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?-. 1Fi-t-it!B; "J - T,' f) rj . 4. N VOL. XXXV, NO. 70. ASTORIA, OK IttiOiY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. IH)0, i RK-E FIVE CENTS "T??$ "n- i. ii. g s i a fill i rpj-saAiJ-id m aria siii n s vmLJm i 1L, Em. Ill I I II s&Ffc3& e-ssSfi?-:' r:iS tfe Z.JB 1 LI L i, bUIJm 1 TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. A German ship lost three men. A fire in New Yoik caused a loss of over $10000. Minister Piiulp? is cnnini; home on a vacation. LijjLtninjj struck a railroad office at Altoona, Pa. Cardinal Manning (indorses the eisbt honr labor day. fuo "Waupaca National hank in Wis consin, assigned. A Spanish murderess was put to death !y garrote at Madrid. Tuo coal iortora and dock luborera iu London haw struck. Portland gained 10,030 by the census receunt: population 4G.G1L'. The Nativo Sons celebration in S.m 1 rancisco oiens to-day. I'uo Kauni investigating committee wns in .session yesterday. A loaded barge was run down by n Rtcamcr near Port Huron. John II. Wicl.mJ, the well-known San Fmicisco brewer, is dead. A new field of coal has beou discovered in the Wellington district. Congressman Hill favors the Sherman plan of reciiirocily with Canada. President Harrison will attend the dedi- cition of tho Stanford University. The biennial convention of Locomotive Engineers opened in San Francisco. Much scratching was done, in tho Maine election; Heed's plurality will bo great. A ruined failure of tho great firm of J . FurtVf 11 fc C.) , of Chicago, is denied. I'w.i fn-ight trains on the Ji.illimoro and )hio railroad collided; livelixes wvio li-t. Two New Jersey girls fought thirty eight rounds for tho affections of a j'oung niin. A bill, making the law.? of Oregon ap plicable U) Alaska, was introduced in tho House. President Harrison has appointed a committee to select a sito for tho Pacific coaU dr3 dock. Discovery has boen mado that thcro is no apjeal in the cases of schooners raized for seal joaching. Death of John II. Wielinul. Special to Tin: atmi::an. S.vx Francisco, Sept. 8. John lieu ry Wieland, of the well known family of brewers, died this morning. He had a complication of diseases, includ ing kidney complaint and was 3G years old. A Bounty on Snar. Special IoTiir Astokiax. Washington-, Sept S. Mr. Frye's ameudmeut, giving a bounty ou all sugar made from molasses, "was re jected without a division. The Native Sons' Celebration. Special to Tn k Astoria v.l Sax Frvncisco, Sept. S. The meet ing or the Native Sons to-morrow will be the grandest event that has ever takn place iu the state. AiUlti.oniil lrhjiah mi Fniutli Page.) CCOCCDCCCOOOCCOOOOOCOOODCOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOCOOCOOOOOCO i 15- Two Hundred Boxes I Two New BEING OPENED Herman Wise's BIG CLOTHING STORK, In Occident Hotel Building. THE PENSION BUSINESS InyesligaBon Into llie Charges Against Mr. Raum. AGENT LEMON ON THE ST ND He Tells Enough to Indicate That There is Big Money Made In Pension Work- t'pocial by The Uxitfd Pbi-S". Washington-, Sept 8. The sjecial House committee, investigating tho charges against Commissioner of Pen sions Haum, continued its investiga tion to day. Judge Wilson, Mr. Lem on's attorney, said he was readv to ex- i amine Mr. Cooper. Mr. Cooper objected. He said he did not think it right to take the in vestigation out of his bauds and turn it over to Mr. Lemon's attorney. Judge Wilson said his intention was to expedite the case and not delay it or turn it aside. Mr. Lemon was then sworn. Ho made a statement cover ing the points of the case which re ferred to himself nud his business. He presented to the commission a statement, showing tho claims allowed him by tho pension ollicer for several corresponding months under Commis sioners Black and Raum. Tho former had allowed him 7.017, the latter G,G89. He said the charge that he had been favored by the decision of Commis sioner Raum any more than other at torneys was unqualifiedly false, and he further said it was an impossibility for any commissioner to do this. The charge could only be made through ignorance and malice. Mr. Cooper charged that out of 300,000 cases affected by tho decision of Commissioner Raum, 12,000 were his, and that he had received fees ou these claims amounting to 210,000. This statement he said was grossly in accurate. He had never asked Mr. Raum or any other commissioner to favor him, and iu making the charge Mr. Cooper had displayed ignorance aud malice. He invited Mr. Cooper to come to his office and examine all tho claims on tile, his clerks and his method of transacting business and requested him to do this and not go and hunt up discharged employes. Mr. Cooper asked him what was the amount of his fortune and what his annual income from peusiou business was. Ho refused to answer the ques tions and said it was none of CoojMir's business. Tho commission upheld him iu his refusal. In answer to questions by Cooper, Mr. Lemon said ho had suggested the ruling complained of to Commissioner Raum, and had seen him at different times and urged the matter. Ho thought the ruling was just. He denied, however, that it benefited him any more than others. j Jn answer to questions by Mr. C ooper, in reference to his endorsing notes from Mr. Raum, ho told the OVER - o o F- Goods .-.NOW .-. JL T : committee in detail how and when it happened. Mr. Cooper asked him if he did not think it improper to endorse notes under the circumstances of the rela tions ho bore to Raum. He replied" he did not and if he did he should not have done so. In answer to questions by Mr. Lew is he said he held 1,000 shares of stock in Mr. Ranm's company as security. The security he said was offered by Mr. Raum himself and not asked for by him, wild he would have endorsed the papers on Mr. Raum's high char acter alone. Mr. Cooper then renewed his re quest to require Commissioner Raum to present the books and other papers of the Universal Refrigerator com pany. In reply Mr. Raum said this subject was fully discussed some time ago, after which he had shown the books to a committee, with the exception of Mr. Cooper, and he now refused to make them public, as he held it was private business. The committee went into secret ses sion and discussed the matter of Mr. Cooper's request for some time and de cided they would have to give the mat ter grave consideration, as they had doubts as to their authority to com pel a production of private papers. The committee then adjourned un til 12 o'clock to-morrow. THE MAINE ELECTION. ITIiicIi Scratch I nr was Done Reed's Plurality. Special to Thk Astouian'.I Bangor, Ma, Sept 8. The lightest vote for j'ears is being polled. There is great scratching. The result in this city is greatly in doubt. Tho Repub licans aro not claiming the city by over 200 at tho outsido. Tho prospectisgood for tho election of at least one Democratic representa tive, but nothing definite can bo told till the entire voto is counted. Portland, Me., Sept S. There is every indication that Reed will have a larger plurality m Portland than two years ago. Tlio entire Hepnblicau ticket will have at least 200 plurality. Lisdon, Sept 8. Returns from a large part of the cities and towns iu the Second district show ex-Govornor Diugley re elected to Congress by nearly 4,000 over Allen, Democrat A Military Order. Special lo Thk Astokiax.1 "Washington, Sept 8. Mr. Wheeler of Alabama, in the House to day, introduced, by request, a bill sub stituting another bill, previously in troduced by him at this session, to incorporate a military order of Amer ica and to promoto the erection at Washington of a memorial building as a monument Sm:irJiabIr 8tscuc. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Flainfield, HI., makes the statement that she caught cold which settled on her lungi; she was treated a month by her family phy sician, but grew worse. He told her .she was a hopeless victim of consumption anil that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested J)r. King's N--w Discovery lor Consumption ; she bought a bottle and to herdeliyht found herself hem-liU'd from first dose. he contin ued it-. Hm', and after taking t-n bottles found herself .sound and well, now does her hoiiM'Woik and is as well as she ever was. Kree trial bottles r.f this great Discovery at J. V. Conn's Drug Store, large b"liles, Me. and $1. 'IN- - O ACCIDENTS ON THE RAIL A Careless Melnaii reels a Passenger Train. TEfiRIBLE rSBIOHT SMASH-UP Two Trains Dome Together at Mouth of a Tunnel Several Lives Eeported Lost. the Special UyTiiK UN'mo I'iiks. Tnor, N. Y., Sept S.-At 7:30 o'clock this morning, a green switch man who took the place-of a striker at the State street crossing iu this city, threw the switch before the rear truck of the Albany local had passed. Tho end of the car was carried over against the locomotive standing on the other track and partially turned over against a stone wall at the north end of the Congress street tnnnel. Tho last car was completely wrecked and the next car ahead badly damaged. Of twelve passengers in the rear car at tho time all escaped but one E. J. Bliss, of Boston, who was cut on the face and head by broken glass. Conductor Henyou, al so wa3 slightly injured. THE DRY DOCK SITE. The President 'Appoints a Com mittee to Select It. S jK-cIal to The astouiax.i Crescent Sprin-g, Pa., Sept. 8. The President to-day sent to Wash ington an executive order, under authority contained jn the naval ap propriation bill, appointing the com mission to select a site for a dry dock on the Pacific coast, north of the bonndary oi California. Capuim T. O. Selfnge, of the United States navv. will bo president of tho board. The other members will be George H. Mendell, corps of engineers. United States army; Thomas G. Piatt, ot JNCW lorii; lion. li. Y. Thomson, of Indianapolis, and A. B. WyckofT, of the Onited States navy. The Light Went Out. Special to The Astoiuax. Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 8. A col lision occurred between passenger trains nineteen and twenty, near Lockport at 4:10 o'clock this moniing on tho Central railroad, in which Baggageman Fiddler of Now York, was killod and Engineer Bradley aud Fireman Houston, both of Syracuse, badly hurt No passengers were hurt Tho accident is attributeo" to' a sema phore light going out A Bauk Succumbs. Special to Tiik astokiax. Waupaca, Wis., Sept. 8. Evan Dollidge, of Waupaca National Bank, assigned to Frank W. Whipple, of Waupaca, this moniing. Assels, $37, 000; liabilities, $27,000. The failure was caused by two heavy a line of loans and discounts, aud a recent run on the bank which drew out $200,0011. It is believed the liabilities will be paid in fnlL O V o Hundred HEW GOODS .-. NOW .-. BEING OPENED JL BIG CLOTHING STORE, In Occident Hotel Building. THE STANFORD CJIV1YEKSITY. President Harrison AVill Attend the Dedication. Seeca: to Tin: Astokiax. Washington-, Sept. 8. It has been learned that the President, as well as four members of his cabiuet. among them Secretary Blaine, and their fam ilies, have already mado arrangements to visit California next spring or fall, to assist in the dedication and other opening ceremonies of the Leland Stanford, Jr., university. The exact lime of the start has not yet been de termined upon. The presidents of nearly all the leading Eastern colleges and educa tional institutions will accompany the party, which, will be taken to Califor nia on a special train of new palace coaches, which are now being made according to special plans as agreed upon. They will go to San Francisco direct, and after remaining there for three days will proceed to Senator Stan ford's residence at Menlo park, where they will remain as his guests till after the conclusion of the ceremonies of the opening of Leland Stanford Jr., University. THE JLOCOIIfOTIVE FIREMEN'. Opening: or the National Conven tion in San Francisco. jaci.i! lo Tur. Astokiax Sax FitAKcisco, Sept. 8. The bi ennial national convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen opened with a secret session to-day when an organization war. effected. This afternoon a reception was tendcpod them at the Bijou theatre. Addresses of welcome wero delivered by Mayor Pond, Governor Waterman, Tom Fitch, M. M. Dorn m behalf of the Native Sons, and L J. Brown in behalf of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Firemen. Tho biennial address was delivered by Grand Master T. P. Sargent. THE ,Ars OF OREi.'OX. Tliey Will Ic Made Applicable to Alaska. S.icci.U tnl hi: Astokiax?. Washington', Sept 8. In tho House to-day a bill, amendatory to the act, providing a civil government for Alaska" was introduced. The bill makes the general laws of Oregon applicable to Alaska so far as they may not conflict with the law3 of the United States District court in the territory, which is to havo exclusive jurisdiction in all equity cases, or those involving a question of title to land, and in all capital criminal of fenses. Appeals from decisions iu civil and criminal cases Avhere tho amouut involved is over S200 in civil cases, or over 8100 in criminal cases, maybe made to the District court and carried to the U. S. Supreme court S-ver 'i'rjtve! Yi'ifliucil Them; I'erons .should never travel without a t.ox of Jiu.vxnKETii's 1'ii.t.s. A few do?es taken hefore going on ship will prevent ea sickness, and one pill every niht on shipboard will counter act the e(Klie action of the sea air. When sick, trouhud with pains, cold.-!, or di7ziucss, r having lhcuinatisiit take from three to five pills and if they ilo iu.t operate in an hour or so take t href or io:ir more. I.i: xiKr.Tils I'lr.usarepnieh u'ge tiMii. absolutely haiiiile.-s, :i!idafe to take ! an time. S !il :u every drug and uu'iiiciue 3tore, itS.er plain or sugar coated. E R F - T : Boxes DEATH BY THE &ARR0TE A Spisli Mm Executed in tie City of MaMi. TEN THOUSAND SPEUTAT0BS. A Horrible and Eevolting Affair His tory of the Crime The Execution. . Madiud, Sept. a Higinia Ball aguera, the Spanish murderess, was garroted here a few days ago and nothing so terrible or revolting in tho nature of a criminal execution, ha3 for many years taken place in Europe. The marchioness Valera was the widow of one of the wealthiest land owners in Cuba and was beloved and respected by every person who knew her and the tragic circumstances of her death created a deep and lasting sensation throughout Spain. On the night of July 1, 1SS8, people living in the vicinity of the- "Valera pi aco were alarmed by fearful shrieks proceeding from Mmc. de Valera's bedroom. When they arrived the door was forced open and upon peering into the marchioness' bedroom the offi cers recoiled horror stricken. She lay stretched across the bed, her face aud breast a mass of gaping wounds, while the murderer had saturated her limbs with petroleum as if for the pnrpose of destroying- all evidence of tho crime which had been committed. Only a part of tho body thus saturate eu, was consnmeu, immediate response to the woman's cries having probably disconcerted the fiendish mnrderer. Her maid was discovered, apparently iu a dead faint, ou the floor of an ad joining room. When she was restored to conscious ness, the maid, Higinia Ballaguera, be came so confused and contradictory in her answers to the magistrate, that she was immediately placed under ar rest Higinia Ballaguera wa3 placed in a cell where no one was permitied to visit her. This treatment elicited an acknowledgement that she, with tho assistance of one, Dolores Avilla, a woman of bad repute, had together arranged and committed the crime. Both were submitted to new- trial with the result that Higinia Ballaguera was condemned to death by garrote and Dolores Avilla was sentenced to seventeen years ponal servitude. On tho eveniug preceding the day of the execntion, according to Span ish custom, she was placed in a chapel to remain during twenty-four hours before her death. - - Thero she was received by a scoro of monks, who wore the black cowl and white cross of tho Brotherhood of Perfect Truth, which has since tho middle ages taken chargo of crim inals condemned to death during the last days of their life, and it was from their hands that Senor Verdago, the executioner, received Higinia Balla guera. She was already half dead when tho executioner presented himself at tho chapel to claim his victim and accord ing to traditioual usage knelt beforo 5?LS.5.i?3LJ3J?5.5L0" O-o- Two New BIG her and craved her pardon for being obliged to obey tho orders give to him by the justice. He then proceeded to pinion her arms and legs with fine whip cord and slipped over her head the sinister black cloth robe and hood, worn by condemned criminals on the way to the scaffold. Two monks, thereupon, led the woman out of the chapel and supported her across a large court yard and up the steps of a platform where the garrote stood. The vast yard was crowded by 10,000 spectators in gay holiday attire, who whiled away the interval before the execution by hurling curses at the execntioner. Although neither strong nor unprecedented, this occurrence nearly paralyzed the man, who was preparing for his disagreeable task. The unfortunate woman took her place in the seat of the terrible ma chine of death and immediately tho cruel collar was adjusted around her neck. The collar is secured to a stout upright post of theapparatus, which by a few turns of a thumbscrew causes a band of iron to instantane ously contract, thereby choking to death, sureiy, if slowlyl the unfortu nate victim. Hardly had tho collar beeu set in place when the execntioner gave three rapid turns to tho screw and his offi cial act was completed. Among those nearest to the scaffold the sounds emitted by the lips of the woman were plainly heard. Tho head moved from side to side and a well defined move ment of the body continued for a short time afterward. Then the head fell slightly to one side and all was still. She was dead. The horrible death of the murderess did not seem to produce any revnlsion of feeling in the hearts of tho specta tors, but when the handkerchief cover ing tho face was removed, a cry of horror and disgust aroso from the crowd. Women fainted away, chil dren screamed and men stood aghast Her face was hideously distorted by strangulation in its most awfnl form and her toncme black- and swollen protruded from her pnrplo lips, and yet ttnnng tne Hours for which the bodv remained exnosed to nnhlin vTonr almost every inhabitant of this city came to uavo a look at it. i?oirriiAX3)s popuijAtjox. Tiic City Cains Ten Thousand By the Recount. Special to Thk astokiax.1 Pobtlaxd, Sept. 8. The re-enumeration of this county shews: City of Portland, 4G.G12: East Portland, 10, G10; city of Albina, 5,169. The connty outside of the cities, 12,81o. Total, Multnomah county, 75,206. The gain of Portland was ten thous and over the recent count Safety From a Pestilential Scourge. Protection from tho disease, not a nieill ciual asent which merely checks the parox ysms, is the stand desideratum wherever the endemic scounrc of malaria prevails. Quinine does not afford this protection. The chief reason why Ilostetter's Stomach Bit ters has won such immense popularity is, that it prepares the system to resist the malarial pest. This it does by hracin and toning the physical organism; regulating and promoting an equal How and distribu tion of the auimal iluids, and establishing digestion on a sound basis. Ne: only is fever and ague prevented, but the worst types of the disease are conquered by ir. Such Ls tho only conclusion to be drawn rrom the overwhelming evidence in it3 favor. It Ls equally efficacious in dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint, general de bility and rheumatic complaint, and is a reliable diuretic and nervine. " J?L$JZLP-LJLS!J$JSL.S O V E o F- .-.NOW BEING OPENED A T s- CLOTHING STORE, In Occident Hotel HE WILL TALK POLITICS Minister PMjs is Coming Home for a Short Vacation. WANTS TO STAY AT BERLIN Until the American Hog Oome3 and then He Doss Not Oare The Samoan Treaty. Special by Tho United Pbes3. New York, Sept 8. A Herald Berlin special says: Minister Phelps is going home for a holiday on Sep tember 13th. He says: UI shall have nothing to do with politics at homo except to talk. I shall vote and give them good strong protection and re ciprocity ballot. I expect to stay here as long as President Harrison wants me to, at least I do not want to go go out of Berlin until the American hog comes in." '"What's his chance?" "Good I think, on account of our retaliation law, though that helps less here than anywhere else. Prob ably it is so wise and just that I can not imagine why we did not have it before. Possibly we wore waiting for "White-law Efeid to state the case so clearly, calmly and convincingly as he did." Concerning the Samoan treaty Min ister Phelps said: "It really is not working formally at all yet; at least, its influence so far is not what its provisions intend it to be. As yet they are not operative. They cannot be until the chiSf justice gets there, his decision being the cen ter and power of the sample machin ery, but the mere moral influence of the treaty's provisions has kept tho natives peaceful for more than one year and that is a pretty good test" Cardinal Planniny ou Labor. Special to The ASTonrAx.l London, Sept. 8. Cardinal Man ning has written a letter to the Sa cred Science congress, now being held at Liege,. Belguim, urging the necesssity for eight hours as a work ing day for miners; that no -women be employed in mines; that tho observ ance of Sunday be enforced, and ad vocating a sliding scale of wages. CURES PERMANENTLY RHBTJMATISfil. SulTerod for Tfoarly 30 Years. Ib7 N. Chester St., Baltimore, Md. For nearly SO years I sutfercd with rhenmaf tisminarm and shoulder; could not liftm? arm. Less than two bottles of St Jacobs OU cured me. W. II. HEESON. Of Many Years' Standing. Gadsden, Crockett Co., Tenn. My case was rheumatism of many years? standing, contracted during tho war; tried most everything without relief. St Jacob Oil finally cured me. FBED. ItOGGE. At DnuGGisrs and Dealers. THE CHARLES A. V0GELER CO., Baltimore, AM. o o o o 6 d R -o-0 oods j. Building. STJACes OR Boxes .fetArtf - sd"r. - .-yj.,B3ii&LSaigfek --&