I Adam, i \ Meldrum & ) j Anderson Co. £ HUFFAXiO.N. Y. >j \ 396-408 Main Street, ) j £ G-reat Reduction } j STYLISH j COATS»» j; I FURS | t To close out our entire > j } stock of winter garments we \ \ £ have marked them \ | 1-4 OFF. i 112 Choice 0f35 long fur scarfs, Mink, Per - \ \ sian Lamb, Black Martin, Black Lynx, c \ Blue Lynx, Bear, and black and brown S S Fox— P 112 1-4 Off the refiular value. \ 112 Ladies' tailor-made Buits, long and short 5 1 skirts, made with Norfolk and blouse J r coats all very line and latest styles, i \ Black and colors, only 75 left. Choice p 112 of these suits— \ X 1-4 Off. ) 112 7") s»ilk or cloth Dress Skirts, all good, \ s desirable styles, marked — 2 \ 1-4 and 1-2 below regular price. ) r Ladies' black and colored Monte Carlos \ s half fitting Jackets and three-quarter r ('oats, medium and large sizes. Only a > > : > { 1-4 Off. } P Just S8 misses and children's Coats left for s I ages 6to 14, blue, brown and castor, all j P the very latest styles at — s \ 25 per cent, reduction. p \ A few Velvet Blouses-, Monte Carlos and 3 % Evening Wraps, all reduced about— \ \ 1-3 from the regular prices. <» £ The Restaurant. j t Our restaurant on the fourth floor, re- j P moved from the bustle of business, is a S s delightful place where one may relieve j > the tedium of shopping. A light lunch or < s a full meal. Excellent service and mod- J J erate prices. C ) Adam, | > Meldrum & \ r Anderson Co. ) } TheAmericanßlock, J £ BUFFALO, N. Y | IT ** *** **** **** w** ** **** * ****** ***# * fc Jfflt *» *Sfc *Sk *at Jtat ws% *fk ittk Mk m Mt us. 4* *fc 4& xfc *& Jlfc «fc ** *& 4* jstk * | g I SIO,OOO Bankrupt Sale I N . |4 B of Furniture I M 8« S3 H J J We secured under most favorable conditions, the H *? entire stock of $$ n u s<| | The Mankey Mfg. Company,j< »« 58 || AT BANKRUPT SALE. n m |? This purchase, a very fortunate and opportune jj[jj ** one —brought to us about SIO,OOO worth of £* P* bed room suites, dressers, vvashstands and sideboards, *4 II bright and new, direct from the factory, which we M £4 will dispose of at virtually next-to-nothing prices. |4 || Now we are ready for this great sale, the most inipor- |s* H tant furniture event ever offered you. A sale that will fc* I y make new history in our business. High class, up-to- £2 date, thoroughly reliable furniture at much less than ?? cost of manufacture. We want you to cotne to this ?? sale, to see and compare the furniture with that you ** ** can buy elsewhere at even double our prices. We will fc4 14 leave it to you then, as judge to say where the greatest £4 £4 values can be had. It is only through a purchase of £4 lis kind, that these stupendous bargains are made pos- &£ gg sible—a chance that comes your way but seldom. This £2 gg will be a quick decided event, the stock must be clear- £3 12 ed out at once,as we have 110 room for storage purposes. Ej M If you have any particular fancy about style, wood or M 14 pattern, you had better come early or the very thing *4 14 you want may be gone. Judges of furniture making M ) £ and exceptional values are especially requested to in- £4 u spect these goods, and examine every detail of quality, |i kg workmanship and durability. Owing to limitation oi £2 space, we cannot give details of this irresistable sale. £2 J* We cordially invite correspondence from prospec- 112 3 ** tive buvers who cannot visit us in person. M « II « (1. *I. IjA I iiV RS >1 >< M OLD RELIABLE FURNITURE STORE, l\ II M II II || KMPUKIi n, PA. || ;i, vwm ,***, f *** r ***—******* ! We are I offering 1 Reduced Prices on Virnte AND Overeoats i We carry an up - to - date stock of Hats, Caps, Shirts, Neckwear, Suit Cases, Umbrellas, . In fact anything you may wish in GENTS' FURNISHING I I GOODS LINE. Now is the Time to Buy. R. SEGER & SON. I Next to Bank, Emporium, Pa CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1903. ANCIENT HISTORY. happening in McKean County in Days of Old, Taken from the Files. Smethport Miner. The following statement of Captain Theodore McGowau, A. A. (J., to (Jen. Augur, may be implicity relied upon as a correct version of the assassination of President Lincoln; "On the ni'jht* of Friday, April 11, 1865, in company with a friend, 1 went to Ford's thrcatre, arriving there just after the entrance of President Lincoln and his party accompanying him. My friend, Lieut. Crawford, and I, after viewing the Presidential party from the opposite side of the dress Circle, Went to the right side and took a seat in the passage above the seats of the dress circle and about live feet from the door of the box occupied by President Lin coln. During the performance the at tendant of the President came out and took the chair nearest the door. I sat and had been sitting about four feet to his left and rear for some time. "I remembered that a man, whose face I do not distinctly recollect, passed me and inquired of one sitting near who the President's messenger was and learn ing exhibited to him an envelope, ap parently official, having a printed head ing and superscribed in a bold band. L could not read the address and did not try. I think now it was meant for Gen. Grant. That man went away. "Some time after I was disturbed in my teat by the approach ot a man who desired to pass up the aisle in which 112 was sitting. Giving him room by bend ing my chair forward, lie passed me and stepped on one step down upon the level floor below me. Standing there, he was almost in my line of sight and I saw him while watching the play. He stood, as I remember, one step above the messenger and remained perhaps one minute, apparently looking at the stage and orchestra below. Then he drew a number of visiting cards from his pocket from which, with some attention, he drew or selected one. These things 1 saw distinctly, 112 saw him stoop and,l think descend to the level with the mes senger and by his right side. He showed the card to the messenger and as my at tention was then more closely fixed upon the play, 1 do not know whether the card was carried in by the messenger or his consent given the entrance of the man who presented it. [ saw, a few moments later, the same man entering the door of the lobby leading to the box and the door closing hi hind him. This was seen because I could not fail from my position to observe it; the door side of the proscenium box and the stage were ali within the direct and oblique lines of my sight. How long I watched the play after entering 1 do not know. It was, perhaps, two or three minutes, possibly four. The house was perfectly still, the large audience listened to the dialogue between 'Florence Trenehard' and 'May Meredith, when the sharp re port of a pistol rang through the house. It was apparently tired behind the scenes on the right of the stage. Looking to wards it and behind the Presidential box, while it startled all. it was evidently ac cepted by everyone in the theatre as an introduction to some new passage, several of which had been interpolated in the early part of the play. A moment after a man leaped from the front of the box directly down nine feet on the stage and ran rapidly across it, bare-headed, holding an unsheathed dagger in his right hand, the blade ot which flushed brightly in the gaslight as he came within fl) feet of the opposite exit. I did not see his face as he leaped or ran, but 1 aui convinced that he was the man I saw enter. As he leaped he cried distinctly the motto of' ' Virginia, 'sic semper tyrannis.' The hearing of tiiis and the sight of the dagger explained fully to me the nature of the deed he had committed." The circumstances which led to the success of the ['resent diabolical plot are mainly as follows: As is not uncommon, the general joy and hopefulness after the late brilliant victories, whereby the heart of the insurrection was finally and fatally pierced, the day of rejoicing was conclud ed by special rejoicing at the public thea-1 tres. It has not been the custom of the President habitually to attend these places of amusement, but as this seemed to be an occasion of general rejoicing, he had consented to visit it in company with his wife for the purpose of lending his countenance and encouragement to the prevailing good feeling. (Jen. Grant and his wife were expected to he present also, but afterwards changed their determina tion. The play for the evening was "< >ur American Cousin." The Presidential party, consisting of Mrs. Senator Harris and daughter and Major Henry J. Rath bun of Albany, arrived at the theatre about forty minutes after eight o'clock and were ushered by Col. Ford into the private box overlooking the stage. The expected presence of the President j and Gen. Grant drew out a crowded house. Booth was observed working his way through the crowd towards the box occupied by the Presidential party, but of ] course no suspicion was excited by the ; circumstance. When he reached the i sentry at the door ol the box he was re ; fused admittance, but in a whisper he an j nounccd himself as a senator ami said th<! President had sent for him. Il<' was llien allowed to pass in, when .Major Rathbun confounded him in a low tone, of voice; "You mistake, sir; this is the President s box.' Booth graciously lugged paidon. turned to t'o and struck «t Major U.ithbuii with a knife, iufli< ting a severe but not dangerous wound, lie stepped out of ihe box, passed onto the second door, which was closed, tired through it. stepped buck again in the box at the first door ami in an instant had sprung out upon the stage with a cry of "sic semper tyrannis." The whole affair was the work of thirty seconds. Major Rathbun made no outcry at first as lie did Dot wish to create an alarm. All in the boxes as well as the sentry outside, heard the shot, hut at first supposed it fired in the course of the play. Mr. Lin coln made no outcry when hit and Mrs. Lincoln only discovered it when she turn ed to him after Booth rushed past her and jumped upon the stage. There are but few brief details to be added to the scene in the actual moments in which the assassination took place. The President was sitting in a large easy chair which Mr. Ford had placed in the box specially for that evening. Mr. Lincoln was looking on the stage in the second scene of the third aet of "Our American Cousin." Mrs. Mountcher sington was ju«t leaving the stage, saying to Mr. Hawk, who was playing Asa Trencbard, the words: -'You don't understand the manners of good society; that alone excuse the impertinence of which you are guilty." Trenehard answers, "I guess I know enough to turn you inside out,'' and the audience clapped their hands and laughed in glee, in which the President joined with a smile and turned his head halfway to the audience. At that instant Booth fired the pistol through one door of the box, at the same time making his aim while looking through the other open door. The Presi dent threw his head slightly forward and seemed to crouch down in the chair. Booth leaped from the box to the cutting Major Rathbun as he passed and shouting "sic semper tyrannis" as he dashed across the stage, ft was but 04 feet from the President's box to where Mouth left the house. After the shot was lired the occupants of the box seem ed paralyzed. Miss Harris recovered first and calhd to Miss Laura Keene, the actress, for water. As the house was lifting emptied Miss Keene went around up into the dress circle and into the box. She immediately set to work, placed the bleeding head of the dying man on her lap and endeavored to get some water down his throuf, but even then he was wholly unconscious and his breathing was rattlingly noisy. The brain was already commencing to ooze out and the blood bedaubed the robe of the actress. The self-possession of Miss Keene is comment ed on as the only exception to the general fear that seized upon everyone. That Rooth meant to kill the Presi dent is elear enough, but that hi; did kill him, shooting through a door at an angle which he must have measured with his eye when he first looked into the box, is something almost remarkable. He must have framed his mind for just such emer gencies as actually and finally came, or else the success of this shot was a mere stroke of luck for him. In any event, firing as he did, he could scarcely hope tor such success once in twenty times. His intimate knowledge of the exits from the stage at Ford's, where he had often played—his last appearance being some six or eight weeks ago when he played Romeo to Mis. Rowers' Juliet—assisted his escape to the alley, where he mounted his horse and rode away. The horse had been held by an employe of the theatre, who does not appear to have any ! connection with the assassination. The stable where Booth kept his horse temporarily was in an alley about one hundred yards in the rear of the theatre. This alley eeimuunicates at a right angle wi'li another one leading out into F. street; so alter committing the deed, he rushed out of tin- rear of the theatre, where lie had left a small door open a few moments before, and mounting the horse that ho had previously brought there from the stable a few yards off, thus pot fairly out into another street be fore any cxcitcm n: could be created. A personal inspection of this way ot escape shows that it defied pursuit and those per sons who declare they saw him ride away from the front of the theatre simply im agine it. Very low Rates to the West ant! Southwest. The Missouri Pacific fly., and Iron Mountain Route will sell one way and round trip Homeseekers tickets to points in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Indian and Okla lioma Territories, Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico, 011 the first and third Tuesdays of each month to and includ ing April, at unusually low rates. For further information write Jno. R. James, Central Passenger Agent, 905 Park Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. Washington. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company announces that on March 3 and April 3 it will run special excursions from Buf falo, Mt. Morris, Bradford, Titusville, Falls Creek, Kinzua, Tidioute, and prin cipal intermediate stations on the Buff alo and Allegheny Valley Division, and from points on the Philadelphia and Frie Railroad, Erie to Lock Ifaven, inclusive, to Washington for the benefit of all who may wish to visit the National Capitol. Round-trip tickets, good going en all regular trains on day of issue, and good returning on any regular train within ten days, exclusive of going date, will be sold at rate of SIO.OO for the round trip from points on the Buffalo, and Allegheny Valley Division, and from Erie, St. Mary's, and intermediate points; and at rate of $S.9"> from Drift wood; $B.l o from Heuovo; £7 lit' from Look Ifaven; and proportionate rates from other points. These tickets will be good to return via llurrisbiirif or Philadelphia, and to stop oil at Philadelphia returning if de p sited with ticket agont at Broad .Street Ktatiuii, Philadelphia. For additional information consult small hand-billH apply to ticket agents, or address B. P. Fraser, Passenger Agent, Buffalo District,3o7 Main Street, Ellicott Btjuare, Buffalo, N. Y., or E. S. Ilarrar. DlvUlok Ticket AfMt, Williamsport, Pa. fi'J 2t. Mysterious Circumstance. < )ne was pale and sallow and the other ! 1 fresh and rosy. Whence the difference? j I She who is blushing with health uses I>r. > King's New Life Pills to maintain it By gently arousing the lazy organs tliev ' j compel good digestion and head off con | stipation. Try them. Only 25c at L. ; | Taggart druggist. A man seldom realizes how much he j ; can't do until he tries. Tlie Easy Pill. DeWitt's Little Early Risers do not I gripe or weaken the system. They cure 1 j biliousness, jaundice, constipation and in- j active livers, by arousing the secretions, i i moving the bowels gently, yet effectually, j J and giving such tone and strength to the | | glands of the stomach, liver and bowels j that the cause of the trouble is removed | entirely. These famous little pills exert I a decided tonic effect upon the organs in- | ! volved, and if their use is continued for a | I lew days there will be no return of the j j trouble. R. C. Dodson. The more a m.t>i is wrapped up in ! himself the colder lie is. When you feel blue and that every thing goes wrong, take a dose of Chamber lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They will cleanse and invigorate your stomach, regulate your bowels, give you arelish tor | your food and make you feel that in this old world is a good place to live. For i sale by L. Taggart. I Some men know just enough to make ] fools of themselves. A Weak Stomach Causes a weak body and invites disease, Kodol Dyspepsia Curecuresand strength | ens the stomach, and wards off and ovcr | comes disease. .1. R. Taylor, a prominent j merchant of Chriesman, Tex., says:"l | could not eat because of a weak stom ich, : [ lost all strength and rundown in weight, j Al. that uioti"y imh! ! do was done, but | all hope of recovery vanished. Hearing of some wonderful cures effected by use of Kodol I conclude d to try it. The first bottle benefitted me, and alter taking four bottles I am fully restored to my usm.l strength, weight and health." R. C. Dodson. The real hero doesn't need a brass band to herald his coming. One Minute Cough Cure gives relief in i one minute, because it kills the microbe which tickles the mucous membrane, causing the cough, and at the same time clears the phlegm, draws out the inflam mation and heals and soothes the effected parts. One Minute Cough 'Jute strength ens the lungs, wards off pneumonia and is a harmless and never failing cure. In all curable cares of Coughs, Colds and Croup, One Minute Cough Cure is pleasant to take, harmless and good alike for young and old. R. C. Dodson. AFTER THE BATTLE Some arc lound bleeding and sore, while others have a fit of the blues. No if there should be any so unfortunate as to suffer from the efiects of accidents we have the Balm j for their pains and aches,let it be either for man or beast. Our liniment and powdersfor horses or cattle are always ! the best. Our medicines are pure and j always get there. The prices | I are right too. \P% uur patent medicine depart- j j ment is supplied with all the j i standard remedies and we can I supply your on short notice. I Our toilet and fancy goods j department we keep up to the times. Our Prescription depart ment receives our closest at tention and all calls answered day or night. Just touch the button. In fact we are here to do business and serve the public. M. - A. - ROCKWELL,! TIIE PHARMACIST, fconsult • Your jj! IA A >lnterests b i 8 s i S AND SAVE BIGJMONEY N j \ BY ORDERING NOW \ I YOUR FALL SUIT $ £ " I* S R. SEGfiR & S COHPANY'S. jS We handle nothing; but the very best fabrics and on this together with first- Ej : class lit and workmanship N we have built up the N large patronage we enjoy. * v] Come in and see us. S N R. SEGER & CO. > K 2 OpiHMiie M. K.Church. t\/ AAAA/.A/' * y. We Have What You Need! To brush up and make beauti ful your home. The,season of the year for such has arrived and we would call the attention of the public to our very large and reliable line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes, the best in the world. In addition to the best paints, we have a first-class line of De Voe & Co.'s Brushes. Get a move on and be prepared to paint before the workmen are all en gaged. We can save you money. While you are painting your home or business place let us talk a little with you on Bath and Closets, Hot Water, Steam or anything in that line. Our increased facilities and expert workmen will do you good work. Don't deay until too late. Farmers should bear in mind that we handle Plows, Harrows, Rakes, etc. In fact our Hard ware, Stove and Plumbing De | partments are up to the best. Write or wire us, when a com petent agent will call 011 you. ifiManio. 1 Fobert | . IT | The Tailor j jj WE GIVE jjj | AWAY A SUIT OF I | CLOTHES. J In ' til B I 1? !a [JJ 11, ru To any one who can |n n] bring us a garment [jj a] made as well, with fit fu In and style bettei than nJ [p we can turn out here. n] [n We have the best [jj tailors that can be found ijj nJ in the state and OUR 1/] fu PRICES will suit the ft nj customer. We get the [}j Fashion Plates every [" in month from the best m Si TAILOR AND CUT- K] (jj TER REVIEW of the $ g world. g nj Don't be afraid to In p) to give us a trial and if K m you do not find our ft |{j elothes as we say I will [jj u] refund your money. ril 8 S $ o til fb nj In In ru cj a r! All Work Guaranteed ru tfl § J. L. FOBERT, | I t; I'llllll >riuin, I'ii. (U r ~ -.n asa b dHHas as asasasas
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