33rd YEAft: NO. 152
ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FOURTH IS
BLOODY
ONE
At Cleveland Explosion
Causes Six Deaths
THELIST STARTS EARLY
Five Women and a Little Boy
Are the First Victims
Reported
HOLACAUST WAS IN A STORE
Poiilbly a Score of Others Are In
jured In the Cleveland . Explosion,
Many of Whom Are CLrU Panic
Followt in Store.
CLEVELAND, 0., July 3.-Seven
persons, six women and a 5-year-old
boy, are known to be dead and pos
aibly a score of other more or leu
seriously injured ai the result of an
explosion of firework in the F.
Kresge 5 and 10-ccnt store on On
tario street today: 1
The dead:
JAMES PARKER, 5 yean old.
EMMA SHOOMAk'ER.
, MISS MARIE WAGNER, a clerk.
Five unidentified girls at the coun
ty morgue.
Among the injured are:
MYRTLE KELLY.
MYRTLE RICHARDS.
HAZEL DAVIS.
" BELLE BERROWITZ.
LAURA VOVACK.
ANNETTE FA LSI I ERE. .
COLD1E MANNHEIM.
LIZZIE BAHES.
BERTHA CRUNK.
CARRIE IJEBBEL.
EMMA JUSKINS,
LOTTIE JUSKINS.
All are clerks in the store, who
jumped from upper windor.
Some of the girl sustained broken
limbs; others cut and bruises.
Apanic among the hundreds of
clerks and customers followed the ex
plosion. Flames and smoke filled all
the upper floors of the store. Two of
the dead were working at the fire
works counter on the ground floor.
This counter was situated in the cen
ter of the store and box-shaped. The
girls were inside the inclosurc. When
the explosion occurred they could not
escape. They dropped to the floor
and sought safely under the counters.
The flying rockets and crackers were
exploding about them.
Customers about the counter had
an opportunity to escape. No one
stopped to save the girls. They burn
ed in this trap.
BRYAN IN BANQUET SPEECH.
1 LINCOLN, July 3. -Bryan in a
banquet speech tonight said that if
the convention did not incorporate in
platform in specific and plain cam
paign publicity resolution, they must
look elsewhere than to Nebraska for
their candidate.
UPHOLDS BOND ISSUE.
4 ,
$500,000 Port of Portland by
Judge Gantenbein.
PORTLAND, July 3-Judge
Gantenbein upheld the $51)0,-
: (K)0 Port of Portland, bond
issue yesterday wheiV he sign-
ed an order sustaining the de
murred to Slyvester Farrcll's
stjit against the Port, J. F.
Swigert, A. L. Pease, C. F.
Adams, John Driscoll, P. L..
Willis, J., C. Ainsworth and
,W, D. Wheelwright. The suit
was a friendly one and brought
to test the validity of the
bonds voted on by Multnomah
county electors last month, It
is to be taken to the supreme
court at once. .
BASEBALL OAMES.
Pacific Coast League.
At Lo AngclcLo Angeles 4,
Oakland 3. , '
At San FranciscoSan Francisco
9, Portland 4.
f Northwest League, '
At Spokane Tacoma 2, Spokane 3.
At Seattle Seattle 3, Vancouver 4.
At Butte Aberdeen 3, Butte 0.
, American League.
At Cleveland Cleveland 0, De
troit 6.
At Washington Washington 7,
New York 4.,
National League.
At Pittsburg-Pittsburg 7, Chica
go 0.
At New-York-rNew Jork 8, Phila
delphia 3.
.At Boston Boston 3, Brooklyn 1.
SAN PEDRO YACHT RACE.
President Roosevelt Will Start Boats
on Long Journey.
SAN PEDRO, July 3.-One hun
dred thousand people gathered to par
ticipate in the most notable celebra
tion of any Fourth of July in South
ern California, will tomorrow witness
the atari- of ocean yacht races from
this port to Honolulu. The signal
gun will be fired at noon and negotia
tions are progressing toward having
President Roosevelt at Pyster .Bay
give the signal t) send the four J
yachts on their journey. It is pos
sible that the wire conditions may
interfere with the president's partici
pation in the event .The yachts to
start are the "Hawaii," sent across
the Pacific by the Hawaiian Yacht
Club; the "Lady Maud" with the col
ors of the San Diego Yacht Club;
"Gwendolyn II" of Seattle; the
"Lurline" of the South Coast Yacht
Club.
Handicaps Lurline scratch; Gwen
dolyns 18 hours; Lady Maud and
Hawaii about 8 hours. (
jrH.BOOTH CASE.""'"""
PORTLAND. June 3,-The jury
case of J. K. Booth, the former re
ceiver of the Roscburg land office,
who has been on trial for alleged
irregularities in connection with land
transactions, retired at 5:20 tonight.
At midnight tlicy were locked up for
the night. .,'.
WELCOME OUR FLEET
New Zealand Is Making Great
Preparations
MUCH ENTHUSIASM SHOWN
Parliament Will Adjourn For Ten
Days to Enable Members to Par
ticipate in the Welcome Keenest
Interest is Being Displayed.
WELLINGTON, N. Z July 3.
Arrangements for the reception of
the American fleet are approaching
completion. Wellington and Auck
land will be elaborately decorated
The keenest interest is displayed in
the approaching visit.
Parliament will adjourn for ten
days to enable the members to par
ticipate in the welcome. The govern
ment will entertain from ten to fifteen
thousand men daily including the
crews of the British fleet. American
ami British officers to the number, of
650 will be guests at an official ban
quet. Three thousand quests . will
attend the state ball and there will
be other entertainments.
At- the reception to officers the
presentation of a casket will be made
containing addresses to President
Roosevelt and Admiral Sperry. .
In parliament yesterday Senator
Wilfrid deprecated the entertainment
on the ground that the tariff and nav
igation laws of, the United States, arc
hoistile to this country. The Wel
lington Post to-day strongly con
demns tne senator s auvocacy ot wnat
it calls "Such gross international dis
courtesy" and contends that the visit
is welcome because it will promote,
closer knowledge and a better under
standing. , I
REAR-ADMIRAL
THOMAS DEAD
Retired Officer Passes
Away at Del Monte
OF HEART FAILURE
Returning From Dinner, Sudden
ly Stricken, While Sitting on
Hotel Porch
HE DIES IN FIVE MINUTES
Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas
Succeeded in Command on the Re
tirement of Admiral Evans, But
Retired After Five Days.
DEL MONTE, Cal, July 3. -Rear-Admiral
Charles M. Thomas (retired)
died here tonight at 8:30 of heart
failure. The Admiral had just re
turned from dinner with Mrs. Thomas
and Rear-Admiral Swinburn andMrs.
Swinburn and was seated on , the
porch on the hotel when he suddenly
was stricken, ffte minutes later he
passed away. Rear-Admiral Thomas
was stationed in command of the At
lantic battleship fleet cruise from
Hampton Rhoads to San Francisco.
On the arrival of the fleet in San
Francisco, Admiral Thomas succeed
ed in command on the retirement of
Admiral Evans. He was in command
of the fleet for five days at San Fran
cisco when he retired, he was suc
ceed by Rear-Admiral Sperry. After
his retirement, Admiral Thomas, re
sided in California.
SMALL EARTHQUAKES.
Are Felt in Los Angeles and Nearby
Vicinity.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 3.-
Two slight shocks of earthquake were
felt in Los Angeles and vicinity at
5:02 o'clock this morning, v A few
people weer awakened, and here and
there a clock was stopped, but the
quakes produced no other effect. The
records of the Weather Bureau show
that the motion was from east to
west; that the first shock lasted two
seconds and that the other, barely
distinguishable, followed immediately.
It is believed that the motion was a
wave from a distant shock.
SAN DIEGO, July 3. -Slight
shocks of earthquake were felt here
at 5 o'clock this morning, but were
unnoticed by the people not in Vhc
high buildings. '
CLEVELAND'S WILL FILED
NEW YORK, July 3.-The will of
Grover Cleveland has been filed with
the surrogate of Mercer County, New
Jersey and will be probated within
ten days when Mrs. Cleveland will
come to Princeton from her mother's
home in Tamworth, N. H.,. where she
has ben staying since the former pres
ident's death. ' J
. The amount of the estate could notj
be learned, but it is said it was larger j
than hitherto supposed and would j
provide most comfortably for Mrs.
Cleveland and the children. Mr. .
Cleveland drew the will himself and
arranged that the bulk of his prop-j
erty should go to his widow, i
t v... . ., , ; ;i
THE DUMA ACTS " I
ST. PETERSBURG, July 3. The
:ltiiin has missed its approval of the
budirut oi the state revenues amount-
inij'to $1,123,000,000 practically w.th-
it chaii.ro m the ministerial i:Rures.
It is not worthv that the opposition
refrained from criticism of the main
features of the existing system of
taxation. The report of the com
mission was supported in con nenda-
torys by the constitution democrats
and the Octobers who gave M. Ko
k'noi;, minister of finance, credit for
sound judgement in steering inabak
ed through the crisis pf war, revolu
tion and famine.
WILL CO 25 ROUNDS.
LOS ANGELES, July 3.-At the
Jeffries Athletic Club at Verrion to
morrow Packy McFarland and Fred-
die Welch of England will fight a 25
rounds at 133 pounds. McFarland is
a ten to seven tavorite tonight.
WILL FORM "NEW CABINET.
TOKIO, July 4.-The resignations
of the cabinet were tendered. There
are reasons to believe that the Em
peror has already issued instructions
to Marquis Katsura to form a new
cabinet. . 1
MAYOR WANTS DIVORCE.
EUGENE, Or., July 3. -Mrs.
Sarah Matlock has began suit in the
Lane county circuit court against J.
D. Matlock, Mayor of Eugene, for
divorcer on the grounds of cruel and
inhuman treatment. Mrs. Matlock
alleges that since their marriage,
about eight years ago, they have had
frequent quarrels over property own
ed separately by them, and that
Mayor Mattock has used cruel and
harsh language toward her. They
have been living apart for two months,
Mrs. Matlock, who is in very poor
health, is living with her. daughter,
Mrs. Robert M. Pratt, wife of 'a
Eugene capitalist.
SHOT BY HIGHWAYMAN.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., July 3.
Because he ran when a highway
man attempted to hold him up on
Yakima avenue at 1 o'clock this
morningMadge Lynch, chauffeur of
the Washington garage, of this city,
and umpire fo the local baseball team
is in the hospital with a bullet wound
iivjiis back. The hol4up man, who
has not been arrested, held a gun un
der Lynch's nose saying "If you run
I will shoot." Lynch promptly bolt
ed, and the highwayman fired, the
bullet striking him in the left shoul
der, The young man continued to run
and reached the garage, where he
fainted. The wound is not thought
to be serious.
HE DIES FOR LOVE
Mississippi Farm Boy Suicides
Good and Plenty
POISON, BLOWS HEAD OFF
Took Morphine For One Girl, Lau
danum For Another, and Uses
Shotgun For the Third, and Thus
Goes to His Reward.
CHICAGO, July 3. A despatch to
the Record Herald from Hazenlhurst,
Miss., says: ,
Unable to decide which of three
women he really wanted to marry,
Eli Hood, 17 years old, a boarder at
the farm house of Eli Graves, yester
day decided that the best way out of
the difficulty was to commit suicide
in such a-manner that each of the wo
men , would know that he had killed
himself for her.
For Miss Carrie Nelson, 18 years
old, he swallowed sixty grains of
morphine; for Mrs. Eva Spellman,
aged 35, he drank four ounces of
laudanum and for Miss Henrietto Mc
Donad, aged 16, he put the muzzle of
a shotgun in his mouth and pulled
the trigger with his toes. Beside his
body was found on a table a paper
wrapper that contained the morphine.
On it was scrawled "For Carrie"
The empty Laudanum bottle stood On
a slip of paper on which was written
"For Eva" Ant empty envelop on
which the picture of a shotgun had
been drawn was inscribed "Henrietta"
Except that he had been acting queer
ly and that he had become despondent
Graves said he saw nothing in his be
havior that would indicate that he
contemplated suicide.
DENVER IS
ALL READY
The Decorations Arc Very
Elaborate and Beautiful
BRYAN PEOPLE ANGRY
Parker Arrives and Announced
His Intention of Defending
the Nebraskan
WILL MODIFY RESOLUTION
Vice-Presidential Situation Shows no
Change Members of New York
Delegation Deny They Will Make
Fight Against Bryan.
DENVER, July 3-Denver is bril
liantly decorated with National colors
in honor of the national convention
of the democratic party which con
venes here next Tuesday. No private
decorations are permitted and the
plan for each street to be carried out
in a single night greatly to the sur
prise of the visitors. The decorations
and very elaborate and beautiful and
splendid lighting effects ande made
on the main streets, making them as
brilliant as day.
Probability of a row 'at the con
vention over the wording of the
resolution eulogizing the memory of
Cleveland is somewhat diminished to
day. Parker who drew up the resolu
tions which the Bryan men construct
ed as being a direct slap to their lead
er, arrived today and at once an
nounced his intention of defending
Bryan and that the resolution was
printed merely as a tentative draft
and that while he is still determined
to offer the Cleveland resolution, and
he considered himself the most ap
propriate persjon to do so, its exact
wording will be determined after he
consults members of the New York
delegation. Charles F. Murphy, the
Tammany leader also asserted that
the Cleveland resolution is proper
for the New York delegation to con
sider before it was offered in the
convention. That no resolution will
be introduced until it is submitted to
the delegation. The Bryan people
early in the day were still angry and j
disturbed and declared they are heart
ily in favor of the resolution eulogiz
ing Cleveland and are willing that it
be introduced by Parker, providing he
so modify it as to eliminate the past
differences between Bryan and Cleve
land. The members of the New York
delegation deny .they intend to make
a fight on -ryan personally but say
if they can satisfy themselves, the
chances for success are bright with
another man at the head of the
ticket and will do all they can to
nominate and elect that man. They
do not favor the anti-injunction plank.
As soon as possible New York's con
fer Josiah Marvel, the campaign
manager for George Gray and Fred
K. B. Lynch who acts in a similar
capacity for Johnson, purpose accu
rately declaring the strength candi
dates other than Bryan and ascertain
if it be possible to keep from the
Nebraskan enough votes to provent
his nomination on the first ballot. If
these caucuses deevlop that it is a
futile attempt to defeat Bryan and ef
fect will be made to organize for an
attack on anti-injunction plank.
Vice-presidential situation shows
no particular change during the day
although. Martin W. Littleton of
New York added strength to , his
boom. Chas. A. Towne, of Haver,
still claims he will receive much of
the strength of the empire state.
Kern of Indiana is favored by some
of western delegates but declares he
is not seeking the place.
The committee of arrangements for
the national convention completed or
der of business convention and the
session of the national committee to
be held on Monday. Convention pro
gram is outlined for four sessions be
ginning Tuesday, This would carry
the convention through to Friday af
ternoon unless a fight in the commit
tee or on the floor should prolong de
liberations. An adjournment imme
diately after the temporary organiza
tion perfected in respect to the mem
ory of Cleveland. Although this fea
ture does not appear on thi formal
program.
Governor HasTtell of Oklahoma,
who had been mentioned for the
chairman of the committee of reso
lutions arrived tonight. He said he
would strive to have incorporated in
the democratic platform the two fea
tures of the principles of the Okla
homa state constitution declaring the
radical modification practice, federal
courts injunction proceedings other
than calling for a' guarantee of bank
depoists.
Congressman Francis Burton Har
rison when asked if he is a candidate
for . the vice-presidency he said:
'"Should the delegates of this conven
tion select me for the second place
on the ticket I would accept the hon-'
or," but said he favored the nomina
tion of Gray as tending to promote
the harmony party. He spoke also
in faovr of the antiin junction plank
platform.
WOMEN AT CONVENTION.
DENVER, July 3. Colorado and
Utah have each elected a woman-
delegate-at-large to the Democratic
convention Mrs. Mary C. Bradford
of Denver and Mrs. H. J. Bayard of
Salt Lake. As alternates, Sarah Ven
tres of Salt Lake City and Mrs. M. F.
McCook, of Brighton, . Colo., have
been chosen. Their votes will be the
first to be cast by women in any Na
tional convention of Democrats. Mrs.
Bayard has not reached the city, but
Mrs. Bradford, who lives here, is tak
ing an active interest in the conven
tion. She is a widow and a grand
mother, educated and experienced on
the lecture platform, and as a writer
on labor problems, an has been iden
tified with politifcs for 15 years. "'
J. C. HARRIS DEAD.
ATLANTA, July 3. Joel Chanler
Harris, the editor of the Uncle Remus
Magazine died here today after a
short illness, aged 60 years.
BURY 214 BODIES
Victims of Terrible Explosion
Followed by Fire
SIGHT DRIVES MANY MAD
Three Women Drop Dead When
They Recognize Bodies of' Their
Husbands Hundreds Are Injured
by Horrible Accident
UZOVA, European Russia, July 3.
The bodies of 214 recovered from
the Rikovsky mine, the scene of the
explosion yesterday, were buried to
day. - Today the horror situation was
added to by a fire which penetrated
the galleries where 150 miners im
prisoned made the efforts of the
recuers almost useless. Fifty-three
bodies were taken out today and 75
injured were taken to the: hospitals.
Of those 10 died. Thre women drop
ped dead when they recognized the
bodies of their husbands. A number
of others have gone mad.
( 5 KILLED, tO INJURED.
Town of 500 in New Mexico
Swept Off the Map.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.,
July 3. Five are killed and 40
are seriously injured by a ter-
rific storm which today swept
throught the towns of Sunny-
side and Fort Sumner on the .
Santa Fe cut-off in Guada-
loupe county last night. All
the fatalities are in Sunnyside,
a town of 500, practically ev-
ery residence and business
building in town is wrecked.
The storm was not a twister.
It was accompanied by a ter-
rific hail storm.