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ea ir z ri iad ulgis alae sae acinomae tatiaabomeate ecm teemmmreeet een eee cee eee ° Twenty-five Cents a By Mati or Carrier = VOL, e —— SLUMP INSTO Mra, Althou heas in the Ge ing wit t Canton, Caused By the Failure of Dimock & °° ssn" IN FLAMES Co. Brokers in New York su" sinh Inmates of Two New The old oh va of the Southern | York Mansions, Industrials Take a Tumble on Wall Street joo... so Sots wm wee ' t is doubttul it Of Dood will R Ten Story of Multiplic Horrors. eral Gomos is urging the people Cuba to unite and take a #tand for | New York City, April 7—There is great excite their intcpenience and entire separe ment on Change here today, caused by the announce- *!!0" fe the United States ment of the failure of Dimock & Company, the well known stock exchange firm, A semi-panic prevails in Wall Street and there is a big slump in industrials, which George Groen and Mysterious Bi Smith have a twenty-round mill night et Ban ancisco, W Watson has been chosen as refe ‘| NEW oe YORK, April 7 sons, and possibly more, lost -Nine pers thelr are dragging down other stocks. The Chicago capttaliats, Stuart and/ lives in two free which destroyed Wells, have aband 1 the idea of j mansions in the millionaire section ER DE building a wawsulll at Dendinar a ial jot Fi h avenue early this morning. ‘ and, near Vancouver, They willun-| The blase started in the residenc A age ran April 7—There is a decided slumip in the |aoubteny build at some Paget sound jot Wallace "Andrews, millionaire, 2 " x ‘ potnt aire. C iobn, he e market here caused by the alarming news from) exis Ipire, Anerewa, ihe hotier iment General Watson has assamed com-/| children, and Unree servants pertah- of the commissary department,|ed in the flames, Two servants were ne usly injured. Sparkes from president Hobart, who ts very | the Andrews residence act fire to the New York. Much excitement prevails among stock operators. m: Vice It is believed here that recent excessive stock Spec= |i contempision making ® trip to) house of Albert Adama. Mint. May ulations in New York and the abnormal tendency tojisecaun “OO TOmmer FOF ane ue tee dawonters ama form trusts has precipitated a crisis which, it is hoped, Sara au tadien of Ue Lnowe haan tat will only bet | A deal has fast been clowed at} All bo of the known dead were emporary. | Roslyn. whereby the Nort nm from the ruins beth batid- leifie ratire nee Inte poesens: but it te feared that other ad ¢ the ok [mines at Cle-Mlum, Inquiry made at the office of Downing, Hopkins & | m Coal company’s lives were lost. Several persons are jtmiewing, among them Andrews and his wife in : aE | The Ruewet! shingle mill was burn- Later—The bodies of Andrews and Company in Seattle this afternoon confirmed the news |. a! Onmya’ poeersay. lhis wife, and another servant were —_ found shortly after daylight ‘The that the eastern industrial market went to pieces this| KE. A. MoDonala, who has been re-|tist of known dead has now reached morning. The New York failure will effect eastern stock "rreintes by Gov. Rowers, wax Gtataldteven: Sues Good noes Wallaan Ane dairy and food commission drews, Mre. Andrews, Mra. G, C. St, operators. | — = John, Austin Wallace, and Fred t ARRESTED FoR ULT John, Mary Baldwin, Mary Flannig- { an, Annie Neary, Bra Patterson, jpacic. Many mansions in the vie- cause, heaped Insults upon Carpen- } \ter ‘The latter's temper rose to tees d gy ag pao = ot Me 7 ist dew Pabmamen ane bs ers re. At, John’s two maids MANILA, April 7—Gen. Montenegro, next to Agui-|seabbet eatehek and yong the “— Ut mtasin * kane lil 7 a % pe Adame r jence ta two blocks naido, the most influential of insurgent leaders, has been © ted the men, andthe | £70" the" Andrews mansion. | Cur- ~ soe ors, tains at Adama’ re ignited by killed. The néws was brought to Malolos today by |"*™ “22 Sstterer_ |aparks from the Aparews ae whe VANCE’S wv SSION. one of Adame’ daughters was look- ing out of a window. Andrews and thle wife were found locked tn each At-/others’ arma. When the firemen Pacificos. He is believed to have fallen in battle on the outskirts of Malolos. Thomas Ht. Ve torney General sult with Judge Winsor regarding | were unable to d Two servants saved Assistant In the ¢ anything to save the action to be taken by the State the inmates Land commission tm investing the | their lives by jumping, but the In- permanent school fund amounting to|juries they received will probably $200,000 in 4 per cent. bends, as pro-| prove fatal. Andrews’ mansian was! vided for tn the Davis bill The completely ruined. Adame’ = resi- bill mysteriously disappeared at the | dence was not so badly damaged, the Inst lexi#tiature, but & copy was cer-|loss on it being placed at $10,000. tiffed to by the clerk of the house, |The housekeeper was the only person and the president of the nenate, and | who perished there, She was found WASHINGTON, April 7—Secretary Long has named ships appropriated for by last session of congress as fol- . i« alte nest te Dave t “ we a law. |doad In bed. Andrews was president mire i Mr. ance wil the jupreme of the New fo o lows: Battleships to be called the Pennsylvania, the court 10 nisin the commisstoners [companys Sahn Means remen are now searching the or the bodies of Kate Downey from investing the money, and came her to get Judge Winsor to represent New Jersey and the Georgia; armored cruisers, West ruins Virginia, Nebraska, California; six smaller cruisers,|"™'"*°__ | al Ae eine ttny pertaned:| ageing Denver, DesMoines, Chattan oga, Galveston CRITTENTON CIRCLE. Mra, St John on stil "site wean aco. | taken from the bullding by several The Florence Crittenton circle win |Policemen. They found her kneel- moet in the Firat Mf. E. church at (ina over her baby’s crib dying, Ten- 2.30 this afternoon. The commit m4 derly as possible she wae carried down a ladder, but expired before nd home will re- xtension of com- made | rganization will on finance, work |port. and a furth mittees will be The coramitte Two more bodies, supposed to be of the missing maids, were this afternoon Nearly all WHITE CAP - be led ® ° jf MYSTERY Road to Roslyn. Constitutition and by laws: Mre. re ee sion were burned beyond ngem H. Parckhurst, president; Mrs. B, 1. |!4entification, cae Eancernan Ore Semne Mate fF \Laylor, secretary: | Ure Winnte | oe — ¢ improvement of the King-Kittl- pyomas, treasurer, and Mra John! y { tas county road. At the last legia- Kinnear. | lative session the legisiature appro- Financ Mre. M. Priest. Mre. F. yN Priated $1000 to be used on this nartholomew, and Mra. A. Penning: | Four Men Confess 'xrg reat ae een einen ance a $300, making the amount $2000. Yen m 4 Lavel, Mra. Phorxeton, Mra. EW. t M |terday m committee trom the cham- iii and airs, afcdarvin, | 0 ur er, |ber of commerce met with the county | Rescue Work: Mra. Pythus, Mra i We commissioners with the result that prorgston, Mra. Denison, Mra. FE. Lathrup the money will be appropriated from w W. Hill, Mra, Hyamo, Mra | cite county just as soon as Kittitas aie. Bartholomew, Mise Adron, Mra county gives ite share. Lewts, and Mise Hartlett | The intention is to have one man “+r, , jappotated who will have full charge ; lof the improvements on the road |It one one of the most important thoroughfares of the two counties, We Wass Well-to-Do Farmer and and begins at North Bend, running cirele now constate of sixty- MAN SOUGHT NOT THE VICTIM ‘On Prison Work in - | United States. a Chinese merchan two memt CHINAMAN ARRESTE rs. Ching Hing, Slayers through a pass in the Cascades, and vers Offer No Explanation =| vnaing at Roslyn. During the sum-|has been arrested on a charg —_—_ to the Deod. mer months there Is more travel on Conducting a lottery game. Detee-| the road than any oth | tives Po Cudtbee raided a rat e the rnd than any other ron in ihe iver Powers an Cuntowe rites ® WENT VOLUNTEERS ARE DOING ton street yesterday afternoon, and | 1 land Ching Hing and a full vbling | mexico, so. awn sone sut-” PERSONAL MENTION. ‘v's coe ort Saco van, -to- - Sk RO ie and lottery Ucket® dated April © | First Presbyterian Church dard county, was killed Wednesday | Dec cedar te caae wen ts otteek keel yterian Church Crowded night by white caps, and today Oliv-|.W. ©. Babcock, of the United \4, and the will te used to the Doors to Hear the pm, n, William Burg, Neb. Stew States army, is registered at the against the Wine & lottery com. | Loga sienaginte - Butler. pany. The trial will take place t art, and Taylor Hicks was arrested. | — fore Judge Cann tom Kaoh of the four has confessed that) Geo. W. Hooper, of Ban Franciseo, Ching Hine he was with the party of white caps |!* at the Butler. appearance. that shot Sullivan to death. Sullivan was killed at his home at| George P. Vosburg, a prominent Hatcher's Switch, two miles east, | Wholesale stationery dealer of Buft- His body, when found, was riddied |, N. ¥., 1 sat the Seattle | with bullets of all kinds and catiber, | rrow afternoon. bail for his gave Mr.# Maud Balington Booth, wife cers of Americ r night to a large audience in the First on the subject Booth was for Presbyterian church of prison work. Mrs {indicating that many besides the| J: BE. McManus, of Everett, is at | men under atrest had assisted in his| te Seattle. Mr. McManus Is the And the Daffodils Bloom With | ine years allied with the Amertoan murder. ecretary of the Sunset Copper Min- | Energy. branch of the Salvation Army, and Suspicion early rested on the four |!"& company, and Is here to eatab- | while serving as an officer in that men who were later taken into cus- | "8h an office in this city. With the advent of spring, the organization, showed great executive tody, all of whom are well known | mae |gardens and yards in and about Se- | ability In 1896, when the Volun- Phroughout the county. No cause) Capt. L. Willy, of Olympla, is at{attie have become decked with|teers of America were organized, for the white capping has, so far, ap- |"®® Northern. blooming daffodils, blue and white|Mrs, Booth determined that one of peared to the public, and each of | » 4p oye |myrtie, biue jets, wild currants, |it# chief objects should be to re- the confemed slayers decline to make A. D. Mead, of Charleston, W. Va.,|and candy-tut The past winter |claim men in the prisons of America & statement of any kind. Nothing |'® fesistered at the Rainier Grand. |hax been # severe one on the rose |The firat post of the Volunteers was tangible regarding the shocking | nena bushes, and fully 60 per cent. of {located tn er Union in New York tragedy appears. There is a vague WIRE TAPS which ut of doors were | City It was while laboring In the wtory afloat that the white caps min- . 1 by the fr of Januar Ax|siumea of that city that Mra, Booth took Sulivan for another man whom | aS usual, the rarest and sweetest were | re ed a letter bearing an invita. they sought, but the identity of this) gtiey touched by ck Frost It i#|tion to her from the Chief Warden ™man and the eause for the effort to! Three men entered the bank at thought that * spring advances,|of the State nitentiary at Sing kill him are as indefinite and mys-| Wellsville, Mo., and blew open the | many of them will spring to life| Sing to visit that institution, She terious as in the case of the real|Vault. They secured an unknown |again from the roots sccepted it, and from that visit victim. amount of cash and escaped The gardeners of Seattle claim to|erew the organization now known os have all of the they can pos-| throughout the United States aa the Officer Chipman has investigated| William J. Br has notified 1. | #ibly attend veryone wants] Vol « Prisoners’ League. tt the case of Thorman True, the Hotel|V. Brewster, manager of the Chie-| work do today, and consequently |} sranches In elght atate prisons, Butler cc who was beaten on|ago platform Jefferson dinner, that|many a housewife dons her sun jana hax a membership of a little Railroad avenue Wednesday evening| he would attend that gathering |net ond takes ber garden tools and|more than 2000 men now Incarcer- and found out that he left a salgon | April 15, on into the patch of ground tn the lated, and who receive religious coun- with a stranger whose name has -—— ont or at the rear of the house |rel and help not been learned, to settle a quar- Mrs. James M. Version, of f ett, and digs isly In the soll, set A. L. Mutehinson, pastor of rel. He did not have $100 on his |died at Mount Vernon ye ting out plants or starting a Httle|the church, introduced Mra. Booth person as reported. She ts the wife of Postmanter Ver- | garden. lust evening, She was greeted with + i nll eri aba RPTL ET RRORREMTNTSG Te TI oh at Least | 7. 3. Carpenter, a Pike street bar- [Adama housekeeper. A. wan ox- |ber, had W. 1. Munroe arrested for |Plosion in the Basement of Andrews’ |insult today, Munroe came into the | ™ansion started the fire. The whole | shop. it is alleged, without any /PCRNDorhood was thrown into @ ¥ tocon-|renched the scene of the fre, they | 7, 1899. lappiaune She gave a mont interest. ing talk, including many graphic sketches of prinon work, mentioning Instances of prisoners who had been helped to a Christian life, It was | while telling these sto of life in| Prison walls that her words were tinged with sadness and her elo Guence reached the hearts of all |present. Mrs, Booth thanked all those who had welcomed the Volun- teers in this ety, and sald that she | would never forget her visit. Among other things she said ‘Our work among the prisoners is intensely praetioal, We do not be-| lieve in the dickly sentimentalinm | that would feed them on cake, adorn their cella with flowers, preach them | sermons on the enormity of ain and the woes of bell, and turn them into selfish parlor boarders, mere graft n the bounty of the public, We point them to the possibility of a new life, and endeavor to give them ery practical and material assint- ance toward beginning and continu ing euch @ life “Ot course, we deprecate being | | misrepresented a# & secession from | lor branch of the Salvation Army, | \In fact, we are a distinct organiza- | |tion, and nothing grates on our feet ings more than to have the press or |the public speak of us as the new Galvation Army or 4 wing of that organisation, There are many dix tinetions between the work of the two. Our work is inrgely in difter- ent line We do not underestimate the work of the Balvation Army, but we work largely in different direc- tions, ‘To begin With, we do not confine our work to the flume, but approach all classes of society alike Then, too, We work in hearty co- operation with the churches. At our headquarters we have Japieations for oar prominent speak lers and singers to go out and ald! the various churches In their revival lnorvices, and during the pigtt season this demand has been greater than | the supply. from the pastors al) through Oregon and Washington we have met the same kindly and cor-| dial co-operation.” | | ‘The following named Volunteer yfcers occupied places on the plat-| form: Mra, Booth, of New York City | Major Hughes. New York City | Licut.-Col. Walter Duncan, and Mrs. | Dunean, of Ban Francisco, Cal.; A < e 1D. ©. Rogers and Mra. Rogers, the Tacoma post; Capt. J. OG. Me- Clelland, of the local post and his Meutenant ‘The private members | nf the local post were also on the | | | platform At the close of the service Mre Rogers, of Tacoma, sang & #0) which was well received. it is probable that Capt, MeCtel- land, now In charge of the local post I) be transferred elsewhere. ably @pokane. Mra. Booth and her |private secretary, Major Hughes, will go eabt on the 4.90 train today. | | SETTLES INCREASE | Shown by the New City Directory. — | | POPULATION OP $5,000 IN CITY, interesting Facts Real Estate o in General, | When the new directory comes out about June 1, Seattle’s population will undoubtedly be estimated at 86,- 0 or over. Last year the popula- tion was over 79,000, but Manager Hutehinaon, of the Polk Directory jcompany, stated to a Star reporter today that the population would show a substantial increase There are no vacant hounes in the city, and as residences to the num- ber of $00 at least are being con structed, or have Just been comple . and thelr occupancy i already spoken for, a casual observer cannot fail but see that the population has increased. The directory will also show that there has been no particular branch of business affected more than an- other by the influx of people. The laboring population has increased, The “Mining Bureau and Ex- change of Seattle” is now ready for business, and the stock book can be found at the office of Mr. Andrew Knox, on Columbia street, The trus- tees, who have all the stock at pres ent in their names, will turn it Into retaining only one Members are entitled to only one vote, no matter how many shares they hold. The eap- ftal «tock is pald up in the form of membership fees, 60 down and oo per month for to years. The shares then become fully paid up and non-assessable, As soon as the papers of incorporation are filed with the Secretary of State, a meeting will be held, plans laid out for future movements, MORE DIVORCES. EMe Billinger filed papers this morning in the Superior court, in which #he prays for divorce from her husband, John H. Billinger. She alleges that he has treated her in a cruel and inhuman manner, and that in 1896 he drove her from the house at the point of a pistol, since | has to take in washing when she for a living Dorothea the Superior court for a di her husband, Theod whom she charges v ment and non-support. Piser has begun suit In ce from KF. Pin h abandon Mr. Thompson left again this morning, accompanied by several prospectors who wish to examine the route near Dunlop creek, where the |largest section of steel pipe is to be besatesd al Sa ae ease TAR. Frames} Mirrors WIT THE urba in the eastern part of Manila, bis tour, etl tls Ai inslomannwiicstiia sae at phone Subscriptions to Pike 150 2 PRICE ONE CENT-—-PIVE CENTS ON ALL TRAINS Nobody wants a poor wheel at any/ } pric oy but tho eneae ave looking for The Best a CRESCENT Wheel , prices, but the wheel iteelf has pi ———. 4 en more than fancy painted it, The PRIC record, the price, the quality, keep| Chain Models SPELGER & HURLBUT Wall Papers BEFORE BUYING 2 300 Pike Street. STAR PAINT CO. s Moran Brothers Company ENGINEERS AND SHIP BUILDERS. Be branehes of the onstraction aun cove ry ballt and Mosher machinery, th otallic Packing Company * and © Roberts * Made toorder. Cheaper and as good as any house in the state GOLDEN RULE BAZAAR CO 906-906 First Avenue. there, but we do not consider it much of a job to drive them out and take the city, . ; “Charles Gromsman, of our com- 4 pany — of Tacoma, died from ldynentery a few days ago. The ry lollmate Ie now very warm and dry, \'The nights are quite cool, and there lis not much sickness among our troops now. Teemtinninasieaivenmect SEATTLE INKLINGS. 4 Detective Jack Williams, who has been suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia since February 14, was out today for the first time. A Mr. Williams is still very weak, and f will not be able to resume his posi- tion in the force for some time. 5 A large body of copper ore is ree ported to Mave been struck in the B Cleopatra mine at Miller river, Who Are Chastising the Filipinos. SKETCHES BY A WASHINGTON BOY Cc. L. Lepert, James P. Ferry and to Establish Uncle pore » Perry fied papers yester- Sam's Authority in the East- day ineorperwting the Leport Trad- ing compas... to general trading ern Hemisphere. business in the town of Leary, The 4 capital stock is $10,000. — ‘The suit of the Times Printing a ‘The following Interesting letter Company againat the city council to from Corporal 'F. A. Johnson, of |enseis the letting of the city peint- Compa C of the Fi Wash jing for the present year to the Port- pany C of the First Washington lintetligencer was heard yesterday volunteers, was received by A. P.|pefore Judge Jacobs. The evidence Fogel yesterday and is furnished for jis ali in, but the argument has been publication: continued until the 12th of the month, a Big oy bis specetiorcasigeiied 0 | ‘The retiring jury of the Superior 7 ad a ni trip over here. © court presented Judge Jacobs this 3 stopped two and one-half days at morning with @ very pretty Masonic Honolulu, a very pretty place. I watch-charm, set with a solitaire ¥ met several acquaintances there, sapphire. They also gave Bailiff A. 4 among them your Democratic friend, M. Clarke a box of choice Havana Jake Ralph, who is employed with cigars. the Honolulu Ratiroad company, I think, and is ding well. We left fonolulu November 7, and with the | $234,413.52, xception of a couple of days of very | $107,104.74, rough weather, had a pleasant and anchored in the notor- nia bay November 26; but we did not come ashore until Nov- ember 30. “We were stationed out in the sub- ‘The bank clearances today were 3 and the balances were a City Engineer Thompson returned from a two days’ trip over the Cedar river water way last night. F, Me- Lellan and J. A. Bailey, two local contractors, accompanied him on — a Chin Hing, arrested for running @ ~ lottery, will have his trial Thure- Hie plea is not guilty, and close to the insurgents lines, and assigned outpost duty. We per- formed thie duty until February 4, when shortly before 10 o'clock in the | day. evening orders came for us to pro- ceed to the front at once. Our com-| Peter H. Ideb has filed a suit for pany responded promptly and we libel in the Federal court against marched in columns of four to the schconer Louise J. Kenney, for Blockhouse No, 11. Here we de- | $4860, part of which is for wages, ployed as skirmishers. and the remainder for sums of money “The night was very dark, andj which he has advanced the vessels we marched In line of skirmishers to within about 260 yards of where the) Annie Nelson, an employe of the my lay in trenches and behind | Olympic house, reported to the police stone walle. Here we halted and that her trunk had been stolen. Tho lay down, with our rifles cocked and | house has changed hands lately, and pointed in the direction of the enemy the new proprietors told her that (we could not see them in the dark), In her absence an express man drové and in this position we lay quiet un- up and took the trunk away, til about 2.80 o'clock in the morning, | when the ned up an awful fire on us, but it was high and did not do much damage. “We immediately returned the compliment with just as heavy and} pan Ryan, James Smith, and Jos. a much better fire. This was kept loph Haynes were fined $10 each bf up for hours. We could tell that | Judge Cann today for begging. our fire did its work as their fire was erowing wea Superintendent Little says that “At daybreak we found that our | penny park will be completed within company, C of Tacoma, was direct-/q month. He also states that over ly In front of their artillery, and | 999 people visited the city park é when it was light enough they open-|gunday, and all expressed reg! ed up on us with the big guns; but |tnat the park was not larger. thi ould not get our range, and their shells went over our heads. Four pleces of our mountain bat-| if Rie tery came to our assistance, They \ sg ed an awful fire on th | d ) > a after about two hours’ ss s ated and we Ana, that is, we burned all property| Commencing on April 10, the advanced. We captured their big guns and took many prisoners and belonging to the insurgents, From |sleping car rates on both the North- Jern Pacific and the Great Northern The comptrolier’s office Is besiege. by bicycle riders. So far, 1818 lis censes have been issued, and fighting the enemy ret marched on to Santa Ana, their headquarters and stronghold, Tne Filipinos fled before us panic-striek- en “We captured and burned Santa here we marched up along the Pasig | river to San Pedro Macati, where we | Will be $12 Instead of $13 No- q rove them out and captured loads |tice to this effect was received yes of ammunition of all kinds and burn- | terday afternoon from the head offie- q ed the town We then established |es at & Paul. a our Hnes about half a mile Nothing is known yet as to what a of San P the Canadian Pacific will do regard- sam the teritory we had captured, and|ing the change in the ra The 7 await reinforcements. local representatives have received “Every night the insurgents tackle |no word from the east, but are con- us and try to drive us back, but we |fident that some action will be tak- don't drive back. We are here to/en before long. That the Canadian stay, We le behind our trenches, | Pacific wil Imeet the rate adopted, and when they come near enough | there is no doubt. we pour a couple of volleys of lead) The .O. KR, & N. will also adopt into them and fall back; that, those |the Pullman rate of $12 on April 10. who don’t fall dead will be from the coast to all Since February 4, and up till to- suri river points, A meeting day, about 700 Insurgents have been |is being held this afternoon tn St, Killed, #0 you see that the Ameri-|Paul by the representatives of dif- cans are the best shots, In a day nt companies, and it is likely or two we are going to advance on|that the rate will be still further Pasig city. The city is 1 fortified | reduced from $12 to $10, as mention- and there are about 6000 insurgents 'ed in the Star of last evening. ad ils 66 ni al

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