The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899, March 21, 1899, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text, , ,. ,j, t '.. -.'oicsls, MagaziriH., .... .. tifj Nona fc Taken From 7ra Li.'jrwy w-l:houl permission ;!.y or.o (";,. ..';J ':y.of such :ffc :: kv.ii he liable tu proses u!,o; '.. , ...if- f u I :.M ' .v. ll. .aA-' J f 1 V, i rv. ?i! V Ml I W i kaAtiimM!lv. VX! ' . f"'l I 'I IT MM - I ,, ' J ..ff!. FULL ASBOCIATltD PRESS REPORT. TOL XLIX. AdWItIA, OU E005. TUKSDAT J1')KN1NG. MAKCH 21,1899. 101 (waUA rv)CW3 uz:i i - y Stove Store ... IN ASTORIA ... Our Hpoclolty: HTOVCH AMD IIANOEB We know Uie buninoR. Tweuty years experience If you want GOOD 6tove, b- the stock at the Eclipse Hardware Co. fij GRIFFIN N IS W THIS WEEK! Juttt rccoived from tho fnctory ft full nupjily of BOAT-SAIL DRILLING, CANVASS DUCK, COTTON TWINE, Insjrfrt our stock Foard & Stokes Co LENTON SEASON GOODS Smoked Halibut Smoked Fhinnn Hnddoolc Kippered Smoked Salmon Kippered Ilerrlns CodflHh and Mockerl and a full line of other fancy Stuple GoodB. ROSS, HIGGINS & CO Remnant! Remnants! Great Sale of Mill Remnants at away down prioes. Remnants of Out ing Flannels, Ginghams, Percales, Chiviots, Flads, Dressgccds, etc. vxu ia.'fr t ,i - y Everybody should attend our Great Remnant Sale and save money. N. B. A big line of Figured Silk in all shades and patterns to be closed out at 25c yd, worth three . times the price asked Shanahan Bros. BOOKS... Blank and Miscellaneous. PAPER... New Crape and Typc-wrltlng. Waterman Fountain Pens llox Ilccorntcri lMicr uml Knvsliiit"iiKj & REED COTTON ROPE. before buying. VJll-IY Leather Stocklnt wear 30 per cent longer than the Ordinary vv 111 tiwklnirs. and enat no mora than Inferior (rood. Stockings, and cost no It U becaus v.ry pound of yarn 1 nmd under our spoclal direction and I spun .xoluslvsly for knitting Leather BttK-klng. NO. It COOPER LEATHER 8TOCKIMCI, the Heaviest and Strongest Boy' Trlple-kneo Stooklng In the world, Should never be aold at lei than K cent. Every pair la warranted to give satisfaction or money refunded. , CHICAOO-ROCKFORD HOSIERY COMPANY. Sol Manufacturer, Kenosha, Wla. SWISS WATCH REPAIR SHOP Victor Rost Chronometers (flatches md Haqtical Instruments Promptly flid m4 r.palrML Alarm Clocks Irom $1 up. Warranted. 110 Eleventh St. K.it to Pul Tttacnwh. CUT PRICES W. sre making a great cot In special line. Tour opportunity la at bead. Tou are bound to need sh.ie and should buy now while th advantage U so ohvloualy in your larvr. iotas shots are POl nsca number of uncertain age, : and quality. They're all standard stock and good valse for twice what w aak. Laird. Scbotoer Co.' a reduced from MH nd to UN and tin. Petersen & Brown. THE PROOF of lb pudding m la the eating and the proof of liquors IS IN SAMPLING That' an argument that's eon. elusive a demonstration. Our will stand the teat. HUGHES & CO. L. LEBECK Carpenter and Builder General Contractor HOUSE RAISlNd AND nOVlNQ A SPECIALTY H.F.Prael Transfer Co. Talepooo ML DRAYING AND EXPRESSING All Oood Shipped to Our Car . Will Receive Special Attention, No. SSt Duan 8L, W. J. COOK. Mgr. Rss. Tsl. Ill Astoria, Or. more thaa Inferior goods. SALUTATION WAS FORMAL President McKfsley and Mr. Reed Exchange Greetings on Jekyll Island. MEETING MEANS NOTHING No Protatlllty Ttat the Differ ences of toe Two Leaders Will Be Settle! BRYAN REFUSES TO SPEAK Says Be Cmot Tike Part la the Jef fersoa'i Btrtfaday Celebration la Mew York City. lilU NHWICK, lia , Mun-h J'.-PreU dent MiKlnl.y rrtii tonight on Jkyil llunl. th lN-uilful wlni.r club home of nuhibrr of ftcrn mlllnniilr, on Siri im nil I'mnil, 10 mlln up Ihe coax from llruiiwlk. With titm r 11 r. 11a. Kinlrv. Vuv.l'rciildrnt and Mr). tlolart a ixl H. tmiur liiimia. Tlry are u'l of ' e i-K-rviery of the interior Comeiiux N 1 HSiKf. ahom I he prealdent rumled to 'vlult Inst year. I In anoiher cxtnite on tli Inland Is HM'ukr Tlwinus U. Kecd. All persons lln iiny way concerned In their presence Jul Jrkyll u.rt xltlvely and unre lioni:y that the vlalt of the two rival political leudrr at the same lime la a ! mere colncluVnce. Whether any Improve, j merit of tlielr t ruined perxonal or po. 'litKul relndons will be one of ihe ac- icldenls of their IncrltaMe met-tlng on the I Island no one will predict. The aiwakrr j will probaWy leave Jekyll tomorrow af- Icrnonn or Wednesday, and the prenMen. tal party on Wednesilny forenoon. When the president! party lundel on 1 (he Island 3;eiiVr He. d. some club mem. ibers. and a score of pretty girls, were at Ihe water s edge to greet them. The ibis- speaker' attitude was characteristic. I his hands behind his back and hts'hcad I thrown back and upward. When (he I president wulked aihore. Mr. Heed smil ingly raised his hut and uM: "How do !)ou do. Mr. Presldentr' I Mr. McKlnley acknowledged the greet Ing with a low bow and. "how do you do. .Mr. Bpeakerr The meeting of the president and the speaker at the wharf was watched with Interest by all the persons assembled. BRYAN WILL NOT 61'EAK CHATTAXCHJa, Tcnn.. March . V. J. Bryan haa declined the ir1tation of I Perry Belmont, president of the Demo cratic Club, of New York, to speak at the Jefferson's Birthday banquet April 1 13. Bryan wrote us follows to IMmont: j "Remembering that yoa openly repudi ated the dcmoirtHlc platform In the lust csmiKiixn, 1 (U sire to know, before ans JwurliiK lhe luvltiitlon, whether you have 1 since, the election publlciy announced 'your conversion to the principles set ; forth in that platform." Belmont In reply said: "The invltutlon extended to you is on behalf of the Deinccratlc Club. Individu al opinions have not been considered In : Issuing the InvUalionB to celebrute the I birthday of Thomas Jefferson." Bryan, In his tltwil answer, said: I "I appreciate the compliment which the 'Democratic Club pays me In extending . the invitation, but 1 do not understand ; how Individual opinions can be Ignored ' at a political gathering! You are prcsl . dent of the club and represent the club I before the public. Your position upon I public questions was well known in 1)9$ I auU your tulegram tadKutc iMX our po. jaltlon ha not been changed. My posi tion upon public questions is also well I known. The antagonism between our .positions Is so great that w cannot, j with propriety. Join In a political btui ; quel given In honor of democracy's pat ' ron saint. j "I believe In harmonising personal 'differences, but differences In principle joanuot be harmonised, and. In my Judg. ment, no partv advantage Is to be derived from political communion between Jef fersonlan democrats who stand upon the Chicago platform and republican alltea who masquerade i democrat between ctunpalgna In order to give more potency to their betrayal of democracy' prlncl- 1 pies on election day." , BttYAK ON BANQUETS. j NEW YORK March 20.-Colonel Wll ! Ham J. Bryan has sent the following let. IiIat iImIaH U'nnvvlllA Tenn Mnrnh 1S tA the Journal and Advertiser:, "I avail myself of the Joi rnal's Invita tion to say In relation to political ban. quets: "Tho banquet has some advantages ! over the political meeting when a num. j ber of speakers nre to take part, but I whether It proves a benefit or Injury : to the party which giver) it, depend en. ; tlrely upon circumstance. "One of the most fnmoits banquets of undent times was Ihe Babylonian feast 'given by the king to n thou.tand of hi lords on the last night of his reign. This banquet has furnished to literature two familiar expressions, 'a Belshaxsar feat and 'the handwriting on the wall.' j "One of the most noted banquets of I modern time was the dinner given at j Delmonlco's In honor of Mr. Blaine near I the close of his campaign. It was so 'widely criticised by political opponent that kim thought It lo.t Mr, Elaln. enough vot to chang. th raault of tha aiARtton la th rtita of Nrr Tork. "Whthr a banquet la cheap of expert. Iv depend partly upon tha financial vtandlnv of the hoata and parllr upon tha purpoa to b aerred. If wt ihould rhanc to har an attorney general to kindly dlapoaed toward tho trait m to merit their hoapluitty and tho tru.t may. natea ahould tender him a banquet, autfe a banquet would probably be character. Iced ty alffipllcity, although almpllclty would characterl( those who would tx. pect auch an attorney general to es tlnguurh the tnurta. Or, to a4d Mother llluatratlon. If th secretary of the tree, ury ahould ever iummoned to Kew Tork City to receive lnatructlont In re gard to the financial policy to be pur. sued by the government, be -would doubt, leia partake of dinner aomewhat com. meniurate with the profit) which' the financier would expect to realize from bla policy. A tilgb price 1 likely to ex clude from the banquet taM all except the leader, while a low price recognise the sovereignty of the voter and bring the political benefit of .the banquet within reach of a larger proportion, of the member of the) party. "During the law fw year the tendency In democratlc'circle ha been toward cheaper banquet. Few of the demo, oratle basquet which have been given I nee VsM have coat a much a K per p.ate, while the greater number of them have ranged from fl to S3, and the at tendance ha been from 3G0 to LOOO. "Democratic principle appeal to the wealth producer rather than to (he manipulator of the market, and. there 1 every reason why the vottr Should come In dose contact with those who expound the party creed. The republic ana seem wedded to the doctrine of monopoly and can well afford to allow them to mopopollse the expensive polit ical banquets." BANKERS' BALANCES ARE CROWING e'.'Ar.C ER. The London Financial Market Continues Weak and Restless. With Occasional Scares From Gold Scsrclty. NEW YORK. March .-Tbe Times' London financial correspondent cables: Our money market is going exactly as was anticipated. As the government financial year near it end the bankers' balances grow scarcer, and all the week the market had to lean on the Bank of Ena-land. The scarcity would have been 'greater than It 1 but for the usual wealth of the Indian government It was estimated a year back that we would warn lC.oou.OM pounds in London by the 31st Instant, but the India office has found such a demand In London for ita drafts on the treasuries In India that Its saltD of them have netted nearly is.0uo.ouu pounds. Bo the India council la in funds and competes with the Bank of Eiwland by lending freely at 24 per cent riant up to April 4th, the day be. ifor the British and Italian stock divL Idends betwne payable. The Bank of England charges 3 per cent for three day loan and naturally gels lirtle of the current business when money can be found elsewhere. The discount under these circumstance would have been easy at I per cent, but for the strong German demand for gold and the tightening up of your money ' market. Even with the help of the fear about gold thus created, bill brokers Have much difficulty In aecuring !H per cent on remit ted banker' paper, , be. cause they all think cheapness Is cer. tain to come next month. I doubt If It will, and look for a restless and timid market, flat one day. or weak and fever, ish the next. We have too little gold In stock to preserve us from money scares. You have no nlneteen-dsy accounts op U-our stock exchange, and may be thank, ful that you have not. When such spaces of time Intervene between pay day and ! pay day we have either a series of dash ing gambles or slow grumbling markets with dealers fully convinced that stock Jobbing is not a re-productive Industry. The current long account la of latter de scription and we keep sighing or calling out for a nubile that comes not. Little spurts of activity In Spanish bonds or in lintos, with an industrial counter here i and there, we see dally, but not general business from a wide public, j All support of the copper market comes i either from Tarls or New York and Bos ton, and your people have absorbed large .blocks of Anaconda copper shares this I week. Paris cannot keep the play active I and the death of Secretan this week shoog interest, in prices ior a uajr or two. But he was a mere .too! in stronger hands and the market was accordingly braced up again by the prime manipula tors. It Is all a gamble in which the pub Ik) ha no Interest, and our constant marvel Is how Paris should be able to carry all the trash it has acquired in re. cent years In copper and gold mines, discredited government bonds and In dustrial securities very muoh "Hooley. tsed." The tlntos might be good at 13, but at 40 no one envlea the holder enough to buy. As yet there are no superficial indications of any crash on the bourse. We only know that the business be. tween Paris and London ha become wholly professional, and muoh restricted at that. A feeling of overloadednesa haunts both markets, and it 1 difficult to see how it can be conjured away. We have all, as a matter of tact, got too much to carry. nl business is hin dered by the masses of securities held In pawn at high price. Unless you come to the rescue we shall bye and bye be In a, bad way. No European market Is at ease at the present moment. VI. enna. Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam are alt hard up and want to sell, and can find no moneyed customers to unload upon. But we may have several spurts before one or the other pf them topple over. SWINDLER'S CUNNING GAME. TACOMA. March 20.-The police here say that J. Schwartx, who, according to Dawson advice, ha been centenced to eight year' imprisonment. Is the "king of diamond swindlers, who Is notorious In Europe and America. The offense for which he is being punlsheu wa com. mltted last July in Pawrn. He was In the habit of paying his bills with gold dust In which a large percentage of brass filing wa mixed, and wa successful for a long time before his artifice wa discovered. AWFUL DEED OF A KANSAN Murdered His Five Cfafldreo and Then Set Fire to the Hosse. TALK OF LYNCHING HIM Skulls of CbIMrn Were Crushed ml All tut One Had Beea SUtted is tbe Heck. MRS. PLACE ELECTROCUTED Brooklyn Murderess Walked to tbe Electric Chair Calmly and Im passively to Die. HUTCHINSON. JCa.. March. .-An atrocious crime was revealed ber today when the coroner and hi assistants re moved tbe dead bodies of Ave little child ren from the house occupied by John Moore, which burned at an early hour. The coroner' Jury lnveUgaled the ease and. In accordance with the Jury' re commendation, Moore, the father of thii dead children, was arrested on a charge of murder. The tragedy haa caused much excite ment here, and there is talk of lynching the prisoner. When tbe firemen and neighbors reached the burning house in father was the only member of the family of seven found outside. His action were queer and he would not talk. While the build ing wa still burning, and bis children were within the burning wails, he took a horse from bis stable and rode away. t - JVhen the firemen entered the house, after having partly quenched the flames, they found the five children lying side by side In a bed on the floor, all dead, but not badly burned. The dead are: Carl, aged 12; Mary, aged 10; Pearl, aged S; Charlea, aged 7; Lee. aged I The coroner' autopsy, held this after, noon, developed convincing evidence of the awful crime. The skull of each child was deeply Indented and from the dents long fractures extended. All but one of the children td been stabbed In the neck. 'MRS. PLACE ELECTROCUTED. Camly and Impassively 'Paid the Penalty of Her Crime at 6ing Sing. 8INO SING. N. T.. March .-Mrs. Martha Place was executed at 11:01 a. m. today. Mrs. Place wa the first woman to die in the electric chair In the state of New York, and she went to her death quietly. Her death was instantaneous. But two shocks were given. The voltage of the current was 1760 and it was continued for fvur seconds. It was then gradually diminished to 200 voltage, which was con. tlnued for 56 seconds. Dr. Civlne. the physician of the prison, examined the woman and then ordered a second shoik. That was the same as the first in power and was continued for the same length of time. A second shock has always been administered at Sing Sing. Mrs. rMace suffered In two ways after she learned that she must die from sleeplessness and from loss ofappetite. She wus ready at the appointed hour and no one who watched her could under stand what a change must have taken place In the woman's nature to so dull her senses that she could go to her death so calmly and Impassively. Mrs. Place hardly uttered a sound. She merely murmured a prayer, with closed eyes, her face turned partly upward, and seemingly unconscious of the things about her. This was the twenty-sixth electrocution at Sing Sing prison. Mrs. Martha Place killed her step, daughter, Ada Place, 22 years old. at their home In Brooklyn, February 7, 1898. A double murder had been planned by the woman. She killed her step-daughter when the girl was taking an afternoon nap, splitting her skull open with an ax and pouring vltrol on her face and In her mouth. The same evening the woman lay In wait for her husband. William M. riace. In the darkened hallway of the house, and when he entered she struck him In the face with the ax and Inflicted a seri ous wound. He managed to get outside the front door and alarm the neighbors before he became unconscious. Wrhen the poJice and neighbors entered the bouse they found Mrs. Place in a bedroom In which ga was escaping and she was shamming unconsciousness. Place's first wife died six or (even years ago, and about IS months after, wards he engaged the woman who be came his second wife as his housekeeper. The cause of the crime. Is said to have been Jealousy of the step-daughter. Mrs. Place' story of the crime was that v AcscyjnLvPiuE Makes the food more gov At ium she had thrown carbolic arid In her sterj. (laughter's face during a quarrel and then got th to defend herself from an at. tack. NAVAL CONSTRUCTION COURSE ABOLISHED. Cadet With Construction Course Unfln. Ished Will B Sent to Europe for Study-Building Submarine Boat. NEW YORK, March .-A sveclal to the Herald from Washington aya: See. retary Long ha intruded Rear Ad miral McNair to abolish. In June, the construction course at the naval acade my, t&bilshed by Naval Constructor Hoteoa. Fir. cadet who have passed the requls. Ite academic course, ar. now pursuing tb course. Three bar pressed a d. sire to enter the line, in view of the quick promotion promised under the per. sonnet law. The ether two will be sent to th university of Olasgow, and the construction cadet. In th first class of the naval academy, will be sent to Paris, where they will continue for two yrtr their study of naval architecture. Rear Admiral Hichborn. chief of the bureau of construction and repair, desired that the cadet should receive instruction at th Massachusetts institute of technoL ogy or Cornell university, bot th de. partment decided In favor of the English and French schools. Enlisted men of the navy will be able to buy their discharges mors cheaply In the future than In tbe past. Secretary Long has revoked th present regulation and substituted an order making tbe price of discharge during the month of enlistment 10 per cent of the yearly pay of the applicant; during tbe fifth montn 13 per cent and so on, until the fourteenth month, when tbe. maximum price 1 reached. During th fifteenth month the price will be per cent, with a decree of I per cent for each month there, after. A corresponding reduction Is made In the price of discharge for ap. prentices. Tbe nary department I considering th interpretation of that provision of the naval appropriation law permitting th construction of two submarine boats of the Holland type. The department ha the report of a number of expert, some of which are quit favorable, but the of ficii! believe further advancement should be made before step are takea to establish a submarine navy. The sue cess of France with the Oustav Zede ha stirred tbeauthoritles to action, and it is probable that the matter will be brought before the board of construction for rec ommendatlon. The navy department has already an. swered an inquiry from Commander M'L ler of the New York naval battalion, regarding dates of the batalllon cruise, by stating thst the battalion win be dU vlded into two divisions ana De sent io sea between July 28 and August 16, TO PROMOTE AMICABLE RELATIONS 'WITH SPAIN, The President Will Re-Appoint Nearly All the Official Withdrawn at the Outbreak of the "War. NEW TORK. March 20.-A dispatch to' the Herald from Washington says: In view of the early exchange of ratifies, tions of the treaty of peaoe with Spain the state department will make imme. dtete arrangements for reopening it consulate in that country. It 1 the on. derstandlng here that the president will reappoint all of th official who fere withdrawn upon the outbreak of the war. Instructions will be given to the con, sul to do everything In their power to promote cordial relations between Spain and the United State, and especially to devote their attention to establishing sat. Isfactory trade relations. WANT THE FILIPINOS TO LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS. United States Commission Now Formu lating a Proundamento in the In terests of Good Government MANILA. March 21.-8:30 a. m. The United States Philippine commission has held Its nrst meeting and decided to Is sue a pronunclamento to the inhabitants"1 of the Islands. President Schurman will prepare It. The document will explain the spirit In whk-h the United States in. tends to fulfill the trust Imposed: and will call upon the people of the Islands to lay down their arms and co-operate In the Interests of good government. THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. LONDON, March 20. A dispatch from Manila says: In the fighting of Sunday the American loss was seven killed and 30 wounded. Following Is an lncom. plete list of tbe casualties: Killed Private James Page, company D. Second Oregon; Private J. Smith of company E; Private Jobn Johnson, of company K, Twenty-second Infantry. Wounded Corporal R. Bucklin, First Washington; Private Clark, Hough. Yount and Bowne, Second Oregon; Cap tain Jones and Privates Robert Rice, August Schmidt, Charle Palmer. Jme Comorford, Roielgh White, Nelson Ar- vldson, William Ellis, Frank Hunt, Leader Mingee, George Schneider, Ed. ward Wilson, Earl Edwards. Frank Reufe. Carl Crumphorse,, Merritt Porter. TRANSFER OF TROOPS. WASHINGTON. March 20. Three com. panies of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, nnw at Fnrt Douslas. Utah, have been ordered away from that post'. Company B will go to Vancouver barracks, wasn.; company D to Fort Harrison. Helena. Mont.; ami company K to Spokane. Wash. Company G, Sixteenth Infantry. now at Fort McPherson, has been ordered to Jefferson barracks. delicious and wholesome trnmn CO wrwTon.