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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10
FRENCH GRIP ON SPAIN.
The Relations of the Two Countries
Have for Long Time Had
Peculiarities.

Ever since, and even before, the days
when the kings of France and Spain
met on the Isle of Pheasants and made
the treaty Of the Pyrenees, one Of the
chief aims of the French policy has
been to obtain influence and control
in Spain. IL was for this that France
fought her two most bloody and also
most unsuccessful wars. The war with
the Spanish succession was chiefly
fought out in Bavaria and the low
countries, but the object Of France
was control in Spain. Louis XIV, in
fact, delied the world, and very near
w ruined his country by insisting on
his policy of controlling Spanish af-
fairs.
1t was the same with Napoleon.
Though, like Louis XIV, he did not
try to annex any part of Spain after
the manner of his annexation in Italy
and Germany-he knew how danger
Gus it is to spoil the face" of Span
iard-yet he strained every nerve to
obtain the control of the Iberian pc
ninsula, and may indeed be said to
have MANNED the empire by his de-
termination to make Spain political
satellite of France. But for the penin-
sUlar war Napoleon might have es-
capped his final debacle. But no sooner
was Napoleon finally overthrown and
the Bourbons reestablished than the
secular desire to control Spain reas-
serted itself.
In 1922 a French army crossed the
Pyrenees and occupied Madrid. and
for the time France obtained omplete
ascendancy in Spain. The influence
thus obtained had no doubt to give
away to English pressure; but it re-
appeared again with Louis Philippe's
scheme for the Spanish marriages,
the scheme which so nearly produced
a war with England and seemed to
promise so much for French influence
in the peninsula.
Napoleon III. always exercised II
great deal of indirect influence in
Spain, and was careful to maintain
the old policy-that Of possessing what
Americans call "a pull' on the gov
ernment at Madrid. 1t was, indeed,
the fear of losing French influence
in Spain that nominally produced the
Franco-Prussian war. (The immedi-
ate cause of the war was a dispute as
to the filing of the Spanish throne.)
After the war France was for a time
too busy to pay much attention to
Spanish affairs, but it was with a
sense of deep humiliation and disgust
tLat she learned that Alphonsc MI
had visited Berlin, had accepted the
colonelcy of regiment Of Uhlaos, and
that Spain was apparently slipping un-
der the influence of the triple alliance.
Immediately the French statesmen
saw the error that had been made,
and it became at once the avowed OBJ
iect of the French foreign office to do
every thing that was possible to con-
ciliate Spain and reestablish French
Influence at Madrid. Chance helped
the French by the death of the king
and since then French influence over
Spain has been steadily and zeaIously
built up by every possible means
London Spectator.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10

This is Mr.. Highbones, is it not?"
"Yes. ma'am."
81 should have known you by your
resemblance to your little daughter
am Miss Billings, her teacher
Glad to know you, Miss Billings,
Yes, | am often told that Kitty is re-
markably like me-"
II regret to have to tell you, Mr.
IIighbones, that she doesn't learn well
at all. | doubt if she will be able to
keep up with her class"
81 am sorry to hear that. I was
about TO say. Miss Billings, that in
many respects Kitty takes after my
wife's people. .'-Chicago Tribune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10

or six failures he let the corner fall,
jumped on the roll with both feet and
gave utterance to his feelings. Mrs.
Bowser was on hand to say:
Il told you not to try it. 1t would
take the strength of three men to get
the carpet over the rine."
woman, am l running this carpet
or are you?" he demanded, as he
turned on her.
"But you can't lift it up"
Then III die trying! When I want
your advice about beating a carpet
I'll ask for it!"
She went back into the house and he
figured a little. He decided that if the
carpet were spread out on the ground
it could be beaten just as well as if
hung up, and he drew a long breath
and began unrolling it. He had un-
rolled about three yards when his feet
stepped on each other and he fell
down, and the number Of tacks wait
ing TO receive him was just II. He felt
every one of them at once, and was
surprised into yell which brought
dozen heads to as many back windows
to see who was being murdered. When
Mrs. Bowser got out he was trying to
climb the back fence, but she caught
him by the legs and pulled him down
and exclaimed:
"Now, then, have you gone crazy?
What's the matter with you?"
TIE blamed thing is full of tarantu-
las or buzz saws" he gasped, "and
about hundred of them got their
teeth into me at once!"
at was tacks, Mr.. Bowser. You
ought to have looked out for them.
Look at your hands! And your neck
and ears are bloody! I told you in the
beginning that"
He interrupted her with gesture,
then rushed forward and kicked the
roll until his legs could kick no longer.
She started to tell him that all the
neighbors were looking and laughing,
but be froze her with a glare, and,
picking up the broomstick, pounded
away until it was only a splinter in his
hand. Then he drew himself up and
walked into the kitchen and upstairs.
She knew what was coming but could
HOl dNOIu II. Ile wa Wal lluS lOI lel
and promptly said:
woman, you have succeeded IL
your plans!"
"My plans-how?"
''TC get me almost butchered aliv,
and TO make me the laughing stock OF
the reighborhood!
"BLt didn't I tell you"
"No, ma'am, you didn't-not
word! ! see through the whole thing.
There is your Internal old carpet out
there. I am going out. | am going to
see my lawyer. I may never return.
l bid you -by-good-by forever!"
But at midnight he came sneaking
back to his home and his bed. and
next morning when four men drove up
in wagon to take the carpet away he
pretena8G neither to see nor to hear.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10

Cairo, Nov. 4.-Maj. Marchand, the
commander of the French expedition
at FashOda, arrived he.e last evening.
Only two Senegalese soldiers accom-
panied Marchand, whose future move
ments depend upon the instruction
which Capt. Baratier brings him. The
major reports that he left all his com
panions in good health and adds that
they had abundant provisions and a
plenti full supply of ammunition.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10

The history OF many words which
we are continually using, little think
ing how old and vensfable they are
and what they meant originally, is
curious. Take the word daughter"
and mother, brother and sister, 1t
takes us away back to the time long
before there was an aking
people or German people, before even
the Romans and the Greeks had be-
come distinct and separate peoples
and when our forefathers were still
simply "Aryans," living somewhere in
the heart of Asia. The Germans as
well as we use this word. but they
spell and pronounce it "tochter." The
ancient Greeks, who were likewise
"Aryans," used it, too, but they gave
it still another pronunciation-"thu-
gatcr"-while the ancient Hindoos,
who came also of this good old Aryan
stock, pronounced il "duitar." Now.
the old Hindoo language is in many
particulars more nearly like the orig
inal Aryan tongue than any other OF
the languages that descended from It,
and it has enabled scholars to explain
many words of which the meanings
could hardly otherwise have been
guessed. Daughter is one of them.
This word seems to have meant orig
inally "niller." Our forefathers in
that long ago were herdsmen and
every daughter was a milkmaid. An
other word which takes us back to
scenes of ruS-ic life though not so old
a word as daughter, is the word ''pe-
cuniary." We use the word in relation
to money mattcrs-Chicago Tribune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10
NO TRUTH IN THE STORY.
Gen. Brooke EmphaticaIIy Denies that
American Troops Have Been Guilty of
Bad Conduct in Porto Rico.


American Troops Have Been Guilty OF
Bad Conduct in Porto Rico.
Washington, Nov. 4.-Somc of the
newspapers in Porto Rico have been
publishing articles bitterly critical of
the conduct of the United States sol
diers who have been sent to the island
as permanent garrison. The soldiers
have been accused of all sorts of mis-
demcanors, of rutfianism, of petty lar
.ceny, of the destruction of private
property, and in fact of every kind of
excess which might be charged against
green troops in foreign country. The
charges reflected particularly upon the
volunteer regiments, and were SO gen
eral that Secretary Alger took notice
of them.
1t is evident if they were well
founded the Porto Ricans were likely
to be alienated from their new allegi-
ance almost before they had become
fairly attached. SO a cablegram was
sent to Maj. Gen. Brooke, commanding
all of the United States troops in Porto
Rico, calling his attention to these re-
ports. The answer came Thursday in
the shape of the following cablegram
from Gen. Brooke:
Bad behavior of our soldiers in
Ponce province is news to me. Col.
Castleman, commanding the provi-
sional brigade there, is now with me
and says the report is entirely un-
founded, New regiments coming in
were unsettled for few days, but are
all away from there now and at their
regular stations"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10

Washington, Nov. 4.-Sccretary Long
said Yesterday that the government
would take no further steps to raise
the rest of the Spanish warships de
stroyea by Admiral Schley's fleet off
Santiago, but that the department
would receive propositions to that end
from any private firm that cared to
.t.u1prt.tl-a I he work
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10

London, Nov 4.-Reliable informa-
tion from Paris confirms the reports
that Dupuy, the premier, has decided
TO wash his hands of Fashoda and to
recall Maj. Marchand.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-10

'CoIlingwood, Ont, Nov. 1.-The pas
Senger steamer Pacific, owned by the
Great Northern Transit Co., burned at
the Grand Trunk wharf here Thursday.
The railway freight sheds were also
destroyed. The Pacific was valued at
500, coo and was insured for So, 900.
The loss from the burning of the
freight sheds viii be very heavy.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-16

cry of pain. The gun-which was thought to be unloaded- gone of, and the charge from it had penetrated Mrs. Rigden's left limb, passing through the knee, from the rear to the knee cap and shattering the knee cap and bone.
 Drs Duffield and Wylie were tele- phoned for, and Dr. Duffield arrived at the scene in about two hours. He found the wound a very serious one, probably necessitating the amputation of the limb, but in itself not neces- sarily fatal.
 The shock of the wound, however, and the loss of blood had completely prostrated Mrs. Rigden. A few hours later Dr. Wylie came prepared for am- putation in case the patient should rally sufficiently. She never recov- cred from the shock, but grew weaker evening, she passed beyond her trou- bles and pains.
 Mrs. Rigden was 43 years of age. Her husband is a we'll known rancher in this county, particularly in the vicinity of Scottsdale and Glendale, where the family have resided for some time.
 It was a boys rifle that did the fatal work, a small ten-bore weapon, but the explosion occurred. at such shcrt range that Mrs. .LRigden's clothing caught fire fror< charge. This was extinguished aC once by those 1T | the house, and the wound bandaged as
 well as possible under the circum
 stances. Mrs. Rigden-s death is de
 plored by a large number of friends and acquaintances.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-16
SOCIE I '.

The hop given at the Hotel Adams
 Friday evening was one of the most delightful and informal affairs of the season. The basket quadrille led by Col. Hatch was probably the most in Eeresting number, on thH program. Those in attendance besides the guests were Judge and Mrs. Street., MT. and Mrs. Walter Talbot, Dr. and Mrs. Ancil Martin, Mrs. Barnes, MT. and Mrs. c. F. Ainsworth, MT. and Mrs B. Heyman, MT. and Mrs. W. K. James, MT. and Mrs. w. H. Robinson. MT. and Mrs. Harry Gray, Major and Mrs. J. w. Evans. MT. and Mrs. Frank Conkey, Mr. and Mrs. William Picker ell, MT. and Mrs. Aaron Goldberg, MT. and Mrs. Dave Goldberg, MT. and Mrs. Leslie Larimer, MT. and Mrs. L. H. Chalmers, MT. and Mrs. c. J. Hall, Miss Tweed, Miss Winnifred Smith, Miss Copes, Miss Addine Bury, Miss Georgia Crandall, Miss Green, Miss Sawyer, Miss Emery, Miss Solomon, Miss Kohlman, Mrs. Grodefin, MT. Paul Brizard, MT. J. w. Benham, MT. Bertram Smith, MT. Joe Pratt, MT.
Arizona republican., 1898-01-16
DEATH OF HRS. ]. 6. RIGDBN
She Died From the Shock and
 Loss of Blood
The Bo y, Duncan, Nine Years of Age, w as Cleaning His Rifle. Which Was Thought to be UnI0aaod, When the Accident Occurred.

atal accident occurred at the pf J. G. Rigden, rancher about niles northeast of town, yester- |ernoon.
 an Rigden, a lad of about 9 game into the house with his hsk mamma if his sister could
 ng with him.
 tgdon answered in the nega- 1lId then Duncan sat down on ksofa at some distance behind his her and began to examine his 5on. How the rest happened. per- zno one will never know-and least 8n the unhappy boy.
 Iddenly there was a report, then a
Arizona republican., 1898-01-16
HAT SELLING!

The crowning adornmant to mans appearance-the last finishing touch which gives tone and dress to him is his hat. Hobby fashions, fashionable shapes, fashionable blocks, the correct styles and the tiniest of tiny prices. We are sole agents in Phoenix for the celebrated :.s.i3l.s!s
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
SICK FROM PORTO RICO.
Hospital ship Missouri Arrives at New York
with 21I Patients

New York, oct 3l-The United
States army hospital ship Missouri ar,
rived from Porto Rico ports, with 271
sick or wounded patients, most OF
whom are suffering with malarial fe.
yer, typhoid and dysentery Two
died, L. B, Burton Bradish, company
A, Third Illinois, and Henry NJ. Nor
rison, private company II, Fourth
Ohio. The former was buried at May
aguez, the latter at sea.
Forty of the most seriously sick
were sent to the St. Peters hospital
and the Long Island College hospital
in Brooklyn. Forty others, who had
to be carried from the litters, but who
are not so seriously i'll, were taken to
Bedloe's island About fifty of the 40
convalescents ON board the Missouri
were sent to Brooklyn hospitals for a
few days treatment, preparatory to
leaving for their homes.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
JUSTICE FOR DREYFUS
COURT OF CESSATION GRANTS
HIM A NEW TRi1L.
A Revision OF the Celebrated Case win BIO
Had and Supplementary Inquiry
viii be Instituted Decline
to Release Prisoner.

Paris, Oct 3l.-The court of Cassa-
tion has decided to grant revision of
the Dreyfus case, and will institute a
supplementary inquiry. The court,
however, has declined to order the re.
lease of Dreyfus
The judges of the court were occu-
pied for three hours and half in CON
sidering the Judgment. The public,
whose admission to the court was reg
ulated with the greatest care, awaited
the decision with marked calmness.
During the suspension Of business the
public crowded into the lobby. and
there was evident anxiety to hear the
verdict. There was no demonstration
when the court rose. The decision
created no public excitement, and com
plete tranquility prevails on the
streets.
NJ. Yvos Guyot, in Suecle, asserts
that the secret documents in the Drey-
fus case were burned some days ago.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
Perished In the EIames.

Elberton, Wash, Nov. 1.-The Sleep
ing apartments of the inmates of the
Whitman county poor farm was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday, and G. Hull,
an aged inmate perished in the flames.
No effort was made by the inmates to
rescue Hull beyond calling to him. He
was lying ON cot and refused TO move
and the inmates who discovered him
being old and feeble, had not presence
Of mind enough to drag him out.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
THAT PHILIPPINE PROBLEM.
Emitted states Not willing to Assume the
Debts of the Island.

Paris. Nov. AT the last meeting
Of the United States regarding the
Philippines was read to the Spanish
members Of the peace commission. The
reading disclosed the fact that the
tnited States government had deter
mined to possess for itself certain ter
ritory and parts of land bounded by
and lying within such parallel and of
latitude and longitude SIS mark the
limits Of the Philippine archipelago.
The nited States do not propose as,
suming the Philippine debt of $40, 900.
0oo, but they are willing to be respon'
stble To Spain for sum of money
equal to the actual expenditures by
Spain in the Philippines for the advan-
tage of the islands, and for the good Of
their people, for permanent better
ments and for improvements, both ply
steal and mental.
The reading OF the presentment spe-
cities that the United States will reim-
hurse Spain to the extent of her pa
ciic expenditures" made in the archi-
pelago. The phrase pacific eXpendi-
tnres is employed to differe ntiate the
expenditures by Spain in combating
Instructions in the PHILIPPINES
The one is felt by the commissioners
to be a fair burden on the acquiring
power, while the other and latter class
OF expenditures Is held to have been
logically assumed by Spain in the in
evitahle hazard to nation resorting
to arms to enforce order in its own
territory.
The Spanish commissioners listened
attentiycly, though not without some
evidences Of impatience and surprise
at the financial suggestions in the
American presentment, and finally
asked until Friday to consult the
| Madrid government and make reply.
Adjournment was then taken to that
I IuV
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
November "a Named Few Years Have
Afforded Such Cause For Gratitude.

November 2I Named Few Years Have
Afforded Such Cause For Gratitude.
Washington, Oct 3D. President Me
Kinley has issued the following Thanks
giving proclamation;
The approach of November brings to
mind the customs of our ancestors,
hallowed by time and rooted in our
most sacred traditions. of giving
thanks to Almighty God for all the
blessings He has vouchsafed TO us dur
ing the past year.
Few years in our history have
afforded such cause for thanksgiving
as this. We have been blessed by
abundant haryests, our trade and com
merce have been wonderfully in
creased, our public credits been i'm
proved and strengthened, all sections
of the country have been brought to-
gether and knitted into closer bond of
national purpose and unity.
The skies have been for time dark
ened by the cloud of war, but as we
were compelled to take up the sword
in the cause of humanity. we are per-
mitted to rejoice that the conflict has
been of brief duration, and the losses
we have had to mourn, though grieyi-
Gus and important have been SO few,
considering the great results accom-
plished, as to inspire us with gratitude
and praise to the Lord of Hosts. We
may laud and magnify His holy name
that the cessation of hostilities came
so soon as to spare both sides the
countless sorrows and disasters that
attend protracted war.
i do, therefore invite all my fellow
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
The Oregon and iowa.

Washington, Nov. IA cablegram
received at the navy department an.
nounces the arrival at Bahia, Brazil. OF
the battleships Oregon and Iowa They
are nineteen days from Tompkinsville,
making an exceptionally smooth and
rapid run down the coast. The collier
Abarenda, now at Bahia, consumed
thirty-one days in making the same
trip. Because of her lack OF speed she
probably will be allowed to return to
the United States instead of going to
Honolulu, as was intended,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
Los Angeles Gets the \. d. A.

Chicago, Nov. Los Angeles will
entertain the next annual conference
of the National Educational assoeia-
tion, II favorable railroad rates can be
obtained.
A committee on a tour of the west
this season, appointed to set date
and place, selected Los Angeles as the
place of meeting, and July II was set
as the date of meeting The commit
Tee is awaiting satisfactory reply
from the railroads before finally de.
Gliding upon the place
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
More MnssnImnns Hanged.

Gambia, Crete, Oct 3l.-Five more df
the Mussulmans convicted of takin 9
part in the massacre of British soldieHs
on September 9th have been executed.
In addition four Bashi- Bazouks have
been sentenced to twenty year imprib-
onment at hard labor Since the do
parture of the Turkish troops a nun
ber of additional guilty Mussulmaus 5
have been discovered daily. 1t appears
that the Turkish officers appropriated
the valuables looted by their soldiers.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
EMERGENCY SQUADRON.
British Warships win BE Dispatched to
Gibraita.

London, Oct, 3l.-There has been the
greatest activity at Davenport, the site
of the largest arsenal in Great Britain
and two of the finest dry docks in the
world. The government is assembling
an emergency squadron, which, it is
understood, win go to Gibralta. De-
spite that the wind has been blowing
almost gale, the second-class battle
ship Colossus arrived from Holyhead,
a frst-class battleship from Queens,
town and the first-class battleship Ben,
bolt from Greenock The third-class
cruiser Calliope, which was on the way
to the Canaries. was intercepted and
has returned unexpectedly to Ply
mouth, Other warships are coming to
join the squadron and to coal The
government has ordered POO, 900 tons ol
coal.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
WhirImind In London.

London, Oct. 3f.-During a severe
storm last night small area, about
hill, Cham berwell. London, was visited
by cyclone. Cabs were overturned,
windows, doors, lamp posts, trees and
chimneys were blown down and mum,
ber of houses unroofed The contents
of numerous hawkers' stalls were car.
ried hundreds of yards in the air by
the wind, and many people were in.
jured by the flying debris, which did
also immense damage to property.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
SPOKE TO DEAF MUTEs.

Unique Political Meeting Where Dick
Croker Was the Attraction
New York. Oct. 3l-One of the mos
unique meetings of the campaign was
that of the deaf mutes held at Webste,
hall About 300 deaf mntes and I
sprinkling of others gathered to lister
to political issues as expounded by tht
Democrats. Richard Croeker was Tho
attraction and his speech to the mute
was translated by President Carriel
principal of the New York Deaf an
Dumb institute.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-03
Alaskan Miners Return.

San Francisco, Oct 3l.-All th,
treasure in sight ON the steamer Port
land, which has reached this port, nine
teen days from ST. Miehaels, was on,
box of gold dust and nuggets, con
signed to the Alaska Commercial com
pany. Its value was not made known
but is not believed to exceed $40, 900
Several returning miners were on tn,
vessel, but they carried their wealth
in the form of drafts. aud were retcen
regarding the amount.