R) RESTS AFLAM E. Fiery l>eintm I)oos Destructive Work iu Pennsylvania. |,tvM LiiX 111 it W rock emitted l»y tlio , Hiirnlns Away of ICullway 'l'lc» -•People Arc tlio l'luinn"'Tlio Sltuii tlon Critical. "Williamsport, Pa., April 25. During ■%he past 4S hours the furious sweep of forest tires in the central section of the state lias caused devastation to a vast anibunt of property and in two cases the loss of life is attri buted to the tire fiend. From Sinne ma honing comes meagre details of the fate thut befell two men and tlio thrilling' escape of four others. {Mountain fires destroyed a largo number of sleepers and caused the rails to spread on Barclay's lumber railroad. An engine and a dozen cars loaded with logs were derailed. The locomotive overturned, pinning twij of the six men riding on it under the tender. The other four men saved themselves with great difficulty, but ■were unable to prevent their com rades, pinned under the tender, from burning to death. The names of the unfortunate men have not been learned. As a result of the fire which de- j stroyed ten houses, a church, a school house and nine stables in tlio village oft lintondale, ( linton county, 1 hurs day night, six-year-old Agnes Kidd ing lust her life. The child became frightened when the Humes attacked the home of her parents and in at- j tempting to reach a place of safety ! *he fell into a creek and was > drowned, ller body was recovered : about a mile from her home yester- ! day afternoon, having been carried : down the stream with the current. I A critical condition of things exists j in the northwestern portion «>f Ly- i coming county in the I'ine I'ock val- ! ley. Near llaneyville Tuesday night j 400,000 feet of sawed lumber was de stroyed, Four houses were also i burned. lingers' saw mill on Lick Run was j •wiped out of existence during the ' night. A large amount of sawed lumber was saved with difficulty. Over 50 men worked hard all day i Thursday and a portion of the night j lighting a fierce fire in Mosquito val ley above the \Y Uliamsport Water Co.'s reservoir. The Haines covered an immense area, fully a hundred j acres being burned over. The light,- ors finally succeeded in mastering the fire. The mountains bordering l'ine creek are reported ablaze from Itam seyville to Ansonia. At I Janisey- j ville £.500 feet of logs were destroyed. ■ Several small houses adjacent were ] nlso burned. At Ridgeway a fire alarm was sounded and the citizens turned out ! to fight the encroaching tiameft and j save the town from destruction. Passengers arriving here from ; points along the 'Philadelphia & Erie railroad state that the forests are ; ablaze from Renova to Johnsonburg. POSTAL CURRENCY. A Hill to U»k«' 81, S'Z and $5 Kill* 4 heck* Payable to u !\am«'d l*aj'eo« Washington, April 25. —The commit tee of government officials appoint ed by the postmaster general and the secretary of the treasury to consider •the subject of post check currency gave a hearing yesterday to the advo vates of the oills to provide a sys tem of postal currency recently in troduced by Representative Gardner, of Michigan. Mr. C. \Y. I'ost, the originator of the plan, made a statement outlining it, and setting forth the needs of the business world for a more convenient method of transmitting small sums through the mails. He said that, in case of the adoption of the idea all rights under the patent would be as signed to the government free of all cost. Representative Gardner advo cated the favorable consideration o? the measure, and its provisions were further explained by Attorney 1). E. Fox, who drafted it. The bills provide that all sl, $2 and $5 bills, except national bank notes, shall have blank lines upon their faces so that they may be con verted at once into a cheek payable to a named payee, to be cashed at the post.office named, and for the is suance of similar bills of the denomi nations of 5, 10, 25 and 50 cents. A two-cent stamp is affixed and can celled on the dollar denominations, and a one-cent stamp on fractional bills, as a fee. to the government. ICUVeted a * 'onipromlne. New York, April 25.—Ralph M. (Easley, secretary of the National i ivic Federation, announced yester day that the difficulty between the United Garment Workers of America and the Wholesale ('lolling Manufac turers' association had been compro mised. This trouble dated from last winter when the federation succeed ed in averting a strike. The garment workers were working nine and a half hours a day and they asked an ■eight-hour day. Negotiations have been in progress since then and the matter lias finally been compromised by the granting of a Saturday half holiday the year around. This ar rangement will go into effect this •week. t Urank Horse Liniment. Bemidji, Minn., April 25. —Frank Haven, of New York, died suddenly .yesterday, nl Gray's logging camp. Jt is said ?ie ran out of whisky and as a substitute drank horse liniment. He is said to have been a graduate of (Cornell university. IViiii'i Hat .Ileal lor :to U'lj*. Bloomington, 111., April 25.—An .agreement has been entered into be itwecn the 2,000 employes of the Clii «ugo & Alton shops in this city •which provides thai none of their [number will cat meat during the ue;r po tiuj a. MAT CHARLES L. M CAWLEY. President Roosevelt has recently speclaly detailed this well-known army officer to arrange and superintend state and social arrangements at the white hoii«>, and the new appointee Is already planning _some elaborate functions for the spring sea son. MaJ. McCawley first leaped Info fame by leading Miss Alice Roosevelt out to dance at the ball at which she made her debut. This honor has also fallen to him at each subsequent enti rtainrnnt of the kind. He Is a leader of the s-well army set, a sort of official Beau lirummel. His appointment as master of ceremonies is ridi culed in some quarters LETTERS TO THE KING. So Mn»y Arc Written That the I.on ilon I'ost Olllce I'rnvlilcn Special Sacks for Thom. Correspondence addressed to the king or Buckingham palace in con nection with the coronation has be come so enormous that Sir Francis Knollys, the king's private secretary, has been obliged to turn on tin ad ditional stall' of clerks to deal with it. There is a special room at Buck ingham palace set apart for the work and the post office carries the correspondence about in bags spe cially supplied for the purpose, with the words "Coronation Correspond ence" printed upon them, says a Lon don exchange. The nature of the correspondence is highly diversified. Peeresses by the score are sending for copies of the regulations, others want the route of the procession entirely changed in order to turn an honest penny by letting their windows, and in this connection presents in money and kind to charities favored by the king are promised if lie can be influ enced to alter his mind. Those who speculated in windows and flats a few weeks ago on the strength of fictitious reports about the route of the procession are writing letters that would suggest suicidal tenden cies. A number of authors and minor poets are anxious to dedicate their works to the king, and of course they must write for permis sion. Patriotic parents are asking if they may name their next baby Ed ward or Alexandra, as the occasion requires. But these are nothing com pared with the number of distin guished persons who tire writing to the king for personal interviews so that they may put before him more forcibly their claim for seals in Westminster Abbey. Cuttings from Debrett, Burke and other works on the peerage are inclosed to show the direct lineage of the correspondents and their claim to his majesty's rec ognition. Tl»e YnunKCHt I'eep. The little earl of Aairlie, whose father was killed in South Africa, will be the youngest peer that will take part in the coronation. He is nine years of age, and is a playmate of Prince Edward of Wales, who some day should be King Edward VIII. Tunic Wild S«| ii i r The people of Fall River, Mass., have protected the wild gray squirrels in the neighborhood. One was picked up the other day on the principal street, and ate candy from the hand of a friendly citizen. SIIIHIINII Veteran*. Spanish soldiers who served in the war with the United States have found ed a veterans' association. COALING A WARSHIP AT SEA. ' Experiments in coaling at sea have lately been made by the British reserve squadron. The collier Muriel, which had been lit ted up with new apparatus, was taken In tow by the battleship Trafalgar, and coaling was successfully carried out when the \< ssel was going at a speed of ten knots. The coal bags were hoisted Into tiie foreiop of the collier, and swung or hauled along the cabltway to an upright girder on the quarter deck ol' the battleship, and tVien dumped down on the deck, to tic carried off by the chip's company in trolleys it the usua.l way, and stowed »way lu the ship'* bunker*, CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY i, 1902. SQUIRRELS DARE THE CATS. Frisky I.ittle Creatures Hnve (iood Times at tl»e Expense of Feline Companions. Have you ever seen a squirrel dare a eat? It is the most amusing exhibi tion, of mischievous audacity, says the Boston Transcript. A large colony of fat, enterprising squirrels live in the big elm trees of Walnut street, Brook line, the descendants of a pair of tame squirrels that were ow ned by a family occupying one of the lovely old estate# of early Brookline in that vicinity, and which were finally liberated to es tablish themselves and their progeny a> permanent residents of the street They are the tantalizing despair of numerous cats that haunt the place In search of toothsome morsels. The little creatures are wonderfully tame and very quickly respond to friendly overtures in the shape of nuts, which they soon learn to take from one** hand. They scamper up and down ti c big trees, whisking their bushy tail* in saucy defiance of their feline pursu ers, who, with eager eyes and water ing mouths, follow the tantalizingmo tions of the squirrels as they frisk about alluringly just out of reach of the cruel claws. Sometimes t-he game is carried on so daringly that it seems only by a hair's breadth that a squirrel tragedy is averted, and yet very few occur, and their number and freedom seem undiminished. IN SHAKESPEARE'S TOWN. Children IIITIIP Piece* from THB I'oet'n Work* to Tourist M to Get Small Collin, In the last year or two the young sters of St rat ford-on-Avon have tak en uj) a quaint custom. The town is full of children playing in the streets in an apparently aimless manner, but as soon as an American tourist ap pears the boys gather around him and begin a recitation in chorus of wistful singsong. They start in with a little valuable information about the life of Shakespeare, the dates of his birth and death are given, and a half dozen judiciously selected dramas are named as best representative of his work. The performance closes with a rendi tion of the famous quatrain over the grave—"Cursed be he"—delivered in a tired voice. The mass play is perfect; not an infant gets out of time. When they have finished they continue standing in a ring, mute and pleading, and the appeal of their eyes will haunt the visitor unless he gives a penny right around the circle. During all the time of one's stay in Stratford, a group will instantly form whenever the tourist shows himself. Every boy in the village is equipped with the min atory rhyme and the biographical facts. JIOI SES WREC KED. Wind Storm Plays Terrible Havoc at Joplin, Mo. rwo Pooplo Killed 11 ml Six I'.ilnllj Injured —Storm Came \l lllnnit Warning -- Oiiinliii Uu» Ainu Visited by a \\ I lid. Joplin, Mo., April 20.- .Joplin was visited Friday by the most destruc tive storm in its history,(luringwhich lit, least two persons were killed outright, six fatally injured, a score or more seriously hurt, and $300,000 worth of property was destroyed. The dead: Esther Hunter, killed by falling timbers; Martha Cape, col ored, died from fright. Fatally injured: Bidwell Hunter, Airs. Anna Hunter, Airs. .Marian liieks, a boy named Kruger, F. B. Kel ly, at (Joo-Goo; William Jones. The fury of the storm broke loose at 4:35 o'clock in the afternoon. There was no premonition of its ter rible violence. There was an utter absence of the usual funnel-sliapcd cloud and the clouds looked no more threatening than those which pro duce the ordinary thunder shower. The wind was a straight gale, but it was of terrible velocity, whipping down scores of houses in the south ern part of the city, and reducing to kindling wood SIOO,OOO worth of the finest milling plants in this district. The worst havoc in .loplin City was in a territory four blocks wide, com mencing at the west limits of the city at Seventeenth street and ending at Seventh street on the east. With in this narrow belt the destruction done is visible on every hand. The home of Mrs. Nellie Sullivan was destroyed and the entire family was injured by falling timhe'r. Mrs. Sullivan was badly hurt about the head and face and her two-year-old baby was blown 50 yards into a pond and saved from drowning by the he roic efforts of her seven-year-old brother, who had also received in juries from the storm. One room of the residence of S. I). Brower, on Ivy street, was blown away, and his young son was carried three blocks, receiving only slight in juries. Passing east from the main portion of the city the storm spent its fury on the suburban districts, known as Moonshine Hill and Villa Heights. Three people were killed at Moon shine Hill. News of the terrible de struction there did not reach the city until late last night. The ..i is now a tangled mass of debris and not a house is left standing. It is populated mainly by miners, who live in little shacks. Of the little h.oine of Kidwell Hunt er not a timber is left standing and the three inmates of the house arc dying, all having had their skulls fractured. It is feared that the min ing camps further west, which seemed to have been in the path of the storm have suffered great damage, but no reports have been received from there. Omaha, Xcb., April 20.-—-A most ser ious wind and rainstorm struck this city late Fridaj afternoon, doing a large amount of damage to proper ty and resulting in the probable death of one person and the injury of a number of others. Bloomington, 111.. April 20. —A tierce wind storm amounting almost to a tornado struck Bloomington la.st night. Many buildings were dam aged and wires torn down. Live elec tric wires killed a number of horses. A ihiiiimoili Combine. East Liverpool, 0., April 20. —A mammoth collection of flint, spar and clay manufacturers has just been effected in this city by William S. Hancock, Barker Cummero, Jr., and lliiffh 11. illamil, of Trenton, which will in the future control the market of the country for these materials under the name of Holding Sons & Co., of this city. One of the main branches of the new concern will be the Eureka Flint & Spar Co., whose mines are controlled by Thropp Sons Co., and are located in Ohio, 'Maryland, Pennsylvania, Maine and Connecticut. The new company is capitalized at #1,000,000 and the main offices are to be located in this city. Another llurcter In Detroit, Detroit, Midi., April 20. —John Bern hardt, of No. 0.") Scott street, a man 42 years old, was shot through the heart in the rear of his home yestei day afternoon by Frank Colling, i 16-year-old boy, who lives next door. Bernhardt and young Colling became engaged in a dispute over the for mer's children. Colling pulled a re volver from his pocket and shot Bern hardt in the breast. Colling is under arrest, lie claims that his victim started for him with a hammer and that lie fired two or, three shols.mto the ground before shooting directly at him. Beinhardt had just strength enough to crawl from the yard into a shed before dying. A ltii£ Ileal 111 Coal Mine*. Wilkesbarre, April 26.—A big deal in the anthracite coal trade was con summated Friday. The Algonquin Coal Co. sold its Pine Bidge and Lau rel Bun colieries to the Delaware &'Hudson Co. The two mines have an output of a 50,000 tons annually, and employ about 1,000 men. I'liiladolplila Lawyer l-'ound llrail, Philadelphia, April 20. The decom posed body of James V. P. Turner, a well-known lawyer, who disappeared last Monday, has been found in Fair mount park. Mr. Turner left his home Monday ostensibly togo to his office. There were bloodstains on the clothing of the dead man, but as no marks of violence were discernible, the coroner's physician expressed the opinion that death was due to hemor rhages. Mr. Turner was born in Mew port, B. 1., and was 17 years old. He, was a son of Commodore Turner, of the United States nuvy. PUZZLE PICTURE. » ■■ ■ WHO IS IT 112 Cat out tlie piece* nml paste TOGETHER MO *«M to fonn Jlio portrait of a Fa mous Niililirr and Statesman Who ix now dcuil. GEOGRAPHIC SCULPTURE. A I'lan I ml or <'onlcm|>liit ion to Mnkc mi ISxact Mi.cl. l of tlic I'nlted StUte.M. An exact model of the United Slates on the scale of S'/k inches to the mile is one of the possibilities of the future as an added attraction to the national capital. While this pos sibility is, strictly speaking, as yet only in the air, it nevertheless has zealous advocates who see in it not only a great educational func tion, but a feature of attractiveness to the people of the country not equaled by any piece of natural scenery, says the Washington Star. It will be recalled that several years ago there was a project for an outdoor map of the United States on the Potomac flats, through which visitors could walk as through park. Bills were introduced in Congress for this project by Senator Cannon, of Utah. The idea was also zealously advocated by Mr. Gardiner Hubbard, president of the National Geograph ic society. The present plan, however, con templates a much more perfect re production than would be possible in an outdoor map. The country would be produced in exactly the same man ner as the city of Washington has been in the models prepared by the park commissioners and now on ex hibition in the congressional library. This scheme carried out delicately and accurately would make it pos sible to reproduce every building road, bridge and railroad in the United States, as well as the physical features of the country. A model of this character, and on the same scale is now being made of Switzerland. This model will be the first production on a large scale of what is known as the new school of model making. The new idea dif fers from the old in that it elimin ates the exaggeration of certain lines which was supposed to be nec essary in order to convey to the eye the impression a person sup posedly gets by seeing the original subject. To accomplish this the scale in elevations had to be made dif ferent than that of the surface mod eled, which fact has tended to de stroy popular confidence in the ac curacy of the old models. The new modeling is really "ge ographic sculpture," as some of its devotees call it. It aims at absolute accuracy and is made possible through the perfection in map-mak ing and of dry-plate photography. There is no attempt at exaggeration of elevations or any other illusion. The new Park commission models are examples of the new school, only on a considerably larger scale than that proposed for tl-.e model of the coun try. It would be necessary to house this model in a well-lighted building,which would have to be about 800 feet long and half as wide. Visitors could see it by walking over glass paths. These paths would be made on sliding sup ports, capable of being pushed side ways, so as to allow of an inspec tion of the whole surface. One of the possibilities of such a model which would make it appeal to statesmen as a practical proposition would be that of having any section desired removed nnrl replica produc tions made, as well as changes made In the model to suit changed condi tions which might occur at any time. These replica sections could be made of paper pulp or other light sub stances and used in school work, just ns the maps of the geologic survey are now done, and sold at. cost. 10 ii IIkII tened. lliggins —-1 should like to tell Barnes just what I think of him. Wiggins—By George, what a coin cidence! Barnes said the very same thing about you this morning. "Don't you know, I always suspect ed that fellow was a man unworthy of a gentleman's notice." —Boston Transcript. liiiicm of 1 sso. By the breaking up of the Servia and the Alaska recently there disappeared two of the tliree famous At lant it- liners whose appearance "0 years ago was regarded as (lie opening up of a new and most important page in the his tvrj uf Ai'.autie sie«iau«jf.—N. V. Sun. BRITISH CABINET SECRETS. McrtiiiK'H Hold Without Publicity mid All Trnlinnetionx Are Cnrefully (auiirilecl l»y Members. It says much for the integrity of government officials that all knowl edge of our recent important treaty 1 with Japan was successfully withheld from foreign nations until the compact had been actually sealed, but the gre%t care exercised in guarding' a diplomat ic secret renders a premature an nouncement very rare indeed. No gov ernment secret w hen first born is ever committed to paper, except on the rare occasions when minutes of a cabinet meeting are taken and forwarded to the sovereign. As a rule, our minis ters meet and transact business with out anyone being the wiser, for no official of any kind is allowed to ba present, says London Tit-l'its. Once the government has decided upon an important piece of foreign policy, it has to be transmitted to our representative abroad, and for the first time the secret is putin writing in the form of unintelligible cipher, the key to which is already in the hands of our ambassador. The men who draw up these intricate cipher codes are reliable officials specially employed by the government, and they often obtain from £SOO to £7OO for a single code. The dispatch having been prepared, it is given into the care of a king's messenger, who wears at tached to his person a bag fitted with a secret lock. To this lock there are only two keys; one in the possession of the foreign office and the other re tained by our ambassador, who must unlock the bag himself or instruct his secretary to do so upon the messen ger's arrival. The journey between this country and abroad is a risky one, because the messenger is beset with spies, and, al though he travels incognito and well armed, there is always the chance of his being set upon and robbed. To avoid this, when an important dis patch is being carried, he is shadowed by two detectives throughout the jour ney, so that they can instantly come to his assistance if necessary. When traveling by rail he engages a special compartment, and if called upon to do so he will have to lose his life before sacrificing the dispatch. In return he receives a salary of £4OO a year, in addition to £1 a day when traveling and all expenses found, but before being employed he has to be nominated by an official filling an im portant position under government who will hold himself responsible for his being a reliable messenger and not a foreign agent. Sometimes, to avoid danger, the courier carries with him the special sanction of international law, whereby every country through which he passes becomes responsible for his safety. On arrival, the messenger goes to the embassy and hands over the bag either to the ambassador personally or his secretary, who has had verbal orders from his chief to receive it. no written instructions being accepted as genuine, nor must the bag be given to anyone holding an inferior post to that of confidential secretary. In every embassy there is a strong room, wherein despatches are stored in an enormous safe, the key of which is held only by the ambassador, and no one but himself is permitted to enter the chamber. Every night two watchmen remain outside the door with loaded revolvers, having orders to shoot down any marauder. Obviously great care has to betaken that no information shall leak out from the officials themselves, and with the exception of Britain and Italy no European nation will permit any mem ber of an embassy to marry a woman of the country in which they are em ployed. Even the ambassadors lliem selves are bound by the same rule, and some years ago. when Germany's rep resentative in London. Prince Henry of Pless. wished to marry Mi«» Corn waliis West, he had to surrender his position before being able to do so. Fellow Workers, Mr. Hauskeep And what are you going to call yourself? ltimer —A Broken Vase. "Ah! That reminds me of a little thing our servant girl dashed off th« other day.—Philadelphia Press, 3
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