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The Ideal Life.
We are like to dim with whom there
Is no pas,t and future, when we live
•with large, bright, spiritual eyes, do
ing our work in the great present,
leaving both past and future to him
to whom they are ever present, and
fearing nothing because he is in our
future as much as he is in our past—
partakers thus of the divine nature
resting in that perfect all in all. —
George Mac Donald.
V/anted to Be Shown.
A St. Louis paper printed this story
In its editorial column as a pointed
suggestion that the public required
action of municipal officers. "Are you
a Quaker?" demanded the small boy
of the man with the wide-brimmed
hat. "Yes, friend," was the reply. "A
shaking Quaker?" pursued the boy.
"Yes, friend," came the second reply.
"Well, then," said the small boy, "do
it!"
Microscopic Mechanism.
Mymecides, an ancient carver, was
so proficient in microscopic mechan
ism that he made an ivory ship, with
all its decks, masts, yards, rigging and
sails, in so small a compass that it
might have been hidden under the
wing of a fly. He also made a chariot
with four wheels and as many har
nessed horses, which took up scarcely
more room than the ship.
Centenarian's Jest.
During the reception tendered to
Reuben Burnliam in honor of his one
hundredth birthday, one of the guests
asked him how it seemed to be old,
and Mr. Burnham replied: "1 feel line
and 1 don't even worry about death,
because 1 know that very few men die
• at the age of 100." Boston Record.
Nature In Truest Guide.
When Cicero consulted the oracle at
Deiphos concerning what course of
studies he should pursue the answer
was, "Follow nature." A French wri
ter truly said: "We are never rendered
so ridiculous by qualities which we
have as by those which we aim at or
affect to have."
Take Your Choice.
Near Fergus, Ont., lives a farmer
named Benson who has named a
daughter Susan Jane Betty Sarah Bell
Mary Hannah Kmeline Nancy Jennie
Prudence Benson. When you speak
to her you ran call her by all her
names or simply by one.
Welcoming Her.
"I'm glad you've dropped in, Mrs.
Irons." said Mrs. Lapsiing. cordially
greeting the visitor. "This has been
a dreary day for me and a call from
a friend is like an Osiris in the des
ert."
Possibly a Scheme.
"A New York broker Is said to be eo
Fllugy that ho buys his coal by the
peck." "Perhaps thai'* precaution,
not stinginess. It may be that he
doesn't want to start a bull market,"
-Washington ilernld
Hydrophobia in Germany.
Though hydrophobia has tieen
claim ed out of Britain, It Ix still ram
I ant In (iortnany, where every year
ver •ii d< vj and cu'S ai'lii .ed with
lite dl:ta..e are destroyed.
Presr-ice c' '-'ind.
"Lock, the lire'* m .er control ret
ttcre i.» a 1> >ll- It ii.nn k :lIK in throw
a crayon portrait out of tic window'"
"Why not* That's hi.-, only chanc«> tn
get riil of it." .Milwu k»e Journal.
Th'nh It Over.
Km. i \ V. '.. i a I. tpp> world Hli
would ■e If nit ■> ul . .-'it w» at w#
WSIIICt " Duitti)' "Y« or else fewer
of Ul get whal He deserted"--ICS
fhuil: >.
Alt Hfv« Plight to Ciare.
Ir,v luUm.i and dl-coveiM are not
the tin >erty of < «• nath , i, u i ought
to |. I I .! I f| I l!i»
rou.iiiu ml i* .nklad Und Aitr
l"(iel«]Ul* Truth,
This w<' M l» a h« pl .«t .rf Incur
at !> At 1, I I" *ei tH *t. any on •
to n<> eni «.{ it ail. '\uh< It.nn uti
Vaughns
|>l«i it| .ih !>-. i :.«w It If only I
Mi] iH! ft I | i &»*"H l'|
aCTOPUS HARD HIT
TOO EARLY, HOWEVER, TO HER
ALD ITS DEATH.
Standard Oil Has Yet to Have a Hear
ing in the Supreme Court,
Though Its Chances Seem
Slim.
No decision of the courts since the
famous Landis $30,000,000 fine has
covered anything like the range of the
decision of the United States circuit
court at St. I.ouls declaring the par
ent oil company is in violation of the
law and ordering the abatement of its
activities. No decision could have
been more sweeping, as it embraces
most of the subsidiary companies
named as defendants, the exceptions
being unimportant. These concerns
are directed not to pay dividends to
the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, and not again to form any
combination looking to a monopoly
of the oil business. The parent con
cern is likewise enjoined not any
longer to vot? the stock of the minor
companies. While the Standard Oil
Company, as such, is not dissolved,
the decision takes away the powers
without which it cannot have con
tinued existence.
It would be too early to herald the
death of the octopus, however, as ap
peal will unquestionably be taken to
the supreme court, where the claim
of the company that its form of or
ganization is in behest to the laws of
modern society, and that it does not
violate the principle of industrial ac
tivity, will have a linal hearing. The
public has become accustomed to re
versals of startling decisions of the
lower courts, and while these are
taken as presaging a close oversight
of industry by the general govern
ment, they are not held to establish
the victory of sentiment for the de
struction of monopolies. The setting
aside of the Landis line upon grounds
that evoked the approval of a large
body of public opinion is held in mind,
and it*is not assumed that the Stand
ard Oil Company of New Jersey is
dead because it has had administered
to it a blow that would do credit to a
modern St. George.
Nothing in the annals of industry
approaches in intensity of interest the
testimony secured by the master ap
pointed for the case that has just
closed. The methods of coercion and
the procedure of suppression and ex
tinction of competition followed, ac
cording to the evidence submitted,
make a record of autocratic assertion
of supremacy over a great industry
that has no counterpart, although it
has served as a model for imitation
by other trust concerns. For a decade
the fight against this great trust has
been carried on, not, indeed, always
in the courts, but in the court of pub
lic judgment, and the Standard Oil
Company has been condemned, drawn
and quartered in many magazine ar
ticles and in many state legislatures
and congressional debates.
Judge Lurton.
In the 120 years since the founda
tion of the supreme court of the Uni
ted States, justices named from New
York have sat lor 105 years upon that
august bench. New York furnished
the first chief justice, John .lay, and
Associate Justices Livingston, Thomp
son, Nelson, Hunt and Blatchford, all
| from New York, have been men of
note. For reasons of local pride the
Kmplre state would have been ulad to
' see a successor to the late Justlee
Beckham appointed from within its
boundaries.
Yet there will be little criticism of
President Taft for turning to Tennes
see and selecting Circuit Judge lior
' ace 11. Lurton for the vacant post.
1 What the country wants Is a good
1 judge, and Mr. Taft as a former asso
ciate of Judge Lurton in the Sixth cir
cuit has personal knowledge of his
high qualifications.
Judge Lurton has filled his present
i Important post lfi years, and previous
> [ to his appointment there he held the
highest place on the bench of his
• state. He Is 66 years old. but the
' supreme court has never yet been con
j stltuted, upon the Osier theory, of
snappy young justices John Marshall
sat upon its bench at so and Itouer
( B Taney at >7. of the present court
luttlce Brewer Is "2, and Chief Jus
tice Fuller anil Justice Italian are 7•»
Judge Lurton'* appointment sus
tain.-! the high repute <>t th • most pow
erful judicial tribunal known to tits
tory N «'. World i Item ).
Deserved Tribute to the Marine.
. ' The men who are found on botrd
, ship In ull ports of the world, ready to
I t nter ii| on any detail anil to push
' their way Into any spot, even, If
net d be. Itito Hit paliice ol an east
] era potentate In order to make the
'i lu iiiil.iie ft i l« S;ii-i re i i I alio
' I the live ot MM . r t/t i. .rt d, ■ omit
r j ror more tl .ui any other factor In the
reapet I tn Willtch tl'e Hag lit held
abroad. and • i>«< illy In tli.e trim
- hie -pot» of the world where rontll
| Hons ate like a ponder uiaK t/ilit Let
I j the America II people hill Mt reaper!
I 'hi* aeu »o!dter, do him honor and pav
• him irlUiiit lie la a emtid product
j >h Jc.tr'e. .. Intrepid Marl**' Haiti
ntole ABielloit
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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, iW
NO CHANCE FOR CONTENTION
Congress Should Deal at Once with
Question of Conservation of
Resources.
The secretary of the interior in his
report asks congress for legislation
which he believes would enable the
government to conserve scientifically
and effectively the natural resources
of the public domain. He would have
authority given his department to
make an intelligent classification of
public lands according to their great
est apparent use and to change the
classification when fuller knowledge
makes it expedient.
As regards coal deposits, which the
secretary says should be preserved as
a public utility, he suggests that the
inducements for much of the crime
and fraud perpetrated in the past
would disappear if the right to mine
were separated from ihe title to the
soil. Whether the deposits should be
utilized through a leasing system or
through their sale, in either case with
restrictions designed to protect the
public, is left, to congress to deter
mine.
Manifestly the legislation recom
mended by the secretary would enable
him and his successors to protect the
interests of the government and the
people more effectively than is pos
sible now. If congress has due regard
to those interests it will enact that
legislation. It would be unable to de
fend itself against unfriendly criti
cism if it were to fail to do so. The
attention of congress will be invited
to many subjects, but that of the con
servation of natural resources is not a
contentious one. Nobody says those
resources should not be conserved.
Therefore legislation to that end ought
to encounter no obstacles. If there
be any they will take the form of the
underhanded opposition of some pri
vate interests which seek to despoil
the public domain.
Provision for American Ambassadors.
The American Kmbassy association
has sent representatives to the west
to overcome a prejudice which it
thinks is lurking there. It is in that
quarter that the association looks for
opposition to the cause it is support
ing. It would have the United States
build or buy and maintain suitable of
fice and residence buildings for its
representatives at foreign capitals.
The subject has been discussed for
several years. The need of some pro
vision of the kind has been explained
so fully and forcibly that it is a ques
tion whether there is any popular op
position to tlie proposal. Probably
congressmen are aware of that, but
when it comes to spending money
they are slow about spending it
abroad. They prefer to spend it with
in the country where it will help a
particular district or its represents
-1 tive.
The controlling argument for the
housing by the United States of its
ambassadors and ministers is not that
it will eke out their inadequate sal
-1 aries, but that it will strengthen the
diplomatic service and thereby bene
fit the country. It will widen the
field of choice of foreign representa
tives. It will enable the government
to utilize the ability of men whose pri
vate means are limited. The present
system imposes a tax 011 ambassadors
and ministers which, as far as some
countries are concerned, only the
wealthy can afford to pay. It is a tax
which is hurtful to the country and
should be got rid of.
Support Collector Loeb.
A most instructive illustration of
the methods the tariff dodgers employ
is seen in the discreditable war that
has been made on Collector Loeb for
enforcing the customs law 011 return
ing travelers, and also for his reward
ing of Inspectors who helped uncover
the sugar frauds. These spasms of
virtuous Indignation over Mr. Loeb's
lack of judgment are by-products of
L the immense propaganda maintained
by the importers directly and also in
directly through ih<» free trade news
, papers with which they so closely af
filiate In effort to break down the cus
toms service and the tariff law. It is
for President Taft to choose whether
he will be made a tool of by these
1 agencies of lawlessness anil corrup
I tion, or rally the best citltenshlp of
Ihe country enthusiastically behind
hitu by upiMirtlnß C'ol'i'ftor l.oeb to
the limit and giving no quarter to the
perpetrators <if these customs fraud.--
Work Before Congress.
The lir»t duly of congress this win
ter wilt lie to busy itself with the
progressive l"gt-lit ion which I'rtnl
dent Tat! tins reci-ieuu nd> d to it
If it lias any spare »n« igy and
' withes to do tunc Investigating on Its
1 I own in count it can cn -llv find tiesh
1 1 subjects Many of the members of
'liie Iwo houses might draw an ttwlv
it* n inner ■ on*t torn to -0* for tips 'PI;»*
' i lund laws, for example have needed
■ I honest counrenional inttuity for year*
' j iU'i uMse o( the lack uf sm It iliuulr)
•I 1 be whole isfh of problem* concern
' in*. tl>> con 11 ■ 'linn of tittt .niul re
...uri c- 1... ucule l.i 1 con
i uresa iitvciiiiiate In this Held with a
1 pe< ml vh * *ll w t*e und foiitpro
Must r.r»» tst'M'sb • *»<!»!
o*d 1' l*fc 1 »c |>S*n t| .iW«l> i>u«
NEWS OF S WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST
MANNER POSSIBLE.
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Happenings That Are Making History
—lnformation Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
PERSONAL.
Gen. W. W. Dudley of Indiana, for
merly commissioner of pensions, died
at Washington of Bright's disease.
John E. Berwynd, the millionaire
coalman, has given $lOO,OOO in New
York for the care of poor women about
to become mothers and the treatment
of infants during the first weeks of
their lives.
Emmett Delton Williams, a direct
descendant of Roger Williams, founder
of Rhode Island, died at his home at
Kansas City, Mo., aged 54. He was
president of a paint company.
Charles N. Crittenton, founder of
rescue missions in many cities, left
an estate of $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 at
New York. Half of his wealth is be
queathed to the missions.
President Taft nominated Judge
Horace Harmon Lurton of Tennessee
to be an associate judge of the su
preme court of the United States, and
George A. Carpenter of Chicago for
United States district judge in the
northern district of Illinois to succeed
Judge Dethea, deceased.
Gen. Howland J. Hamlin, former at
torney general of Illinois, died from
Bright's disease followed by pneu
monia at Shelbyville, 111. He had
been ill a week. He was 59 years old
Dr. N. D. Hillis of Brooklyn would
rather be a preacher than a million
aire. Recently he discovered a ricb
coal vein in a ranch he owned in
British Columbia. He sold the prop
erty to western men at a profit of $75.-
000. Now the coal is said to be worth
$5,000,000.
GENERAL NEWS.
Sensational charges of manipulation
of funds and the reckless expenditure
of money of the Federal Life Insur
ance Company, an Illinois old line con
cern, are made In an affidavit filed in
j the circuit court at Chicago by Burton ;
O. Smith, a stockholder and former j
| director of the company. Isaac Ham- j
ilton Miller, president of the company, |
! is accused of borrowing from its funds, j
i using dummies in securing other loans j
and in using money of the company to j
finance other companies lie is inter- 1
I ested in.
! The death of King Leopold is imrni- ;
ivnt. lie had a serious relapse and
is being kept alive through artificial
I means Court circles have practically j
; no hope of the patient's recovery.
I Speaking in support of his resolu- i
tion authorizing the president of the
United States to apprehend President
Zelaya of Nicaragua, and bring him to
trial on u charge of the murder of
I Groce and Cannon, the two American
j citizens recently executed in Nicara
gua. Senator Rayner of Maryland ad
dressed the senate at length. His
speech, stirring and denunciatory in
tcne and characterized by dramatic
fervor, was an unsparing arraignment
of President Zelaya. whom he desig
nated as one of the criminals of the
age
.. report on steerage •ondltions,
based on information obtained by spe
-1 cial agents of the Immigration com
1 mission, traveling as steerage passen
I gers on different trans-Atlantic steam
ers, wax made public at Washington
through presentation to the senate
wltb recommendations tor legislation
to better conditions. Conditions found
1 lu many of these v• wels are de
scilbeil us appalling
Barnctt (Ireenberg. 40 years old, a
pawnbroker, was shot and Instantly
I killed In hi* place of business, V<t3
I South llaUtcd street, by a highway
> uiau who entered the store on the pre
tense ot waiitlug to purchase some
. 1 jewelry.
A ti-li-phone message from Dills
boro. N. C , received at Ashevill"
states that a woman named licit
t'rlazlc »a» killed ami her companion
Cole Hard, serlou ly wounded by
Cllj.ili Childi'li witli a sl.oi.uu
I With three rousing mcetiugs. one 111
the alternooii to Inaugurato total ab
1 stini-nc» In tile army and navy and
1 two at night, at which piouiiu- lit men
f Spoke ill IWV or Of trlliperance, Ihe re
form»rs' conclave got under way at
1 Wa hlSiloii
(, . Ksliadu tro< i< bad a sharp
«N««* till or with til-- Xelayali ii,ic- itt
Kama H< . u . |(MI
this In doubted in SUM* Huarlefß, its
1 the itU'laya pai tl>.,u« >miiioi all the
telegraph lines anC conhr.usittuu is
X foal lu iMgluwviiiig is tfee coo
MrwtlM uf u »l|.h»n H It < 1 In dla in
j Mi«r under »!»«• t'obirado rb*i <0 tan*
water tor II utih t and tiri|(*it> 1.«,1 wv j
| tcoili ttite Pt-i ■!>> >e(taM 1 Itu- 4M j
S. * Vufk 'Hi )t«ft ago lot #l. HUM k«i
i*i»g 1 - • tut h»iu.umo tut <b» vt"'M
Um •> statu* •'.«<!« tt at N«id
I *t»"
Local passenger train jnn (he South
ern railway, known as the Richmond
and Atlanta train, was wrecked at
Reedy Fork trestle, ten miles north of
Greensboro, N. C., and 12 bodies were
removed from the wreckage. Twenty
five injured are in the hospital at
Greensboro. George J. Gould, who
with his son Jay, was in one of the
Pullmans when the train jumped the
tracks, escaped uninjured.
The National Geographic society
publicly acclaimed Commander Rob
ert E. Peary the discoverer of the
north pole, and in recognition therefor
presented to him a gold medal. In
presenting the trophy Prof. Willis L.
Moore, president of the society,
phrased his sentences to refer to Com
mander Peary as "the man" who had
won the prize. There was no refer
ence to the claims of Dr. Frederick A.
Cook.
During 1908 the United States con
tributed more than half of the world's
total production of copper, the exports
of copper from this country being 618,-
613,842 pounds, the largest amount
recorded, according to the United
States geological survey.
Mrs. Caroline W. Martin, mother of
Ocey W. N. Snead, the East Orange
(N. J.) bathtub victim, was arrested
in New York, formally charged with
murder.
Senor Enrique Creel, carrying cre
dentials as the special diplomatic
figent of President Diaz of Mexico,
called at the state department and
presented a plan to prevent threat
ened hostilities between the United
States and Nicaragua. Senor Creel
was given to understand that the
Nicaraguan situation was one which
did not entitle Mexico to interfere as
one of the signatories to the so-called
Central American treaty of peace un
der the Root pact.
Grandview, the Lawrence C.
Phipps residence in Pittsburg, in
cluding 12 acres of land in the East
end, was sold to Walter P. Fraser for
$575,000. This is the largest real es-
Ute transfer involving a residence
closed in Greater Pittsburg in years.
The statement of a high official of
the Lake Shore Railroad Company
that "somebody blundered" indicates
that the collision between the St.
Louis section of the Twentieth Cen
tury Limited and east-bound passenger
train No. 10 at North East, Pa., 16
miies from this city, might have been
avoided. Three persons were killed
and 40 injured.
King Leopold underwent a most
serious operation for relief of obstruc
tions of the intestines and astounded
science by the manner in which he
withstood it. His remarkable re
cuperative powers manifested them- J
selves directly he regained conscious- j
n»ss, and the optimistic spirit which .
: h > has shown throughout the course j
| o; his illness returned to him.
Representative Hobson of Alabama j
| in an extended speech in favor of a j
i more liberal tiaval policy explained j
that the entire Pacific coast, Hawaii j
! and the Philippines were at the mercy j
| of Japan in the event of hostilities, |
I and that haste must be made in build
ing up the navy to an equality with
| the navy of England and other pos- ;
; sible foes on the other side of the At- j
I lantic.
In a coasting accident at Lafayette, ,
i Ind.. one boy was killed and six oth
ers injured. A heavy rack containing
16 boys collided at a street crossing
with a Wabash passenger train.
The people of Managua. Nicaragua, |
are in open revolt against Zelaya, ;
without check from the police. They ;
crowded the streets and gave vent to j
unrestrained denunciation of the ad
ministration. The whole country is in
a ferment. Zelaya Is denounced on
every hand, but he Is master of the |
situation, and the people fear a whole
sale execution of political prisoners j
as a parting shot.
President Taft spoke on foreign mis
sions before the closing meeting of the
Mfthodlst African Jubilee In Carnegie
halt. New York.
It is learned at IllueAelda. Nllcara
Kua, from an authoritative source that
a reign of terror Is being maintained
in Managua and that not less than
500 persona, identified with political j
affairs, are in chains In the prisons
A Catholic society has been ordered
to cease sending food to the prisoners
and theae are in a fair way to starve
to death, as tin-)* are allowed only two
ct nts a day for food.
Kxtensioii of American cltUenslilp
to Porto Kit ana for thus.- who desire
aid without forcing It upon those «ho
do not; is recommended for Porto
It i arts by Gen. Clarence It Edwards
chief of the bureau of in><ilar affair*,
in his annual n-purt to tin .« retarjr
t»t war
The big plant of the Itiulne (Wis i |
Manufacturing Company, uianufacitir
ers of automobile topa an I piano
stools the I inn la Brotherhood hall
tl<.- Mil. h. II wagon woi'ka and *ev
•rill rvsitlt ncea, were d« atrujred b>
fir", • Mailing a loss estimated j'
M. r >u,MO All but J'lii.ft mi of this i
bo: lie by the It. <in Manufacturing
Conip4M>'s plant
Julius illlicit.o, a Xwl« while rii|in«
on a weal bound train near lt>*nu S.-v !
tu-c i,tut ,tld*aljr in me and made a
be.t Hong piutig ■ ihioiigit a wiadu*
\u*it i.i. It i ill to |*i • >id> at Tali a
! rtitMintt* iiit'iu Ri of an altmui ' min i
|Si 4 y.».it. wttt pi< it tb wi(t
I 11 c»V
TO ASK FOR MORE PAY
DEMANDS WILL BE PRESENTED
TO EASTERN RAILROADS.
Conductors and Trainmen Vote to
Have Wages Increased and Changes
in Working Rules.
Chicago, 111. —Conductors and train
men of a great majority of the
railroad lines in the east have voted
to ask for an increase in wages rang
ing from 10 to 30 per cent and
changes in working rules. The vote
has been canvassed by Presi
dents A. B. Garretson of the Order of
Railroad Conductors and W. G. Lee of
the Drotherhood of Railroad Train
men.
The demands will be presented to
the railroad officials early in January.
Nearly 40 railroads will be affected.
The campaign of the conductors and
trainmen is for a standard rate of pay
on eastern lines similar to that in
force in the west. The wages paid
eastern conductors and trainmen are
different on nearly every road. The
votes on the various lines Was prac
tically unanimous.
The demands to be presented to the
railroad officials cover 15 different di
visions with many sub-divisions. The
first nine cover the rates of pay paid
freight and passenger conductors,
brakemen, baggagemen and flagmen.
The increase will amount to more on
some roads than on others, as the ob
ject is to bring all of them up to a
certain standard. A ten-hour day will
be demanded after which overtime
shall be paid.
SIX PERISH IN FIERCE BLAZE
Five Girls and One Fireman Die in
Burning Philadelphia Factory
Building.
Philadelphia, Pa.—All doubt as to
the fate of the five girls who were
reported missing after the fire at
Shrack & Sherwood's factory was re
moved when the five bodies were found
on the third floor of the damaged
building.
The charred and dismembered re
mains were discovered under a mass
of debris near the rear of the factory,
thus showing that the girls had evi
dently endeavored to reach the rear
fire escape when overtaken by the
flames. The bodies were so terribly
charred by the intense heat that it
was impossible for the half crazed
and frantic parents, who had followed
j the dead wagon to the morgue, to iden
j tify them except by pieces of jewelry
! worn. Including Fireman Joseph
J Toner, who was suffocated, six per-
I sons are known to have perished.
SUGAR MEN FOUND GUILTY
! Five Are Convicted of Frauds, but
Former Cashier of Company
Goes Free.
New York City. The jury has
: found guilty live of the six employes
J of the American Sugar Refining Co.
1 who have been on trial for the past
i three weeks charged with criminal
conspiracy to defraud the government
'of customs dues on imported raw
I sugar. In the case of James F. Hen
j dernagle, a former cashier of the
! company's Williamsburg plant, the
\ jury disagreed. Mercy is recommend
!ed for all those found guilty. The
! jury was out ten hours. Cnder the
indictment, Oliver Spitzer, a dock su
perintendent; John It. Coyle. Thomas
j Kehoe, Edward A. lioyle and Patrick
'J. Hennegy, checkers, may be pun
ished for the commission of two overt
| acts, the maximum penalty for each
i of which is two years' imprisonment
and $5,000 fine.
SLAYER TRAMPLED BY MOB
Batter* Beyond Chance of Recovery
Man Who Shot Pedestrian on
Crowded Street.
New York City. An Kasi Side mob
didn't take time formally to lym h
Its victim. Instead It kicked and
mauled Louis Kernuil almost to death
lie was taken to a hospital un< on
scions, battered almost out oi s. in
bianco of humanity, and. th physi
cians said, beyond a chain of r.
CO* ery.
Kcrroni quarreled with \n :• •• • Coin
ptigo ami shot him on a crowd »t| cor
1 ner. A howling mob pursin d bint as
ho fit*!. OlBcern who joined tit .has.
! sent their bullfts after him and he re
turned their lire, but nothing could
halt ihe mob CattlpUro will die.
The Trade Outlook,
New York City Hradatrent's sap*
The retail and holiday trade bus
and Ho appio.it h of Chrtatma and
makes good comparison* with preeed-
I son. Industtin! »>pt ration* are still
Haw# Childraii tram Tuo«'.»a<9*i*