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HAWKINS
- EXECUTFD
Hung for Murder of A. C.
Leonhardt
ONLY 22 YEARS OF AGE
Edwin Hawkins in His Confes
sion Says That He Was
Born a Criminal
HIS LONG LIST OF CRIMES
Even When t Child 8tol
Relatives Whenever he Had a
BPRIHGFIELD
Chance Killed Leonhardt Wheni'" uuu """"
he Reiiited Being Held-up.
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. M.-Edwin
W. Hawkins, self-confessed murderer
of Albert C. Leonhardt, a young car
penter, of Columbus, 0., who was kill
ed December 22, 1907, while resisting
hold-up, was hung here today.
Hawkins was but 22 years of age.
He ran away from his home in Chi
cago when he wat IS years old.
"I was born a criminal," Hawkins
tated in his confession, "Even when
a small boy I would steal from my
relatives. I don't know what caused
me to do it except possibly the ex
citement of the thing."
Hawkins took part in a number of
petty robberies at San" Francisco and
was finally captured and sentenced to
one year in Folsom prison. It was
not long after his release from this
prison until he robber a number ofi
houses in Los Angeles and then came
to Tucson where he secured employ
ment as a street car conductor. Ac
cording to his own admission he
1 robbed the company by day and resi
dences at night.
Hawkins first claimed that the kill
ing of Leonhardt resulted after the
latter had insulted his wife while
they were walking along the street.
He later admitted that he had tried
to hold up Leonhardt and had killed
Itim when he resisted.,
Hawkins, on the night of the mur
der, was accompanied by Mrs. Haw
kins and another man. This man af
ter a trial by jury was acquitted of
complicity in the murder. No charge
was made against Mrs. Hawkins as
she is regarded as being weak minded
und not responsible.
EDITOR'S WIFE DEAD.
Mrs.
A. N. Brown, Wife of News Edi
tor on Post Intelligencer.
SEATTLE, Aug. 14,-Mrs. A. N.
Brown, wife of Colonel Ashman A.
Brown, the news editor of the Post
Intelligencer, and former private sec
retary to Governor Mead, died after
a four months' illness.
BIG FIRE AT BUFFALO.
East Stockyards on Fire Loss May
Reach a Million.
BUFFALO, Aug. 15. Fire East
Buffalo stockyards at 2:30 this (Sat
urday) morning. The flames spread
with great rapidity through the frame
buildings. Three alarms. Loss may
reach a million dollars.
AffSOClirCO PRC88 REPORT
UNIVERSAL ENGLISH.
DanUh Professor Forulli It Um,
Comercially And Socially.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 14.-Englih ii
destined to become the universal
language of the world, in the opinion
of A. C. Meyer member of the lower
House of the Danish parliament, and
editor of a Denmark newspaper, who
spoke last night at a meeting of
Chicago Scandinavians.
"We non-English peaking Euro
peans might at well recognize the
fact that English it destined to become
the universal language of the world,"
said the speaker. "There is no use
shutting our ryet to it; it is bound
to be so in the nature of things.
Already Europeans working for
me on the continent and in the Scan
dinavian nation! are learning English
The English language will continue to
spread until it is spoken by every na
tion and tribe in the world."
IRA SAN KEY DEAD.
Evangelist Singer Passes Away After
Long Illness.
NEW YORK. Aug. 14-The death'
I of Ira D. Sankey, the singing evan
FrAm.gelist, today was somewhat sudden
though it wat known that he was not
wal ,r'en with blindness nve years
ago. lie was aged oa years, sanxey
died last night but his death wat not
generally announced until today.
SAIL FOR SYDNEY
Great Atlantic Battleship Fleet
Leaves Auckland
SALUTED BY BATTERIES
Large Crowds on Shore and Afloat
Bid Farewell to Uncle Sam's Great
Fighting Fleet Ships Leave on
Schedule Time.
AUCKLAND, Aug. 14.-The Am
erican Atlantic fleet departed for
Sydney this (Saturday) morning at
8:15. The weather was fine, large
crowds ashore and afloat bid farewell
to the Americans. As the anchors
were hoisted and the flagship pointed
it j nose toward the mouth of the har
bor batteries gave forth parting sa
lutes, which were answered by the
American ships and whistles and the
sirens excursion fleet resounded
across the harbor was re-echoed by
the distant hills. The fleet steamed
with precision of alignment out of the
harbor and many excursion craft fol
lowed it far out to sea.
JURISDICTION QUESTION.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14,-Nathan
O'Reilley, is one of those attorneys
who declared today that no federal
judge would issue an order directing
the authorities of New York to per
mit Thaw to be taken to Pittsburg,
as a witness in the bankruptcy pro
ceeding. The comment in denial if
the bankruptcy proceeding is a
scheme to secure Thaw's release from
the asylum and get him out of the
jurisdiction of the New York au
thorities. EXTEND TIME.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14-The or-
der issued by the Interstate Com-
mercj Commission extending from
September 1 to November 1, the
date when the new bill of lading shall
go into effect.
ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1908
ENRAGED CITIZENS WRECK
VENGEANCE ON BLACKS
Two Arc Known to Be Dead and 40 Others Injured,
Among Them Chafin, Presidential Candidate
FOR ASSAULT ON A WHITE . WOMAN BY A NEGRO
The Crazed Mob Set Fire to East SideFire Department Help
less to Extinguish Flames, Owing to Threatening Attitude
of the Mob Toward the Firemen
LOCAL MILITIA 0UT-0UT OF
DESPITE GUARD OF POLICE AND MEMBERS OF FIFTH IN
FANTRY WITH GATLING GUN, THE CROWD TEAR EVERY
THING TO PIECES AND SET FIRE TO RESTAURANT AND
TAKE GUNS FROM THE SOLDIERS.
SPRINGFIELD, III., Aug. 15.-
Springfield is in the hands of a mob
of enraged citizens which began last
night to wreak vengeance on the
negro citizens following .an assault
committed yesterday by George
Richardson, a negro on Mrs. Hallam,
white woman. At 1 o'clock this
morning, the whole east end of the
town burst in flames, a torch having
been applied to several negro houses
by some more desperate members of
the mob, Two men are already dead,
and probably two score others injur
ed, mostly negroes. The mob is
sweeping through the streets attacking
every negro it met. All the local
militia is on duty and half a dozen
companies from other citizen are be
ing rush here on speria trains, and
still other companies were ordered
to hold themselves in reserve. The
fire department is helpless to combat
the fire in the negro quarter because
of the threatening attitude mob to
ward the firemen.
The dead are G. J. Scott apd Louis
Johnson.
Among the Injured are Eugene
Chafin, the candidate for President
on the Prohibition ticket, who was
struck on the head with a brick.
Richardson and another negro who
are wanted for the murder were
stealthily taken from the Springfield
jail and rushed to the Bloomington
and later taken to Peoria. It is
thought that with the arrival of the
out of town troops the streets will
be cleared and order restored.
The mob is bent in wrecking ven
geance on the negro inhabitants in
Springfield because of' the assault1
committed by a negro on a white.
woman yesterday afternoon.
Governor Deenan tonight tele
grapher for additional troops of com
panies from Bloomington, Peoria and
Pekin and they are being rushed to
Springfield on a special train to
cope with the mob.
Richardson was arrested for as
saulting Mrs! Earl Hallam, the wife
of a street car conductor. Last night
Mrs. Hallam was dragged from the
WALSH WINS
FROM MURPHY
LOS AiNGELES, Aug. 14.-Fred-die
Welsh, the lightweight champion,
was awarded the championship over
Johnny Murphy of San Francisco at
the end of 25 rounds of fighting at
the Jeffries Athletic Club at Vernon i
TOWN COMPANIES EN ROUTE
bed of her home and forced into the
garden and assaulted. She was badly
bruised and unconscious for some
time. When Richards :n was arrest
ed she identified him as being the ne
gro who attacked her. feetrng grew
so intense against the negro that
Sheriff Warner secretly took Rich-
ardson and Joseph James (later in
jail on the charge of the murder of
C. IT. Ballard, who had chased him
from the house where James had gone
evidently with the intention of as
saulting Ballard's daughter), to
Bloomington for safekeeping.
When the authorities who had tak
en the prisoner from the jail to the
train across the river returned to
Springfield the auto which was driven
by its owner, Major Harry T. Loper,
commissary of the Second Brigade,
I. N. G., a large number of rioters
assembled atound the machine in
front of Loper's restaurant.
Despite the guard of police and
members of the Fifth Infantry with
a gatling gun, the crowd tore every
thing to pieces in the restaurant and
burned the automobile. The firemen
were summoned to extinguish the
burning auto, and another struggle
ensued when the militia tried to drive
back the rabble and allow the firemen
to work. Three members of the ga't
lingh gun squad were injured during
the mellee and the rioters took sev
eral guns from the soldiers. These
guns Were used to finish wrecking the
restaurant. When the mob reached
the bottom of the stairway leading
from the buffet they found the dead
body of Louis Johnson, a 14-year-old
boy. Among the injured are:
Fred Ramsey, gatling gun squad,
struck by stone.
Oscar Dahlke, police, struck on the
head with rock.
Albert Bierlien, postoffice employe,
shot in hip.
Phillip Pollock, of Chicago, lacera
tions while aiding Mayor Recco in
escaping from the mob.
John A. Snell, of Sherman, shot in
the shoulder.
E. W. Bingham, struck in the head
tonight. The fight afforded the
greatest exhibition of gameness ever
seen in the local ring, Murphy was
outclassed in weight, strength and
cleverness and for the last 15 rounds
was all but helpless and at the point
of a knockout 20 times
OVf RSTMC mqrnimg ficlo
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with a brick. .
Robert S. Sturgis, restaurant wait
er, artery left forearm cut by shot.
Mob spent late tonight looting the
Jewish pawnbrokers' shops.
WOOL GROWERS TO MEET.
Annual Convention Will Be Held In
Salt Lake City.
SALT LAKE CITL, Aug. H.-The
annual convention of the Wool Grow
ers Association of America will be
held in this city August 25 to 28 in
clusive. It is expected that there
will be upwards of 500 sheepowners
in attendance. An attractive pro
gramme has been arranged for the
meeting with speeches by prominent
western men.
The convention will have a number
of matters before it for consideration,
not the least important of which will
be the movement to inaugurate a na
tional storage plan. The question of
transportation also will be taken up
and active fight made to eliminate
what is alleged to be unjust discrimi
nation against the western wool grow
ers on the part of the more important
railroad systems.
The decision of the executive com
mittee with reference to the establish
ment of a central wool station for the
Intermbuntain country will also oc
cupy a prominent place in the delib
eration . f the convention.
The states of Arizona, Montana,
Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah
represent 12,000,000 sheep and annual
wool clip of 85,000,000 pounds.
Priests Identify Victims of In
dian Massacre
LOCATE FORT ST. CHARLES
Skeletons Said to be the Bones of
Jean Baptiste De Verandrye Alen
eau the Jesuit Missionary and 19
French Voyagers.
WINNIPEG, Aug. 14.-The skele
ton of jean Baptiste De Verandrye
and Aleneau, the Jesuit missionary,
and the skull of 19 French voyagers,
all of whom were killed by Sioux
Indians on an island in the northwest
angle of the Lake of the Woods in
1736 was discovered last week by
party of priests cf St. Boniface Col
lege, of Winnipeg, accompanied by
Judge Prudhomme. The party also
found the site of Fort St. Charles
built in 1873 by the great explorer,
Sier De La Verandrye. Jean Bap
tiste De La Vejandrye was 20 years
old at the time of the massacre and
was the son of the explorer of that
name. Numerous unsuccessful at
tempts was previously made to iden
tify the victims of the massacre ani
recover the bodies.
BASEBALL GAMES.
American League.
Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 2.
Detroit 5, Boston 2.
Pittsburg 2, Boston 1 (13 innings).
New York 2, Cleveland 4.
Washington 1, Chicago 0.
Washington 3, Chicago 2. ;
National League.
St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 5.
Pittsburg 6, Boston I..
Pacific Coast League.
Los Angeles 1, Portland 5.
San Francisco 2, Oakland 3.
Northwest League.
Seattle 2, Butte 3.
Aberdeen 4, Tacoma 3.
OLD BONES
onthc iowcr Columbia
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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WEDDED WITH
FATHER'S AID
Prof. Fitzgerald and Miss
Ludwig Married
MOTHER IS OUTWITTED
Bride's Father Gives Professor
"Tip" That His Daughter Has '
Gone West
ARE MARRIED ATSACRAMENT0
Mrs. Fitzgerald Neither Confirms Nor
Denies Story That Her Mother
Chloroformed Her to Keep Her
From Coming' West
SACRAMENTO, Aug. H.-The
romance of Edith Ludwig, formerly
of Morris, III., but lately of Palo Al
to, Cal., and Prof. Fred Fitzgerald,
of Stanford University, came to a
happy climax at 6 o'clock tonight
when Miss Ludwig arrived from the
East on an overland train and was
joined at the depot by Professor Fitz
gerald to whom she was a few min
utes afterward married. The fellow
passengers, of Miss Ludwig, soon
learned the story and as "All the world
loves a lover" she left the train in a
shower of rice and good wishes. The
couple proceeded immediately from
the depot to the county clerk's office;
where a license was obtained and
they were accompanied by friends of
the contracting parties who went to
the Central Methodist Eoiscooal
Ohurch, where they were united by
Rev. Dr. Rodda.
The love story is interesting. The
truth was plighted some time ago,
and Professor Fitzgerald went East
for the marriage ceremony. When he
reached Morris the bride was taken
away "by the mother and the profes
sor was unable to communicate with
her. He then returned to California.
The mother of the girl objected to
the marriage but her father approved
of it. He was at Palo Alto when the
professor reached home and advised
the young man that his daughter had
eluded her mother and was on the
way to the coast. The professor then
hurried to Sacramento to await her
coming. y
After the marriage Mrs. Fitzgerald
refused to discuss the trouble with
her mother and did not affirm or deny
the story that her mother chloro
formed her in an endeavor to keep
her from coming west to marry the
man she loves.
PALO ALTO, Cal., Aug. 14.-
When Mr. Ludwig heard of the mar
riage he expressed gratihcation and
said he would not form a judgment
of his wife's conduct until he had
heard just what had happened.
Fitzerald gave out a statement to
night to the effect that the repors
that his wife fled from Chicago in or
der to outwit her mother is false,
claiming Mrs. Ludwig accompanied
the girl to the station and consented
to her coming to this city to marry
him.
BOSTOiN, Aug. 14. Mortimer
Curtis Guild, who was operated upon
for appendicities this evening is do
ing nicely.
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