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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-05
HANNA WILL FIGHT.

|ashingon Jan THE senate committee military
DAY eeea 70 report aRoTaby the
leonard WOOD to be major general The the
senator's being Proctor
rel and Pus tbe NEGATIVES Scott Proctor
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-05

4senaor Hanna eaid had
the Favorable Of the senate corare military affairs
tha the win speech against
he is take
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Pianks for the election of United
states senators by direct vote. rigiG
adherence to the Monroe doctrine and
the avoidance Of N eastern policy pre-
venting its consistent enforcement. the
admission TO statehood Of Oklahoma.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-05

David 3. Hill was greeted with loud
applause when in his Introductory re-
marks be euIogized tie lesdas sajr, of
Charles F. Murphy. and predicted that
Mayor Mcclellan would succeed him
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-05
Facts Already Proven.

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IAsT EDITION

WEsTHE2 Fos SAT- FAX 5.
Cloudy. Occasional SNOW
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
Detectives Capture Salvatore Al.
tadonnia Who Was Trying to
Deliver a Message.
NO SIGN OF KIDNAPPED BOY
Lad stolen n Week Ago Stili Sc
creted by Gang and Parents
Give Up Hope OF Ever See.
ing Him Alive.

New York, Aug. lT.--ltalian detee-
tives working ON the Antonio Mannino
kidnapping case in Brooklyn, have ar
rested Salvatore Altadonnia, who
they assert has been acting as go
between for the principals in hiding
and their families. The prisoner is
alleged to have been about to deliver
a message to Mrs. Laducca from her
husband, the alleged head of the gang
who carried the lad away.
The arrest was made at the point of
a revolver. Altadonna was about to
enter the Laducca house and stumbled
over the detectives who were listening
to a conversation among those within,
hoping to obtain a clue to the where
abouts of the wealthy contractors
son. The latter has now been miss
ing one week and his parents have
given up hopes of ever seeing him
alive.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18

Treasury Department, U. S. Life
Saving Service, Washington, d. c., July
2e, 1904. Sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at this Office until 300 o'clock
p. M, of Friday August 26, 1904, and
then publicly opened for the construc-
tion OF floating boathouse for Grays
Harbor (Washington) Life-Savlng
Station. Specifications and drawings,
forms of proposal, ETC., can be obtained
upon application to the Superintend-
ents of Construction Of Life-Saving
Stations, Pacific Coast, Room IS, New
Appraisers Stores, San Francisco,
CAL; to the Assistant Inspector Of
Life-Saving Stations, Coasts of WASH
ington and Oregon, 18th District, Ia
coma, Washington; or to this Office,
Horace L. Piper Acting General Su-
perintendent.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
Spuytsn Duyvil Victim Proves to
Be Real Estate Dcalsrlnstead
of a Policeman.
KILLED WITH A HATCHET
Strange Case of Erroneous iden'
tifitation-First supposed 10
aCompanion officer They
Had known 10 Years.

New York. Aug. 17.-Evidenees OF a
mysterious murder have been dis
closed by an autopsy held on the body
of man found in Spuyten DuyVil
creek on Monday.
Identified at first by the police OF
the Kingsbridge station as fellow pe-
liceman whom they had seen daily for
10 years, the body was later found to
be that of Stephen Mccarthy, a real
estate agent who was for several years
a government employe attached to the
appraisers office in this city.
Mccarthy, who was at first be-
lieved to have met death by drowning,
was found to have sustained frac-
ture of the skull and numerous cuts
about the face and head apparently
made with hatchet. No motive for
the murder has been found, although
the victims clothing had been plum
dered of considerable money and jew
elry.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18

er respect for Il, A flve-cent piece is
usually referred to as q nickel. but
this is practically the only slang term
applied TO any of our money IN general
use, A dime Is officially a dime, and
SO is quarter
hut turn to the English aprellatlons
for their money. aud hardly a bit OF II
is referred 10 under the authorized and
official designation, A shilling is sell
dom called such IN London; they call
ii Il bob" and "quid," which means
Il piece of tobacco IN this country. Is
what they term pound, SiSprnce
they call tanner" fourpenee "laey"
aud penny more often than not Is
unknown to the street gamtns save MS
mag" 4 cahman will not tell you
a ride viii cost five shlllings. hut that
It will require a bull to pay for it.,
and a half-crown Is "'alf bull" These
are prevailing expressions for the
pieces of money widely handled, but
proper terms for higher amounts are
kicked aside and colloquial terms sub
stltuted for them.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
New Book on the West Indies.

Liverpool Journal of Commerce:
During late years the West Indian ISL
ands have been before the public to a
very great extent, and in a large meas
ure they have benefited by the efforts
of those who have been instrumental
in bringing about their advertisement.
Not only has their condition been i'm
proved by means of legislation-and Of
this the abolition of the sugar bounties
is case in point-but the islands have
become much more widely known, and
in consequence many tourists have
been attracted there, and the attention
of capitalists has been directed to
them, while not few young English
men have taken up their abode there,
being content to make their home In a
far country, and prospered not a little
in the doing Of it. We are led to make
these remarks by reason of the fact
that next month a new book will be
published by Messrs. Routledge &
Sons, London, and printed and prepar-
ed under the auspices of Messrs.
Charles Birchall, Limited. The Book of
the West Indies," as it will be called,
will contain all information in con-
nection with the West Indies, much of
which has been written by govern
ment officials and others who possess
an intimate knowledge of the places
and things of which they write. 1t
will, moreover, be copiously illustrated
in order to catch the eye and compel
the attention of the literary butterfly
to whom and for whom books of this
kind in their solid nakedness are too
strong meat.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18

and navy shell, The result of the eS-
plosion il causes has asteunded the
foreign experts now at the front. The
armor- piercing shell is rent into thou
sands Of small fragments. which are
hurled through the air with such force
that they tear through the sides OF an
iron ship as would 4 projeetile from a
machine gun. The Russian warships
Variag and korietg, sunk by the Jap
anese at Che-mul- Pho, We're found on
examination To be riddled all over their
decks and sides by fragments of shells
which had been filled with the Shimose
powder.
The explosive force Of the powder is
known To exceed that of guncotton or
dynamite many times. While shell
with a bursting charge Of these eN-
plosives is broken into comparatively
few pieces. the majority of which are
scattered through q limited are, the
Shimose explosive scatters the projec-
tile into 5000 or more fragments.
Moreover, these fragments are driven
in every direction with equal force, the
result being, as one expert says, that
nothing in the vicinity can live.
The reports of the land battles from
Russian sources dwell with pathetic
emphasis on the invariable superiority
of the Japanese artillery. Ii was to
this artillery that the Russians gave
the credit of the Japanese victory in
the battle of the Yalu, and 1t was
largely on account of their artillery
that the mikado's troops won at Nam
shan Hill and Vafangow.
In spite of its tremendous force he
can be handled with perfect
safety. 1t is also extraordinarily cheap,
its cost being less than half that of
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
WONDERFUL SHIMosE POWDER
Secret of the Japanese Explosive Is
Closely Guarded

New York Times: One hears a great
deal in these days of the exploits Of
Admiral Togo, of Generals Kuroki and
Oku. Military experts all over the
world express their admiration for
japanese strategy; naval experts de-
clare that Togo has almost revolution
lied warfare on sea.
Doubtless these enconiums are de-
served, but the military and naval ex-
perts all seem to forget one man who,
as a matter of simple fact, has done
more to secure victory for Japan than
all her generals and admirals together.
There is working in the University Of
Toxic quiet little man who, if he is
almost ignored outside his own coun-
try, is fully recognized in Japan itself
as national benefactor.
No one outside of Japan. and very
few persons there, know how the pow
der invented by Prof. Shimose of the
University of Toxic is made. The Sc
cret is regarded in Japan as one of the
greatest of the national assets, and it
is guarded with an amount of care ex-
traordinary even when compared with
the elaborate measures taken in Japan
to make all military and naval details
inviolate. But as to the terrific power
of the Shimose powder there is no Sc
crecy now, though no foreigner knew
anything about it before the present
war began. The Russians are in the
unfortunate position Of learning all
about its effects by personal expert
ence, while the foreign military at
taches at the seat of war look ON and
marvel.
The Shimose powder forms the
bursting charge of the Japanese army
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
WROTE A THOUSAND NOVELS.
Col. Prentiss lnsraham Passes Away at
Beauvoir, Miss.

Chicago, Aug. 17.-Colonel Prentiss
Ingraham of Chicago, said to be the
author of more than 1000 novels, is
dead at Beauvoir, Miss, aged SO years
Colonel Ingraham was born at Nam
chez. Tenn, the son of the Rev. Joseph
Ingraham, who was the author of "A
Prince of the House of David" The
young man served in the confederate
army as colonel and after the war be-
gan writing stories, which were pub
lished in various weekly papers and in
book form. For years he turned out a
novel every few weeks. His daughters
are Mrs. Austin Cole of Los Angeles,
Cal, and Miss Rosa Ingraham of Chi
cago. His son, Langley Ingraham,
lives at Atlanta, Ga.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
THE WIcKEDEST CITY.
Pointed Remarks on Rash Statements
as lndisputable Evidence"

dS ENtuGHCCs
Boston Herald: There is an anxious
rivalry today among American cities
over the claim of supreme wickedness.
There are clergymen as we'll as news
paper men and professional sports who
offer rash statements as lndisputable
evidence. No doubt centuries ago
there was like dispute over the cities
of the plain. Books of English prov
erbs and sayings preserve the evil rep
utation of certain towns and villages;
bitter epigram still characterizes
Genoa the wickedness of the sunken
city of VS. is legendary and operatic.
Was Babylon as plague sore? The
zeal of the Hebrew prophets was tri-
bal, no more seriously to be considered
than Carlyle's remark that eternity was
not visible at Paris. Human nature
and human wickedness are about the
same in all cities Of so-called civiliza-
tion. Where there is unwise restric-
tive legislation, there are sneaking
vices, and there is the inevitable fret
that leads to covert indulgence. De
Goncourt, who knew the seamy side Of
Paris, was shocked by the low immoral
ity of French villages, but he was con-
stantly on the watch for exhibitions of
vice and indefatigable in discovery.
Wherever men are herded together
there will be vice and crime, and
wherever they watch their herds there
will be passionate outbreaks, the lack
of interest and amusements will be sup
piled by coarse or immoral pleasures.
There is exaggeration in all the state
ments concerning prevailing wicked
ness. The Partisan is not wholly given
over to absinthe and the pursuit OF
his neighbors wife. AS a matter of
fact, the average Partisan Is man
of uncommon industry and frugal hab-
its. A Bostonian does not necessarily
take his life In his hand when he
visits New York, Chicago or Proyi-
dence. We know men who cross the
common at midnight without arms and
without inward uneasiness. Nor do
we believe that New England villages
are so many sinks of abomination.
There should be sweet reasonableness
even in denunciation of evil doing.
There is no wickedest city; there Is no
wickedest village.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
Slang Words for Money.

The American uses astonishingly few
slang words in speaking of pieces of
money-perhaps because he has great
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
GAS RuoYs FOR STEAMERS.
To Save Passengers and Sailors Fall
inq Overheard in Night Time.

Chicago, Aug. 17.-Some of Chica-
go's passenger steamers are to be sup
piled with gas buoys to rescue those
who fall overheard at night. The buoy
above which will burn brilliant gas
jet for a considerable time, is lighted
as soon as it strikes the water. Ex-
tended tests of the buoys have proved
satisfactory Sailors and passengers
falling from steamers in the night time,
although in many cases able to swim
out, have almost always perished
through inability to find life preservers
cast overheard for their use.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18

Neglected colds make fat grav4-
yards" DR.. Woods Norway Pine
Syrup helps men and women to .
happy, vigorous old age.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
FOR FAITHFUL POLICEMEN.
Organization TO Provide for Families
of Those Who Fall at Post of Duty.

New York. Aug. IA movement has
been instituted among the members of
New York's police force to form an as
sociation for the purpose of assisting
families of officers killed in the per-
formance OF their duties. Numerous
deaths Of this kind have occurred re-
Gently in fires and battles with burg
lars. AS a rule the victim left large
family without means and the only
help they received was small eontri-
button from the relief fund. 1t is now
proposed that an organization shall be
formed with its affairs administered by
trestees and that each members of the
force shall contribute so cents as an
assessment in cases of death. In this
way $500 would be raised.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
once Constructing Quartermaster,

Office Constructing Quartermaster.
Astoria, Ore, July 2S, 19O4:-Sealed
proposals, In tripllcate, will be received
at this office until 10 o'clock a. m,
August 27, 1904, and then opened for
the construction and plumbing of an
addition to a frame guardhouse at
Fort Stevens, Ore. United States re-
serves the right to reject any or all
proposals. Plans can be seen and
specifications obtained at this office.
Envelopes should be marked PRO
posals for construction" and address,
ed, Captain Goodale, Quartermaster,
Astoria, oregon.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
FISHING WITH A HAYRAkE.
A North Bend Farmer Tried New Way
of Salmon Catching.

North Bend Evening Post: William
Gamble has cherished an idea and
carried it around under his hat for a
long time, that he would some day
startle the world by something in the
way of revolutionizing the dreary
drudgery of catching salmon, by some
kind of motive power. Yesterday he
thought he would just show some Of
those Kentuck slough fishermen a thing
or two. He has long contemplated
building a cannery on the slough, and
may some day yet. but he thought of a
scheme and he had the opportunity of
trying it. He was raking hay on the
Burns place over there, and to make
long story short, he took the near cut
across the slough with his horse and
rake and he drove in. Before he mad
gone far he could feel the big chinook
salmon up against the rake, and he
just smiled all over at what fine
scheme it was, and he was already
dreaming of being the salmon king of
Kentuck slough. Bill declares that
it was impossible for the horse to get
through. The horse fioundered around
until the thill broke and the rake was
capsized. Mr.. Gamble was badly
scared. He halloed for help. The rake
was getting him under and all that
could be seen was his snake bitten leg
when the gasoline launch arrived. He
was rescued, however, before he had
imbibed enough salt water to injure
his stomach. Mr.. Gamble says that
rake full of salmon would have kept
Sengstackens cannery running for
month. The next time he goes salmon
fishing with a hay rake there will be
something doing and he declares the
run will have to be much lighter before
he can attempt it.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18

1t is estimated that the four-m11e
tunnel ON the line Of the new Moffntt
railroad between salt Lake city and
Denver will cost 81 900. 400 mile.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-18
What Shall We
Have for Dessert? ?

This question arises in the family
every day. Let us answer 1t to-day. Try
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-09-02
RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP
CAN'T GO TO WAR.
OrePs Engines Ruined by Workmen Who
Filled Valves and Cylinders
with Iron Filings.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 29.-From an ex-
cellent source it is stated that the i'll
starred Russian battleship Orel, which
already has suffered two accidents, will
not be able to join the Baltic squadron.
According to reports when her engine
trials began it was discovered that the
engines had been practically wrecked by
workmen introducing iron filings into the
valves and cylinders. It will probably
require many months to repair the dam
ages This is the secret of the failure of
the Orel to go out on a trial trip with the
other ships last week.
The admiralty absolutely denies the re-
port regarding damage to the Orel. 1t
was stated that the Orel returned today
to her official trials and will accompany
the Baltic squadron. The rumor that a
12-inch gun aboard the Souvoroff burst,
killing a number of men, and that the
battleship was compelled to put into Re,
val was also denied.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-09-02

forgetting all about the deadly nuis-
ance, tried to establish q route between
the port of Beira and the gold fields
Of Mashonaland. Some forty miners
filled three coaches and off they drove
in high spirits till they reached the
tsetse belt, where all the horses died
in day. The ruins Of those aban-
doned coaches may still be seen from
the cars as the trains now slip through
that jungle region.
Where Human Sacrifices Abounded.
In the tropical belt, wherever the
track winds along the sluggish rivers,
the traveller is usually RECALLED with
the sight Of the hippopotamus and the
crocodile lazily watching the progress
Of civilization from their oozy beds in
the fetid mud; and during the nights
at forest stations he becomes familiar
with the hideous cries of every beast
of prey that Africa harbors.
Perhaps the story will never be told
Of the terrible sufferings that the rail-
roads have cost through the low jun
giles and forest belts. The difficulties,
Beira Railroad were almost super
human, and heavy toll in human life
was exacted by the deadly soil and eli
mate.
The colonial powers are already be-
ginning to feel the great advantages
derived from the lines they are pushing
into the interior Before the road was
built around the Congo rapids it cost
$500 ton to move freight along this
stretch of 80 miles Before the Rho
dasian railroads were built from MAIZE
king to Bulawayo, 492 miles, the price
of freight was 5000 a ton, and a pas
sage ticket cost $3.50 between the two
places. The cost Of freight and pas
sage on all African roads is still very
high, but the railroads are reducing
it to fifth or a seventh Of the former
rates.
Steam communication by water and
rail still exist between France and
the famous city Of Timbuctoo, which
twenty years ago no white man had
entered except in disguise. Through
trains are running between the Indian
ocean and Victoria Nyanza, and a
steamboat takes passengers from Port
Florence to Mengo, where only a few
years ago King Mwanga was burning
hundreds of native Christians to death
The locomotive whistle is heard daily
at Kumassi, whose name is infamous
in the history of the most horrible hui
man sacrifices in Africa A railroad
is rapidly extending along the dry
lands between Berber, on the Nile, and
Suakim, on the Red sea, through the
region where Egyptian troops battled
in vain with the forces of the Mahdi
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-09-02
Wear Rings at Night.

women are not wearing rings as
they did several years ago." said a
well-known gem expert when asked if
rings are no longer stylish. They
buy more rings than ever before, but
they use them only for full dress.
why. as recently as five years ago
the sex had craze for making pawn.
shop displays on their hands, and wore
rings morning, noon and night, any
where and everywhere. Even women
in the deepest mourning did not dis.
card their rings.
But it Is not so now. The matrou
is content with wearing her wedding
ring, even putting aside her engage,
ment ring, while her single sister. if
she wears even one ring. usually adopts
a plain dull gold seal ring adorned with
her coat-of-arms or somebody else's.
Rings are brought out with the
stars, but it is now considered quite
vulgar to burden the hands with them
in the daylight"