2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year S2 00 If paid In advance t S>u ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square for one insertion and tifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three months, are low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less,each subsequent mser t'on Wi cents per square. l.ocai notices 10 cents per line for one inser- Bcrtion: 5 cents per line tor each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riage-. and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards five lilies or less, *5 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pkess is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. Paktici i.ah attkniion paiuto Law PHINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. Exit tlio Nightgown. In enumerating the unexpected is sues that have arisen out of the war with Spain, the contest between pa jamas and nightgowns ought not to be. omitted, says a Pretoria (Transvaal) exchange. And, while most of the oth er issues remain unsettled, this issue lias been settled finally and forever, by the triumph of the pajamas. For years the buttle between the "new-fangled" pojamas and the old, reliable night gown of our forefathers had been waged with varying success, the pa jamas gaining a strong yet uncertain foothold in the cities of the seaboard and making occasional incursions in to tfie interior, the nightgown holding the inferior and keeping up a harassing guerrilla warfare in the suburbs of the seaboard cities. Now, will not the of ficial declaration of the United States government that pajamas are the true garments for heroes and must be worn by their troops in the tropics inevitably drive the forces of the nightgown to the wilderness, where they must inevitably be slowly exterminated? Pajamas are undoubtedly the most civilized possible night dress. In pajamas a man is ready for anything, lie is at once undressed for bed and dressed for night emer gencies of fire, strange noises in the. basement, or sudden descent of a foe, whether burglar or Filipino. In a nightgown a man is ready for nothing. In appearance lie is ridiculous. In feel ing lie is wretched. In ability to face his fellow beings he is "not in it" at all. Next to the habit of daily bath, pajamas ere the most valuable gift of the ori ent or the Occident. Growth of Fortunes. Every day we hear people saying that the vast combinations of wealth are freezing out the individual, and that a man has not the chance for money making that he once had, says the Phil adelphia Saturday Evening l'ost. Let us look back a little! At the beginning of the century the largest fortune in the United States was considerably un der half a million dollars. Twenty years ago a fortune of $50,000,000 wemed to be almost touching the limit; and yet here we are talking about $200,- 000,000 in the name of one man, and there does not seem to be so much alarm about it as over the lesser sum in the days gone by. Without parading a lot of figures and estimates, it may fairly be said that more new men have be come millionaires since 1890 than in any other ten years of the nation's his tory. So it will probably goon. For tunes will grow larger, and there will be more wealth and more opportunities. Fast mail trains are a growing insti tution of the country and have proved their great value and immense possibili ties. A new day begins at midnight. At this hour, or soon after, the fast mails pull out, cleaning up completely the correspondence of the day before and moving abreast of the day just opening. As they speed on they give along their routes special facilities be fore the sun rises. They are the early birds of business. They practically save a day and often two days. The simple reason for their success is that they make the earliest start, beating the lark by hours, and getting ahead of breakfast time by half the width of a state. Nothing is further from the truth than the assertion that fast mail trains serve only special interests. They are of universal advantage, to small towns as well as large, to country as well as city, and they have become in dispensable. The eastern papers give an account of an aged woman who has regularly walked once a year from Bangor, Me., to New York, 450 miles, for the enjoy ment of the thing, since 1824, when she was lfi years old. Marquis de La Fay ette was then visiting America, and the girl, Mary Ilarley, being too poor to ride, walked to New York to see him, paying her way by selling pencils on the road. She enjoyed her trip so much that she has since then repeated it annually. .She is now turned 90, yet does not look so old, and seems to be a person of natural refinement. On her trip this year her sales of pencils proved inadequate for the first time to meet her frugal expenses, and on reaching New York she was obliged to apply to charity for aid, when her curious feat became public. STILL BESIEGED.! _ Yet Ladysmith'a Defenders Are Growing 1 Bold. B»rr> (lombartl tlie Town Knsllali Malm to Have Attacked the IIu on) 'n I uiiip and ICoutvd Ihe A ItrltlNh ICi s tiuput Itudly t'ui I Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Nov. 7. — The general commanding the line of j communication with Maritzburg has arrived with his staff at I'stcourt. Tele graphic communication north of JEst court is entirely stopped. The natives report that the Boers received a. crushing blow at Ladysmith Ihursday. The British forces at Ladysmith were engaged twice successfully 011 Tliurs day and on Friday. It is reported that the cavalry scored heavily and that the infantry did great execution with bayonets, the Gordon Highland ers carrying tin- principal Boer posi tion at the point of the bayonet. The Hoers lost heavily in killed and wound ed and a number surrendered. London, Nov. b. —Last night's wel come dispatches from tin l front rent the veil of gloom enveloping Lady- j smith, showing the Brituh garrison I not merely standing on Ihe dogged dei fensive, but executing a series of bril-j THE SCENE OF WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA ~\ T~ } J ) "'•""y,V: r^.-.? 1 Her/tog,/t» < / j/ ' U!l —■ //» Klerksdorp* v pa !/**«*&*> SwA/ilan^;. **"%• r 1. yJCe/.iMrf .», '»s»#J> vy-C4' r ' cA ' " Q (Peu«Tti< V #®y« _*< KPtßfbuJ-rrgßcacen,n;id /JwVT>„ £^v ,>4)l4*s^^^2^^2«' ~ S TVT E , J^T \/ t* \f..t''-/ \ ySfy" M X' "' O V v /M™lN s rtl« / V V0 i A PV E Barktyta* .<* {\u\rrtr. / h***™ r JiHaauwpocrt r / / J* ' ~.n 112c intt \ /4 , £V •—«.fc"*£s SfSjW / N. A ' - --" UnfrKbM «L)K».nhl»"S is nevert l.eless tinged by a certain anxiety lest Gen. White should apa in nrike some fatal miscaleulation involving a repetition of the Xicholson s Nek disaster. The most interesting news is a dis patch from Hstcourt announcing the departure of a strong force of mount ed troops and artillery for a destina tion not (riven in the advices. Anoth er message announces the arrival at Ksteonrt and I'ieternnrit/biirjr within the last few days of reinforcements from Durban, and that .'i,SCO troops are assembled ready for an advance lo t'o lenso when the opportune moment ar rives. The latter dispatch throws liirht upon the former, and the force which left K«tcoi.rt Monday luis doubt less reoccupii d Colcnso and possibly j-s now advancing ca.itio.islv up the rail-! ioad toward Ladysmith, Gen. White's GAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER i6, 1899. sortie of Friday, almost to the banks of the Tugela river, encouraging its commander in the hope of joining hands with him. London. Nov. 11.- Complete silence lias again fallen upon affairs in S eitli Africa. The Hritish public must per force be content with the brici stereo typed report which the censor allows to filter through from Cape Town. That this condition of things is no longer due to pressure of work or de fective cable has been amply proved. The Fustern Telegraph Co. reckons that the real delay in transmission is about two days. It is evident there fore that the censorship is responsible for the other two days of delay which seems to befall all the dispatches. Moreover the Telegraph announces that its "appropriated" dispatch front ladysmitli, dated Monday, was not delivered in Fle< t street until Thurs day morning. Tt is believed that the war oflice received further dispatches last evening, but nothing has been published. The statement from Ladysmith that the Hritish guns do not reply to the Hoer artillery because the concrete beds for the guns have not yet naro encd is interpreted in some cpiaricr.- to mean simi I.\ that, the Hritish are husbanitlng their ammunition, as the Boer lire is only a trick to get the r.iitisli to waste shells. Among the few items that have ar- rived from the Cape to-day is one say ing lhat the lioers are planting more guns in the hills surrounding' l.ady smith. All the correspondents in the beleaglired town are safe and anxious to reopen communication. The latest advices from Kimberl.v, dated November 2, say all was well there. The war office has received from Ceil. Muller the following 1 dispatch. "112 apo Town, Nov. 9. Ilanf received by pigeon post from Gen. White to day the following': 'The bombardment at long 1 range by heavy guns contin ues daily. \ few casualties are oc curring'. but no serious harm is being done. The I'oers sent in to-day a number of refugees from the Trans vaal, under a (lag- of truce. A ting of truce from Lady-smith met them out side the pickets. When the party sep -1 arated the lioer guns fired on it before it reached our pickets. Maj. Gale, ot the Royal engineers, was wounded to day while sending' a message. The entrenchments are daily growing stronger and the supply of provisions is ample.'" A BIG REWARD. .Tllelilsnn Central ICatlroad OllVrx I: lor Capture ul Train Wrri kcm. Detroit. .Mich., Nov. 11. The Miehi : iran Central Railroad Co. will otter a reward of $2..".00 for the capture and conviction of the presons who caused the wreck Thursday night. General Superintendent L'ilonunedieu made that statement yesterday morning, lb said: "We are satisfied that the acci dent was caused by train wreckers. We found the tools they used with the marks fresh upon them. I hev are not our tools, as they were stamped 'M. 1).,' which stands for Michigan l)i vision. All our tools are plainly stamped with the initials ».f the road. "The wreckers removed the angle plates—that has been conclusive!*' proved to us. We will otter a reward of s:.'.'>()!) for their capture r.nd convic tion. If tiie ears had I>c<> |>* Hail. Londo'n. Nev. ij. The troopship Ita varian sailed from Queenstown last evi lung- for the cape, carrying- t-he Connaught Hangers, the l-'irs! liutlrl ion of the Dubbn Fusileers and a e;n tingent of miscellaneous troops. alh.- ircther over :;.UGU men, and a 'juantiu of stoics. WORK OF TRAIN WRECKERS. 'l'll«'y Derail a < elilral l'a»- •euger Train, Injuring llozcun ol iolccJoy ()., Xo\ 10.— Michigan Ocn- Ira I train No. .110, from Toledo to De troit, Wiis ditched by the spreading ol rails between Alexis and Vienna, Mich., about s o'clock last night. J'hree persons were fatally injured. They are: John AlcKay, Indianapolis, rib bro ken, cut about face and head by glass. John O'Neill, Detroit, fireman, cat about head and arms. Willi am Hamilton, engineer, bruised and probably internally injured Seriously injured: ( harles CaHtrt, Detroit, hand and arm hurt. Ma xi lie FaneufV, Walbridge, 0, shoulder dislocated. Charles Kress, Detroit, head budlj cut and neck lacerated. Jacob liosensall, Detroit, badly bruised ami cut about head with glass. Devore M. Ashton, Detroit, three ribs broken and face cut. Mrs. Sarah Whipple. Monroe. Mich., head badly hurt and bruised. Dean \shmore, Detroit, arm nearly severed at wrist. S. A. Freshney. Fort Wayne, lnd., hurt about head: knee dislocated. Kalpli Spare, New York, hand and wrist badly cut. Conductor Markins, bruised about the body. Fifteen or twenty other passengers were bruised and shaken up. some of them receiving slight wounds. William Hamilton, the engineer, was thrown through the window of his cab and was bady bruised by the fail, as well as cut about the face and head. His injuries may prove serious. lie retained. hotve\er. sufficient presence of mind, when lie recovered from Ihe shock to hurry to his engine and draw the lire, thus preventing an explosion. The accident was the result of a de liberate piece of! work by unknown train wreckers, and happened at a point just beyond a short trestle. Two freight trains hud passed over the road in safety a short time before. Where the rails were spread it was found that the boitf that lield the fishplates had been unscrew ed. The nut - were lying on the ties and the threads of the bolts were not marred in any way. A couple of big wrenches such as section hands use, were found lying beside the track, indicating how the rails had been loosened. The eariy reports of the wreck were alarming and the railroad company summoned every available physician from Toledo and elsewhere. A special hospital train was ordered from De troit and tlx injured will be taken there. Some of the less seriously hurt were brought to Toledo on a Lake Shore train which arrived short ly before midnight. COLLIDED ON A BRIDGE. A Narrow JCseape from a I rlulidul I>i»aMter on tlie as. A O. Koad. Wilmington. Del.. *\ov. 10.—During a heavy fog yesterday a rear-end col lision occurred on the ISaltimore & Ohio railroad. A southbound freight train parted by reason of a broken coupling, and the rear portion of the train stopped on the bridge. \ south bound passenger train closely follow ing plunged into Ihe caboose of the stalled section of the freight, and the caboose and a coal car were thrown down the embankment. The passen ger train remained on the tracks on the bridge, which is 105 feet high. The people on the passenger were badly shaken by the collision. John VMen. I n:ted States Kxpress Co. mes- senger. had his arm broken. Conduc tor William Galloway was severely cut by broken glass. John M. Lacy, ot Wilmington, was knocked unconscious and sustained internal inuries. Oth ers were cut and bruised, but not seri ously. Hay IIa» (liilrlnl Tlirlr I'enr*. Washington. Nov. 10.—The diplo matic representative of every nation directly interested in the Chinese question called at the state depart ment Thursday. The interest of the Chinese government in what is going or between the I'nited States and the I'.'urope.an powers is intense but it is believed that Secretary liny -has re lieved the main apprehension, which was founded upon a suspicion that our government, in the event that the Hnropcan powers failed to give assur ance of the maintenance of the open door that if seeks, will take posses sion of a section of the Chinese coast. They Need tlie Schoolmaster. New York, Nov. 10. —Gen. I.udlow. military governor of Havana, reached his home in I'lushing yesterday. To a reportei Gen. Ludlow talked upon the condition of affairs in Cuba. He considered the greatest drawback to the improvement of the pe pie their great illiteracy. Among oth things he said: "The condition of the peo ple Is something awful in that respect. Eighty per cent, of them are illiterate. We have made a beginning' and in Havana tin re is now something of an approach to schools. What we need most is a system of industrial schools," .-•* street Kallway Coiiftolidatlon. ( hieago. Nov. 10.—The Chronicle says: After repeated efforts i () merge the thre< S< nth Side suburban electric railroad companies into on» consoli dated company the promoters are un derstood to havi reached a working basis. The new company will hav a capital of not less than $10,000,000 and will buy outright the South Chi cago I ity Railway. Calumet Kleetrie and Chicago Klectric Traction com panics. \ (•robiilil)' Fatal ".loUe."' Chicago. Nov. 10. John Shindei was probably fatally burned here Thurs day through an attempted joke. Two fellow workmen bound him with a tarred roj.r and after lighting it left the room, thinking' it would burn •lowly. In an instant the prisoner was a mass ** 112 flames. Ihe cord burnt in two and he ran info an adjoining room, where other worumen tore tin? "anting clothing from him. Charles I'ecker and Allie Chuddenski were ni r: ted. Tlicy said that as Shinder >\as a new man they wished to inifl ife him. RISE IN PRICES. Wool l« lit-her Than n( Any Tim* Mnec Tlay, 1H93- I'lg Iron »t llltflieKt I'oint Mn<<» IKS:i I'rMeN ol I'roduclß Have Mot < orreapoiidiiigly Act vmicedo New Vork, Nov. 11.— H. (J. Dun A: C'o.'s Weekly Itcview of I'radc navs' The most noteworthy feature of the time is the rise in prices. Wool has risen relatively more about 10 per cent., in two weeks and the average of 100 quotations is higher than it iias been at anv other time since May. ls'J.";. 1 "if.r iron has risen further. being quoted lot anthracite No. I.the irgli est price since .January. 1 ss;>. lint hiiles are at the highest point since January, lsT.'i, having risen all the year with very little reaction. Prices of products line not correspondingly advanced. Lent her and boots and shoes were higher in November, 1595, than they are now, cotton goods were higher in January. I soft, woolen goods in July, ls!tl ami even the products ol iron, though greatly advarced. are not as high as they were in January, IS'iO. Such wide discrepancies in advance cause inneh embarrassment but are the natural characteristics of a rise which is mainly dm not to concerted action in any trade lint to the pressure of a consuming demand, the greatest ever known, which for the time evcecds supplies, though very unequally. Its results begin to justify the conserva tive feeling which finds expression in many branches of business. The iron industry, which has led all others in the advance, now leads the way toward :i readjust mem of values. While contracts for pig cover the en tiro product of the most important, districts for six to nine months in ad vance, many of the consuming works in some lines approach the end of their orders and have new competitioi to meet, so that sheets have fallen $4 per ton at Pitts!mirg and $0 from the high est point in September, and plates are s(> lower there and at Philadelphia. A break in the London market de pressed tin and sales were made at 2S cents. Loot and shoe makers are generally getting about the 10 cents per pair ad vance they have held necessary and have as large coni racts in most lines a - tlicy now wish to close, in view of the uncertainty about materials. The rise in cotton as yet helps manufacturers whoso contl'M'ts co\er production well ahead but tlx buying has been mainly by traders and based largely on expec tation of a very low estimate of yield by the depart incut. Wheat has not been %ery active nor strong, although western receipt® have much declined, being 4,(t'i1.007 bushels for the week ngainst Tk'(24,045 last year. Corn advanced about as much as wheat fell .though witli prosepct of a heavy yield. •Failures for the week have been l.Vi" in the I'nited Slates against 211 lasi year, and 215 in Canada. FRAUDULENT RETURNS. Five .lien Hold to Amnci* to llie I barge of liii|>er*oiiatliiy: ICleetlon Officer* ami Philadelphia, Nov. 11.— As a result of an investigation conducted by an anti-Quay newspaper five men .all res dents of Washington, were yesterday held in bail for court on the charge of repeating, impersonating election offi cers and making fraudulent returns. The defendants are lohn F. Sheehan, E. -M. Drinkert, William Cook, llarry MeCabe and (leerge Kirkland. All but one are said to be in the government's employ. It developed that Kirklan 1 had been employed by the newspaper mentioned to enter the conspiracy. He '.viis the principal witness Friday . The testimony involved several prominent politicians in this city and a lieuten ant of the Capitol police at Washington. Kirland related in detail all thflt happened from the time of their arr'val until tin ir arrest at the rail road station on election night. On Tuesday morning, lie said, he and VY. 11. Cook went to the house of Deputy Cot oner Samuel Salter, accompanied by Lieut. (!. I'odgers, of the Capitol police. Kodgers. Kirkland declared, was in charge of the party when it left Washington. At Salter's house they met the deputy coroner and John Sil verman. rne of (lie election inspectors. Continuing, the witness said: "Salt er handed us a number of ballots fold ed and sealed and told us they were to £ro into the boxes as soon as we got to the polling place. On our arrival there Silverman and Cook unlocked the boxes and we put the ballots in. There were about 2f>«l 1 judge." Kirk I and said he acted as minority inspector under the name of Clarence MeCabe. the regular inspector, and that Cook impersonated !•". K. liankln. the judge of election. During the af ternoon witness assert'd. 15 additional votes were marked by Cook and Silver man and placed in the ox. The Itisf *?•! voters were "landed specimen bal lots. wTdeh witness thought r ere de stroyed after the polls. He said 124 votes were actually east and that th* 1 number returned was P".O or there abouts. K irk!" inl said he acted in the matter at the instigation of a newspaper reporter. lie was paid sls for lis wort: at the polls by Lieut. IJodgers. he said. froki' a Keeord. Chicago, Nov. 11. Major Taylor, ihe colored rider, broke another bicylce record Friday at fiarfield par!: by fol lowing hi- motor eye'e for haTf a mile in 11 seconds fiat. The previous rec ord was 414-5, held by Kddie McDut fee Mi-ti<-n on. Carbondalc, II!.. Nov. 11.—Consider able excitement has b«-en createrl in southern Illinois over the fact that near Texas City, in Saline county, oil in paying quantities and of the very best quality has been secured at a depth of 2.00') feet. Will it I In Cleveland. Columbus, (>.. Nov. 11. I'he ofli crs aad directors of lite American '\sso-ia ti(.i of Lumber Dealers, at their quar- t >-session here, selected Clevd i.nd n: 'lie meeting place for the annual c-.t:i'f.«: en < 112 tin association on Jar.u a-. . I 112" You Can't Catch the' *" * | Wind in a Net." | Neither can you cure catarrh by local I I applications. It is a constitutional dis- J ease, and is cured by Hood's Sarsapa- J rilla because rt:s a constitutional rernc- J dy. It expels from the blood the im- I purity ivhich causes the disease, and T rebuilds the inflamed membranes, I Some \r<» Bo Clever* "Is it hard to propose to a girl?" asked the novice in affairs of the heart. "Sometimes it's a good ileal harder not to propose," returned the man of worldly ex perience, thoughtfully, "it's always well to he on your guard."—Chicago Post. "Winter In the Sontb. The season approaches when one's thoughts turn toward a place where thy in conveniences of a Northern winter maybe escaped. No section of tliis country offers such ideal spots as the <«ulf Coast on the line of the Louisville k Nashville Railroad between Mobile and New Orleans. It pos sesses a mild climate, pure air, even temper ature and facilities for hunting and fishing enjoyed by no other section. Accommoda tions for visitors are first-class, and can he secured at moderate prices. The L. & N. R. R. is the only line by which it can be reached in through cars from Northern cities. Through car schedules to all points in_ Florida by this line are also perfect. Write for folders, etc., to Jackson Smith, D. P. A., Cincinnati, O. Immovable. Lawyer—Do you swear the collision raised the entire car? Witness—Well, it raised everything but the windows. —Judge. T.«.»e'« Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. Price 25 and 50c. ICacli (<> His Craft. Plumber —So long: I'm off to lay a pipe. Poet —Well, good-hy; I'm oil to pipe a lay.—Syracuse Herald. Does your head ache? Pain back of Bad taste in your mouth? It's your liver! Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They cure constipation, i headache, dyspepsia, and all liver complaints. 25c. All druggists. | Want your moustacho or beard a beautiful brown or rich black ? Then use BUCKINGHAM'S DYE Ivhlskors | G RA| N-Q the food drink. What is Grain-O? Coffee with all the head ache, indigestion and nervousness left out. A scientific preparation of pure grains, looking and tasting like coffee and costing one-fourth as much. Try Grain-0 to-day. All grocers ; 15c. and 25c. 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