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The Job department of the Par«s iscomplet* and affords facilities for doing ihe best c.ass of woru. pAItllt'ULAIt ATTKNHON PAID To LAW PRINTING. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear « aro paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Mi*. Roosevelt says thai Ills friends will make a hit with him by Just call ins him "mister." There is nothing quite so clumsy as the way we speak of those who were chief executives of the nation. "Ex-president" or "former president" is about the extent of the titles that may be applied to these | eminent persons, and both of them suggest a state of has-been rather than a condition of honored retirement. Even the grand mogul who goes through the chairs in a common lodge has a more exalted title and usually is known as the grand and worshipful past high kicker or something else that savors of honor. We do not know ex actly what the title of an ex-president should be, says the Chicago Daily News, but if some one will donate a toothpick we will offer it as a reward for the best suggestion as to how to designate a once-upon-a-time president. Friends and admirers of the Ameri can Indian will be glad to know that the Carlisle school is making a system atic effort to foster and develop native Indian art, as manifested in drawing, decoration, silverwork and basket and blanket design. The head of the de partment is an Indian woman of great cultivation and ample education trained in tlie best schools of the east Two of the most promising pupils have received scholarships, which enable them to study at the School of Indus trial Art in Philadelphia. The effort at Carlisle is not to graft the art of the white man upon that of the Indian, but to preserve the primitive art na tive to the red man—an art that was simple, sincere and direct, and had other admirable qualities. President Taft went into office with the record of the world's greatest trav eler. A tabulated statement of the distance he has traveled since 1900 fixes the total at more than 202,000 miles. Those travels have not been for pleasure or curiosity. In every ease they have been in the public in terest, and they have also served to make Mr. Taft a familiar personality in foreign lands, and help to explain his popularity abroad and the strong confidence felt in his capacity to strengthen international amity. Superstitions of the sea should have their edge taken off by the disaster off the coast of Malta last fall. The Sar dinia was due to sail from the home port on Friday, November 13, a day which was doubly unlucky. It is even difficult to get a sailor to sail on Fri day, let alone the 13th of so horrid a month as November. So the men de manded delay—and they sailed on No vember 14, and came to grief not with standing. Premier Asquith is destined to livo in history as the titular head of his party who, when a cantankerous suf fragette was forwarded to him by par cels post, solemnly and awfully de clined to receive the animated parcel, instead of accepting it as a good one on him and thus doing his part toward the carrying out of a very good joke. If Punch doesn't serve the solemn As quith up in an enduring cartoon a laughing world will lose its guess. The new woman in China, instead o( following the example of her English and American sisters in railing against the tyranny of men, has revolted against her relations-in-law. One ol the women's clubs in Shanghai pro claims as its object "rebellion against mothers-in-law." A permanent national exposition at Madrid, for the promotion of which an organization has been formed in Spain, will have for one of its chief objects the stimulation of scientific methods In agriculture and manufacturing. Somebody is getting up an airship "Marathon race." Which, we suppose, is something like a submarine "Sa lome" dance. How tired one gets of a lot of things! A Philadelphia doctor says there is no perfect human spine, but does he attempt to account for the trouble with tbe backbone of winter? is'ow King Alfonso wants to try ski jumping. First thing you know that young man will rock the boat. PAYNE TARIFF BILL PASSED BY HOUSE DAY FILLED WITH EXCITEMENT FROM BEGINNING OF SES SION TO THE END. PASSED BY VOTE OF 217 TO 161 One Republican Voted Against the Measure, and Four Democrats, All from Louisiana, Voted in Its Favor. Washington, 1). C.—After three weeks of consideration the Payne tar iff bill was passed by the house of ) representatives last, night by a vote of 217 to 161. One Republican, Austin | (Tenn.) voted against the measure j and four Democrats, all from Louisi ana, Messrs. Proussard, Estopinal. Pujo and Wiekliffe, voted for it. An attempt by Champ Clark, the minority leader, to recommit the bill with in structions signally failed. Day Filled with Excitement. The day was filled with excitement from the moment the session began at noon until the minute of adjourn ment. The members were keyed up to the highest pitch and a practically full membership remained on duty throughout. The final vote demon strated the capacity of the Republican organization to get together. The sit uation with respect to lumber was greatly relieved to the Republican leaders when it became manifest that the advocates of the proposition plac ing it on the free list were in the mi nority. Because of that fact, Mr. Fitz gerald (N. Y.) charged that a mid night deal had been made whereby free lumber was to be voted down and the rates on barley and barley malt increased. This was denied. Some Changes in the Bill. One of the principal changes effected In the Payne bill since Ms introduction was the placing of petroleum on the free list. Among the other important amendments that have been made since the bill came from committee were those striking out the provision for a duty on tea and the countervailing duty proviso on coffee. The elimination of the maximum duty of "rt per cent on coffee, contained in the max imum and minimum section of the bill, was also significant. To the free list were added evergreen seedlings, cloves and nut oil. which is used in making varnish. The patent law provision. Intended to retaliate for the new British patent law. was stricken out on account of an international conven tion. The so-called "joker" in the cot ton cloth schedule which it was claimed would increase the duty of the Dlngley bill several hundred per cent was cor rected, th<- proviso for the method of counting threads in the cloth being made tin; same as in the present law. The section restricting the contents of packages of tobacco was amended to con form with the present law, 'in order that union labels may not be excluded from such packages. The drawback section was added to, so that it. could not lie taken advantage of for the purpose of speculating in grain, and the Philippine free trade provision was amended so that rice will not be admitted free from the Islands. The countervailing duty clause on lumber was stricken out but a strong effort to place lumber on the free list did not succeed. The duties on barley, bar ley malt, charcoal, iron, pineapples in crates, saccharine, medicated cotton, and cotton collars and cuffs, as originally in the bill, were increased. To retaliate against Turkey, which country prohibits the importation of American filler to bacco. a proviso was included in the to baco schedule increasing the duty on tiller tobacco from any country which pro hibits tlio importation of the American tobacco. The Internal revenue law was also amended so that raisers of tobacco will not have to pay a manufacturers' license in order to dispose of their leaf tobacco. There were several technical changes in the steel schedule, principally downward, and lace curtain anil netting machines were included in the proviso which per mits the entry free of duty of lace ma chinery prior to May I, 1910. Hides, hosiery and gloves were left as reported by the committee, hides remaining free and an increased duty being presented for gloves and stockings. MINERS' DEMANDS REJECTED The Bone of Contention Is the Re fusal of Operators to Recognize Union in Any Way. Philadelphia, Pa. After confer ences extending since Wednesday the anthracite coal operators and the officials of the United Mine Work ers of America, representing the min ers. at which the question of a wage agreement was discussed to replace that brought about by the anthracite strike commission, the operators yes terday rejected the modified demands of the miners presented Thursday and the conference adjourned deadlocked. There will be no strike inaugurated by the mine workers, however. Following the conference the dis trict board of the United Mine Work ers' organization from the three an thracite districts went into conference and after a session lasting nearly all the afternoon adjourned to meet again to-day. At the conclusion of the meet ing, it is said, a statement will be given out covering the miners' side of the controversy. The bone of contention is the re fusal of the operators to recognize the mine workers' union in any way. Suspended From Office. Detroit, Mich. Walter S. Ilar sha. clerk of the United States circuit court for the eastern district 1 of Michigan since 1882, except four years when he was clerk of the cir cuit court of appeals at Cincinnati, was suspended from office yesterday by order of the judges of the circuit i court of appeals at Cincinnati and ordered to show cause at Cincinnati May 3 why he should not be removed from office on charges of failure to keep proper accounts and properly discharge his duties. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1909 MR.E.A.HITGHCGCK DIES EX-SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR WAS ILL FOR SOME TIME. PROSECUTED LAND FRAUDS Mr. Hitchcock Directed Most Sweep ing Investigations, Arousing En mity of Political Machines. Washington, D. C. —Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the interior under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, died here yesterday morn ing at 11 o'clock, aged 74. He had been critically ill for several days and his death was not unexpected. Mr. Hitchcock had been ill for some weeks. He contracted a severe cold while in the west and his condition becoming more serious he hurried to Washington to place himself in the hands of specialists who had attended him during his official career here. He suffered from a complication of kidney, heart and pulmonary diseases. ETHANHITCHCOCK, Ex-Secretary of the Interior. Ever since he reached here he has been confined to his bed and con stantly attended by his physicians. His passing marked the close of a career whose pre-eminent feature was an administration of the interior de partment that stirred the western land problems as never before. Brought here from St. Petersburg, where he had served as ambassador under an appointment of President McKinley, Mr. Hitchcock was almost immediately plunged into a vortex of complications growing out of vast frauds and charges of fraud and coun- I ter charges growing out of the ac j quirement of public lands in the west- I ern states. Mr. Hitchcock directed the most sweeping investigations, arousing the enmity of powerful po litical interests. MRS. SAMPSON A FREE WOMAN Jury Finds that She Is Not Guilty of Shooting and Killing Her Husband. Lyons, N. Y. —Mrs. Georgia Allyn Sampson, the young woman who has been on trial for her life here since Monday on the charge that she had shot and killed her husband, Har ry Sampson, was acquitted shortly after 10 o'clock last night and was immediately given her freedom. Mrs. Sampson was trembling per ceptibly when the jury announced its verdict, but she recovered her com posure immediately and smilingly re ceived the embraces of her father and other relatives and the congratula tions of her friends. She held an im promptu reception In the court room. CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE One by One Disturbing Elements Are Gradually Disappearing in the Trade of the Country. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Tra(f says: Although confidence in the future is more noticeable than satisfaction with present conditions, yet one by one dis turbing elements are gradually dis appearing. While the tariff is still under discussion and is cheeking full activity in industries most concerned, yet the reports from most of the cities show their trade to be in a fairly sat isfactory state, the centres farthest removed from the industrial are naturally making the best exhibits. F. Marion Crawford, Novelist, Dead. Sorrento, Italy.—F. Marion Craw ford, the novelist, died here at 7:30 o'clock last night. He was born in 1854. Mr. Crawford had been ill for some time, one of the symptoms of his affliction being fevers which tended greatly to weaken him. Pupils Must Keep Clean. Chicago, 111.—"A bath for every pupil in the elementary schools once a week—if he needs it," is the motto under which the board of edu cation is proceeding in an unprece dented movement for personal clean liness in the schools. Seven Men Killed In Explosion. Johnstown, Pa. —By two explosions, one caused by the other, in mine No. 37 of tho Berwind-White Coal Mi,ling Co. near Windber last ulght at least seven men were killed. SULL-POX AMONG BASEBALL PLAYERS NEW YORK AMERICANS' FIRST BASEMAN, HAL CHASE, HAS IT IN MILD FORM. TWO OTHER MEN STRICKEN All the Players on the New York Team Have Been Vaccinated —There Is no Danger of the Dis ease Spreading. Augusta, Ga. Hal Chase, first base man of the New York Americans, is at the Detenetion hospital here undergoing treatment for small-pox. His physicians so diagnosed his ill ness Monday. Last Sunday half the New York club went, to Savannah and half came to Augusta from Macon to play prac tice games. Chase, who had been suf fering from stomach trouble, was with the Augusta visitors. He complained of being ill Monday night and Man ager Stallings was summoned to his room, Stallings calling in a doctor, who pronounced the illness small-pox. The regular team players were with Chase in Macon, on the train and in the hotel here. The second team was with him in Macon, where the club's spring practice has been had. The physician called 111 by Stall!??. is Dr. James 1!. Morgan, former presi dent of the Augusta board of health. He immediately sequestered Chase. The doctor informed Stallings that, the small-pox had not at that time reached the contagious stage and that there was absolutely 110 danger to the other men. However, every man was stripped and vaccinated. Macon, Ga. Hal Chase is believed to have contracted small-pox here by coming in contact with two hell boys at the hotel where the New York team wag stopping. These boys are now in the contagion hospital. Catcher Eddie Barrett of New York and Pitcher William Brunner of Gulf port, Miss., members of the Macon club of the South Atlantic league, have been sent to the hospital suffer ing with clearly defined cases of the small-pox. CANNOT CHARGE 3-CENT FARE Temporary Injunction Is Granted Against All Railroads Operating in Missouri. St. Louis, Mo. —Under the terms of a temporary injunction granted here last night in the circuit court all railroads operating in Mis souri are restrained from putting in to effect the three-cent fare which was to have obtained after midnight to day. The injunction was granted at the instance of Seebert G. Jones, cir cuit attorney of St. Louis, acting for Gov. Hadley. The petition alleged that the rail roads have entered into an unlawful agreement to fix the rates and thus have failed to carry out their charter requirements in operating competing lines, it is also charged that there is a discrimination between (lasses of passengers, in that some are charged three cents on the ticket rate, others two cents and two and half cents on the mileage basis. The injunction is returnable next Monday. MME. HELENA MODJESKA DIES Famous Polish Tragedienne and One of the Most Noted Actresses of the American Stage. Los Angeles, Cal. —Mine. Helena Modjeska, the famous Polish tra gedienne and one of the most noted actresses of the American stage, died at 10 o'clock yesterday at her island home at Bay City, Orange county, at the age of 05, after an illness of about two months. For several days she had been unconscious and her deatli was almost hourly expected. Bright's disease. complicated with heart trouble, was the cause of death. The body will be taken to Los An geles, where it will be placed in a vault. Later Count Bozenta will take the body to Cracow, Poland. FIRE IN TENEMENT DISTRICT Six Hundred Men, Women and Chil dren, Mostly Greeks, Made Home less at Manchester, N. H. Manchester, N. H.—A large por tion of the tenement house district south of the business center of this city was wiped out yesterday by fire. It destroyed about 50 wooden, three and four-story buildings. Six hundred men, women and children, mostly Greeks, were made homeless, and the loss is estimated at about $150,000. The Haines were driven by a fierce westerly gale through two city squares. The personal property lost in district was comparatively small. Mountain Is Moving. Nice.—A - mountain has begun to move bodily as a result of rail road excavations in the Verdon valley. A large mass has become detached and is moving at the rate of 60 or 70 yards an hour. Hughes' Recommendation Rejected. Albany, N. Y. —-Gov. C. E. Hughes' recommendation that the telephone and telegraph companies of the state be placed under the jurisdiction of the public service commission was re jected by the assembly yesterday. YOUTHFULBLACKMAILER SENDS THREATENING LETTERS TO ATLANTA, GA., BANKER. FAKE PACKAGE WAS FIXED UP When the Boy Grabbed Up the Money and Started to Run, Two De tectives Nab Him. Atlanta. Ga.- Charged with attempt ing to blackmail Asa G. Candlor, president of the Atlanta cham ber of commerce, banker and reputed to be Atlanta's wealthiest citizen, out of $35,000 by "Black Hand" methods, Daniel W. Johnson, jr., 18 years old, and a member of Dr. Candler's Sun day school class, was arrested last night, at the instance of postoflice in spectors and lodged in the Fulton county jail. Johnson admits writing the letters and takes his arrest cooly. He, how ever, declares that he was the cats paw of three strangers, who, he claims, dictated his every action in connection with the affair and forced him to write the demands for money under penalty of death. He furnished the officer with a description of the three men. Last Friday Mr. Candler received the first of two letters writ ten by the Black Hand plotters, in which lie was asked to place $35,000 under the steps of the pastor's study of the Inman Park Methodist church 011 Monday night, April 5, "or you and your family will meet a horrible death at our hands." Sunday he received a second letter warning him to comply with the demands and further threat ening him and his family if he failed to comply or if he mentioned the mat ter. Mr. Candler called Postoflice In spector Sutton in consultation and it was decided to trap the blackmailer, whoever he was. . Mr. Candler drew $35,000 in cash from the bank of which he is presi dent so as to guard against any pos sible betrayal of his plans. Monday night lie made up a package and placed it at the point designated, the real money in the meantime remain ing at his residence; guarded by de tectives. Two detectives kept watch near where the fake package was placed, but no one appeared during the night for the package. Yesterday morning Mr. Candler re ceived a telephone message demand ing that he place SI,OOO at a secluded spot on Moreland avenue, between An nabel street and Walker alley. Again a fake package was prepared and placed at the spot designated last night and Johnson appeared out of the darkness, grabbed up the package and started to run, but he was in the grasp of two detectives before he was aware that he had been observed. LIABLE TO TIE UP NAVIGATION Lake Marine Engineers. Firemen, Wa ter Tenders and Deck Hands Strike at Chicago. Chicago, ill. Ten thousand lake ma rine engineers, firemen, oilers, water tenders and deck hands went on strike by a vote taken last night. As a result the opening of navigation on the Great Lakes is threatened with a tie-up. The strike hinges on the efusal of ship owners to recognize the Marine Engineers' union. The strike was called after contracts had been sent to 1,400 of the engineers as individuals. All but 35 of these contracts were returned unsigned aud the union voted a general strike. Buffalo, N. V.—- Negotiat ions were begun here last night which nia> result in a partial settlement of the labor troubles on the Great Lakes President Yates of the Marine Engi neers is said to have made a proposi tion that all the union engineers take their posts without signing the con tracts insisted upon by the Lake Car riers' association, or any other con tracts. Four large package freight lines are taking part in the negotia tions. BAN PLACED UPON CASTRO British Government Will Not Permit Former President of Venezuela to Land at Trinidad. Port of Spain, Trinidad.—At the urgent request of the state de partment at Washington, communi cated to the London foreign office, the British government has decided not to permit Cipriano Castro, former president of Venezuela, to land at Trinidad. Fort De France.—Cipriano Castro, the former president of Vene zuela, has taken up his residence tem porarily at least at this place. He arrived Tuesday night on the French steamer Guadalope, which sailed from Bordeaux 011 March 26 and he came ashore yesterday, owing to the Brit ish government's refusal to permit him to disembark at Port of Spain, Trinidad. As the port authorities here had received no communication from the French government with re gard to Senor Castro they permitted him to land without opposition. Prohibition Defeated at Little Rock. Little Hock, Ark. —The prohibition forces here were overwhelmingly defeated yesterday in the municipal election in which Mayor R. C. Duley was re-elected mayor of Little Rock by a majority of 1,941 votes. Freight Tonnage of Pittsburg Large. Pittsburg, Pa. —Statistics completed yesterday by the local chamber of commerce show that the freight tonnage of Pittsburg for 1907 exceeds that of New York, London and Liver pool combined. Pennsylvania Happenings Washington.- An inventory of dam age done by the storm shows the loss will reach nearly SIOO,OOO. Every oil and gas company reports rigs and derricks razed, while in many in stances tubing and equip meat was damaged. Waynesburg.—After searching al most a year for their son, J. R. Streit enberger, who disappeared mysteri ously, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Streitenber ger of Waynesburg have received news that the boy was washed over board from a United States ship 1 • ar Rotterdam, Holland, and drowned Altoona. — Before the city teachers' institute Dr. A. D. Yocutn of the !di versity of Pennsylvania delivered an address in which he said better re sults may be attained if useless ! studies are eliminated. Courtship and the proper rearing of babies, he said, should not be part of the curriculum. Ambridge.—Over $72,000 was dis tributed among employes of the American Bridge Works here at the j semi-monthly payday. During March j 17,500 tons of finished material wen i turned out, one of the largest xnouth ! ly outputs since the plant has been established here. The work is rapid ly increasing. Canonsburg.—The power plant of the Greek coal mine, near McCon nells Mills, owned by John M. Greek, was destroyed by fire. Superinten dent Edward Mooney said he believed the plant was set on fire and a re ward will be offered for the arrest of the supposed firebugs. The loss is placed at $13,000. The mine em ploys 400 men, who will be idle for four weeks. Philadelphia.—The building of the Olympic Athletic club at Essington, Pa., near here, in which 15-round prize lights were given and which was recently closed by the authorities, has been destroyed by fire of undoubted incendiary origin. The clubhouse was located in Delaware county and has been the source of much conten tion because of the residents' objec tion to prize fighting. The loss is es timated at $15,000. Pittsburg.—John Nevin Hazlett. dean of the newspaper profession of Pittsburg, died here after a long ill ness of stomach trouble. He was ."!i years of age and for 40 years was city editor of the Leader, retiring re cently on account of his health.. Kill ing his useful career, "Chief" Hazlett., as he was known, trained hundreds of newspapermen, many of whom have since gained national prominence in newspaper, political and business circles. llarrisburg. Senator C. A. Snyder entered at Pottsville two civil suits, for a total of $20,000 damages, one against W. L. Sheafer, chief executor of the Sheafer estate, and the other against J. P. Jones, general paymas ter for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron Co. The slander, on which he sues, he claims is contained In their circulating the story shortly before last spring's primary elections regarding the alleged acceptance by Snyder of a bribe for securing an ap propriation for the Miners' hospital at Fountain Springs while he, Snyder, was a member of the state legislature. Butler. —William C. Negley, aged 50. is dead. Mr. Negley was for years connected with the Butler Citizen its proprietor. He was born in Butler, the son of the late Hon. John 11. Neg ley, and the grandson of John Negley. a Butler pioneer, who nuilt the first house in Butler and at one time owned a large part of the ground on which the city is now built. In 18G5 he en tered Annapolis Naval academy. Com pleting the course in 1869 he was as signed to sea duty. In 1874 he returned to Butler and became associated with his father in the management of the Citizen. In ISBB he acquired the pa per. Bast fall he retired from the newspaper business. Surviving are a widow and three children. Pittsburg.—According to informa tion received in Pittsburg the Pitts burg. Shawmut & Northern railroad is prepared to invade the coal fields of Armstrong county during the com ing summer. It is stated that the line will be built up Mahoning creek, from its junction with the Allegheny river, to Muddy creek, in that valley to the property of the Cobaugh Col liery Co., where it will connect with the line owned by the colliery com pany. This is eight miles long and the key to 10,000 acres of valuable coal. It is stated that the Shawmut will acquire the coal road, while the coal property will be taken over by a company friendly to its controlling Interests. Lancaster. Mayor McCasker deliv ered a sermon on profanity to the members of the new police force, when the city government organized for another year. The mayor pointed out lines along which he desired im provements to be made. Regarding the use of profanity, the mayor said: "Blasphemous language and indecent expressions are frightfully prevalent among us. Better have the small-pox. and no vaccination. I have been told that some of you men are very pro fane, that your influence in this direc l tion is bad. Make It better.''
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