2 CAMiSRUN COUNTY FKKSS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. ?'er •* °* r paid In advance 1 »* ADVERTISING nATF.S: Advertisements are published at the rate of Me dollar per square for one insertion and Qfty •ents per square for each subsequent insertion Kates l>y the year, or for six or three month*, •re lon and uniform, and will be furnished on ••plication. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or loss. *2: each subsequent inser tion Ml rents per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one Inser •ertlon; 6 cents per line for each subsequent son>-ecuttve Insertion. Obituary notices oyer Ave llnea. 10 cents per Vine Siuple announcements of births, mar riarc* and deaths will l>e inserted free. Um-inesH cards. Ave lines or less. <5 per year, over five liues, at the regular rates of adver ting No local Inserted for less than 75 cents per ■sue JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pftiss Is complete •nd affords facilities for doing tho best clnss of vrot-U. Pakticulak attention paipto Law PRINTING. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except »t the option of the pub lisher. I'apers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. The city of Trebizond is one of the most important cities anil ports on the Black sea. It is about 480 miles from Constantinople and 100 miles from Batoum. It is the port of entry as well as the distributing point for the .interior, viz., Erzerum, Bitlis and Van, and for the caravan '•oute to and froic Persia. The area of Canada is 3,745,574 square miles, and the population esti mated in 1902 at 5,45(>,031, or 1.5 per son to the square mile. The total area of the United Kingdom is 121,371 square miles, with a population of 41,- <•05,220 The total area of the United States, including Alaska, is 3,610,035 square miles, with, in 1000, a popula tion of 76,149,386. .Miss Adalaide Michel, a teacher in the art department of the Bradley Polytechnic institute, in an attempt to rediscover madder printing, has dis covered a chemical resistant that when used on white duck with a stenciled design makes possible dyeing in blue and white. The design is clear, there being no evidence of running colors. The process is similar to zinc etching •work Blacking shoes is the novel method adopted by Miss Pr.uline Rockwell to raise money for the Mount Holyoke college library, to which Andrew Car negie has pledged a large conditional subscription. The bootblacking ar rangements of Miss Rockwell, who is a member of the freshman class, con sist of a chair and a soap box in the college post office. Over the chair is the notice "Shoes blacked. Five cents " Uncle Sam has paid big bills abroad liefore now, but this Panama payment tops them all. Six years ago he paid Spain $20,000,000 on account of the Philippines, but the amount was sent in four warrants of $5,000,000 each. Previous to that the most historical warrants were $8,000,000 issued to Russia in payment for Alaska in 1808 and $5,500,000 paid England for awards in Halifax fishing infringe ments. According to recent investigations, it appears probable that hypnotism can stop the action of a person's heart ami thus cause death. A. Jour net, a Frenchman, reports that he has increased and diminished the number of pulse beats, at will, and as far as he could venture with safety. It is said to be also proved that circulation is seriously affected, even if it is not quite certain that the heart can be silenced. Up to the present time tea from China was imported into Germany by sea and the cost was considerable. In 1803 some Berlin firms made a trial of ordering parcels of tea from whole sale traders in Warsaw, and found out that but for the high duty the trans portation of tea overland would be considerably cheaper than by sea. The Berlin tea tradei-3 have made appli cations to have the custom house duties on tea reduced. The sale of California fruits in Al sace-Lorraine and Baden, Germany, is many times greater than it would be were there no local agents in Strass burg. This season one Strassbnrg dealer has disposed of about 35 car loads of fruit, principally apricots and prunes The ss>me dealer has also sold 350 sacks of California almonds, and be anticipates an increased business in fruits and nuts next season. There are a number of other dealers in Strass bnrg buying direct. The government crop rei>ort states that on May 1 there were 6.000,000 acres less in winter wheat than were one year ago. In the month of April about 5,000,000 acres of wheat wcro plowed up to be planted in other crops because the grain was badly winter killed. The heaviest loss was in In dian and near-by states. This gives some idea of the fearful damage done by the hard winter. The indications now are for a short crop of wheat. The plowed wheat land will mostly into oats and corn. The emperor of Japan, Mutsuhito. is very tall for a man of his country, be ing 5 feet 7 inches in height, and rather heaviiy built. He is 52 years old, but looks older than his years. His beard is long, and he has the coarse black hair all his subjects have. His eyes are coal black and very bright when he is interested, but gen erally their expression is dull and heavy. It has been said that th>3 Mikado of "enlightened peace,'' as ho Is called, is ono of the most remark able men of the age. NOT A WORD! •> ' "Gf 1 jfc< ' - M<r*U ERA OF REAL PROSPERITY. Democratic Calamity Howlers Will Try in Vain to Falsify His tory and Statistics. Washington correspondents state thai the democratic campaign handbook, which will be issued immediately after the St. Louis convention, will be devoted in large part to an effort to show that the prosperity which republicans claim exists is not real; that wages are lower and prices higher. This conclusion is reached by manipulating some statis tics issued by the bureau of labor regard ing wholesale prices. It is said, how ever, that other statistics soon to be is sued by Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright give the actual cost of living from retail prices and showing the rate of wages from 1890 down to the close of 1903. It is said these statistics will show that while prices have been higher in the past four years, they are now fall ing. Wages, on the other hand, it will be shown, were higher in 1903 than they were in 1892, the highest marlc recorded in the history of the country before the depression of 1893-1594. There is said to be a tendency in wages to decline slightly with falling prices of commodi ties, but the wage standard is still much higher than it was even before the period of business depression. The Indianapolis Journal thinks that It. is quite in keeping with the record of a party that has never done anything by legiislation to promote the prosperity of the country, and whose success has al ways been followed by the alarm of cap ital and business stagnation, to attempt to prove that the prosperity of the last eight years is a myth. It is about as if they should assert that the Mississippi river is a figment of the imagination or the Rocky mountains the result of a mirage. The truth is that during that period no other fact in the current his tory of the world has stood out as bold ly and been so universally acknowledged and widely commented on as the ex traordinary prosperity of the United States. It has been shown by official re ports of our foreign and domestic trade, by statements of our constantly increas ing production, by the activity of our factories, mills and mines, by the gen eral employment of labor at good wages, and in many other ways. The country has never enjoyed as long a period of exceptional and uninterrupt ed prosperity as that which has pre vailed since 1896. He must have a short memory who does not remember the business boom that followed the elec tion of McKinley. Within 48 hours after the result was known the papers were filled with announcements of the open ing of closed mills, the starting of new enterprises, the increase of working forces and the pouring In of orders. The prosperity that began then has con tinued almost without interruption. It is true that owing to overproduction and repeated increases of wages manufac turers have begun to take in sail some what and railroads are reducing the number and wages of their employes, but these precautionary movements have not as yet affected the general pros perity in the slightest degree. What ever reduction of wages may have taken' place in a few lines the average is still higher than at any time since the high tide year of 1592. The democratic attempt to prove that the country is not prosperous will iabo.- tinder the disadvantage of having no democratic period of prosperity with which to compare the present." If jt wants to find a period of greater pros perity, it must be under republican rule. The ori'y argument it could possibly make would be that because the country is not as prosperous now as it was un- Mr. Oluey's Little Break. Comrade Olney, who is the life and soul of the cold-nosed brigade of the eastern faction of our glorious democ racy, is reported to have said in answer to an inquiry as to a projected visit in the west, "God forbid." Although our i comrade is only "reported to have said" j these cruel words, already a wave of in dignation has swept over the rolling prairie, and when Mr. Olr.ey's name is mentioned in St. Louis it will be greet ed with expressions of ragy and odium CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1904. , der some former period of republican rule, therefore the people should place I the democratic party in power. But the attempt to deny that the present prosperity of the country Is not real will only show the desperation of a partv whose principal political asset is calam " ity. r —————— 1 VERY WEAK EXPLANATION. 1 Bond Issues Are Discussed by the Ex- President, But the Whole Truth Is Not Told. It has evidently been deemed neces sary that some plausible explanation be ' ma*ie of the repeated bond issues during . the last democratic administration. Ac- : ' cordingly, Mr. Cleveland has come to | ' the rescue with an article on the sub ject in the Philadelphia Saturday Even- j ing Post. He gives a detailed account of ' the depleted condition of the treasury. ' i On January 17. 1894, he says,"the SIOO,-i | 000,000 gold reserve had fallen to less : than $70,000,000." Through the sale of 1 $50,000,000 of bonds, the reserve of i ' March (J, 1894. was again raised to $107,- i I 440,802; in less than three months, this j | reserve was again down to $01,787,374. j j In January, 1895, another $50,000,000 1 j bond issue was made. By February 8, | the reserve was again down to the j j alarmingly low point of $41,340,181. If ! , i the $100,000,000 gold reserve was to be I maintained, it was manifest that bond ! ) issues were unavoidable. There Is one thing regarding these bond Issues that Mr. Cleveland does not explain, says Gunton's Magazine, and that is why they were made necessary, i r i He does, indeed, say "popular distrust j was a perplexing and dangerous element j in the situation." but what had caused | ! this popular distrust? A critical ex- i amination of all the events that pre ceded Mr. Cleveland's administration make it quite clear that the great event j : that caused "popular distrust" was the ; | election of Mr. Cleveland himself. Ho j i went into office with the avowed purpose j of breaking down the protection policy lof the country. All business men knew [ this meant dealing a deadly blow at a large proportion of the manufacturing 1 industries of the country. Business men distrusted one another, and bank- I ers distrusted them all. New enter- i prises were at once stopped, old ones | curtailed, and everybody ran for shelter, j All this destroyed the confidence of i everyone in everyone else; and, lastly, it destroyed the confidence of the public ! in the United States treasury itself. j These are the facts that led to the con- j j dition Mr. Cleveland described, and made his frequent bond issues neces- j ! sary. In short, the chief cause of the I | calamity was the presence in the white i | house of Mr. Cleveland as the champion of a dangerous economic policy. THE DRIFT OF POLITICS. launched a few floating mines Admiral Bryan awaits results.— Milwaukee Sentinel. O'The stirring resolutions passed by the Oregon democrats are being heard from. Both republican candidates for congress have been elected by heavy majorities.—Chicago Ifiter Ocean. over-sanguine gentleman, j Mr. HAiry Loomis Nelson, says: "With i Mr. Olney as a candidate for president I Massachusetts would be a doubtful 1 state." Yes; the doubt would be as to the size of the republican majority.— Louisville Post. yellow kid has had another turndown, this time in Michigan. He is discovering that such playthings as self inflated presidential booms are costly and easily smashed. Troy (N. Y.) Times. hardly inferior to those excited by the ; loathsome name of Cleveland. Two mil lion honest democrats stand ready to i scratch Comrade Olney should his pre posterous candidacy be forced. We are not vindictive, but sensitive.—Roswell Field, in Chicago Post. tcr"Any acceptable democrat can win," says Chairman Jones. That Is a hedge; the country has yet to find a democrat, whom a majority of voters would think "acceptable" as president. , —lndianapolis Jouinai. War Bulletins. .—— ———__ i I 111 1 ■ I—» ———ll ■— 111 —I ■ 11— ■11 ■! RUSSIANS REPULSE AN ATTACK. St. Petersburg, June 15. —Emperor Nicholas has received the following telegram from Lieut. Gen. Stackelberg bearing yesterday's date: "A battle began at noon around the ( Russian position 4 miles south of i the station of Vafangow, the enemy making repeated attempts to dislodge our left, flank. The attack was re pelled and we retained our position. dEN. BARON T. KUROKI. The Japenese Commander. "The First regiment, occupying the left Hank of our position, sustained | severe losses. Its commander, Col. Khavastounoff, and Sub-Lieut. Nado chinsky were killed. Gen. Geerngross was wounded, a shrapnel bullet shat tering the right side of his lower jaw, but he remained on the field." London June 15. —The Central News has received a dispatch from its Liao Yang correspondent saying that heavy firing between the Russian and Japa nese vanguards comnjencei'. at 1:40 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The fight ing extended along the entire front, , assuming the dimensions of a general i engagement. Tokio, June 15. —While the Tai hoku was laying mines at the en- I trance to Port Arthur Monday night a j mine exploded, killing one officer and ! seven men. The Taihoku, which is a naval transport, was not seriously damaged. A BATTLE AT SEA. Tokio, June 10. —A flotilla of tor | pedo boats and torpedo boat, destroy j ers made a reconnoissance in force ! near Shao Ping island on Tuesday and bombarded the Russian outposts on | the coast to the west of the island. | (Shao Ping is 12 miles west, of Port Arthur) At noon the Russian cruiser j Novik. conveying ten torpedo boat de | stroyers, steamed out from Port Ar j thur. The Russian shore batteries protected tliese vessels with a heavy cannonade. The Japanese flotilla re treated slowly, firing as it went, for I the purpose of decoying the enemy to sea. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the Russian ships returned to the en trance of Port. Arthur. Last Monday night Japanese vldette j boats, protected by torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers, succeeded in reaching the entrance to Port Arthur and planted a series of mines. The i darkness of midnight favored the op j eration. London, June 16.—A dispatch to ! the Central News from Tokio says: "A dispatch from Moji says the can- I nonading at sea stopped at 1 p. m. ! yesterday. There was a heavy sea in , . the straits all day. Ten Japanese mer | cant steamers are known to have left i | various ports for Moji and there is j mu,ch anxiety about their fate." A dispatch to the Daily Express \ from Tokio, dated June 15, says news ! has been received there of a great Japanese victory near Fu-Chou, on | the railway 70 miles north of Port Ar- I thur. The Russians, it is added, were ! overwhelmed, lost a thousand men, left all their guns on the field and re treated in disorder. The correspondent of the Central News at Liao Yang telegraphed yes terday as follows: "The fighting at Vafangow (about 55 miles north of Port Arthur) was I renewed Wednesday and is still pro ceeding. No details are obtainable, but there are persistent rumors that the Russians were partly successful, destroying three squadrons of cavalry and making prisoners 00 men. The Russian casualties in the fighting Tuesday were 308 men killed anil wounded. The Japanese casualties are not. known." VICTORY FOR THE JAPS. Tokio, June 17. —The Russian hope of relieving the pressure on Port Ar thur by threatening the rear of Gen. Oku, the commander of the Japanese forces investing the Russian strong hold, came to end Wednesday at Tel issue, a point on the railroad 50 miles north ol' Kin Chou and 25 miles north of Vafangow, when the Russians were outmaneuvered and sweepingly de defeated. They left more than 500 Raisuli Increases His Demands. Washington, June 10. —A serious hitch has occurred in the negotiations for the release of Perdicarls and Var ley, the American an! Englishman captured in Tangier by the bandit Raisuli. Raisuli has vastly enlarged his original demands. He now insists I upon absolute control of four Moorish ! provinces and besides demands that no less than three nations, including the United States, guarantee the ab solute performance of the sultan's promise. The demands are regarded as absolutely Impossible of compli ance here. doart on the field and the Japanese captured 300 prisoners and 14 quick firing field guns. The Russians re treated hastily to the northward. Early estimates of the Japanese losses at Telissu say that 1,000 men were killed or wounded. All doubt as to the sinking of the | transports Hitachi and Sado by the j Russians has been removed. Three | hundred and ninety.seven survivors of the Hitachi have arrived at Moji |and 153 survivors of the Sado have ! arrived at Kokura. St. Petersburg, June 17. —Special j dispatches,, dated June 15, from Vaf ' angow, say the Japanese during the j first day's fighting had a battery of ! six-inch guns. These reports unite in j saying that the Russians several times ! repulsed the enemy, speak especially : of the fine work of the Russian artll ! lery and report that the Japanese j losses, which include quite a number jof prisoners captured, were much heavier than those of the Russians. Emperor Nicholas has received the | following telegram, dated June 10, j from Gen. Kuropatkin: | "I have received the following dis ! patch from Gen. Stakelberg, dated iJune 20: " 'Yesterday I had intended to at ! tack the enemy's right flank, but just I as our troops had been assigned for I the purpose and were beginning to | successfully envelop the enemy's j right flank, the Japanese in their turn j attacked my right flank with superior | forces and I was compelled to retreat I by three roads to the north. " 'Our losses are heavy, but they are I not yet completely known. During | the engagement the third and fourth | batteries of the First artillery brigade I were literally cut to pieces by the j Japanese shells. Of 10 guns, 13 were [ rendered completely useless and were | abandoned. "'The conduct of the troops was ex cellent, a large proportion of them re- I fusing to retire until after they had | been repeatedly ordered to do so." ' JAPS' GUNS SUPERIOR. i London, June 18.—No further news iof Gen. Stakelberg's present position ( lias yet been received. All accounts agree upon the great superiority both of the Japanese guns and the handling of them in the battle of Vafangow. One account says that the Japanese had over 200 machine and mountain guns on the field and that these were admirably adapted for use in such mountainous districts, while the Rus sian field guns were too heavy and were otherwise unsuitable. Nagasaki, June 18.—Seventy-three survivors from the transport Sado ar rived here Friday. They escaped in a water boat and contrived a. sail from their clothing. They met a British I steamer off the island of Iki Thursday afternoon and were towed to a' point ! near Nagasaki. The survivors say | that the Sado's engines were disabled : after a few shots had been fired by th Russians. When the survivers left the scene the Hitachi was still afloat. FIELD MARSHAL YAMAGATA. The Venerable Japanese Soldier, Indianapolis, June 18.—A cablegram to the Indianapolis News from Stanley Washburn, special correspondent of the Chicago News at Che Foo, says that Hector Fuller, staff war corres pondent of the Indianapolis News, has been captured by four Russian sol diers and taken to Port Arthur and placed in prison. A Report as to Liquid Fuel. "Washington, June 18. —The navy department yesterday made public the conclusions of the liquid fuel board of the navy, formed as the re sult of tests covering a period of 28 months with coal and oil respectively as a naval fuel. In the opinion of the board an intelligent Are room force should find no trouble in burning oil in a uniform manner, and for general purposes on shore high pressure steam was found to be a better spray ing medium than air. The board de clares that no fuel oil installation should be permitted for marine pur poses which does not permit a return to coal within 24 hours, in case of the failure of the oil supply. Some Good Gunnery. Washington, June 17. —Excellent records were made by the battleship Illinois in her recent target practice 1 off Cape Cod, Mass. Reports re- I ceived at the navy department show ! that of the 10-inch guns Lieut. De j Stiegner's turret made 29 hits out of 39 i shots. The best gun pointer made 11 ; shots and nine hits. The six-inch j guns of the Illinois made 4.41 hits per I gun per minute. It is not likely, how- ! ever, that the record of the Illinois ! will alter the order already announc- I ed, which was Oregon lirst, Wisconsin I second and lowa third. DUEL AT BRYANTSVILLE, INO, Three Men Killed and Two Wounded,, One Fatally. Bryantsville, Ind., June 15.—Three men are dead and two wounded, one fatally, aB the result of a pistol fight, on the streets of this village Tuesday- The dead are James and Charles Rout and Milton Tow. James Tow is fa tally wounded and Frank Tow is. badly hurt. The fight was the culmination of a feud between the Rout and the Tow families. The Routs lived at Bedford, eight miles from Bryantsville, and the- Tows are farmers living near here. The Tows are reiatl"es of the Tow fan. ly, who participated in the bloody Tow Bass feud some time ago. A free gravel road election was held here Tuesday and the village was crowded with farmers. There had been considerable drinking and when the Rout brothers drove into town and passed the Tows, who were standing near the election booth, trouble was looked for. Two weeks ago at a social affair the hostility between the two families had been rekindled by a fancied insult to Charles Rout by a young woman, who favored one of the Tow boys. Hostilities were averted at. the time, but yesterday the Rout brothers an nounced on their arrival here that they had come to"even up things." Five minutes after the Routs reach ed town they were seen approaching, the election booth. The Tow brothers, stood about ten feet apart awaiting the arrival of the Routs. There is a. dispute as to whether there were any words before the shooting began and it is also in doubt as to who fired the. first shot, but it seemed to be recog nized by all the participants that it was a fight to the death. Each of the five men drew a revolver and each side advanced, all firing. The men ' were not 15 feet apart when the firing ceased. On the ground the two Rout brothers and Milton Tow lay dead. James Tow was prostrated, fatally hurt, and Frank Tow, though able to stand, had a bullet in his arm and an other in his side. The crowd scattered when the shooting began and none of the by standers were struck, although more than 25 shots were fired. The wounded were taken to a store and their wounds dressed. A SWARM OF IMMIGRANTS. They are Coming to New York at the Rate of 3,000 a Day—Many Will bo Deported. New York. June 15. —According to the officials at Ellis Island, the pres ent inllux of immigrants includes an unusually large proportion of unde sirables, a total of 243 out of 19,595 having been already ordered deported, i while GSO were held in the detention pen yesterday, awaiting final decision on their cases., and 6,647 have been detained for various reasons, but may be landed later. This condition is believed to have been brought about partly by the recent cuts in steamship rates and third class passengers on every incoming vessel are being watched with the greatest care. Last June one out of every 114 im migrants was turned back, while for the first 11 days of this month one out of every 80 has been deported as unfit to enter the United States. Many of those now arriving, however, had bought their tickets Jong before the present low rates werQ in force and it is thought that those yet to come will be of a still worse class. Nearly 3,000 immigrants arrived on three steamships yesterday and the | facilities at Ellis Island are being so i severely taxed that the use of tents | to care for those who are being de tained has been suggested. ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS. Delegates to the St. Louis Conven tion Instructed for Hearst. Springfield, 111., June 15. —The dem ! ocratic state convention yesterday nominated Lawrence B. Stringer, of Lincoln, for governor, and instructed the delegates to the St. Louis conven tion to vote as a unit for William R. Hearst for the presidential nomina tion. The convention was controlled by John P. Hopkins, former mayor of Chicago and now chairman of the state central committee. Mr. Hearst's campaign managers who attempted to ride into power by the aid of his name, received no con sideration whatever from the conven tion. The Harrison party, which came solely from Chicago and was pledged to the support of Congressman James R. Williams, was routed completely. Mayor Carter H. Harrison was unseat ed as a delegate and took a train for home without going near the conven tion. Both his faction and the Hearst party were as nothing compared to the strength and skillful management of the convention exhibited by Hop kins. Killed His Son. Mount Holly, N. J., June 15. —Frank Reinecke, aged 16 years, was killed late Monday night by his father while trying to play a joke on the latter. Young Reinecke hid in the bushes along the highway near Riverside,, and as his father approached the boy jumped out, expecting to gcare him. The elder Reinecke drew a knife and plunged it into the lad's heart, killing him almost instantly. Mr. Reinecke thought he was about to be attacked by a highwayman. Reunion of Confederate Veterans. Nashville, Tenn., June 15. —The United Confederate Veterans began their 14th annual convention yester day and for the first time since the or ganization was formed Gen. John B. Gordon, the beloved commander-in chief, whose body rests in Oakland cemetery at Atlanta, Ga., did not pre side. The convention was called to order by Gen. George W. Gordon, of Memphis, commanding the Tennessee division. The welcoming addresses, were responded to by Lieut. Gen. Ste phen U. Lee, who is filling the unex pired term of late commander-in-chief
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