THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY, MARCH 24 1909. rr 133 Iffl vlul OF 10 . . I, ; I. - fit - M . - t. I'A I "."" till ui I M 1 1 'it' f mtt.-Jb. --t! - Vrt, :: ' '.ii tlllll. . . v. . .? i VifiSiAX ) I ' ihi: v:. v iiiiirn'tiiff'"'a"M' Correct men and Made in N Clothes for young men ew York by A iwft3 I Hi Lil ntHdMhiilU is now being held in every important city We courteously invite a visit from you to view the authen tic New York Fashions for spring and summer nineteen hundred and nine 557 Commercial Street 4 3 CANS OF CONDENSED MILK 25 CENTS ! A. V. ALLEN Phones 731, 387 1. . . . Sole Agent for . . . Barricgton Hall Steel Cut COFFEE 40c CAN Branch UniontowD 14 em MOTHER SLAYS HER CHILDREN SLASHES THEIR THROATS AND THEN SETS HOUSE ON FIRE. EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR. JOLIET.-Ill., March 27-Four peo ple are supposed to be killed and six others badly, if not fatally, wounded, by arf explosion in the plant of the Illinois Steel Company tonight. The accident was caused by a slip in a blast furnace which forced heavy charge of gas into the engine and I boiler-room. The engine-room was blown to pieces. BIG BATTLESHIP NOT DES MOINES, March 27.-In a fit f despondency today Mrs. John lynch cut the throats of her five-weeks-old baby and three-year-olfl boo. Then she attacked three other children, but two escaped. The moth er then set the house on fire, and cut her own throat When assistance arrived the four-year-old girl was band in the ruins with her throat cat, and taken out in time, and will possibly survive. Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month, delivered by carrier. A STARTLING TRAGEDY. BOSTON, March 27. A startling tragedy was enacted in the White House garden near the entrance of the Bylston Street Subway tonight. Suffering from nervous trouble, Law rence R. Boyle, a well known news paperman, shot and killed his wife, then ended his own life by the same means. WOULD REDUCE SALARIES. WASHINGTON, D. C, March 27--Representative Edwards of Georgia introduced a bill to reduce the salary of Congressmen from $7500 to $5000. WAR DEPARTMENT STARTLED BY THE UNFOUNDED REPORTS. GUANTANAMO, March 27. -A report of an explosion on the warship Mississippi is false. Telephone mes sages from the naval station report that the Mississippi is lying at an chor with all of the other men of war, and that there is no indication whatever of any disturbance in the fleet. Commander Charles H. Harlow, Commandant of the United States Naval Station here, when asked as to the report current in the United States that the battleship Mississippi had met with a serious mishap, de clared that the report was utter non sense, as the Mississippi was in the vicinity with Admiral Arnold on board, maneuvering and being inspected. cies at work in an endeavor to com municate with the Guantanamo Na val Station, on the south coast of Cuba, the present station of the Mis sissippi. The Mississipp is a first class battleship. "CUT THE TARIFF." CHICAGO, March 27.-"Cut tariff on steel or anything else you please. American labor can stand it. I don't care," declared Charles M. Schwab? president of the Bethlehem Steel Company, today. Schwab said Amer ican labor can compete with the world, both in quantity and quality produced. THE UB1GUILQUS JOKER IN THE TARIFF Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month, delivered by carrier. Blia ttfar flow U &ttttt Ban Jfranrlura WASHINGTON, D. C, March 27. False rumors to the effect that the battleship Mississippi had been de stroyed in Guantanamo Harbor, stir red up the War Department this morning. The first rumor was to the effect that the battleship had been blown up from outside, and another report was to the effect that a ser ious explosion had occurred on the warship. All this morning the Navy Depart ment was besieged with inquiries re garding the rumors about the battle ship. The Department put its agen- 1 1 n e 1 r- 5, sr his 1 ' If rf f, . Bell loculon In iht Clry. Fireproof Bulldlnf All Modern Convenience!. Europein Plan. Rtiei from $1.00 per d)r tnd up, Haiti with baih, $ I. SO per day and ap. TOY MAKERS AND IMPORTERS THINK THEY HAVE STRUCK . SNARE TO BUSINESS. CHICAGO, March 27-Anothcr "Joker" had been discovered in the Payne Tariff Hill. Experts in the foreign buying department of a local store say that toy animals, retailing at present for a few cents, are to be come as expensive to import into this country as are the living animals which they represent in miniature, if the bill becomes law. A toy horse, for instance worth one dollar, will, under the eccentricities of the propos ed measure, be taxed $.10, just the same rate as will be collected for a thoroughbred racer. . The experts also find that many kinds of clothes and ornaments for dolls will be taxed at the same rates as clothes and ornaments for the American woman. The cause of the peculiar situation found to exist under the pending law with reference to toys is contained in paragraph 427 which reads as follows: "Dolls, dolls heads and toys, 35 per cent and valorem; provides that toys made in imitation or miniature of, or bearing the same name as artic les that are provided for in the duti able list of this section by individual or class designation shall pay the same rate of duty as such articles, but in no case shall any toys pay less than the duty imposed upon miscel laneous manufacturers of the mater ial of which such toys are wholly or liit chief value compojed" The "joker" is mainly tucked away in that part of the paragraph relating to toys and in "imitation." or "mina lure", of articles mentioned elsewhere in the bill. The experts declare that this means simply what it says, and that toys which are miniatures of things elsewhere specified mint pay the tax of those articles. FROM FAR AWAY Presented Resolution Opposing the Payne Bill. j MANILA, March 27.-Floor leader ; Quezon of the Majority the Philip pine Assembly presented a resolution i today embodying a memorial to Con j Kress opposing the Payne bill. The j resolution recites the provisions of I the bill and then declares that its en iaetmrnt would be "Inimical to the In itcrests of the Filipino people, espec ially so far as it concerns an econo mic administration." The resolution- then continues: "The approval of the hill would produce a great loss of revenue for .iv,,-Mii, nw ilium BU IIIUl !il would be impossible to sustain the ! present government. The financial : condition of the country is such that it would be impossible to impose new taxation, direct or indirect." The resolution next approves a res olution adopted in May 1908, which asks the admission of sugar and to bacco to America without any ion cessions here, and insists upon the adoption by Congress of that resolu tion. 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