The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1901, Page 1

HE Only Paper in Seatthe That Dares to Print the News AND WINDS: DELUGED BY WATERS rous Storm Results in Heavy Loss of Life "and Damage to Property--150 Deaths Are Already Reported On Cherry plece himself unharmed. time. House bar, «) fornia, At A week ago Brunt package, vigorou: RISE IN IRELAND, FLOOD! THE TOWNS nia as peta. ry Rain fell for 48 hours In Ireland, continues today, swelling the rivers and flooding the gomewhat tn fury. towns slong thelr banks, sing ‘of damage to shipping and| great distress to the poor. life continue to came in. Many streets In Belfast are flooded. members of the crew of the} The revenue cutter Been is wreck- fer lightebip are believed to have|ed in the Firth of Forth and 23 of their tives when that vessel went) the crew are drowned. . One hundred and fifty deaths have ‘Feevel has sunk off Dungenness/ been reported from all polnts since i [i feared the entire crew in| the gale began. although wot alive tw Last eve cakes. saloo would begin. moved. POLICE ARE PUZZLED ious Double Murder in Traveling Man Wanted | } : e i J Indiana---A hornet had been ‘The tarantul: night of her murder her house wae entered and all her letters were car- EADERS IN HOUSE wigs anecyWi Elevator Workers Will Seaer Henderson Is Not Stand Reduction a WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 12.— Speaker Henderson of the house will arrive in the capital Friday. He will have no opposition for the speakership and the house will or- @anize next month without a furry. Henderson's re-election will mean that Sereno Payne of New York will continue to be leader of the Repub- licans on the floor. Richardson of Tennessee may ha: same opposition for the Democratic Wadership. There ia some talk of putting up Dearmond of Missouri. Clare Briges, VES EFENSE LEA ED That Threats Were Made on Both Sides | The defense in the Considine triat ? - eee signet ey by Lark nd as big as an ene. He kopt the poisonous » rday morning he w box from his would-be KILLED AND TORN TO PIECES--- FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE DARK reet, between 1 and 6 o'clock thi red so flerce a battle that when two of the three that had been engaged, ‘The other, with bead-like eyes, glared upon his awful work, No persona witnessed the death struggle. the darkness, with no one present but the murderer and his vio- Edward Brunint, one of the proprietors of the nt & Cow weeks of last summer in Southern ¢ anta Montoa he made the Larko, who was then, and i# now, en, well home of tourists who visit the 1 monster centipede, fully seven tnches long, altve and briatiing with ite hideous hundred legs. Yesterday Mr. Hranini had an idea He know he couldn't keep the deadly product of lower Callfor- He decided on a fight He sent out to Georgetown where grows a hornet’s nest, and large representatives of that {nteresting bee family. ing Mr, Brunini puttarantula, centipe net under a large glass cover such as bakers ‘One hornet got away while being put in the awful The glass was placed on a desk in the private office of the Bagerly the moments were counted when the expected battle So long as the polsonous thin, At lant, 1 o'clock, the closing hour, arrived, lghts were being put out not one of the trio # to move from the position he took when first put under the shade. ‘The hornet rested on the glans directly ‘The centipede had taken a position near the rim of the cover, and with head raised half an inch from the denk. he kept a et pair of pointed eyes on the terri! center of the stage and was apparently sleeping. Bo they were at 1 o'clock when the morning Bruntini sought the cover on A fearful battle had been fought. into Nttle fragments. Not so much could be discovered. The hornet ha one wing, which "ae lodged on the back of the tarantula. ev gat with the aame composure oured. | HEARST li Catch You if You Don’t Sure of Re-Election | 14» is by No-Means Through With Yellow Journalists— Cartoonists Too CHICAGO, Nov, 12—Judge Han- ecy, who yesterday committed Man- ager Hditor Lawrence and two re- ters of Hearst's “American” to Jail for contempt, declares that the) storgan & Co {cases against W. R. Mearst, owner) | of the paper; Homer Davenport, and cartoonists, will be WITHOUT WATER NO STONE UNTURNED ttorneys for John Considine Probe Deep Into Conduct of Chief Meredith Prior to the Tragedy---Testimony 10 Mind within a dead pider and fed it Mt wtartied on rece friend, which contained an equally venom. _— TH 4 ’ tA TLE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER SHALL CITY HAVE NEW morning, 06 joal was over, lay dead and torn to the frightful o It had happened tn Grand Opera He uaintance of George t the Arcadia hotel, the nother little jo and one hor un r covering ompany: were watched they never and when the owed any diapostiton over the tarantula. 395 99292098000608820000000: ry spider, which occupled the lace w in denk ‘The centipede had been torn 8 piece # half an inch | clowed. At 6 thin | Brosecuted as soon as these respond~ ents ean be found and brought into court by the sheriff. Former Gov, Altgeld ts one*of the attorneys for the yellow journaliats, He has entered a formal exception to the deciston, “This case, I may say,” the court remarked, hot appealable. You may file @ bill of exceptions for a writ of error, however. Tam willing to delay the service of papers on Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Canfield until you have drawn your bill.” TRENTON, N. J., Nov, 12.—J. P. . today secured a char- ter for the Northwestern Securities Co., with @ capital of $400,000,000, Among the objects for which the articles of incorporation say the com- ‘The water department yesterday and today shut off the water from 279 consumers who had become delin- quent tn their rents, Water consuim ere must pay the rates some time be- tween the lat and 26th of each month. Then after that # penalty of $0 cents for delinquency tm taxed and consum- ers are given until the 10th of the following month to pay the delin- quency, the penalty and the rates for the following month. If they then fall the water is shut off. Tho shut-off this month are the| largest in the history of the office.| Yet when there are over 12,000 ac-| counts the per centage caused by 279 shut offs is considered comparativ lo DRAGS HIS % The Question Discussed Pro and Con—The Genoral Opin-| quate new city building in Beattle, of « ei! | tion of @ buttding at the present time | | entirely disappeared, except Pa A pom toe Frank H. Paui County Commissioners | ‘The 1 know, aa dew everyone ese,| | County Commissioner P. J. Sinith, | that Seattle is badly in need of «| When seen by w Star reporter this when the light city bullding, but at the present tims | afternoon, aaid: "I think the com- put up & structur adequate for all time to come. The! Prenent condition of } doce not warrant © bond issue for that purpose. ‘The matter should be deferred at least Qssesement ts mai I believe that valuations will be in- creased at least $10,900,000, raising | the amotnt to $52,000,000, centum debt would then not be so large. of « joint county and city butiding. One that would meet all needs for many years to come. would In my es-| manda of both thi timation cont $1, and county go logether now and pur chase a sultable site to hold until muc raived to put up the building. hapa two or three years would will, in two or three years, greatly pany ts organized ta the purchase and scquisition of stocks, bonds and poration and is the beginning of a 3 believed can be raised in one day in this manner. ARMOUR’S Renal iabhditaaiee anes nekerentines eee 13, MUNICIPAL BUILDING lon Seems to Be in Favor of a City Hall, but Not at This Time—The History of Osborne Estate ‘The proposition to erect an ade- increase in value, feattle is the com ity on the Pacific coast building should be w credit t ls being widely disounsed, a ‘The general consensus of opinion is that Seattle badly needs a ne 1 r taking a @ at once, while it majority of those rested favor the postpone. the project until auch a time an the city will be better financially equipped to wtand the heavy expense putiding ther hand many persons © of the suggestion for ity building, They believe int city and county bullding enough to accommodate both corporations now, and for years to come, should be put Up on some sult- ite down town, the cost to be| borne equally by the eounty and city, Thos Most City Treasurer fam Rathbun said: | “Beattle certainly needs a new city building. One is absolutely necessary in which to properly keep its very im-| portant records, yet 1} not belleve the olty Ita condition will not al actically the bonded in of the city has not been wix years. Yet there are! is believed # la mont in Pr debtednens reduced in double the number of people now to are #0 wume that debt. ‘There many street tmproveme more urgent than a city b munt be disposed of first. Then let the city hall matter fi 1 have not given the suggestion for a joint ity and nty building much ‘Thone who would be mont beneftea|thourht, but I belleve I am in favor by a city building are the city om-| of it.” but those whom the Stat has Mayor Humes | Herren, are Domed to the 600-1 saver ®, 5, Human “At this'time| tho erection of & city hall would be premature considering the many oth-| €r necensary improvements demand ed. Of course we need a new building ting positively that the city can- t wtand the expengs in view of the! many contemplated street tmprove- | it It. Ihave given the jolt propo- Frank Powl's Vv | nition no mpecial thought.” I do not think we are in shape to| bination scheme is a mighty poor do| one. I believe that the present court n edifice that) house on the hill js adquate for all city and one) purposes, and wil be for several | years to come, It will be hard treasury | proposition to make the rural tax- | payers see the necessity for extra expense for a new county building, whether joined by the city or not.” Supt.t 8 ¥ . Supt. L. B. Youngs, of the water department, is heartily in favor of « Jolt bullding, yet at this time he cannot see how the city can stand the expense that would accrue, “I think there should be a joint building In some suitable location,” eaid he, “that would answer the de- e city and county. Let the city/I think it should not cost less than one militon dollars. Should « separ. 6 city building be put up I bellev a time as the money can be|one adequate enough would cost | haif miifion dollars. I would suggest T taeae the Meld, be| for. aites ether the whole block on mamediate | which the present city ball is located alte becaune real estate | -—— aid we will be credit to the the nti another ta: At that time Our per} “Personally, I faver the erection 000,000. ough. ne of & (Continued on Page Four.) FIRST STEPS: TOWARD THE PROPOSED RAILROAD COMBINE consolidation of the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, 8t, Paul, Burlington, and Chicago and Northwestern rall- whose combined trackage ia 47.972 miles and capital stock, $1, 97,184, HOW THEY WOULD RAISE MONEY FOR THE MEMORIAL ARCH IN M’KINLEY'S HONOR WASHINGTON, C. Nov. 13.--A plan to obtain the entire sum necessary for the erection of a McKinley memorial arch will be adopted shortly by the association in this city. Roosevelt is to be asked to appoint by proclamation a memorial day upon which subseriptions can be received by every postmaster in the United tates. The day ix to be a national holiday. seourities of corporations The company is admitied to be « branch of the om dollar ai el cor- More than $1,500,000 it ts free from cotton seed oll. i State Chemist Fulmer says he| found cotton seed oil in the same Sample that the other three well known chemists pronounced pure. the same tests. A grea difference of opinion, and also. of | All wi STAR. 1901. People's Bargain Btorel == It benefits more BALE shows our liberaltt, stantly to the front and never been eq RECEIVED ANOTHER INVOICE OF THOSE HIGH-GRADE ALL-WOOL JERSEY SWEATERS AAA FOR AAD Y.M.C.A=U.of W. HiGH SCHOOL THE BEST VALUE EVER SHOW FOR..... ADAMS & BLANCHARD 7149 Second Ave., Hinckley Block ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS The Greatest Trade Event of the Season THE BANKRUPT STOCK of Clements and Wilson of Pendleton, Or, purchased at 63c ON THE DOLLAR is meeting with wonderful success. Crowds flocked here yesterday to take advantage of this GREAT other sales combined; the than al fered are actual. and g0-aheadness, which as started a business im money-saving opportunities, people the values of And Would Like in the city, Main 36. Open 627 First Ranges, high shelf ready to connect; gi fect bakers, Valued ing them this week Z.C. MILES & PIPER COMP’Y 1021-1023 First Avenue, Cor. Spring. $2090 Boys’ Heavy Silk Lined Caps for 25c that most stores will charge you double the price, keeps us con- BOO) WE PREPARE Prescriptions } ois } We give you Purity, Accuracy, Re- Hability, Deliveries made anywhere Stewart & Holmes Drug Co. Bargains eka Economy 4-hole Steel must hurry if you want one, AY ONLY ONE CENT A COPY—That’s the Price # 250TS A MONTE —— Montrose © Addition Our $50 lots are aimost gone those that are left are just as good as those that have been sold, and the prices end terma remain the same. Every lot within one block of car Mine, The boulevard now building between Columbia and the olty ‘will cause these lots to double in value within a yean Herbert $, Upper 12 and 12 Scheuerman Block, First Avenue and Cherry Street, This wonderful that has to Prepare Yours all night, Phone, Avenue Is our price for a bottle of Cy ized Rock and Rye, here is | ing better to cure or prevent @ J. ARONSON ee 109 Columbia St. Tel. Pink 1751, Free delivery. with water coil uaranteed at $35.00, for $25.00, per- Sell- You Mail orders promptly attended Hquor in the room.” Considine said | come, and if he had seen John Con | authorities, has been found during | Hai i | Bas been engaged in the ef-| further that it was @ personal mat- sidine. Meredith sald he was look- this trial. ” Authors contradict each | prove threats made by Meta | ter, that his house was better con- ing for Considine, That he had been pa ss ij | gtber, and tt ie alm at Impopaibi 2] tl @efendan' ite, ” . = — © Ry 1 m . €.| ducted than any similar house in deprived of his office by manufac Se a ny +R , nn Fon eeu Tene | town. Peer anid that was so, Con- | tured testimony, proposed to | ws. SAR toca eoanaice ae ae | monte ure given. tor both tides, tho Wr agalaaaranetions ‘cee Ce ot rreced . tarber, local manager of Ar- jen the . sidine also said that Meredith had settle it with Consid Witness ju 2 Wage IP yy cc nay will be t under a 4 ; te 89 Much repetition of|jobbed him out of his gambling warned him not to do anything eee aetierated leeds nile ecrchate | ment by Judgo George. Memilier facts that the proceedings house and was now trying to job rash, and Meredith answered that it Ny Jiate this atternc ng Ch Sg H i b j ; would be but for the hu-| him out of his business, but he he would take care of the conse- hb N S ifi d | begun Monday morning | Repairs Completed jas. 2 0 com _ incidents that frequently | coulan't do it, He sald: ‘You can quences. Moredith carried a pack- | MAtNDUN NOt Satified to | "2, Maneny Tor ana ¢.} OPTICIAN 1 * ) charac the introduction of tes-| +61 the ——— that I am going to age similar to the wrapped sh. otgun | ©. Rogardus were all placed on the | The Jackson street cars began to \ sie or inter ‘ 4 “oneidii 0 said: | which is in court i stand this morning by L. M. Stern, run through to their terminus on emer nteraare tut the Getwsoe ax-| in” sight here. Considine also wag: | dew days betore this | Be Alone in Trouble | stana tie moroiag auy,te Mi Stern, Sum anrougn, te hele feet 10 close their testimony this| “We are after him, and we are go-, A anys bes , Ss Y teat Armour and Co,'s| weeks they have only come as far r ear ws The state's rebuttal and the | ing to get him in a few days.” met ™ redith, and tn J lard they to0a8 i to be pure and| Mouth Mesend Gna deceen Av S, 2 19 Vz Y 0 tt ean hardly ‘ve expected Nore morse wan | Worst of it om account of manufac-| LOUISVILLE, Nov. 13.—Newell | —— : <= AE Wt: UY, MII M 5 oven the case cfm go to the jury un-| Burkman also testified that he was | soca testimony dd that if he did | Rathbun admitted this mornt | Cotas block, Jatnes St ad 20d die. — DY wd COG CHISSES, | after o middie of next week, | well acquainted with Chief — he would “take @ gun and blow his| his wife In Little Rock was 9 Lalita | ne Firs! Witness th rily afterwards he me head off.” federate in the plan to defraud the| whe ua , > ND 0 A ho important s clence of optics is NOT A SIDE I8- WW. H. Maud was the first witness | 2th and na I how are YoU “On crose-exumination witr insurance company, but said sho| ' nN 2, SUE with us. Thousands teatity to our ability, since | . this morning. He testified | **' on with your friend ere- | nied that he had been | knew nothing of any intent to com. | \ they have had the ir eyes scieniifically examined and , he was in front of the Junction | ith answere doesn't | trom the auditor's office in Bp mit murder | ct 136 § Sh ers of Mis-|¢ ao! 20PERLY FUT TED by 707 First Ave,, Seattle m, Megonatiy acrous t take a gun and | 47, nitted that such was the r teotives are now trying to as-|Local Ironworkers Accuse Seattle opowners 0 is- MH. CLAY EVE RSOLE. 7 1 Avenue, Seattle. | Pine Tous ¢ t a oft” Th wth A | - | PRIC Guy's Arugstore, ard rene OVENS Hort, but said it waa unt "1 riain who bun § | ¢ z ‘ F A ‘ | | re 1 eseig Rapagaluaaame ss occurred weeks before knew Meredith in Bpakane 1n 1 it ie Wolleved he may be a notea| Stating Facts Relative to the Recent Victories Gained | STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES | A AY, & gunst the shooting. Said he knew Jobn ¢ e by | crook : 1 1 150 fan On. cross deman cite bask ix Bacwane and Aontie - by the Workmen in the City of San Francisco 2 Cans Economy Cream ; denied that Gone ective | but never spoke to him in his lif: | oped ner weal ith, | Work under B.A. Gardner. “Head Sreteadite ie Boi AoW Prices Cut to Pieces Gons!dine’s position me | Mitted being s friend of Considine’s. an “ z “gtorles purporting to come from the men. Every one af these, with iv | Peruna, regulay price $1.00; our © perwunes 2 An a Byphthorinn | He denied that in the con Charles ©, Henry, a carpenter, 1 P| Bt riee-pe : me me from oe vey nF -one of Ahean Seith 4 wee : is BOM, G04 he expressed the ric. | with Peer, Considine had testified that he saw Meredith at| the local Meta dee Association, | the excention Of the wultod roa) A 4 Upwards for Lots 25x Paine's Celery pOURA: Demme PMiat & man under the circumstance, age concerning the corner of Third and a herry, |coutrovert the facts in relation to} 1°01) S Okla. Ieniatik chron! og 27 Yesler Way, Phone Red 761 | ..' $1.00; our price, iss “ota aval “ ui | talking to two men, about 4 0’ | orkers’ Ke attor ne cane, < ©, Fults On| . td U Se natic Cure, regul ould be mtunned tor a few ne ify vr on the attornoon of the shooting. | NEW YORK, Jov. 1—At a moot. [the tronworkers’ strike situation in! works, the nine-hour day was ac| 100 at Latona, Close to. | Seneca fag FAR it srice sas tenccta we yoo et him," referring to| Meredith had a brown paper parcel | !ng of the dire of the North-| San Francisco,” said T. 1. Wilson,| coded, with a wage increase of 24 Lake Uni | ror swamp Root, r irctaduen Ge nrate® 04 cross. | ae Tey te called’ the "Lexow"'| in hia hand similar to'the one in| ern Pacttic Mallway today resolu-|fousth vice-president of tho Inter Jeouts per hour, which 4s very lit ake Union, i} FREDRICK & CO, our price Of this witness were re the shooting | tions were unanimously adopted to| national Ur‘on of Machiniats, to-| tle less than was asked at the out. | tong and tiresome, committe Sunt : Wholesale and Retatl, price $1.00; our pr p. Richard Burkman to i On redirect examination witness saw Meredith pans retire th preferred stock at par | day ee “ ‘ set of the strike. —-— | aa ipieros'é Waverite Pas vrenent when Ottioer Peer sere. | db a friend of Meredith's, #rove's saloon, walking rapidly to-| Jan, : eat tho | oContinuing, Mr. Wilson eata: Don’t Hold Water |f Jewelers and Opticians 9) Pine pric 4% notice on Jona ren ig | That @ brother of his was on the| Wards Guy's store, He disappear. | | This resolution means that the /+with ite usual nerve, tho locall «4 no concessions have been hwest T 715 Second avenue, And so on at Bae ties om Joka 18| Foliee force unter Mersdttee [simi antcance and an iatan | Northern "Puce "Gractors acct | seta ‘trades Atsoclation Io tine wah $e detatete "Bade gece |Northwest Trust and Pe A TR | "Sena es ame in lngaicad jar Goacteine later witness heard a heavy report, | the Harriman-Morgan pls to deny that concessions havo been | tion in San Franciaco, how ts it that | : | m the chiet f | Witness was standing in front of) the settlement of the confilct of made to the thousand or more fro: ison’ aie sturaing to | S fi D t C —_ | Dazaere, awn tn are! chal Mig as fen! gta, Men, | the Suelo algae oul: | tread foterate tn the North | wrate who have returned eo work Man, morcare ao reuraing 0} Safle Deposit Company | wari | Zea Be igh boxes.” Con! teatified that he had a taik with) piosion wan quickly followed by an.| that the Northern Pacitic will go in-| Praneisco. jome shops ‘| JEWEL Bee occa MAY® 80 Cloned box-| Meredith at the corner of Cherry |bther, Ho walled roserds Guy'e and | to the handa of the propristary com, |!" San Francisco. ers? No;, the strike 1s still on, Real Estate Department | Albert | tee od {ar Yourecit. | and Becond avenue, about 4 P. m»| heard three more shots, the first two | Dany formed today, and that the in 47 per hovel the fron workers who have re aoled pac ven ¢ city attorney, and| the day of the shooting. Meredith | - : . | Burlington and Great Northern rail-| “There are now forty-seven shops| turned to work have been concede 1 ' mm |Yhe largest Jewelry house in the me T have s right to seil| asked him from which way he had| (Continued on page three) ways will do likewise, in that olty whi¢h have conceded to| their demands,” [CoLUmBLA STREET, BELOW IST AVE.| Xotunwoste 24 ave, and Columbia, ‘Tel, Main 19% | 1