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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1908)
it hi SI PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERSTHC MORNING FIELD ONTHC LOWER COLUMBIA VOLUME LXIIIsN0. 404 ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS CANDY WAS POISONED Was Sent to a Girl Througli 1L. Ull i n f" in j 1 1 iuv man SWEETSTOELLA MILLER Four Children of the Family Were Affected But Only Temporarily. LITTLE RUTH DIED IN AGONY Tb Candy U Believed to Have Con tained Strychnine Ella MUler Who it 14 Yeart Old Worked for Schwarichild ft Suliberger Co. ' r ' 'Mi - KANSAS CITY, Feb. 12.-Rutb Milter, the four-year-old daughter of Charles Miller, of Kansas City, Kas., today died from the effect! of eatins candy from box of cheap bon bom lent through the mail to Ella Miller, an older lister. The following inscription wai on the box: "Sweeti to Ella Miller, from Cirli of the S. andS." V ' , The candy U believed to have con tained itrychnine. Ruth died in agony 10 minute after eating some of the bon bom. Four other children of the family were affected by the candy but only temporarily. Ella Miller, who it 14 years old, worked for Schwarzchild & Sulzberg er Packing Co., until month ago. She does not believe she has any enemies at the packing house. She never had a sweetheart and the mo tive for sending her poisoned candy is myster. TEACHERS GET A RAISE. CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-The Chicago Board of Education voted last night unanimously to increase the salary of eveyr teacher in the Chicago clcmctv tary schools. From $25 to $100 was added to the annual pay of each teach er, the new salaries to date back six weeks, from January 1, 1908. The action of the board wilt affect approximately 5500 of the 6000 teach ers in the city sehols. A complete new salary schedule was adopted for the elementary schools, by which the lowest salary group was raised irom $550 to $650 and the maximum salary fo reighth grade teachers raised from $1025 to $1050. ,, 7 , , ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. NEW YORK, Feb, 12,-Thc en gagement of ! Miss Nora Stanten Blatch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Match and grand-daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, td Dr. Lee Dc Forest, vice-president , of the American Dc Forest Wireless Tele graph was announced last night. Al though the exact date of the wedding has not been fixing it was announced that the ceremony would take place -before spring. Miss Blatch was grant ed the degree of civil engineer by rn,..,,.!! in 190S when she was gradu ated among the first five members In a class of 75. Recently she has been engnged in field work with the New York city water department. Dr. De ..Forest was graduated from Yale in 1894, receiving the degree of Dr. of Philosophy three years later.x 7 JUDSON COE DEGENERATE. Agrees to Exchange Hla 16-Year Old Daughter for a Railroad Job. CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-A' despatch to the Record-Herald from Los An gelcs says: On the witness stand yesterday Jud son II. Cue, 50 years old, admitted wrilting letters in which he agreed to exchange Ms 16-year-old daughter Ethel fur a position with a railroad. According to the letters the agree ment was made in 1902 with G. W. Smith, who was employed by the Illinois Centra lat Waterloo, Iowa. Coe had been summoned into court by Judge Bordwell to explain the letters which were Introduced by Mrs. Theodora Coe in her suit for divorce. She was granted an interlocutory de cree. Coe had been previously di vorced from three wives, and a fourth is dead. " , BUYERS IN NEW YORK RAYNER ON CURRENCY BILL WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-Senator Rayner spoke at length in the Senate today on the currency bill, condemn ing the present system of banking in the United States and incidentally that the President by hit methods of fighting the encroachments of preda tory wealth had done much to inten sify the panic through which the country has recently passed. Senate adjourned after devoting two hours to the penal code bilL ' APPROPRIATION BILL WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. -The pent up feeling of the members of the House on the issues of the day and other topics were given a chance to be aired in the House today. The opportuinty came when the executive, legislative and judicial appropriation bill was taken up and a general debate for an indefinite period begun. As was the case last week, the President's and the tariff question were the prin cipal questions debated. 7 DYNAMITED A BANK Bandits Wreck a Nine Thousand Dollar Building. SECURE THOUSANDS IN CASH A Terrific Explosion Caused by the Dynamiting of the Vault Awakened Whole .Town Many Persona Ar rived in Time to See Robbers Flee RICH HILL Mo., Feb. 12.-Secur- ing $23,000 in cash after dynamiting and totally wrecking the nine thou sand dollar building of the Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank in this city, five bandits heavily armed, terrorized the citizens here at an early hour this morning after exchanging shots with the sheriff's posses, escaped to the rough country south of here. No one was injured by either the shots of the explosion. A terrific explosion caus ed by the dynamiting of the vault of the bank awakened the town a half hour after midnight and the popula tion hurried to the two-story brick bank building in the center of the city. Many persons arrived in time to sec the robbers riding away. Some of the citizens opened fire on the fleeing bandits and the robbers re turned the fire. ; Charles James said the available cash in the bank was secured by the robbers. The large brick bank secured by the robbers. The bank building was completely wrecked and many neighboring buildings were partialy wrecked by the , explosion. The sheriff' of the county organized a posse, but as the robbers secured a good start there is little prospect of their being overtaken before daylight. The rough country to the south of the city will afford a good refuge for the fugitives tonight. Merchants Short in Their Stocks. EVERY HOTEL CROWDED Some of the Big Western Houses Have Sold Out Almost Everything. COMING EARLIER THAN USUAL GRAND OPERA FOR HOSPITAL NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-A special performance of "Aida," at the Metro politan opera house last night real ised S12.C00 for the French hospital of this city. One of the largest au diences of the season was present, the cast including Mme. Rappold, Mme. Homer and Messrs. Caruso and riancon. Mora Than Three Thousand Buyers and Business Men From All Over the Country Are Now in New York With Orders. , NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-More than 3000 buyers and business men from all over the country are now in New York with orders for goods of every variety for the spring and summer trade. The great influx of buyers was expected by the jobbing houses here and is said by merchants to be an evidence of the return of confi dence throughout the country. The general financial depression last fall and the consequent small amount of buying af tliat time has left merchants throughout the country short in their stocks and for that reason the buyers are coming to New York earlier than usual. Every hotel in New York that caters to the commercial trade is crowded and New York merchants are in a joyous mood at the prospect of an enormous spring trade. Mr. "S. C. Mead, secretary of the Merchants' Association, said last night: . ' ' v "Monday was what we call our first registration for the spring trade and it proved to be next to the largest registration day we have experienced in 10 years. That is to say there was only one other day like it in 10 years so you can imagine what joy it brought to business men about town. Today as a second registration day is 1 he largest second registration we ever had. By that I mean in num bersnumbers of out of town buyers and out of town merchants. Today they kept pouring in 'and telling us of the bright outlook for the spring trade. They had to come, as their stock hud run low. "Sonif of the big western houses have sold out almost" all of the goods they had and this means a great era of prosperity. It means that at least 8000 out of town merchants and their representatives will buy goods here for the spring trade. Now the most experienced merchants in town will average from each buyer about $10, 000. This practically means that with the ordinary trade, $80,000,00 will be spent in the New York by the buyers for one spring trade. "The most peculiar thing about this is shown by the arrivals yesterday and today is that new business concerns have cropped up in the west and have sent representatives here to buy. They represent the biggest firms in the west and from Chicago to Oklahoma they declare that business is good." THE CAT ESCAPED. CHICAGO, Feb. 12 A despatch to the Record-Herald from Lexington, Ky., says: In an effort to dispose of a cat in humane fashion yesterday Miss Grace Carr, her sister-inlaw-, Mrs. Carr and her cousin, Miss Herbert, came near er death than did pussy. It was a thieving cat and the family Imposed ;hc death penalty. The caf was caught and chloroform administered but the animal struggled to get free. The drug was spilled and Miss Carr, Mrs. Carr and Miss Herbert were over come. A physician, after several hours' work manager to save the women, meantime the cat escaped. ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BANQUET. PITTSBURG, Feb. 12.-With fourl United States Senators, as many Con gressmen and several hundred of the most prominent business men of the Pittsburg district in attendance, the annual birthday banquet of the Pitts burg Chamber of Commerce wai held at the Hotel Schenley here today. The chief speaker was Senator Knox. ARMING THE MILITIA. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Acting Secretary of War Oliver today made the important announcement that the Department was now ready to arm the organized militia of the country, 100,000, itrong, with new army rifle. The Governors of several States may have the rifles on requisition and turn ing in the Krag-Jorgensen guns. "GOSHEN" SYSTEM EXPLAINED WASHINGTON, Feb. 12,-Morton Frewen, of England, a member of Parliament spoke before the house committee on banking and currency today explaining the old Goshen system which provides from a reserve of silver bullion as security for trade dollar certificates not redeemable in gold, but in silver. Frewen declared that the Goshen plan could be applied in this country without disrupting the present currency system. iiiDOLEY TO COFFIN Takes Exception to an Article Published Sunday. ' MAKES REPLIES TO CRITICISM Ridgeley Says the Law Regarding Over-Certification is Rigidly En forced, Regardless of Letters of Coffin, "or Any Scandal Monger" WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Comp- troller of the Currency Ridgley today replied to the criticism of former dep uty Comptroller Coffin, who stated in an article published Sunday, that the nutoinal banks were daily violating the laws which prohibit loaning more than 10 per cent of their capital and unimpaired surplus, to any one per son and which prohibits over-certih-cation. Ridgley says' that Coffin's charges are really made without any knowledge of the facts and are inten tionally false. Whatever 'may have een policy during Coffins regime, Ridgley states that since he came into office there had been every effort to enforce the law. Ridgley says that the law regarding over certification is rieidlv enforced, regardless of the let ters of coffin "Or any other scandal monger. Ridgley declares that the proposition that officers of the leading banks in New York city are so fool hardy as to daily violate the law and render themselves liable to imprison ment as criminals is too obsurd for serious belief. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-Asv the memorial of the centennial of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York which will be observed at St Patricks Cathedral on April 26 plans have been formed to begin on that date a move ment for paying off the indebtedness on the cathedral, according to state mets made after yesterday's meeting of 200 priests of the diocese at which arrangement were made to that end the clergy, it was said, pledged them selves to aid the archbishop in can celling the cathedral's debt within two years. WRONG MAN HELD UP Stupid Joke Costs Him His Life. HE ORDERED'HANDS UP' Policeman Not Recognising His Friends Pulled His Gun and Shot Westle Dead PUBLIC SENTIMENT WITH COP Last Evening While Hepner Was on His Way to Work Wetle Recog nised Him and Thought it Would be a Good Joke to Scare Him. PORTLAND, Feb. 12. -John G. Wetle, an employee of the city engi neer's office, came to his death to night while endeavoring to perpetrate a stupid joke on Policeman F. D. Hepner. Hepner is a recent recruit of the police department and, was a friend of Wetle, Both Jived at Fulton, a suburb of Portland -This evening, while Hepner was Otf his way to work, he was recognized by Wetle, who thought it would be smart to hold up the new recruit Wetle had hid behind a clump of bushes and as Hepner came along he stepped in front of him pointing his pipe at the policeman and ordered "Hands up." ' Hepner did not recognize his friend nor did he take time to find out that it was a pipe instead of a revolver which was threatening him. He pulled his gun and shot Wetle dead. Hepner surrendered himself. Public senti ment justifies Hepner in his actions as the city for several weeks has been overrun with hpld-up men and other bad characters. 1000-yard runs while the special relay race wilt bring together the crack teams of the New York Athletic Club and Boston Athletic Associa tion. 7 :."'. PORTUGAL QUIET. ' LONDON, Feb" 12,-The Times this morning publishes a long Lis bon dispatch relative to recent events in Portugal. It says that the situa tion is improving daily and that the government adheres to its policy of conciliating public opinion, but that it would be a mistake to consider aU danger over. DECISION IN A LEASE CASE. HEALTHIEST CITY IN U. S. CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-With the ex ception of Milwaukee Chicago wasj said by Dr. Drake, statistician of the health department to be the healthiest city in America. Chicago's death rate was for 1907 was given at 15.25 per thousand popu lation based on the federal estimated popalution of 2,107,620. "I have taken the deaths as report ed by each city and figured against the population as given by the depart ment of commerce and labor," said Dr. Drake, "ad Milwaukee is the only city that excels Chicago's record." . W. C T. U. BUTT IN. CHICAGO, Feb. 12. -The women of Chicago yesterday for the first time became identified in a public manner with the controversy over the Sundav saloon. The Women's Chris tian Temperance Union decided to send a committee to the election com-v missioners to protest against placing upon the ballot at the April election the proposition of the United Socie ties for local self-government, de signed to obtained a referendum on the Sunday saloon question. The ac tion was decided at a meeting of the executive board of the Union. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-That a lease of an apartment in a hotel bars the lessee from recovering daraager from the hotel for articles stolen was decided yesterday by the appellate division of the supreme court Dam ages cannot be claimed even if the thefts are those of an employe; the decision 'further holds in the case of Chas. J. Steinau, who sued the hotel Majestic for the value of a scarf pia that he knew no one but an employe could have taken. The court held that the plaintiff having leased was not a guest, but a tenant of the landlord. .4 V'7 , . . KICKED BY A HORSE LEADS, N. D., Feb. 12.-From the kick of a horse" received a week ago, George W Glover, son of Mrs. Mary G. Baker, the Christian Science lead er, is suffering from parlysis of one leg that threatens to become perma nent The kick re-opened an old wound received in the civil war. STIfilUUTESHIPPING Railroads and Lumbermen Agree to a Compromise. HAUL LUMBER AT OLD RATE Under This Agreement the Railroads Hope to Stimulate Lumber Ship mentsEntire Matter Will be Pre sented to Judge Hanford Soon. SEATTLE, Feb. 12.-At a confer ence held here this afternoon between attorneys of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific and the North west lumbermen and business inter ests a tentative compromise of the old rate question was reached by the railroads offering to haul lumber at the old rates leaving it optional with the carriers whether or not shippers be required to put up bonds to guar antee the payment of the new rate in case the railroads secure a favorable decision from the interstate commerce commission. Under this agreement the railroads hope to stimulate lumber shipments and the lumber and shingle manufacturers gain a point in not be ing absolutely obliged to put up bonds to guarantee the payment of the new rate. The entire matter will be presented to Federal Judge Han ford as soon as the necessary details can be agreed upon. INDOOR ATHLETIC CARNIVAL ) NEW! YORK, Feb. 12. for its annual indoor carnival in Madison Garden, March 10, the New York Athletic Club has arranged an elabo rate program of events including five relay races, 10 handicap races, three scratch events and three special mvi; tation races. The best middle and long distance runners in America are expected to take part in the 600 and MINISTER WU SAILS TODAY.. TOKIO, Feb. 12.-Wu Ting Fang, minister from China to Washington, will sail for America tomorrow on the Pacific Mail liner Siberia accom panied by 32 students. He spent two days at Yokohama. During his stay here he called at the American em bassy and had a long talk wth Min ister Thomas O'Brien. He was en tertained at a luncheon given today by H. B. Miller, the American consul general at which Minister O'Brien and other officials were present. . DRINKS BELLADONNA. SILVERTON, Or., Feb. 12.-Roena Harper, aged 10 years, died at Scotts Mills this morning from having taken belladonna by mistake for cough medicine. ,