2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ret year H 00 paid In advance i ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of •or doliar per square forone insertion and fifty •eats ] er square lor each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three months, are low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Leg:il and OClctal Advertising per ofjiiare three time* or leas, *aidto Law FRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages aro paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be pa'.4 lor in advance. As to Immigration, Railroad and steamship companien alil covers the sur render of the Russian leases to the Liao Tung peninsula, Port Arthur, Dalny and the Hlondo and Elliott Isl ands. Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 18. —The crisis in the peace conference has been reached and pessimism is again the note. The pessimism is based upon the fact that no progress was made Thurs day. Tim exchange of views at the morning session on Article 9 (remun eration for the cost of the war) show ed at once that the plenipotentiaries were as far apart as the poles and it was passed over. Schooner and Crew Lost. North Sydney, N. S., Aug. 15.—A small schooner which was sailing along the coast off Lingan Head was struck by a severe squall yesterday and capsized. Before those on shbre could make preparations for assist ance the storm increased to a hurri cane and one by one Ihe crew were seen to fall away from the bottont, 0 f their overturned craft. Soldiers Mutilated Their Hands. Harbin, Aug. 15. —Amon° the Sol diers medically treated here li>oo were found to be self-mutilated oa the first fingers of the right hand.f j THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA. The Czar Orders the Convocation of a National Assembly and Grants a Limited Suffrage. St. Petersburg. Aug. 19. —Russia's rational representative assembly, the 1 fruit of decades of striving for reform, | which endows the Russian people ! W'ith the right of being consulted ' through their chosen representatives ' in the suggestion, preparation and re peal of legislation, to-day takes its place among the fundamental institu -1 tions of the empire. In a solemn manifesto Emperor t Nicholas announces this morning to I his; subjects the fruition of his plans j summoning the representatives of the j people, as outlined by him in a re -1 script issued on March 3 last, and fixes | the date for the first convocation as ! mid January and in a ukase addressed ! to the senate orders that body to reg ! Ister as the imperial will a law project , formulating the nature, power and j procedure of the new governmental 1 organization. The national assembly will be a I consultive organization in connection | with the council of the empire and not I a legislative body. The powers of the I emperor remain theoretically absolute, j The representatives of the people I will have not only the right to be i heard on any legislation proposed by the government, but also can voice their desires on new laws and will have the right to exert a certain su pervision over budget expenditures. The suffrage, though wide, is not universal. It is based on property qualification, the peasantry having a vote through membership in commer cial organizations. A considerable portion of the resi dents of the cities, possessing no lands, together with women, soldiers, etc.. are without suffrage. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Encouraging Reports are Received from All Branches. New York, Aug. 19. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Assurance of prosperity on the farms generates confidence in all de partments of trade and industry. Con tracts are placed for distant delivery and commercial payments are more prompt. It is also gratifying to note that pending and threatening labor controversies are less numerous: a higher scale was adopted at glass fac tories. and the attractive w'ages paid to harvest hands have reduced the ranks of the unemployed to a mini mum. Jobbing trade is brisk, especi ally in dry goods. Mills and factories are well em employed, little idle machinery being •noted in the prominent industries, al though iron and steel returns are still somewhat irregular. Traffic by rail and water is very heavy, railway earn ings thus far reported for August ex ceeding last year's figures by C.C per cent. Commercial failures this week in the United States number "IS, against 22C the corresponding week last year. Failures in Canada number 28, against 2-1 last year. BOMBS CAME IN THE MAIL. Infernal Machines Are Sent to the Of fices of Prominent New York Jews. New York, Aug. 19. —Two small in fernal machines were sent to promi nent New Yorkers yesterday. Jacob 11. Schiff, the banker who this week conferred with Mr. Witte, the chief Russian peace plenipotentiary, con cerning the condition of the Jews in Russia, was the target of the more dangerous of the machines, a contriv ance capable of causing death. The other was received by M. Guggen heim's Sons and was directed to the office of the American Smelting and Refining Co. Mr. Schiff was absent from the city, being at liar Harbor. The banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of which he is a member, received by mail a wooden box about six Inches long al dressed to Mr. Schiff and marked as if coming from Edward Seventh. It was Immediately turned over to the police, although at first regarded only as a joke. Grave reports from expert testers at the bureau of combustibles, however, quickly suggested that th«» sender might have had other motives than pleasantry. The police began an Immediate investigation. WEBB JAY IS BADLY HURT. Famous Automobile Driver Is Prob ably Fatally Injured During a Race at Buffalo. Buffalo, N. Y.. Aug. 19.—Webb Jay, j of Cleveland, was probably fatally in ! lured at Kenil worth park Friday in ; the ten-mile automobile race. At the 1 three-quarters of the fourth mile Jay's ; machine crashed through til a fence, down an embankment of 15 feet and Into a pond. What caused the accident lls not known. It is believed, how ever, that Jay was blinded by oust and steered into the fence. He was driv ing about a mile a minute when the ] accident happened. Jay. unconscious, would have been drowDed had not two spectators sit ting on the fence nearby gone to his rescue and dragged him out. He was ' taken to the German hospital, where , it was found that nine ribs are broken, one of his lungs is punctured and his ! right femur is fractured. I i Groceryman Kiiled a Burglar. | Pittsburg, Ausr. 19. —Edward Hollnr an, aged 15 yea's, of Allegheny, was shot dead early Friday at Riverview, ! Pa., by Thompson Nolder. whose : grocery store, it is said, he was rob bing. Hollaran and eight other com panions escaped Thursday from the Morganza reform school. I A Triple Exception. '< Mem 1 his. Term., At :■/. 19. —James Nor'ipct. .1' hn Champion and General Bone, time nt'gro murderers, were hansel here Friday. T'.iey killed wo men of their own race. TWELVE LIVES CRUSHED OUT A Mountain of Rock Fell from the Side of a Huge Quarry a t Ormrod. Pa. IT DROPPED ON 18 WORKMEN twelve Were Killed and Six Injured, Some Fatally —Nir.e Men Escaped in Safety Mass of Rock Weighed Thousands of Tons. AI lent own, Pa., AUK. IT. —A of limestone weighing thousands of lons slid from a side of the quarry of mill A, of the Lehigh Cement Co. at Orm rod at noon Wednesday, just five min utes before lime to quit work. Twenty-seven men were at work in the quarry, which is a thousand i'el long, 150 feel across and 100 feet deep. Heavy rains for two days had softened the earth and caused the slide of rock. Where the fallen mass slipped away a smooth, nearly perpendicular wall was left, rising sheer 100 feet above the bottom of the quarry, while the en tiro quarry floor was covered with broken, jagged rock. Only nine of the men got away safely, four of whom escaped by run ning up on a mass of rock L'. 'he oppo- J site side of the quarry. The remaining. ; 18 were huddled in a space ten feet j square, 12 of whum were killed and j six injured. Two of the latter may die. All of the men are Slavonians who lived in shanties close to the quarry. Two men who saw the side of the quarry quiver shouted a warning to the men. The men misinterpreted the calls and failed to move out of the zone of danger until it was too late. With a thunderous roar the mountain of rock fell, pinning the men fast. All the men from the neighboring companies as well as the rigging gang set to work at once to extricate the unfortunates. They used block and tackle, crowbars, hydraulic jacks and pitchforks to remove the stone, many of which weighed three tons. Moans were heard coming from several places and there the rescuers directed their efforts. They gradually ttncov 112 red one man after another and at S:UO got out the last live man. His head and shoulders were exposed from the first, but his leg;s were pinned fast by an enormous boulder. Six men were found huddled in one place, four standing and two down. Three were alive and one diet before he could be gotten out. Five physicians were summoned who gave the injured first aid on the scene and then had them hur»'ed to the Allen town hospital. The lead were laid on boards and carried to the stock house. Eight bodies were recovered befon dark, at which time two more were exposed to view and two others buried deep in the pit. TARIFF REVISIONISTS. They Meet in Convention at Chicane and Adopt a New War Cry. Chicago, Aug. 17. —"Dual tariffs" in all probability is the war cry that will ring through the United States for some years to come, instead of the familiar call for "reciprocity." The new slogan means the passage of a "maximum and minimum" tariff law permitting the establishment of reciprocal trade relations with friend ly foreign countries by vote of con gress. Alvin H. Sanders, chairman of the executive committee of the national reciprocity conference which opened its two days' session at the Illinois theatre yesterday, is credited with originating the war cry. Mr. Sanders broached his suggestion to a few friends after the word reciprocity had received some roug'.i handling on the floor of the convention and it met ap proval among the delegates. Chicago, Aug. IS. —The reciprocity conference called to devise means of battering the trade relations between the United Stales p.nd foreign coun tries finished its work Thursday, ar ranged for a committee of 1"> to pros" cut<* the plans of the convention and formed a permanent organization !*• be styled the American Reciprocal Tariff League. The committee will be appointed by the chair with power to organize and promote the work for which the convention assembled. The resolutions adopted advocate a. maximum and minimum tariff as a means of relieving the situation with which this country is confronted, and suggest that such reciprocal conces sions be arranged by a permanent tariff commission, to be created by congress and to be appointed by the president. The principal speaker was Gov. A. B. Cummins, of lowa, who in a speech full of fire and eloquene • '''tried defi ance at the enemies e" oiprocity. Mr. Cummins brought 1.. audience under his spell and except when inter rupted with uproarious applause, he held full sway for three-quarters of an hour. . Train Crashed Into a Trolley Car. Cincinnati. Aug. IT.—Three men were killed and ten persons were in jured last night when an express train on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest ern crashed into a trolley car at A'inton Place, a suburb. All the killed lived in Winton Place. The dearl: Robert .7. Smith. William Tueting, jr. An unidentified man. Vienna's Wcrktne:: Ct/l'-.e. Vienna, Aug. IT.—The workmen !n all the factories here went on strike vepterday. Their attitude is threaten inc.