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TOL XLIX.
AdWItIA, OU E005. TUKSDAT J1')KN1NG. MAKCH 21,1899.
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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.