WAR MAY BE A LONG ONE.
Indications Point to Lengthy Conflict ,
Between Russia and Japan—Czar |
Building Squadron.
No one is looking for an early close
of the war between Japan and Russia,
says a writer in Youth's Companion.
It may last two years, or some deci
sive victory on land or sea may bring
it to an end sooner. Although there
has been considerable gossip la the
foreign dispatches about the possible
intervention of King Edward and
others on behalf of peace, few well
informed persons expect interven
tion unless China should be drawn
into the conflict.
Russia has been moving slowly,
feeling confident that the Japanese
advance on land can be delayed till
sufficient Russian troops have been
assembled in Manchuria to defeat the
invading army in a pitched battle.
What purport to be the Russian plans
have been disclosed in an interview
with a Moscow friend of Gen. Kuro
patkin, published in Paris. Tho cor
respondent who obtained the inter
view declares that it contains the
views of the commanding general.
Whether this be correct or not, it
contains matter of sufficient interest
to receive attention.
Gen. Kuropatkin's friend is made
to say that the general does not ex
pect the Russian naval power in the
east to be effective till September or
October. The squadron that is gett
ing ready at Cronstadt in the Baltic
cannot be got to sea till the latter part
of August. At that time it will start
for the Yellow sea. convoying coal
ships, and will be joined by the squad
ron cruising in the Red sea. When
the combined squadrons reach tho
east they will relieve the blockade of
Port Arthur and attempt to destroy
the Japanese warships as well as tho
transports, which by that time Cien.
Kuropatkin is said to believe will be
carrying the defeated Japanese sol
diers from Korea and Manchuria back
to Japan. When the Japanese have
been driven from tho mainland and
from the set the Russians will invade
Japan.
"It's at Tokio and nowhere else,"
Gen. Kuropatkin is made to say, "that
we shall sign conditions of peace."
Japan's hope of victory lies in its
ability to force matters to a decisive
issue before Russia can get its army
and navy across or around two con
tinents into the field of action.
MORE SCHOOLING NEEDED.
Chicago Superintendent Says Child
Labor Age Limit Should be Raised.
Extension of the age limit before
which children legally cannot goto
work was advocated by Superintend
ent of Chicago Public Schools Cooley
in an address before the Iroquois club
of that city recently.
"I would like to see tho legal limit
so arranged that children could get
their elementary education before go
ing out into the world to work," said
Mr. Cooley. "At present 14 is the lim
it, irrespective of whether they have
gone through an elementary school or
not. As showing how many children
are forced togo to work at tender
ages, our statistics prove that 90%
per cent, of the pupils are under 14.
"Fifty-two per cent, of Chicago
school children leave school before
finishing the sixth grade. There are
at present 8,000 children in the city
who goto school only half of each
day, because of lack of accomodation,
and the need is great for the new
schools we have arranged for. These
will accomodate 14,000 pupils.
"As to the high schools, there seems
to be an idea that these are for the
wealthy. This is erroneous, and stat
istics show that 75 per cent, of the
children have parents who are poor
or who live on salaries. I am in fa
vor of having commercial subjects
and practical matters taught in every
high school. To be the colleges of the
eople the high schools must be more
practical."
Reason for the Word.
The newest long word is superun
contradistinguishabilitiveness. It is
thought, says the Chicago Tribune, to
be the outgrowth of a demand for a
name applicable to some mental mal
ady that shall be as expensive iu itj
way as appendicitis.
A Valuable Country.
As to the appropriations made by
the session of congress just closed,
it is to be observed that this is at
least a $781,574,029 country.
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Ten Men Killed at Wil
liamsport, Pa.
The Accident. Which was One of the
Most Peculiar on Record, was
Caused by Gases from a
Locomotive.
Wilkeslmrre, I'a., May 20. —A tele
gram received at the Susquehanna
Coal Co.'s office in this city last even
ing stated that ten miners were suffo
cated by gas and sulphur fumes from
a small locomotive yesterday after
noon in the workings of the Summit
Branch Coal Co. at Williamstown,
Dauphin county.
The accident was one of the most
peculiar in the history of the anthra
cite mines, and no reason for it can
be assigned by the officials. The vic
tims include Michael Golden, general
inside foreman of the company, and
nine miners and laborers.
The tunnel in which the disaster
occurred is one mile in length and is
used by the coal company to convey
the coal mined in the workings in the
Bear valley to the breaker in the Wil
liams valley. The men employed in
the mines in the Bear valley who re
side in Williamstown have made a
practice for years to ride to and from
their work on the cars that are hauled
between the two valleys by small lo
comotives.
About 4 o'clock Wednesday after
noon General Inside Foreman Golden
and about 50 miners boarded a loaded
train which was about to be hauled
from Bear valley to Williamstown.
Everything went all right until about
half of the journey was made, when
some of the men attracted the atten
tion of the engineer, who at once
stopped and it was found that nearly
every man in the party on the cars
had been overcome by the gas and
sulphur which emanated from the
stack of the locomotive and floated
back over them.
The engineer at once crowded on
all steam possible and the unconsci
ous men were hurried to the Wil
liamstown end of the tunnel. Hera
help was at once summoned and the
men were taken to the surface, where
a corps of physicians made every pos
sible effort to resuscitate them, but
aid came too late for Foreman Golden
and the other victims.
The tunnel has been in constant
operation for more than 40 years and
this is the first accident of any kind
that has happened in it. It is per
fectly free from mine gases and the
ventilation is so perfect and the air
current so strong and steady that be
sides being used for hauling cars, the
tunnel has formed one of the intakes
that furnish air to the mines. No
trouble has ever been experienced
before from gas from the small loco
motives and the officials are at sea as
to the cause of the tragedy.
NEARLY A $2,000,000 LOSS.
Yazoo City, Miss., Is Swept by a Con
flagration.
Jackson, Miss., May 20. With
every business house of any impor
tanc in ashes, together with a largo
number of private residences, the
principal hotel and the passenger
depot, Yazoo City, a town of 0,000
people, 45 miles from Jackson, is
resting after one of the most exciting
days in its history. The fire started
Wednesday morning and burned until
| 5 o'clock in the afternoon, destroying
; a total of 2t>o houses. The burned
! district is three blocks wide and 12
| blocks long. The estimates of the
! loss are between $1,000,000 and $2,-
I 000,000.
The city is putting in a new system
■of waterworks and the old system,
which had wooden mains, was wholly
j Inadequate to meet the demand.
! Pipes burst all over the city and it
I was impossible to get the water
| even to the first floors of the bulld
j lngs.
A man named Chambliss, a citizen
of Yazoo City, was killed by falling
| walls and Mayor Holmes was badly
| hurt. He had been in office but three
or four weeks.
In the afternoon the fire jumped a
bayou and spread to Latonia, a resi
dence suburb, where it destroyed
! some of the finest homes. About 00
i families are homeless.
NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY.
| Verdict of the Jury in the Trial of
James N. Tyner and Harrison J.
Barrett, ex-Postal Officials.
Washington, May 20. —Within 22
minutes of the retirement of the jury
in the case of James N. Tyner and
Harrison J. Barrett, tried on charges
; of conspiracy in connection with their
S duties as law officers for the post-
I office department, a verdict of not
I guilty was returned. The throng
j which filled the court room through
] out the arguments to the jury hardly
j had time to leave the building before
| the jury was back.
Gen. Tyner appeared greatly ex-
I cited as he attempted to face the jury,
j and when the verdict was rendered he
i broke down completely. Several of
j the jurors wept with him and all of
them shook hands with him.
The Tyner-Barrett case was begun
jon May 2 and has been before the
court 19 lull days. A great mass of
testimony was offered.
Rebate Agreement Cancelled.
Pittsburg, May 20. —Official an
nouncement was made yesterday that
the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel au>l Tin Workers bad de
cided to cancel the rebate agreement
with the American Sheet and Tin
Plate Co. Under this agreement,
which has been in operation for 18
months, ;> per cent, of the wages of
tin plate workers in the union mills
Of the American Tin Plate Co. went
into a fund from which the company
drew 25 per cent, of the labor cost for
each box of tin plate that entered tho
rebate trade.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS THURSDAY, JUNE 2 rqo4
BEGAN AS REPORTER. j
LIFE STORY OF CONGRESSMAN
HITT IS INTERESTING.
Took Down the Celebrated Debate Be
tween Lincoln and Douglas-
Recognized Authority on
Foreign Affairs.
Chicago Special.
Older men remember what younger
men should learn, that the latest Illinois
candidate for the vice presidency was a
shorthand reporter, w ho took down the
celebrated debate between Lincoln and
Douglas. It was . 'neoln himself who
called Mr. Hitt by his endearing name,
"Bob," and to old and young he has been
"Bob" Hitt ever since. He began his
connection with the general assembly of
Illinois in ISSB, 1859 and 1860, being the
official reporter of debates. In the early
years of the war he occupied a confiden
tial position under Secretary Stanton.
In 1863 he was secretary of a senate
committee, and in 1800 he accompanied
a board of treaty commissioners to the
northwest, ascending the Missouri river
for a distance of 1,500 miles and reliev
ing the monotony of official labor by
sending letters to the Chicago Tribune
describing a lonely desert, scourged by
ferocious savages, where to-day are
thousands of smiling homesteads. In
1867 and the following year he made a
visit to Europe, which was extended to
Jerusalem, and on which trip he had the
extraordinary experience of being cap
tured and released by Greek bandits on
the famous plains of Marathon.
By 1871 the modest man from Illinois,
for so he always had been called even
aften years of most distinguished serv
ice, began iiis really public career. He
went to Santo Domingo with a commis
sion sent there by President Grant to
consider the question of the annexation
of the island, and it was Mr. Hitt who
prepared and presented the report of the
commission, thus early in his career get
ting a taste of the expansion policy of
the United States, with wnich he has
been associated intimately ever since.
A year later one finds this extraordinary
reporter taking down stirring testimony
of the kuklux committee, and here again
it was Hitt who wrote a large sectioc
of the voluminous report. He was fort.
|
HON. ROBERT R. HITT.
(Indorsed for Vice President by the Re
publicans of Illinois.)
time private secretary of Senator Olivei
P. Morton, one of the great republican
leaders of the day, and through him kept
in close touch with the party policy.
in October, 1874, Mr. Hitt was married
to Miss Sallie Reynolds, of Lafayette
Ind., and it needs no gushing society re
porter to say of Mrs. Hitt to-day that she
is one of the most distinguished and at
the same time one of the most popular
women in the city of Washington, where
for nearly 20 years she has been recog
nized as a social leader. Born in Ohio,
living in Illinois since his early child
hood, and married to a brilliant Indiana
woman, Mr. Hitt seems to possess the
best possible attributes for warm sup
port in three influential states.
it i- probably true to-day that Mr. Hitt
! is the greatest living American author
i ity on the active diplomacy of the new
world. There has been scarcely any de
j velopment in our foreign relations
within a generation with which he has
not had more or less to do. Grant ap
: pointed him secretary of legation at
Paris in December, 1874, while he was
on his wedding tour, and for six yeacs
the home of the Hitts in the French cap
ital was the scene of the most brilliant
congregations of American in all Eu
rope.. Two sons —Robert Reynolds and
William Floyd Hitt—were born abroad,
but were American citizens, as a matter
of course.
In 1882, Congressman Hawk, of what
1 was then the sixth Illinois district, died
suddenly two days before the time set
for the congressional convention. A
committee called on Mr. Hitt atjiis home
at Mount Morris, much to his surprise,
and lie was nominated and elected, serv
-1 ing the people of his district faithfully
i and well from that day to this, a period
of twenty-two years.
| As a matter of course. Mr. Hitt's diplo
matic experience gave him an immedi
' ate berth on the foreign affairs commit
tee. He had an intimate connection with
the celebrated Cutting case, which
nrarly resulted in war with Mexico, and
it was Mr. Hitt, who, by a wonderful
rpeech in the house, defeated a resolu
j Jon for the threatening demand upon
1 Mexico, thus averting wi.. r it wot:ld have
proved a disgraceful war. He made hie
tr.trk in t'.ie committee and on the floor
of the house whenever foreign affairs
| were tinder discussion, yet in addition
1 to that found time to participate in de
bate over matters of current interest,
being particularly Industrious in looking
i aftct demands of his own district.
IT WAS NOT APPRECIATED.
Minister's Wife Had a Flower Hat
and Put It in the Wrong
Place.
A story is told by the Chicago Inter
Ocean of a woman in that town, the wife
of a young minister, who lias always had
u liking for hats of the flower-bed variety,
although she condemned others for wast
ing money that should goto trie heathen.
At present she owns a "dream" of a
"sky piece," that is covered with violets.
The young wile wore this hat to a funeral
recently, al which her husband officiated.
Going into the room which contained the
coffin she removed the hat and placed 't
on a stand.
The sad-faced, sleek-haired undertaker
came in a few minutes later to arrange
the "floral tokens" on the coffin. After
putting the bouquets, wreaths, pillows,
broken wheels, anchors and flie. usual run
of flowers in place, he picked up the vio
let-covered hat and tenderly placed it on
top of all the rest.
Several of the "mourners" gigcle'd, and
the minister's wife wanted t>> grab her hat
and run. She had to let it alone, however,
until the close of the ceremony.
When she marched past the bier she
lunged for the hat and successfully made
her escape.
Congressional Pleasantries.
Champ Clark was making a speech in the
house a few days ago wh''n Mr. Mann, ot
111 in;.is, was called out of the hall on
business. He was gone some time, but
when he returned the same robust voice
was still waking the echoes.
"Is Clark still champing?" asked Mr.
Mann, frivolously, of Mr. Mudd. of Mary
land, who was ,]iist coming out.
"lie's champing a little bit," responded
Mr. Mudd.—Washington j.ctter.
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An Ohio Notary.
Salineville, 0., .May 23.—Mr. John W.
Manning, -Notary Public for Columbiana
County and one of the most respected men
ot the state, has caused to be published
the following letter:
"About one year ago, I was suffering
terribly from Kidney Trouble. I saw an
advertisement of a medicine called Dodd's
Kidney Pills and sent for two boxes.
"In the meantime, i suffered awfully,
and as soon as 1 got the Pills 1 began tak
ing them according to directions i.nd got
almost immediate relief, and 1 have tliis
further to say, that after using the two
boxes, I have never been troubled with
my Kidneys since.
"1 have recommended Dodd's Kidncv
Pills to others, who have tried them, and
everyone who used tlkein has been cured.
I think they are a great remeuy and all
that is claimed for them."
Air. Manning's letter is a strong recom
mendation for Dodd's Kidney Pills and is
worth the attention of aii who sutler with
Kidney troubles.
Some way when a woman speaks of her
husband as "Papa," it sounds as thougji
lie is treated right at home. —Atchison
Globe.
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Character is incorruptible cash.—Chica
go Tribune.
Pome men are 1101 to blame for not be
ing gentlemen. I hey don't know how.
The man who, observing your struggle
for independence, wains you that money
doesn't bring happiness, generally has a
lot.—Boston Globe.
We get some idea of the importance oi
chivalry when we reflect that in its day
it had as much in'luence with women as
have chocolate creams, iu our tunes.—
Puck.
Announcement that a Japanese shell
broke the leg of a Port Arthur rooster
crowds the Malanzas mule .roni his niche
in the temple of fame. Philadelphia
North American.
Russia has decided ti> have an automo
bile corps in her army. The czar has prob
ably been reading the funny papers and
taking their jokes about the Red Avengers
seriously.— Indianapolis .1 ournal.
The fact that a man dropped CO feet
from the window of an abattoir without
being injured in the least is all cleared
up since it became known that they were
pigs' feet.- —Baltimore American.
A Kalamazoo girl with money is being
ehided for marrying a peanut vender.
However, the passion for peanuts has to
be recognized. It even gets into such im
portant affairs as polities. N. V. World.
The per capita in circulation in the
United States is .s,'ii.2. The per capita of
bank deposits in Kansas is upwards of
Without wishing to name any names
some community has about twice its per
capita on deposit! Kansas City Star.
The marquis of Anglesey, needing a bit
cf pocket money, consented to auction a
few ancestral gems, from which he realized
something over SIOO,OOO. And yet some
people refuse to acknowledge the practical
value of ancestors, —Los Angeles Times.
Presidents of railroads who are willing
to ride 111 miles an hour on their own
trains, as a baker's half dozen of tlicm
have just done on a Micnigan track, give
token in that wise that they don't consider
the pace extra hazardous. —X. V. Tribune.
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"Yes" he said "1 once saw a prince."
"Oh," she asked, clasping her hands and
looking with awe into the < yes thai had
gazed upon royalty, "what w is he doing?"
"Trying to balance a feather duster on
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