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The Job department of the PKKSS 1S compleU and affords facilities for doing the best class of Work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO LAW P«INTINO. No paper will be discontinued ntll arrear ages are paid, except at the option ef the pub lisher. . .. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor in THE crops of fruits and vegetables in Denmark are a complete failure. In consequence, the prospects for Ameri can eai-ners is of exceptional bright ness. and already inquiries are coming in freely and some good orders have been received. As the crops in this country have been most excellent, there is a prosoect that the canners will get good prices all through the comiug winter. THE case of Henry Washington, col ored, of 1328 l'hilip street, Philadel phia, who was operated on for appen dicitis by Prof. Da Place, at St. Agnes' hospital recently, is a very rare one. In the first place, statistics show that appendicitis is seldom fouud among colored people, and it is very rare that it develops in people over the average age of 23 years, while Washington is 51 years old. LEirziG university refuses to accept time spent at the University of Frei burg, in Switzerland, in the count of its degrees, on the ground that the teaching there has deteriorated below university standards since the Domin ican monks have obtained con trol. The other Herman universities are likely to follow the example of Leipzig andw ill refuse to recognizs the Freiburg de grees as well. ADDITIONAL experiments by I'rof, D< ;war have shown that liquid hydro gen is by far the lightest of all known liquids. Its density is one-fourteenth that of water, and, curiously enough, this happens to be the same ratio of density that hydrogen in the gaseous state bears to air. Heretofore the lightest liquid known has been liqui fied marsh gas, which possesses about two-fifths the density of water. THE farmers of the islands in the fc>an Joaquin river, California, are con tinually praising the soil on their ranches as being- the most productive of any in the world, but they have been confronted with a wonderful freak of nature this season. It is noth ing more or less than a second crop of peaches, pears and cherries. The trees of these three kinds of fruit are in full bloom for the second time this J ear - _____________ THE Chicago post office is to have a new permanent employe in the person of a physician, at a salary of 81,700 per year. lie will be stationed at the main office for the purpose of examining employes who report themselves as be ing sick, and it is expected that he will make a large saving to the gov ernment in salaries, as s< in2 of the employes report themselves as being {incapacitated when they are able to jier.orm the duties. A FRENCH railroad company has painted the outside of its passenger coaches with poetic devices, or the im ages of stars, fishes, birds, etc., sketch ed large and in emphatic colors. The object is to enable the passenger who gets off for refreshments to recognize his carriage and class from amid the crowd and in the gathering dusk. He says to himself: "I'm the fish, the scales, the swallow," etc., and makes for his own place. THE town of Aleriden, Miss., has passed a curfew law for adults which provides that on each night of the week, except Saturday, no person shall be allowed to be upon the streets of tiie city after 8 o'clock, except in cases of extreme necessity, and said hour of 8 o'clock to be indicated by eight taps of the eitv bell. On Satur day night everybody must seek shelter at 10 o'clock. The fine for a violation of the curfew law will be 825. ACCORDING to Frank A. Vanderlip, who ban been delving into the records of tlie United States treasury depart ment, $29,973,274 of the 850,000,000 set, apart for the use of the president iu 'prosecuting the war were used by the navy department, 51'.t,811,047 by the war, $55,000 by the treasury and 853,- >BOO by the state department. With this £29.000.000 and more at its dis posal the navy department doubled the number of its vessels. Twenty seven yachts were converted, 20 tugs, £ colliers, 8 cruisers and 9 torpedo boats were worked over to be useful in the navy department. LTI.I.USTKATION, remarking on the number of telephones in service in the United States, deplores the lack of readiness to employ these instruments in Europe. In iSerlin, where there are 80.000 in use, the average number of calls is not more than seven a day— two in tlie morning and three or four in the afternoon. Among the Euro pean countries Germany and England hold the lead, with 140.000 and 110.000 instruments, respectively. In France there are scarcely more tiian 35,000, while tiiere are 02.000 in Sweden. 35.- 000 in Scotland, 30.000 in Switzerland and 700,000 in the United States. MUGWUMPS ON THE RUN. lni'nilent Unalnom M«-»i Are I.eav -1n k (hp FonnilrrliiK llnlk of Ilfniorrfli'). The mugwumps of New York are fol lowing Roosevelt. With the roufjh rider as candidate for governor 011 a platform pledging' that the republican party will'be faithful to the responsi bility which the war has created, there fire no mugwumps or independents in New York. Joseph 11. Choate and Sctli Low were a year ago shining lights in the organization that controlled 150.000 votes in' Greater New York. To-day they and their associates are enthusiastic in mipport of RooseveH, It is not personal admiration or friend ship that carrips them to the candi date of the republican organization, but dievotion to the war policy and the annexation policy which he represents. The republican platform in New York declares against the return of the Philippine* to Spain and empha sizes the jKiint that, having assumed the responsibilities of victory, we must maintain forever our flag where it has been raised. This is the platform of the national republican' adminis tration as well as of the convention that nominated Roosevelt. It is an ideal patriot on a patriot's platform that, has brought men like Seth Low and Mr. Choate into the republican or ganization. Confronted by the expansion policy of the republican party on one hand andi the policy of weak surrender of the democrat# on the other, thousands of the business men of New York who built up the citizens' union are noA aligning themselves with the repub licans. They not only favor the candi date for governor, but are strongly in sympathy with the McKinley doctrine enunciated in the New York platform. Whether mugwumps, independents or democrats, they supported McKinley in 1896 and' they indorse his war policy now. So it lias happened that through the courage of the republicans and the cowardice and copperhead ism of the democrats tihe mugwump has l>een eliminated from New York politics. Givin the choice between the expansion policy of the administration and the anti American policy of the democrats, the non-partisan idealists'and the in dependent business men of New York have chosen as did the same classes in 1804 andi 189tf. Nothing that lias oc curred in j>olitics in the InM ,'iO years has given more encouragement to those who believe in the high mission and future greatness of the I niled States than this hegira of the New York mug wumps. The next congressional dele gation from the Empire state will IK* as strong for the war policy as is t"he present one. In the meantime, what are our Illi nois nniprw umps doing? I)o they stand with Altgeld or McKinley? Are they slurring our government and whining over the casualties of the war, like Carter H. Harrison, or supporting the policy of congress and the president — the policy of Dewey, Wheeler andlLee? Are they standing, with war democrats and republicans, in support of congres sional candidates who favor expansion, or nre they training with those who advocate surrender of all we have gained< through war? The New mugwumps have spoken. Have the Illi nois mugwumps the courage to define their attitude on the'greatest issue that has confronted thenation since thewa* for the union?— Chicago Inter Ocean. HOPES OF THE DEMOCRATS. Tliey K»p«*ct to Achieve Sueeea* Tkrootcli ])i*«<»nj«loii Amonu the Republican#. It, is a good thing for democrats to comfort themselves with republican differences. It pleases them, and they do 1 it so loudly that it instructs the surrounding universe. They want re publicans to fall foul of each other about candidates or else about fac tions, and they frankly say so. They hope that some republicans will run outside tickets' for the benefit of dem ocratic candidates for congress and the assembly, and kindly say so. They are glad to know that a nomination by an. independent body is to some republicans a hindrance, and say so loudly. The}' are to be thanked for their candor. It. is not necessary to go l far afieid to find the source of this deep interest in republican doings. The democratic organizations are under the unpleas ant necessity this year of saying yes or no on the Bryan question. That does not mean the free silver question alone. If it did, the problem would Vie for many comparatively easy. A free silver party could not carry New York unless the republicans were bad ly divided, as everyone knows. Hut a man who holdsßryan's notionsabout the supreme court and about the rights of labor or other organizations to get up riots without interference would not carry any state where the people have sense enough for self-gov ernment. and yet a mixture of these questions with the dislike of some people for war, and of softie other peo ple for the way the war has been con ducted. is the total stock in trade of '.he democratic party. That is a large stock, if the repub licans see fit. to enlarge it. If every man who did not thinlc the war neces rarv, or thinks it was not waged ex actly as it should have been, betakes himself to the party of I'.ryan for expression of his fcriings. the so-called filverpnrty may record some apparent gains. Tint if democrats hope to win for l'ryanism through republican dis sension they are likely to be disap pointed. The average republican is not quite destitute of sense, and knows that it cannot pay to put po litical adversaries into power merely because he has faults to find with euch accounts as he has seen of exist ing conditions or recent events. — N. Y. Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1898. A NEW MASIAGER, The Free Sllverlten Knunur tt»«» Wet Nurse of Decadent II ry allium. The ink on the eastern democratic state platforms repudiating the Chi cago doctrines of 18!)6 is hardly dry before the western and southwestern democratic leaders make their re sponse. And it is a response with a most unmistakable ring of silver. Con temptuously as the eastern,democrats treated the dogma of free silver, their opinions have twen still more con temptuously met by the western men in the appointment of "Coin" Harvey to l»e "the general' manager" of the democratic party. If Harvey is not Ihe father of the free silver cause he has been at least its mosrt devoted' and efficient wet nurse. He has toiled for it, argued for it, and lied for it unsparingly. His lying was so specious and l plausible that it duped thousands and thousands of honest men who supposed that his fraudulent lectures at the Art insti tute, were the reports of actual occur rences instead of being the product of his own imagination. And this is the man that James K. •Tones, chairman of the national dem ocratic committee; Gov. Stone of Mis souri, John I'. Altgeld, William V. Al len and Senator Teller elevate to the position of general manager of the democratic party and its "allied forces" to provide ways and means "to further the cause of bimetallism and overthrow the corrupt republican dom ination of this country!" If the arts of imposture can prevail there is little question that Harvey will prove a second Cagliostro and make somebody, presumably the silver mine owners, come down handsomely. It will undoubtedly take a good deal of money to make the silver cause pre sentable in 1900, andl that is the year to which these men are looking for wards It' is «pparerit from l this move that the silver democrats intend'to dispense with the electoral vote of the eastern statesi and turn all their energies tf> carrying the west, and south. There it is that the silver battle will be fought if the question survives until 11(00, as the silver men are now plan ning. To defeat, this move and bring nil these machinations to naught all that is necessary is to carry the present congressional elections for sound money. And to thus end no effort must be spared on the part of all those who so triumphantly elected Mr. McKinley two years ago. We must not wait for the campaign, of 1900, but make the fight to-day, when everything is in our favor. Success 1 now means success in 1900. For 30 years tlie democratic party has been noted for its blunders, but in all that time we can recall no such blunder as this appointment of Har vey. In the face of an aggressive, de termined! and, victorious enemy it splits its forces into two factions, and puts at the head of one of them a man whose only qualification for the' place is that by means of brazen falsehoods he once deceived a very large number of his countrymen. Will Hie democraticpar ty, the steadfast rank andl file, north, south, east and west, rally under such a man?— Chicago Times-llerald. A PROTECTION LESSON. Kißiire* Which Show the Brneflta De rived from n Itepubllt*- (ID Tu riff. In all the range of practice and theory, as told in innumerable polit ical economies, nothing shows the value of protection in a more forcible way than a history of the tin-plate industry in this country. It is a mon ument to the value of protection. When it was first proposed to place a protective duty on tin plate the idea was scoffed at. Free trade journal; fairly frothed in their attempts tc show that tin plate could not be made in competition with the Welsh pro ducers. That was long before the act of 1891. When the law was enacted the industry was born, though at the end of the first year the produc tion amounted to less than 14.000.00 C ■ pounds. In 1803 it jumped to 100,000,- 000 pounds. It has continued to grow with ama/.ing rapidity ever since, un til the product in 1897 was but a trifle less than 450,000,000 pounds, and the output for the present year will be larger by 200,000,000 pounds than the production in 1807. In the meantime, t.he importations have fallen from 1.000,000,000 pounds in 1891 to less than 200,000.000 pounds, the estimate for the present year. In asmuch as tin plate is simply steel sheets tinned, or plated with tin and zinc, a very large part of the cost, is in labor. Ilence there is being given to labor as its share a sum not much, if any, les.s than $10,000,000 per annum. The figures given completely refute the old-'iime theories of the free traders. It has been done time and time again, but not in a way so strik j ing as here set forth. And more than | that, the price, while slightly higher ! for a year or two, is probably lower | now than during the year we import | ed 1,000,000,000 pounds, and in qual- J ity is not a v. hit inferior to the Welsh ! plate, where they have been making it ! for centuries. —-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. ! boitin's v York silver dem . oerats adopted 1 a ''"'m containing t he following: "\Vp «ir.ce so-called ! democrats who hav i platforms, | municipal or state, sought to evade or ! modify the terms of the Chicago plat form in its statements of the princi ples of justice and the undeniable and inalienable rights of man.as the tories of to-day." This epithet .rj-n-1 apply equally to the democratic dailies of St. Louis. Their editorial columns are ! c!o.sed to any mention of the Chicago ' platform or free silver. —St. Louis Globe-LK mocrat. BLOODY BATTLE. Striking Minors and Imported Ne groes Fight at Virden, 11L Seven Men are Killed and Eighteen Wounded—An Attack IR Made on a Train I.oad of Men Itroilglit from the South to Work In the Milieu Troop* are Sent to the Seeun. Virden. 111., Oct. 13. —This little town is comparatively quiet after a day of riot and bloodshed, the long ex pected clash between the union miners and imported negroes. At 12:40 Wed nesday afternoon a Chicago & Alton special train bearing 200 negro miners from the south arrived at. the stock ade around the Chicago-Virden Coal Co.'s mines and immediately terrific firing began. The list at 10 o'clock last night, stood seven dead and IS wounded. I). 1!. Kilay, a Chicago & Alton de tective, stood guard at a switch at the south end of the station platform to see it was not tampered with. At 12:40 the special train passed the sta tion and signal sh«ts were fired from the south end of the train, announc ing the special's arrival. Immediately shots were fired from the moving train and outside and the battle was on. A few minutes after the train had passed the switch where Kiley was stationed, and while he was talking with two cit izens, he dropped dead with a bullet through his brain. He was the first man killed. The train continued to the stockade, the miners firing into it all along the route, anil the negro passengers re turning the fire. The moment the train reached the stockade the miners opened a desperate fire with Winches ters and revolvers. The negroes on the train answered with a steady fire. Tlie miners and the train were en veloped in a cloud of smoke and the shooting sounded like a continuous volley. Engineer Kurt Tigar received a bullet in the arm and dropped from his seat. Mis fireman seized the throt tle and the train was speedily carrying a load of wounded negroes to Spring field. The train stopped at the stock ade but two minutes. Its departure did not cause the firing to cease. The tower of the stockade was filled with sharpshooters. Forty-five men are stationed behind the stockade, and of these eight are wounded and one was killed during the battle. The supply and provision store of the Chieago-Virden Coal Co. is known as the Climax Trading Co., with .Super intendent .1. F. E.vster in charge. At 2 o'clock, after the firing at the stock ade had subsided, an attack without a parallel in the history of the trouble was made on Eyster in this store on Main street, one block from the depot, which will probably cost him his life. He was sitting in his store when his telephone rang and he was instructed from the stockade to secure physicians and hurry them to the place. Eyster jumped into his delivery wagon and, securing two doctors, rushel them to the mines. He returned to his store, climbed out of his wagon, and was just entering the door when the cry was raised that Manager Fred Lukins, of the mines, was with him. With a rush a throng of miners pressed toward the store. Eyster ran behind a counter with a revolver in each hand. The miners pressed harfl after and as Eyster sprang up stairs he and the miners began shooting. He ran to the top of bis building and jumped behind a chimney, while the miners ran into the street and opened fire on him. Chips flew from the chimney and Eyster ran across to the roof of another store, firing into the street below as he ran. Jumping to the roof of the Uae & Gish drug store he halted behind a projection from the roof and emptied both his revolvers. Then springing from cover Eyster dashed ahead amid a rain of bullets to the roof of the Steed building, the upper story of which is known as Miners' hall. He either fell or jumped through the sky light and landed in the arms of a crowd of miners, who carried him down stairs into the middle of the street. l'olicemen drove back the crowd and carried Eyster across the street and laid him on the grass. He had been shot throug-h the groin and is terribly battered up about the head. The physician says he has bare ly a chance for recjovery. A detail of militia last night killed ex-Lieut, of Police Tom Preston, of Chicago, at the stockade. He was sit ting outside the stockade as guard. The militia ordered miners to halt and Preston stepped back to the gate. The militia fired and lie was shot in the stomach. He was carried into the stockade, where lie died. Springfield, 111.. Oct. 13.—Gov. Tan ner said last night that he had no word of further trouble at Virden and that he was confident there would be no more rioting. "1 have asked the secretary of war to place at my com mand the Fifth regiment, Illinois volf unteers, now at Springfield," he said, "and have ordered four companies of the Sons of Veterans regiment to leave for Virden early in the morning. I in tend to have enough troops on the scene to disarm the men who have caused this bloodshed, and further more 1 intend to ta«e such action as will prevent any further attempt to import labor into the state. I don't intend to have any more trouble of this kind." A I.ively Night In Honolulu. ITonolr.'u, via San Francisco, Oct. 13. —On the night of October 3 Second Lieut. Merriam, 1 . S. A., and First Lieut. Wheelock, New York volun teers, declared martial law in Hono lulu. Wheelock was provost m.irsihal in charge of mounted infantry. For two hours things were lively. Citi zens were ordered off the streets, sail irs were chased aboard their ships and two captains had to scramble for safety. Gen. King was very angry when he heard what was being done. 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