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NO, 177. VOLUME LXIII,
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FANS
FIGHTING
Alter Being Disbanded
Yellow
KOREANS AND JAPS KILL EACH OTHER IN RIOT
Although the Flrelng Was General and Vicious Through the
City There Were no Foreigners Injured By Flying Bullets
From Rifles and Machine Guns.
BULLETS STRUCK AMERICAN
JAPANESE AT TOKIO ARE NOT CON CERNED OVER THE OUTBREAK
AND REPORT LATE LAST NIO HT THAT QUIET BAD BEEN RE
STORED ALL OVER KOREA JA PANES8 MAKE LIGHT OF THE DIS
TURBANCE AND REPORT FEW CASUALTIES,
8KOUU August 2. 11 A. M.-In con
flict tedajf t the KMt gate Of tilt bV'
ruck belweeu Jpnr troops and dis
(mailed Korean sol.ller 40 or 60 were
kllW and wounded, Including never!
Japan who were ti renting and Im
prisoning them. Firing bat c.ud. The
American tviiwulnt was struck by mv
ml bullet, Xo foreigner, were Injur
ed and the city appears oaf.
The Korean battalion mutinied this
morning (faint the disarmament order
nd engaged in a fight for several hours
w ith JmiH'-e trooji. near the consulate
MYSTERIOUS KILLING.
Atrocities la Oklahoma Thought to be
Perpetrated by Secret Society.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Auguit 2. -With
ear. hacked 'from IU head, the trunk
and on arm pierced with, four bullets,
teeth knocked out, and with mouth
bruited and clotted blood formed upon
Hps, the body of Wilbur (iimreth, a
barber, wo found thl afternoon a few
niile fmui this city by a (farmer. Thie
it the second body found near Okla
bonia City within a week with ear cut
off aid the police are working on the
theory that teoret eoclety recently
formed to wreak horrible vengeance on
it. encmlea la operating In and near
thl city.
ELECTRIC STORM AT TACOMA.
Streetcar Stopped, Telephone Silenced
and Long Diitanct Line Art Down.
TACOMA, August 1. An electrical
storm, typical of the cnut, but seldom
experienced In this eotion struck here
and other cities of the Sound at 7
o'clock till evening. The streetcar sys
tems of Tuooma and Seattle were put
out of service (or two houm. Telephone
Unci were silenced nnd long distance
lines re prostrated and ennnot be re
imnioj until morning.
MAQUETTB DESTROYED.
Had Sam Experience in 1905 But Thii
Tim li Reported to be Worse.
WICHITA, Kas., August 2-AII elTorU
to reach Marquette, reported to be en
tirely destroyed by a tornado fcave
failed. The Missouri Pacific Railway
telegraph operator t Marqnetto was
notifying the agent at Genesee that the
depot was almost dostroyed by wind
and that three Inches of water stood In
the depot' when the wire failed. Mo
Pherson, southeast of Marquette, was
reached by telephono. Tht phce hoard
the report but could not communicate
with Marquette. AU other wires are
dowrt. '
Marquette wa destroyed by tor
vftdo in 1005, 27 persons being killed and
ovel 150 injured. .
NEXT TIME AT COLUMBUS.
DENVER, August I. The American
Thllatellc AsBoeintion today selected
Columbus, 0., as the next meeting place
f ... 1 Ll
iur mo annuni oouvemiuu.
JAPANESE
They Rise Against Their
Oppressors.
CONSULATE BUT HURT NO ONE
quarter with riflca and machine gun.
The committee oiu unknown.
According to General Ihargawa, up to
0 o'clock thla evening, there bad been
120 casualties growing out of the dU
bandment ai Korean troop. Marquis I to
haa provided foreign consulates with
guarda at a precaution of safety,
TOKIUi August 2. With Uie excep
tion of one unsuccessful attack on the
Japan.e troop which yesterday dl
handed Korean troop, and which result
ed In slight casualties on either aide
there U general calm reported In Korea
FUNERAL OF SENATOR.
SKI.MA. Ala., Auguit 1. The funeral
of 1'nlted SUte Swwtor I'ettiw, who
died Sunday at Hot Springs, X. C,
took place here thl afternoon. Thou
oaiul marched pat the bier. Interment
w at Uve (nk cemetery.
MOHAMMEDANS MURDERING.
WASU1XGTOK, Augtwt l.-Tlie tt
department today received word from
li. S. MlnUter tiuminere at Tangier,
a brief cablegram stating that wverol
foreigners bad been murdered at Oaa
Bhwca, Morocco, and "lltat ft tforelgn
vcaxel has been dlnpatched to Morocco."
fit is believed thera are no native born
Americans In Casa BUnca.
YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES.
At Portland Portland I, Lo An-
gelea 0.
At ban Francisco Oakland 3, 8n
Francisco 2.
At Seattle-Seattle 0, Butte 3.
At Tacoma Tacoma 3, Spokane 2.
HELD ON MURDER CHARGE.
LKWISTON, Idaho, August 1. R. G.
F. Smith of Spakling was, placed on trial
yesterday on charge of threulencing
to kill Noah Bedell, and, as a result of
the bearing. Smith was placed under
$81(0 peace bond.
RETIRED OFFICER DIES.
ST., PAUL, Minn., August 1. Brigadier-General
Charles Francis Powell, U.
S. A., retired, died at th home of his
hl brother in this city today, aged
03 years.
APPOINTED POSTMASTER.
OYSTER BAY. N. Y., August 1.
Prenktont Roosevelt today appointed
Ralph L. Phllbrlck as postmaster at
Hoquiam, Woah.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
GUTHRIE, Okla., August 2.-The re
publicans today nominated Frank Fronts
(for governor N. G. Turk for lieutenant-
povernorj Thomas Robnet for secretary
of state, and Silaa Reld 'for attorney
general V
ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1907.'
Uncle Tobacco Sam Goah gingl
in my tobacco patch,
DID NOT SUICIDE
Millionair Will Go to Colorado
Springs to Investigate.
NEVER SENT GIRL MONEY
Ho Denies AU Knowledge of Rumbaugb
and Says That he Was Not Engaged
to Miss Matthews and Was Only Her
Ardent Admirer.
KAXSAS CITY, August l.-The fu
neral o: Miss Matthews who came to
her death at Colorado Springs, will be
held in this city tomorrow. Charles A.
Cocry, the Chicago millionaire with
wIkuii she had corresponded; Mrs. Mat
thews, the mother of the girl, and other
relatives arrived from Cbkago tonight.
They Insist that Miss Matthews did not
commit suicide but was murdered. Af
ter the funeral Coey will go to Colorado
Springs to make a thorough Investiga
tion of the shooting.
Coey said tonight that he hod never
sent money to Mie Matthew at Colo
nulo Springs but that he did send her
$300 to defray her funeral expenses as
he would do 'or any close friend. He
aid that he was not engaged to Miss
Mhtthcws, although he was Iter ardent
admirer.
Ho bitterly denounced the testimony
of Miss Green and aaid that he had
never heard of Rumbaugh until after
the girl's death, Ho said that he had
written to Miss Matthews urging her
to como back to Chicago and her last
letter to her mother she indicated the
intention of following his advice, Coey
said that he invitd ihe greatest pub
licity for his letters to Miss Matthews
as they tiil reflected credit on himself.
He made public a letter (from tho girl's
mother iu which she snys her daughter
did not commit suicide and that her
death was not connected in any way
with tli reported breaking off his en
gagement with Miss Matthew. She says
that Coey Is entirely blameless in the
matter and ihat he stands "Very honor
ably" in her esteem. She ends with the
statement "I know a orown awaits you
in the great beyond."
SLAUGHTER AT LODZ.
ST. PETERSBURG, -August 1. In
quelling rjots, troops at Lodx today
opened fire, killing and wounding 30.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., August 1. At 10
m. tonight reports received indicate
WHllants maintains the lead of 3 to 1
oyer Vardeman In the Mississippi con
tost for the Sena'torial nomination.
That tobacco worm haa certainly thrived
TO
Fleet of Battleships to Prepare
for Long Trip.
HEARD FROM OYSTER BAY
What Wis Before Humor Concerning
Movement of Battleship to Pacific
Ocean Now Has the Smack of Roose
velt' Order Metulf Not to Reslpu
OYSTER BAY, August l.-Secretary
Locb said today that there was no
change in the plans to send the battle--hip
squadron to the Pacific Coast and
tliat the necessary preparations are now
Mng made, Wn tlieee are completed
the voyage will be begun. Loeb's state
ment is significant because it was the
flrot utterance to that effect from Oys
ter Bay. Locb eakl that there wu no
criticism whatever of Secretory Metcalf
for making the announcement as he did
and there was no foundation rof the
report that Metcalf had been asked to
resign.
DIES AWAY FROM HOME.
LEAVEXWORTH, Kan., August
Hubert Knipe, a pioneer business man of
this city, died In Denver last night,
where he had gone for his health.
FRENCH AUTHOR ILL. -
'PARIS, August 1. M. Edmund
Rostand, the famous dramatis and au
thor of "Cyrano de Bergerac," is re
ported seriously ill. HU friends ore
much alarmed.
CONVENTION ENDS TOMORROW.
SEATTLE, August I. Tomorrow end
the convention of the Woodmen of the
World and it is epected that the entire
day will be taken up with the reading
of hte reports of committees. Tonight
at Dreamland Park a monster initiation
will take place. It is expected that fully
1000 applicants will be initiated into the
orduf. ""
TUCKER WILL NOT BE .TRIED.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 1.-
Lieutenant-Colonel William F. Tucker,
paymaster of the department of the
lakes with hearqiwrtem at Chicago, will
not be court martialed upon the com
plaint preferred by his wife, Mrs. Logon
Tuckef.
COLUMBIA INVESTIGATION.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 1. No im
portant testimony was adduced today
at the inquiry in the Columbia disaster.
SQUADRON
VOVIFIS TM MORNINO fllLO ON
CIO SHAKING NEW YORK
The Latest Murder is One of the Most Revolting
in Crime History.
KATIE PRirSCHELER ASSAULTED AND STRANGLED
She Disappeared a Week Ago
uorjy Bruised and cut in
Across a Berry
RIPP0LAN0, A COBBLER, IS
THREE CRIMES IN THIS LOCALITY AND ALL COMMITTED THIS WEEK
HAVE THE SAME RESEMBLANCE; ALL THE VICTIMS ARE WOMEN
AND HAVE BEEN CHOKED WITH RIBBON OS. SOPS EXCITEMENT
OF LAST MURDER ALMOST A RIOT.
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NEW YORK, August 1. "The grave
yard," a the foreign populated neigh
borhood on First arenue between Thir
teenth and Fourteenth streets is known
locally, gave up today fresh orime riv
aling in atrocity the mysterious butch
eries ai last week.
The latest discovered victim was an
clght-year-old girt .and like the two
young women murdered, she had been
shockingly mistreated before her death
and the body mutilated when life was
extinct .
The three murders are strikingly
similar. Last Thursday a woman was
strangled in a Twenty-second street
boarding house j the next morning the
body of still another unidentified woman
who had been choked to death, was
found in an archway in east Nine
teenth street.
Kate Pritsvheler, a daughter of a
restaurant waiter, disappeared a week
ago today and was killed that night. A
ribbon placed about her throat and
drawn so tightly that it cut the fleh,
showed how she died. Her body was
found today. If the brutality of the
murderers can be graded, that of Prit-
scbeler girl ranks first. She was as
saulted, murdered, and then her lifeless
form horribly mutilated.
The body of Kate Pritscheler was dis
covered today within a block of her
borne and scarcely 100 yards away tfrom
the location of a placard placed there by
ber father calling attention to the fact
that his child was lost. How the body
could have remained undiscovered for a
week is not explained.
The body lay on a berry crate with
seemingly no effort at concealment.
Coroner Harburger declared the
crimes in Berlin not one thousandth
part bod as the murder of this girl.
STRATHSPEY IN CYCLONE.
Mountainous Seas Sweep Ship's Deck
and for Several Days She is
Beyond Control
SAN FRANCISCO, August l.-During
her voyage to this port the British
tramp steamer Strathspey encountered a
succession of the most severe gales ever
met with before by any of her crew.
According to Captain VV. Osborne a
cyclone through which the vessel strug
gled when six daye out from Newcastle
was of the most fearful description.
Mountainous seas continually swept the
decks and broke over the funnel. The
ironwork of the ship was twisted in
places like string. The steam pipe cov
ers were torn clean out amd everything
movable swept away by the sea. The
ship for some time was beyond all con
trol and not until the 8th day was the
Strathspey again under control Subse
quently more storms arose and though
not so severe as the preceding one, yet
day after day for three weeks the wind
continued to blow with hurricane tforce.
After the Hawaiian Islands were passed
no more gales were encountered but
fresh head winds were experienced ell
the way to Golden Gate. , , j
THi LOWIft OOLUMBIA
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
and Was Found Yesterday, Her
Fiendish Manner and Thrown
Crate in Areaway.
ARRESTED ON; SUSPICION
IJ
At to coroner's direction Gaetano
Rippolano, whose cobbler shop adjoint
the girl' homo, was arrested and asked
to explain his absence from the shop
last Friday. He established the fact
that he bad spent the day at Bristol,
Conn. The girt is known to have fre
quented Rippolano' place and a search
of the shop brought to light a man'
shirt which bora red tains.
The cobbler was arrested and remand
ed to the coroner. Tho police also be
gan to search for a woman who is said
to have formerly roomed at Pritscbeler'a
home, but who left there after a quarrel
and took lodgings in the house where tho
girl's body was found.
When the news of finding the little
one's body spread through the neigh
borhood excitement rose to such a pitch
that the removal of the body and ar
rest of Rippolano caused almost a riot.
Many thousands of people were in near
by streets when the wagon from the
morgue arrived. At the sight of the
covered body the crowd gave vent to
grief and rage in a babel of tongues.
The police were compelled to use force
to get through the street. Soon after
ward the arrest of the cobbler became
known and the crowd charged the pris
oner's shop. Rippolano had been safely
removed to the station house but his
shop windows were smashed and only a
determined front of police reserves pre
vented greater 'damage.
John Kusmicho, a Russian watchman
under arrest as suspicious person and
who is said to have been seen in com
pany with the girl whose body was
found in the areaway on Ninth street
was today remanded without bail until
Saturday. No clew to the murder in
Twenty-second street was secured to
day. TELEGRAPHERS ANGRY.
SAX FRANCISCO, August l.-The
local telegraphers' union is angered at
the part the national executive com
mittee took to prevent Small from carry
ing out his plans for a national strike.
The men last night asked Messrs, Reidy,
Konenkauip and Sullivan to resign
from the committee.
LOWELL AND WINTERS PARTNERS.
PENDLETON, Or., August 1. Judge
S A. Lowell and J. P. Winters have
formed a law partnership to be known
as Lowell & Winters, effective from to
day. Both are eminent members of the
eastern Oregon bar.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC DIVIDEND.
NEW YORK. August I. Official an
nouncement was made today that a divi
dend at the rate of 6 per cent annually
had been declared on the Southern Pa
cing common stock.
DROWNED AT RAINIER.
RAINIER, Or., August Woe Orsi, a
young Italian, was drowned in four
feet of water at the O. C. Wilson Lum
ber Company's Mill today. ,