The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-16
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Specials to The AStOrian.

PORTLAND, Oct. 15.-At 10 :30o'clock
this morning q Swede named Andrew
Walgren was drowned at the foot of
b street. He was working for Ham
Nickum & Co. and at the moment of
his death was unloading cedar lum-
Der from large barge to the dock.
The COlOmG cleared this morning.
She carries as cargo 210 spars, 200,-
600 feet of lumber and 100 boxes of
green apples. Among her passen-
gers are Captain w. w. Nelson, Miss
Edith Nelson, Mrs. A. P. Armstrong,
Miss Grace Porter niece of Mrs. ].
A. Brown, Nita McCarver and Ralph
HOyt, and two hundred and fifty
| Cinnamon.
James Turk is ont of trouble again.
This morning in the criminal court
district attorney McGinn moved to
dismiss the Indictment charging him
with harboring and secreting sailors
belonging to the ship Lord Canning
on the ground that two unsuccessful
attempts had been made to convict
him and that at the last trial a ma
jority of the jurors were in favor of
acquittal.
This morning sheriff Kelly con-
veyed to the state prison to serve
one year Ernest Gross for shooting
out the eye of John Miller.
So far the police have been unable
to find II. E. Gibbs, the negro Pull
man car porter who on Friday night
last shot Thomas B. McDevitt and
his son James. All manner of reports
are afloat as to the fellows where
abouts: one alleging that he is in
Seattle, but no credit is at
tached to it. The detectives
do not believe he has
been able to leave the city since the
commission of his crime The police
have ignored no measure to facilitate
Gibbs's capture and the i'll success up
to the present moment must not be
accredited to incOmpetency or neg
lect on the part of the detectives and
other officers. The fugitive is almost
stranger to them.
McDevitt and his son are resting
much easier to-day and the probability
of young James's recovery is much
more favorable to-day than it has
been at any time since Saturday.
ATTACKED BY NATIVES.
LONDON, Oct. 15.-Advices from
Brisbane, Queensland, state that Sir
William McGregor, administrator of
New Guinea, accompanied by twenty
two men recently landed on the island
of Demara. Two hundred and fifty
natives made an attack upon the par
ty, but after hard fighting were re-
pulsed. Eleven of the natives were
killed and wounded. Several whites
were wounded. The party then
burned the village of the natives.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 15.-Several per-
sons are reported killed by the break
ing loose of a car on the Mount Au-
burn inclined plane.
THE CRoNIN CASE.
CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-The investiga-
ton into the methods of jury bribery
is temporarily at a steadstill to-day.
The efforts of the state are now di-
rected toward finding out the leader
of the conspiracy. The examination
of venlre men was resumed in the
CrOnin case this morning.
TROUBLE IN GEORGIA.
BosToN, Oct. ia special from
Atlanta, Georgia, says that the Ali
ance men have taken possession of
the town of Dothen, Alabama, to resist
license tax. A riot in which two lead
ing men have been killed, is in prog
ress. Two town officers have been
mortally wounded and a dozen others
seriously hurt.
A WOmansS niScOyerr