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We have a nice (line of heavy goods for & Jacket suits, and also several pieces of heavy goods for M TT rainy-day skirts. JUL 4$ A full line of Ladies Wrappers for fall and winter r, ft in calico, percale and flannelette, sizes 32 to 44, from V' SI.OO to $1.85 each. » ,Q, We have a large stock of white and colored|all y wool'blankets and the prices are very low tor the grade YJ 5 of goods. JU r! Our|stock of'mercerized satin under skirtsjjs com plete. These skirts are made of the best material that A « can be bought for.the price, and are not aback number. They*are|going rapidly. Do not wait until they are a' 0 nearly I.dllgone before looking thein over. Prices,sl.oo, <y ;*!, Si-35> $2.00 aiul|s2.3s These prices are special for this rf lot. u a ... ... a $ Have just received a shipment of ladies belts. Ihe A latest in black and colors. Prices, 25c, 50c and Si.oo j*j each.|*Also a lot of new "npliijue trimming in black & <1 and white. P, , $ While in our store ask to see the •J Lansdown Waist Patterns. .J • .sf. < )nr custom made Clothing is giving the'greatest <• ♦ satisfaction, as is attested by the increased buun-ss we « 54!; art'doiug in this line. We guarantee the fit an 1 can W ->u\e you from 10 to 25' /t on >oiir clothing. 4 * o ♦ E P. *» *.V «*l w * * 112 G I HOWARD 8 COM. i • « ■» v v.y *.s X * A Weak Stomach Indigestion la often caused by over eating. An eminent authority says the harm done thus exceeds that from the excessive use of alcohol. Eat all the good food you want but don't over load the stomach. A weak stomach may refuse to digest what you eat. Then you need a good digestant like Kodol, which digests your food with out the stomach's aid. This rest and the wholesome tonics Kodol contains soon restore health. Dieting unneces sary. Kodol quickly relieves the feel ing of fulness and bloating from which some people suffer after meals. Absolutely euros Indigestion. Kodol Nature's Tonic. 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By mail • 1.00 per package* or six for •fI.OO, with a posl tITO written ROarantee to euro or refand the money. Book and advise free. Address ROYAL MEDICINE COV^mc^TiLu'-- For Sale in Emporium, by R. O. Dodson.—l2ly Wo promptly obtain U. 8. and Forelgr^^T Msam 112 Send model, sketch or photo of inTention for \ 112 free report on patentability For free book, 112 ) HowtoSecureTnanr writer I A safe, certain relief for Suppressed U ■ Menstruation. Never known to full. Safe! 9 ■ Sure! Speedy! Satisfaction Guaranteed ■ lor money Refunded. Sent prepaid for H H SI.OO box. Will send them on trial, to Q ■ be paid for when relieved. Samples Free. ■ Jj UNITED MIOICALCQ , Box 74. UNC*»T;W P* J Sold in Emporium by L. Taggart and K. C Dodson. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSrAY, DECEMBER 25 1902. CHILI) LABOR LAWS They Seem to be Disregarded in Vicinity of Scran ton, Pa. 1 Non-1 nlon Tien Tratllj Tliey Were Victim* of .Mob Vlolrni'r, Their ItclallYc* Were Huyrullrd uiul Their Llvm itluilc ,Hl»cr uble by the Slrlkri% Scranton, Pa., Deo. 10. —The mine workers, after occupying 19 days in presenting about 100 witnesses prac tically closed their case before the anthracite coal strike commission yesterday. Several little girls employed in silk mills were called to the witness stand and as a result Chairman Gray plain ly gave his opinion of parents who send their children to work at a ten der age. The lirst girl called was only 11 years old and she had togo to work because her father had been hurt in 'the mines. She said she worked from 7 a. in. until 6 p. m.for a week. Another 13-year-old girl said she worked all night in the silk mill at Dnnmore for 00 cents a night. Judge Cray here inquired as to the law in Pennsylvania regarding child labor at night. One statute was found which partially covered the case, and the chairman remarked that it seemed as though the statutes of Pennsylva nia in this part of the state do not seem to bother any one. After hearing all girl witnesses the miners put a breaker boy on the stand. He is 1+ years old and has a 10-year-old brother working in the breaker of the Fled Ash Com- I pany at Mount Carmel. Scranton. Pa., Dec. 17.—Notwith | standing that the mine workers an | nounced Monday that they had closed their case with the exception of calling one more witness, the two sessions of the strike commission yesterday were consumed in hearing three witnesses for the men. They were John ('. Haddock, an individual operator; IJev. Peter Roberts, who is assisting the miners, and President (ionipers, of the American Federation of Labor. President (ionipers testified as an expert on trade unions. He created a sensation when he strongly implied that the coal companies are respon | sible for bringing immigrants to the j coal regions. When one of the law- I yers for the coal companies asked I him if he knew it from personal j knowledge,he said he could prove it. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 18.—The anthra- I cite coal operators yesterday opened their side of the controversy with the mine workers before tne strike com mission and the attorneys who are j on record before the commission as representing the non-union men. Five witnesses were produced who testified that strikers had killed one man and had seriously annoyed two other men who worked during the suspension. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 19. —The coal strike commission yesterday listened to further testimony tending to show j that a reign of terror existed in the I anthracite coal fields during the live and a half months of the mine work j ers' strike. About a score of wit nesses were called during the two J sessions by the attorney for the non union men. They told of serious boy cotts, brutal attacks by crowds of men, women and boys, and an at tempt to burn the house of a non union man. Chairman Gray said the commission was not bound by any strict rules of evidence, hut a«ked counsel to con j fine themselves in examining wit nesses as far as "possible to direct evidence. He said it was difficult, in : trying to prove that boycotts exist, Ito get information on the subject. ; The commission, he .said, wanted to know whether a reign of terror ex- I isted in the anthracite region and it j could not get that information if the strict rules of evidence were applied "The coward who will goto the ' storekeepers," he said, "and tell them i not to sell the necessaries of life to a | poor woman, usually seeks the ob | scurity that the law of evidence I throws around him. If a girl is dis charged from her position in a store I because she rode in a street car in Inclement weather while a street car I strike was on.the coward who dis ! charged her is coward enough to re fuse to testify." lie recognized, he nai<i, why some merchants will not come forward and tell who forced them to refuse to •/•]] necessaries of life to certain boycotted persons, but If he (Chairman liray) were a store ; keeper, he thought he would risk his all in order to assist in breaking up j the cowardly business. .1 >hn Doran, manager of the Wilkes barre silk mills. testified that bo cause he would not discharge two j girls who had relatives working in the mines, the l.llto employes went on strike and stayed out eight weeks | until the matter was fixed up. These wltnes-.es and others that were called testified that their wives were insulted on Hie streets, their I ohildreu were beaten by other ehij dren and could not 1«* safely sent to school; that lor.i! unions requested htorekeepers to refrain from selling good- to any one related to a man working in the mine-,; that their lionsns were -toned; that they were htoiH-d, shut at and hung in i-tligy and that life was generally made inlseru -4»lfor tliern and their families, I'n •Idcnl llm r'a Mulmiciit. New York Dee 17 President llaer, of the Heading railroad, made a slate- Uiant >i-«terdu> deprecating the course |iuroiled b> the independent coal operators, who it i-» alleged have 1 .he i. ■ for.l. i, lup ,o ill.a ton to dealers. »<|iial to sit U» th colt OIIU-- "I .if ■ I-f1111. ( |*-1\ tit. 1 ' be no w ajf I • Compel I lie ill to well down lo Ihe level lUe,| hv the \ railroad*," -aid Mr. 11..0r. "If tin-ir ' mil l' of oUtig Ilioil to Ihe p ••oil rati- SOLD TO THE TRUST. Tim t'nloii ntid Sliaron Steel Plants Are Absorbed by the I'nltcd Mates Steel Corporation—Tile Ileal Involves ITlany .Million*. Chicago, Dec. 17.— Judge Elbert 11. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, announced yester day the purchase of the Union and Sharon plants of the Union Steel Co. near Pittsburg, the transaction in volving a bond issue of $45,000,000. Judge Gary gave out the follow ing statement concerning the trans action: "The finance and executive commit tees of the United States Steel Corpo ration. accompanied by the presi dents and other prominent officers of the subsidiary companies of the steel corporation, recently made an inspec tion of the Union and Sharon steel plants now controlled by the Union Steel Co., and as a result the finance committee has purchased the same for the steel corporation on the fol lowing- terms: "These plants are located near Pittsburg on the Monongahela river, and at Sharon, Pa., respectively; they were started some time before the formation of the United States Steel Corporation and not in opposition to It. These properties have rod. wire, nail and other works in operation as going properties; when fully com pleted t ey will have five modern blast fi maces and 25 open hearth furnaces, with capacity to manufac ture 7,500 kegs of nails daily; new and modern tube mills, bar mills, tin mills, sheet mills, plate mills, etc.; they have about 5,000 acres of coking coal in the Connellsville region, be sides terminal railroads in the coke region; 0,200 acres of fuel coal on the Monongahela river, limestone prop erties and valuable developed ore mines in the Mesaba and Marquette regions containing about 40,000,000 tons of ore, two lake steamers and steel railroad cars. "The steel corporation pays the ex act cost of the manufacturing plants, to be determined by auditors appoint ed for the purpose. For the real es tate, ore properties and the coal lands they will pay something more than the cost value, but not to exceed the present value. The stockholders of the Union and Sharon plants agree to furnish about $10,000,000 new cash to be expended in the completion of improvements and further develop ment of the properties in such man ner as the steel corporation may de termine." LEAPED INTO A DITCH. All Krle l'unsfiiiji'r Train I* Wrecked —Two Men Killed and Several lia'Jly lii lii red. Cleveland, Dec. 17.— Two men were killed, four badly hurt and a score or more slightly Injured because a train on the Erie railroad ran away and was ditched at the Union street crossing Tuesday afternoon. The New York and Pittsburg limit ed got away from the control of the engineer several miles outside the city and came tearing down the track at terrific speed. At Miles avenue ?t struck Anthony Madden, a wire drawer. The train cut him in two, and despite all the efforts of the engineer to stop, it con tinued on its wild career to destruc tion. The grade all the way int<v the city is a dangerous one. The C. & I*. tracks cross the Erie's at Union street where the wreck happened. As the train rounded the curve. Engineer Warren 11. Goss saw a C. & P. train directly across his way. lie had the air on, but the terrific momentum carried him on with frightful speed, lie saw a wreck was inevitable, and with a shout to his fireman to jump, he sprung from the train, receiving injuries in the fall which caused his death last night. The next instant, his train hit the derailing switch, set for just such an emergency and the engine seemed to leap from the rails, head-first info the deep ditch, parallel with the tracks, plowing up a great hole in the bank. The train was nyvle up of engine, baggage car, smoking oar, and day coach anil was the flrst section of the limited. Every coach followed the engine from the track. There were 50 passengers on the train and the first warning they had was when the crash came and their cars began to turn over. A l.iinatle'* Crime. Lapeer, Mich., Dee. 17.— John Ilest, aged 28, single, a man of disordered j mind, during Monday night arose ' fram his bed and ran amuck through ' the house, cutting Jasper Clegg's head nearly off with a razor, danger ously wounding his own mother, wounded his sister and finished by shooting himself to death. Clegg, who was 00 years of age, boarded at i the I'est home. Best was committed to the insane asylum about a year ago, but six months later was dis charged as cured. Musi I'ay a S|,eelal Tux, Washington, Dee. 17. Commission er Yerkos, of the Internal revenue bureau, has rendered a decision in which he rules that druggists and , others who sell soda water drinks, | claret soda, or similar beverages to I which distilled spirits or any com j pounds thereof are added in any ; quantity, however small, are re | quired to pay a special tax for retail I liquor dealers, under the interor* revenue laws. I*.>«*i-ii iter I i.tin \\ reeked. li rininjflimin. Ma., Dec. 17 \ southbound pa eager train from ( lii einnati in New llrlemis »>u the Ala ; iiauia it Great railroad Was 1 wrecked 7u miles »oiith of lliriiiinif ! ham vetlerdav, a rail hating been re in Old II ir tres!|n which .pans a I small creek Th- litcnm dive left lht« track itnd I ippleil into the e,,ek. Ihe 1 mail, l.agga,,.- and »«pr*' ' cars and I |M|| cnai'he full ,wed K«.|lle»* Me* I icrks KclU and I' i* ■ ilid r I email Durr wen i.n-l.v hart I tie few THEY LACK ELASTICITY. Comptroller of tlic < urrfiif j Say* Na tional IlankH Should be Allowed to Inane Circulation In lCxce** ol Valine of llondN Deposited. New York, Dec. 19. —William 15. Rldgely, comptroller of the currency; President Wilson, of Princeton uni versity; IJev. Robert S. Mac Arthur; Maj. Gen. Chaffee and John S. Wise were the principal speakers at the omnia! banquet of the New York State Bankers* association, given at the Waldorf-Astoria, last night. Five hundred members and guests of the association were present. Comptrol ler Kidgely spoke on "Elasticity in the Currency," saying in part: "The one great objection that can fairly be made to the national bank ing system is the lack of elasticity in the currency which is issued. "Any satisfactory solution of our present currency problems should in clude some plan for the retirement of the legal tenders. I believe the bank note circulation can be greatly improved by a few conserva tive changes which will add to its elasticity, or rather introduce some elasticity where there is now prac tically none. "I think the best plan which has been suggested for modifying our bank currency is to allow the banks to issue more than the par value of the bonds deposited. The first con sideration should be to make these notes absolutely secure to the holder. The government can safely guaran tee or insure the notes if protected by the bonds held for a part of their value, and in addition by a guarantee fund to be raised by a tax levied on the bank circulation." DEWEY'S SHIPS. A Ills Squadron Will be Wltliln ICasy ■teach of Venezuela'*, t'oa*t. Washington, Dec. 19.—According to the approved plans the principal fighting ships of Admiral Dewey's fleet will rendezvous next week at the island of Trinidad, right off the coast of Venezuela and at St. Thomas near Porto liico. Hear Admiral Hig ginson commanding the North Atlan tic squadron, will have command of the battleship fleet at Trinidad ill his flagship Kearsarge, with Hear Admi ral Sumner, commanding the South Atlantic squadron on his flagship lowa, as second in command. The fleet at St. Thomas, which in cludes two battleships, will be under command of Hear A(V:niral Crownin shield, commanding the European squadron, on his flagship Illinois. The j Ihyt of cruisers and smaller vessels* I which will anchor at St, Kilts, will be in command of Rear Admiral Cogh lan. commanding' the Caribbean divis ion, on his flagship Olyinpia. Al though not so stated, Admiral Rewey will retain the converted cruiser Mayflower a.s his flagship and will spend most of the ten days* holiday at San Juan, lie is now at Culebra with the bulk of his immense fleet. AN IMMENSE DITCH. Will be Constructed In Order lo lle clnlm Tlioii*and* of Acre* of Indiana .Mar*h Land*. Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 19. —Pre- liminary steps are under way in the northwestern counties of Indiana, ! including I.aporte, Starke, Porter, 1 Lake and Jasper, to construct what j probably will be the largest artificial i waterway of its kind east of the Mis sissippi river. When completed it I will reclaim hundreds of thousands of j acres of Kankakee marsh lands now j regarded as worthless. A contract has been let for the i first 14 miles In Laporte and Starke j counties for $120,001). The ditch will ; be SO feet wide and 10 feet deep. It is the plan of the other counties to . continue the ditch to the Illinois state line, a distance of 00 miles. The : cost will be about $1,000,000. The project has been taken tip by | th«' owners of large farms along the Kankakee. The payment is to be made by assessments on benefits de rived from the ditch. A Strantfe Story. Marion, Ind., Dee. 19.—John De Camps, R0 years old, who mysterious- j ly disappeared from his home near Greenville, 0., a year ago, has been found at Somerset, a village near here. De Camps and an elder brother owned an estate valued at SIOO,OOO. The older brother died and the next day a sister filed a suit in partition. Another part of the family also tried to gel possession of the estate and in tin' litigation De Camps, it is said, was kidnapped by one f-li<>ll and brought to the home of his niece. Mrs. lingers, at Somerset. The Green ville court has heen notified and an effort will be made to take De Catvrps back home and riwtorw his property to him. A "Salnl" Sue* lor a Divorce. Los \ngelcs. Cal., Dec. 19. — "Santa Teresa," the young woman believed by the Yaqui Indians and many Mex icans to possess divine powers, has sued her Indian husband. <i. X. Kodri gue/, in the local courts for divorce. It is alleged that the marriage nut forced upon the girl at the point of a revolver by her impetuous admirer, at Clifton, Ariz., June 11, 1900. New York, Dec. 19. Gen. Wager Swavne died yesterday afternoon at his residence here, of a complication; of diseases. His widow, two sons iiml it daughter were aj the deathbed. ISocr* lo I ante to lllierleu. Denier, Col., Dec. lit. Nearly i.uou liner-, ll i« said, lire preparing !« "Irek" to America ami will settle in Colorado. N*w Mevlcn and Texas. The representative of this movement ! is (1.-ii Samuel IViirnmi. late quarter master g neral of the lute !*..iith Vf- ! I are in New »rU. • •! .rndo friend |of the liner hate been in eoiuioiiul I ell |ou W'illl I ii'ii. IViti < m in reg.i rd ! to sitilabl • lands for the settler*. iuu <tv«*r iHit tiu> »*\ jm'i* ' iiiiti MINISTER 150 WEN. lie Is Venezuela's Only Jiepre sentative. Cn*tro t.ivc* 11 iin Full Poiver to Aft" Allien Notify Venezuelan* Thut Xliej Are About to Blockade Sl« ol - Tlit-ir Polls. Washington, Dec. is.—The follow ing cablegram was sent Wednesday by the navy department to Admiral Dewey, in command of the combined fleets: "Send competent officer in torpedo boat destroyer or other vessel 111 ( aracas its assistant to American minister." The following cablegram also was sent to Commander L)iehl, of the Marietta, now lying at I.a Guaira: "Send Van Duzen (executive officer of the Marietta) as assistant to tho American minister temporarily." It was stated at ijhe navy depart ment that one reason for sending the officers to Caracas was the fact that, Mr. Bowen is almost overwhelmed with the work imposed upon him bv his many charges. He lias nearly all of the English residents in Caracas domiciled in the American legation and is fee-ding them from his own table. As for the torpedo boat de stroyer, it is pointed out that it will serve as a dispatch boat to keep Mr. Bowen in touch with the cable sta tion nearest to La Guaira, which can be relied upon to transmit messages to Washington, in case the La Guaira cable shall be cut as an incident to the blockade. Caracas, Dec. 10. —Lopez 15a rait, Venezuelan minister of foreign af fairs, has transmitted to United States Minister Bowen a document signed by President Castro as presi dent of the republic and counter signed by himself as minister of for eign affairs, in which Mr. I'owen is recognized as the only representative of Venezuela in the matter of effect-? ing a settlement of the present diffi culty. According to the terms of this document, Mr. Bowen may act with out restriction and he is to use all means possible to protect the inter ests of Venezuela. The state depart ment at Washington has been noti fied of the transmission of this in strument to Mr. Bowen. It lias been learned fron an official source that the allies will notify the j Venezuelan authorities at La Guaira j of the blockade, to become effective December 20 at :t p. m„ of the ports lof La Guaira, Puerto Cabello, Coro, I Maracaibo, Carupa.no and Barcelona. La Guaira Dec. 19.—The German cruiser Falke, which has been an | chored for the past two days at the entrance of Lake Maracaibo, yester day captured the Venezuelan schoon er Victoria. After cutting down her mainmast, thus disabling her, the Germans abandoned her. This action has caused great indignation among the Venezuelans and excitement runs high at Maracaibo. Washington, Dec. 19.—The state department has learned that a mere money payment will not meet Ger many's desires. Count Quadt, the I German charge, had a long interview | yesterday with Secretary Hay touch ing Venezuela and the fact is now ap- I parent that while money will satisfy I Great Britain and Italy, Germany ! must have Jin apology. The difference | between her case and that of the | other powers is that the German Ie- I gat-ion at Caracas was attacked, its j windows broken, the minister's sick j wife terrorized and the German na i tional honor otherwise touched in ii ; manner that cannot be healed by j money. Touching the question of a guar j antee of any obligations that may be : assumed by Castro as a result of Mr. I liowen's good offices, it is suggested In official circles that, the I'nited States being without power in th;> I absence of legislation to assume di ] rectly any responsibility for the ex ecution of Castro's pledges, it is still possible for the state department to give an assurance to any parties who I might be induced to produce the i money to pay the judgments against Castro that, when the time comes for repayment, the I'nited States govern ment will exercise its good offices to nee that the obligations were kept. It is distinctly stated, however, that lio pledge will he made on the part of the United States to forcibly co|- j Vet any indebtedness of this kind. Berlin, Dee. 19.- A fact which im- I presses the foreign observer here is the quiet indifference of the news i papers and people toward the Venezu elan affair. Not a Berlin newspaper has a leading article on the subject ' and the news published is largely an abstract of what the London and New York papers are saying. The Germans appear to be astonished at tTie commotion in tireat liritain and the United States over what is re garded here as a mere episode. Spanish-American war. London, Dec. 19. The Brussels cor respondent of the Daily Telegraph nays that Germany is supporting the ctalms of Belgium Ittitist Veii'-'.iiebi. ; which amount to $1,2.10,000. I<> l><-lied. Montgomery, Ala., Dee. 19. \ ne ■ gpi named Scott I'.ishop is reported j to have been lynched yesterday near ' Marbury. Ma.. 20 miles from \lont j gotiiery. I'.ishop. it is charged, inur | tiered Wade llleks, a white man. I |<l«>*'<l <<OIIIM<UI l.un Narrlaisr. Lincoln. Neb., Deo. H The su preme court handed down a decision yesterday which uphold* the work i ings of the common law marriage ; statutes of this state The case wan one wherein the husband ile lared hi* i tiyirria.' will bet-ail •• It It I been performed Ic than *i\ months after ' hi* wife hail eetired it divorce from 1 her former hti band. Thee iri de el if'd u«h n utarrl.'£«• mil ..ful, bill i nt/tut le:.' a I i/eil the union. hecatlPH 1 (hi iM)U|tl* tool Hml t ih >r <fi*» . t!.. -I,M It p- t !••<! h»< IH If >-tt. 3
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