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b; 4 ''.-is laja.m UBLItHK FULL AttOOlATID REPORT POUT? r V ' COVIRt THK MORNINQ NILO ON THB LOWIA OOLUMBIA - r .- - i VOLUME LX NO. 1G8 ASTORIA, OREGON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER U 1905 PRICE FIVE CENT VI Till III ' II I I ' I I I , . - . SLAUGHTER IS FEARED Outbreak Threatened by the "Black Hundred0 JEWS TO BE MURDERED Thruttnln Letters Are Sent to the Hebrews' and Foreigner. NO (PRECAUTION IS TAKEN (I Cratdt and Poland Under Martial Law Offl ceil Flee from the Mutineer Strong Band of TrepoB Will B Miaead if aa Emergency A rim. Moscow, Rev. 10. Alarming rtporti of aa aaU-Jowieh outbreak, almulUne oaaly her d 't It Petersburg oa Sady eat, at U drcaUUoa hfr tit 'lit ForHg rt tad Jtiri hart rf cert1 tbmtotiag letter aal have ap- peaks U U aHthoritte for protao I tloa. Taa far then have see ao tp takaay toward graatiag th rO qaHt. BLACK HUNDRED FEARED. Bumora of Impending Oaalaught Spread Tarror ia Russia. St. Petersburg, Saturday, Nov. II. Except ia Uw kingtlom of Poland, wbtr tha rafldl growing Nationalist mova rnit and ti alata of trnxlim among tha proloUrUta will aoon bring about tb dwlaxation of a taUi of war, Ruia arnna for tba Umt bfing at leant, to t firoralty tranquil tonight. Tclrgrajna from Interior pointa Indi cate tha rtstoratioa of order In nearly all aho ciUea and towaa, but In many cltlra, notably 8t Ptmburg, and Moa cow, bo population la greatly disturbed owing to tbo rumor of approaching at tacks of tba "Black Hundred" which ru mor achedulea to tako place at St. It mburg tonight, and Monro tomorrow. The authoritiea have Ukm the full . et nwaaurea to afford protMion to the populate. In an emergency the utrong band of Trepoff will ba inuaed, evm by the factloua which moe ex crated kim. TO SLAUGHTER JEWS Story In Circulation That "nia.k Hun dred la Preparing to IQ1L St, Pcte'rHlmrg, Nov. 10. The au thority am making evajy erUeaTor to rtor the confldenoe of Uie people and to diMipte the atorlea which aro xing given wide ipread circulation to , the effei t that the "Black undred, l preparing for a ataughtcr of Jena at St. reteraburg. Dcipite the premutation of the po lled that no alarm ! warranted, a genu ine alarm aa been created among tba Jew. A number of naturalised Ameri Tci Jawa called upon Spencer Eddy, American Char&s d'Affaira today; who ansared them that bo did not regard an outbreak ao poaiiblo JEWFIRY: THIEF CONFESSES zf lr - Vte.' a lm tfrvffrV TWrr tt AND few York, Nor.' 10. The confesalon i . .v. .tw nf ffms worth 1100.000 FLUINUCK ( vi wm b 1 from" fashionable me in New York duringtbe Ust two yeaxa, waa mad by u Pore gntri Plea to Warahlpa. () I , Nv. 10.-I)f piU the MHUf non of Onvcrmtr General, that no more diMnlm will be fn rniitU-d, the foreign rldjiil have oug1it naugw on the warhlpa of the rcpecUve na tiimitlitiea, until normal condition prv Offlceri Flee for lift. CioiMtadt, Nov. lO.-Reporte that U.e mutinuii tllor have killed their of flrrm I not confirmed, but ia ia poeitive y WMcrted that a number of offtWre have aought aafely In biding or flight, Martial Uw at Cronatadt. HC J'eteraburg, Nov. 11. It in an mmuead that martial law will ba de clared throughout Poland. It baa ai med bran declared at Cronitadt, PORTLAND JEWS SUBSCBIBE. Five of Portlend'a Hebrew donated urn aggrvgating $1000 fur relief . of tba emeute4 Ituaian Jaw yetrday efUwnooa. By tonight it U expected that Umi toel will have ini-real to at .t M00. A dUiaich bu been received by Ben Selling from Jacob Scbitf, treaaurer of tbe national committee of relief, In which be ald: "V'e urge you and your av!la'.a to call n meeting of JewUh commun ity to form branch committee and col lect Immediate fund. Veeitiet very great Condition appalling. Astoria Ready to Aid. The appeal for aid for tha stricken Jewa In Ruui will find ready repon4 in Astoria, aa aoon a tha Portland Wader shall have formulated their plana for collecting ia Oregon cltie ami town. It U" (nought here the plan' will be known today, and one known will be bandied eiplitiouly as possible. Package Contalnio License Op ened After 70 Years. KING IS SECRETLY WEDDED Indisputable Proofs la Vault of London Bank of Clandestine Union of Mr. Fitibarbart and George IV, Then Princaa of Whales, Guidon, Nov. 10. By the pcrminHion of the King, the C-hnmicle asserts the package conxijrm-d to the cane of the Coutt'a Bank, under stipulation that it would not be opened fur a long period, has now, after seventy year been opened and proved to contain the mar riage certificate and other indisputable proofs that George IV, wan actually mart i Ad to Mii KitJilorlMTt, (Mmtia Anne Smythe). Mr. Fitchcrbc'rt licam'e tlie wife of the Prlni-e of Wales, afterward George IV, December 1875. The marrige of the Trinoe is invalid under the Fjiglih law, though aanction ed by the Roman Catholic Church of which Mrs. FiUhcrbert was a memWr. The question of Issue of this msr rlaff. which was long agitatel by the English public, waa not aettled by the papers just opened. It Is long reported there waa an issue, one male child, who emigraWd to' the Upited States, dying in Washington some years ago, after living quietly and In good circum stances. . , . . RECOVERED Harold Prescott, a. painter tonight who pawnea w jewel lor aww. jewei worth $20,000 were recovered from the pawnshops shortly after the thefta were committed. , . : ; . P.1ARRIAGE S PROVED TALLY SHEETS A FOUND Discovered In Baby Bug gy In a Bronx Cellar. GRAND JURY AT WORK Ten Indictments Returned For Uw Violations and two for Assaults. BOX FOUND AT BARBER SHOP Hearst SupporUra Claim to Have Evi ' donee that Election Clerka Purpose ly Destroyed and Secreted Hundreds of Ballota and Ballot Boseev 1 Mw York, , Kor. lo-Wniam K. Haarat aaaoanced today aa Additional reward of liooo for evidence for tko arreat, cosvictioa and impriaonment of J.;Jae art Tammany district le-vfer to bo convicted of franda against tao bal lot on Tuesday' election. Taia ia la addition to tko other re ward, aggngaUag I17W0. for proof of crimaa against the ballot and regia tration lawo ia the electloa. This nukes the total of reward ho hat offered t2?0,X. ' TWELVE RETUKNED Crand Jury Bring In Indictment! for Election Fraud. . New York, Nov. 10. Ten Indictments for violation of the election law and two for ss-Jaurrs omrolUe"r at last Tuesday's election were drawn up by the grand Jury today. Tlw jury ad journed until Monday before the indict ment had been presented to them for indorsement after bving drawn up. NO BOXES LOST President Voorhia Say all Snch Talk I Foolish. New York, ..or. 10. Evidence of fraud In last Tuesday ' Election waa prepared for the Grand Jury today by both State's Attorney General Mayer and by the law committee which is eon ducting William R. Hearst's contest for the majority election. Will Ask Indictment. Mr. Mayer announced that the evi dence In his possession would justify him in asking for the indictment of several persona, both on charge of violating the election laws and aJsoi for committing assaults at the polling booths on election day. This evident waa prepared by Mr. Mayer, working ia connection with District attorney Jerome' etaff. Mr. Hearst made public a postal card received today - and signed merely "Truck Driven," which read: "On Wednesday night five ballot boxes were taken from a boarding sta ble at 232 Front street" Hearst to Prosecute Lawbreaker. ' The situation today waa described by f William R. Hearst aa follower "The law committee has discovered some very amaiing j things, and the deeper wt go into this thing, tha uglier It look.'' We; bjxvat evidence against twelve district leaders, and I am con fident that wo shall Wnd two or. three of them to prison. I am just aa much interested ia the criminal prosecution of this case as I am la the recount "In this case it makes no difference whether I am declared elected or not in com parison with the greater duty of sending crimlnale to jail" If Loot Ballot Boxes. President Voorhia, of the Board Of EVctoins, today said the talk about missing ballot bote was foo'Uh. , 'The board, he said, knew how many boxes it gave out, and aa far a be knew all that should have come back have been recelwd. He declared that the story iboiit ballot tioxea being found in the river fs all falte. t An offer waa made in Wall street to day to be 110,000 against $50,000 that W. R. Hearst will be seated a the next mayor of New York. 15 A BABY BUGGY Tally Sheet of Electloa Return Found by Official. New York, Nor. 10. Attorney Hen- era I Julio Mayer, before toring hia offic after midnight tbte morning, ar ranged to appear before a magistrate1 in the criminal courts building today to , protecute erera person! abafgoi') with violation of the election laws. Ar rest, it waa said, would oe ' made at an early hour and the prisoners in elude one or more police oflloers. These arrest, it was said, would be the result of accidental discovery of an unlocked and unsealed ballot box, full of protested ballota in the rear of a barbershop that had been used as a polling place in an election district in the Twenty-first assembly district, j The first information sVgarding .the finding of the ballot box eame to Dis trict Attorney Jerome, yesterday through a polk-emaa who .walked, into Mr. Jerome office with a bunch of bal lot and said that he knew whs-re more of tbe same kind were to be found, but that he had not dared to bring In all be bad found until be had been assured of protection. : ' i lis wa sent back with a county de tective, whom he escorted to the, barber shop where th ballot box waa found. At tfe beadquaaers f the Municipal Ownership LktogtM ' It wa annonneed that two ballot boxes had been 'found in a tailorshop next door to the old town hall, Gravesend. Thia shop waa used aa a polling place on election day. The boxes, it ia said, were discovered by Bernard Way neck, a representative of the league, who reported that one contained mutilated ballots and the other supposed to contain ballot stubs, waa empty. Evidence of gross caelesneaa ia the care of election returns developed yes terday when tho official enveloe con taining Uw official return and tall sheets for the Seventy-thirtf election district of the Thirty-fifth assembly dia trict were found in a baby carriage ia the cellar of a house in Tho Bronx. How it got there no one in the house waa able to explain. Tbe tally sheet showed that 24 rotes had been cast for Ivirm, 99 for MeClel Un and 139 for Hearst Both Mr, Jerome and Attorney Gen eral Mayer at once began an investiga tion. Archibald Haasell, a poll clerk. who aigned the tally sheet, aald he sealed the returns and gave them to the chairman of the dttion board. The latlet when found said he) had turned the returns over to a man named Dawson, who waa to take them to the propeal place! DawaoaJ could not) be found. Mayer and Morgaa Investigate. New York, Nor. 10. Attorney Gen eral Mayer and Stabs Superintendent of Election Morgan have instituted a searching investigation of the alleged election frauds, which will be con tinued until the Legislature meets. Bal lot boxes, broken open and otherwise mutilated, ballota torn and soiled, found aecneted In many out of the way places,, have beekt recovered. Hearst supporter claim to have evidence that the flection clerks purposely destroyed and secreted tfmndraie of ballota and ballot boxes. ; J HEEDED THE MONEY. ' 1 Member ProhibiUoniat ad Church Coo to tha Bad. s Nor til Yakima, Nor. 10,-WiIIiam Oowle. for whoa a warrant haa .been isued oa a oharga of forging warranta amounting to $1800 waa arrested at the head water of tho Americen' river, ia th Cascade mountains, today. Cow- lea w ckrk in tho Yakima city school J and raised the warrants. He wa a member of a local church, justice of the peace, and waa considered a model ciUten. He waa also aa active prohibitionist. DID IT TOO 1 Assisted In Delating the "16 to 1 Heresy" vamawssssnwaaws CAMPAIGN FUNDS GIVEN Gold Democrat Committe Was Favored by Donation of -$1,000 Dollars. REPUBLICANS GET $7,500 "More Moral Than Political Mora" Saya Hegeman, "And to Defeat tha it to t Hersey Money Loaned at Low Sates aa "BecogaiUoa," New York, Nor. 10. President Hege man, of the Metropolitan Life, testi fied before the LegislaUre Committee today, that hi company had ia 1896, mad a contribution of $1000, to the majiager of U Buckoer-ftta Gold Democratic campaign committe, and 17500 more to tho National Bepnhlkaa committee, more aa a moral than a po litical move, to assist in defeating "K to 1 heresy." He said he had never made any other contribution to cam paign fund. Money Loaned aa "Recognitioa." negemaa testified that his company haa naiil Andrew TTmiHyi mwr.. , -ft"- gate of 13395, for service since May. 1892. It waa shown tho Metropolitan had made loan of $100,000 to $200,000 at 11 per cent interest, to William Read, of the firm of Vennily AV Com pany at various dates from 1901 to 1903. The market rate of call loans daring that period waa 41 to 5 pe cent. The company had thus accommodated Resde aa a recognition of his valuable service to trsy company. On boada and stocks, according to Hegeman, the Metropolitan haa cleared about $1,200, 000, and on syndicates ia which Vt-r- milye A Company had invited the Metropolitan to participate about $650,' 000 had been' made for tho company. Jospeh Howard, Jr, a writer, trstl- fled that ho had been la the employ of the Mutual Life for over thirty years. He had also done work for the Equit able. He identified a number of vouch ers extending over a period of five yean, ending in ' 1904, aggregating $16,625. Nothing startling In importance was de veloped during hia testimony. 4 NATHAN IN THE TOILS. Boston, Nor. 10. Morris Na- , than, haa been held in fire thou-1 sand dollars bail, as an accessory before the fact, in the death of Miss Geary, and Dr. McLeod ia twenty thousand on a chjsrga of abortion. , 1 ,.f No surety for Nathan has been, given, but Mcleod's bond, girea a few day g haa been re-4 4 aewed. ' The rase hare been; 4 ; continued until Monday f 5 444444 4 GROOM IS 70 AND BRIDE 71; rMENDANlINiSTER IS of Lo Angeles, Nor. 10. The combined agea of th bride, groom and officiating clergyman at a Lo Angelea. weddlag yesterday totalled 232 years. The - UHIFOBM DIVORCE LAWS. - IlarrUburg, Nov. 10.--Govern- or I'ennypacer ha isaued letters to tSe Governors of every state in the anion, urging the appoint- 4 avut of delegates to a Con- , w -gress to be held in Washington. 1 February 16, 190, to consider f the pas age of uniform divorce W laws throughout the United 4 State. 4 Governor.) of thirty-four1 f starts have already appointed 4 - delegate. ' Paaaenger Thrown Overboard. 1 London, Nov. 10. A Daily-Mail spec- ial from, Bucharest, says the sailor of the Russian steamer Ismael, from Odes sa, with refugees .aboard, demanded money and jewels from the. passengers, and threw overboard, all those who were unable to comply. ' CLOSE Olf OFF TEARS Jfo Sockeye Fishing on Soand Daring" , ' 1008 and 190S , cVattle, Nov. 10. The internatkraal matrting of the Fish Commissions! of British Columbia and Washington ad journed in this city today to meet la Victoria, B. C. during the first week in January. President Edward Prince stated that today's meeting wa of a preliminary nature only, and that no real work would be accomplished, .until the com missions met in Victoria. . It waa decided however, to advocate oa both side of the Hne a closed aesv sb. 4-vrfwg 14 and )WrV ... Jt was argued that unless soma such step "was takea, the red taimoa woald soon he extinct. FIM LOSES SUIT I . it, ' j .m m . Unnoi KCCOVCF OaO.U.U ftia te a Nxms, WAS GIYEN UNDER COERCION Coart Aaaoaacat Ita Dedaiea, Hot an Merita f th Case, Bat Bscaase th Akfiation of th PaiatiS Wart Mot Prevea, New York. Nor. 10. Th Appelate division of the New York Stat 8a preme court today handed down a de cision dismissing the suit of John R. Piatt against Hannah Eiaa, a aegress, to recover $685,000 which Ptt as serted he had givea the woman under coercion. The court announced tha decision waa not given on the merit of tho case but the tmany allegations of acta on tha part of Hannah Ellas, which would re sult in the decree requiring her to make restitution, had not been proven. GOVERNMENT WILL INVESTIGATE. St. Petersburg, Nor. 10. Th long! official program published today denir th recent disorders, fomented by tha Government. The primes I made of a careful investigation of the outrage. ST. PETERSBURG SCHOOLS CLOSE. S Petersburg,- Nor. 10. Th uni versities and high schools bar alt closed indefinitefy by order of tha Min ister of Education. . eaaioa was the rnarriage. of Dr. Joha W. Blarturn, re 70 rtars to Martha J, Heflln, aged Jl, years. fc lUf. .W. A, Irwin, retired army chaplain, II year eld .performed the ceremony.