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THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WBDNESWAY, MAY 3, 1900.
Wmm
Still another new stock Pattern just arrived. Apple Green, its a
beauty. Haviland shape sold any way you want to buy it
We are selling white and decorated dinnerware at wonderfully low pri
ces. We have received a very large stock of glassware which we ar
selling at lower prices than ever before.
Wt art selling 250 good carpet tacks for 50 and giving you free a beauti
ful large picture.
Crockery Store
Sole Agents For Baker's Barringtoa Ball Steel Cut Coffee.
HOT CONTEST ON.
ALBANY, N. Y., May 3.The senate
was still in session parly today, pritcti-
ally dca'Jhxked in the tvujjlo over
the effort to reach or to prevent tin1
reaching of the mortgage tax bill. Dur
ing tlm night every dilatory resource
had Won exhausted by the opponent
of the bill; no i oiiipromise wn in slht
ami the indication pointed to nn indefi
nitely prolonged blocking of legislation.
S' "ml conferences hud been held, but
without rcHtilt,
Kvery motion to ndjorn had b en defeated.
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WILL MEET AGAIN.
A Mountain of Gold.
could not bring as much happiness to
Mrs. Lucia Wilke, of Caroline, Wis., and
did not one 2.V liox of Itucklen's Ar
nioA Salve," when it completely cured a
running sore on her leg, w hieh had tor
tured her twenty-three years. (5reate-t
antiseptic healer of Piles, Wounds, and
Sores, 2."c at Charles Rogers' drug
store. '
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CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
Tta Kind Yco Hare Always Ecught
I50C1IKSTKR. X. Y., May 2 It is
understood thn tlm
STHIKF IS Pill PR f thP l,mt("'tant t,,,ur,n before which
UllllilL ' lU UlLLLU Crasp,r was tided foe heresy
will meet onoe inon for the purpose of
consulting with .lodge North, at Rata via
where the findings will so lie prepa
ed for presentation to Bishop Walker,
It is thought that the court will meet
about May 13, as- it goes out of txis
ten. May 13, It will take about ten
days to transcrilie the notes of the
trial" which includes atiotit 1KMXH) words.
ELECTRIC
DISPLAY
Gas Ignited in Conduit Causes
Excitement.
No home is Complete without
FIRE DEPARTMENT IS CALLED
Gas Main Explodes Sending Fountain
of Fire Into the Air People
Are Injtred by the Explosion.
The model finish for Floors, Furniture, Etc. Easily
applied, quickly driedjwears like iron.
Watch Our vShow Window
Chicago Iron Workers StriKe
Tie Up Building.
ARBITRATION IS REJECTED
. Bears the
Signature of
Ironworkers Want $5.00 a Day for Eight
I Hours Offered S4.60 for Four
j Months and $4-80 Rest of
t Time.
( BAMBOO
I FURNITURE
I PAPER RACKS.
TABLES,
STANDS.
CHAIRS.
ETC, j
HAND MADE, ELEGANTLY
FINISHED. I
Yohohama Bazaar I
626 Commercial gtreet, Astoria B
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CHICAGO, May 2.-r-Just as the
wreckers started the der""lsn of old
structures yesterday to make room for
J-Ui.000,000 of new buildings in the loop
district a strike was called which prom
iscs to tie tip the building industry of
Chicago.
One thousand structural iron workers
following orders, will drop work today
and then idleness will precipitate the
first important labor disturbance in the
building trades since the 1900 lockout.
TV -strike promises to stop nearly all
construction work of a lane ehsraet
er. Skyscrapers and other large buil
dings under way in the down town di
tricts especially will suffer a set back.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
SAX FRANCISCO. May 2.. warrant
was issued this morning for the arrest
of John Mrcnimnt a memlier of tlip
national guard, charged with murder.
lie is accused of killing Joseph Meyer,
the keeper of the children's pliiyground
Meyer's brother swore to the warrant.
Four witnesses testified that the killing
was without provocation.
ANARCHISTS ARRESTED.
XEW.ARK, X. J.. May 2.rolicemci
broke up n 'u-iulUt pinole here lnt
night and arrested two of the leaders
ltecituse a red Hug ivh planted in the vnn
Chief of Police Adam had received word
that the socialiots intended to nse the
Hug and directed them not to do so.
They denied they intended to exploit
anarchy and maintain that the anarchist
fag was black and white.
NEW YOKK.May 1 Kvcrybody with
in two blocks of 23rd stive t and First
avenue lust muni. hul au experience
that suggested an eurthipiitkn and inci
dentally saw one of the finest electri
cal fountain' seeu in this city in many
a day. A manhole cover wits blown up.
A poliivmnn was neir the manhole)
when a gre.it volume of gas ignited,
exploding and threw him ten feet away
into the gutter. Two other polii-emen
were shaken nearly on their feet and
three young women were jimmied against
a building, one suffering a severe cut
in the head.
Several thousand people gath.-red and
meantime firemen turned two stream
into the conduit, uliiih hus run veiled
into a spurting electric fountain.
the water soaked the pavement block
it made them conduct the liberated el
ectricity and for live minutes men jump
cl into the itic whenever a strut ll.isli
came toward them. The police finally
drove the crowd back, a block each w.iv.
The manhole i-over had smashed up
again-t the elevated railroad structure
and was shattered into fro'in-iits. Kx
perts ;iid an electrical pary had limit
ed sewer gas in a I'onduit.
B. F. Allen & Son, "c?; 2i"
' and Eleventh St.
Agency Standard Gas Engines
.STATIONARY TYPE
AN HONEST ENGINE
AN HONEST PRICE
"Standard" "Standard" "Standard"
WILL NOT USE TURBINES.
REFUGEES AT CORVALLIS.
CORVALLIS, Or. May 2Mrs Eugene
Shelby, and daughters Leila and Emma.
Delay is also in store for the new county I arrived in Corvallis Saturady en route
hnn, C.. I- .... a ...
ivm ,7uu riiinciv'o jo ineir nome 111
rortlmid. They experienced the horno
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Your attention is
called to our new
store, now open and
ready for business
We Do Expert
Painting, Graining
Paper Hanging
and Frescoing
GIVE US A CALL
The Eastern Painting
a Decorating Co.
No, 75 9th St.
Do You Wear
oes?
We sell the kinds that wear
longest and look the best.
We handle a special line of
Loggers' Shoes
Give us a Trial.
court house, where the iron workers
were preparing to begin work next
week.
The $6,000,000 figure on proposed new
building: accounts only for improve
ments to follow wrecked operations ait-
tually begun yesterday. In the city's
I loop district the summer promised an
actual investment of J..Ono,000 in new
blocks.
T1. 11. 1 , ,
me waiKoui or tn.- iron workers wa
voted la-t night. Arbitration offers,
made lit the last moment, failed to
avert it.
The iron workers in-i-t in a wave of
5 a day for eight month- work. The
contractors offer of S-l.tiO for four
months and 4.80 for the if-t of the
coming year was rejected.
Aside from affecting directly fouy
fifths of the mechaiiieas engaged in steel
and iron structural work, the strike
will throw out of employment several
thousand other building workmen such
A carpenters bricklayers hod carriers
and stone cutters.
MONTH KA I, May 2-The Alien's
steamship for the Montreal Liverpool
Mrviee is is announced will not have
turbine engines tlm same as tho-e of the
J'ti tntriiin which was wrecked lat fall
mi the Wye ricks, below QiicIk-c. The
itcision of th. company to go back to
ths reciprocating tyc of engines i
fuken to mean that the turbine has imt
tlTCtl Inllll I ;l fcllif,h U'h.ti iirnil..,.! I.,
. . , . ... . I " " ' "I '
c.tmjiuiNe aiei nrc ami eii)e(l with I J, r,. (,,;
but with little save wearim? iinoarel. s
J. M. ARTHUR & flfl, Wac"c Mc"i.3nts
PORTLAND. OREGON.
am-hip'
'- rvline, .Itide Virgil Watters and Po
lice Judge F. .). Vfttes have returned
from San Francisco where thev have
been searching fur relatives. Mr. Klin.. I
NOT A GOOD FISHER.
IHMIXJEWATKII. X. S, May
Prince Aitiiur of 'onmiiiilit left
found his residence property unbiirned !ft night for St. .lolm N. It., tl
here
inn con-ni-iaOly ilamagcd. Mr. Vate-
found his relatives -ate arid their prop
eilV miact. .1111 L'e Hiilteri . n, .,...!,..!
1,1 I. wot .... ..11 I . . I .
... n aim-: an ills ifiitlifs site one
sister, but has every iea-on t, believe
!. Ll... I t . , 1 , . .
r,M- s leu.iieii outer relatives in
California.
ic prince
has been at 'he Med way S i!rjmn t'.-hiii'
grounds for two days but failed to
atc.'i a singl- salmon.
STOP, WOMAN!
S. A. GIMRE,
GOOD SHOES
43 Bond Street 0pp. Ross HiKgina &Co.
WANT PAY RAISED.
NEW YORK, May 2.-A strike of
carpenters in Brooklyn yesterday is said
to include 2000 of the 4000 carpenters
employed in that borough. The strikers
want their pay raised from 50c to 56Jc
an hour. This would increase their
weekly wage from 822 to $24.75. At
the strike headquarters it was said that
!50 or 410 employes had already acced
ed to the terms proposed. .
JJaiuel leatberstone- eecretarv of tne
Xcw York district council of the Ameri
can Brotherhood of Carpenters, said that
4000 carpenters had struck in the Bronx
for an advance from .4 to 4.50 a day.
tho carpenters in Queens, he said, struck
last month for an increase In wages
from $3.50 to $4. The 800 carpenters on
Staten Island made Hie same demands,
to go into effect Monday.
The strike in the Bronx did not last
long, Feathci-son said as before the
afternoon the majority of the employers
granted the demands. Many carpenters
in Queens hid returned to work but as
soon 8S they heard the Brooklyn car
penters were out they struck again.
Xo strikes took place in Manhattan.
We care not how you suffered, nor
what flailed tio cure you, Hollister's
Rocky Mountain Tea makes the puniest,
weakest specimen of man or womanhood
strong and healthy, 35 cents, Tea or Tab
lets. Sold by Frank Hart.
Moraiag Astorian, 65c. per month.
SWARM OF BLACK ANTS.
Cloud of Flying Insects, Settling, Black
en Houses.
FAIRVJKW, Or., May . strilll;
...-iMMiiKiiwn iiHi witnesses i,.rP veter-
day. A cloud of flying black ants set
fled r.n mum- ti.i,... , 1 .. .
"".T -- suilie llillKlllg lllflr
way inside. When they settled on the
side of the houses they were -o thick as
i 1.11 , ....
10 inaxe me house look bliick.
r. it
un ine houses the insects resembled
ordinary black ants but there were mil
lions of them, and there is much specu
lation as to the can, of h. t
nil a Mii -
AND CONSIDER
THE ALL-
IMPORTANT FACT
That in address
ing Mrs. Pink-
ham yon are con
fiding your private
ilia to a woman
a woman whose ez
ence with women's
eases covers a great
many years.
Mrs. Finknam is the
daughter-in-law of
Lydia E. Pinkham.
and for many years
under berdirectlon,
Ration. When . disinfectant spray and E her de-
..yv.x w Uie ouimings where they cease.she has been
had alighted, the insects took flight,
and have not been se.-n in this locality
since.
s7 1
am
That AH Important Bath Room
Vou hive often heard people remark "If I were
ever to bui!J, 1 would ptN
my bath room first and would not put
all my money into the parlor with all
its finery. " That if good common scnie
sentiment, for the bath room ii the most
Important of all the household. Q
We would lite to help you plan your
hetn room and will gladly quote you
Tt or 'Stawdmif Wire, the heat
anr not sanitary fixtures nude.
J, A. Montgomery, Astoria.
I
Sherman Transfer Co.
HEXHY SHERMAN. Manager
lacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Trucks and . Furniture
vVogons Pianos Moved Boxed and Shipped.
433 Commercial Street
Phone'Main 121
J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President.
0. I. PETERSON. Vice-President.
r'RANK PATTON, Cashier.
J. W. OARN'ER, AsalsUnt Cubler.
DRINK WOOD ALCOHOL.
ANCOL'VER, B. C, May 2. Two are
dead, another will die, and half a dozen
others are very sick at North Bend. H
r jc... i . .
v,., irom urniKing wood alcohol. Those
who drank the liijuid were inomnt of
ts' effects.
EIGHT MEN INJURED,
LL lUfllv, May 2.-KiBht uncon
scious men were taken from the McAdoo
tfmnel, tinder -the Hudson J!iv;r, today
alter an explosion in the tunnel.
tv... ie
j-ne 01 uie men were removed to
hospitals. Four hi not expected to
ecover.
The explosion was suppo-ed to have
been caused by gas.
advising sick wo-
menfreeofeb ar jre.
Many women
ffer in silence and drift alouf?
bad to worse, knowing1 full well that
iney ought to nave immediate assist
ance, but a natural mrxlesfv IdimIi
them to shrink from exposing them
selves to the questions and probable
tiaminauoiis oi even their family
physician. It Is unnecessary. Without
money or price you can consult a wo
man whose knowledge from actual ex
perience is great.
Mrs. Plnkham'a Standing Invitation.
Women suffering from anv form of
iemaie weakness are fnvited to Dromntl v
communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at
Liynn, Mass. All letters are received.
opened, read and answered by women
only, A woman can freely talk of her
private illness to a woman j thus has
been established the eternal confidence
between Mrs. Pinkham and the women
of America which has never been
broken. Out of the vast volume of
experience which she has toiraw from.
it is more man possible that she has
gained the very knowledge that will
help your case. She asks nothimr in
MULTNOMAH TAXES PAID.
SALEM, May 2.-Tlie Stale Treasur
er has received Ijs 140,1 87."0 from the
County Clerk of Multnomah County yes
terday which is thrrtefoiirths of tho
amount due the state from taxes
that county.
return except your good-will, and her
advice has relieved thousands, Surelv
any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish
if she does not take advantage of this
generous offer of assistance.
it you are ill, don't hesitate to sret a
bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham'sVejretabla
Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pink
nam, ijynn. Mass., Tor special advice.
When a medicine has been successful
in restoring to health so many women,
in yon cannot well sav. without trvinar it.
ii t a a- -if 1 - . "
x uo not ceiieve n tviu aejp me."
Astoria Savings Bank
TaplUtl Paid tn 100,000, Surplus and Cnfilvlded Profit IM.OUO.
TraDMcu a General Banking Business. Interest Paid on Tims Deposit
iIm) Tanth 8tret,
ASTORIA, OREGON,
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Music Polios
A NEW LINE OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL FOLIOS (BOTH
SACRED AND POPULAR) THE VERY BEST MUSIC DESIGNED TO
SELL AT
25c Each
WERE SOLD TO US BY THE PUBLISHERS SO THAT WE ARE
ENABLED IN ORDER TO INTRODUCE THEM TO SELL THIS LOT AT
15c Bach
J. N. GRIFFIN
BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC, AND SPORTING GOODS.
Weirihard's
Lager
Beer.