PAUL JONES BODY WILL BE TAKEN ASHORE TODAY Annapolis, July 23. Tbe John Paul Jones expedition commanded by Admi ral Sigsbce will complete its mission with the landing of the body of the dis tinguished dead tomorrow morning. The day has been without ceremony except of an exchange of call between Admiral Sands, sujerintendent of the Naval Ac ademy and Admirals Sigsbee and Davy and Captain Gervais, of the French cm is er Jurien de la Graviere. On the half deck of the Brooklyn in a spacious compartment lies the body of sumed large proportions at New York, and the clarification snd appraisement of the article is responsible for much litigation between importer and cus tom officer. Tbe cad come from Ger many, France, Switzerland and other European countries. Aomtt are of the cheap variety, while others are minia ture works of art. Under tbe terms of the Dingley tar iff law, souvenir postal card are class ified as "printed matter" with duty at the rate of 25 per cent ad valorem. The Importers, however, are contending for a lower rate. The importers pay tbe as sessment of 25 per cent demanded by col lector and file an appeal with the lower customs tribunal. One of the favorite claim relied upon by the importers is that tbe postal cards are dutiable at only 9 cent per pound under the pro visions in the tariff law for "lithograph ic prints The record of the board of appraiser show that many importer are successful in getting the collectors' assessment cut to the low rates provid ed for lithographic prints. Another fruitful case of strife with the treasury officials have to do with the question of foreign market value of the cards. Many of those sen' in this coun try are purchased in job lot and in other ways which make correct appraisements difficult. Practically all postal card re appraisements are made by General ap praiser Fisher. Church Stops Immigrant New York, July 23. Ceorg Dib, a young Syrian from Damascus, who ar rived here on the White Stat steamship Romanic, will be sent back to face the accusation mads by the ecclesiastic au thorities of the Orthodox Greek charch, that he absconded with $ 3000 belong ing to his uncle, an archdeacon of the church. The uncle gave the money to Diab'a mother, but tbe church claima that he had no right to give bis property to relatives. COLIMONT PASSES AM Was Secretary of War in President Cleveland's Cabinet. Colonel Daniel Lamont Dies at His Home in New York. In Good Health During Day, Seccumba to Sudden Attack of Heart Failure. " New York, July 23. Coloner Daniel Lamont, secretary of war under Presi dent Cleveland, died this evening at Milbrook, Dutches county, after a brief illness. Heart failure was the cause of death. Mr. and Mrs. Lamont were out driv ing this afternoon and Mr. Lamont ap peared to be enjoying the best of health. After dinner he complained of feeling ill and Dr. Stewart, of New York, who is a guest at the house immediately went to his aid. He diagnosed the case a an attack of heart failure and in spite of heroic treat ment .Colonel Lamont passed away half an hour afterward. John Paul Jones. Tomorrow morning Admiral Sigsbee will salute Aijralral Sands with thirteen guns and the sa lute will be returned from the shore batteries. A salute to the squadron from the French cruiser will bo given and re turned. With these formalities over the body willbe landen on a float moored to the wharf. It will then be placed on a hearse and transferred to the vault in the academy ground. The only cere mony will be the reading of Psalms by Chaplain Clark, of the Academy. t