2 r. X. BLdMbE,! •) •) <j» (• « i> § Emporium, Pa. •> Bottler and Dealer In 2' i i I BEER, | % • ?, WINES, I <£ 2 11 | WHISKIES •> <• •> • • '«> And Liquors of all Kinds. a <« •) A <• <8 AS®'®®'®® § § The best of goods always carried ( ? <i in stock and everything (• V) warranted as rep- A resented. 2 | ! <• (• <• Special Attention Paid to fe ? £ '•> Mail Orders. it' EMPORIUM PA 1 5 «•' <• e 0 e *0 • COMMERCIAL SCHOOLS want to send you their catalog and circulars. If you can not attend one of our schools now, WE CAN TEACH YOU Bookkeeping and Shorthand successfully BY MAIL Address"The Elliott School,"at Wheeling, Charleston, Fairmont, or Clarksburg, W.Va. W. B. ELLIOTT, Pres't. J. A. Fisher, PRACTICAL Jiorse $ shoer, Broad Street, Emporium, Pa. *; | Fall and Winter 112 j Announcement. | ■& Our stock of Fall and Winter Dry Goods is now U complete. We have a nice iline of heavy goods for J3, jft, Jacket suits, and also several pieces of heavy goods for 7? TT rainy-day skirts. JCL A lull line of Ladies Wrappers for fall and winter $ P. in calico, percale and flannelette, sizes 32 to 44,/roin j#" si'oo to $1.85 each. *K *O, We have a large stock of white and colored|all fA n* wool'blankets and the prices are very low tor the grade rf ft of goods. .y, j®! Our|stock of'mercerized satin under skirts|js com- & i4i plete. These skirts are made of the best material that & o can be bought for the price, and are not a back number. 5<K •X" They*are|going rapidly. Do not wait until they are W nearly|all|gone before looking them over. Prices,sl.oo, $1.35, $2.00 and|s2.3s These prices are special for this '& Have just received a shipment of ladies belts. The & -O latest in black and colors. Prices, 25c, 50c and SI.OO each.|"Also a lot of new applique trimming in black and white. W Sfc % While in our store ask to see the - A Lansdown Waist Patterns. u & Our custom made Clothing is giving the'greatest f> satisfaction, as is attested by the increased business we o w in this line. We guarantee the fit and can w save you from xo to 25% on your clothing. | 18. HOWARD 8 COM. I H ypcfrjc&z* &:«c363csr_«cs ♦ A Weak Stomach Indigestion Is 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 slomacb may refuse to digest what you eat. Then you need a good digestant liko Kodol, which digests your food with out the stomach's aid. This rest and the wholesome tonics Kodol contains Boon restore health. Dieting unneces sary. Kodol quickly relieves the feel ing of fulness and bloating from which soma people suffer after meal*. Absolutely cures indigestion. Kodol Nature's Tonlo. Prepared only by E. C. 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Book and advise froe. Address ROYAL MEDICINE CO.,'^.caOTUU I '- For Sale in Emporium, by R. C. Dodson.—l2iy / V.,• |.r> i!y . .:m r '•.»'! I l '' • / Bend model, sketch or plioto of invention for ij I Mreereport on patentability For free book, r ■ maflam Dean's I A safe, certain relief for Suppressed I Menstruation. Never known to fail. Safe! ■ Sure! Speedy! Satisfaction Guaranteed ■or money Refunded. Sent prepaid for I 81.00 per box. Will send themon trial, to ■ be paid for when relieved. Samples Free. B ""ITED MEOICAICO., Pox 74. Unc>»Tm. P.. Sold in Emporium by L. Taggart And It. (J Dodson. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1903. EIGHT KILLED High School Pupils Were the Victims. Express Train Hits a Trolley Car at a Crossing. Dozoiia AVere Severely Injured—The It alls Were Very Slippery With Ice and the IWotormai* Could Not Stop the Trolley far. Newark, X. ,T., Feb. 20.—A fast ex press on the Lackawanna railroad cut through a trolley car crowded with school children at the Clifton avenue crossing yesterday. Kight of the chil dren were killed and a score or more of them injured. The motorman of the car, who stuck to his post, will die and the engineer was so badly hurt that there is little hope of his recovery. Roth the express and the trolley were on steep grades, going at right angles. The express was signalled and the crossing gates were lowered, while the trolley car was yet half way down the hill. The motorman shut off tlie power and applied the brakes, but almost immediately the car began to slip along the icy rails. It gained tremendous momentum and at the bottom of the hill crashed through the gates, directly in the track of the oncoming train. The locomotive plowed its way llirough the trolley, throwing the children in every direction. The dead are: Viola 111, 17 years. Maude Raker, lti years. Ernestine I'. Mueller. Mabel E. Karsehner, 17 years, Tif fin, O. Alma Loehnberg, 1G years. Rosebud Kohn. Ella Werpup, 19 years. Evan 1.. Eastwood, 1G years. The accident happened within three blocks of the high school building and in the car at the time were nearly 100 pupils. Thirty others man aged to throw themselves from the car before the crash came. The trol ley was one of the specials which every day bring the children to school. It had more than its ordi nary load, owing to the cold. It contained every child that could squeeze inside and others stood on the rear platform. Recause this car had been so crowded, many who were waiting for it before the hill was reached could not get, on, although some climbed on the front platform with the motorman. A score or more children were com pelled to walk and they followed the car afoot. They say that when the car was stilT Tess than half way down the hill the railroad gates be gan to drop. Peter Rrady, the motor man, promptly shut off the power and applied the brakes. The speed of the car was checked, but it con tinued to move slowly down the in cline. There was no thought of dan ger. Then it began to move faster and faster. The ice-covered rails af forded no hold for the wheels and j although Rrady jammed his brake harder and then swung on the re verse. the momentum of tlie car grew at every yard and the car shot down toward the railroad. When it was right at the gates the express thundered into view. Warned by the cries of those afoot and by their own sense of danger, those on the platform • began to throw them selves off into the snow and as the car sped along the few remaining feet toward the rails, perhaps one third escaped death or injury in this way, but there was no time for those within the ec/' to do more than crush toward the rear door. The gates were swept aside like toothpicks and be fore the cracking of the gates died out came the crash. For.'! 0 seconds Viefore the air was filled with frantic cries of those who saw death dashing down upon them. The wreck of the trolley car was complete. The pilot of the engine struck it almost amidships and turned it partly around, and then the engine cut it in two. The upper part of the trolley was reduced to fragments under the drivers of the locomotive. Half of the car was thrown to one side and lay on the tracks. The other section was hurled some distance away. In every direc tion lay the injured and dead. The engine was brought to a standstill and from the train and from nearby houses men rushed to the rescue. The spectacle was appalling »ind many who started to work had to give up unnerved. Killed by Suva «£«'«. Victoria, R. C, Feb. 20.—Mail ad vices received by the steamer Aorangi from Australia state that F. F. Win sters, administrator of New Guinea, h: advised the Australian govern ment that James Jossick and James Rrackenbury, the latter formerly a California miner, had been killed' by Kwarmanu tribesmen. Roth were killed with clubs. Walker and Mul holland, two other miners, were at tacked at the same time, but Walker held off' the blacks with his revol ver and recovered tin' bodies of the two de'ad miners. Settlers in the Hebrides write to Sydney papers that, slavery is being practiced by French recruiters there. They Will Not Strike. Chicago, Feb. 20.—There will lie no strike of the employes of the Chicago City Railway Co. At a meeting «>f the men held last night It was de cided to accept the offer of tin* com pany to submit the differences be tween the company and the union to arbitration. National Organizer Pratt, of the Amalgamated Associa tion of Street Car Men, was present at the meeting and urged the men n..! t.l strike, saying that if they did *«> they would forfeit all the itnce uf the national body, ills ad vice was taken. DEMAND MORE PAY. WabitMi Trainmen I.lUrly to Strike If Their Iteiinetttii Shall he Hcl'iifced. St. Louis, Fob. 19.—As a result of the inability of President Ramsay and the committee of the Wabash trainmen and conductors to come to terms, a poll has been ordered by the officers of the orders on the original demand for ail increase of 15 per cent, to all freight conductors and train men and 12 per cent, to the passen ger conductors and trainmen. At a conference between President Ramsey and the committees, the com mittees offered a compromise on the original demand, to the effect that the increase asked should apply to trainmen and conductors employed on Wabash lines west of a line drawn from Chicago to Danville, excluding 600 mile.* of the system. This propo sition was refused by President Ram sey on the ground 'that the Wabash lines in Illinois are not and should not be included in the western divis ions of the road and that the same wages should apply to them as to the eastern lines. It is stated that unless there shall be an adjustment of the matter a strike will be ordered, as it is believed the trainmen and conductors will en dorse the original demand. HITS THE BEEF TRUST. Jntlgc (iroftwrup Deelarea that »»io Combine Srckn to Itentrutn Trade. Chicago, Feb. I!).—The demurrer of the packers in the so-called "beef trust" case, was overruled by Judge Grosscup in the United States circuit court yesterday, and a motion grant ed for a temporary injunction. There can be no doubt, said Judge Grosscup, that the agreement of the defendants to refrain from bidding against each other in the purchase of cattle is a combination in restraint of trade; so also their agreement t<i bid up prices to stimulate shipments, intending to cease from bidding when the shipments have arrived. The same result follows when we turn to the combination of defendants to fix prices upon, and restrict the quanti ties of meat shipped to their agents or their customers. Such agreements can be nothing less than restriction iipon competition, and therefore combination in restraint of trade; and thus viewed, the petition, as an entirety, makes out a case under the Sherman act. The packers did not announce what ♦ heir next step would be. They have 20 days within which to make up their minds. TORTURE AND MURDER. OTethodn i:iii|ilo>ed l>y the Insurance Fraud Schemer* to Secure Money. New York, Feb. 10. —Assistant Dis trict Attorney Krotel said yesterday that the insurance fraud case now under investigation in this city prom ised to develop into one of the most startling ever known in the criminal history of the city. "Refore the district attorney's of fice has finished its investigation of the astounding New York insurance frauds," he said, "I would not be sur prised if it were proved that the con spirators even went so far as to mur der in cold blood to get bodies for the purpose of collecting policies. We have found that 23 substitute bodies were passed off on the Hancock In surance Co. alone, and as soon as the plotters are indicted these will be ex humed. The Investigation into the remarkable plot has hardly begun." The fate of Sarah Weber, who, it is alleged, died from the effects of bru tal treatment she received at the hands of the conspirators, Mr. Krotel said was but a single 'instance. According to stories told by her rel atives Sarah Weber was tortured in order to compel her to aid in the in surance frauds. A THREAT TO STRIKE. It In .Made by Street Hallway Kin ploye* In IMttßbiir;:. Pittsburg, Feb. 19.—A committee of the members of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Em ployes yesterday met General Super intendent Murphy, of the Pittsburg Railways Co., and presented to him a list of grievances and demands which they wanted agreed to within 43 hours or a strike would follow. Mr. Murphy told the committee that the demands would not be agreed to and the committee will report to a meet ing of the association to-night, when the question of strike or no strike will be decided. The principal demands of the men nre for a uniform increase of wages to 25 cents an hour and recognition of the union by the signing of a con tract between the company and the officers of the organization. The dis affected employes are on the lines which were formerly controlled by the Consolidated Traction Co. The employes on the Second avenue lines and the Allegheny lines formerly con. trolled by the United Traction Co. are not organized and it is understood will not go out if a strike is called. The Iturflott" llelrm Win. Caracas, Feb. 19. —The supreme court yesterday rendered its decision in the suit brought by the heirs of Henry Rudloff, an American citizen, against the Venezuelan government for damages for the annulment of a conccrsion given in 18i>2 to build a market 'n Caracas. Judgment was given in mvor of KudlolT's heirs. Their claim for $700,000, to be paid by the Venezuelan government, was admit ted. I Shrapnel ImprmiMd the Moro*. Manila, Feb. 19.- While Capt. I'er i shing was at Itayan, the Moro strong- I hold in the Lanao district of the isl- I :md -of Mindanao, the Moros conse | crated him a datto, which is a I priestlv office. After the consecra tion the Moro leaders and l'ershing subscribed to peace over a copy of the Koran. When the United States flag raised over the liayan forts Pershing** butteries saluted it by tir ing shrapnel shells, having no salut j ing e:trtridges. The execution dun* by the shrapnel impressed the Moms wonderfully. A HOTEL FIRE. Nine People Roasted to Death at Cedar Rapids, Ja. Guests Became Panic-Stricken and Jumped from Windows. Forty of Thrill Were Injured, Some I'utally, by Doltm So- Kulldlny; Watt a Fire Trap and ■turned Llkii Tinder. Cedar Rapids, la., Feb. 21.—Firu early Friday morning destroyed the Clifton hotel, cremated nine of the guests and caused injuries to 42 per sons, who were scorched or forced to jump to the frozen street from sec ond and third story windows. After an all-day search in the debris, four •bodies have been recovered. It is now believed that five more bodies remain in the ruins of the hotel, which is said t,<» have been a flimsy stricture and filled with delegates to the state Young Men's Christian as sociation convention and the district convention of the Knights of Pythias. The hotel register was destroyed, thus making it difficult to ascertain the number of missing persons. The loss is SGO,OOO. The dead: W. A. Mowery, What Cheer, la. E. C. Young, Minneapolis. Two unidentified men, bodies recov ered. Five bodies still in debris. The flames started in a pile of rub bish in the basement, presumably ig nited by defective electric lignt wires. The night clerk was on the third floor when the cry of fire, raised by a bell boy, startled him. He took up the cry and in an instant the hallways were choked with frightened guests. A rush was made for the stairways. It was then that the crowd already collected in the street heard heart | rending cries of anguish, for the fire, j feeding ravenously on the tinder-like i material of the lower floor, had com ; pletely cut off escape. There fol i lowed a stampede for the windows, I the only means of exit, left. . The I street below was filled with a crowd I scarcely less frantic than the despair ' ing ones in the fast burning building. "It was like a Dore picture of the I Inferno sprung to life," said one spec | tntor in describing the scene. The flames, looking blood red, from re- I flection against the snow, lit up the pale, drawn faces of the people in the ; windows with a glow that was un earthly. The victims were literally driven by the flames to jump. Nearly every one of them lingered to the last mo ment, urged by the people below to wait as long as possible in the hope I of assistance. Then a cry would tell that the fire had reached some one, or the smoke had made it impossible to breathe, and one after another jumped to the street and some, more fortunate, to the roofs of buildings adjoining. In a short space of time the street was filled with men and women bruised, battered, broken limbed and half-crazed. VENEZUELAN AFFAIRS. Alllew Delay ttctiirn of Captured Ships —Two Victories lor Castro. Caracas, Feb. 31. —The papers here publish a protest directed to Venezu ela. the United States and European nations as follows: "In order that the public may know ! how Germany, Great Britain and Italy execute their engagements, we call attention to the grave fact that up to February 20 the ships taken by the three powers have not been de livered to the government of Vene zuela as stipulated in the protocols." The German commodore has noti fied the authorities at Puerto Cabel -10 that the Venezuelan gunboat Res taurador, which was captured by t'le Germans, will be returned to Vene zuela on February 23, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and not before. A revolutionary army estimated at 2,800 men has reached a point about 20 miles south of Caracas. The revolution organized by Gen. Matos, during the course of the block ade of the Venezuelan coast by the allied warships was reorganized and three armies formed. One, under command of Antonio Fernandez, num bering 1,800 men, was routed near Calaibozo, in the province of Miran da, several days ago and its chief is now fleeing in the direction of the river Apure. The second army, led by Gens. Mantilla, and Soloagnie, 1.200 strong, was defeated last Wednesday near Urachiche. ! The third army, commanded by Gens. Rolando, Penaloza and Vidal, which was expecting to meet thf first two armies, arrived Thursday at a point about ten miles from Petare, which is situated ten miles southeast of Caracas, after having lost SOO men ; from desertion en route. The I strength of this third army is estl- I mated at 2,800 men. It has taken up 11 strong position and the troops sent against it by the government are n<lso strongly placed. Paris, Feb. 21.—The correspondent of the Matin at Caracas telegraphs that, the battle near Uraschiclie in ; which the revolutionary generals Mantilla and Solagnie were defeated lasted three hours. There were .many killed and wounded and the | government troops captured one gun, many rifles and much ammunition. I .Money Shark* <.et Hu*y. Springfield, 111., Feb. 21. It Is re ported here that the money sharks of Chicago, who loan money to em ployes and take as security an as signment of their undue salaries, have raised a fund to defeat legisla tion looking to the prohibition of the assignment uf salaries. The sen ate has had the mnHer under consid eration and the judiciary convnlttee reported an ntiuMidinenf to one Mil which. It Is claimed, affords no protco- I tlon whatever l • employers, w ji , will | still lir liable to kiiit In in .nej 'shut! - "in a -foments of Mtlnrtw. CAD WEATHER. It Has llliirii-rcd Traffic-linn's iff e« vJew of '2 r»dc. New York, Feb. 21. —R. O. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Just as the railway congestion be gan to, give way before the vigorous efforts of traffic managers, the sit.u-» ntion became further complicated by the worst snow storm of the season* and the movement of merchandise was again interrupted. Latest figures) of gross earnings show the usual! gains, February thus far surpassing by 17.0 per cent, last year. Increased' cost of operation, however, necessi tated further advances in rates. Trade was interrupted to a consider-, able extent by the inclement weath er, except in certain seasonable lines, notabT.v heavy wearing apparel. Wholesale houses dealing in sta ples have received liberal orders and much forward business has been plaeed. Jobbers urge quicker ship ments on old orders, while travelers send in many new contracts. Man ufacturers of paper, straw goods and clothing report conditions fully as satisfactory as a year ago. Condi tions in the silk industry are shown by enormous imports of raw mater ial, and one large maker has recently rejected orders sufficient to occupy his 'plant for two years. 15ids are invited for extensive build ing ■operations, giving strength and activity to materials and supplies. Although many new blast furnaces are nearing completion and others will be finished within six months, the actual output of pig iron 'de creases because fuel cannot be se cured. Last week's moderate im provement in the situation has been succeeded by a decided setback, many more furnaces being compelled to bank through lack of fuel. Failures this week numbered 247 in the United States, against 250 a year ago, and 2'i in Canada, as compared with 31 last year. BIGGEST OF ALL SHIPS. : Tin- Steamer Cedric Complete* Her I*'lrst Voyage Across the Atlantic. Xew York, Feb. 21. —The steamer Cedric. the largest vessel in the world, arrived here Friday from Liv erpool and Queenstown after her maiden trans-Atlantic voyage. The passage from Daunt's Rock to this port was made in eight days, eight hours and I(i minutes. She brought 742 passengers, of which number 430 were steerage. The external dimen sions of the Cedric are identical with those of her sister ship, the Celtic, of the same line, but by reason of struc tural differences, has increased pas senger accommodations. The Cedric Is 700 feet in extreme length, <;.) feet in breadth and 4!) 1-3 feet deep, with a gross tonnage of 21.034 tons, dead weight about IS,OOO tons and a displacement of 38.000. The vessel is designed to attain a speed of 17 knots at sea. The Cedric has four masts and two funnels, the height of the latter being 131 feet above the keel. Accommodations for 350 first class, 200 second class and 2M steerage passengers are provided. JEST CAUSED TRAGEDY. .llan Kill* Ills Svvcptlioart ami Shoota Her ICrotlier and Himself. Xew Decatur, Ala., Feb. 21.—A re port comes from the mountain dis trict of Winston county of a terrible i tragedy, as the result of which Mag gie Schadf, aged IS, is dead; her brother, John Schadf, is seriously, : and her lover, William Jones, fatally wounded. The brother has been liv- I ing at Slielbyville, Ind. lie returned without the knowledge of Jones, whom he had never met. lie was in ! conversation with his sister when Jones approached them. The sister tauntingly asked her lover "How do you like my new sweetheart?" Jones immediately shot the young woman through the heart, causing in stant death, and he (then fired at her brother, the ball penetrating the breast. The brother made his rela tionship to the young lady known, and Jones turned his revolver against his own breast and fired. The bullet took effect near the heart. Ovations for Tliree. New Orleans, Feb. 21. —Admiral Schley, Col. McClure and Joseph Wheeler were given an ovation by the people of Xew Orleans Friday after noon. They came at the invitation of the Progressive union. Admiral Schley made a patriotic speech. Col. McClure delivered an address in which he emphasized the good feel ing that had grown up in the coun try between the sections which bad once fought so valiantly. He re ferred to Admiral Schley, saying he was big enough at the battle of San tiago to say that there was honor enough for all. Gen. Wheeler was compelled to respond to the loud calls and made a happy speech. Tlic Pope's Mlver Jubilee. Rome, Feb. 21. —The twenty-fifth anniversary of the election of Pope Leo XIII. to the head of the Roman Catholic church was celebrated Fri day in the Yatican hall of the Beatifi cation. Admission was only by tick et and about 4,000 persons were pres ent. The ceremony consisted in the pope receiving delegations of pil grims from all parts of the world. Tins was followed by the presenta tion of gifts to his holiness, chief of which was a magnificent triple crown, the offering of lloman Catholics throughout the world. \ Smallpox Kpldcmlc. Erie, I'a., Feb. 21.—The state nor mal school and the public schools of Kdinlroro have been closed owing to a severe outbreak of smallpox among the pupils of i he former institituion. The matter of the epidemic has been kept >er_\ unlet and it was not until a committee of eiti/ens who were ■ ware of the existing conditions ap pealed to Krie for aid that the mat ter I line public. Within an hour after li became kn >wn ill the normal school that seven ■. I»• • I;«> were down with smallpox, 411(1 indents had p.o k< I their trunks and left town. 3
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