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The Job department of the PBKSS Is complete and a (Tunis facilities for doing the best class of W. rk. I'Ali'l ICI'I.AR ATTENIIOH F AID TO UVI PHINTIV. No pap-r will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub* lishe-. • Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. Optimism Sway Regaining. The North American Review notes that this country is really becoming optimistic. A year ago the country seemed to be a veritable den of iniqui ty. As exposure succeeded exposure, scandal had followed scandal so rapid ly that one was left gasping for breath. Yellow journals could not be printed in sufficient numbers to satis fy the avidity of the ma-ses. A muck rake had become the sole requisite of success in the making of periodi cals. Ignorance vied with irresponsi bility in desperate reaching for noto riety, in emulation of a conscienceless gambler who had blazed a lurid way. Shame was written upon honest coun tenances; depression rested upon the American spirit; the ver;- atmosphere ■was surcharged with portent. There came no sudden change, but with al most mechanical certainty the clouds lifted one by one, until at last it seemed safe to declare that sanity has resumed its wonted sway. The period has been one of excessive trial but of inestimable service. Now, with a sigh of relief, the intelligent, patriotic citi zen begins to feel satisfiel that the greatest evils in our business and po litical being have been revealed, and he can join with his fellows in de manding correction, not in haste or passion, but soberly, rationally, Insist ently. Already it is evident that mere negative virtue will no longer fill the requirement of political preferment.; exceptional and proven high-minded ness is exacted, as the autumn elec tions will surely demonstrate. So, too, in business is apparent a deeper sense of personal responsibility and keener appreciation of the value oi a fair name. To be honest rather than smart has become good form. Hence the gradual but obvious yielding of pessimism to a feeling almost buoy ant. Presently, having taken our se vere lessons permanently to heart and sternly resolved that never again shall arise the need of such another, we way, by the grace of God, be permit ted again to see the sun in all its pris tine glory. One of the Smithsonian scientists calls attention to the fact that the du ration of the lives of the lower ani mals differs from that of men's Uvea in being far more uniform. While human beings die at all ages between infancy and senility, among the iower animals, on the contrary, all individ uals of the same species live to very nearly the same age, unless killed by violence. Some examples of remark able longevity among animals may be cited, says the Philadelphia Record. For instance, there is the story of the elephant Ajax, which Alexander cap tured at his victory over Porus. The conqueror affixed an inscription to the animal and set it at liberty. Three hundred and fifty years later Ajax is said to have been found still living. But little dependence can be placed on most stories of long life among animals. "It is 900 years since the failure of a bank in China," said a bank exam iner. "More than nine hundred year 3 ago, in the reign of Hi Hung, a bank failed. Hi Hung had the failure in vestigated, and to his indignation found that it had been due to reck less and shady conduct on the part of the directors and president. Hi Hung at once issued an edict that the next time a bank failed the heads of its president and directors were to be cut off. The edict, which has never been revoked, has made China's banking Institutions the safest in the world." When the German emperor appoint ed a Jewish banker as director of the colonial office the other day, much sur prise was expressed in Berlin that a business man and a Jew had been called to so high an office. Such an appointment would have caused sur prise neither in the United States nor in England. It. is a good idea in the training of ■wives to send a wife to the country ■when a farmer's wife is cooking for threshers. After the town woman has watched the farmer's wife a day she never complains if she has washing, kin company, a fire and her bread burns all in the same day. REBATECASE Ends in Conviction of New York Central Co. AND AN OFFICIAL A Jury in the Federal Court at New York City Finds that Indict ments Were True. New York.—A verdict of guilty of granting rebates on sugar shipments was returned by a jury in the United States court here Wednes day against the New York Central Railway Co. and Frederick L. Poine roy, the company's general traffic manager. Sentence was deferred un til Friday to permit the attorneys for the defense to file motions with the court. In discussing the jury's ver dict, Austen O. Fox, counsel for the defendants, placed the responsibility for the conviction of his clients upon public opinion. "You can't defend rebate cases in the present state of public opinion," said he. The charge against the New York Central and Pomeroy was based upon indictments found by the United States grand jury after many months of investigation. It was alleged that the defendants entered into an ar rangement with the American Sugar Refining Co. whereby Edgar & Son, of Detroit, were favored by a reduction of five cents per hundred weight on sugar shipments from New York to Detroit from the regular traffic rates. The jury was out an hour. According to the provisions of the Elkins act, under which the convic tions were secured, the maximum penalty is a fine of $20,000. As both the Central and the personal defend ant, Frederick L. Pomeroy, are con victed by the decision of the jury on all of the six counts charged in the indictment, the total fine for each can be $120,000. A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. It Caused the Death of Four People and Injury to Scores. Celina, O. Four persons were killed and a hundred were in jured, most of them slightly, by an explosion of gasoline Wednesday in Meinerding's hardware store at Fort Recovery. Fire followed the' explo sion, destroying buildings worth SIOO,OOO. The dead: Miss Cleo Weis, cashier in Meinerding's store. Henry hammer. Charles Wagner. Joseph Resner. A traveling salesman is missing and may be added to the dead. The most seriously injured are: John McMuller, leg almost torn from body, may die. Mrs. John McMuller. D. Kidder, leg broken. Henry C. Laughman, bruised. Mrs. George Record, bruised. The explosion occurred in the rear of Meinerding's stofe, where Charles Wagner is supposed to have been at the time. What caused the explosion is not known. Fire followed and the entire town on the west side was ablaze. Calls for help were sent out in all directions and firemen from Portland, Ind., Coldwater and St. Heiyy, 0., arrived and assisted in getting the fire under control. The buildings destroyed by the ex plosion and Are are: Meinerding's store. Journal printing office, owned by A. A. Kolp, Heiby's saloon, Rank of Fort Recovery, Snyder's livery barn, B. W. Roop's residence, ba'i. and blacksmith shop, Morvelius' op era house and Home telephone ex change. All the window glass in Fort Re covery was broken. fISH DEFEATS HARRIMAN. The First Round of the Fight for Con trol of the Illinois Central Rail way System Is Fought. Chicago, 111.—The fight for con trol of the Illinois Central Rail road Co. waxed hot on Wednesday. Stuyvesant Fish, president of the road, and William Nelson Cromwell, representing E. H. Harriman, presi dent of the Southern Pacific, clashed openly before 250 stockholders who had come from various parts of the country to attend the meeting. On the face of the record Mr. Fish ap pears to have been the victor, but that the victory is not a final one is insinuated by Mr. Cromwell. The representative of Mr. Harriman said after the meeting: "Of a directory of 13 people there are still seven members who have placed themselves on record in oppo sition to Mr. Fish in this contest. There will be a meeting of the board, probably in November. This board will elect the officers of the railroad. You can draw your own conclusions." Heroes are Rewarded. Pittsburg.—Sixteen more awards of funds or medals were made Wednesday by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission to individuals that have saved lives and whose deeds of heroism have been brought to the at tention of the commission. With these awards the total up to date is 47 W. C T.. U. Convention Begins. Boston, Mass. The triennial world's convention of the Women's Christian Temperance union opened here Wednesday. The convention will end next Sunday. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1906. MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS DIES Widow of the President of the Con federacy Passes Away at Her Home in New York. New York.—Mrs. Jelferson Davis widow of the president of th« Confederacy, who has been ill for i week at the Hotel Majestic in this city, died at 10:25 o'clock last night, j Death was due to pneumonia inducec iby a severe cold which, Mrs. Davis ! contracted upon her return from tlu Adirondacks. where she had spent the summer months. She was slightly past 80 years of age. Although grave fears were feli from the first, Mrs. Davis' wonderful | vitality which brought her safel) ! through a similar attack a year ago j gave hope of ultimate recovery untf I Monday night, when a decided change j for the worse was evident and the at j tending physicians announced thai i the end was near. It was then be j lieved that Mrs. Davis could not sur j vive the night, but she rallied slight I ly during the early hours of Tuesday. Shortly after 7 o'clock in the morn ing she had a sinking spell and Rev Nathan A. Seagle, rector of St. Ste phen's Protestant Episcopal church was summoned to give religious com fort to the patient in her last mo ments of consciousness. The clergy man remained some time and an hout later it was announced that Mrs. Davis had lapsed into a state of coma. The period of unconsciousness con tinued to the end. At the deathbed Were Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, the only surviving daughter of Mrs. Davis; Jefferson Davis Hayes, a grandson; Mrs. Charles E. Bateson, a niece; Dr. and Mrs. Gustavo Webb, the latter a granddaughter, and Dr. Robert B. Wylie, who with Dr. Webb had cared for Mrs. Davis throughout her illness. lEROME AND THE THAW CASE. District Attorney Seeks to Have a Writ Annulled Which Forbids Fur ther Action by Grand Jury. Now York.—There was a re vival of interest Tuesday in the case of Harry K. Thaw, charged with the murder of Stanford White, when in court District Attorney Jerome in timated that there might be other in dictments in the case. The statement by the district at torney was made in the course of an argument before Recorder Golf against the writ of prohibition re straining the district attorney's office from further preliminary action in grand jury proceedings in the murder ca3e. Following the hearing Clifford W. Hartridge, Thaw's counsel, called upon the prisoner at the Tombs. Af ter his visit the lawyer explained that Thaw had read the evening papers and feared from what he had read of the proceedings before Recorder Goff that an attempt might be made to in dict his wife or other members of the family. The recorder, at the request of Mr. Jerome, adjourned the proceedings so that the district attorney might ob tain a formal order having the argu ment transferred to Justice McLean's court, where it was first heard. Mr. Jerome said he had been em barrassed by the temporary writ of prohibition issued by Justice McLean. "I hope you have," broke in Mr. Gleason, of Thaw's counsel. "And I hope I may continue to embarrass the district attorney from taking in se cret evidence that may send my client to the electric chair. "Forty-three depositions have been taken in this case against the consti tutional rights of this defendant." Mr. Jerome leaped to his feet and said: . "Not a deposition taken by the dis trict attorney in this case could be used against Thaw in the trial and o/iunsel well knows it." A DARING KOBBERY. A Clever German Usos Soldiers to Help Him in a Holdup Game. Berlin. t unique and daring robbery was committed at Coepe nick, a'small town seven miles east of Berlin, Tufcsday afternoon. The rob ber in the uniform of a capt4.ii; of the guards, met a detachment of 12 men on a street in Berlin who were re turn'ng from target practice. He pro duced a forged cabinet order authoriz ing him to take command. The men recognized his authority and he then ordered them to march to Coepenick. Upon arrival there they proceeded to the town hall, arrested the burgomas ter and the treasurer and took posses sion of the cash, .pi.OOO. The robber detached several of his men to conduct the prisoners to head quarters in Merlin and ordered the re mainder to hold possession of the town hall for half an hour. He then rode off alone in the direction of Ber lin with the money. The burgomaster and the treasurer were creatly mysti fied at the meaning of their arrest. Upon their arrival in custody at head quarters in Berlin they learned that the ostensible captain was a fraud and were immediately discharged. The bogus captain has not been heard from, and the police and military au thorities are without any clue as to his identity. Railroaders' Pay to be Increased. Reading, Pa. The Reading Railway Co. has decided to in crease the wages of Its engineers, fire men, conductors, brakemen, yardmen and other employes of that class on all divisions from 5 to 10 per cent., to take effect October 1. A Battle with Bandits. El Paso, Tex. According to correspondence from Guadalajara, Mexico, the state gendarmerie and a gang of Mexican cattle thieves fought uear Layula. Four bandits were killed, seven arrested and 12 escaped. ONE BY ONE And in Bunches a Boat's Crew Were Drowned. GRUESOME STORY Of Death and Ruin Is Told by a Man Whose Boat was Destroyed by the Recent Hurricane. Key West, Fla. —Survivors from one of the house boats of the Florida East Coast railway extension along th-e keys tell a harrowing tale of death and destruction caused by the storm of Thursday. W. P. Dusenbery, civil engineer in charge of the work on Long Key, who miraculously escaped death, arrived here on the Russian steamer Jennie, among other survivors rescued. He says house boat No. 4, on which were 150 men, was struck by the storm at 5 o'clock Thursday morning and was driven out into the gulf through Hawk's channel. At 6 o'clock the house boat began to break up and as the great waves hit her, men singly and in bunches of two and three were washed into the sea and drowned. Some went below for protection, but when the top of the boat was carried away the waves rushed in and the boat soon went to pieces, 30 or 40 of the men being crushed to death in tho collapse, the others grabbing timbers to savo thtm from drowning. Engi neer Dusenbery was in the hold, but succeeded in getting on a log and floated until Friday night. On one piece of timber 1G men were clinging and nine were hanging to an other. The sides of the house boat were crowded with men. It turned over three times, each time reducing the number. The Russian steamer Jennie sighted the wreckage and suc ceeded in rescuing the 49 men who were brought here. There was another house boat with 1. r >o men on board at Long Key, which Mr. Dusenbery thinks was also swept to sea. ATTACKS BREWERS' COMBINE. A Suit in Ouster Is Begun by the Prosecuting Attorney of Gallia County, Ohio. Galiipolis, O. —A suit. in quo warranto was filed in the circuit court of Gallia county Saturday night against the Hoster Columbus Associ ated Breweries Co. by the state of Ohio on the relation of A. O. Dickey, prosecuting attorney. The petition alleges that the Hoster Brewing Co., the C. Born & Son Co., the N. Schlee & Son Co. and the Co lumbus Brewing Co. were all engaged in competitive trade until the said companies were organized into one to create and carry out restrictions in the trade of brewing; to prevent com petition in manufacturing and selling their products; to fix and control (lie price of said product and to bind themselves to establish the price of their product, in order to preclude free competition among themselves and their purchasers, all in violation of the Valentine anti-trust act; and to make possible the arbitrary raising and lowering of the price of beer, ale and malt liquors, ice and similar pro ducts throughout Ohio. IS A TOTAL WRECK. Steamer George Farwell Runs Ashore on the Virginia Coast—All on Board Saved. Norfolk, Va. —The steamer George Farwell, timber laden, from Jacksonville, Fla., for New Haven, Conn., is ashore off Cape Henry and will probably be a total loss, but all on board were saved. Capt. J. D. Chis holm and his crew of 15 men were landed from the wrecked steamer Sunday by tho life saving crews from the Capo Henry and Virginia Beach stations. The steamer, laden with 575,000 feet of cypress timber, went ashore in a gale Saturday night. When Hatteras was passed late Friday night, Capt. Chisholm found his fuel running low and knew he could not maintain sufficient steam by burning part of his cargo to keep the craft's head to the gale that was blowing. He describes the storm of Friday as the worst in his 20 years' experience along the Atlantic coast. STREET RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. One Man Killed and Ten Persons In jured in Collisions Near Pittsburg. Pittsburg.—One man was killed, another hurt so seriously he will die and six other persons sustain ed cuts and bruises as a result of a street car collision last night in Knoxville, a suburb of this city. Almost simultaneously a repair car on which the brakes refused to work, crashed into a West Park car at Mc- Kee's Rocks, another suburb, serious ly injuring four persons. Collision Was Fatal to Two. Toledo, O.—Two men were killed and a dozen persons injured Sunday night when an incoming Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton pas senger train collided with an out bound car on the Toledo and Indiana traction line at the crossing on Dorr street, three miles west of this city. Fifteen People Injured In Collisions. St. Louis. —Fifteen persons were injured Sunday in two street car collisions, all of them suffering cuts and bruises, but none was severely aurt. I The Schoolma'am's Apology. An extremely proper young New England woman was a kindergartener in a large city. Getting into a street car one day, she bowed to a man whom she though!: was the father of two of the children under her charge. As soon as she had done so she real ized her mistake, and as he got ofT the car at the same time as herself, she stepped up to him and said. "Please pardon my speaking to you, but I thought you were the father of two of my children." —.Judge. When. When the bees have left the clover. When the baseball game is over, And the umpire has recovered from the shock: When mosquitoes cease their drilling, When the heat is not so killing. If you have to take a walk around the block; When there's no more of this chatter. Which informs you that the matter With the climate is humidity, not heat, Bplte of summer's soft elation. Without any hesitation. You'll admit that autumn's mighty hard to beat. —Washington Star. NO REASON TO KICK. ■■ ■ The Tenant —That cellar I've rented off you is full of rats! Landlord—Great goodness, man! What do you expect for ss. a week — white mice? He Played in Luck. Neighbors—En peck is one of the luckiest men I know. Homer —How do you figure that out? Neighbors—Why, his wife is so strong-minded that she never worries him about her troubles with hired girls.—Chicago Daily News. One Way Out. For a little while they were be tween the devil and the deep sea. Then the woman got her some dresses made, and went down to the latter. But the man, after some hesitation, went to the former. —Puck. THE MARKETS. New York, Oct. 22, 1906. Flour—Minnesota patent $4.15@4.40. Wheat—No. 2 red 78^4c. Corn—No. 2 at 54i£c. Oats —Clipped white 39 1 / £@43*&c. Hay—Firm at $17.00@20.00. Cattle—Nothing doing. Sheep Good sheep $3.50@5.50, lambs $7.00. Hogs—None on sale. Cleveland, Oct. 22. —Flour—Minne- sota winter patent $4.10@4.20. Wheat—No. 2 red 75^c. Corn —No. 3 yellow 50% c. Oats —No. 3 white 37*& c. Butter—Best creamery 28c. Cheese —York state 14y 2 c. Eggs—Strictly fresh 26c. Potatoes—Best grades 50(g) 55c. Hay—Steady at $15.50@16.00. Cattle Choice steers $5.50@6.00, calves $7.50. Sheep Best wethers $5.00@5.50, lambs $7.25@7.40* Hogs—Yorkers $6.40. Chicago, Oct. 22.—Wheat—Decem ber 73c. Corn —December 42c. Oats —December 33 VsC. Toledo, Oct. 22. Wheat—Cash 77 MiC. Corn—Cash 48*4 c. Oats —Cash 35 %c. Cloverseed —Cash $B.l7 1 / £. East Buffalo, Oct. 22—Cattle—Best Bteers $5.50@6.00. Veals $7.75@8.00. Sheep—Wethers $5.75@6.00, spring lambs $4.50@7.40. Hogs—Yorkers $6.406.50. G.SCHMIDT'S/ — FOR FREBH BREADt J popular • jL ' # CONFECTIONERY Daily Delivery. All orders given prompt and skillful attention. jggfSW WHEN IN DOUBT, TRY The? hm itood th« ten of y«® JgyiSS vTDfIHG A\ _ - and have cured thousands