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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. Thursday; ArniL is, m, j: J !tW A V A I IJF T LWMiK CENT DU. 1 JUL RTY FOUR YEARS TWO NEGROES AT STIILLWAT ER PRISON MAY NOW BE RELEASED. MINNEAPOLIS, April 14.-Two wen, now declared innocent of any crime who already have served thirty four years each of life terms for mur der in the Minnesota penitentiary may secure tardy justice as a result of the newly awakened conscience of a man aided in tricking them into ac cepting the grave penalty. R. L. Underbill and George Wash ington, negroes, are the victims who have spent the best years of their Eves in the awful monotony of prison and who may now gain liberty and re enter a world strangely changed since the gates closed on them in 187S- It is said the man who admits his guilt in railroading these men to the penitentiary has already appeared be fore the state pardon board with a plea for their release, declaring that he has worried for thirty four years over the unjust sentence. RlCfl GIFTS FOR A BRIDE.' BALTIMORE, Md, April 14.-The wedding today of Miss Harriet Brown daughterof Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Brown, and T. Suffern Tailer of New York was attended by the wealth and fashion of Baltimore, New "York. Washington and several other cities. The wedding was a late afternoon affair at the home of the bride's par ents. The ceremony was performed y the Rev. D. Donald Guthrie, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of this city- The bride's only attendance was her sister, Mrs. Benjamin Howe!! Griswofd, Jr. The wedding gifts were the most magnificent ever presented to a Balti more bride. Included among them were a $100,000 check from her father, a touring car with all the latest im provements, said to have cost $13,000, from Oscar G. Murray, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; a set of gold dinner plates from New York, nine superb rugs of animal skin, one a royal Bengal tiger and another a genuine polar bear; jewelry, services and cases of silver, and rare bric-a-brac. ROMAN 'RATION ByLydiaE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Louisville, Ky.-" Lydia E. Plnk Iiam's Vegetable Compound has eer- itainiy done me a world of good ana I cannot praise it enough. I suffered fromirregularities, dizziness, nervous ness, and a severe female trouble. LydiaE.Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has restored me to perfect health and kept me from the operating table. 1 will never be without this medicine in the house.'" Mrs. Saii'l Lek, 3r,23 Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. Another Operation Avoided. Adrian, Ga. "I suffered untold misery from female troubles, and my doctor said an operation was my only eJance, and I dreaded it almost as much as death. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound completely cured me without an operation." Leka V. Hjsnky, E. F. I). 3. Thirty years of unparalleled suc cess confirms the power of Lydia E. liiikham's Vegetable Compound to rre female diseases. The great vol ume of unsolicited testimony constant ly pouring in proves conclusively that Lydia E. 'Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound ib a remarkable remedy for those stressing feminine ills from which is many women suffer. SAVED I F BP r 11,11 1 '. WE KNOW WE HAVE THE BEST Guaranteed to be the highest grade tea on the market . . f HER MAJESTY'S BRAND, $1.00 Per Pound S O'CLOCK BRAND, 75c Per Found Try a 1-4 pound can; if you don't say ifa the best tea you have ever drank, your't money refunded. N ' s01 Ant for Barrington Hall Steel Cut 40c CAN NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF. BOSTON, Mass., April 14. Inter est is manifest in the 12-round bout between Sailor Burke and Bill Mc Kinnon, which will be the feature event at tonight's boxing show at the Armory athletic club. MILWAUKEE. Wis., April 14 The local arrangements have been concluded for the annual meeting of the Wisconsin division of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, which is to assemble in this city to morrow for a two day's session. ATLANTA, Ga, Southern Association men began its annual April 14. The of College Wo convention here present from Montgomery, today with delegates Knoxville, Asheville. Birmingham, Oxford, ton, Ky., and several Miss Lexing- other points. PARIS. April R An international congress of public instruction in the modern languages met in Paris today and will continue through the week. The United States is represented at the congress by Dr. Munroe Smith of Columbia University. BERLIN, April 14 The new Royal Astronomical Museum at Treptow, toward the building of which Andrew Carnegie was a generous contributor, was formally dedicated and opened today with interesting ceremonies and in the presence of a large assembly. PASADENA, Cal.. April 14-Pas-adena has donned eala attire in honor of the veterans of the Grand Army, whose forty-seccmd annual encamp ment for the department of California was opened today under favorable auspices. Three candidates, John H. Shepard of Oakland, W. S. Dauben speck of Los Angeles and H. A. Plimpton of Riverside, are contesting for the post of department command- NEW YORK, April 14.-A fashion able audience attended the concert at the Plaza Hotel this afternoon to mark the American debut "of Miss Flora Wilson, daughter of Secretary; of Ariculture Wilson. Among the patronesses of the event were Mrs. William H. Taft, Mrs. James S. Sher man, Mrs. Garret A. Hobart, Mrs. Philander C. Knox and Mr. and Mrs. j Andrew Carnegie- Miss Wilson, who has studied abroad for several years. ! will probably be heard in grand opera j next winter i SIOUX FALLS, S. D., April 14 With an invocation by Bishop Hare and an address Of welcome by Mayor Doolittle, the annual South Dakota State Conference of Charities and Corrections was opened in this city this morning for a two days' session. Included in the attendance were heads of insane asylums, prison reforma tories, settlement workers, charitable visitors and other interested in pract ical philanthropy and prison reform. Speakers heard during the day in cluded President N. C. Hershey of Redficld College, President George W. Nash of the Aberdeen Normal and Industrial School, Dr. Frank Fox of Sioux Falls, President Samuel F. Ker- foot of Dakota Wesleyan University, and President H. K. Warren of Yank ton College. ATLANTA, Ga., April 14.-Men and women of national prominence in the educational world have gather ed in this city to take part in the eleventh aiftiual Conference for Edu cation in the South. Much prelim inary business was transacted today, preceding the formal opening of the conference tonight, when the princi pal speakers will be Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia and Robert C. Og den of New York, founder and presi dent of the conference. The sessions will continue through Wednesday and Thursday and will be devoted to the discussion of all phases of the prob lem of education in the South. Prom inent artione those scheduled for ad- Irlrpccpe ar, Hiffrvrt Pinpoint rtiipf nf the Forestry Bureau of the Depart ment of Agriculture; Dr. A. Caswell Ellis of the University of Texas, Pres ident E- A. Alderman of the Univer sity of Virginia, President Charles E Van Hise of the University of Wis consin, State Superintendent Joyner of North Carolina, Dr. John L. Coul ter of the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Lillian Johnson of Memphis. MArninff Astorinn. fid cpnta nr 60 cents per month by carrier. BAKERS OBJECTTOTHE HIGH VliEAT RATE IN CHICAGO SAY THEY ARE LOSINO THEIK : OFITS ENTIRELY CHICAGO, April 14.-Bakers are (not taking at all kindly to the game of boosting the staff of life now being played on the board of trade. One wholesaler, in speaking of the situation, says: "The wholesale price of bread at four cents a loaf was fixed by the bakers several years ago, when flour was selling at $325 abarrcl. There was a good profit in it then and the standard weifjht of a loaf of bread was fixed in ftiis city at one pound by ordinance. At one half the cost of bread comes in the wages and the cost of delivery and the other half in ma terial. There is a movement to take off the legal restrictions as to the site of a loaf, and the matter is still pending in the state courts. "Wages have increased during the past five years and have gone to a point where they cut a deep hole in the profit on bread, and now flour is 4ip to from $560 to $5.75 a barrel and the profit is all gone unless the bak ers turn out a loaf weighing not more than ten or eleven ounces. Above that there is no profit at all." NEW YORK LETTER NEW YORK, April 14.-For the first time in history the people of this city are to-day beginning a real struggle to tear off the yoke with which the motor maniacs have always harnessed and driven them. Roused at last by the death toll that a score of child victims have paid to the Mol och of reckless motordom within the last few months, a vigilance commit tee is just taking up with an iron hand the traffic outrages of the incessant joy-riders. In aS stern, a spirit as ever actuated a sheriffs posse after outlaws, this body of leading New Yorkers is preparing to catch, prose? cute and send to prison any and every man who disregards with his auto mobile the law of life in the thorough fares of this town. Many a million aire is to-day deep in the black books of these crusaders, and one fresh of fense from their high-power cars is regarded as sufficient warrant for criminal prosecution. For years the autos of the speed maniac here have strewn the streets with their murder ed and mained, while the police seem ed paralyzed. With the better ele ment of automobilists and all the peo ple arrayed today behind this move ment, public safety and sanity appears in a fair way to be restored. MEMORIAL TO MARTYR. Before the flowers fade over the grave of brave Jo Petrosino, some perpetual memorial to this martyr in the city's service will be reared b.y the .hundreds of thousands of people from every class who are today agita ting such a movement. From the whitest whiskered magnate of Wall Street down to the most grimy boot black, every inhabitant of this cos mopolitan island is eager to pay trib ute to the lion-hearted detective whose funeral has touched deeply every heart. No one is ready to let the lesson of Petrosino's faithfulness unto death go unrecalled to future generations, and any plan to com memorate it by some substantial monument will enlist all New York in its support. It will be many a long year before New Yorkers forget the man whose remains the whole town has turned out to honor. WOMEN WORKERS. Not since the revelations of the "red light" crusade have the women of Gotham been so aroused as they are today over the Payne proposal to tax by higher tariff every family in the land for the cotton stockings that every one must keep buying. Mass meetings, to which thousands of working girls flock, are being con ducted by leading club women on al most every evening in all parts of the island. While the fathers of the fa milies of this metropolis are joining labor and trade organizations in pro test against raising a duty to create a trust in this every day necessity, the housewives are humming their indig nation at a thousand and one gather ings of their sex. On the proposition to give to a favored few the power to charge trust prices to the poorer wo men and children of the land New Yorkers are speaking with no uncer tain voice. Mr. F. G. Fritts, Oneonta, N. Y., writes: "My little girl was greatly benefited by taking Foley's Orino Laxative, and I think it is the best remedy for constipation and liver trouble." Foley's Orino Laxative is best for women and children, as it is mild, pleasant and effective, and is a splendid spring medicine, as it cleans es the system and clears the complex ion. Owl Drug Store, T. L. Laurin. TARIFF AMENDMENTS. WASHINGTON? April. 14.-Kx-pluininn' his proposed amendments to the tariff bill, Squalor Newlauds said today: "1 have introduced these amend ments with a view to correcting the excessive rates of the Din&ley bill most of which remain in the Payne bill. The average rate of duty under the Payne bill upon dutiable articles is about 45 per cent and yet many of (he duties are largely in excess of such percentage. A 45 per cent duty ought to cover the differences be tween the wag's of this and other countries, particularly when the ef ficiency of the American, workmen is considered. Amendments which 1 have offered, proposeto reduce the excessive duties gradually and pro gressively, so as not to create any violent readjustments." NEWS AND NOTES OF SPORT. It is said thntAI Kubiak will go South and become a ball player. Groom, one of Washington's pitch ers, is two inches taller than Addie Joss and is still growing. Hugh McLean has received an of fer from San Francisco for Sandy Ferguson to box Al Kaufman. "Kid" Beebe is ill in Philadelphia and will not be able to get in the ring again ofr several weeks. With Catcher Charley Schmidt on the job the Detroit Tigers are well fixed to enter the big show. Pitcher Leon Ames should be a winner for the Giants this year. He never performed better than he has this spring. "Rube" Waddell has been pretty busy this spring, with hi training during the day and a vaudeville stunt at night. Owner Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox had Ed. Walsh in line, but has failed to show Fielder Jones the way to Chicago. Tim Jordan of Brooklyn still has j his eye on the hall and shoutd be able j to give National league pitchers heaps ! of trouble before the season ends. J Al Winn, the Lowell, Mass., mana j ger, has announced that he will permit small boys to attend his home games j free all days except Saturdays. Lucky I tads, those Lowell youngsters. Russell Ford, the Atlanta pitcher, looks like steady company for the New York Highlanders Charlie Jones, the old St. Louis Brownie, looks good as manager of the Denver team. From present indications there are as many pennant winners as there are ball teams thronghout the country. "Cap" Anson and his - Colts have been against some pretty tough weather and their trip so far has not been a success. Chicago fans have sent Charley Comiskey large petitions ashing the "Old Roman" to appoint Billy Sulli van manager of the White Sox. The New York Giants still have a Catcher Bresnahan. Phil, a brother of Roger, is being tried out by, Mc Graw. The Texas league schedule this year provides for ,145 games. The season will open April 17 and close Sept.6. The SteubcnviUe, Ohio, baseball team has been flubbed the "Kidnap pers." The team formerly belonged in Sharon, Pa. Charles Wacker, pitchrr for the Cincinnati Reds, will be sold to the Milwaukee club in the American as sociation. Jimmy Gardner has had to cancel his scheduled bout in Boston with Bill McKinnon on account of a severe cold. Packey McFarland's showing with Dave Deshler and his taking a wallop at Referee Jack Sheehan had caused Boston ght fans to put him with the "won't do's" Owner Mike Cantillon of the Min neapolis team has signed the Broth ers La Due as a battery. They arc dentists and not vaudeville artists. Several Eastern league scribes are of the opinion that Joe Kelly will find rough going in making a winner out of his Toronto bunch. v Pat Powers, president of the East ern league and promotor of six-day races and Marathan contests, has secured control of the National A. C in New York, known as the "plush lined" fight club. The newest outlaw organization is the Kansas-Missouri league. They insist on placing a team in Kansas City, so the National Commission could do nothing else than put them on the "Crazy Snake'' list. Jeffs Doherty, the New Haven pugilist, has a new training stunt. An automobile is started down a hill and Jeffs meets it head on. If he keeps his feet he wins, and if he doesn't keep his feet he doesn't tare whethir he wins or not. Col. Dovey has tagged "ladies day" for this season. But wait until the suffragettes arc handed the ballot and elect a few alcferwomcn. Then it's dollars to doughnuts that about four teen streets will be cut through the Colonel's Boston baseball park. Foley's Honey and Tar is a safe guard against serious results from spring colds, which inflame the lung and develop into pneumonia. Avoid the genuine Foley's Honey and Tar, which contains no ' harmful drugs. Owl Drug Store, T, F. Laurin. GUESTS Fit! Ill HASTE FROM BLAZING 11 ESCAPE IN SCANTY CLOTHING FROM FASHIONABLE HOSTELRY ASHEVILLE. N. C. April 14. Roused from their slumber about 2 o'clock this morning, by an alarm of tire, 75 guests of the fashionable Kenilworth Inn, three miles from this city, barely hd time to don some scanty articles of clothing and make their escape from the burning build ing. The hotel was completely destroyed the total loss being estimated at $-'50, 000; insurance placed at $75,000. The fire started in the north end of the building over the boiler room, A strong wind was blowing from the southwest and the flames were quick ly fanned to the other end of the frame structure where the majority of the guests were asleep, Before the fire had been first discovered by two negro boys who were returning from Baltimore, the Vanderbilt place, which is but a short distance from the inn, it had gained good headway and was even then beyond control. Mrs. A. B. Martin, the lessee, gave first thought to safety of guests when she was awakened and in a short time the alarm had been given in every oc cupied room in the building. There was a wild scramble for the exits, but there was nothing border ing on a panic, among either nun, women, or children. Half an hmir later when it was be- ; lieved that all were out. the roll was j called, and every person accounted j for. It was a motley array, however, some of the women appearing in hall j gowns and others in even more c,mty i raiment, and in varying degrees of 'negligee Many of the men wore j nothing but their underclothing cov ered by their overcoat- Almost every drscribeable manner of dret was represented, Many persons, after conquering (he first thought f self preservation that had led to instant and precipitate flight ventured back into the smoke filled halls and into their rooms to rescue their trunk and other per sonal effects which they had abandon ed. Some brought forth rocking chairs, washstnnds and every manner of article, which soon littered the lawns. As the fire kept raging, fanned by the rapidly increasing wind, the heat became so intense that all hope of saving possessions was abandoned- Several persons who had re-entered the hotel, not realizing that the fire had reached the south wing, were al most caught. Shouts of friends from the outside were answered by yells for help and heroic efforts were made to save the venturesome ones. The Ashville fire department rush ed out to the scene, but the hotel was doomed before the engines had start ed from the city three miles away. Its efforts were needed, however, to save adjoining residences, as the wind was scattering sparks to their roofs. The firemen were successful in pre venting the flames from spreading. The scantily clad residents were taken in at the Batcry Park Hotel and other houses nearby. Kenilworth hotel was owned by Senator M. Gazzam of Philadelphia and was built fourteen years ago hy the Kenilworth Tnn Company at a cost of $140,000. George W. Vamler bilt is believed to have been the heav iest stockholder in the capital, which was composed largely of northern capitalists. About six years ago Sen ator Gazzam purchased the property and has leased it several times. 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