II
II
I
Assaults F.1other,i Broth)
er and Sister.
7I077FATAU , RESULTS
jf Victims Are Now at St. Yin-
' . cents" Hospital Under
TRAGEDY HOT UNEXPECTED
. ..";. i ...... .. ., , .
Jam Torch Objecting to Ills SI
f ter Wedding Men 12 Yeara - Her
Entor Attempt to Kill Her And
.- Then Slashes Ilia Own Throat
HSftti
itiiV TTTTk Mil (114
Portland, NoV 4.-gaWd
because h believed hit slater , "Marie,
jtftd 18 years,-) Intended, marrying
James Tor'chaa doien yean ber sen
ior, Sebastian Greco shot' hii brother,
Salvator,' ia , the abdomen, and his
mother through the cheek and Jaw at
10, o'clock thia morning at their
borne, 191 Harrison street, and flee
ing, attempted to cut his own throat
with a raadr. The injuries of the
mother and brother of the revolver
wielder ire not regarded aa ' aerioua,
"aad be may, recover from. th self-ia-fljcted4
iroynda, thdugh his necl arid
throat were cut and hacked badly be
fore Jie Lwaa aeiaed and held by purt
auera. ' The tragedy was not 'entirely
unexpected,, si, the brothers j bad
trouble over the" prospective mar
riage of their younger siiler about
three weeks ago, and are aaid to have
drawn knives and curied one another
in the itrect in front pf heir; dwell
ing! The sister was trying to avoid
a collision when an unfortunate re
mark made by alvator Greco pre
cipitated the ahooting. The iwo vie
time of the shooting and the would
be auicide are how at St Vincent's
Hospital. Sebastian Greco was ap
prehended on First street, near Mill,
by A. Schmidling, a blacksmith, and
nn hot i
a man whose name waa not learned,
while he waa trying to end bia own
life, and a trail of blood shows where
. ( be was led to a soda water works at
' Front and Mill streets and placed in
I the police imbalance.. r T '
t 'What) the would-be murderer and
suicide did with the revolver has not
I been discovered. The police believe
BKYjTAKES THIRD;
DEFETiNAfTURAJiLY
J i Jl J JP4
Fxpressos Satisfaction Over Results in Nebraska
FJany Friends Arrive
LINCOLN, Nov.. 4,-While 'not
S j. " i I .-. .i A
L
a 1 .!
4 caring to
discuss at , this time the
f political effect of
a Democratid vfc
tory in his home state or analyze jthe
causes, W. ,f.) Bryan in ran Informal
talk, Ibis .afternoon, to , a number. , of
friends Who called upon " him,' ex
'" pressed pleasure over the result in
Nebraska And the satisfaction it af-
forded him to learni of the election of
t so many personal and " political
1 friends. A delegation of nearly 100
from Lincoln visited Bryan'at Fair
view to express to, him. their confi
dence'' and devotion' and assure him
that such was the sentiment of a
majority of .the people in the city
and state. Bryan responding said, "I
am highly gratified at the results in
tliis state. National defeat is not
such a disappointment when wo have
HIS SISTER 10
SO SHOOTS FAMILY
he threw it down in the house and
that aome .member of the family hid
iw un leaving the House the shoot
er ran to the corner of Front street
and then north to Mill lie started
inufa soda water works, buj backed
out id ooiuinued hi flliiht! uto Mill
street .toward. Flrt.,,.-,,,:,.w,.
.-A lew step beyond the. blacksmith
shop of A.; Schmidling, 206 Mill
street he atopped and, i drawinar
motl began slashing bia t throat
Schmidling and another man saw him
and ran toward him to orevent him
from committing auicide. They over
took hlra on First street, a, few feet
south of Mill, Just as he threw his
razor on the sidewalk.' He was led
to the soda waterworks. "'
REPUBLICAriS II All
i;i -mm '
TAFTS MAJORITY EXCEEDS
f4W AND MAY RUN AS i
.HIGH AS 50,000.;
"J
'A
G0SGK0VE ' ANjjEASY WINNER
Democrat Fall Down Shamefully In
Washington Getting None of the
Leading Offices Repubilcani Elect
Congressmen in AU Districts. ;
-eATTE.1 Noy.fwlshigton
gave Judge 7 aft a majority that
wlij exceed 40,000 over W. J. Bryan.
It may, run as high as 50,000, Re
publicans also elected congressmen
in all three districts , In first and
second 'districts ' respectively Hum'
phrey and Cushman had awaIkover.
Poindexter bad a harder ' fight, but
he fcas'an istimati d ihajorltjr "of 10,;
000 over Goodyear Cossrrove... Re
publican candidate for governor, worf
by almost as handsome a majority' as
did the 8 Republican congressional
candidates in the first and second
districts. 1 The Legislature which will
elect a successor to United States
Senator Levi Ankeny is heavily fit-
publican. - In fact, the . Democrats
got none of the leading offices of the
state and but few county offices.
DENVER, Nov. 4.-Cha!rman?Vi-
vian," Republican committeeman, Ad
mits the trend of count in Colorado
toward the Democratic victory but
u r a
to' Console Him. . ?
had io'many things 'totorisole us. I
ft h r
hope I have convinced my friends
thai running, for office has only been
an incident to, my work. My heart
has nearer been set on holding office,
but I Wanted Jto do certain work and
it looked as though the presidency
might ' offer an ' opportunity ' to do
that "work. 71 am sure that In private
life I can have a chance to do some
good." 1 -, ,,, ... I
He said he still had hopes to be of
influence sufficient to bring needed
reforms. The defeat suffered yester
day did not; weigh .heavily on Bryan.
He was one of the most cheerful in
the home, laughed, and joked good
naturedly to visitors. . He has no im
mediate plans to rest at home follow
ing the canvass. Tonight he was a
guest of honor at a banquet given by
the state teachers' association.
nas not abandoned hope that the
complete returns will give the state
to Taft.,, He concedes both congress
men and governorship to the Demo
crats.; ' : .
BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 4.-Practical-
ly, complete returns show Taft'
plurality of 15,000 in Idaho, Repub
"can candidate to congress is elected
and the Legislature is overwhelm
ingly , Republican, insuring the elec
tion of a Reublican Senator to sue
ceed Heyburn, who was a candidate
for re-election. Brady, Republican,
tor, governor,, received 6000 plurality
The entire' Republican ticket , elected
with him. flf i i.r O W
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 4. -Returns
practically complete - 88 counties in
Missouri and , the city of St. Louis
gives Taft a cad of 1050. : f
SALT LAKE, tooVU-The' actual
result in Utah will not be known for
many days but the Republican major
ity ranges from . 10,000. for the state
to 15,000 for presidential electors.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.In a state
ment given the 'press tonight Hitch
cock announced a comolcte list of
all contributions made to thq Repub
lican campaign fund will be . made
public, in the teari futures the work
aJready having been begun on the
tabulation of the list. This is very
long, Hitchcock says, and would show
every contribution made, Jt will, be
Issued in printed 'forms ! f ! I J
-BALTIMORE,' Novj4A-The.po-itical
pendulum has swung once
more and tonight on the (face" of un
official returns ; Taft) has carried
Maryland by 149 votes. '
BUTTE, Nov. 4 Advices throueh-
out Montana tonight ' indicate " that
Taft has carried the state by about
3000. Donlan. Reoublican. runnino
about 1600 behind Norria, Democrat.
PORTLAND,' Or.V Nov.J 4 -Com
plete unofficial returns from 11
c Juries including Multnomah! (Port
!ajid)4aijd partial returns, received up
to 11 o'clock tonight from 21 other
counties out of a total of 34 counties
in Oregon give Taft a majority of
Z5,v65 yet Bryant
SANi FRANCISCO, iNovi 4.-The
total vote casf in San Francisco is
61,597, diyide presidential election as
follows: Taft 33,119, Bryan 21,237.
Hisgen 746. Dcba 4513, Chafin. 400.
Out of 2865 precincts in "California
2302. give Taft 182,046, Bryan 107,
770;-'IIisgias 4237, Chafin 6443, Debs
18.736. ' ; y r
TRENTON, " N.' h Nov. " 4-Re
vised returns of Taft'a plurality hi
New Jersey are 70,000 which mif be
J ' ... t'.l- e '"' '
uvica3cu vy jaicr figures,
CLEARLY DEFIIiED
i O
SENATE AND HOUSE COM.
MANDINGLY REPUBLICAN
' ON FACE OF- RETURNS
CATON A STCR.M CENTER
Familiar Democratic Names and
Facea in the ; New Make-up
; Some Changes Are Wrought
,: Other Election News.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4,-Up to
o'clock this morning definite re
ports nave been ' received from 316
congressional districts out of a to
tal of 3917 Of these 177 showed the
election of Republicans and 139 the
election of Democrats. In the entire
list there were few changes in the
political complexion and the net, re
sult was favorable to the Republicans.
There will be many familiar faces
in :tne next congress, including
Speaker Cannon and his chief lieu
tenants, Messrs. Tayne, . Dfekell,
Tawncy," Burton of Ohio, McC&ll of
Massachusetts and Bartholdt of Mis
souri!" There was .especially vigorous
opposition -to' Messrs Cannon, Taw-
ncy and Dalzcll, but they are all re
ported as victorious.' ;
On the Democratic side Champ
Clark ; and Mr. DcArmond of Mis
souri, Clayton of Alabama. Rainey of
(Continued on page 2)
ASTOniA, CEECOn, THURSDAY, KOVEKSEB 5. tC3
M
I
'18
Returns Continue to Show
Big Taft ' Majorities.'
CALIFORNIA BY 75.000
Bryan Makes his Usual Strong
Showing in Missouri and
the Solid South.'
IDAHO RETURNS VERY SLOW
Sage Brush State Has Heard From
Only 34 Precincta Out of Over
Hundred Taft Plurality Estimated
at 14,000.
i r.
CALIFORNIA.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4.-From
incomplete "returns received at 4 o'
clock this morning it is estimated
that Taft has carried" California by a
plurality .of 75,000 and that seven out
Of the eight and possibly all of the
Republican congressmen. The indi-
fcations are also that the Republicans
have elected : 16 senators and 54 as
semblymen, (which, with the 13 hold
over Senators will give a majority
of 46 on joint ballot for a United
States Senator. It is estimated that
Taft'a plurality in San Francisco will
be between nine and ten thousand.
In every county of the state heard
from Taft has a plurality. Outside of
the presidential contest, interest in
this city centered in the race for su
perior Judge. A bitter fight was made
on F. H. Dunne, one of the Dem
ocratic nominees who presided over
many of the proceedings in the bri
bery graft prosecution. . 7
The, returns recived by the Repub
lican county committee give Dunne a
lead ""over Carroir Cook,his nearest
Republican competitor of 57, with
25,100 votes to be counted. Dunne is
probably elected.
J It is possible' that James G; Mc
uuire.Democrat, will be elected in
the fourtti congressional f district
which is wholly in this city. AU2
o'clock this morning McGuire had a
lead of 1100 votes over Julius Hahn.
The contest in the fifth congres
sional race between E. A. Hayes, Re
publican, and George A.' Tracey,
Democrat, is also close, but if Hayes
maintains his present ratio he will
have a majority of between one and
two thousand. While' Supreme Jus
tice Melvin has been beaten in this
city by his Democratic opponent,
Judge Murasky, by possibly 10,000,
Melvin majority throughout the
state is so great that his election is
assured by many thousands of votes.
ILLINOIS.
CHICAGO, Nov. 4.-The election
has caused practically no change in
the political complexion, the Repub
licans retaining a large majority. In
Oregon a Democrat was given the
endorsement for United States Sena
tor and if the Legislature carries
out the will of the voters as express
ed at the primary in that state the
Republican majority will be decreas
ed by one in the Senate. Otherwise
the indications jire that thje political
strength of the two leading parties
in the upper branch of Congress will
remain as heretofore.
The terms of 31 Senators expire
March 3. Louisiana and Maryland
have already elected Democrats and
Vermont and Kentucky have chosen
Republicans and of the remaining 27
members to be elected the probabili
ties are that 15 will be Republicans
and 11 Democrats. " Indiana, which
elected a United States Senator, is
rrnTn nn
UCbllUII
BY STATES
considered doubtful as to the com
plexion of the Legislature. The
membership of the Senate is 92, the
holdover, members numbers 61 .(43
Republicans and 18 Democrats). The
election of 17 Republicans and 13
Democrats as seems probable from
the returns giving the makeup of the
Legislatures which elects Senators,
would show the strength of the two
leading parties in the Senate, Repub
licans 60, Democrats 31, doubtful 1,
MISSOURI.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.,- Nov. 4.
Unofficial returns from nearly every
county in Missouri pojnt , to a plu
rality of at least, thirty thousand for
Bryan, the election of the Democratic
State ticket by a small plurality, Cow
herd, Dem, for' governor, running
some thousands below the remainder
of the ticket, the defeat of Govern
or Folk by United States : Senator
Stone in the Democratic race for Uni
ted States senator and the election
of a congressional delegation of un
changed political complexion, a Dem
ocratic gain of one seat being offset
by the loss of another seat
At Stone headquarters it is de
clared that hia majority over. Folk is
10,000. Only Democratic ballots were
counted, the large number of Repub
lican votes for Folk being void. The
legislature, will, in obedience to tie
ballot, elect W. J. Stone to another
term in the United States Senate.
IN OHIO.
CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 4.-Vitb
probably the'heaviest vote in its his
tory Judge Taft's native state yester
day gave him a slightly more than
normal Republican plurality, but .at
the same time a Democrat was ap
parently elected to the position of
chief executive of the state. The two
winners are residents of this city and
in Hamilton County they recived
strong support. At 4 o'clock ; this
morning the indications were that the
plurality for Taft in the state would
be from 50,000 to 60,000, while that
for Harmon would be only 3,000 or
6,000. Even these figures, however,
may be changed by later returns, al
though the general fact of Harmon's
victory seems settled. ;
IDAHO!
BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 4.-The re
returns from Idaho are coming in
very slowly. ... Aside from Ada county
(Continued on page 6)
PRECIIICT SIX REDEEOS
GOOD FJilLIE
X f
IVJ
WAS THERE WHERE PRESI
DENT'S PICTURE WAS TURN
ED TO THE WALL.
ABOUT
3C0 DID NOT VOTE
Astoria Precinct No. 4 Cast a Vote
of 182 For Taft the Largest Given
Him in the City, Though Not the
Largest Plurality.
It is estimated that there perhaps
were about 300 voters who did not
vote in the national election of Tues
day in the seven city precincts.
There was a vote of 1526 cast, while
a vote of about 1800 would have been
very near the total registration. Pre
cinct No. 4 cast a vote of 182 for
Taft, the largest vote given him in
any of the city precincts, though not
the largest plurality.
In mafty respects Precinct No. 6
proved itself the banner Republican
precinct of the city, however, for it
gave a most excellent proportionate
vote for the Republican nominee, and
better than that, the residents of this
precinct have redeemed themselves
from the reproach that was left on
their name because of the incident
of the turning of the picture of Pres
ident Roosevelt to the wall.
A year or two ago there seemed
SECRET HUE CIS II
DEATH OF COIii full m
to be quite a number of Socialists in
this part of the city, many of, them
being young men, or men who had
recently come to this country. They
were not only Socialists, which they
had a perfect right to be, but were
violent in their, opinions and appar
ently untrained in their convictions.
Then, at a meeting one night at
National Hall, came the incident of
the turning of the Presidents picture
to the walL It was aaid then and
more recently that many of the old
and respected citizens of that local
ity, many of them Finns who had
dwelt here for many years,, took ths
matter deeply to heart '"Trie action
of the few youthful enthusiasts who
pernaps aid not realize, or did not
care," for this insult to the country in
which they had come to make their
homes," was resented by the older
and respected citizens.
But perhaps there could not have
been a better answer to this matter
than was given at the polls on
Tuesday. On that day there were a
few of the hot-heads around all the
(Continued on page 6)
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BY TAFT S VIGTOJY
ELECTION CARRIES OUT PRO
PHECY HE MADE IN LET- i
TER TO LODCE.
F.ECEiVES VXIT TELEGAS
Roosevelt Receives. no Callers But
Thousands of Letters and Dis
patches of Congratulation Reach
Him at White House.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-The
President was very cheerful today
and told the newspaper men that the
election of Taft wholly carried out a
prophecy made to him in a letter
written to Lodge, of Massachusetts,
dated October 26, 1908. In this let
ter the President expressed to Lodge
that he ' believd Taft's plurality
would be greater than his east of the
411ehanies,K?Becausi I 'think the
chances slightly favor us in Mary
land, although, this represents a good
deal of guess work." t , 4
In the letter the President, said he.
expected to see a falling of of major
ities' in the West, "And I do not an
ticipate any loss in the electoral
votes excepting in Missouri and Ne
vada and I am inclined fo think we
have an even chance of carrying Ken
tucky." . :
The President received over 2000
telegrams and many letters of -con
gratulations today. No callers were
received." ' '''"' .' 777!': ,,, ' -j
PRESIDENT
TAFT IS
Hakes Address Laying Corner St:
High, His Boyhood
CINCINNATI, Nov. 4.-Taft to-
day issued a statement expressing
gratification for. hi3 election and as
serting that business, labor and agri
cultural interests had supported him.
Today he made a principal address
at the laying of the corner stone of
the Woodward High School from
which he graduated when a boy.
The function gave the city an op
portunity to pay its first tribute to
the president-elect and full advant
age was taken of it. Taft did not re
Hottier Di:s Lj Cdbf,
Cam I- fl
vidov's o:;ly
CHILD
Discovery cf f" :rs;
If f- m
an Quarrel tVhi;?
NEVER f.!ET ilTnlVAll-m
J. N. Vest Hanks ;
ere.; s
Ago -and When I.Tu'.7-r
From Europe and Discovers Fact
Refuses to be Reco
NEW YOi:, Nov. 4 Tie
Jation by a son to Hi C.wr
secret marriage aM I7i ;i re
rev-
f 8
I r-
fusal to be recon.'i-J to i: is 1 : ;, j
to be the impclili cj ; cf a t '
tragedy in a lart tt -; j ,,r.
ment house here to.' v. "I : ,. :s
are Mri Rebeca Veit Waity, widow
and her' only son; J. Nelson 'VeU, a
Wall street broker, 'the circumstances
indicating' that; the mother. waa shot
while asleep in bed and that the soa
took his own life by inhaling ga$ in
the bath room. ; The police made the
discovery today. Veit was ' married
secretly on October of last vcar Hia
mother only recently returned from
turope and the coroner's theorv h
that the discovery ; of "the', marriage
Precipitated the quarrel. Vest's ' wif
had lived with him in another apart
ment house for a month past and
she told the police t: at sl.e fead nev
er met her husband's mother.
' ' JAPAN IS ELATED. '.
Considers The - Election la America
' Conducive To Peace.
TOKIO, Nov, 4.-The news that
xatt naa unaour t,- " j v,.., ,i
eiec
As-
ted reached this citj thrc t -h th
j -r.. ,
rn irn-
'"g . and was immediately communi
cated to the foreign offices, 'where it
' " Tiyed jwHh'.fnanif estaUafts of
liveliest interest. The Japanese .news."
papers of the city issued .extra's an
notinciiig the result of the election
'f jSoon"" as 5 its' v;as!know aud 'also
displayed" bulletins givng' tiie gener
al , returns- as .rapidly , as they "were
received. 1 8 i
.-The business .men everywhere
throughout Tokio and Yokohama e:-
press the belief that the result of the
American election rnrnV tv;: t the
friendly' relations lvut J 1 an.
the United States vi'I I
as in the past.
ELE
GRI
cr
School, r
fer to the tKiti
n i.
brief address t. .
the history ct i'
for htm nir,-,,,-Friday
he v '.'A
a complete re t
weeks. He der!
for political c
consider ca1 '
Htical ? po,r
ation period- f
tory tf ! t '-
today.