2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. >l. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'er year I! F PAID Id advance 1 •>( ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published it the rate of •ne doi.ar per square Torutie Insertion ami llfty cents l er square for eacn subsequent insertion Hates by the year, or for six or three months, are low and via.form, and will be furnished on kpulicat.oti. I-.en:il and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. j2: each subsequent inser- Uo 1 iO rents per square- Local notices I" cents per line for one inser ■ertion: 5 cents-per line for each subsequent con-ecutive insertion. Obituary notice* over five lines 10 cents per liue. Sin.pie Announcements of births, mar rinires ind deaths wiil be inserted free. ' Butiness cards, five lines or les>. >5 per year; ov.- i.ve lines, at the regular rates of adver l,in « No loca! inserted for less than 73 cent* per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Phkss Is complete •nil ff rtls facilities for doint; the best Oiuss of w. rk. Pahticulak attkntiom paid to I,aw PuINTINO. No pajx r will be discontinued until arrear fg arc paid, except »t the option of the pub mber. J'apers sent out of the county must be paid for In advance. CURRENT TOPICS. lowa produces $400,000,000 yearly in agricultural products. Two millions of London's inhabit ants, never goto church. Statistics show that 29,470 bodies were cremated in France last year. In the city of New York there are only 737,477 white persons born of na tive parents. The ministry is the only one of the learned professions that is not now over-crowded. Japan imported last year $1,474,000 worth of watches, four-fifths of them from Switzerland. For ten years the average yield of corn in lowa has been approximately 35 busheds to the acre. Rome has a water supply of 200,000,. 000 gallons a day. London only 160,- 000.000 and Paris 90,000,000. A tumbler combination lock for post office boxes has been invented for those prone to lose their keys. During the last fiscal year one in every 401 railway employes was killed, and one in every 24 injured. Fifty-two minutes was the time tak en between Dover and Calais by the new turbine steamer Queen recently. A Bangor (Me.) man has two tons of honey for the market this year. He has 57 colonies of busy bees working for him. In Servia there is a soldier for ev ery 22 inhabitants; in the United States there is one for every 1,300 in habitants. Seventy-seven per cent., of the wom en ami but 02 per cent, of the men tak ing the civil service examination are able to pass It.. Connecticut claims more success than ever this year in raising shade grown tobacco from Cuban, Sumatra and Florida seed. Abraham Lincoln, the oldest male survivor of the Lincolns from whom descended the president, is living at Lacy Springs, Va. In Persia, India and China the lower classes still live, as a rule, together with their animals in.the same dark and unventilated huts. In Chicago and New York, according to recent statistics, pneumonia lias now superseded pulmonary tuberculo sis as the cause of the greatest mor tality. "Motor cars—attention, terrible curve" —was the notice posted by a French mayor wishing to prevent mo tor cars from going at a high speed through his village. Five hundred farmers around Hock well, la., formed a trust with $25,000 capita] for marketing their products. Last year at an expense of $4,000 they did a business of $620,000 without los ing a dollar. The Americans and English, al though they consume twice as much sugar as the French and Germans, have much better teeth. The Ameri can dentist, however, ranks first in all countries. Tie preserving plants are now moved on cars to where the ties are delivered to the railway. In retorts holding 500 ties each the sap is forced from the pores in the ties and salt solution put in its stead. From the professional schools of the United States there were graduated last year: In theology, 1,585; in law, 3.3(16; in medicine, 5,472; in dentistry, 2,311; in pharmacy, 1,373; in veter inary medicine, 109. C-Ume Hanai, a Japanese woman who has just served a 16-year sen tence, for murder, has gone on the stage at Osaka for the purpose of giv ing her earnings to a fund for the construction of a temple. In England alone the volume of co operative business has grown, in the last. 40 years, more than 40 times as fast as England's international trade; 1 00 times as fast as her manufactures and 130 times as fast as the popula tion. Parisian street lamps will in future bear various colored signs. A green light will indicate a tramway stopping place, blue a fire station, red with white inscriptions trie police offices and the Geneva red cross an ambu lance station. Municipal development of water, gas, electricity, street railways, mar kets, baths and cemeteries in Notting ham, England, lias showed an average annual net profit of $158,000 for the last four years, 'i'hc money is applied to the reduction of taxes. Mrs L. S. Fox, of Chetopa, Kan., is exhibiting a peculiar chicken. It has two wings where they should be, and two more at the extreme end of its body. It also has four legs. The front oalf of the chicken is Plymouth rock and *>•«» rear half buff cochin. FOR CAPITAL TO CONSIDER. PrvKlilrnt Hoosfvell'n Admonition to Moneyed Interest* IteKuriUntC tlie People. One point made by the president in his recent address is worthy of special con sideration by corporations and capital ists, viz., that, they should welcome legislation which makes property bear its just share of the burden of taxation and regulates combinations of capital in the interest of the people. The presi dent's argument was that, besides being intrinsically just, such legislation tends to disarm popular jealousy of capital and deprive its enemies of a plausible argument against it. If corporate cap ital defies the law, evades taxation, ig nores its duty to the public, or seeks to oppress the people it may expect popu lar opposition and, perhaps, unfriendly treatment. The best way for corporate capital to secure legal protection and popular favor, says the Indianapolis Journal, is to accept cheerfully all legis lation which aims at making it bear its just share of public burdens and deal fairly with the people. As the president puts it:"The capitalist who is really a conservative, the man who has fore thought as well as patriotism, should heartily welcome every effort, legisla tive or otherwise, which has for its ob ject to secure fair dealing by capital, corporate or individual, towards the public and towards the employe." The president mentioned several pieces of legislation, including the franchise tax law of New York and the interstate and anti-railroad merger laws, which he re garded as really beneficial to capital be cause they aimed at making capital do its duty by the state and the people. "In no way," he said, "is the stability of property better assured than by making It patent to our people that property bears its proper share of the burdens of the state; that property is handled not only in the interest of the owner, but in the interest of the whole community." This is something for corporation man agers and capitalists who look beneath the surface of things, and who look ahead, to think about. There is no surer way for capital to make itself odious and to lay up wrath against the day of wrath than by adopting a policy of"the public be d —d." This is what corporations and capital do when they attempt to evade taxation and other duties to the state and the public. It is a very short sighted policy, and one which will sure ly react against them. Briefly, the presi dent's position is thst if capital expects the protection of the law and popular favor it must obey the laws and not op press the people. RADICAL OR NOTHING. Democrat* of tlie Johnson stripe Make TIIIIIKM Worse for the I'«rt>. The victory of the radical element led by Tom Johnson in the democratic state convention was an "eye-opener" for eastern bourbon who had imagined that old conditions in their party were about to be restored and its platforms and can didates were to stand for nothing more extreme or novel than Clevelandism, as it was in ISB4 and 1892. It is too plain to be questioned now, says the Cleveland Leader, t-hat from Pennsylvania west ward democracy means, for most of the men who call themselves democrats, doc trines more radical and dangerous to the established ways and institutions of the American people than anything advo cated before Bryan's time, except, pos sibly, during the greenback craze soon after the civil war. It is evident that there is no chance to elect a conservative democrat in 1904. Either he would be beaten in the convention, or else the de fection of Bryanites at the polls would leave him without the least hope of suc cess in the election. This state of things will continue In definitely. The forces of unrest are too great, in any country like the United States, with its mixed population and its varied interests and industries, to per mit two moderate or conservative par ties to have the national political field to themselves. There will be at least one big organization either committed to radicalism or the most dangerous sort or else constantly coquetting with the so cialists and like extremists in the hope of gaining their support or keeping them from undermining its own strength. The democratic party,simply cannot stand still on the downward slope toward ex cessive governmental activity in fields always reserved in America for private enterprise. It is clear that if it tries to please the old-fashioned conservatives it will lose hosts of their voters to other and more radical parties. In the field left, after such defect ions, the republicans can always win. It takes remarkably cheerful demo crats of any sort to figure out a chance of success for his party next year, but it calls for faith that would move moun tains to believe in the victory of old fashioned democracy. tyCol. Bryan, enemy of plutocracy, and John H. Clarke, corruption attorney, have spoken from the same platform. The former candidate has expressed a de sire to see his former bolter wafted into the United States senate. The dove of peace flutters astonished over Ohio— scarcely able to believe her own eyes.— Hartford Courant. rrTom Johnson, running on the dem ocratic platform in Ohio, which reaffirms the Kannas City thing, will bob up the morning after the election and find that he lacks 101,101 votes of being wise.— Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff. Florida paper remarks: "Miss Ruth Bryan will go to Chicago and 'work for the poor.' We hope she will be more successful along that line than her fath er." Oh, he hasn't had such bad luck. He was quite impecunious eight or ten years ago, when he began to be a can didate for the presidency, but Lincoln people say he is very well fixed now.— Indianapolis Jc urnal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 1903. CHASING MORE RAINBOWS. IJeinoernlle \ l*lo««rle* Trying to Conjure I i> Hope of llepub licJiii Dlweord. A few democratic papers are still dreaming dreams. The Philadelphia Record says:"The Sun, of New York, continues to cast its baleful gleams in the shape of double-leaded leading ar ticles upon the president," in mention ing Cleveland's attitude towards the Debs rebels in Chicago in 1294, and adds: "That a paper of the Sun's relations to Senator T. C. Piatt should pay high com pliments to Mr. Cleveland in order to arouse hostility to Mr. Roosevelt shows what a very happy family the republican family is." The Record is too innocent for this world. It does not remember how the same New York paper attacked Cleveland when he was in power, at tacked McKinley and attacked every other president of the past 40 years. So far as known, however, these assaults never attracted the attention of the per sons assailed, and never turned ten votes against the parties to which they belonged. It is not likely that Mr. Roosevelt or any of his supporters are giving any serious thought to these flings. The republican outlook is clear enough to prevent intelligent observers from making any mistakes about the result in 1904, says the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. President Roosevelt will be nominated wihtout any opposition. He will be elected by a majority which will be so big that no electoral commission will be needed to declare the result. Senator Piatt will support the president in the canvass and be one of his close friends during the coming term. The chances are that the New York S'.tn will be among the president's champions in the campaign, although this isa matter of no especial consequence to the presi dent or the republican party. Wall street, according to some of the demo cratic papers, is against the president. If those journals are wise they will not mention this fact, if it be a fact. There are hundreds of thousands of democrats in the United States who will very cheer fully support any candidate who man ages to encounter Wall street's hostili ty, irrespective altogether of the party to which he belongs or the platform on which he stands. Some of the corpo ral's guard of newspapers which are urging Cleveland's nomination cite as an element of strength for the ex-presi dent. the circumstance that Wall street would be pleased to aid him. This is a sort of argument which is not calculated to appeal with any great force to a dem ocratic or any other sort of a national convention. Nobody now alive remembers a time on tlie eve of a presidential campaign when the outlook was darker for the democrats than it is now. There is no semblance of agreement among them as to a platform. Not even in 1868 in ad- 4 vance of the convention were theiy so uncertain as to the candidate. Bryan controls the bulk of the democrats of the west, and he is against Cleveland, Hill, Gorman and every other man who has been mentioned in connection with the nomination by any considerable sec tion of the democracy of the east. Every western state which was carried for McKinley in 1900 is reasonably certain to be won by Roosevelt next year, with Colorado, Montana, Idaho and probably Nevada, the four states of this section which Bryan held three years ago. The republicans will carry Indiana. New Jer sey, Maryland, West Virginia and Con necticut, and they are tolerably sure to win New York. No sane democrat in his estimated of the vote for 1904 is put ting Roosevelt's lead in the electoral college much, if any, below the 137 which McKinley had in 1900. Nothing is in sight which offers any hope for the democrats to reduce that margin to any considerable extent, if at all All that the democratic visionaries are trying to make themselves believe to be repub lican discord will quickly disappear when the delegates begin to be chosen to the republican national convention. COMMENTS OF TRETPRESS. ITTAII that David B. Hill lacks of being a great party leader is a party following aid some greatness.—Kansas City Jour nal. (CWhen Secretary Shaw said the democratic party had made no national history he forgot the renaissance of the souphouse.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. tcMr. Tom L. Johnson might call at tention to the fact that Sir Thomas Lip ton is not the only man who knows how to take defeat gracefully.—Washington Star. Hanna is reported as being able to sit up. The present state of Ohio democracy should V» conducive to an easy recovery on his part.—lndianapolis Journal. tC7"Mr. Bryan has announced his Sep tember choice for presidential candidate. This month the honor falls upon Char lie Towne, formerly of Minnesota.—Chi cago News. J. Bryan will speak in behalf of Tom L. Johnson, but it is to be expected that he will drop a few incidental re marks in behalf of Mr. Bryan's interests. —Washington Star. CBryan has swallowed John H. Clarke, the goldbug democrat of Ohio; or perhaps, more horrible still. John H. Clarke may have swallowed Bryan.— Philadelphia Press. C Mr. Clarke, the Ohio goldbug who is a democratic candidate for the United States senate on Tom Johnson's plat form reaffirming the Kansas City prin ciples, said of Bryan's silver policy In a speech in 1896: "It means an absolute breaking of all honest ties between man and man; it means dishonesty and repu diation, and never shall I vote to do this thing. It is not democracy; it is repudiation." But as Clauke now stands on the platform of repudiation, after the people have repudiated it twice, Bryan offers his hand to Clarke for repudiating himself. Ohio will not need Clarke ir. the senate.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat MORE MASSACRES. Turkish Atrocities Pass Hounds of lina^iuatiou. RulXurlu Told to KciAuln Unlet by ItcpreNCfi tittltrt ol (.rent Cower* -Awful Slaughter of Citizen* of huntorU Iteported llioiish lids Hilled. •Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 16.—N0 im portant step in likely to be taken at the present critical juncture. The air here is filled with rumors of mobilization. It is alleged that the first three divisions of the army, having their centers at Sofia, I'.iilip popolis and Slivnac, have been called out. In official quarters, however, it is declared that the only step actual ly decided upon is the summoning to colors of the first three divisions, who retired from the army during the last three years. This will give a force of some 10,000 men who will be chiefly employed in strengthening the troops along the frontier. More fighting is reported from the vilayet of Monastic. A large body of troops sent to Pelister mountains to disperse the bands concealed there were attacked by the insurgents and suffered heavy losses from bombs. The Turks also lost many men in a tight near the monastry of Kamikia at Okria. It is announced that a de tachment of Turkish troops which went to the Greek monastery of Bnre shani. near Monastir, to seek a num ber of revolutionaries supposed to be hiding in tlie building, finding none there set tire to the monastery and killed the servants and the women. At Konskiglavi, near Koscngrad, a hotly of Turkish infantry and eaval.y, accompanied by a mountain battery fought a three hours' engagement with a number of insurgents. The Turks had 30 killed and many wound ed. The revolutionary headquarters have received news of a terrible situ tion at Losengrad. The whole dis trict is filled with Turkish and Alban ian troops and Bashi Bazouks. Twelve villages have been burned and over 100 families have been massa cred. Many women and girls captured have been sent to various harems. Vienna, Sept. I(5.—A Constantinople dispatch received here asserts that Col. Massy, who was commissioned by the British embassy to inspect the action of the Turkish troops in the Adrianople district, has returned to Constantinople, having been forbid den to continue his journey. It is stated that as far as his observations went they confirmed the reports of the extermination of the Macedonian population by the Turks. London, Sept. 17. —The efforts of the. powers, according to the latest telegrams, are directed both at Con stantinople and Sofia towards an en deavor to avert war. It is stated that nil the ambassadors at Constanti nople have drawn the porte's atten tion to the danger of permitting a continuation of the excesses in Mace donia by the Turkish troops and ir regulars. Sofia, Bulgaria. Sept. 17.—Although nt) formal replies have been received to the Bulgarian government's note, it is stated that the representatives of three great powers have repeated their counsels to Bulgaria to remain quiet, as in the event of a war with Turkey Bulgaria need not expect any help in foreign quarters. One of the ministerial organ's, in an editorial on the government's note, says it hopes it will be the last time the Bulgarian government will issue a note. If the powers do not intervene to restore order in .Mace donia, Bulgaria will undertake with the feeble forces she possesses to do what is expected of her and give Europe the pleasure of witnessing a bloody drama in Macedonia. A semi-official statement says: "The details received here of the at rocities daily committed by Turkish soldiers pass the bounds of imagina tion. The general opinion is that Adrianople will soon be entirely de populated of the Christian element." Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 18.—The for eign office here has received reliable information that the Turks have de stroyed the town of Kastoria, 36 miles south of Monastir, and massa cred the population. The report of a massacre at Kas toria comes from sources admitting of little doubt, though the details ; nre lacking. It was received with j tlie gravest concern by the officials j here. The population of Kastoria i numbers about 10,000 persons and j the massacre of such a number in j one place, if the report be true, ex ceeds anything which has yet occur- J red in Macedonia. Salonica, European Turkey, Sept. j 18. —Orders were received from Con stantinople yesterday to try by court martial all Turkish officers whose ignorance or negligence permits the | escape of insurgents. L,e<t u Double Life. New York, Sept. 16. —Supposedly a ! successful business man with a com- J fortable home in Kidgewood, X. J., [ and a member of the Odd Fellows' I lodge in that place, but really a dan gerous burglar, George Kinnard, | alias George F. Howard, fell into the j hands of the police yesterday after evading them for more than a year, j While a respected citizen of Ridge- j wood as Howard, the prisoner, it is alleged, committed scores of bur glaries in as many towns within a radius of 50 miles of his home. Irrlsntlon Conzresa Heels. Ogden. Utah, S"pt. 16. —With dele gates present from 11 states west of the Mississippi river, representing practically eevry commercial organi zation in the great territory included in the semi-arid and arid region of the country, and the state and mu nicipal governments, the eleventh session of the national irrigation con press opened here yesterday. The sessions will continue until Friday, and during that time important ac tion is expected to be taken looking toward the reclamation of the vast unsettled territories of the west. INTERESTING STATEMENT. Flsnrr* ICi-latlny: to U n£«k In Four Ureal < uuntrleft, Itkiiril til I Show tliat HP Lead. London, Sept. 17. —The board of trade issued a voluminous blue book yesterday. 'l'he tables show that the United Kingdom is most dependent on imported wheat, the United States being* wholly independent. The question of wages and the cost of living', especially the price of food, which has figured so largely in the recent Chamberlain agitation, takes up pages and is summed up as fol lows: * "The average level of wages in ihe I United States is 1y g times greater itliari in the United Kingdom, while {in Germany wages are only two i thirds and in France three-fourths of the average prevailing in the United i Kingdom." The percentage of family incomes, i taking New York as the capital of the United States, is estimated, (on the basis of 100 per cent, for the United Kingdom) for the United States 123 per cent., for France 83 per I cent, and for Germany 69 per cent. The mean weekly rate of wages in I skilled trades in the United States is | estimated at 17!) per cent, and in the j United Kingdom at 100 per cent. Members of Alfred Moseley's for mer commission supply a series of | conflicting answers to questions anent the feeding and payment of I American workers. The majority in ; cline to the belief that, allowing for | the conditions, there is little differ ence in the United States from the | United Kingdom. Dealing with the iron and steel trade, the board reports that em ployment has fallen off in the United Kingdom since the introduction of the \nicrican tariffs, but, that very few works have actually been closed. It points out that imports from the United States have decreased since ! 1900. I The trusts of all countries come in for minute and impartial discussion. Declared lor White Supremacy. Baltimore, Sept. 17. —The democrats i of Maryland held their state conven | tion in this city last night and nomi nated the following ticket: For governor, Edwin Warfield, of How ard county. For state comptroller, Dr. Gordon T. Atkinson, of Somer set county. A platform was adopted of which the following is the sub , stance: The present democratic ad ministration of Gov. John Walter Smith is endorsed; pledges are made in behalf of a primary election law for the state to conform to the pres ent. law in Baltimore city. The race issue plank, which is the most im portant in the platform, declares for white supremacy in state, city and j county government. The Storm In New litiglnnd. Boston, Sept. 17.—The center of the atmospheric disturbances which i caused such havoc in New York and down the .Jersey coast passed across ! western New England in a north easterly direction last night. The ! storm while causing considerable ! damage in the interior had little ef ; feet upon the snipping along the ! coast. The storm was particularly severe in southwestern Connecticut and tip the Connecticut river. Tele graph and telephone communication • with New York was cut off complete : ly. A man was blown overboard in New Haven harbor and drowned and another was killed in Hartford by a swinging electric light wire. Adjourned I'litll September 29. Philadelphia, Sept. 17. —In order that testimony relative to a multi tude of grievances of miners in the anthracite coal region might be easily obtained, and inasmuch as the forced absence from the city at this time of Koland C. Luther, one of the opera tors' representatives, acted as a bar to the hearing of disputes emanating particularly from the Schuylkill ter ritory, the mine conciliation board adjourned, aft»r a lengthy confer ence yesterday to meet at Wilkes barre on September 29. Up to ad journment the board had passed up on 40 cases, half of which met with favorable action from the miners' standpoint. I.lpton Han Appeudlrltl*, C liicago, Sept. 17.—Sir Thomas Lip ton is suffering from 'colitis and catarrhal appendicitis" according to an official statement made by his physicians yesterday. It is authori tatively stated that no operation will be necessary in Sir Thomas Liptoii's en:'e. I'he ailment being "catarrhal" and net ' necrotic" appendicitis and the patient s condition continuing distinctly favorable, an operation is considered wholly improbable. Some Hope for tlie Treaty liven Now* Washington, Sept. 17. —The follow bulletin was posted yesterday at the state department: "Under date of the 14th inst. Mr. Beaupre telegraphs the department of state that the re port of the canal committee passed the Colombian senate unanimously on the first reading. Senator Sopo gave j notice of an amendment to restrict the executive absolutely to the terms of the proposed law." The l*rc»ldent in Maugrr. Xew York. Sept. 17.—President Roosevelt while en route yesterday from Oyster Bay to Xew York on the naval yacht Sylph, passed through a terrifying wind and rain storm, dur ing which the vessel was in imminent danger. Subsequently he visited the j immigration station on Ellis Island, New York bay, and made a thorough inspection of the institution. A DedMon 111 Favor of sillier*. Philadelphia, Sept. 17. —The con tract miners of Coxe Brothers & Co., of the Lehigh district, obtained yes terday from the board of conciliation the right to select and hire their own helpers, a right which is considered of much importance to the men and their union. The protesting company withdrew its objections, only stipu lating that the company should have the right to object to the selection by the miners of lawless laborers. The board also decided that laborers working in the Coxe Brothers mines should receive an advance of 10 per cent. | ROCKEFELLER ENJOINED. | A Mumlard Oil llamiatel* FrcvcOfM from « liaiiglni: (lie Uuniie of a Kall roail. Pluttsburg, X. V.. Sept. 10.- \ gang of men in the employ of William Rockefeller, the Standard Oil mag nate, on Thursday started into change the gauge on the little live mile spur that runs from Tekene. a small station on the Adirondack branch of the Delaware & Hudson ! railroad, west into the Itockef< ller j preserve crossing the New York Cen j tralrailroad near Loon Lake. The rails i and lies on the spur are owned by | Mr. Rockefeller, while the right <jf I way is owned, it is claimed, by (he I Chateaugay Ore and Iron Co., con trolled by the DeJaware & Hudson | railroad. Recently Mr. Rockefeller sold the ; hardwood on two square miles of his i forest preserve 1o the I'rooklyn Cooperage Co., at Tupper Lake. It was in order to ship the wood over the New York Central to Tupper j Lake that the change in gauge was made. i The Delaware & Hudson officials heard of it late Thursday night and j sent Attorney Thomas Ti. Cotter, of this city, to Port Henry by special j train, making the run of 55 miles in a little over an hour. Mr. Cotter i roused Justice McLaughlin. of the appellate division of New York City, who spends his summers at Port Henry, from his bed and procured ;it» J injunction restraining Mr. Roekefel | ler from interfering with tTie road. Another special train took Mr. Cot ter, Chief Engineer Mc.Marten, of the J Delaware &■ Hudson, and about ho [section men to Tekene, where .ludge ; MeLaughton's order was at once served on Mr. Rockefeller's agent. I Pile section men at once set to work j with another gang of 100 men from j Saranac Lake and the track was re | stored to its original condition. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. * Stroiia I'rotewt Sent to tlio Domini can Government by tltiiMrr Powell Territory Cannot be Ceded to Any Europran Power. San Domingo, Sept. 10. —United States Minister Powell has sent ii | strong protest to the Dominican gov- I eminent, based on the following ' grounds: i That the action of the Dominican government in sending to congress a i project for establishing the neutral ity of Dominican waters and making certain ports free, would (iu view of j tlir fact that Santo Domingo is a : neighboring state) not be accepted in a friendly spirit by the government of the United States, i That the United States government I would not allow the establishment of > any coaling ports in Santo Domingo or the cession of any portion of San to Domingo territory to any Euro ; pean power. That the United States will not per | mit any nation to make exclusive use jof Dominican waters in time of peace, much less in time of war. Nor j could the United States allow any portion of Dominican territory to he ; classed as neutral, nor permit any section of the country to conflict with the concession granted to the Clyde | line, according to which all vessels arrived from foreign ports are com pelled to pay port dues, excepting j the Clyde steamers, j The American protest has excited : considerable comment. Minister Powell, it is pointed out, seems to be ] determined to have the rights of S Americans respected by the govern | ment of Dominica. FAIR PROGRESS 11a* Keen TOadcln the lliikliichh World In Spite of Opposition troni the Klr> ■IICIItM. New York, Sept. I!).—R. fi. Dun <fc Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Business has made moderate prog ress during the past week, despite un usual opposition from the elements. When all other industries are to a considerable degree dependent upon agricultural conditions, reports of serious injury to crops by cold and wet weather are not calculated to stimulate confidence. Subsequent i corrections indicated that the amount of damage had been exaggerated as usual and prospects brightened. The car shortage is beginning to be felt, especially in the Pittsburg dis trict, where sufficient la,b<ir cannot be secured for handling freight. Manu facturing plants are well occupied as a rule, even the textile mills report ing less idle machinery. Payments are seasonably prompt except where late crops delay settle ments, and the outlook for fall and winter business contains much that is encouraging. In the iron and steel industry quotations have been declining for some months, and a large tonnage of business is held baciv in the expectation that still better terms may be offered. Un easiness over the labor situation ag gravates the difficulty, although lat est developments in the building trades are most encouraging in this respect. Failures this week were 210 in the United States, against 100 last year, and 10 in Canada, compared with 25 a year ago. Kx-CoiigrexMiiian Overton Oien. Towanda, Pa., Sept. 10. — Ex-Con gressman Edward Overton died last night at his home here. Col. Overtoil was a native of this place and was 07 years old. He served throughout the civil war in the Fiftieth Pennsyl vania volunteers, of which he be came colonel. He was elected to con gress in 1576 and re-elected in IB7h. Itoosevelt «ai tlae (tucMt ol Honor. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 19. —Presi- dent Roorevelt was the guest of hon or last night at the annual dinner of the Seawanaliaka-Corintliian Yacht club at its handsome home on Center Island, in Oyster I!ay. While many men prominently identified with yachling in the east were present and the dinner was a handsome and delightful affair, as a function it was not so elaborate as ttie dinner com mittee had planned. Notwithstand ing the fact that the president was among friends and fellow club mem bers, precautions were taken to in sure his personal safety.
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