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VOL XLIX.
ASTORIA, 0HEO0N, WKDNKSDAY MORNING, OCTOBEK 2, IBM.
NO. 21
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ALL PARIS
INFLAMED
Monster Demonstrations Are
Held in Every Part of
French Capital.
THE POPULACE AROUSED
Dreyfos Affair Made tbe Occasion
for Rioting anl Attacks Upon
Newspaper Offices.
ANOTHER CRISIS IN CABINET
j
Chamber of Depotlea Refuses to Ex
prei Confidence In Government
Minister Cbanolne Reslfns-
TAWS. CM. C.-Thl pvenlng IO.OTjO p0
plo n "The Mararllalae" around
iKindro made of a Preyfua papr, Vti
Drlulm dv I Homme (The niKht of Man).
All the alorca In Iho nelKhborhood wr.
cloMd In anticipation of rl'Klnr. The
culraanlora. anUn-l by the mounted re
publtran icuarda, iiijr erdi-d In driving
bark another crowd, which waa ahouting,
"Bham. upon Hrlaaon!"
A vol. of confidence In th irovernment
waa lout In tbe chamber of deputlea to
night by a vote of W to ZA.
When thla vol. waa announced the
mlnlatry loft the chamber. After the
adjournment of the chamber, there waa
Intcnae excitement, followed by atreet
demorwtrutlona, principally malntaJnrd
by antl-Remltet In tha vicinity of the
office, of the antl-Dreyfua paper.. There
were numeroua colllalona between the
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cawa It waa necessary for cuirassier, to
close the street.
Geni-raJ Chunoln l the fifth minister
of war who has declared himself abso
lutely convinced of tne guilt or Dreyfus,
snd the third who resigned on that ac
count. His total Inexplicable and unex
pected action wns certainly the chief
sensation In a day of sensational events.
He dealt a veritable coup do Jarnace to
tha cabinet, and precipitated a new
struggle between the military and the
naval authorities. Even now It Is difficult
to state clearl- why the ministry re
signed, but there Is general belief that It
was In order to avoid. If possible, the
serious street demonstrations fomented
by Messrs. DcRouledo and Drumont. who
have been the heroes of tho night' pro
!!..-
Altogether some
1M arrests have been
made. Nothing Is now heard about Fa
shoda. but It Is regarded as extremely
IK.. utiln..r rrlftln wilt tie
' . , .
utilised to put M. Hanotaus back Into the
forelun office. M. Melino Is ulo men
tioned ns the possible new premier to
succeed tho retiring Brifson.
CHICAGO BICYCLE TAX I
13 DECLARED INVALID, j
IHcycllsts May Now Rldo a Wheel With- j
out Paying a License for the
rrtvllcge.
a- IJI..1I.,. In.
terosted In tho decision of the court in
tho appeal of the city of Chicago against
Orrln O. Collins and 875 other appellee.
In which It finds the "Wheel tax fund
ordinance of Chicago to be Invalid.
Tho appellees filed a bill In the circuit
court of Cook county to enjoin tho city
from enforcing the ordinance, which pro-
vide, that all vehicle, used upon th. ,
streets of tho city. Including those for ;
private usa or pleasure should pay an
annual license fee.
The money collected from this source
was to constitute a special fund for i
irui imnrnvement to be known as tho .
wheel tax fund. The lower court found
favor of the wheelmen and It issued j
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tne wni reu -
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court affirms this tinutng in mo iuuowius .
languago: .
In this ease there Is no express ptlwcr j
given tho city council
II to Impose this 11- '
ceiiKo for and no Implied power arises
,-hlch gives the right. It has no power
o levy a tax In this manner. In no view
w
to
of tho caso has tao city power to adopt
tho ordinance.
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY
RAILROAD CHANGES HANDS.
Tho Option Given on It Was Taken up
by the Directors of the Santa Fe
Railroad Company.
FRESNO. Cal., Oct.23.-E. P. Ripley, j
president of tho Snnta Fe; Paul L. Mor- j
ton second vice president; W. G. Kevin, 1
genoral manager west of Albuquerque; DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 25. Cotton buyers
W. R. Hodges. C. W. Hlgglnson, and Jas. ! 0f Dallas, on foreign orders, say that ow
Dun have arrived In Fresno, accompanied injr to the threatened war between En
by Captain Taj-ton, W. B. Storev and A. j gland and Franco they have received
D. Schlndler, of tho San Joaquin Valley
rood.
President Ripley stated that his trip
had to do with the purchase of the San
Joaquin Valley road, and In an.wer to
a eueatlon to whether the recently
reported deal had been completed, laid;
"Tea; the road la our.. W. have cloaed
tha deal. W. were given an option' on
the road and we knew a good thing when
w. aaw It."
Mr mpley .lightly modified thla atata
merit trubeequenOy ty atatlng that th
flanta Fa had deHd to take up lh
option.
Captain Payton, of tha Valley ro4.
however, itated that tha Santa Fa hat
not vet accepted trie o-uon.
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE
OF ARMY PHYSICIANS.
Oecam. Intoxicated and Allowed Soldier.
to uffer-Seneatlonal Testimony
Before Comml.alon.
ANNISTON. Ala.. Oct. S.-Before the
war lnve.tlgatlonteommltte today Cl
onal Cabell aald be had obaerved 1 con
dition of affair at the bowplta ataff of
tha Second dlvt.ion of the Third army
corp. In June which be considered hor
rible. Ha bad hlmxHf aeen oo. kk
man lying without tha protection even
of a tent, and ha had been Informed by
other offlcera that several other had
bt-en left In the aame way.
He thought tha doctor, wer hone.t
enough, but they did not know how to
get .uppllea. Mule driver, had been uaed
for nuraea, and tie had been reliably In
formed that many of them were In the
habit of getting drunk and on auch Oc
eanian, neglecting their patient. Colonel
Cabell 1 a lieutenant In the regular
army and wa formerly on detached duty
with tha Oregon notional guard. Ilia tes
timony had an evir.t ImprcsHlon upon
the comml.alon.
WOMAN REFUSED A LANDINO.
flAN FRANCISCO. Oct. K.-Cathartne
Sophie Bertha de Graud D'Agay, an aged
French woman who came here from Van
couver. B. C, on the steamship Walla
Walla, has been refused a landing by
Commissioner North on tha ground that
.he I liable to become a public charge.
From documents found In Mrs. Goraud'.
possession, the officials of the immigra
tion bureau concluded that she was an
anarchist. The woman says she Is a
French royalist and lost all her money In
British Columbia mining properties. She
! claims to be a cousin of the French
consul general in New York
AFTER SUTRO-S MILLIONS.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 2i-Mra. Clara
Kluge. who claims to have been the con
tract wife of the late Adolph Sutro. today
commenced a legal fight for some of the
sluice millions by filing an application
tor letters of guardianship over ber two
children, who are named In the applies
Hon as Adolph Newton Sutro and
Adolphlne Charlotte 8utro. The petition
er claims that the children are the legal
offspring of the dead millionaire.
LATE DEATHS.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. S5.-Fred Carv
er, company O. Fifty-first Iowa, died at
the general hospital ro pneumonia fol-
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8an Diego states that Corporal C. N.
j Bell, of company M. Second United State
I engineers, who was sent back sick from
Honolulu, died on the steamer Corona
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Honolulu, died on the steamer Corona
just as she reached that port last night
j AGED FRINTER DEAD.
! NEW YORK. Oct. SJames Went-
worth Osgood Is dead at his home In this
rl,- RpJ 83 When 'oun man
he worked on tho Boston Transcript.
Later he moved to Columbus. O., and
published books, and afterward to Van-
daiin, m where he set up the first prlnt-
lv nnw run tn TlllnOtQ
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WIFE OF AN EDITOR.
TACOMA. Oct. S. Vincent A. Ryan,
whose wife was drowned yesterday at
Vallejo, Cal., Is associate editor of the
Tacoma News, and Is well known on the
Faciflo coast, having for many year
been connected with leading newspapers
I in r-ntirnrnln anil Wnahtnfftnn. Mrs. Rvan
fQr Mf rf
j cars uiiu naa uuui i m v
santlarlum In California.
HORACE B. MILLER DEAD.
NAPA. Cal.. Oct. 23.-Horace B. Miller,
. native of Pennsylvania, has
died at hi. residence In Brown'. Valley.
of heart failure. Mr. Miller waa a mem.
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har f ia Plttshnre eommanderv of Ma-
-
sons, and of the Q. A. R. During the
v , .v.
war ne wns WIln - '
opening or tne .mississiPPI river, ranKiug
' with Dewey and with Watson. Later he
! conducted the American Machinist, an
, Influential newspaper of New York city.
CUBANS SENT TO NEW YORK.
NFW YORK. Oct. 25. A dispatch to
tho World from Gibralter says:'
Sixteen released Cubans from 'tta
have Just been sent to New York by the
American consul. About 2fi0 remain at
Ceuta. Their condition Is distressful.
I Mre than 100 Cuban prisoners have died
since the commencement of the war.
SUBJECT TO WAR RISKS.
; cable saying:
"All shipments from this date until
otherwise Instructed must he made sub-
jeet to war risks."
SHAFTER IS
CRITICISED
Said His Failure to Properly
Handle Troops Cansed
Loss at Santiago.
WORK OF SIGNAL CORPS
Geieral Greely's Report Shows
That This Division of Army
Did Effects Service.
THE BALLOON IN TIME OF WAR
Stronf ty FecommenJeJ in tne Report
of Creely Shafter Said to Have
SHftite J tie Slfnal Cores.
WASHINGTON. Oct. J5.-Brlgadler-General
Greely. chief signal officer, to
day presented Secretary Alger his report
of the operation of the signal corp.
during the recent war with Spain. In
tha first section of hi. report General
Greely Intimate, that the corp.' officer.
In Cuba were handicapped because hey
were not allowed to tak with them the
signal corps telegraph train, which had
been sent to Tampa for the Santiago
expedition. General Greely la confident
that, during the single month of July,
the line of communication maintained
by his corps In Cuba were worth mor.
to tbe nation than baa been tha cost of
the signal corps of the army from It
inception to the present day. He refer
to the ease with which the major gen
eral commanding the army communicat
ed with Washington, giving Important
information, and received Important
orders.
General Greely strongly commend, the
use of the war balloon, and declare that
Its utility was thoroughly demonstrated.
Concerning the criticism made of the
balloon operations at Santiago, be say
The forcing of the signal corps back
to the skirmish lln. where the position
la reported to nave caused serious loss
to the trooos by disclosing their move
ment and attracting the enemy' fire,
was the action of Major General Shatter,
through hla chief engineer. Colonel
George McC. Derby, In the face of pro
fessional advice given by Lieutenant Col
onel Maxfleld. of the United States vol
unteer signal corps."
General Greely also aald that "the s g-
nal corps failed to receive from Major
General Shafter, In his original report
even the notice that it participated in the
Santiago campaign."
OUTRAGEOUS FROCEDURE
OF FOUR IDAHO MINERS.
Threatened to Burn Alive a Shift-Boss
and His Family Unless They
Left the Country.
SPOKANE. Oct. 25. Dan Connor, shift
boss In tho Standard mine, who was driv
en out of Cunyon creek in the Coeur
d'Alenes. Is In the city with his family.
"I had come out to the dryroom Friday
night to eat my lunch." said he. "I wag
lounging there, resting with about 45
men from the mine, about 12:45 a. ra..
when four masked men, armed with re
volvers, cama Into the dryroom and,
after looking carefully around the room,
came over to me. Applying a vile epi
thet they commanded me to get up and
go with them. I went. No other man
In the room stirred or did anything
whatever to prevent my being carried
away by the four men. I was escorted
down the road from the tunnel to the
railroad. The light from the compressor
was shinning there and I could see some
thing of my captors. Two of them
walked behind me and the other two on
either side, with cocked revolvers pressed
against my temples. Three of them were
drunk and they abused me with vile
names at every step. By their voices and
manners, which none attempted to dis
guise, I recognised three of them. Their
names are Clynch, MeCabe and Mc
Eleemel. "They inarched me down the track,
never removing their guns from my
head for an Instant. Then they halted
me and bade me turn my face In a certain
direction. I did so, and all four placed
their guns alongside my head, with the
barrels pointing Into the air. and let go
probably 20 shots. I did not stir. I be
Hove If I had offered the slightest re
sistance I should have been killed on the
spot. The revolvers were held at my
neck, where two men kept sawing them
along my jawbone until they got It so
sore that I have scarcely yet recovered.
The leader said; 'Get down on your
knees, you .' To resist was
useless. I knelt. He then told me to
beg their pardon. I said: 'Gentlemen
beg your pardon, but I do so under pro
test.'
" 'No protest foes," said one of them.
"Beg our pardon right or we will blow
your brain, out I said 'gnntlemcn, I
beg your pardon." On of them I old ir-
I muat get out of th. camp with my
family by ( o'clock next .venlng. It
you don't do It w will burn you, jrur
wife and children allv.' I cam. to Wal
lace Sunday and laid the can. befora the
Sheriff Hanley and appealed to hlra for
protection. He laid h. could do nothing
to protect m. or my family."
SITUATION EMBARRASSING
ALTHOUGH NOT CRITICAL,
Peace Commissioners' Report Consid
ered by Prident and Cabinet Ne
gotiation Will Likely Continue,
WASHINGTON. Oct .-Durlrf thl
afternoon and tonight the Informatlo
received from the Pari peace commis
sion waa Informally dlscu.sed at the
White House by Mr. MdClnley and sev
eral member of hi cabinet Precisely
the nature of th Information received by
the president wa. not diaclosed tonight.
It I said, however, that the situation la
embarrassing. If not critical. In tbe p4a
lon of the commisiloner., although tb.-i
.till I reason for th expectation that
negotiation will not be broken off, and
that they will proceed to a luccesafii!
l..u
PERMISSION GIVEN SPANISH
TRANSPORT TO LAN a
Will Arrive at Manila Today and Take
on Board Over On Thousand
Sick Prl.oner of War.
WASHINGTON. Oct 2S.-Th followWf
cablegram ha been received at tha war
department:
"Manila, Oct U-Adjutant General,
Washington.
"Spanish tramnort ship, expected t
arrive from Barcelona, wishes to traas- .
port 800 of the 1100 sick Spanish prises me
of war now here. This would relieve the
situation.
"Shall permission be given? OTIS."
This message wa answered affirma
tively. RETURNED IN DISGU8T.
VANCOUVER, B. C. Oct 25,-Tbe Gar
den party of Fresno, and the White
party of Michigan, representing it peo
ple, have returned over the Edmeatoa
trail from the Peace river country, after
traveling through 13D0 miles of rougk
country and undergoing many hardships.
They return empty handed. They pros
pected 28 creeks and river., and over 40f
miles of territory. They found evidence
of gold everywhere, but not one pas
would pay. The much-boomed Peace)
river country turned out very disappoint
ing. Hundred, of Americans are coming
back over the trail, under terrible winter
conditions.
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. ;
NEW YORK. Oct 2S.-The Intercollegi
ate golf championship tournament wiS
be played at Ardsley-on-the-Hudsoa, be
ginning tomorrow and continuing foil
days. The first two days will be devour
to the team championship; and the last
two to the Individual championship.
For the team championship each col
lege will enter six players, but for the
Individual championship any member of
a college, whether represented by a team
or not. la at liberty to enter.
Yale now holds tho team championship
and Harvard the Inuivldual. Harvard
hopes to win the team honors this year
and, on paper, seems to have tbe strong
est team.
ENGLAND MEANS BUSINESS.
LONDON. Oct. 25. The Cape Town cor
respondent of the Times says: Cecil
Rhodes, addressing an open-air meeting
this afternoon, said that, four years ago.
he saw Baron de Courc the French am
bassador to Great Britain, and told hint
on the authority of Lord Salisbury that
they would tight If necessary to prevent
the French reaching the Nile, and of the
cutting connection the British Intendc
to make between the north and the south.
SESSION COMPLETED.
WASHINGTON. Oct 25,-After a
slon of three weeks the Episcopal tri
ennial council of 189S came to an end to
night. Probably never before at on
convention hag a council transacted more
business than at this meeting, or of
much vital Importance to the church.
The work accomplished Include the com
plete revision of the constitution, with
many important amendments.
HEAVY FAILURE.
NEW York. Oct. 25.John Stevenson ft
Co.. a car building firm, have been place4
tn the hands of receivers. The liabilities
are, approximately, 1700,000.
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