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The Job department of the Pkkss Is complete aud affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAimcut-Ait attbniion paidtu Law Pkintxno. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except ®t the option of the pub lisher. l J apers sent out of the county must be paul for in advance. An English VievJ of Us. An American young man does not aa a rule look forward to marriage nor prepare for it by saving any consider able portion of his ante-nuptial in come, says the London Telegraph. When he marries it is usually on short notice and because he has fallen very desperately in love with some one and cannot find it in his hear;. to wait un til cold caution declares the venture advisable. Even when an engagement lis a long one he usually squanders so much on gifts and entertainments for his fiance and there is only a very moderate amount to begin housekeep ing on. Thus before hid marriage the 'young American of the middle-class begins to give evidence of what js to be his chief national characteristic as a husband—his unfailing, unselfish anil almost improvident generosity. The middle-class husband in America rare ly interferes with the affairs of the household. He hari'ly knows the cost ol' staple articles of food. As a rule he does not make his .vife a regular al lowance either for household or per sonal expenses, but gives her as much as he can spare, freely, but with a lain of system that is not conducive 10 the best outlay of their income. The young American husband Is also very indulgent to his wife's fondness for fine clothes. He would far rather have an extravagant wife than ' a dowdy one, and although he grumbles occa sionally at a millinery bill, in reality he glories in the resplendent appear ance of his wife in her line feaihers. The American husband is rare who does not concede his wife's right to ex pend a much larger sum with her dressmaker than he does with his tailor. Indeed he oftin leaves his tailor altogether and cheerfully re pairs to the ready-made clothing-house in order that his wife may have more money for extravagant finery. Justice a Little Tardy. In October, l(j:i3. because of his inspir ing plea for individual liberty, Roger Williams was ordered by the general court of Massachusetts to leave the colony forever. He went to Rhode Is land. where he lived for nearly 50 years. But the official conscience grew a little restless, writes William George Gordon, and some years ago—in April, 1899 — Massachusetts actually made atonement for its rash act. The original papers, yellow, faded and crumbling, were taken from their pigeonhole tomb and "by an ordinary motion, made, seconded and adopted," the order of banishment was solemnly "annulled and repealed and made of no effect whatever." The ban under which Roger Williams had lain for over 260 years was lifted. And there is no reason now, according to law, why Roger Williams cannot en ter the state of Massachusetts and re side therein. The action was to the credit and honor of the state; it was right in its spirit, and Roger, being in the spirit for more than two centuries, may have smiled gently and understood. But the reparation was really over delayed. Intensity of thought and action may he good or bad according to the spirit in which it is used. If a man is so intense that his devotion to his work makes him cross with his children and curt with his friends, his efficiency in the work Itself is blunted, says the Sunday School Times. A man can be intense and at the same time mindful of the rights of those about him. It is not enough to gain a single aim in one's work. Said a prominent business man of great inter ests. whose aggressive energy was known far and wide: "I had rather have a man's respect wit hout his business than his business without his respect." Men of strong personality and dominant will can have business, and friendly fel lowship, and gentleness in the home, if they care to. A young telegraph operator in Mil waukee, Wis., gives what is described as a marvelous exhibition of control of mind over matter by attracting money to himself. Coins being placed on a table the operator has a kind of a fit, whereupon the shekels hustle to him. We have heard that money talked, but never before that it walked. As to the fit, mcst any of us would have a spasm if we saw any money coni'i our way. —BUM I Latest News ©f tlie 112; Combatants in the NEWS HID BY CENSOR London, April 5. The Times cor respondent at Che Foo, cabling under date of April 4. says there was an other b>>iul>ardruent of I'ort Arthur April :!, but that there' are no authen tic details of the engagement avail able. Eight weeks from the opening of the war sees Japan apparently in complete possession of Korea and the first stage of the campaign end ed. According to the Daily Mail's Kobe, Japan, correspondent, who tele graphs under date of April 1, a Ping Yang dispatch has been received there confirming the report from Shanghai that Japanese scouts en tered Wiji, Korea, Monday, and that the Russians apparently retreated beyond the Yalu river, St. Petersburg, April 5. —As the time approaches for the opening of land operations on a large, scale, the Russian authorities are exercising greater vigilance to prevent, the news of their plans for the movement of troops in the theatre of war from going abroad where it might be of service to the enemy. For ten days not a scrap of real information has been given out or has come from the front. Che Foo. April 5. —The first steam er has arrived from Chemulpo and from the passengers it was learned that the last contingent of Japan's tirst army landed in Korea March 30. The army consists of 50,000 men, in cluding coolie carriers. Japan has made Anju a frontal base, and has bridged the Chen Cheng, Pak Chen and Pak Chen rivers and is ready to advance by three roads to the Yalu river, SEVEN SQUADRONS London, April -The Daily Tele graph's Seoul correspondent says he learns from a Japanese sailor who participated in the attacks on Port Arthur that the Japanese fleet is di vided into seven squadrons. Four ot tliesc are watching Port Arthur, the fifth patrols the coast and the sixth and seventh cruise between Vladivo stok and North Japan. Two torpedo boats were much damaged in the en gagements, but otherwise the fleet was little injured. The damages to the Japanese cruisers Iwate and Yoshine have been repaired and the vessels have joined the fleet. London, April 7.—The Times cor respondent who is cruising in the vicinity of Port Arthur, cabling con cerning the holdup of his vessel by a Russian warship, says it was the ar mored cruiser Mayan, tlying the flag of N ice Admiral Makaroff, which chased and later searched his steam er. He says the Bayan shows the sears of the damage recently inflicted upon her by the Japanese, but that she is a fine ship and well handled. The correspondent of the Times at Che Foo says the Russians captured two Japanese spies at New Chwang yesterday who were in possession of the plans of the new fortifications. JAPS CROSSED THE YALU Chicago, April 8. —A special to the Daily News from Tokio says: Reliable reports were received here Thursday from Seoul to the ef fect that part of the Japanese fight ing line lias crossed the Yalu and es tablished itself in strong positions there at several important points. Tokio, April s.—A dispatch from Seoul, Korea, says that the Japanese supply steamers are entering the estuary of the Yalu river and are landing their cargoes at various points on the Korean shore. It is presumed here that the movement of these supply steamers Is covered by Japanese gunboats. If this is true, the Russian forts erected upon the Chinese side of the Yalu river are evidently not effective. According to reliable Korean re ports the American mines at Cnsan and the English mines at Gwendolen are safely guarded by detachments of Japanese troops. St. Petersburg, April B.—The ad miralty lias received information that a Japanese squadron has been cruis ing off Port Arthur since Wednes day. ICemoved from Ofliee. Washington, April s. John W. Kalua, I'nited Slates judge of the second circuit, at Honolulu, was yes terday removed from office by Presi dent Roosevelt. Recently an intima tion was conveyed to Judge Kalua that upon the expiration of his term, on June 5, he would not be reappoint ed. A few days age the judge prac tically suspended the work of his court by adjourning all pending criminal cases until June (i, the day after the expiration of his term of office. This action elicited a vigorous protest from the people of Honolulu. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14 1904. While the first line of defense against the Japanese advance from Korea is a strong position, selected by (Jen. Kuropatkin, near Fcng lluang-Cheng, it is believed the Rus sians intend to hold out as long as possible at Antung, which commands the Pekin road. The place has many natural advantages for defense. The Russians have entrenched themselves heavily near Hai-Chcng, to block the progress of the Japan ese in case tliev succeed in landing at the head of the I Jan-Tung gulf. Shanghai, April S. It has been learned here that the Russians nave planted submarine mines oil' the: coast of Takushan (about 50 miles west of the mouth of the Yalu river) as well as in the estuary of the Yalu. The Japanese army in Korea is now reaching the south bank of the \alti river at different points. Seoul, Korea. April S.—Telegrams have been received here saying I Mat the Russians are occupying six of the largest border towns on the Tunien river, in Northwestern Korea. A Korean prefect has sent in a re port that the Russians and Chinese who were at Yongampho, Korea, have withdrawn to Antung, across the Yalu river. Only a few merchants remain at the former place. RUMORS OF BATTLE AT SEA Paris, April 9. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Kelio lie Paris says that Admiral Makaroff went out from I'ort Arthur this morning, :i Japanese squadron having been sig nalled as in the oiling. It is rumored, the correspondent says, that a sea fight took place, but nothing concern ing it is officially known. Paris. April 9.—The St. Petersburg correspondent, 'if the Kelio De Paris says that a French agent is nego tiating for the sale of Argentine war ships to Russia, which is determined to have a superiority over the Japan ese fleet by the end of July. Attempt to Wreck a Steam*lii|>. Portland, Ore., April O.—A bottle containing two pounds of powder heavily charged with nitroglycerine and containing a box of 100 detonat ing caps was found Tuesday on tlfts guard rail of the steamer Albany of the Western Transportation C'o.'s line. The fuse had burned almost to the caps, but had gone out. Ilad the bomb exploded, the Albany would doubtless have been completely wrecked. From the fact that a quan tity of Chinese tissue paper and a white sock such as is worn by Chi nese was wrapped around the bomli, it is thought that a plot to destroy the steamer was evolved by Chinese. The transportation company has re fused to employ Chinese. t'oiilcftKed a Tlnrder. Sioux City, la., April 9.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rocker, of Boone, la., are in jail under an indictment for murder and Mrs. Rocker has con fessed that her present husband mur dered her former husband, August Schroeder. June .'!0, 1900. She says that Rocker was at the time Sehroe der's hired man, went to town with Schroeder, got him drunk and chloro formed him on the way home. She says that Schroeder was nearly dead when they reached home and that she helped lioeker bang Schroeder in the barn, to indicate suicide. Af ter collecting the insurance oil Schroeder's life she gave it to Rocker, and she married him. Alleged Swindler Arrested. Chicago, April 9.—David 11. Me ('lane, former secretary of the New Orleans Gas and Lighting Co., was arrested here last night. MeClane, who is siiid to have been a prominent society leader in New Orleans, \s wanted, the police say, in many cities throughout the country on charges of swindling. Many people are said to have been swindled by a scheme that netted MeClane and his partner about $25,000. ('owlierd < lioncii Chairman. Washington. April 8.- Representa tive W. S. Cowherd, of Missouri, was elected chairman of the democratic congressional committee without op position last night. No secretary was elected. sliot by a Coltese Student. Lexington, Ky., April 9. Coley Ita.vden. 19 years of age, was shot at the State College baseball park Fri day by Lee Anderson, a State Col lege student who was acting as guard at the park. The bullet entered llay den's left shoulder and inflicted a serious wound. Police Captain Brown went to the park to arrest Anderson. As Soon as Anderson learned his mission be pulled his re volver and declared that he would not submit to arrest. A crowd of 300 college students backed him up in his refusal, (apt. Brown rushed in be fore he could shoot, however. HE IS SENTENCED. Senator Burton, of Kansas, (Sets Six Months in Prison. ALSO A FINE OF $2,500. PrlHllm I In- DIM ISIOII OI mi \|>|ii nt tin; Senator 1m llrlruMd on if I l»,0 tl o ■tall. St. Louis, April 7.—Cnited States Senator >l. 11. llurton, of Kansas, was ye.vferday sentenced to six months* imprisonment in jail and a line of s:>,joo for using liis influence 1 before the postoffice department in behalf of the Hialto (irain and Se curities Co., of SI. Louis, and for hav ing received payment from the com pany for his service. Senator Bur ton's attorney. Judge Krum, immedi ately filed a bill of exceptions in the j ease and offered a bond for SIO,OOO, i which was accepted. The case now will he appealed to the United States district court of appeals, the high est tribunal in the matter. The bill of exceptions which was | filed yesterday is a voluminous docu | ment, comprising more than 500 j pages of typewritten matter. It is a 1 complete transcript of the proceed- I ings of the trial, and will be used by ! the I'nitetl States court of appeals in reviewing the case. The bill of er ' ror, which contains tho grounds for ! the appeal, sets forth in detail all ad verse rulings by Judge Klmer 1!. I Adams, before whom the case was I tried in the Cnited States district court. One of the principal points form ing the basis of the appeal of the I case is that Judge Adams admitted j us evidence several checks received by Senator llurton from the Itiulto Drain and Securities Co. while he was in Washington. The defense con tended in the trial that if an offense lad been committer] when Senator llurton accepted and cashed the "hecks, it was committed in Wasli i Ington and that the St. Louis court ] foTise(|iiently did not have jurisdie -1 lion. Judge Adams sustained the ar guments of the district attorney, I ivho held that the bank in Washing ! ion at which Senator I'nrton cashed j :he checks, acted simply as his ; igeilt, and that, in any event, the j question of jurisdiction in that in | stance was a matter foint upon which Senator Burton's attorneys laid stress in the | hill of error was the introduction or j testimony and documentary evidence } ivhieh, it Ls alleged, tended to preju | lice the minds of the jurors against ! the defendant, while it had no direct j hearing upon the merits of the •barge against Senator llurton. V specific instance was the overruling ] :>f objections by the defense to the ! district attorney reading several tel- S .-grams which passed between Sena ) for liurton and W. I). Mahaney, for ' mer vice president of the Kialto 'irain and Securities Co. DENOUNCED POLYGAMY. ttolaliic Action Taken Ity lite .Mormon 4 11111-4-li Conlcrrni c. Salt Lake City, Utah, April 7.—A I notable feature of the closing session 1 of the 74th ahnual conference of the Mormon church was the official dec laration by President Joseph 1". Smith on the subject of polygamy. The statement follows: "Inasnl-ich as there are numerous 'reports in circulation that plural marriages have been entered into, contrary to the otlicial declaration of President Woodruff, of September ~(i, 1890, commonly called the mani festo, which was issued by President Woodruff and adopted by the churcfi 1 at its general conference, October 0, | ls'.to. which forbids any marriage vio lative of the law of the land, I, Joseph F. Smith, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, hereby allirin and declare that no such marriages have been solemnized with the sanction, con sent or knowledge of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and, "I hereby announce that all such marriages are prohibited and if any ifficer or member of the church shall assume to solemnize or enter into | any such marriage he will be deemed | in transgression against the church and will be liable to be dealt with according to the rules and regula | tions thereof and excommunicated I therefrom." This statement received the full ' endorsement, of the church members ! assembled, who unanimously adopted ! the following resolution, introduced by Apostle Francis M. Lyman: "Resolved, That we, the members t>f the Church of Jesus Christ of I,at | ter Day Saints, in general conference I assembled hereby approve and en dorse the statement and declaration j of President. Joseph F. Smith, just j made to this conference, concerning ; plural marriages, and will support j the courts of the church in the en- I forcenient thereof." Til roe Firemen Killed, York, I'a., April 7.- —Three firemen lost their lives, several others were injured and a loss of about $250,000 was caused by fire yesterday, which destroyed the large plant of the York Carriage Co.' Much adjoining property was damaged. A wall fell, burying beneath the hot bricks three firemen, llarry Salt/giver, Horace F. Strine and Lewis Strubinger. Fcunxy 1 vaniu'M Republican Conclave. llarrisburg, Pa., April 7. —Ex-At- torney General John P. Hlkin. of In diana county, was yesterday nomi nated for supreme court justice by the republican state convention, (iov. Pennypaeker, Charles Klverson, of Philadelphia; O. 1). Hleakley, of Franklin, and Francis Itobbins, of Pittsburg, were elected delegates at large to the national convention and instructed to vote for the nomina tion of President Roosevelt. Robert Pit cairn, of Pittsburg, and Levi G. MeCauley, of Philadelphia, were nominated for presidential electors at larj;o. RAILROADS TIED UP. An April Itliz/.ard Over a Xn U* ol WcMteru State*. Huron. S. I)., April 9. The fierce wind and snow storm that has pre vailed over the state east of Hie lilack Hills for ;i'i hours has resulted in mammoth drifts which haw seri ously interrupted railroad and tele graphic communication. All trains are held at stations and none were sent west or northwest over 1 lie Northwestern road from here yester day. No Great Northern trains ar rived or departed. Fears arc enter tained that heavy stock losses will re sult to herds on the open ranges. Omaha, April 'J. —A storm of rain, sleet and snow prevailed last night, , iit times reaching the proportions of a tierce blizzard. The temperature, i however, was not low enough to J cause any serious damage. Norfolk, Neb., reports the worst blizzard of 1 the winter, with the probability of | serious loss to ranchmen. The storm < also extends over western lowa. Kansas City, Mo., April It.- A bliz zard raged yesterday over northern Missouri and eastern and central : Kansas. A light snow fell and the I wind blew at an average velocity of 'MO miles an hour. The temperature j fell rapidly. Owensboro, Ky., April 9. The end of a southern tornado struck Owens boro and vicinity yesterday. The street ear power house was partially demolished and not a street ear is . running in the city. Much other damage was done, especially to tele graph and telephone companies. Waves ran so high 011 the Ohio river that steamboats were obliged to tie "l»- SOMEWHAT IMPROVED. Commercial Condition* are 'lore I'a voraliie than a Week Ago. New York, April 'J.— It. ' .- porting interests are overcoming freight. congestion, while railway earning* in March were only .7 per cent, smaller than in 1903, and large* i ly surpassed fill preceding years. Improvement in the iron and steel 1 industry is no longer a matter of ' conjecture or sanguine hopes, but. a ! certainty. New business is constant -1 ly coming forward and gradually idle plants resume, while recent moderate | gains in quotations are readily main* 1 tained. Failures this week numbered 2.(5 j in the I'nitetl States, against 197 last year, and 29 in Canada, compared i with 15 a year ago. THE YACHT MAYFLOWER. Secretary tloods '* Answer to a Con* i;reH»mail'i!i Criticism ol It* I »e. Washington, April 9.—Replying to ! a criticism of the use of the naval j steam yacht Mayflower, filed in tho ! house for reproduction in the Con j gressional Record by Representative j Williams, of Mississippi, in the form of a newspaper clipping. Representa tive Foss. chairman of the naval af fairs committee, bus filed, also to be printed in the Record, :i letter from Secretary Moody giving a detailed j history of the use of the Mayflower by the president. He says the May flower is not, as was stated in the ! criticism, denominated "the presi dent's yacht." Continuing, the secre j tarv says: "She receives her orders from ihe department in the same manner as \ other vessels. In accordance with a j custom of long standing, however, a vessel of the navy has been placed at the disposition of the president from time to time, as he may desire it. The Mayflower has been the ves j sel selected for this service, under i directions from the president that at j no time should she be diverted from \ any naval duties for which she might ;be needed, it would be an injustice Ito the officers and men of the May flower to suppose that her principal | use was that of a yacht." AGGRESSIVE STRIKERS. Tiles Force a tienerat Suspension of Operations in tlie 'line* Near Lu trobe, I'a. Latrobe. Pa., April 9.—Headed by a brass band, striking miners of the j Loyal Hanna Coal and Coke Co. marched to the various plants about Latrobe yesterday and succeeded in making the strike inaugurated on Monday general. It is conservatively estimated that I!, 500 men are out and operations at a majority of the plants huvf> been stopped pending a settlement of the difficulties. All but three of the mines of the Saxman in terests are idle and the working forces of the Loyal Hanna Coal and Coke Co., the Latrobe Coal and Coke Co. and the Rcssenicr Coal Co. ha\e been seriously crippled. l'°oiir Children Itni-ned to Oeatii. Wilkesbarre. Pa., April 9, Four children of Mr. and Mrs. William i Hurke were burned to death at Se ] bastopol, a suburb of l'ittston, at 1 o'clock this morning. The victims I are: Helen, aged II; James, • aged | 12; Mary, aged 8: Michael, aged ti. I The frantic parents made a desper | ate attempt to reach the children | but failed, and they were forced to jump from the second-story window to escape death. The l'ittston tire department responded, but the build ing could not be saved. The charred bodies of the two younger children were recovered NOT SUPERLATIVELY POOR. Land That a Poverty-Stricken Man Was Not Bad Enough Off to Want. Bourlce Cockran was condemning a cer tain popular novel, relates the New i'ork Tribune. "This novel," lie said, "is as poor aud barren lis Elmo county land." "Is Elmo county land very poor and barren?" asked one of Mr. Coekrau's in terlocutors. "Is it?" said lif. "Well. 1 should say it is. Once two strangers rode un horse back through Kinio county, and the bar renness of the laud amazed them. Noth ing but weeds and rocks everywhere. As they passed a farmhouse they saw an old man sitting in the garden, aud they said: " 'l'oor chap! i'oor, poverty stricken old fellow!' 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