IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK LATEST HAPPENINGSTHE WORLD OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for the Perusal of the Busy Man— Latest Personal Infor mation. WASHINGTON NEWS. The tariff conferees signed the Al drich-Payne bill and reported it to the house after President Taft had ■whipped several of the insurgents Into line for downward revision. The senate has granted the house demand for an increased duty on stockings and gloves, free hides and free oil and in turn gets its own way on lumber, coal, iron ore and print paper. A report from Washington says James Wilson of lowa, secretary of agriculture, who has been a cabinet officer longer than any other man, will resign in January and probably will be succeeded by Representative Scott of Kansas. President Taft was among those who witnessed a trial flight by Orville Wright in his aeroplane at Fort Myer. Senator Aldrich offered to put hides on the free list if the house would agree to reduce its rates on boots, ahoes and other leather manufactures. PERSONAL. Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota was the orator and central figure of "Swedish day" at the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific exposition at Seattle. Thou sands of Swedes from all parts of the country took part in the festivities. John Galvin, vice-mayor of Cincin nati, took the oath as mayor, succeed ing the late Col. Leopold Markbreidt. William J. Bryan, in an interview at Bellefontaine, 0., said he intends to move to Texas and will not be a candidate for senator from Nebraska. He didn't say he would not run for president again. President Reyes of Colombia re signed and his successor will be elect ed August 3. Prof. Charles Zubelin, sociologist of Boston, in an address at Cahutaugua, N. Y., called E. H. Harriman a finan cial pest. Representative Tawney of Minneso ta, replying to a magazine article, as sailed Dr. Charles Richard Van Hise, president of Wisconsin university. A report was received in New York that Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the suffragist terror of England, is com ing to this country to stir up the women. GENERAL NEWS. Reports from Spain said 3,000 sol diers of the king's army had been killed or wounded in battle with the Moors. The rioters in Barcelona sur rendered after hundreds had been shot down in the streets like sheep. Eleven persons died in Chicago from heat and injuries sustained in an electrical storm. District Attorney Jerome, after two days of grueling examination of Harry Thaw, failed to make the slayer of Stanford White show any signs of in sanity. Harry C. Pulllam, president of the National League of Professional Base ball Clubs, died in New York from the wound he inflicted when he shot him self in the head. A barber at Winthrop Harbor de clares he shaved off the beard of a man answering the description of Judge Clarkson, who disappeared from Kenosha, Wis. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition company at Seattle has offered $25,000 for a race between either of the Wright brothers and Louis Bleriot, the French aviator who made the suc cessful aeroplane flight across the English channel. Harrison S. Green, a prominent Mil waukee lawyer, and five other passen gers were hurt when a Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul train was wrecked at Duplainville, Wis. The Chicago grand jury, which has already indicted a police inspector, a detective and others, returned indict ments against 20 keepers of illegal establishments. Fire caused a loss of SIO,OOO to buildings in Philo, 111. Arthur Eulan, John Anient and Henry Zebotski, while raising sunken logs from the Wisconsin river, about two miles south of Merrill, Wis., were drowned. Bitterness between factions re sulted in a riot when the Brothers of Friendship, a colored organization, at tempted to begin its annual convention at St. Paul. Walter M. Farmer of I'll nois, claimant to the title of grand master of the organisation, was ejected. A joint convention of the retail jewelers and opticians of North Da ltota was held at Grand Forks, N. D. Louis Bleriot, a French aviator, succeeded in crossing the English channel from Calais, France, to Dover, England, in his monoplane, winning fame and $5,000 by the feat. Inspector Edward McCann of the Chicago police department was in dicted for bribery and malfeasance in office in connection with the investi gation of the city's vice. Forty-two passengers were injured In a wreck on the Big Four railroad at Zionsvllle, Ind, William H. Marker, cashier of the First National bank, Tipton, Ind., whose brother fled after stealing more than SIOO,OOO, resigned, Mrs. John Mullarkey shot and killed Edward Axline and then committed suicide at Bellevue, Ky. Six hundred miners of District No. 11 in Indiana have been ordered to return to work pending a review of their strike difficulty by T. u. Lewis, the national president. W. P. Kreis, a unio'j oressman, was shot and seriously wounded at At lanta, Ga., by G. W. Stovall, a non union pressman, who was attacked by union sympathizers aroused by a strike. Albert Reece, 78 years old, of Dan vers. 111., was sentenced to one year in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., for illegally drawing a war pen sion for 18 years. He drew a total of $2,000. Harry Thaw showed no signs of in sanity in his first day on the witness stand and more than held his own in a battle of wits with District At torney Jerome. With his kingdom facing civil war. King Alfonso declared martial law throughout his domain in an effort to check the riots which have already cost several hundreds of lives. A dog is held prisoner in a Georgia jail and will be used as a witness against a negro who is charged with assaulting a woman. His mute testi mony is expected to free the prisoner or send him to the gallows. County officials at Peoria, 111., de cided to ask the next state legislature to pass a law providing whipping posts for men who abandon and beat their wives. Roy Blake, a traveling photograph er, arrested in Denver, Col., at the re quest of a former Belleville, 111., wom an who says he killed Peter Waltz, a Belleville photographer. Police Magistrate Grannan of Bal timore acquitted Senator Stone of Mis souri and said the senator was justi fied in slapping a negro, waiter on a Pennsylvania train, when the black was impudent to him. William McCracken of Osage coun ty, Okla., Is under arrest in London, Ky., charged with feigning death to swindle an insurance company out of $5,000. Jack Johnson, heavyweight pugilist said he would cover the $5,000 for feit posted by James J. Jeffries for a championship battle. The suicide of Rebecca Bonshek re vealed a suicide club composed of fac tory girls in Cleveland, O. Representative C. Bascom Slemp was nominated by the Republicans of Virginia as their candidate for gov ernor. The American barkentine J. M. Grif fith, under command of Oapt. F. T. Sanders and carrying a crew of ten men, probably has been lost at sea. The barkentine put out front Carmen island, Mexico, for Puget Sound, and is more than a month overdue. Application has -been made to the New York state insurance board by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany to establish a SIOO,OOO sani tarium for the treatment of consump tion. Seven members of the crew of the barkentine Orleans, Capt. Lindstol, were lost in a hurricane off the coast of Tasmania. The survivors escaped in open boats to the mainland. Henry Jordan, Sandusky, 0., was killed and several others wounded when a fireworks mortar exploded at Cedar Point, O. The Western Federation of Miners contributed $5,000 to the treasury of the United Hatters of North America, now on strike. Ten persons were killed and 1,000 rioters imprisoned when troops broke up a political riot at Guadalajara, Mexico. Two hundred girls in a New York shirt-waist factory struck when the management issued an order prohibit ing them from talking during the luncheon hour. Orville Wright, in remaining in the air one hour, 12 minutes and 40 sec onds, set a new endurance mark for airships carrying a passenger. Hubert Latham failed in his second attempt to fly across the English channel in his monoplane, falling into the water. Mrs. Susan Merrill testified that Harry Thaw had taken 200 girls to her house and lashed their bare flesh with a dog whip. Nathaniel Parker Willis, a wealthy citizen of Indianapolis, Ind., was shot and killed by his divorced wife's sec ond husband, W. Y. Ellis, in a court room in Little Rock, Ark. Republicans of Nebraska, in con vention, indorsed President Taft's tar iff policies and declared they would approve his action if he sees fit to veto the bill. Emperor William has received an invitation engraved on a gold plate to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the German Marksmen's association in San Francisco. Shrewd American almond importers have placed speculative Spanish deal ers in an uncomfortable position by heavy purchases before the shortage in Italy was realized. Ballonists of St. Louis struck a mid summer snow storm two miles above Savanna, 111., and were forced to land. The American Tin and Sheet Com pany, Pittsburg, Pa., announces that 51 per cent, of the entire mill capacity is in operation in the tinplate depart ment and 76 per cent, in the sheet de partment since the strike was de clared July 1. j'fwo Americans were among those hurt in a riot at Guadalajara, Mexico, whiVi a mob broke up a meeting held in tae interests of the re-election of PresiiJent Diaz. Politics is blamed for the strike of 275 foundry mgn in the plant of the Simmons Manufacturing Company at Kenosha, Wis. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 1909. EARTH SHOCKS IH CENTRAL MEXICO ONE CITY DESTROYED AND THE PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN THE OPEN. HOMES AND HOTELS WRECKED Fourteen People Killed and More Than a Score Mortally Injured —lndians Wail and Pray in Public Squares. Mexico City, Mexico. —With Chil pancingo destroyed and Aoapulco partly razed and the loss of life prob lematical, central Mexico from the At lantic to the Pacific and from Querato on the north to Oaxaca on the south, an area of more than 1,000 square miles, was shaken by a series of the most severe earth shocks felt in the region for the last quarter of a cen tury. The quake was severe in Mex ico City, but not prolific in destruc tion. Reports telling of the loss of life are meager, but the official fig ures thus far given show 14 killed and more than score mortally injured. While word conies from G. Poyros, an American commercial traveler at Chilpancingo, Guerrerro. that that city was destroyed and the inhabitants are living in the open, suffering from the elements. The loss of life is not defi nitely known. The shocks continue at Chilpancingo with subterranean rumblings and flashes of lightning, rain and hail. Acapulco, Guerrero, was partly razed, but the extent of the damage is not definitely known, as communication with that part of the republic is not well established. According to the observatory rec ords the first shock of the series was felt at 4:15 in the morning, the rock ing oscillation being from the east to the southwest. It was severs- caus ing the bells of the many cathedrals of Mexico City to toll, breaking crock ery and in some instances leveling walls. The inhabitants of the cap/:al had hardly recovered from the fright occasioned by the quake when a sec ond and more severe shock caused an outpouring of nearly all of the resi dents to the streets and open plazas. This movement was of a twisting character and lasted with marked se verity for 90 seconds. The tall build ings of the capital swayed and in some instances cracked, the pavement opened in places and in the poorer quarters a number of houses collapsed. A message from Pueblo, the third Mexican_City in size, reports severe damage to several dwelling houses and one death as a result of the shocks. Reports from Vera Cruz, Tlacotalpam, Sillcayoapam, Dunham, Meroteon and Pachucha indicate property damage but no loss of life. ALL SPEED RECORDS BROKEN Orville Wright Makes a Ten-Mile Cross-Country Flight at More Than 42 Miles an Hour. Washington. D. C. —Orville Wright has at last attained the zenith of hard-earned success. In a ten-mile cross-country flight in the famous aeroplane built by himself and his elder brother Wilbur, and accompanied by Lieut. Benjamin D. Foulers, an in trepid officer of the army signal corps, he not only surpassed the speed re quirements of his contract with the United States government, but accom plished the most difficult and daring flight ever planned for a heavier-than air flying machine. Incidentally, he broke all speed records over a meas ured course." Wright's speed was more than 42 miles an hour. lie made the ten-mile flight iu 14 minutes and 42 seconds, including the more than 20 seconds required for the turn beyond the line at Shuter hill, the southern end of the course. He attained a height in cross ing the valley of Four-Mile Run of nearly 500 feet and the average alti tude of his practically level course was about 200 feet. DECREASE IN JULY FAILURES Crop Reports Favorable Especially for Corn and Spring Wheat—Winter Wheat Nearly Harvested. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Crop reports are favorable, especial ly for corn and spring wheat, with winter wheat nearly harvested. The excellent conditions in the iron and steel trade, emphasized this week by the report of the principal producer and an increase in its rate of division are maintained. July failures have made the smallest month's total of liabilities since early in 1007. Nearly every development is, therefore, that of improvement. This varies in degree, being at some points rapid and at others slow, but, never theless the tendency is persistently away from the past depression. Bank Cashier Surrenders. Tipton, Ind.—Charged with the embezzlement of $50,000 of the funds of the First National bank of Tipton, Noah B. Marker, formerly assistant cashier of the bank, was taken before United States Commis sioner Ellis at Muncle and waived ex amination. He was bound in the sum of SIO,OOO to appear before the fed eral grand jury at Indianapolis next November. Marker then was brought back to Tipton, where a throng of friends awaited him. Business men signed his bond and he was released. Keystone State Jots Saltsburg.—Reports from various mining fields show that the output is gradually approaching that of two years ago. Philadelphia.—Rodman Wanamak er, son of John Wanamaker, and Vio let, daughter of the late Eugene Guide Cruger of New York, were mar ried recently at St. Margaret's church, Westminster, by special license. Ex traordinary efforts were made to keep the affair secret. Rochester. The local glass plant formerly owned by the National Glass Co., all of whose holdings at Roches ter were bought by the Ellwood City Glass Co. about two months ago for $200,000, was putin operation after being shut down for nearly two years. The Ellwood City Glass Co., after pur chasing the Rochester plant, disman tled its plant at Ellwood City and moved its equipment and stock to Rochester. The plant employs about 400 men. Harrisburg.—The water commis sion received a protest from some of the industrial establishments of Bea ver county against the draining of the Pymatuning swamp. The commis sion has contemplated making cer tain changes in the swamp district that would drain off the worst of the stagnant water, and the industries as sert that this would interfere with the dry weather flow of the small creeks that radiate from the swamp and also affect the condition of these streams in flood times. The commis sion has taken the matter under ad visement. Harrisburg. Deputy Secretary A. D. Martin of the department of agri culture has received from L. W. Lighty, one of the department's farmers' institute instructors, a pic ture of what is perhaps the most remarkable swarm of bees ever hived in Pennsylvania. The bees swarmed from the lower limbs of a fruit tree in East Berlin, Adams county. They suspended themselves from small twigs and the swarm extended to the ground, a distance of over five feet. The bees hung from the twigs in two swarms, but these swarms met in one mass that was nearly as thick as a man's body. The bees were success fully hived by Mr. Lighty and within three days they had collected 28 pounds of honey. Clearfield.—H. W. Woodward, spe cial attorney for the state grange, has definitely agreed to take up the work of prosecuting the dealers iu oleomar gerine, and he has announced his in tention of making a special plea in each case to the courts, asking that each defendant be sentenced to jail. At the present time while some of the oleo dealers are in court being fined their clerks are at their stores selling more oleo, and it is claimed that the only way to break up the practice is to send the violators of the law to jail. Fifteen arrests have been made in Pittsburg among the oleo sellers and it is probable that Mr. Woodward will begin with these cases, in asking for jail sentences. Harrisburg.—Reports from all parts of the state received by the game commission indicate that the unnat uralized foreigners of Pennsylvania are willing and even anxious to obey the new law which prohibits them owning firearms that can be used for hunting purposes. The foreigners have already in many instances sold or otherwise disposed of their fire arms. Letters received from super intendents of big manufacturing es tablishments that employ much for eign labor report that many of their foreigners, after reading the notices that have been posted, have voluntar ily gone to them and given up their guns so that there would be no possi bility of their being fined if the weap ons were found in their possession. Harrisburg. State Zoologist Sur face has received numerous communi cations regarding insects that are at tacking the maple trees of the state. These insects bore holes in the larger limbs of the trees and in the trunks. These insects are bark borers or en gravers and when a.tree is attacked by them it indicates that the tree is declining. The best way to preserve the trees attacked is by digging about the trees, mulching them, pruning off dead and dying branches and water ing well with water containing a tea spoonful of nitrate of soda to each gal lon of water. If the borers be large enough that their boring can be found the tip of a small machine oil can may be inserted into them and the pests may easily be killed by inject ing a little carbon bisulphide into each hole and then stopping this with clay or mud. IJniontown.—Justice of the Peace J. P. Donaldson, held in jail here for a nunier of weeks on several charges of extortion, was released by Judge Van Swearingen, with the under standing that he is to leave the state, never to return. Dauphin.—The department of fish eries caused the arrest of a man who maintained a fish basket in Clark's creek contrary to the provisions of the new fish laws. The new law pro vides that the basket must be taken H_w ay tea days aftej tUc aiiasgp Clpgea. S Tfc« riaei U Bay Cheap S ) J. 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