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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1909)
J Mr iwftttti "0, PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWE v 'IMBIA 86th YEAR. NO. 108. ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1909 PRICE FIVE CuT3 f STORM IS SI 0 RAMPAGE Several Vessels on the Grea Lakes Are Known to Have Been Lost In Gale THE DEATH LIST IS GROWING Nws ( Additional Death Through Southern SUtc Art Being Received But Tout Loss WW Not bt Known For Several Days. DETROIT. My l.-Deeth and shipwrecks tucb bi been un known in recent yean resulted from the itorm and ice on the Great Laku within the lait few day a. On the bleek shores of Huron Island the achooner George Ncitor of Detroit wai lorn to pieces last night In i furious gale that awept over Lake Su oerlor and ber crew of seven were lost. On Lake Huron, lashed by the gale the freighter Russia of Port Huron succumbed to the waves aftsr her cargo bad abided and went to tbe bottom. Tbe crew of 22 men eacsp ed in small boats. On Lake Michigan the Ann Arbor Railroad car (erry No. 1 was picked tip 1 miles south of Fox Island- The big ateel lighter Batavls was deserted by her crew and with no positive evidence as to whether they had perished or had been takei off by the steamer which is believed to have been towing her. With the arrival at Sault St. Marie of the crew of the steamer Aurenla the first story was obtained how she was crushed by the ice and aank and how (he mem bers of her crew made a periloua way over nearly five miles of Ice to the steamer J. H. Barstow. ATLANTA. May l.-The storm which for three days haa been sweep ing eastward across the southern states was passing into the Atlantic tonight. At least 200 were killed and perhaps 400 Injured. News of 34 more deaths In Georgia were received to day. At Savana the storm tore through the old town, unroofed many houses and destroyed much property. Towns in North Carolina and Flori da suffered great devastation. The casualty list will be Incomplete for several days. Property worth several million dollars has been destroyed. BASEBALL GAMES YESTERDAY Coast League. Portland 2, Oakland 0. San Francisco 6, Sacramento 3. Los Angeles 4, Vernon 2. Northwest League. Spokane 11, Portland 4. Seattle 8, Tacoma 3. Seattle 8, Tacoma 3. Vancouver 0. Aberdeen 3- American League- Chicago-Cleveland No game; cold and snowing. Boston-Washington No game; rain. Detroit S. St. Loula 2. National League. Philadelphia-New YorkNo gamej wet grounds. "';, , Pittsburg-Chlcago No game; wet grounds. Brooklyn-Boston No game; rain. HAN AND GIRL DROWNED f"" " ' tM - "" 1 pormid is a SIM BLAZE Alder Street Rooming House the Scene of Early Morning Fire in Metropolis AN ACTOR SAVES THE INMATES 1 WILLAMETTE MERRILL LINDSEY AND MISS GLADYS JACOBSON ARE DROWNED AT PORTLAND PORTLAND, May l.-Merrll Llndsey. aged 24 years, and Gladys Jacobson, aged 9. were drowned this evening in the Willamette river jut below this city. Llndsey lost his life trying to save the girl and at th same time Peter Winkle, a friend of Llndsey made a heroic rescue of Louie Jacobson a young brother of Gladys. The mother of the children, Mrs. Eva Jacobson witnessed the tragedy from the bank of the river. Llndsey and Winkle had been fishing It tbe afternoon and toward evening Mrs. Jacobson and her children Join ed them. The children ventured out log boom and the big logs roll with them throwing the children into the river. Llndsey and Winkle plunged In after them and after a desperate struggle Winkle succeeded getting the boy ashore, but Llndsey could do nothing with the girl an j both were drowned. The bodies have not been recovered- Fifteen Persons and Four Small Chil dren Were Routed Out of Their Beds at an Early Hour With Only Night Clothes and Escape. A RAILROAD WIRELESS. NEW YORK, May 1-James A. Henderson of Chicago, who Is build ing a railroad system throughout Honduras, and who is In New York contracting for supplies, announced "today that he would equip his line with wireless telegraphy. He said he would have four principal atations and that there would be central points for the collecting and distributing messages from and fof stations all through that country. SUIT IS BROUGHT FOR HEAVY DAMA6ES THE TILLAMOOK NAVIGATION CO. SUED IN THE UNITED STATES COURT. SAN FRANCISCO, May l.-Two damage suits growing out of the suit of the Minnie E. Kelton wee filed in! the United States District Court here today against the Tilla mook Navigation Company, One brought by Mrs. Sarah Lund, the wife of the chief engineer, who lost his life and Is for $20,000. The other Is brought by A. J. Ncilson, one of the crew of the vessel who was Injured, for $10,000. . PORTLAND. May 1. Fifteen per sons, Including four small children, were routed from their beds shortly before 3 o'clock this morning and compelled to flee into the street clad only in their night garments, by 4 fire in the basement of a lodging- house at 389 Alder street! conducted by Mrs. Maude Redden. Although the blaze was quickly ex tinguished by the Fire Department, which responded to an alarm from Box 63, and the loss to building an-! contents will not exceed $1500, yet in point of spectacularism the fire has not been duplicated in yeara. During the progress of tbe fire E. Cheuvront, a real estate dealer, occu pying a room on the third floor t.f the building, jumped from the windo v of his apartment to a portico IS feet below, and although sustaining a bad ly wrenched ankle, ran through the halls, assisting in arousing the sleep ing inmates. Herbert Ashton, an actor, alsa played a heroic role in the life-saving work. After assisting his wife, Lily Brandscome. the actress and their young son to the street, Ashton and Mrs. Redden, landlady of the estab lishment, groped their way along the smoke-filled corridors of the struc ture, and it was due to their efforts that number of persons were not suffocated. ' It was 2:45 a. m. that Ashton, who occupied a room on the first floor of the building, with his wife and child, was waakened by smoke, which filled the apartment, and the actor hardly had time to rouse his family before great tongues of flame shot upward through the floor. NEW YORK STOCKS. NEW YORK, May l.-Some con flicting considerations have made the week's stock market irregular, the general heaviness of the early week giving place to some recovery. The freedom of the money market from disturbance on account of the May 1 settlements helped the recovery. So did the improved feeling regarding the steel industry growing out of the United States Steel quarterly eari- ins and reports of a firmer holding of prices for certain finished forms by the leading producers. The unsea sonable weather and the fresh upturn in the price of wheat revived some anxiety for that crop. Ill CALABOOSE UNCLE ANDY IS HANDY. NEW YORK. May l.-Thie city finds itself facing a problem in carry ing out its agreement with Andrew Carnegie to provide sites and books for 78 public libraries for which the iron master appropriated $5,000,000. So far the city has acquired only 45 sites and will hve to acquire 23 more. Because of the time which has elapsed the cost of labor and building mater ial have gone up and to complete the work Mr. Carnegie finds it necessary to increase his appropriation by about $880,000. Today the city has expended more than $2,000,000 on the work and must spend about $4,000,- 000, a million more than was expected. More Than a Score of Los An geles Men ' Acquire a Jag ARE PINCHED BY THE POLICE Order Given to Clean Out Basement of a Store Room Where Wine Was Stored and Prisoners Plug up the Sewers. STRASGECASEPUZZLI THE PHYSICIANS LOS ANGELES WOMAN FOR THIRD TIME GOES INTO , LONG SLEEP. PIONEER MINISTER DIES IN PORTLAND Rev. Wm. Travis a Prominent Sunday Schooj Teacher and Educator Passes Away PORTLAND, May l.-Rev, Wm. Travis, the pioneer Of the movement for the graded school education, and the American forerunner and advo cate of the present education system of the United States since 1888, also prominent as a minister and Sunday school missionary of the Oregon Presbytery died in this city today' aged ' 85 years. Among his early pupils are many men of note such"ai Mark Hanna, Rev. John Griggs, Gen eral E, E. McCook and several others who afterwards became prominent In the affairs of this country. Mr. Travis Is survived by three sons and ( one daughter as follows: John L. Travi9, city editor of the Portland jWnat; William Travis, Jr.. an architect; Joseph Travis, newspaper man, and Mrs. Robert F, Shaw, of Lansing, Mich. RETURNED, WITH INTEREST. , NEW YORK. May l.-Edward A. Lacey. a Hoboken, cigar delaer, has just officially informed that Thcophile Regnaud of Paris has bequeathed him $5000 in his will. One day, five years ago, Lacey and Regnaud were return ing from the Brighton , Beach race track on the same train. Lacey had won several hundred dollars and the Frenchman had lost every ' cent on the races. They had not met before, but Lacey Insisted on Regnaud ac cepting $10, saying he could return it when ever he had plenty of monev. Until he was officially informed of the legacy Lacey had not heard from Regnaud. LOS ANGELES. May l.-Mrs. Beulah Hawkins for the third time in the last two years has passed into a state of complete comatose and ber strange case is again - puzzling, the physicians- She was stricken yester 'day. After feeling well for several days she was again found going into a long sleep. She bravely and persistently fought the Strang malady, but at last it over come her and she now lies at her home as though dead, save for a faint breathing and occasional fluttering of the eyelids. Physicians say she has rare form of catalepsy. . AFTER HIS SHARE. FOR THE UNEMPLOYED. CINCINNATI, May l.-At a meeting of the unemployed of this city, a memorial was drawn up which will be either sent or carried to Washington. The memorial is to be signed by the officials of the Automo bile Club of Cincinnati, Mayor Mark- brei, a representative of the Business Men's Club of this city and a repre sentative of the allied labor unions, Governor Harmon and the officials of the Unemployed Association. The memorial asks for the passage of a bill for the construction of a national transcontinental highway, in order to give work to the unemployed; also that the federal government lend the country's money to be used exclusive ly building of roads. NEW YORK, May 1Newberry D. Lawton, who was sailing master of the victorious cup defender Reliance, has brought suit in the Surrogates Court for a share of $368,000 which the Chinese Government paid for the suppression of a rebellion in one of its provinces in 1850. That rebellion was suppressed by General Frederick T. Ward and Cyrus Lawton, who organ ized a force and marched against th: Insurgents. Long after the death M both Ward and Lawton the reward as part of the Chinese indemnity fund in the recent "Boxer" uprisings was paid to Mrs. Georgiana Ward, a wid ow of Henry C. Ward, who was a son of General Ward. Newberry Lawton was a son of Cyrus Lawton and ? partner of General Ward in the sup pression of the rebellion and now de mands an accounting of this award and his shares. He declared that his father was to have received 10 per cent of whatever the Chinese govern- mnt was to have paid. BALBOA NOW1 PANAMA. April 1. The Panama Canal authorities, having received the approval of President Obaldia have decided to change the name of La Boca, the Pacific terminal of the canal to Balboa in honor Vasco Nunez Balboa who in 1513 discov ered the-Pacific Ocean. , -Y LOS ANELES, May L More than s ore of prisoners were landed in jail upon a charge of having' accumu' Iated a bgh priced wine iatr. and fuzzy tongues and throbbing heads constitute the regular order of busi ness around the city hostelry this morning. The cause of the hilarity was an order issued by court to clean out a basement and store room con taining a large quantity of wines, In cluding Mumm's Extra Dry and a quantity of liquors accumulated from many raids inaugurated for a viola tion of the ordinances of the city aad which had been confiscated. The prev ious fluids were poured down the sewer. Some of the trusties dammed up the trough that led to the sewer and backed the sparkling mixture into nice pails in the room. Then there was a requisition for buckets and being furnished the in mates proceeded to acquire a beauti ful jag and in a short time the bachhalian reveal of the first order was in progress. The noise soon rose to such a height that the police were attracted and discovered the causi. but not until after a large number of jags had been negotiated by the de lighted prisoners. The police entered the jail and led the men away to in dividual cells where they were given an opportunity for a rareful considera tion and meditation on the evils of intemperance. ROOSEVELT KILLS LION. NAIROBI, May L Four lions are the trophies in the Roosevelt camp 'n the Mau Hills toniht, and the 200 or more native followers are rejoicing with the American party in the cele brating the unusual, good luck. The lions were bagged yesterday and Col. Roosevelt's mighty gun brought three of them to earth, each on the first shot. Thus, one of Roosevelt's fond est ambitions, has been realized. BLACK HAND OUTRAGE. CHICAGO, May l.-What is be lieved to have been an attempt of the Black .Hand to kill Detective Longo- gardi, one of the police of the "Black Hand Squad" was made last night. Two men stabbed him in the wrist with a stilletto and then ran away. RAILROAD RATE CASE. ; JEFFERSON cTtY, May l.-The supreme court of Missouri today is sued a restraining order against Judge Williams of the St. Louis circuit court prohibiting him from proceed- ing with the railroad rate case filed a the court by the district attorney. 1 on iib iBE Police Capture Sicilian Who I: member of the Black Hand in Chicago KNOWS CF SEVERAL KURDERC Told Graphic Story Which May Pur Some Light on the Murder of Jo seph Petrosino Who Was Killed ii New York Some Time Ago. COLUMBIA LOOOERSTO OAlffl PRICES COLUMBIA RIVER LIGGERS' AS SOCIATION ORGANIZED IN PORTLAND. CHICAGO. May l.-A Sicilian wa ; captured by the police here tonigh while in the search of the assailant of Detective GaBriel Longbardi, th ' head of the "Black Hand Squad." wh ; narrowly escaped death last nigh-' told a story that may throw sonT light on the murder of Lieutenan Joseph Petrosino of the New Yor police force and also may prever similar attempts upon the life of t! New Orleans city detective nam? Dantonio. The detectives, Petrosin ' Longbardi and Dantonio, according . to the Sicilian's story were marked fci death several months ago. Petrv jsino was killed in Italy. Two New York Italians who ' SPOKANE HI SEfiT TO PENITENTIARY FIVE TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WAS SENTENCE PRONOUNC ED By The court SPOKANE. May l.-Irene Wilsdn. alias Mrs. Bertha Welsh, was with Archie Thompson sentenced to from five to 25 years in the penitentiary today, for highway robbery. The woman's husband had already receiv ed a similar sentence. They were con victed of luring Joseph Feederwitz, a satoonneeper. to a convenient spot and robbing him of $825. MECHANIC-PROFESSOR. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. MERCER, May l.-Jas. H. Boyle, charged with kidnapping Willie Whit la has suffered a nervous breakdown. NEW YORK. May l.-J. C. Jur gensen has quit his job as chief en gineer at the Hotel St. Regis to as sume a chair of engineer-plant in struction at Columbia University. After a visit to his old home in Cop enhagen, he will begin his duties next fall. For more than seven years Mr. , Jurgensen has been an engineer in New York hotels and when Colum bia University decided to establish the new chair they looked ab'otit for a practical man as the head instructor. Jargensen's success, not only in un derstanding the complex machinery of a large hotel plant but his instruc tion over subordinates caused him to be selected. It is believed to be the first instance of the elevation of such an engineer to a college professorship. and 70 per cent of the output of the logging camps of the Columbia river reai names sre jcnown t0 the poJic - Ict,rc.ucQ .i a meeting nem came j,ere 8tv).rai weeks ag0 4( this morning at the Commercial Club. opened a i;ttie grocery store in t! for the purpose of organizing the Co- Italian quarters on the west sk! lumbia River Loggers Association. From here the Siciians Mg!neef, The meeting was an enthusiastic one tliear- clot aeainst Lonstbardi. Th and the result of fhe discussion on iearaed hjs habits an1 feariess am the present market was that an effort and dec;ded the best wav to t' r will be made to maintain prices now of h;m was to trap him int0 , cos prevailing. It is impossible to .say bat when he was unarmed. Th with what success this attempt will watched his house nightly and 1; oe mei, me exigencies ot tne lumoer night the detective noticed mi situation being such that no one can prowiing uomi and went out ,j foresee what sort of a turn prices may armed t0 iniuire what they want.f take in the near future. For an answer he was attacked w;j A committee was appointed to per- a stilIett0 and w cut severa tin feet plans for a grading bureau to and the men jeft the scene thinki work along lines similar to those of they had mortaiiy WOunded the m the Puget Sound loggers. The com-.A determined effort is being made mittee will report at the next raeet-('break up the fiend;sh murderers lng ; the Black Hand with every hope Albert Bnx. of the Brix Logging uitimate success. . Company, was elected president; E. I , , - S. Collins, of Ostrander, of the Os trander Railway & Logging Company, vice-president; Robert S- Farrell, of the Deep River Logging Company,) secretary: C. A. Bell, assistant secre-, ELKHART, Ind., May 1- tafy. and J. H. Bradley, of the Brad- Lavergne Roeder was shot yester ley Logging Company, treasurer. in tne parlor at the home of the y The first annual meeting will be . ents of his sweetheart Leona Le neia me nrsi saiuraay ot eacn montn. " " tuumy turuncr uw A LOVE MYSTERY. THE STRIKE SEASON. an investigation to determine whl i er she committed suicide or was nf - idered, A revolver , was found l BUTTE, Mont., May 1. Breweries Roeders body and brother of all over this state, carpenters and trirl maintains that Roeder shot 1 painters in Great Falls . and brick-'self while he, Leviston, was out! layers in Butte are out or about to the room. Roeder and Miss Levi J gd out on strike- The brewers, who had quarreled and he went to I number about 200 in the state, were 'home to bid her gooy-bye prior tff ordered to quit work at midnight, departure for California. Miss L Two points are at issue, one in regard ton's parents had forbidden RoJ to hours and wages and the other as coming to their house. The girl f to jurisdiction.. All demand a slight in an upstairs room at the time increase in wages. the shooting. I ., ' . " -t PARDON ASKED FOE HENRY MELDRU1 Is Serving a Sentence at McNiel's Island for C, plicity in the Land Frauds in Oregon WASHINGTON, May l'.-Applica- tion has been made for a pardon for Henry Meldrum, whose term of im prisonment for land frauds is about to expire. The pardon is sought to re store Meldrum's citizenship. PORTLAND, May l.-Henry Mel drum, ex-United States- Surveyor- General for Oregon, is nGvr serving a sentence at McNeill's Island. H i convicted by F. J. Hency duriti land fraud trials. Meldrum ; brqught to Portland to testify i John H. Hall case regarding C C. Brownell, a witness, but wn permitted on the stand. Effort been made for some time past cure the pardon of Meldrum 1 wife and relatives. III 111