2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN. Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fer year 12 00 V paid la advance ' H ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of •nc dollar per square tor one insertion and Ilfty •tuts per square (or each subsequent insertion. Rates fov the year, or for six or three montha, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on •plication. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, Si!: each subsequent inser tion fO cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one lnser ssrtlon; 6 cents per line for each subsequent son«ecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over flye lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be Inserted free. Business curds. Ave lines or less. t5 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 PRESS IS complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the optlou of the pub- Usher. Papers sent ovt of the county must be paid lor In advance Don't Forget to Forget. "Brooding over the past, however ruinous and foolish it has been, is useless —-only a waste of strength and opportunity." says J. R. Miller. "Noth ing good ever comes of it. The Jap anese have a proverb: " 'My skirt with tears is always wet, 1 have forgotten to forget.' "Too many people forget to forget. St. Paul's way was better, lie forgot the things lhat were behind, whether mistakes or attainments, left them al together in the past, and stretching forward to the things that were before, he used all his energy and strength to achieve them. Good wishes at the be ginning of the year or on one's birth day are pleasant. They give us encour agement and put new zest into our lives. After all, however, good wishes will not come true by the mere wish ing. We make our own years, and whether they are beautiful and happy or not, will depend on the kind of liv ing we put into them." Azerbaijan, into which Britain and Russia are prepared, if necessary, to carry the sword of peace, is the home of the descendants of the Ghebers, the ancient fire-worshipers of Persik. The whole countryside is admirably adapt ed to the propagation of afire-worship ing creed, for earthquakes and caverns vomiting fumes from subterranean conflagrations abound in the neighbor hood of Tabriz. One of the most re markable caverns in the world is that of Secundereah, whose character re sembles the Grotto del Cane of Naples. It gives off noxious fumes, which at certain times are certain death toman and beast. But the most astonishing place in Azerbaijan is the ruined city of Takht-i-Suleimann, or Solomon's temple. The city stands on a hill 150 feet high, with a wall of 30 feet em bracing the crumbling remains of tem ple and shrine. In the midst is a lake. Although most of the buildings are of the Mohammedan period, there is one striking mass which has been identi fied as the temple of the fire-worship ers. There are some grounds for gratifi cation in the report made by the inter state commerce commission as to the number of railroad casualties during the fiscal year ended with June last. It appears that within the period men tioned 3,764 persons were killed and 68,989 injured, which is a decrease of 1,236 killed and 3,297 injured as com pared with the preceding year. The showing is had enough, but the returns suggest, better conditions. It is also noted that, during the last quarter of the late fiscal year 13 passengers were killed in train accidents, the smallest number on record for that length of time. May the improvement con tinue. Phonographic records of hymns sung by Ira D. Sankey were used at a praise service in one of the Brooklyn churches on the last Sunday evening in October. Among them were "The Ninety and Nine," "Hiding in Thee," and "Simply Trusting." Just before the benediction the lights were turned low, and there came from the shadows the song, "There'll Be No Dark Val ley When Jesus Conies." Thus through the wonders of modern inven tion the voice of the dead was heard by his friends. The woman down in Verona, N. J., who alone was building a house of concrete got along all right till she came to the roof. Then she had to get "mere man"to help her. But it required two men to do as much as one woman. The question of su periority of the sexes seems to be un settled by the Verona experiment. But it does appear to he proved, re marks the Troy (N. Y.) Times, that even in New Jersey a home without both woman and man is like a house without a roof. It is absolutely staggering to learn from 'lie scientific gentlemen \%ho have been studying the effect of the ocean tides in retarding the rotation of the earth that the resulting in crease in the length of the day amounts to one second in 460,000 yeat3. llow can you depend on your watch keeping correct time after this? 200,000 PEOPLE KILLED IN EARTHQUAKE HORROR Messina and Reggio and a Score of Other Towns in Southern Italy and Sicily Devastated. Considerable Advance Has Been Made in Rescue Work—Murderers and Rob bers Pillage and Loot. Rome, Italy.—The immensity of the disaster in southern Italy and Sic ily can only be measured by the fact that it is now estimated that 110,000 people perished in Messina and Reggio alone. A score of other towns have been devastated and thousands of victims in these places must be added to the roll. In the face of this awful total all Italy stands appalled. Nor has the full death list yet been reached. Shiploads of fugitives have arrived at Naples and other ports and the vast majority of these are sorely injured. Other thousands remain near the ruins of their homes or wander half starving, half naked over the land. The forces that on Monday over whelmed the cities also destroyed the means of subsistence. Telegraphic communication has been established with Messina, the apparatus having ! been installed in a railway van. Messages which have come over the line show that hope is gone. Nothing remains of the city but a mass of ruins that have been swept by fire. Of Mes sina, 90,000 population, it is believed that fully 70,000 perished. Forty thous and people died in Reggio. King Vic tor Hmmanuel and Queen Helena were in Messina Wednesday. The king explored the ruins regard less of the danger to which he exposed himself. He was often moved to tears at the heartrending scenes lie came upon at every turn. The king was loud in his praise of the splendid work ac complished by the Italian, Russian and English blue jackets, who saved many persons who otherwise would have in evitably perished. The queen spent the day in the wards of improvised hospitals visiting the wounded, many of whom have lost all that was dear to them. Her majesty did her best to cheer them with womanly words of consolation, often breaking into sobs as she listened to their dreadful tales of suffering. Catania, the larg?st city nearest to the zone of the disaster, is crowded with refugees and the continuous stream of fugitives coming in, the sight of the wounded and repetition of real or imaginary earthquakes have so alarmed the population that they are becoming uncontrolable. There is no longer any place where the refugees may find shelter. Carnidal Francica- Nava Di Bontife, archbishop of Cata nia, has employed all the money in his possession to provide bread for the fugitives, but the people of Catania also are in great need as the ordinary business pursuits have been entirely interrupted. The government is finding difficulty in ascertaining the fate of the many foreigners who were in the earthquake zone at the time of the catastrophe, in quiries concerning whom are coming from all quarters of the globe. The commander of the battleship Admiral Makharoff, which arrived with fugi tives at Naples Wednesday, confirmed the report of the death of the Ameri can consul at Messina, Arthur S. Cheney, and his wife, who were buried in the ruins of the consulate. The number of Americans in Sicily ami southern Italy is believed to be small and several of them are reported to have been staying at Taorniina,. which is oil the east coast about 30 miles southwest of Messina. According to the latest reports this place suffered no harm from the earthquake. The minister of war, in dispatching orders to the military authorities who have practically taken over the abso lute power throughout the zone of the earthquake, explained: "This disaster has resulted in a greater loss of life than any of our wars for independence. Indeed the situation is much worse as, while wai ls always preceded by a period of prep aration, this lias happened within 40 seconds. While war only affects the young and strong among the people, the present calamity has mowed down women and children, old men and youths. While in war the armies are followed by the most complete camp hospitals, the numberless wounded is Calabria and eastern Sicily have been left in many cases 48 hours without as j sistanc < . 12 von when rescued it is im possible to house them, everything , ; le bavin;.-, been filled by the dead. I .nek of care and starvation will Penncylvania Political EOES Dies. Media, I'a. —W. L. Matluies, former 1 stale treasurer of Pennsylvania, j (!,. :l «. .id nly late Wedncsda at : ill:- i. no here, aged 40 yearn. Tin cause if death was given by hit; ph si de,) a pneumonia, but it is generally ! L'-lii ve.-l that hia illness was siif.eriu d-u-ed bj Mr. Mathues' tribulations w: i h w-.-re brought upon bin; by the liaivisburg capital graft cases and hia rec",;t sentence ef two years in the penitentiary for his part in the alleged conspiracy against Use state. Mathues was a political leader of Pennsylvania. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 1909. complete the work that the forces of nature has left undone." The dispatches from the stricken zone say that a large army would be required to cope with even the press ing needs of the unfortunate people who are roaming about half clad and starving, some of them dragging ar ticles of clothing from the smouldering ruins to protect themselves from the piercing winds. A terrible suffering is inevitable before the much needed relief stores can arrive. The rescue parties, military, naval and civil of different nationalities are performing prodigies, but the task be fore them is almost hopeless. Added to the difficulty of obtaining food and water, there are no drugs or surgical appliances. Heart breaking appeals for help are heard on every side, to which only the most inadequate re sponse is possible. Temporary hos pitals are being rigged up. but only a comparatively few can be relieved and the scenes of horror defy description. The survivors of the earthquake are suffering cruel extremities and in Mes sina may be seen everywhere vainly searching in the dust and debris for morsels of food. Late dispatches state that the city of Pal mi contains 1,500 dead and twice as many injured. Two-thirds of the • town was laid waste. All the villages adjacent suffered as severely. The king has telegraphed Premier Giolitti informing him that Reggio is in the same MVful condition as Messina and announcing that a Russian | steamer with 500 injured will arrive at Naples to-day. His majesty asks that all preparations be made for their reception at the hospitals and requests that the ship be sent back with all the doctors that can be mustered. Dispatches from Catania describe Messina as appearing like a huge in candescent furnace. The flre spread to the buildings that had not yet fallen, completing the work of destruction. The Strait of Messina is now choked with corpses of men and animals. At the present time there are 15 warships at Messina, four Italian, four British and four Russian, as well as a number of destroyers and steamers, the latter belonging to the Italian General Navi gation Co. The injured are being car ried aboard the steamers and will be removed to Naples. Gen. Marazzi, commandant at Catan zaro, has telegraphed to the govern ment that he has tried vainly for two days to reach Reggio by land and sea. The roads are impracticable and the shore has been so torn and twisted as far as he traveled in Calabria that it was impossible to approach the water. At the ministry of marine word has ; been received that frightful looting and pillage occurred at Reggio. This place already overwhelmed, will have few survivors, as it has been impossible for the relief expedition to reach it. Tho wounded refugees present a i sickening sight. Some appear hardly i human; others among the fugitives have no apparent injuries, but are in | such a deplorable mental condition that they seem the worst of all. The horror of that tragic minute is in ! eradicably fixed upon their faces. On ! the relief ships the refugees were : heaped everywhere. Some of them ap ! pear to be stricken with a kind of idiocy looking aimelt-ssly before them; others completely mad, howl wildly. The commander of the Thrapie gives : a thrilling description of the rescues , effected by his men when his ship ar ! rived at Messina from Malta under in | structions to convey the survivors to Naples. Twenty different conflagra tions were raging. As the vessel drew i up before the city it was surrounded by a flotilla of boats and tugs loaded to the gunwales with men and women who piteously cried for food and drink, i for they had nothing for 24 hours. On entering the port a tremendous clamor greeted their ears. It was the sur i vivors screaming for help. From the | water front Messina appeared to be m | tact, as the facades of the fine build ings along that line of streets still were standing, but behind was empti ness and ruin. There is the greatest danger that :i pestilence will follow the destruction of the towns where, on account of tli. bodies that will lie unbtirled for weeks Voters' League Appc-als for Fur.ds. Pittsburg, Pa. —An appeal for funds to meet tlie existing expense of the I Voters' league in continuing the work alrt ndy started as well as to broaden j the tiehl of that reform organizati< n's • endeavor is the leading development in Pit; burr's municipal scandal Wed nesday. Since the arrests of seven councill.ien end two former bankers llast week h cwio ellicers have an -1 '.jounced from time to time the receipt of liberal contributions, but that tho total of these is inadequate for the I league's plan is imminent. Earthquake Victims Being Cared For. Rome, Italy.—Graphic stories com ing into Rome of the horrors in south ern Italy and Sicily are but repetitions of Individual tragedies already record ed. What chiefly concerns the gov ernment and the people is the progress that is being made towards helping those who have suffered by tho dread ful visitation. Considerable advance in tl.is respect has been made at Messina where, according to official reports re ceived here, the supply service is be ginning to work satisfactorily. The different regions on the coast have been allotted to various warships and other ships as centers, from which tor pedo boats and launches convey and distribute rations and water to the dif ferent villages. The minister of justice has wired from Messina to Premier Giotti that large bodies of troops have arrived and are now occupying all parts of the town. The appalling extent of the dis aster renders anything like a syste matic search of the ruins impossible, but persons are being dragged out all day long and are quickly transported to the relief ships as soon as their wounds have received attention. There were slight shocks felt in the earthquake zone Friday, completing the ruin of the crumbling buildings. These shocks are contributing to the keeping up of the alarm of the popula tion. One quite severe shock was felt at 3 o'clock in the morning and an other at 9. Fires are still burning, al though much rain has fallen. The latest investigations on both sides of the straits makes it certain that many more than half the population of the coast towns and villages have been killed. Professor Ricco, director of the observatory at Mount Aetna, estimates that the victims of the earthquake ex ceed 200,000. Hundreds of dangerous criminals have been arrested by the troops and are under close guard. The Calabrian coast for 30 miles has been torn and twisted. From Bagnara to Reggio, a distance of 25 miles, the country is half demolished. Assistance has reached but few of the villages and they are practically without supplies of any kind. At Bagnara surgical opera tions are being performed with prun ing knives, but at Reggio even that is impossible. Bands of thieves infest the country and the despair of tho un aided villages is complete. Hunger supplies the motive tor scenes of shocking violence and pillagers and robbers defy the few surviving police men and soldiers. Reggio, Via Catania. —A state of most frlghful anarchy prevails. Mobs of ruffiians roam among the ruins giving full vent to their vilest instincts. They are pillaging the wrecked jewelry stores and banks and <lo not hesitate to shed the blood of those opposing them. A few soldiers who escaped un hurt have been impelled by an admir able spirit of discipline to organize patrols on their own initiative. America Will Give Millions. N*w York City.—The spontaneous action throughout the country to suc -1 s —V %% / \ <|v a> rA&AWI fcs Li? —I . Sicily and Calabria Region of Awful Earthquake Disaster. cor the distress of Italy has assumed the character of an imposing national movement. Reports from all sections of the country show cities, individuals, so cieties, religious bodies, private cor porations, commercial bodies and all branches of public and private life joining in this humane and practical expression of the American people in behalf of the afflicted nation. Already over $500,000 in cash is in hand and most of this lias been cabled or is on its way to Italy. The reports show this total to be only the beginning, and the aggregate promises to swell to millions. Governors of states and mayors of cities have issued appeals, and a Message from the president to con gress is expected when that body re assembles on Monday. The New York total is upward of $150,000; Boston is uearing $30,000; Chicago is raising $100,000; St. Louis exceeds $25,000; .Milwaukee and Providence are each nearing the $5,000 mark, while the in itial amounts in scores of other cities ..re re aching thousands of dollars. The I,CGO Miners Thrown Out by Fire. Spring Valley, 111. —About one thou sand miners were thrown out of employment Thursday by tho destruc tion by fire of No. 2 shaft of the Spring Valley Coal Co., which sus tained a loss of $75,000. Death Sentence for Murderer. Spokane, Wash.—Frank Barker, who was convicted of the murder of Ira Messenger at .Medical Lake last duly, was sentenced by Judge Minkleman on Thursday to hang. An appeal was taken to the supreme court. TAFT WITHDRAWS, LANDING BURTON OHIO SENATORIAL FIGHT COMES TO SUDEN TERMINA TION. FORAKER ALSO STEPS ASIDE As Do All the Favorite Sons and Dark Horses—Burton Will Be Given Republican Nomination With out Opposition. Columbus, O.—Every vestige of opposition to his nomination having disappeared, Representative Theodore E. Burton of Cleveland, a prominent figure in the lower branch of congress for the past 20 years, will be named by acclamation for the United States sen ate as successor to Joseph B. Foraker at a Republican caucus called for Sat urday afternoon. _ HON, THEODORE E. BURTON. C. P. Talt of Cincinnati, brother of the president-elect, formally an nounced liis withdrawal from the race Thursday. Then came the deluge. Senator Foraker, learning that the delegation from his home county of Hamilton, pledged to Taft, would be turned over to Burton, admitted for the first time since the attacks were made upon hirn during the presiden tial campaign that he could no longer hope for a re-election. Within two hours all of the "favorite sons" and "dark horses" had been swept out of the field and Mr. Burton was left su preme. Mr. Burton's election will come on Tuesday, January 12. He will serve out his congressional term, end ing March 4. As he was re-elected last fall, a special election will be called in Cleveland soon after March 4 to determine his successor in the house of representatives. The fight for the Ohio senatorship this year will be written down as one of the most interesting in the history of the state. And its influence upon national politics, it is said, will be far reaching. Thursday's flood tide of de velopments marked the passing from public life of one of the most notable of the old leaders of tlje senate — Joseph B. Foraker. If jealously guard ed geographical precedent is followed, the senator to be elected in 1911 will be from the southern end of the state. This led some of the politicians to de clare that the naming of Mr. Burton means the retirement of Senator Dick in 1911, for like the Cleveland con gressman, he hails from the northern tier of counties, his home being at Akron. For similar reasons, it was said that former Gov. Herrick, who has frequently been mentioned as an opponent to Mr. Dick two years hence, must be eliminated. OUTLOOK FOR FUTURE BRIGHT Dun's Says Plants Will Have Larger Forces than in 1208. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Seasonable quiet is reported in wholesale and jobbing trade, traveling salesmen preparing to start out next week. Confidence in good spring busi ness is general, results of inventories thus far available indicating that re ports of depleted stocks were not ex aggerated. Conservative buying during the past year has made the statistical position very strong among dealers, while curtailed manufacturing opera tions prevented accumulation at the mills. Current distribution of staples is fair, but open weather retards sales of heavy weight wearing apparel. The same influence operates on the other hand to facilitate outdoor work, and estimating rooms are busy on plans for future construction. After some over hauling and repairs the leading indus trial plants will resume next week with larger forces than at any time during 190 S. A quiet closing o? the year was ex pected in the markets for iron and steel, but an improved demand Is an ticipated early in January. 41 Sentenced to Death. YekaterinosJav, Russia. —The mili tary court on Friday pronounced 4L death sentences, of which nine were for recent crimes. Thirty-two of the condemned men were strikers in tho railroad troubles of October, 1905. Must Pasteurize Milk. Chicago, 111.—Chicago's new ordi nance demanding that pasteuriza tion of all milk sold in the city and that this milk must come from cows that have passed the tuberculin test went into effect Friday. MRS. H. TURNED SOMERSAULTS COLORED COOK TELLS OF HIGH JINKS IN HAINS HOME. Defense In Trial of Thornton Hains Endeavors to Show Captain's Mind Was Unbalanced. Flushing, N. Y. —The Defense of Thornton J. Hains, indicted with hla brother, Capt. Hains, for the killing of William E. Annis, called two witnesses in Tuesday's session of the trial to show certain alleged acts of Mrs. Claudia Hains which the law yers for the defendants claim so af fected Capt. Hains that he became mentally unbalanced. Samuel C. Reid of Chicago, a friend of the Hains family, swore that Capt. Hains told him of all him marital mis fortunes and that the captain evi denced signs of being irrational. Be fore the close of the day's session the defense called to the stand a servant in Capt. Hains's household, Minnie Rhone, who related certain alleged in cidents in which Mrs. Claudia Hains and William E. Annis figured at the Hains home while Capt. Hains was in the Philippines. These incidents, the witness said, she told the captain on his return. She said that Mrs. Hains had declared her affection for Annis and told of alleged orgies held at the Hains home at Fort Hamilton; that Mrs. Hains turned somersaults and Annis smacked her. DARING ROBBERY IN GOTHAM New York Cracksmen Loot Jawelry Store of $25,000 in Cash and Jew els—Cleverly Planned Job. New York City.—A safe robbery which is said by the police to be un exampled in point of daring was re vealed Monday by Oscar C. Jackie, a jeweler of 860 Third avenue, whose place of business was entered Sunday night and looted of $5,000 in cash and $20,000 in jewelry. The burglars who must have taken several hours in ac complishing their purpose entered the Jackie establishment by way of the cellar window, they sawed an opening in the cellar and through this enter ed the store above. Here, after vain ly attempting to bore through the steel floor of the safe which stood under a lighted gas jet in plain view of the street they managed to pry the com bination dial from the safe and through the small opening left manip ulated the bolts and levers so as to release the lock. The only theory on which the police can explain the successful consumma tion of the robbery, is that the cracks men, who must have been particularly expert in their line, had accomplices posted outside the store to signal to them when the policemen on the beat or late passersby approached the store. At such time the robbers upon being warned would hide behind the safe until the coast was again clear. After rifling the safe of its contents, the burglars carefully replaced the combination dial and departed, leaving no evidence of their work. It was only when the dial fell off in the hands of Jackie as he was preparing to open the safe this morning that any intinia tic.i was had of the robbery. 30 MEN ENTOMBED IN MINE Explosion in West Virginia Colliery Probably Fatal to Many. Bluefleld, W. Va.—Twelve men are known to be dead and prob ably 25 more were entombed as the result of an explosion which occurred in the Lick Branch colliery owned by the Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co., the largest coal mining concern in southern West Virginia, Tuesday afternoon. It is not known exactly how many men were in the mine at the time. The men leave the mine after what is known as the"run" and many of the 52 at work Tuesday were not in the mine when the explo sion occurred. Sixteen of the entombed men have been taken out of the colliery alive. They had been stifled by the smoke but were not injured seriously. Ohio Senatorial Fight. Columbus, O.—The prospect of a settlement by caucus this week of the senatorial light that is stirring Ohio as have few political events in re cent years, was seriously diminished Tuesday night when Congressman Burton announced that lie was op posed to the plan. The supporters of Charles P. Taft demanded that a cau cus be held Saturday following the separate caucuses of the state senators and representatives to choose legisla tive officers and are circulating a peti tion to that end. Mr. Burton let it be known that he is entirely satisfied with the progress of his campaign and that he is not convinced of the necessity of imposing a choice upon the legisla tive leaders ten days in advance of tho time set for the senatorial balloting to begin. Senator Foraker has already begin. Actor Killed in Denver. Denver, Col.—Bert Edward Dewey, known on the stage as Byron Allenton, who has ben playing this week at the Crystal theatre, was shot through the head and instantly killed Monday at a rooming house by Bert Bell, who later was arrested. Mrs Bell, who was in the room with Dewey! escaped by climbing a fire escape to the third floor. She was arrested and taken to the city jail in a hysteri. al condition. Mr. and Mrs. Bell \\,ro married in Cincinnati in 1906. Dewey also was a native of Cincinnati.
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