Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-04
INTERESTING COr1rlENT.

havana Is taklDR 10 Ameilcdu naDltS.
A serious strike is now reported in that
city.
The anthracite coal operators will
either have to arbitrate or 90 south for
the winter.
If the strike continues much longer it
will be cheaper to 90 south than to buy
coal this winter.
Spain is doing her best to make king
out of Alfonso, and dear Alfors so is doing
his best to fool her.
Morgan now asks: "What action shall
| take concerning the coal strike?'
Settle it by all means.
Chauncy Depew will have a sympa
thetic listener in the Senate President
Frye is going to be married.
If Cuba gets too saucy it may be nee
essary to call an extra session Of Con
gress in order to give her a spanking.
Charles NJ. Schwab has left New York
for the other shore, and when asked if he
would visit Monte Carlo, he refused to
answer.
Both of the old parties have the money
question to deal with now. They are
trying to raise enough to conduct the
campaign.
Capt. Putty Strong has now threatened
to write book entitled "What | Have
Seen" He onght to make it "a Fool
and the Cost"
With coal at $l2 a ton we do not
wonder at the mountain hotel landlords
closing earlier than usual. They will
seek warmer climate
The Sultan of Turkey must think he
has met his match now Mr.. Leishman
is proving a hard man for him to settle
with by Turkish promises.
School book agents will have to 90
armed in Wilkes Barre, Pa, now. Jack
Bonner, the pugilist, has been elected
member Of the school board.
Alfonso is giving his royal friends
much to talk about these days. When
he gets wife they ought to be able to
keep the pot boiling continually.
Peter Power in New York is having
powerful lot of trouble, and when they
get through with him he will be almost
anything except the "power behind the
throne
A Homestead, Pa, man sold his wife
for $3.50, and now the purchaser is not
satisfied with his bargain and wants his
money back. The police had to take a
hand in the deal
Many dramatic companies will start
out on the road from New York during
the next two weeks, They probably
want to start out early so they can get
back while the walking is good.
The time may be approaching when
we will see advertisements in the news
papers worded something like this:
Wanted-to exchange a piano or auto
mobile for half ton of anthracite coal.
President Roosevelt has been making
strenuous lecture tour through New Eng
land. While be has been talking about
trusts and other things, his trip has been
entirely informal and free from anything
that smaks of political stumping.
Cuba is hunting trouble with the
United States, and ii she is not very
careful in her treatment of her heretofore
greatest friend. she may have more than
she can handle Annexation may be
the best thing after all that could happen
to the island.
Col. Henry Wattcrson will have some
Kentucky gentlemen after him if he is
not careful. He says he does not wish
to be governor of Kentucky because he
does not desire an Office which money
can buy. When he finds an office that
requires no money to secure we would
like to know what it is.
Cuba is certainly making much twen-
tieth century progress for a child so
young. She is trying to borrow thirty
five million dollars, has threatened Ameri-
can goods with high prohibitive duty,
and now movement is on foot to I'M
peach her president, Who can say she
is not getting along rapidly.
Here are some interesting figures about
New York's bedroom: There are in the
borough OF Brooklyn 10000 apartment
or tenement houses (less than half the
number of New York; 1000 stores,
10000 stables, 5000 factories, 541 hotels
or hotel-saloons, 3l5 schools, $40
churches, 81 lodging houses, 2l5 clubs,
4G station houses, 126 engine houses,
l53 hospitals and asylums and 300
warehouses.
King Alfonso is still on the hunt for
wife, and he does not intend to take any
advice in the matter either. He has now
about decided that he will wed daughter
OF some South American millionaire.
After all there is some wisdom in his APP
parent folly. He says he wants to please
the Spanish republicans and such step
would certainly do so. He esteems the
friendship Of the Latin n-American repub-
lies marc thon ln docs tbn favor Of ro,,l