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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now superseded pulmonary tuberculo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.