2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TEttMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. f'cr year 12 00 r paid In advance I "0 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate nt one doliar per square fur one insertion and Ilftj cents | er square for elicit subsequent insertion Kates by the year, or fur six or three months are low and uniform, and will tie furnished on application. Lentil and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, !2: each nubsequenl inser tion . 0 cents per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one inser •ertion: 5 cents per line tor each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over Ave lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar* rinses ami deaths will lie inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. 45 per year: over live Hues, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for lest than 75 cents pet Issue. JOB PRINTING. The .lob department of the Pass* Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of worlt. pAKHCL'I.AIt ATTENTION PAID TO I.AVf PUINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear figes are paid, except at the option of the pub isher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. CUKIKENT TOPICS. Petroleum has been discovered about 4 miles from Tunis. The highest waterfall in the world is in Mexico —978 feet. Augusta, Ca., plumbers have struck for $4 a day of eight hours. Spain is overrun with bandits, who loot convents ami churches. Women clerks at Denver, Col., have formed a permanent organization. King Edward likes to have Ameri can women present at his dinners. Wm. C. Lawrence, who was a fire man in Boston since 1832, has just died. Female house servants command from? 15 to S2O a month in South Af rica. W. Nelson, of Patorson, N. J., owns the manuscript of Poe's poem, "The Hells." German exports to tke United States increased $14,878,770 during 1002 over the year 1901. Newspaper writers in many of the large cities are organizing under char tors from the International Typograph ical union. No child, young girl or woman can be employed more than 60 hours a week in Canada, and the law is strict ly enforced. An enormous sunflsh, weighing one r.nd one-half hundredweight, has been left stranded by the tide at Blalceney, Norfolk, Eng. Titan's long missing "Mary Magda len" is thought to have been found in the possession of Robert Jarvis, of Roxbury, Mass. There are more than 10,000 work men employed in the Portsmouth (Eng.) navy yard. The wages amount to $70,000 weekly. Navy men are subscribing for a monument (at Erie, Pa.) to the late Capt. Charles V. Gridley, of the Olym pia and Manila bay. It has been decided to establish wireless telegraphy apparatus on all stations and on all passenger trains on Italian railroads. Oregon labor unions are preparing child labor, eight-hour and other labor measures for consideration by the leg islature this session. An odd candy box is an elephant sit ting clumsily on its haunches and smoking a pipe. The head lifts off to receive the bonbons. Eighteen miles is the distance at which the new 39,000 candle power light on the Bass rock, in the firth of Forth, will be visible. Robert Scott, a waiter at a Cleve land hotel, has served the guests at one of the tables of the establishment continuously for 24 years. The St. Petersburg police have dis covered a gang of thieves recruited from young men moving in the highest circles in Russian society. in the restaurants of Germany veni son is as cheap and as abundant as beef. Great pains are taken to pre serve and improve the deer. Justin McCarthy has just passed his 72d birthday. He has apparently aban noned novel writing and Is devoting himself exclusively to history. The daughter of the sheriff at One onta, Ala., freed two prisoners, one charged with murder and the other ac cused of a minor offense, and eloped with the latter. The only considerable fields of an thracite coal aside from that of Penn sylvania are those of China, which, however, are vast in comparison witn Pennsylvania's. Senator Mason introduced a bill pro viding for the appointment of receiv ers for coal mini s whenever the fail ure to operate becomes a detriment ti the public welfare. John It. McVlcar, of Boston, the white child born north of the Arctic circle, has just celebrated his golden wedding anniversary, lie was chris tened by Sir John Franklin. The owners of a number of sky-era pcrs in New York city have beet forced to pure ia e Kround adjolnin them to prment their light and uit being cut off by other tall hulldinu:*. A rather appropriate sulphur iriutcl *afe Is lit the shape of a head Intend cd to represent IIIm Satin le Majesty lie has a Very red face, a.id from oil of a Miiall bla< k cap protrude th< horn* uf.islly awaiitd to this gciitlo man I'rof. Hall, In a recent number the Astronumbal Journal has d'er mined the inn iof the riim of Saturt to that of the planet as one to The MM lof TltM It 1.1... I Hal lite, is lu t tut of Saturn a» one It IMPERIALISM AND DEMOCRATS. An Inmm' That In \\ itiiout Foilntinlion —Souml Currency tilt* Only Sufe One. Tbe announcement of Senator James K. Jones that anti-iniperial ism must be the paramount issue upon which the democrats go into the next presidential campaign would have a tendency to disturb all democrats who wish for the suc cess of the party were it not for one thing. That is the settled con viction that James K. will not be allowed to dictate or formulate a policy for the party in 1904. His day as leader or dictator is past, and the party will select a safer man to fol low when it again falls into line for a national campaign. Mis inefficien cy as a leader has been fully dem onstrated, and he and those who think with him may as well retire gracefully or they will be retired, says the .Montgomery (Ala.) Adver tiser (dem.). The folly of making or trying to make a definite issue of anti-im perialism is mere moonshine. It matters not what the individual opin ions of democrats may be on the question of our foreign policy, it is foolish to suppose that the party will unite in opposition to the policy of the government while it is engaged in a foreign wvtir. It is perfectly true that some of our strongest demo cratic statesmen are opposed to the retention of the Philippines, but it is equally true that others of equal prominence and patriotism, as well as of equal devotion to democracy, are in full accord with the policy now. being pursued. We admit that demo crats may hold these diverse opinions without ceasing to be democrats, but to talk about uniting the party on a policy of virtual opposition to the government is tommy-rot. Evidently Senator Jones wishes to fall upon an issue which will virtually relegate the money question to the back ground without saying so in so many words. lie would find, if be could have his way, that his "paramount is sue" would divide the democracy in finitely wvirse than free coinage did. While we are speaking of issues and platforms, it may not be out of place to refer to the platform re cently formulated by one «'»f the shrewest men in the party, David I?. Hill. It is thus briefly stated: "A strict construction of the fed eral constitution. No entangling al liances with foreign nations. Insist ence upon the reserved right of the states. Public taxation for public purposes only. Opposition to monop olies and dangerous combinations of capital. The preservation of the personal liberty of the citizen. No centralization. Home rule for states and municipalities. These arc dem ocratic principles, which survive all defeats and must ultimately tri umph." We thoroughly agree with Mr. Hill that these are all democratic princi ples, old as the party itself, and it should not be difficult for democrats to unite on a platform of ibis kind, but we do not believe it will be hon est or good policy to ignore the money question, for the republicans will not allow our party to remair silent on that point. The party must declare itself in favor of a safe and sound financial system and of a safe anil permanent currency, or it need not. go into the fight at all. Noth ing is more absolutely certain in our estimation than this. The republic ans will undoubtedly g bea slap at < harlle Townt*. Hogg, of Tt \a*. and other* who have got tangled up with the nioi. y powi r.— < '• vein ml Leader. I' It i a I ttle nervy for Mr. Bryan 1.. .< • I«• vn . I 1 111 ,#0 Hml tell ihe Matc,»nicii there thai they ilon'l kiyvv. what I hey re d in:' when they attempt to -wap the silver! Nt a mill I'd 112 <1- Ihe |?old one which is | tut. 1 anti 11 * what he limn Mild in! -owe of hi talk« Hut when did Ihe! , ~ ,1,1 • . I »eu! .hi off li feet to hi trying to injke 1 1. to kl. n«wq»ap. r the ora cle of demur |- try Troy 1 tun ~ CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1903. WOOLENS THAT DEFRAUD. Arc Mil oil In Evidence in Free Trade Kit|Cl4iml. Hint Not in I'ruk't tion America. Free traders get hard raps some time right from the home and strong hold of free trade. It has ever been a favorite assertion with the opponents of protect ion that good woolen cloth cannot lie made in the I'nited State* because the duty on wool d< prives our manufacturers of cheap "raw mate rial" and compels them to use inferior wool, mixed with cotton, shoddy and other adulterants. This is a stale and often refuted falsehood, but it is still desperately clung to by those who should know better, whether they do or not. The fact is that American woolen goods have come to be known as the very best of their kind iu the world, and they have attained this high degree of excellence under the fostering care of protection', says the Troy Times. On the other hand, there is probably no country in which the practice of ad.'ulterating woolen goods is carried to such an extent as in free trade Eng land. Exposures of the practice have repeatedly been made. Some new revelations along this line are now agitaiting the British people. The London Telegraph asks: "Is one ever sure of getting a woolen garment?" and it fallows this up with a long story telling of the deceptions em ployed in British woolen mills through the enormous use of such substitutes as shoddy, mungo, cotton, old stock ings and rags collected from the popu lous centers of all Europe. In York shire, the great wool manufacturing district of England, and in Scotland the manufacturers are putting cheap substitutes for wool into their cloths. British consumers and medical au thorities are aroused to the point of alarm on this subject, so extensive is the use of adulterants and so scarce are honest woolen goods. And this in free trade England, where not a farthing of duty is collected on the wool which comes from abroad. England is in truth tbe originator of the shoddy which so arouses the apprehension of our free trade friends. Shoddy was made and used to an enor mous extent iu Kngland long before it was ever thought of here, and when our own people were yet wearing hon est homespun clothing made from the actual wool of the domestic sheep, and of purely home manufacture in every stage. American woolens to-day are the result of the development that has steadily gone on from the time of homespun garments, and represent the inventive genius, taste and! skill of a progressive people, finding en couragement under the protective pol icy. We are making the finest, best and purest woolen cloths that can lie produced anywhere, and do not have to employ the shoddy and oilier adul terants of free trade England to bold our marki ts. MEXICO DOESN'T SUIT HIM. Mr. Ilr.viiii Tlilnk« the Country M ill 111, \\ ritiiK to Ailiipl th«' I.old Stauiiard. It will be noticed that Mr. Bryan finds fault with the desire attributed to President Diaz and Finance Min ister Limantour to change their financial system to the gold basis. According to our Nebraska, friend, Mexico will make a serious mistake if she comes over to the gold side. Nobody is injured by the fall in the price of silver in Mexico except the importers, he says, and of course they have no rights which Mr. Bry an or anybody else is bound to re spect, says the St. Louis tilobe-Dem ocrat. If Mr. Bryan takes a glance over the list of countries which are now on the gold basis, lit? will find that they are very much more numerous than they were in 1896. All the na tions of any consequence anywhere in the world which cling to the discred ited white metal to-day are Mexico and China, and China stands a chance to abandon it in a year or two. Cas tro's country is getting a good deal "relßlit Xll« VlctlliiM Here All In «l»«i Smoking Car Two ol 'flK'in Were LlScrully ICuiiKled lo Ui'ctli, i'iltsljiirfr, .Tan. B.—As it result of a collision between a passenger train unf tli.* I'ennsyivaia rail road las't niglit at ("oelirane station, just above Duqnesne, seven men are dead, one is dying and iive others in jured. The dead: ('. K. Stroud, baggagemaster of Kli/.a beith accoin nioda t ton. Home wood. <'. M. Moebner. brakeinan of ac coinmodation, Pittsburg. John Stewart, passenger, residence unknown. Two unknown foreigners killed out right. Two unknown foreigners, died on their way to hospital. The passenger train in the wreck was the West Kiizabetih accommoda tion, which left Pittsburg ait .'i:2o p. m. It was on time and had a clear track, according to the signals dis played. At the siding at Cochrane it ran into the rear car of an extra freight which had taken the switch, but failed to clear the main line. The officials of the road attribute the disaster to the failure of Pat rick Quinn, t.lie rear •brakennan of the freight, to see that his train had cleared. Quinn has not been found. When the passenger train came along the. caboose of, the freight train overlapped the main tra-ck enough to catch the tender of the passenger engine, which was forced back upon the combination baggage and smoking car with terrible force. The 1?, passengers were jammed against the rear end of the car into almost a solid mass. Three of .ue vic tims were apparently killed outright, two oif the other four were literally roasted to death and the two who died on the way to the hospital were so badly burned that recognition 13 impossible. Almost immediately after the im pact, tire from the stove in the smok er communicated to the wreckage and the imprisoned victims were tor tured beyond description. All of the victims were badly turned. Conduc tor Cook was found unconscious un der the charred body of 15aggagemas ter Stroud. Strange to say not a truck except the tender left the track, the passen gers in the coaches being thus pro tected from harm. No one outside of the smoker was injured. When the passenger engine struck the rear end of the last car of the freight, thft beam of the cowcatcher knocked the cylinder on the left side off and then dug into one end of tJie tank of the tender and shoved i*t from the trucks. This tank was driven back through the combination bag gage and smoker. The tank cleaved through the shell of the combination car like a knife, it passed through between the roof and floor of the crowded car. in the front end of the car was a stove which was shoved back among the confused jumble. Any fire that might have been catised by the shock could easily have been extinguished in a short time. Rut when the tank came through it 'brought with it a 15-gallon can of gasoline. This was ignited by the coals of the stove fire. There was an explosion and the wreckage commenced to burn fur iously. A SEVERE BLIZZARD. It .Tlnltc* ll* Prmenre Felt Over # Vn*t ICxtcnt ot Territory. Minneapolis, Minn., .lan. 7.—The blizzard in the Dakotas and north western lowa is one of the most se vere ever known. One death is re ported, that of Michael Butler, of Dead wood, K. I)., who was killed by u falling tree. The loss at Sioux City by wind is estimated at SIO,OOO. At Luverne, Minn., roofs were blown down from buildings through plate gla-ss fronts on the opposite side of the street. Uailway cuts were drift ed full and wagon roads blocked over an extensive area. Stock is suffering and there will be many losses. The wind had a velocity of 60 and TO miles an hour in many places. llrown's Valley, Minn., Jan. B.—The worst storm that has occurred in the last ten years has been raging since 6 o'clock Tuesday evening. \ heavy fall of snow and a northeast wind, blowing about 40 miles an hour, make travel of all kinds impossible. All trains are oJMindoned on account <;( the storm. Omaha. N'eh., .Tan. *. The railroads were seriously affected by the storm and nearly every train arriving in the <>it\ yesterday was from one to six hours late. Several instances are re ported where engineers stopped their trains entirely during certain spasms of the storm, while they were nil high or esp.i ed ground, being afraid to run because there was danger "112 be ing blown off the track while round ing curves. IxMii \ille. Kv.. .Lan, Reports fr.itn portions of the sou th we-1 and from nearh all parts of Kentucky indicate that the effects of the blizzard are being severely felt. Culle.l lo Holt III)' «lull. Watertown, X. Y.. J»n. >, \t« nn «ncces,ful attempt to rob the Cnlted ptiite* mall was mail a lt<>me, Waterlown .< • » "len - int train near Ooiiverueur I • I 11 'hi. 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