2 CAMERON COUNT! PRESS. H. H. MU 1.1.1N, Editcr. Published Evory Tluirsdaj. Th'.KMS or SUBSCRIPTION. p.-rye..: *Bo* I 1' paid In aJvan e 1«» C j ADVERTISING RATKS: A Ivertisenioiitx arc fiuiilislicil the rnte n( ©*.. TL 1 ar I>»T square tororo ius'Ttlon ami tlfiy t tils Jer <IJUM re tor cncb .subst'lPll;lillnsertion :.iU s l>v J war, or fo.'sn OL throe mouths 1 «. lo« aiid uniform, and will be furnished on to lil'Ht o:\ !.en:il a:.d Official Advertising per fcqunrc. t t*e tiiiici or lofts. each subsequent mser t OI.DI ruts per -Ijuare. . .ycal ll' iieen Id mils per line for one tnscr teril in; ft cents per line for each subsequent ron-eeutive Insertion. •eliuary n.'tiieK over five lilies 10 cent* let 11:.Sin pie announcements of births, n.ar r . ,■ n i ilea tils vv 1 in: inserted free. tt.i in-- earils. five lines or loss. t5 per year, c i nve lines, ut the reifulur rates of aclver t local Inserted for less ll<an 75 cents pet l*&uo> JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the I'nrs -is complete •nd f/-Td facilities for doing th" best class of w >'lt. P.'.ltl ICtl.Alt Afl'liNl ION PAID TO LAW PKI.-TINI.. \.I paper will be discontinued until urreuv ff s lire paid, except ai the option of the pub l.suor. Papers sent out of the county must be paid 112. r in advance. ■ A mau who has been traveling In lowa has hit upon an odd use of corn cobs. Ho says:"l made a trip through a big part of lowa recently and I found several grain-shipping towns that had corncob sidewalks. In spite of what one would think about it cobs make a pretty good sidewalk. They are a little rough at first, but when the cobs become tramped down tin; walk is smooth." A woman of New York vim applied lor license as engineer was examined in accordance with the law, and, hav ing been found qualified to act as manager of a stationary engine, a li cense has been issued to her. This 19 the first license of the kind ever is sued to a woman in this district. Her husband is a baker and does a large business, requiring the use of a stpam engine in the running of his establish ment. - Elgin, 111., is as noted for its butter as for watches. Last year the dis trict of which it is the center pro duced 45,121,360 pounds of butter val ued at $10,887,784, and 5,847.403 pounds of cheese valued at $167,792. In the 31 years since the Elgin board of trade was organized the district has produced 587.089,045 pounds of butter and 193,631,354 pounds of cheese, the whole valued ai $147,361,- 251. Prof. Alexander Bell said, the other day, that, he expected to have a flying machine in successful operation bo fore the summer is over. "I am con vinced that the flying machine of the future will be one built on the aero plane theory," he said. "A machine capable of combating atmospheric con ditions successfully must be heavier than the air, and, to a certain extent, capable of utilizing these atmospheric conditions." When business men and the banks in the heart of the business district of Pittsburg attempted to open their safes and vaults the other morning but few would respond. Among those fiat stuck fast was the big lock on tho Union Savings bank vault. An ex pert said heavy blasting on a new building in the neighborhood caused the time locks to change. Contractor George Egan was arrested for violating a city ordinance as the result of a complaint by the cashier of the bank. The demand for servant girls in Kansas and Missouri is greater than the supply. In the country the wives of prosperous farmers are having al most as much trouble in securing the services of girls as the farmers are in Retting harvest hands. The scarcity of girls in the country is not difficult of explanation. The farmers and townspeople are all so prosperous that there are few who are willing to let their daughters go out to service, it 13 said. The Kansas state board of agricul ture issued a crop bulletin devoted to the wheat yield and the condition of growing corn. Tabulated returns of assessors for each of 105 counties in the state show the total winter wheat area this year to be 5,911,081 acres and that the yield for the entire area will average slightly more than 15.2 bushels an acre, or a total of 90,270,- 000 bushels. This year's total produc tion is greater by 66 per cent., or 35,946,200 bushels, than that of 1902, and surpasses even the yield of 1901 of 90,045,514 bushels, making the ban ner crop in Kansas' history. Prominent Canadians have been at I.oekport, N Y., for a fortnight, wit nessing tests of the Marcus Ruthenburg electrical process of manufacturing steel, which the inventor, a Philadel phia!!, claims will revolutionize tho manufacture because it reduces tim cost of production 20 per cent, and turns out a purer steel than the Bes semer process. The Canadians are re. ticent, but it is reported they are con vinced to the extent of making a com mercial test of the process in a larjii stool plant on the Canadian vide of the Niagara river. James 11. Hyde, one of t'.i six rich est. bachelors in America, owns what ii generally regarded as t lie mo t art hit in home in ail the land. It Is located n< ar Llip, 1.. I. The forests ar-« pre served almost as nature turned them out, there is a beautiful 'ak«' on t!i vast e. talt\ The dwelling Ii telf U it dream of convenience and artistic beauty. An Idea of the general luxury may be obtained when It i< said that In the stiibb s carved mahogany is the material used in cases for harneit* and caddies. Mr. Hyde's bacticloriiovd i< tfi'oui chol«', not netuKHiiv. NO FIGHT ON THE TARIFF. Hep u lil lt*a II H, llnalr ra of I lie Sit mi I Imi. \\ 111 llruil OH' lli-iiiocratlc Plot*. According to Senator Gorman, "at the ( coining session of congress the joint resolution to atflrm the Cuban reciproci ty treaty will open up a general tariff j j debate." The senator is mistaken. , ! There can be no debate on anything un- j ! less more than one side engages in it. j Only one side will figure in any extend- j i ed talk which the democrats try to put • up in the approaching congress. It | makes no difference whether the Cuban | treaty is dealt with in an extra session j or whether it is taken up in the stated | session which begins in December, there Will be no contest on the tariff. The treaty will be dealt with quickly in any case. It will be defeated or ratified promptly, and the end which will be j reached will stay ended until after the j election of 1904. Let nobody have any ; doubts on this point Rumor has it that congress will be called in special session ! on November 9, just after the state elec- j tions of 1903, and four weeks before the regular meeting day. Possibly this will turn out to be true, but there will be no tariff fight, either then or in the regular session, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. The republicans have a good working majority in each branch of congress. They will be in complete control from the moment that body meets until it ad journs without day, on March 4, 1905, just before President Roosevelt's next inauguration. The republicans will dic- WILL IT FLY? It la Prof. Ii ;• !- Working on Tiding Machine. tate the legislation which is to be had. They will determine the things which are to be considered and those which are to be ignored or shelved. Very lit tle time will be consumed by congress in tariff discussion, whether the Cuban reciprocity treaty succeeds or falls. Con gress will have something better to do In the approaching time than to listen to democratic follies on the tariff. It is probably true that such men as Gorman think that a tariff debate would make capital for their party by embarrassing the republicans. As the republicans, however, will be masters of the situation in the senate as well as in the house, they may be relied onto head off all plots ! of this sort which Gorman and his | friends may have in mind. Probably the democrats have two I things in mind in connection with their t tariff discussion programme. They; might bring out some differences of opin ion among the republicans on the gen- ■ eral subject of tariff alterations, and they | would delay needed legislation. Either j of those two tilings would hamper the republicans. Because they would ham- j per is one very good reason why the republicans will not permit, them. If Gorman and his associates want to make a few speeches in favor of tariff reduc- . tion, there will be no way to stop them. < as the senate has often been known to | give up days to trivial things. Put the embargo will not be allowed to last, j long, and the republicans will not take part, in the talk. It will be out of the power of the democrats to precipitate any fight on the tariff in the coming scs- j sions, extra or regular, of congress. The probability is that the republican lead ers will arrange tMngs so that the long session will have ended by the time the big conventions meet next summer, and ( the party will have a chance to give its undivided attention to the rolling un of a majority for their presidential tick- 1 et which will at least equal (hat of 1900. (■ormit ti W Gorman's boomers among the ditr.o crats cannot understand how it. Is that 1 the republicans are disposed to welcome that personage r.s a possible candidate. This is all easy. The republicans would be glad t« s/..j Gorman nominated, be cause of the fact that they believe he would be v.' ak. The republicans ar" supporting Bryer for a like reason. Gor man never had the eloquence tin mag netism nor tho popularity of Ilryan, but everybody knows now that Ilryan as the candidate in l.iti would • t fewi r vote than ho rr-r» iveii in 1900. Gorman wi.iili' he one of tho fo< lib .-t nominees whom the democrats could choose. If ho wer< tln candidate It would be hard to inject 1 much excitement Into tho canvass. If the democrat* want to confer an rspe clal favor on the republican party they 1 will nominate the Maryland tricktti r.- ; Bt Louis Globe Democrat. ■ CAMKRON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. 1903. NOT MERELY PLAYING. The l*r«**l<lcvi t iiia* llwiii M 11 !tep«* ututiou for UIMI Sincerity. Within a year from the present time both political parties will have held their national conventions and made their nominations lor president and vice pres ident. Usually at this stage of the pro ceeding there is evident a good deal of combination and wire pulling on both sides to secure the respective nomina tion. The present situation shows an abundance of this ononesideaudlittleor none on the other, says the Indianapo lis Journal. Our friends, the enemy, are ail at sea in regard to candidates as well as issues, while the republicans are tak ing it quite easy in a sort of calm seren ity as to both. Their confidence is well based on President Roosevelt's adminis tration and his personal popularity. The republican party has a good habit ol recognizing faithful public service. In 1900 no other name was presented before the national convention for president but that of William McKinley, who was recognized at the time as his only logical successor. His nomination was second ed by Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. McKin ley received for first place 926 votes and Theodore Roosevelt for second place 925 votes. The latter was a delegate and could not vote for himself. The unex pected fatality that made him president gave him an oppoitunity to prove that the party had made no mistake in nom inating him for second place, and since his accession to the presidency he lias not only grown steadily in personal i popularity, but he has added steadily to the strength of the party. It is no exag geration to say that President Roosevelt is to-day the most popular man in the United States and that the republican party is stronger than it was when he became president. These results have not been achieved by the president's playing politics. The country has learned that he is above that sort of tiling. A man of friendly impulses, he likes to make friends. He is not insen : sible to popularity, but it is not a ruling motive with him. The dominating pur pose of his administration, as of his ! whole public career, has been to do right, , and to serve the people honestly, faith fully and fearlessly. A prominent repub ' lican politician of New York who has j been feeling the public pulse throughout i that state says that the popularity of : President Roosevelt, particularly among i the rural voters and in the villages, sur j passes anything he ever knew before. He says the church element of all de nominations believe in him and the j young men of all classes idolize him. This is because the people know the : president is an honest and sincere man, | and because he does the best he knows : 'now without playing politics. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. C' r "The difference between the Borelll comet and the long-sought democratic issue is that the comet may be seen with a powerful glass.—St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. | i "When Mr. Bryan employs the epi ! !het bunco steerer he forgets that many people regarded his free silver pro gramme as something rather similar to a green goods game.—Washington Star. Gorman, as a democratic ex- j pert, observes that "we seem to be getting away from a number of false 1 | ideas the party ha 3 been chasing around after in the past few years." The tendency still continues, and the supply of false ideas Is always equal i to the lively democratic demand.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. B \\ il!in.ni j. Bryan is his own wor?'t enemy. No man ever broke Into na ; lior.al politics more easily or cut a i wider swath at the beginning cf his ca reer with brighter pn -pi ci ■ of future '.rrowth. Hut he has thrown them awnv and > u; his own political grave by hi I.hindering leadership and his displays I (ip rsonai unfitness. His course has bei n (Uiwnw :til in.otend of upward. Prom an ora'.or of national reputation, , though in advocacy of wrong princl -lis, he has sin k to tho level of a po : UUeal sling-whanner. His personal .ibtif of Mr. Cleveland In his speech at" ; I rbana shows ;!)•• loiii, tMstnuce be )' wtpn a genttlfman ard a blath-raklte. ; Mr. Cleveland <!«.<* well never to notloo ' him.- Indianap'ilb Journal. FRESH OUTBREAKS. They «r<- lt< p<>ri< <l Irom Varloii* I'lir lloiifc ul 'I in* oil II «i lii ll.iii-ii' ol u Mill. iCiirln N- ■ ll rkl*li War liii ri-uMi'M. Sofia, \ug. £2. —All the dispatches j received her** indicate thai the revo j hit ion in Macedonia is spreading. ; The situation is causing intense anx | iety in otticial circles. The most I alarming news relates to an outbreak covering a considerable area in the eastern part of the Adriauople vil ayet, where the insurgents have cap tured the town of Vasiiiko. They took the chief Turkish officials prls ' oners anil brought them to the Mul ! garian frontier, where they liber ated them. The insurgents burned the villages behind Vasiiiko and attacked a Turk ish military post at the monastery of .Elijah, south of Ti«*rnovo. The e'ast ern part of the Adriauople vilayet is a mountainous region and the vil lages are few and scattered. The strength of the insurgents is un known. The peculiar danger of the latest outbreak lies in its proximity to the Bulgarian frontier, thus creating a situation long foreseen and dreaded by the Sofia government. The Turks are now certain to send a consider able force to this territory to sup press the outbreak, which will neces sitate the strengthening of the Bul garian troops along the frontier. With the two armies close to each other under the present strained re lations, the situation becomes ex tremely delicate. Severe fighting is proceeding near Gehgle, with heavy losses on both sides. The Sofia Dnevjnjk declares that till the Turkish vilayets in Macedonia will bo in full rovfflt August 23 and that the revolution is spreading from Saloniea into the districts towards Seres. The Turkish and Christian inhabi tants at Kumnnova have agreed to mutually support each other in the event of an attack either by insur gent bands or Turkish soldiers. At Kratovo lialf of the Turkish garrison deserted, the men saying that they hail enough to do at home. The Turkish authorities have mobilized their whole forces in Macedonia, numbering 18,000 men. Vienna, Aug. 22. — \mong the sensa tional reports circulating here, it is stated that all the guard bouses along the Monastir-Salonica railroad line have been destroyed; that 20,000 Turks under Marshal Omerrushti Paslia have surrounded and annihi lated 1.200 insurgents in the Monastic district; and that at Constantinople Thursday a Turkish soldier insulted and attacked an oflicial of the Rus sian post office, who was severely wounded and had to be taken to a hospital. London, Aug. 22.—The Odessa eor ! respondent of the Standard affirms that immediately the Russian squad ron left Sebastopal for Turkey or ders were issued to Vice Admiral Skrvdloff to bold the remainder of the Black Sea squadron in readiness for active service in ease eif need. A RECKLESS CHAUFFEUR. •ll* Willi Driving < an wed CI tii'ltuia tP« 'lnjur to Payt<2so llßinasen. Kingston, X. Y„ Aug. 22.—Judge Al ton I!. Parker and County Judge John O. Van Etten yesterday caused the arrest of Joseph 11. Bridges, chauffeur of Mayor Julius Fleiscli lniinn. of Cincinnati. The mayor and a party of friends wore on their way to Fleischnianns in-the-Cat skills, Mr. Fleisohmann's summer home. Bridges sped past Judge Parker's carriage on Broadway at an estimated speed of 40 miles an hour. The team became frightened and only the combined efforts of Judge Parker, Judge Van Etten and a liveryman prevented their running away. Meanwhile the auto caused another team to run away, the horses plunging intei the office windows of the Kingston Electric Co. Mr. Fleisclimann was served with papers in an action of damages when he appeared tit the courthouse. He ; settled all claims for $250 and secured the release of Bridges. litiiliCley'a .11 rsli 1 1>. Widewater, Va., Aug. 22.—Langley's big aerodrome was placed in position on the superstructure of the house boat Friday afteruoon. The whole airship force worked"on the body, ar ranging machinery and adjusting the wings, until sundown. The flying ma chine then was returned to the» in terior. It was the first time that it. ! had been exposed to the press repre ; sentatives. Her machinery and dimen i sions were plainly visible. Amidships is a great mass of wheels, rods, boil ers, pistons and various other me dia nicsi l devices. It is exceedingly ; complicated. Kill,' ICiiiloil In lloaili. Ithaca. X. V.. Aug. 21. —Mrs. Lode man Stoughton, of Philadelphia, was instantly killed atrfl her sister, Miss .\ii\-, seriously injured while driving to the Lehigh Valley railroad station at Ludlow village yesterday. Mrs. Mortimer Milliard, a daughter of | Mrs. Stoughton, was driving the horse when it became unmanageable and throw the throe occupants nut of tho buggy. Mrs. liillinrd escaped un- I hurt. I. II I'LL 'nlisliu rv'* IIIIIOKM, London, Aug. 22. A bulletin issued nt 9:4."i p. m. last night said: "There a slight improvement in Lord Salis burg's condition, which, however, is still very serious." * J'atal davit llflivii tirade. Iruddock. Pit., \ug. 21. ui open ear mi the Wilkiusburg iV East Pitts burg «li \ i ion nt the Pittsburg liail way I". Mil away from the motor man mi a high grade in North l'rad dock Ist -1 evening and in its wild dash COM nne man hi* life and fatally in jurod another, be.-iih s badly injuring MM-rnl more. The dead: Vrchie Hamilton, aged mi, uf Ed-rewood; head split open, died instantly, Pn t iliy injured: Philip con ductor. of lloniewood; skuil frno tured and serious internal injuries ( I f rn onst'loiis and cannot live. GRAND CIRCUIT RACES. IHtn l'i< I 111 Break* till- UiirlitS ltco«r«l tor I'actrn on (In- Brighton Hrarb Truck Hawthorne rupture* the ( iU.UIIO linn tier Stake. Xew Vork, Aug. 19. —There was a large attendance at the grand circuit meeting at Brighton Beach yesterday, j The 2: l.'i trot was the curtain raiser j anil in a lield of ten the black geld ! ing Masetto wns the favorite. The talent made no mistake, as the favor ! ite won in straight heats. I'he $5.(>00 Brighton stake for 2:10 j pacers was a fast race. Yoakum won j in straight heats. Ten met. in the 2:2t trotting class, | and Crown Princess was the choice at s.')s to SSO for the field. The favor ite won in two very close finishes. The SI,OOO Kentucky Stock Farm stake for pacers was a very easy vie | tory for Mattie I!., the favorite, who i distanced her field. New York, Aug. 20.—Dan Patch \ broke the world's record for pacers ; yesterday by pacing a mile in 1:30 at Hrighton Beach and thereby won ' $2,500. Tilt; opening event was a dash of a mile antl a half for 2:ori pacers, anil Beauzant was the choice, 1>.;I I,ocnn da won easily. He was a 4 to 1 shot. For the s.'i,ooo Kentucky purse for 3-year-old trotters. Ethel's Pride was the favorite. Mary Grace led in the first heat nil the way, with IJliel's l Pride close up. The finish was most exciting, the favorite losing by j a head. She won the next three beats. .Xew York, Aug. 22.—The grand cir cuit meeting was resumed Friday at ltrighton Beach before 8,000 specta tors, The big event of the card was ] the $20,000 Bonner stake for 2:12 trot ters. The betting was very heavy, liillv Buck selling for SI,OOO to S7OO for the field. The favorite won the first heat by luilf a length from Jim Ferry, with Swift a close third, but in the second he was beaten in a close and exciting finish by the rank out sider, Hawthorne, with Tiverton sec ond. In the third heat at the first turn Swift stumbled and swerved into Hawthorne, and both went down, the horses being soon caught. In the meantime Kinney Lou had got the leatl and won the heat. For the fourth heat Kinney Lou I'd to the home with Billy luck antl Hawthorne close up, but here Hawthorne came up with a splendid burst of speed, anil won j easily by a length. The next heat | was close from start to finish. Haw- ; thorne winnning by two lengths, with the other two tired out. Judge fireen was a hot favorite for the $5,000 purse for 4-year-olds, antl he won in straight heats. Dariel and iAI Bock were strong favorites in j their races. Tn the 2:09 trot The j : Roman was the choice and finished j last. For the 2.12 pace Strathline de feated the favorite. Page Hal. MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE. Fri'uliloiit Iloi>«(>volt Kcvlew* a Fleet of 'i'i In I lr<l St it (cm War Ve*»i'l«—A Slight Accident Occur* During the .llaiicu vent. Oyster Bay, N. V., Aug. IS. —For the first time in the history of the eoun- ] try the president of the United .States reviewed and inspected, in time of peace, a great fleet of United States warships. The ceremony was a mag nificent and impressive naval spec- j taele. It was uninarred by the slight est mishap until just at its eonclu- . sion, when the torpedo boat de stroyer Barry rammed the destroyer j Decatur, fortunately doing little j damage. The incident was exciting, it oc- 1 curred just at the moment when the president was receiving congratula- j tions upon the success of the man- | euvers. The first squadron of destroyers, consisting of the Decatur, Bain bridge, ! Barry, Dale and Chauneey, all un- I der command of Lieut. L. 11. Chand- j ler, was approaching the Mayflower at full speed. The vessels were in close formation. Orders were signalled from the Decatur to the other vessels to form ; a wedge. In executing the orders, the Decatur swung across the bow of the Barry. An instant later the Barry rammed her on the starboard side. ; As the ships were running at a speed of 20 knots, the blow was tremendous. Admiral Dewey ordered Lieut, j Chandler to proceed with the five vessels to the Brooklyn navy yard, where such repairs as may be neces sary could be made quickly. The review occurred on Long Island sound, two miles and a half off the entrance to Oyster bay. j President Roosevelt in company with Secretary of the Navy Moody, Ad miral Dewey, Rear Admiral Taylor, Rear Admiral Rodgers, Capt. Brown- ; sou, (Jen. Chaffee and Gen. Harry, stood on the bridge of the Mayflower, ns she steamed slowly down one col umn of tlie warships and up the other. The two columns extended 2,500 yards, the ships being anchored , at intervals of 500 yards. As the Mayflower passed each ship ! in the two columns, the yards and rails of each were manned by jackics J in white duck, the marines were paraded and presented arms, the buglers sounded a flourish. Ihe drum* | tilers gave four ruffles, the band piny- j ed "Hail Columbia" antl the entire ! crew stood sit salute. As the May flower swept majestically past each ship, the crew of the saluting vessel gave the president three cheers as the commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United Stales. Arrcil «l Frclulit Thieve*. Buffalo, X. Y., \ug. 18.— Fred Boyd, Frank <>. Weir and Henry Hart/ have j been held for hearing on the charge of stealing express and freight in tran>it front Xew York lo P iffalo. The arrests were made by a num ber of railroad detectives, who sur prised the men inn saloon at Belie vue, a suburb of this city. Outside was a van in which was about $;),- tHit) worth of stolen goods. It is a sertcd that during the past year thousands of dollars' worth of I freight has been stolen from cars. DUN'S TRADE REVIEW. A favorable l!r|i<iii a« to < o(»:iiier<la i'Ollllltlollla New York, \ug. 2-. K. •!. Dun & t Co.'s llt'vit'H of Trade says: Business is well maintained, aside j from th<- i|uieting influence of the ' vacation season uhicli somewhat re* ! strict* trade and retards collections. Making due allowance for the period, j there is no cause »nr complaint. The ! adverse factors that have been oper ating against prosperity in recent preceding weeks are no longer as po i tent, normal influences gradually pre vailing, Labor controversies still ex ist, curtailing the output of a few products and the consumption of all the necessaries of life. Crops are not going to market as freely as usual, al though the agricultural outlook is dis tinctly favorable. In spite of several reasons for ex pecting a check to freight traffic, earnings of railways thus far report ed in August show an average gain of !).(! per cent, over last year. Com plaints are beginning to be heard re garding the inadequate facilities of the railways, amj il now appears that inconvenience and loss must again be experienced, notwithstanding the ex tensive improvements. Sensational stories of the large number of buyers now at lliis center and the fabulous sums that tliev spend cannot be ac cepted as accurate? but if is probable that an increase over all previous years is actually occurring. Failures this week numbered 2HS in the United States, against 207 last year, and eight in Canada compared with 00 a year ago. SCAFFOLD COLLAPSED. One Jljm Killed and Several Injured it) an Accident at B'it txblil'Zi. Pittsburg, Aug. 21. —By the collapse of a scaffold last night in the annex to the Joseph Ilorne Co. building on Penn avenue, one man was killed and two others so seriously hurt that they will probably die. The dead man is: Samuel Brooker, and the injured are: P. Thompson, colored. llopsaw, colored. In the remodelling of the large of fice building adjoining the Ilorne store for the purpose of enlarging the company's store room, ten work men were on a scaffold on the sixth j floor engaged in tearing down a par -1 tition between the two buildings. From some unexplained cause the scaffold began to totter and within a j few seconds the whole structure plunged to the cellar, a distance of 95 feet. When the first warning of weak ness in the scaffold came several workmen succeeded in saving tliem | selves by clinging to the stc'H girders that were stretched across the build ing. Brooker was carried all the way to the cellar and when dug out from j the debris was dead and horribly | mangled. Thompson and Hopsaw were carried through several floors, i humping against the girders, being ! hit by falling bricks and portions of the wrecked scaffold, finally lodging on one of the floors, from where tliey ! were later rescued in an unconscious condition. A TIN PLATE COMBINE. Independent Co ill pa il ICN In tlie Plllw bliryf District Have I'nited, Pittsburg. Aug. 22.—8y the merg -1 ing of a number of sheet and tin plate companies in the Pittsburg dis trict an independent combine has been formed. The United Sheet and j Tin Plate Co., with headquarters in I Pittsburg and Columbus, has just 1 been organized with the absorption of llie following companies: Marietta Sheet and Tinplate Co., | Marietta, ().; the tin dipping branch of the American Tin and Terne Plate Co., Philadelphia; Tuscora Steel Co., with rolling mill and galvanizing plant at Newcomerstown, O.; Cambridge- Byesvillc Sheet Co.. now building a 50-ton open-heartli steel furnace with blooming and billet mills at | Byesville, ().: the Byesville Coal Co.. Byesville, anjl the Tucker Steel Roof j ing Co., Newark, 0.. also owning nat ural gas well.fi at Marietta and Byes | ville. The estimated output annually of the company will be 10,0(10 to 50,000 ton of billets, sheet and tin plate bars, 30.0')0 tons of black sheets, plate | and tin plate and galvanized iron, some of which will be in the shape of corrugated iron conductor pipe and steel ceilings. 11 r. Hoot Sails for ICurope. New York. Aug. 22.—Secretary of War Klihu Root sailed for Liverpool yesterday on flic Celtic, lie goes to England to act with Senator Lodge and ex-Senator Turner, of Washing ton. as the I'nited States representa tives on the Alaskan boundary dis pute. Before sailing the secretary declared that he would, according to his present plans, get out. of the cab inet about the middle of the winter, lie would not enter into any diseus -1 sion of his future plans except to ! deny that he was going to enter ac tively iu politics in this state. A Jlaim''nctiirer'» Prediction. Sharon. Pn.. Vug. 22. A prominent pig iron manufacturer states that j witlifn the next 30 days practically 1 every blast furnace in the Mahoning and Shenango valjeys will be iu opera tion. lb- says that the demand for pig iron is increasing. The demand for pig iron is a sure indication that the iron and steel business is also go ing to be good. Sw ore ISlniteli OK"tile !lcl»rli. Kansas City, Aug. '.'2. Believing •hat he will not be able to be impar tial in the -econd trial of Lulu Prince Kennedy for the murder of her hus band. which has been set for Novem ber tti. .fudge John W. Woffonl yes terday swore luni-elf oiT the* bench mul named Judge Joshua \V. Ylexun der. of Callatin. to try the case. \t her liist trial Mrs. Kennedv was given ten years in the penitentiary, '■' lie killed bur husband, Phi 1 Itl> 11. Kennedy, a month afte- their marri* age because be refused to 1i \ < with her.
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