Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
Pressed Bricks.


tients.
Lock. Haven is to have silk mill that
will cost S125,O0O
The Port Allegany Reporter now ap-
pears semi-weekly.
The absence of our school marms
makes the town seem lonesome.
Smethports new glass factory en-
ploys one hundred skilled worklnen.
The Mexican County Underwriters
association met atSmethport last week.
Deposits of rich gold bearing quartz
have been found near Canton, Brad
ford county.
There are said to be 3OS Bucktails re-
naming, and these are scattered over
twenty-nine states.
Remove capitalists are organizing a
company for the purpose of prospecting
for oil and gas on Drury's Run.
"Poker DAM an individual well
known in this vicinity, was arrested in
Potter county last week, on a bench
warrant.
Wild partridges are being shot from
the limbs of shade trees along the
streets of that quiet little village of
Cuba, N. Y.
Gaines, Tioga county, is experience
ing period of feverish oil excitement
due to the ''gushers recently struck in
that vicinity. Six derricks are now in
course of erection
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup cures all
throat troubles. Why wear out your
throat by incessant coughing, when
this reliable remedy can be bought for
only 25 cents bottle?
The laundering of the big steamer
Mohegan near Falmouth, England, on
the 18th. inst. in which SO lives were
lost, is the second great marine horror
of the year.
A woodsman by the name of Jacob
Kyler was killed at Westport last We'd
nesday night, while attempting to
board a rapidly moving east bound
freight. His head was completely
severed from his body.
The Appellate Division of the Su-
preme court has awarded James Purdy
of Welsville n. Y. verdict of $500 in
his suit against the Erie Railroad Com
pany. The company refused to sell
Purdy mileage books.
This is the way Col. Rogers of the
Kane Republican looks at it: ''The
season for pumpkin pies is now at hand
and thrice blessed is the man whose wife
can make them equal to the way his
mother used to long ago"
A. B. Richmond, Esq, of Meadville
who has been engaged as counsel on
over one hundred murder cases, has
been retained to assist in the defense
of Walter Wheaton, charged with the
murder of Geo. w. Carter Franklin
Press.
On Monday of this week, in the pre-
sence of the faculty and students of the
University of Chicago, President Nc
Kinley was invested with the cap and
gown by President Harper of the Uni
versity and the degree of L. l.. d. was
then conferred upon him,
A shrewd old lady cautioned her mar
ried daughter against worrying her
husband too much, and concluded by
saying: "My child, a man is like an egg
Keep him in hot water little while, he
may boil soft; but keep him there too
long and he hardens."
The Bradford Concert Company is
one of the best talented troupes that
ever appeared before an Emporium
audience and it is to be regretted that
our music loving people failed to give
them their hearty support which the
company so richly deserved.
While engaged in collecting a wheel
barrow load Of refuse wood from an
endless chain conveyor at the barrel
heading factory at Coudersport, ten
year old Vernon Moore was caught
in the line shaft, operating the
chain and his little body was
crushed in terrible manner. The
accident may prove fatal.
a keg yeast blew up in front of the
United States Express Office at Will
Transport last Wednesday morning and
a fountain of the effervescent fluid shot
up in the air higher than the three
story building in front of which the
, keg stood. The front of the express
office and two covered express wagons
that were standing in front of it, were
literally plastered with yeast.