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,33rd YEAR. NO. 70 ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1903 PRICE FIVE CENTS MURDERED HIS VIFE Docs a Very Poor Job on Himself. LAID CRIME TO BURGLAR Confesses That He Killed the Womarfand Then Turned Gun on Himself. INFATUATION HIS UNDOING Foot Years Ago WhUi on His War to Nw York ho Mat Woman on tha Train Acquaintance; Ripened Into Lota.' MILWAUKEE, March 20-Ceorge Willouahbv. manager of tha Jewatt & Sherman Company, coffee and ple mill, early today shot and wllcu m wife at their home on Proapect ave nue. Willoughby then hot himaclf and ia not expected to recover. He confessed to the police that he had committed the murder because h wa " Infatuated with another woman, whom he had been supporting for lour year. Mr. and Mr. Willoughby lait evening had atteuded a social at the Park Place M. E. Church, where both were prominent worker. Mr. Wil loughby also taught a Sunday school class. After the social they visited hit brother, Leroy Willoughby, and then returned home. There a quar rel arose, after which both retired. While Mr. Willoughby wa asleep he chloroformed her and then shot her behind the left ear, causing instant death. , dragged himself downstairs to the basement, opened the side door so as to make it appear that burglars had committed the deed, hid the re volver in the wall of the basement and then telephoned tor a oocior. When the police were notified they were informed that a burglar had shot both Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby, but when the officers arrived tKeyat once concluded that it was murder and attempted suicide, ami later obtained a confession from Willoughby. Willoughby made the confession while he lay in bed and in the pres ence of Dr. Charles H. Lemon and Detective Dennis Sullivan and a nurse. At first he denied he had shot his wife, but when the police showed him that the burglar theory was im possible he confessed. "I married my wife 20 years ago," said Willoughby. "I did not love her, but married her mostly out of sym pathy, she being a poor woman. Our life has never been a happy one. "We frequently Quarreled. Mrs. Witloughly was insanely jelous of me. "Matters went on this way for years. Four years ago, while I was on my way to New York, I met a woman on the train. Our acquaint ance ripened into love. Then, for the first time, I realized I had met a woman I truly loved. This woman also was unhappy. Her husband was cruel to her, and soon after I met ,her he deserted her and her two step children. I then began to, support her. We became intimate and have been so for several years. Two years ago she obtained a divorce, and since that time I have been providing for her and her children. She is now living in Chicago. "Mv domestic affairs did not im prove, and a long time ago I decided that I would end It all, Mow to do it was what bothered me,' and for many month I have been planning a way. 1 began to collect chloroform. 1 bought it in small lot and began to keep it until I had a bottle of the drug. This I saved until I might' de cide to Carry out my plans. "I decided to end it all this morn ing. After my wife had fallen asleep I obtained the chloroform and then 1 shot her. I then fired the shot into my breast, intending to (hoot myself in the heart, but failed. ! did not have any more cartridges,' ao I de cided to hide the revolver. That is the whole tory." Willoughby I SO year jold. Hi wifa was three year hi junior. NQTED AUTHORESS HERE. NEW YORK, March 20.-Mr. Mumphrey Ward, the novelist, began her long intended visit yesterday, up on her arrival with her husband upon the Adriatic She I here a the guest of her cousin, Mr. Frederick W. Whiteridge of thlt city, a daughter of Matthew Arnold. Mr. Ward said she had no intention of writing a book on America and wa here (imply for pleasure. SINCERE REGRETS Students Submit a Formal Ex presslon of Regret SANER JUDGMENT PREVAILS The Studenta Now Await the Next Step of th Faculty Committee Which Will Likely ba Taken Alter Every Man la Given a Hearing. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Mar. 20. Instead of walking out of the university in a sympathetic strike the Stanford student in a mass meeting last night voted unanimous to submit to the faculty siadent affair commit tee a formal expression of regret and condemnation of the conduct of their fellow students last Thursday nlifht. This, the leader believe, will clear the tudent body of the charge that has been made that it is unholdins the disorderly parade on that occa sion. The committee which has been representing the undergraduates on the negotiations with the faculty will present this resolution to the faculty committee today trusting there may follow as a result a reconsiliation be tween the committee and the student. This manifestation of sober student sentiment, it is hoped, may eventuallv lead the faculty to reconsider the cases of all the men who are now suspended and in danger of suspen sion. Practically every man in the university attended the meeting in the assembly hall last night. President Murphy, of the Associated Students, presided, and struck the keynote of the evening when he, said that both sides would do well to admit that some wrong had been, done and he added that it would be only right for the students first to make amends promptly and' decently for the of fenses committed against the peace of the university. ; The formal apology reads as fol lows: "The associated students of Stanford University realize that cer tain things occurred in the parade last Thursday , night which are causes for sincere regret. We wish to condemn most strongly the in sults that were offered to. any indi vidual and to express our sincere re grets that the same were offered. We wish to condemn as a breach of uni versity discipline, the action of the men engaged in the parade in invad ing the library and memoral court, These things were done without ma lice or evil, inten and are absolutely contrary to the sanef judgment of the student body." ' The students now await the next step of the faculty committee which (Continued on page 8.) CRITICISED BYhlDH President Is Roundly Denounced. FAILS TO SUPPLY DATA Denunciation for Failing to Send Congress All Information Re garding Corporations. MANN A VIGOROUS DEFENDER H Asserted That tha President Had Acted With the Utmoet Good Faith in Sending All tha Informa tion That Had Come to Him. WASHINGTON, March 20.-More criticism of President Roosevelt was indulged in the House today when he was roundly denounced by Hardwick of Georgia, for failing to lend Con gress all the information regarding corporations which has come into his possession. The President, however, found a vigorous'defender In Mann, of Illinois, who asserted that the President had acted with the utmost good faith in tending to Congress all the information that had come to him. The. discussion arouse over i resolution by Hardwick to require the President to supply the House with all the data so far as obtained by the bureau of corporations. The resolu tion was tabed 148 to 115. Certifica tion of the appropriation bill was tak en up and in the course of the debat Bartlett, of Georgia, denied the claim of the Republicans for the credit of the authorship of the Railroad rate or Sherman anti-trust law. The will was side-tracked for general debate. NEW ITINERARY. WASHINGTON, March 20. -The American battleship fleet is to visit Japan and it is expected China will invite the fleet to visit that country The new itinerary will probably in elude stop at the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, Melbourne, Sydney, Manila, Yokohama, or some other port in Japan, possibly a Chinese port and back to the Philippines, thence home by the Suez Canal. LABOR GRIEVANCES. WASHINGTON, March 20.-The American Federation of Labors griev ance were laid before the Senate to day by Fairbanks and read in fulL The document was ordered printed as a Senate document and 1000 copies being authorized. STOESSEL IMPRISONED. ST. PETERSBURG, March 20.- Stoessel today began servng h 10 year term of imprisonment in St Pe ter and St. Paul fortress. THE LABOR CHIEFS Bring Pressure to Bear Upon the Administration. THE CIVIC FEDERATION BILL HALE MAKES SPIRITED PLEA. WASHINGTON, March 20.-Dur-ing the consideration o fa measure by Hale, who made a spirited plea for the auxiliary navy, declaring that without auxiliaries our navy would be dependent upon foreign countries, and that in case of war we would be help less. Newlands also spoke in need of the auxiliary ships. Hale pointed out that the battleship fleet now on its way around the world, accompanied by but nine American colliers, against 28 foreign, said: "The people do not realize how help less this fleet is without colliers; that they are liable to be called away at any moment of need by the foreign government." Hale said the war with Spain was with a weak country on our own coast. "It was a very different thing from a war with Japan." Newland's amendment authorizing the construction of 27 auxiliary ves sels, was rejected. v SUBSIDY BILL PASSED. WASHINGTON, March 20-Near- ly the entire session of the Senate was consumed with the consideration and final vote of the ship subsidy bill which was passed without a division of the Senate being called for. The bill also passed increasing the salaries of the men employed in the life-saving service. . Sherman Anti-Trust Law and Other Subject Mentioned ia President' Mesaagea Will Not be Sent to Con gress Before Introduction of BilL WASHINGTON, March 20. It is said at the White House that the President's proposed message in the matter of the recommendations of the President looking to . legislation amendatory to the Sherman anti trust law and other subjects mention ed in the previous messages is not to be sent to Congress before the introduction of the civic federation bill by Hepburn. No explanation whatever can be had from any official source for publication respecting the reasons which have brought about this decision not to send the massage to Congress. It is believed, however, that the explanation is to be found in the stimulation of public interest in the legislation to be dealt with in the message caused by a very active prop oganda instituted by the labor element and pressure brought to bear by that clement directly upon the admin istration and upon Congress by the labor chiefs who have been in confer ence at Washington within the past few days. The legislation asked by the labor people goes far beyond the limit which the President has fixed in his own mind as proper at this time and has suggested to the admin istration leaders the necessity for counteracting as far as possible the appeals which it is certain will be made to the mass of organized labor through their various organization publications. CHARGESARE DISMISSED Judge Wilfley Is Charged With Misbehavior. ALSO LEGAL TYRANNY In This Case They Are Dismissed as Falling Short of an Im peachable Offence. NO OPPORTUNITY OF DEFENCE CAR BANDIT SENTENCED. SPOKANE, March 20.-Wilson W. Cassidy, liader of the gang of robbers who held up several street cars in Spokane last month, pleaded guilty today to the charge of robbing S. H. Wardell. Cassidy was sentenced toj serve one to :u years in Walla Walla penitentiary, the same penalty already imposed on his three companions in crime. ' SENATOR RESTING EASY. PHILADELPHIA.' March 20.- United States Senator Penrose, who is ill at his home here,' is reported to day as doing well. , FIRE AT CARRINGTON. CARRINGTON, N. D., March 20. -Fire early today destroyed half a dozen buildings, including the Mer chants Hotel, the Beatty Hotel and the First National Bank. Loss $150,-000. If Hi Judicial Act in the Future Are Marked by Rigorous and Inflexible Harshness These Charges Will be Taken Into Account WASHINGTON, Mar. 20-Im-peachment proceedings will not be instituted in the United States Senate against Lebbeus R. Wilfley, Judge of the United States Court for China, as a result of the charges of misbe havior in office brought against him by Lorin Andrews and other Ameri can lawyers resident in Shanghai The report of the special committee, consisting of Representatives Moon of Pennsylvania, Webb of North Car olina and Dickens of Michigan, ap pointed by Speaker Cannon to de termine wh'ether the charges were based upon facts sufficient to warrant impeachment of Judge Wilfley to day submitted its report to the House Committee oil the Judiciary. This report is in the nature of a verdict, holding Judge Wilfley guilt less of the bad motives necessary to a legal cause for impeachment, but finding him guilty; through more by forceful inference than direct accusa tion, of high-handedness and harsh ness and some serious mistake in the conduct of his court 4 The 'investigation of the special committee followed the introduction in the House by Mr. Waldo of New York of a memorial comprising 29 distinct charges made by Mr. An drews and his colleagues. In the re port, of the committee an exhaustive review written by Chairman Moon and concurred in by Mr. Webb and Mr. Dickens, each of these charges and the real facts relating thereto, as brought out by testimony taken, are judicially discussed and disposed of and the . conclusions reached are as follows: "The conclusion of the committee adduced from the memorial from the examination of petitioner and from our construction of the precedents of impeachment trials in the United States, is that the actual facts charg ed in the said memorial, even though established by competent legal evi dence, would not justify a conviction of Judge Wilfley upon charges of im peachment before the United States Senate and would not therefore war rant a presentation by the House of Representatives of such articles of impeachment. Notwithstanding, this rinding, the investigation of the case has made it clear v to us that he character of this court, the extraor dinary power given by law to the Judge, the fact that it is separated several thousand miles from an ap pelate tribunal with a broad ocean in tervening between, presenting ob stacles that burden the constitutional right of review with expense, delay and hazard unknown to any other court, justify the people of the United States in demanding of this judge a temperate exercise of his' great power.' v "It is obviously true that an aggre gation of entirely legal acts may de velop into a system of tyranny and oppression and that an inequitable exercise of judicial discretion may convert the ministry of justice into an engine of despotic and autocratic power. This may be accomplished without the taint of individual corrup tion and with a laudable purpose of purifying a community and of inaugu rating civic reform. "Terror to evil-doers, if purchased at the price of judicial fairness and overstrained legal ;; authority, ia achieved at too great an exepnse, for it defeats its own high aim and warp the very fabric of law itself. "The temptation of an honest judge to be at once the law is his authority to do a great right, do a little wrong, is fraught with uch danger to our whole system of remedied justice that it must merit the consideration of everv mind. Such acts of legal oppression and of abuse of judicial discretion lie at the foundation of the charges. They are made before the House of Represen tatives in the form prescribed by law and custom and are presented as a (Continued on page &) LIVE WIRES CROSSED Damaged Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago. LOSS IS HUNDRED THOUSAND No Lives Were Lost But Many ; Guests Compelled to Make. Hasty Exits by the Fire Escapes One Fireman Slight Hurt' CHICAGO, March 20.-A fire re sulting from crossed electric light wires damaged the Grand Pacific Hotel today to the extent of a hun dred thousand, and for a time threat ened the entire destruction of the building. No live were lost although many guests were compelled to make hasty exits by the fire escapes. One fireman and two spectators were slightly injured. Desperate work of the firemen succeeded in confining the flames to the north wing of the hotel but the entire hotel structure is flooded with water. BOOK VALUATION SHRINKS NEW YORK, MarT20.-Shringage' book value of the general education boards assets is made known through the publication of the annual rtoort of that body. The report only covers the year "ending June 30 last but by taking into account the present prices of the securities there listed, the ex tent which the fund has suffered through the tremendous shrinkage in security values since that date has been figured. A large part of the estimated $5,000,000 loss is in bonds which have declined heavily since last summer. The general education board was incorporated in 1902 with a federal charter- and its $42,000,000 of assets have been largely contributed bv John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Car negie and other wealthy men of the country. In the year ended June 30, the board disbursed for general edu cational work $136,130 and made con tingent pledges of $1,959,712. EMMA GOLDMAN COLLAPSES. CHICAGO, March 20. -Emma Goldman, the anarchist, suffered a physical and mental collapse last night and was taken to the home of a physician. Her sudden collapse was attributed to her strenuous efforts during the last few days to secure a hall in which to speak in defiance of the police. During the last two days Miss Goldman has displayed symptons of nervousness and mental depression, portending an early breakdown.