2 CAMERON COUNTY PMSS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published livery Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year 52 00 If paid in advance l 14) ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at th° rate of ont* duliur per square forums insertion ami tiny cents i er square for curb subsequent insertion Rates by the year, or for six or three months, arc low and uniform, and will be furnUhcd on application. LCKUI and Official Advertising per square three times or less, VJ: each subset pie nt inser tion .'0 rents per -quaro. Local notices In cents per line f«>r on? inscr iption: cents p« r line lor each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. *5 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising- No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PIIKSR is complete • nd ; ff« r«ls facilities 112« i doiiitf the best class of V rk. 1' \ 11*1 It l I. Alt A 1"l LS 1 ION PAID TO LAW IMU.N I INo. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except ai the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. Since a French engineer named On mond planned a submarine tunnel, in 3.557, various projects have been ad vanced for connecting England with the continent. The latest is the sug gestion of Bunau-Varilla, who wants to build a tunnel to within three Kilo meters of England, and thence a bridge, which England (which has not favored a tunnel), could destroy at any time in case of danger of a for eign invasion, thus rendering the tun nel useless. Japanese merchants are extending iheir efforts in the manufacture and export of tens, and it is possible that this may lie done somewhat in the spirit of rivalry, but it must be con ceded that without the aid of resident foreigners engaged in the tea trade Japanese teas would never have been introduced abroad to any considerable extent; neither would its present for eign export be maintained. The same may be said in the case of mattings .and other Japanese exports. A new equipment for the carrying •of rations is now being experimented with at Pon Leavenworth. Kans., by ■the United States troops. It is made of canvas and contains three pocket compartments. It is held by hooks to the belt, and fitted to the soldier by shoulder straps designated to destrib ute the weight equally on the hips. There is a large pocket for cavalry and mounted officers which fits on one side of the saddle, and the two small ones on the other. The tins carry three days' ordinary rations and two extra emergency rations. As a Bavarian electrician was expe rimenting on the drying of an ingot mold in the ground by means of the electric current, he noticed that worms issued from the ground near by, writh ing as if in pain and seeming in a great hurry to get away. Following this up, he has devised an apparatus to rid soil of worms and noxious in sects, by means of which, by planting numerous brass electrodes in the earfh at. proper intervals, he has suc ceeded in driving all crawling things from a considerable space In a very brief time. These experiments are expected to result In much practical benefit. The prefect of the Seine In Paris has fixed the rates for the hire of au tomobiles, which are furnished with cyclometers and also with Ixira kilo metric machines. The price during the daytime, whether inside or outside the fortifications, is, for carriages with two places, one kilometer (about three lift hs of a milt), 25 cents; each fol lowing kilometer, 10 cents. So two persons can travel six miles for J 1.25. ■Carrigaes with four places are per mitted to charge SO cents for the first kilometer and 12 cents for each follow ing one. The courtyard of the Savoy hotel. In London, which is part of a recent ad dition trj the establishment, has been paved with rubber, at a cost of $!),733. The courtyard measures r» by 50 feet. The contractors gave the following in formation about the pavement to T'nited States Consul General Evans; "The amount of rubber used in the Sa voy courtyard is 2,915 square feet two inches thick, and the weight of tha rubber is 15>i pounds a square foot. It is laid on a concrete foundation, finished with cement floating to make it smooth." In the "Petrified Forest" of Arizona there is a natural bridge, across a nar row canyon, consisting of the petri fied, or agati/.ed, trunk of a tree ill feet in length. The petrified trees In this region are believed to have flour ished in the Triassic age. Most of them are allied to the Norfolk island pine (Arucaria) of to-day, but some resemble the red cedar. Prof. Carter thinks the petrification was due to soluble silicates derived from the de composition of th" feldspathic cement found in the sandstone of that region of natural wonders. T'p to within ten years ago all the many millions of paper napkins an nually consumed in the Cniied Stat> 3 ■were imported from Japan or China, j but now a large proportion of tliom j me made here. This proportion is constantly Increasing, and now Amer- ' can paper napkins are exported to j Europe. Some of the napkins pro- : •luced in this country are printed with j designs Japanese in character, but tho prev.r bulk are original in every way. > They include napkins printed with j various flowers, which ara reproduced . with fidelity to nature. LOCATION OF ETSESHAI7 AZID ANTESHAN FOKTS, liE'OP.TED CAPTUEED BY JAPANESE. iSByOf f -w» / '' Kt-lMweny V* ; i...- f lttfi Ve«Vx»u.«N Tov\» ->> fey. A jfii V, J I vjwr«I Takbe ityt- >1 hie V'V •; „•• j r./l viclfow ?'... \ , : -y/ J fll War News jI i i ft * 5^2 BATTLE STILL RAGING. St. Petersburg, Aug. 31.—The great j battle of Liao Yang which began | early Tuesday morning, raged ! throughout the day, but no further of- 1 fieial details beyond two brief tele grams given out in the afternoon have been received by the war office. The Japanese forces engaged in this battle are believed to number about 200,000 men. Gen. Kuropatkin is known to have six army corps, besides 147 squadrons of cavalry, bringing up the Russian total to about the same number that the Japanese have. Wow the armies compare with regard to ar tillery is not definitely known. Reports from the front credit the Japanese with having about 1,200 guns and many mountain batteries. Gen. Kuropatkin, in addition to his field batteries, has a number of very heavy guns emplaced at important po sitions at Liao Yang. London, Aug. 31.—A dispatch from Liao Yang dated August 30, says: "The Japanese artillery fire only ceased at N o'clock this evening. The casualties have not been ascertained. "The Third Russian corps repulsed a hot Japanese assault, the Japanese being hurled back by bayonet charges. "Two Japanese companies which succeeded in occupying a Russian po sition were mistaken for Russians and annihilated by Japanese artillery fire." JAPS RESUMED ATTACK. Liao Yang, Sept. 1. —The second day's battle commenced at dawn. The Russians made repeated baynonet ad vances on the road directly south of Liao Yang, where the Japanese ap proached from Sanquaiship and Tao, shelling the positions in the Russian lines until 1 in the afternoon, when the engagement which was general throughout the south and southeast narrowed to the main line. The Jap anese advance on the southeast was by way of the Peng Wang Cheng road. Immediately in front of Chiaofan tun the Japanese stubbornly attempt ed to occupy a round-topped hill, which was literally shaved by Russian shells, making repeated attempts the entire day where apparently it was impossible for anything to live. The [ cannonading continued from this j point to the vicinity of Wangpaoti un- ! til evening without apparent advan-, tage to either side. The Japanese dropped shells within two or three miles of the railroad sta tion and in the plain of Wentshu mountain, which is the most impor tant eminence around Liao Yang, but the Japanese abandoned aggression there on account of the resistance they met. There was cannon fire Tuesday night and this is expected nightly. Yesterday's developments show , that the Russians are prepared for all , emergencies. Rain began to fall at i noon, gradually transforming the j plain into a wilderness through which the wounded, in carts and walking. 1 made their way to the hospitals. Con j sidering the scale of the day's opera- 1 tions the number of Russian wounded i is apparently small, while the Japa- ! nose losses are believed to bo great, especially where they were repulsed on the south road. RUSSIANS RETREAT. London, Sept. 2. —This morning's newspapers comment upon an Associ ated Press dispatch from Mukden, saying that the train service between | Mukden and Liao Yang is interrupted i and that the roads are impassable, as the most important news from the scene of hostilities in the far east and say that there is only one meaning to it —that the Japanese have seized the railway between Liao Yang and Muk den. Correspondents of the Daily Chroni cle and the Daily Mail assert that the Japanese occupied Liao Yang on Thursdfiy. Promoter McCauley Is Arrested. | New York. Aug. 31. —Thomas N. j I McCauley, organizer and ex-president \ I of tlm alleged bankrupt international' ; Mercantile Agency, of this city, which is now in the hands of a receiver, was ( arrested here Tuesday upon request of | Hamilton, Ont., authorities, who in- ' j formed t lie local officials that Mc i Cauloy was wanted there on the ; charge of larceny of $1,500, made by jC. S. Wilcox, of that cit», a former .stockholder in th<> Mercantile Agency. I McCauley says that his arrest is the I result of spite on the part of a present | official of i lie company. CAMERON COUNTY PIESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1904. There is no official conflrnution of j these statements, but the latest of | ficial dispatch to the Japanese lega ] tion here reports the capturi of the heights southwest of Liao fang, at dawn Thursday. This dispatch adds: "Thereupon the enemy south of Liao ! Yang commenced to retreat. Our armies are now pursuing him.' Tokio, Sept. 2. —Tokio ring's with shouts and cheers for the victory at Liao Yang. The details of Thirsday's fighting are scanty. It is only known that at dawn Gen. Oku's array was hurled against the Russian ri<ht cen ter on the southern line and hat the Russians were forced to abandon their positions and retreat. The question of the occupation of Liao Yang by the Japanese is in doubt. The official dispatches do not make mention of such occupation, but it is assumed that the Russians are withdrawing through Liao Yang and that the Japanese possibly occu pied it late yesterday. The Japanese casualties since Au gust 29 are officially estimated at 10,- 000. I St. Petersburg, Sept. 2. —The news of the evacuation of Liao Yang and the withdrawal of the Russian army to the right bank of the Taitse river reached only a small section of the people of St. Petersburg at a late hour and caused intense excitement and disappointment. The following statement was ob tained from the war office at 10 o'clock Thursday night: "Gen. Kuroki's army crossed in force to the right bank of the Taitse river and it therefore became neces sary for the Russians to be in a posi tion to repel a blow in this direction. "In view of this development in the operations Gen. Kuropartin decided to abandon his positions on the left bank and to concentrate his whole army on the other side of the river. This position is the strongest both in character and in site. The great fight will be decided there. "By withdrawing to this position the Russian army avoids the danger of being divided by the river." I Ordered a General Strike. ! Chicago, Sept. 1. —Famine in meat is declared by the strikers to be the j probable result of their new move in the strike against the packers. Or ders have been issued for a general strike of all butcher workmen throughout the country. They are ex pected togo out to-day. The order will t affeci about 2,000 men in Chicago, including the independent plants in many other cities. In addition to the stock handlers, 125 special policemen and nearly 400 pen cleaners, drivers iof refuse wagons and laborers em ployed by the Union Stock Yards Co. ' quit work yesterday. Stormy Scenes in a Convention. New York, Sept. I.—Much excite ment attended the discfission of a resolution to increase the membership of the executive committee at the con ; vention of the United Irish League of America here yesterday. The propo i sifion was to increase the committee from 50 to 100, and the trouble began | when John F. Ryan, of Philadelphia, I said that New York should not have | two representatives on the executive j committee when Boston and other j cities had given more to the fund than j had New York. After great disorder i the proposed amendment was de ! feated. Bryan Offers His Services. New York, Sept. 1. Secretary Woodson, of the democratic national committee, has received a letter from William J. Bryan in which Mr. Bryan says he will be at the disposal of the democratic committee for campaign purposes during October. Mr. Bryan indicates that he would prefer speak ing in the west, mostly in Indiana. i A Princess Escapes from Her Keeperc j Berlin, Sept. 1. —Princess Louise of ! Coburg, daughter of the king of Bel gium, whose relations with Keglevich Mattastieh, a lieutenant in the Aus trian army, caused great scandal in royal circles seven years ago and who ; has been since kept under the closest restraint, has vanished from Bad Elster, where she had been taking the cure. It is presumed that she is in the company of Mattisch. The escape of the princess v.as accomplished in a romantic manner. Ladders and an automobile were brought into play to | effect her release from the hotel. SITUATION IS CRITICAL. Effort to Settle Engineers' Wage Scale Dispute Was Fruitless. New York, Sept. 2. —Another fruit less effort to settle the threatened ! trouble between ihe Interborough j Rapid Transit Co. and 11*> employes was made Thursday by committees representing both interests. At tho conclusion of the meeting the an nouncement was made that no agree ment bad been reached. Mr. Belmont was of the opinion tliat the situation would be adjusted with out serious trouble. Assistant Grand President Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, took a more pessimistic view. "The situation is critical," said he. Speaking of the conference Mr. Bel mont said: "We were not able to agree, but the committee is consider- proposition and another confer ence will lie held at which 1 hope to have the trouble adjusted. I do not believe there will be any strike and I think everything will come out all right in the end." Mr. Stone later made a public state ment in which he said: "The electric engineers of the Interborough railroad asked that the wage scale and hours of labor now in effect on the Interbor ough {namely for nine hours —the company only offers $3 for ten hours) be extended to the subway operated by the same corporation. The state ment that we are asking for an in crease in wages is wrong. "The claim of the company that they can set all the motormen they want at a cheaper rate for longer hours is perhaps true in some sense, but what kind of motormen will they be? 1 have 110 doubt if they adopted a still lower rate they could still get men." Mr. Stone pointed out that it was the intention of the company to put In ! a service in the subway that is faster j than any in the United States. He declared that it was all mere j talk to compare these surface motor- I men who handle a light car weighing I 20 tons running at a speed of ten or 15 miles per hour, with one of the sub- I way trains of 300 tons running at 45 ! or 50 miles per hour and say the work | is the same and that the surface men j can go into the subway and do the work. The United States Leads. St. Louis, Sept. 2. —The report just issued by W. J. Semeleroth, of St. Louis, chief secretary for the world's fourth Sunday-school convention, held at Perusalem, in April of this year, shows a total of 200,905 Protestant Sabbath schools, 2,414,757 teachers and 23,442,998 scholars in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South Amer ica and the islands of the seas. The L T nited States leads with 139,817 Sun day-schools, 1,419,807 teachers and 11,493,591 scholars. England and i Wales come next with a total mem bership of little more than half this . number, while Greece, the lowest on | the list, has only lour schools, seven teachers and ISO scholars. An Ocean Tragedy. St. .Johns, N. F l ., Sept. 2.—The Cana dian schooner Troop, from the Grand I Banks fishing grounds, reports that on I August 20 Capt. Zimmermann, of the fishing schooner Coleraine, reported | having spoken a French barkentine, j name unknown, 170 miles off Cape Race, with only three men left out of j a crew of 34, the- others having been lost while fishing with their dories. The French captain begged ('apt. 7Aw merniann to board his vessel and help him to reach this port, but the weath er was too stormy to permit compli ance with this request, and it is feared that, the French vessel and the re mainder of her crew have perished. Arrest of a Labor Leader. Fort Madison, la., Sept. 2. —L. C. Neyer, vice president of the Machin ists' International union, was brought here Thursday from Dubuque, la., by a special officer of the Atchison, To. peka & Santa Fe railroad, who arrest ed Neyer 011 a charge of assault with intent to kill, the arrest being the re sult of an alleged attack by Neyer on strike breakers here about a month ago. A warrant has also been issued for Arthur E. Ireland, organizer for tlie Federation of Labor, 011 the same charge. Stretched Hemp. Clearfield, Pa., Sept. 2. Henry Fitch,, colored, was hanged here Thursday for the murder of John Wil liamson on September 29. 1903. Fitch attempted to rob Williamson, who re sisted and was shot to death. Re cently Fitch made a confession in which he claimed to have killed a ne gro at Red Star. W. Va., shot a man at East Liverpool, 0., and murder ously assaulted another at Coraopolis, I J a. New Mint Opened. Denver, Col., Sept. 2.—The new United States mint in this city was opened yesterday with a presidential salute of 21 guns and raising of the American (lag o«t the building by George E. Roberts, director of the mint. The mint will not begin coin age until July 1, 1905, Struck for More Pay. Philadelphia, Sept. 2.—Seven hun dred tinsmiths and sheet metal work ers went on a strike here yesterday for an advance of five cents a hour. Formerly the men were paid at the rate of 37% cents an hour. They are asking for 42'£ cents an hour, the workday to remain at eight hours. Children Were Abducted. Ogdensburg, N. Y., Sept. 2. —Luella and Lillie Widdis, aged 13 and 11 years, children of Frederick Widdis, of Brockville, Ont., who were abducted two weeks ago, have been found in a vacant house near Hammond, N. Y. Luella says that Tony Raggasino, an Italian friend of the family, took them from home at night while their father slept, crossed the St. Lawrence with them, made them walk II miles back into the country, and left them in the vacant house while he returned to Brockville for their belongings. Rag- I gasino has been arrested. I THE BIELE WAS MUCH USED There Was No Baby Chair in tho House and It Served a Good Purpose. A minister erf one of the leading congre gations of this city was recently making a call on otic of tiie prominent members »i In? flock and was greeted at tiie door by the live-year-old daughter of tiie house, who \\.is doing tiie honors as hostess in the absence of her mother, relates the Philadelphia Press. Spying a well-worn family Bible near at hand, tiie minister commented on the fact that there must be a good lather in the house, which contained proof of having used the Bible to so great an extent. "Oh. yes," said tiie child, "papa has us on the Hible thiee times a day.' "Indeed?" replied the parson. "How edi fying. And, pray, what times does your good father call upon this grand voluinne'r" "Always at meal times," answered the radiant daughter. "You know, we never had a baby chair in the bouse, so pa just sils tiie I'ible on a dining-room chair ami that makes it just high enough for us children .Mi b:ib\ brother Jim sat on it this inornin,;. We all had our turn at it." New Tourist Sleeping Car Service to California. On August 15th the Missouri Pacific Rail way will establish a daily through Tourist Sleeping ( rir Line, St. Louis to San Fran ciseo. I'iain will leave St. Louis daily 11:;)!) p. 111. The route will be via Missouri Pacific Railway to Pueblo, Colorauo, thence via Denver and Rio Grande to Salt Lake City and Ogden and Southern Pacific to Sun Francisco and Los Angeles. This is the fa mous scenic line of (lie world—through tiie picturesque Rocky Mountains. The service anil accommodations will be up to date and will be personally conducted. Very low rates will be in effort from Au gust loth to September 10th via Missouri Pa cific Railway to tiie principal Pacific Coast points and return. Also Low Rate Colonist one way tickets will be sold from September loth to October 15th. For rates, informat ion and reservation of berths, apply to nearest representative of the Missouri Pacific Rail way. or address H. C. Townsend, G. P. & T. A., St. Louis, Mo. The Sphere of Influence. "Pa, what is the sphere of influence?" "Oli. Jimmy, you wear ine out with ynur questions. The sphere of influence i* some times tiie hig, round silver dollar."—Cincin nati Tribune. 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Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength and Health to the Sufferer, Making Him i Feel Twenty-Five Years Younger. J. 15. Corton, farmer and lumberman, tof Deppe, N. Buffered for years with my back. 11 was. BO bad that I could not walk nor even ride raised ten J. O. CUSTOM. POUNDS OF weight from the ground, the pain was so severe. This was my condition when ■ 1 began using Doan's Kidney Pills. | They quickly relieved me and now I am never troubled as I was. My back is strong and I can walk or ride a long' distance and feel just as strong as I did twenty-five years ago. I think so much i of Doan's Kidney Pills that I have I given a supply of the remedy to some i of my neighbors and they have also found pood results. If you can sift anything from this rambling not e that will be of any service to you, or to anyone suffering from kidney trouble, you are at liberty to do so." A TRIAL FItEE— Address Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. WET WEATHER. 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