2 CAMJJH CJUffi FliiSS. H H. MULLIN. Kd.tbr. rtibliHiuHi Every Thursday. TEHMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ftr year <* y pal 4 lu sdvanco 1 W ADVERTISING RATES: Adrerttsements are published at the rat# oi Cue dollar i>er square for one insertion and fifty • at* per square for each subsequent Insertion Hates by tho year, or for six or three mouths, k'< low and uniform, aiul will be furnished on • prllcation. r ,«*nl and Official Advertising per square tUree times or less. <2; each subsequent inser (l* i . 0 cents per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one lnser s*nlon: 5 cejits per line for each subssqueul •oi. ecutlve Insertion. Obituary notices over Ays lines, 10 rents pe? Ita*. Simple announcements of births, uiar tiiefs and deaths will be Inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, l» per year, •vrr h've 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 Pkbss I* complete di.6 affords facilities for doinu the best class of Unrll. PARTICULAR ATTIH'I'IOH PAIDTU LAW PKINTINO. No paper will be discontinued until arrear uts art paid, except at the option of the pub usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid let In advance. Amount of Rainfall. Recent authorities assure us that 'lf all the rain which falls upon the .earth were allowed to accumulate in a basin of the same area of the terres trial surface, it would almost be a col lection of night feet deep at the end ol the year. The heaviest rainfall known upon the earth occurs upon the mountain slopes beyond the head of the Bay of Bengal and amounts upon the average to 610 inches, or nearly 5) feet, in the course of the year. One inch of rain implies a fall of 101 tons of water upon each acre of ground. Washington's Appearance. Washington stood six feet two inches in his boots and weighed 200 pounds. His hands and feet were un usually large, and his strength was enormous, but his voice was always ineek. and his lungs were never in keeping with his otherwise powerful physique. His nose was large, his eyes of a bluish gray, and his hair ehestnut-brown, his inouth was large sind the lips were us a rule tightly compressed. Government's Expenses Abroad. In Brussels there is an interna tional bureau for the publication of customs tariffs, and the United States pays annually as its proportion ate share of tho expense. More ex pense still is the annual membership fee of the United States in another in stitution with headquarters in Brus sels. Every year $2,270 is paid by this government as a contribution to the maintenance of the international bureau of weights and measures. Has Filled a Long-Felt Want. A Frenchman has invented a sys tem of making glass so tough that a piece one-tenth of an inch in thick ness will withstand heavy blows from a metal .hammer. This will enable people who live in glass houses to throw stones without thinking seri ously of the probable consequences. Early Use of Spoons. Tn France the use of spoons was not general until toward the end of the fourteenth century, according to common belief, but. there is a question about this, for the will of Saint Remi, who baptized Clovis in 4<H>, disposes of several implements supposed to have been spoons. In Its Place. The librarian of a medieval library In Baltimore was puzzled recently to know what to do with a book entitled, "The Hirth of the Locomotive," but at length she placed it among the hooks on "Diseases of the Newly- Born." —Publishers' Weekly. Proper Sphere of Sport. Sport—manly sport—happily can be and is carried on without necessarily being connected with gambling, not to the deterioration, but to the improve ment of our national physique and character. A Remarkable Woman. A New York husband is suing his wife for divcrce on the ground that she takes his money and keeps it. If she keeps it she must be a very re markable woman.— Providence Tri bune. Atrocious Act. An Arizona cowboy stopped a stri fe. II of passengers, and made thern all wait while he read a potiu of:; 2 verses dedicated to his Mary .lane. There are some things as bad us shooting. She Expected es Much. "I never thought fhe would do me such a mean turn," said Mrs. Jeffer son .ludd, "but then it was just ict ly what I expected."—Kansas City Times. Height of Extravagance. 'That fellow seems to be extrava gant." "Hopclet. !y. He spends his own money just as if i; were the gov ernment's." —Louisville Courier-Jour nal. The Tempered Wind. The Lord tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, but not to the man who thinks it is heroic to £> all winter without an overcoat. A Hero. A'n ost r.r.y man can be a hero to the lady for whom he provides thea ter tickets, if he gets them often enough. mm i OF A i iWEEK'S EVENTS! • • • # « • Latest News of Interest • • • J Boiled Down for the J • Busy Man. I • • ooeeeee***eeo*eeeeeee*eene PERSONAL. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and chil dren have returned hoine from their European tour. Miss Bessie Wood Aspinwall of Newburg, N. Y., and Lieut. Hayden \V. Wagner, IT. S. A., of Dekalb, 111., were married at Newburg. James L. Davenport, first deputy commissioner of pensions, has been appointed commissioner, to succeed Vespasian Warner, resigned. President Taft has named Chief Justice W. J. Mills of the New Mexico supreme court, as governor of that ter ritory. Baron Rosen, Russian ambassador to the United States, and the baroness sailed on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie from Cherbourg %ir New York. Miss Annette Gardner Munro of Portland, Ore., has been selected as dean of the women's department of the University of Rochester. The resignation of Vespasian Warn er. as United States pension commis sioner, has been accepted by Presi dent Taft. Mr. Warner resigned be cause of the illness of his son. The duke of Roxburghe fell and broke his right leg while riding with the Quorn hounds. The duchess, who formerly was May Goelet of New- York, is at his bedside. Admiral Seymour of the British fleet presented the flagship Inflexible with a silver bowl for its wardroom to com memorate the battleship's part in the Hudson-Fulton celebratiou at New York. John G. Carlisle, ill in St. Vincent's hospital in New York, is showing not ed improvement. Samuel Gonipers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison were unanimously re elected as heads of the American Fed eration of Labor at its convention at Toronto. GENERA. NEWS. Records which Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the arctic explorer, will submit to the University of Copenhagen to prove his claim that he reached the north pole April 21, I'JOH, were in the possession of Walter Lonsdale, Cook's secretary when he sailed from New York on the steamer United States for Denmark Vote on the English budget has been postponed for a week because many peers desired to speak on the bill, thus upsetting the plan for an early prorogation of parliament outlined by the house of commons. After 150 more bodies had been dis covered in the Cherry (111.) mine ef forts to carry them to the surface were abandoned because flames threat ened the main shaft. Efforts on the part of the Chicago firemen to put out the fire proving futile, the mine was once more sealed and it is probable that the bodies of the dead miners will be incinerated. All hope that any of the men are alive in the shaft has been abandoned. The disabled steamer Puritan was safely towed to South Chicago after a 24-hour struggle in a storm on Lake Michigan. Many of her 40 passengers and some of the crew were exhaust ed by the storm of the many hours in which the boat drifted in the trough of the sou. To raise enough money to pay the indebtedness on the Christian church at Beaver, Okla., the congregation has taken lip farming and it sold a crop of broom corn grown on a 40-aere field near the church. All the work was done by the congregation, headed by the pastor. Rev. B. K. Coffey. Representatives of France at Wash ington will soon be housed in a mag nificent new embassy. Approval of the architects' plans for the building has been announced. The contract will be let and the work begun soon. France will expend $1,000,000 on the embassy. Six Italians, two women, one man and three children, were burned to death in a tenement house fire in Brooklyn, and several others injured by jumping out of upper-story win dows. One hundred persons were asleep in the building when the Are broke out. High school and college instructors of the middle west attended the an nual meeting of ihe Central Associa tion of Science and Mathematic Teach ers at the University of Chicago, The tenth annual international live stock exposition opened in Chicago with a record-breaking list of entries. Five young people, members of a wedding party, were drowned in Mus kegon (Mich.) lake when a launch In which they were crossing the water capsized when the party became panic stricken through the ignition of some gasoline. Five others of the party were saved. Ten persons were seriously injured and 20 slightly hurt at Joplin. Mo., by 112. g.is explosion in a laundry. The building was badly damaged. Virgil Weaver, a merchant of Ven ice, ()., convicted of arson, cut his •hroat with a razor in the jail and died immediately. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1909. ■Evidence that Chauffeur lamp, who Borne weeks ago drove an automobile containing two persons besides him self into the Chicago river, and all three drowned, was incompetent, hav ing had but lour days' experience as a driver, was Introduced at the coron er's inquest. The bodies of the two pacsengers of the taxicab have not been recovered. The new SOO,OOO building of the University of Colorado, the gift of United States Senator Simon Guggen heim, was dedicated at Boulder, Col. Addresses were made by Senator Guggenheim, President Baker of the university and others. A gift of $424,000 from an anony mous donor hi\s been made to the Children's Aid society of New York. During the year the society has re ceived more than $1,000,000, the largest fund in its history. A delegation of college girls, under guidance of the College Equal Suf frage league, is arranging togo to Washington to present a resolution calling for the interference by this government in the imprisonment in England of Miss Alice Paul of Moores ville, N. J., who smashed the window at the banquet of the lord mayor of London. William McCormick, aged".l years, a student at the Moody Biblical insti tute, Chicago, while temporarily de ranged leaped from a third-story win dow to the pavement and was killed. The St. Paul mine at Cherry, 111., which has been sealed again owing to the ravages of fire, will probably not be reopened for three months. The United States navy is to be re organized from the newest leviathan of the Dreadnought type to the arm ored cruisers and auxiliaries, if the re port of the Swift board, named some months ago togo to the bottom of the naval situation, is adopted. President Taft ate his Thanksgiving turkey with his family, there being no guests at the White House. He ex pressed his delight at being able to eat "real food" without being forced to make a speech. The barge canal proposition voted on at the last, state election at Ithaca, X. Y., which authorized the state legis lature to spend $5,000,000 for connect in lakes Cayuga and Seneca, was car ried by a majority of about 15,000. Gov. Augustus E. Willson of Ken tucky, acting as chairman of a com mittee to fix the date and place of the second annual conference of gover nors, announced from Lexington that it will be held January IS, 1910, at Wash ington. During October there were 75,60S immigrant aliens and 10,701 nonimmi grant aliens admitted into the United States, 26,451 United States citizens arrived and 1.610 aliens were de barred, according to the October bul letin of the immigration bureau. While engaged in settling a board bill of $22.50, over which there had been a dispute at Gilbert, Minn.. Aga pito Fuciarile stepped around the table, and, pulling back the head of his landlord, Louis Grilla slashed his throat from ear to ear with a razor. The officials of the Homestake gold mine at Lead, S. 1).. closed down the works for an indefinite period, head ing off the strike which was to be declared. Two thousand five hundred workers are affected. In a fasnionable apartment on West Fifth street .New York city, Mrs. Daisy von Marlow, a magazine art editor, re cently of Dayton, 0., died, supposedly from the effects of poison. Samuel Gompers in an address be lore the National Civic federation, in annual session at New York city, dis cussed the need in this country of new laws to cover the subject of employ ers' liability and to provide adequate compensation to wage earners injured b accident. He charged that the law yers would prevent the obtaining of the wisest and best laws in that mat ter through finding insurmountable constitutional objections. The casualty record for football this season includes 26 deaths and 69 play ers injured, with the Thanksgiving day games yet to be accounted. The Coliseum building, an immense amusement hall in San Francisco, was destroyel by tire The loss is SIOO,OOO. Internal revenue figures show that the total receipts since June 30 last have been $106,608,353, which is an in crease over the same period ol 1908 of $6,043,773. 'The safety of a ship going to a port which is closed or blockaded in lact or in theory is a question lor the interested parties to determine and act on and not a question for determ ination by the officials concerned in clearances." The new laboratory of physics at the I'niversity of Illinois was formally opened in the presence of many notables, the dedicatory address be ing delivered by President Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation. The Indiana Academy of Science held its twenty-fifth annual meeting in Indianapolis. Dr. A. L. Foley oi Blooniington presiding. Capitalized at SIOO,OOO, the Wright Company of New York has been incor porated at Albany, N. Y., "to manufac ture, deal in.and operate machine?., ships or other mechanical contriv ances for aerial operation. By the latest estimates of the Pan ama canal commissi* n the big water way will require nearly $400,000,00u to complete. The ocean liners Lusltania and Ara bic 'bat reached Queenstown reported -overe weather in crossing the At lantic .Mrs. Goldea Friedlander of Carmel, .V J., bitten by a dog live weeks ago, dead of hydrophobia. She paid mile attention to the wound until a lew days ago, when she applied for ireatnient in New York. She was sent to Bollevue hospital, where she suf lered intensely. INSANE IN KILLS FIRST OF S 01 LIST CLAIMS HIS HEAD HAD BEEN OPENED AND THE NERVES TAKEN FROM IT. CRIMERAMPANT EVERYWHERE Robber and Deputy Die in Fight and Policeman Kills Man who Wound ed Companion—Cowboys Shoot Up Town. Buffalo, N. Y.— Because the name of Franz Stendts stood first on a list of eight which Charles Strohl, a baker's employe, intended to kill, Stendts was shot and instantly killed in the reading room of the pub lic library here by Strohl, who has been pronounced insane. The shoot ing came without warning and alniost caused a panic among the people in the room. The murderer rushed out of the building, pursued by several persons and turned into an alley, ex changing shots with his pursuers, one shot striking an officer in the hand. Strohl was cornered and caught in a harness room. To the police Strohl told an impos sible story of persecution by Stendts and others. He had a list of eight persons, all of whom he said he in tended to kill. Stendt's was the first name on list. Strohl's delusion was that before coming to America from Ger many, Stendts had carried him into a dark room and tied him to a table. There, aided by others, Stendts had drilled holes in his head and extracted nerves from his body. Cuts Throat and Is Slain. Jacksonville, Fla. — After cutting the throats of Burt Woods, a showman attending a carnival here, and John S. Smith, a companion, Jesse; Altman was shot and killed. Altman and Smith first quarreled with Woods, leaving him dead in the street. Smith and Altman made their escape to a suburb, where they also quarreled and Altman cut Smith's throat. As he fell Smith snatched a revolver from Altman's pocket and fired, killing him. Farmer Killed by Policeman. Woodbury. N. J.—After seeing a fellow policeman shot in the leg, it is alleged by Antonio Dilessio, a farmer living near here, Policeman Merchant shot and killed the farmer. The latter had been involved in litiga tion over the ownership of a farm, and the case was decided against him. The policemen were trying to serve an ejectment order when the shooting occurred. lowan Slays Father-in-Law. Davenport, la. —Gus Neibert, a Davenport musician and watch maker, shot and killed Dan Gilbert, his father-in-law. firing four shots in to his body, almost anyone of which would have been fatal. He then boarded a street car, rode to the po lice station and gave himself up. Mother and Daughter Killed. Williamson, W. Va. —Mrs. Charles Daniels and her sixteen-year-old daughter were shot and killed at their home near Devon, Mingo county, while defending the house against a sheriff's posse seeking to arrest Dan iels. on a charge of murder growing out of a feud. Cowboys Shoot Up Town. Englevale, N. D.—Two cowboys fatally shot Louis Maxwell, a far mer, took possession of Englevale for 12 hours and finally departed with armed citizens in pursuit. The cow boys, known as the Grant brothers, have not been found. Robbers and Deputies in Duel. Beoiidji, Minn. —One of two bold robbers was instantly killed and Deputy Sheriff Andrew Johnson was fatally shot in a fight following the dynamiting of a safe in the village of Puposky, 17 miles northwest of Ber midji. RETAIL TRADE STILL EXPANDS Cold Weather and Opening of Holiday Buying Stimulates —Some Hesita tion in Wholesale Lines. New York City.— Bradstreets says: Colder weather and the approach of the holiday season have con tinued lo stimulate retail trade and measurably improve reasserting trade with jobbers. Rains or snow, while temporarily retarding country trade by making the roads bad, have checked excessive growth of, or insect damage to, winter wheat and given a good quantity of moisture to the growing plant, thus placing that crop in good shape to enter the winter. In wholesale trade there are, how ever, some intimations of cross cur rents tending to restrict fullest activi ties. Industrial reports are generally of large, in some cases record, output for the season, though here again, as for instance in the case of iron and steel, undiminished activity in buying is noted in finished products, while the raw material market, particularly pig iron, is quieter. Production and ship ments are at record heights. Three Wreck Victims Drown. Tillamook. Ore. A life saving boat, which had on board sev eral passengers from the steamer Argo, which strrck Tillamook bar, was overturned on Garibaldi beach and two women and one of the life saving crew were drowned. Balloon Collapses; Two Dead. Berlin', Germany. Dr. Brenekmann and Hugo Franeke, the two most dar ing members of the Aero club of Mer lin, have been killed through the col lapse of their balloon "Kolmer." Pennsylvania Happenings The deputy factory inspectors have all received Chief Delaney's orders for the enforcement of the new law and it is understood that vigorous work will be done. State game wardens say that hunt ers in a number of sections are saving quail for the next season. In many districts propagation will be followed out. State receipts at*the close of busi ness the other day amounted to $3,- 837,116.50 in excess of what they were at the same time in 1908 and $1,664,- 419.11 ahead of the best previous rec ord. The several western Pennsylvania brewing companies, which have been cited into court on the charge of mak ing and disposing of ice contrary to law, are cited to appear in Harrisburg for hearings. State Game Commissioner Kalbfus and his wardens and deputies are en gaged in watching the state game pre serves. There are three of these, lo cated in Franklin, Clinton and Clear field counties. They are closed to sportsmen. General orders have been issued from National Guard headquarters an nouncing the death of Col. Ezra H. Ripple of Scranton, assistant adjutant general of the National Guard. The orders recite the splendid military record of Col. Ripple, who served in the Thirteenth, Thirtieth and Fifty second regiments. Heavy orders for new equipment were placed the other day by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. The former company ordered 125 new locomotives. The Reading company ordered 2,000 new steel cars, 1,000 from the American Car and Foundry Co. of Berwick and 1,000 from the Standard Steel Car Co. of Middletown. The loss by forest fires in this state during the present year will fall con siderably below that of last year, says Forestry Commissioner Robert S. Conklin. Last year's losses approxi mated a million dollars, although the state lands did not suffer as much as those privately owned. Alinos* 00,- 000 acres were swept by fires last year, about one-seventh of the area be ing owned by the state. In reply to its question sent to gov ernors of the various states asking for opinions as to the cause each state and nation has for observing Thanks giving day this year, the following is from Gov. Stuart: "On Thanksgiv ing day let us remember the poor and needy, the widow and the fatherless, the sick and the distressed. Out of our abundance let us assist the unfor tunate, remembering that the great est virtue is charity." Adjt. Gen. Thomas J. Stewart has announced that a general order would be issued about the middle of Decem ber, giving the changes to be made in the National Guard to make it conform to the Dick militia bill. The order will be issued by the governor, who will approve the proposed changes when they are worked out. I nder the Dick act the state guard must be made uni form with the regular army by January 21. The last legislature passed a hill to enable the governor to make changes as required. As a result of the brewery compa nies' hearing recently the representa tives of 45 companies decided that there were two questions which should be fought out in the courts in order to test whether the brewing companies were within their rights in disposing of ice as alleged: First, whether brew ing companies can furnish, give or sell ice beyond the point of delivery; sec ond, whether special charters must be taken out to manufacture ice for sale. Some of the companies furnish ice only to point of delivery. Others give away what is lefr at delivery or sell it at a low rate. Both are contended lo be violations of charter rights in Kerr's petition. Figures compiled at the close of business at the auditor general's of fice recently show the receipts of the state for the fiscal year, which will end on the last day of this month, will reach the unprecedented total of $29,- 500,000, with a possibility of going beyond that limit. The receipts at the close of one recent week's business amounted to $28,730,462.92, which is $3,573,017.25 ahead of the same day in 190S, and $1,703,330.20 ahead of the same day in 1907, which was a record breaking year. The expenditures of the state, however, have been unus ually heavy. The slate had a balance on the first of the month of more than $8,000,000, which has not been serious ly affected. More suits against dealers and mak ers of fertilizers and cattle feeds are probable. A recent batch of analyses shows violations in both eastern and western sections. It is reported that tests made on the Sunbury, llazeltou At Wilkesbarre division of the Pennsylvania as lo the efficiency of train dispatching by tele phone shows that it is impossible to run trains as speedily with the tele phone as with the telegraph, and therefore the telegraph service will be retained for emergency use. Good Work Goe* On. During the year that has passed ■lnee the international congress on tu berculosis met at Washington, one in stitution or orgainzation for the treat ment or prevention of tuberculosis ha* been established every day, Sundays and holidays included, according to a bulletin of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tu berculosis. Fifteen new beds in hos pitals or sanitoria have been provided also for every day of the year. Taking No Chances. "What did Barker do when he dis covered that his wife and chauffeuv had planned to elope in his car?" "He oiled it thoroughly, and put it in first-class shape." WANTS HER LETTER PUBLISHED For Benefit of Women who Suffer from Female Ills Minneapolis, Minn.—"l was a great sufferer from female troubles which ' Ca d. S6 b a j c wea || ließß much of whatL^dia etable Compound .-qßJgj* I *'-'; - ■ had done for other &: ' suffering women 1 felt sure it would ;say it did help mo ■BMJH pains all left me, ? Pew stronger, and within three months was a perfectly well woman. "I want this letter made public to ■how the benefit women may derive from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound"—Mrs. JoiinO. Moldan, 2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis, Minn. Thousands of unsolicited and genu ine testimonials like the above prove* the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which is made exclusively from roots and herbs. Women who suffer from those dis tressing ills peculiar to their sex should not lose sight of these facts or doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their health. If you want special advice write to Mrs. Pinkbam, at Lynn, Mass. She will treat your letter as strictly confidential. For 20 years she lias been helping sick women in this way, free of charge. Don't hesitate write at once. For sore throat, sharp pain in lungs, tightness across the chest, hoarseness or cough, lave the parts with Sloan's Liniment. You don't need to rub, just lay it on lightly. It penetrates instantly to the seat of the trouble, relieves conges tion and stops the pain. Here's the Proof. Mr. A. W. Price, Fredonia, Kans., ■ays : "We have used Sloan's Lini ment for a year, and find it an excel lent thing for sore throat, chest pains, colds, and hay fever attacks. A few drops taken on sugar stops cough ing and sneezing instantly." Sloan's Liniment is easier to use than porous plasters, acts quicker and does not clogupthe poresof the skin. It is an excellent an tiseptic remedy for B||« asthma, bronchitis, and all inflammatory _ diseases of the throat and chest; will break up the deadly membrane in an attack of croup, B I and will kill any kind n B of neuralgia or rheu- 9 H matie pains. I , I All druggistA Icoep ft 3 Sloan's Liniment. ft —B Pries* 25c., EDc., S SI.OO. 2 SI Dr. Earl S. Floan, BOSTON, MA S3. WDmBBZ JuVUM* Best for Children S m atst vttMUftt ym (§sKHS«ft%DS Pj Gives instant relief when little throat 3 j| rfi arc irritated and sore. Co-,Sains fl ' no opiates and is as pleasant t j lake || r. as it is effective. All DrugguU, 25 eeots. )I
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