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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-06-24

San Antonio, June 24.-Miss Trini-
dad Rodriguez died here OF sunstroke.
the first fatal case of this kind since
1897. She was overcome by the heat,
losing consciousness. remaining in this
condition until her death.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-06-24
WI, vl.l. pallAs.

Washington. June 24.-The president
has given assurances to q committee
of Dallas, Tex. citizens that he would
stop In that city on his western trip
next fall.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-06-24
COOL MINNESOTA

10000 lakes; scores OF the coolest
and best summer localities in the
country; frequent perions of low ex-
cursion tours, such as $3.50 Kansas
City TO st. Paul and Minneapolis.
The Burlington is the old reliable
and established line to the northern
Twin (ifies
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-06-24

COUNTY TICkh1
scr Representative:
j. A.. AaaDNKDacn
scr District Clerk.
ToM BuRtEscNa
For County Judge:
LEE HAWKES.
For County Clerk:
Rufe HENDRICKS
For Sheriff.
J. p. MIEEIcK
For County Tax Assessor:
JOHN MCEERoY
For Ta2 Collector:
BILLIE BRATCHER
For County Superintendent Public. 1as
struct on:
z. ID CREDIBLE
Cor Justice Peace, Precinct. No.sf:
E. p. ANDERSON, JR
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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
STORM IN THE EAST.
Heavy Fail of Rain and SIeet Causes
Suspension of Traffic.

New York, Feb. 22.-SnOw. followed
by rain and sleet, Friday, created in
this city and vicinity the most dis
agreeable weather conditions known
in many years. During the early
hours of the day heavy, wet snow
fell in huge flakes. This condition
prevailed for several hours. Short
ly after noon the snow turned into
steady drizzle of rain, that con-
tinued with intermitten periods of
sleet, all afternoon and far into the
night. Much of the snow that was
left from the recent blizzard, was
converted into slush and the streets
are inches deep.
During the evening the tempera-
ture dropped enough to turn the
downpour of rain into a coating of
ice over buildings and streets. Traf-
fic on the Brooklyn bridge was al
most at standstill. Heavy trucks
could scarcely be moved. Street car
traffic everywhere was much inter-
rupted, but the greatest difficulty
was experienced on cross town horse
car lines. Four horses were at
tached to all of these cars and had
hard work getting along.
Jersey City was hit hard, and by
10 o'clock last night the city was
practically in darkness, and there
was every indication that the electric
service, which is wholly overhead,
will be entirely out of order by morn
ing Electric wires were down in
every part of the city. The fire alarm
system was crippled, and the police
wires are in bad shape. Trolley
cars ceased running entirely late in
the evening.
South and west of New York tele-
graph and telephone lines were pros
trated early in the afternoon, and
although conditions improved some
what between New York and Chicago
late in the evening, communication
by wire with Philadelphia was cut off
absolutely Slow communication was
restored with Washington, d. c., by
way of Atlanta.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
COASTlNG ACCIDENT.
One Killed and Four Others Are BADLY
Injured.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 21.-At Will
merding last night in a bobsled acci-
dent, one young woman was killed
ana four other coasters badly injure /.
The dead:
Miss Mary Purseley, aged 10 years,
of Turtle Creek, neck broken and
skull crushed.
The injured, all of Turtle Creek
are: Miss J. Margaret Jones, IS
years, bad scalp wound, face and
breast cut and limbs bruised; Viii
liam Rath. arm lacerated and leg bad
ly cut; Miss Frances Chambers. aged
II years, scalp wound, arm and face
lacerated, and body Bruised; Miss
Alice Burns, aged 10 years, head cut,
right cheek cut and body bruised.
The remainder of the party, c, n
sisting of three boys and a girl,
whose names could not be learned,
were badly bruised and cut,
The party were coasting down Glen
street, a very steep thoroughfare,
which was coated with ice. The sled
was being guided by William Rath.
got beyond control, and at the cor
ner of Margaretta street dashed into
n sewer 1rOD
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
TRAIN WRECKED.
Passengers Had Narrow Escape I'm
an Accident on Lake Shore Road.

Cleveland, Feb. 22.-1he Lake Shore
accommodation train leaving this
city at o'clock Friday afternoon
was wrecked on the outskirts of
Oberlin about o'clock in the after
noon.
Louis Bates, the head brakeman on
the train, is the only person report
ed seriously hurt. He jumped through
a car window and in falling injured
his back. At Oberlin he was re-
moved to hotel and a physician
made examination of his in juries. Be-
sides the injuries to his back, Bates
is unable to move his legs. John
Lace, of Norwalk, was thrown
against a seat and his head cut. Be
yond a severe shaking up it is re-
ported that none of the passengers
were hurt.
a crank pin on the left-hand front
driver broke, loosening the connect
ing rod which swung with the wheel,
demolishing the cab on the firemans
side of the cab. 1t also broke the con-
Meeting rod on the other side. This
rod tore the air brake cylinder off
from the engine and rendered it USE
less.
The engine and cars left the rails,
the cars being piled in the ditch. The
track was torn up for a distance of
400 feet. The passengers were bad
ly shaken up and as soon as they
realized that the train was off the
track they made a rush for the rear
doors of the coaches. The track was
quickly cleared, allowing other trains
a free passage.
Had the accident occurred a short
distance further west the wreck
would have been more disastrous be-
cause of steep embankment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27

Importance of the agricultural inter.
ests department to concern itself
with the great activities was created
In 1889, near the end of Cleveland's
first term, and Norman j. Colman, of
Missouri, was it's first head.
The growth of the cabinet posts
from four places in Washingtons days
to eight for the past dozen years, and
the ninth place post is likely to be
established before the present session
of congress ends, is merely formal
recognition of the expansion in the
number and importance of the coun-
try's interests. Twice as many per-
sons are in the cabinet in Roosevelt's
time as were there in the days of the
country's first president, but the
United States itself is about 20 times
as large as it was then, and it has a
hundred times the wealth and does
more than a hundred times the bust.
ness that it did at that time. The
$7O,O00,000 of merchandise exports in
1SOO-and they were much larger then
than when Washington first entered
otiice-had grown to not far from ST.
100000 900 in 1900 and in 1901, while the
domestic trade had expanded in far
larger degree. The increase step by
step in the number of members of the
presidents official family in the past
hundred years and over tells the story
of the great expansion which has been
made in the country's interests and ac-
tiYitipS
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
TENDING UPWARD.
N. &. Dun 81 Co.'s Weekly Review of
Trade Says Prices Have Advanced
During the Past Week.


New York. Feb. 22.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Along the Atlantic coast business
was temporarily checked by the
storm and some interior points also
suffered from unfavorable weather,
but consumptive demands give no evi-
dence of abatement. Prices of per-
ishable goods advanced sharply, the
whole range of staple commodities
tending upward. Jobbing trade in
spring lines of wearing apparel is of
ample proportions and all heavy
hardware and products of iron feel
the pressure in that industry. Pros
poets are most encouraging as to the
labor situation.
While no means inflated beyond the
point fully warranted by urgent pur-
chasers, prices of pig iron have made
decided advances despite the opposi-
tion of leading interests. More i'm
ports are reported, but foreign mar
kets are also advancing, now that
there is less prospect of American
competition because of the unpreced-
entcd home demand. Railway sup
plies and structural material are still
the most eagerly sought of finished
steel products. Record breaking
building permits indicate the business
that will be done by structural mills.
The presence of numerous buyers
in the Boston footwear market has
not yet produced the desired volume
of business. There seems almost a
deadlock, owing to the indisposition
of manufacturers to make desired
concessions and the unwilingness of
purchasers 10 offer full list prices.
Following the advance in prices of
print clothes to IA cents there has
been an equivalent gain in many di-
visions of the cotton goods market.
Woolen and worsted fabrics for
fall have received less attention, but
sales are still fully up to the average.
Farm staples are remarkably wei,
maintained at the recent advance in
quotations. Cotton added small
fraction to its price and ruled quiet
during the week at the highest posi-
tion of the crop year.
thus far reported for February ag-
gregated $6,697,SS1, of which S., ,4O4,-
627 were in manufacturing, s., 1922, ,142
in trading and $4O1,112 in other com
mercial lines. Failures for the week
number $50 in the United States
against 253 last year and 81 in Can
ada against 80 last year.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
DISASTROUS FIRE.
1t Visits New York City and
Causes 81, 100000 Loss.
-Four People Are Known to BE Dead
and the Fire Chief aysTwenty
or More Bodies Are in the
Ruins--Armory Is -
in Ashes.

New York, Feb. 22.--Fire which.
broke out after midnight last night
destroyed the Seventy-first regiment
armory building, on Fourth avenue
The building occupied the entire
block. The fire started on the main
floor and burned upward very rapid
ly. Before = o'clock this morning
the entire building was in ruins.
Before an alarm had been turned
in the flames completely enveloped
the building and when the firemen
reached the scene the blaze had
burst through the roof.
Shortly after , o'clock the walls of
the armory on the Thirtythird street
side fell with a tremendous crash.
occupants of the five-story brown
stone houses from 137 to 141 East
TWenty-third street were driven from
their homes by the police.
A large quantity of powder stored
in the armory exploded. Ambulance
calls We're sent to Bellevue hospital,
but it is not known whether any one
was injured.
The Park Avenue hotel caught on
the third floor. The guests are all
leaving and some are being taken out
by the firemen. The fire seems to be
gaining headway in the hotel.
AT 2:30 o'clock woman guest
jumped from the fifth story of the
Park Avenue hotel. She was fright
fully injured.
Ambulance calls have been sent to
all the hospitals in the lower sec
tion of Manhattan.
At 3:15 it was stated that all the
guests and employees had been ac-
counted for and that no one was left
in the structure. The estimated loss
up to this time is $1,O0O,000.
Two dead bodies have been taken
from the hotel. One of the dead is
said to be a Col. Pepper, of Louis
vile, Ky. The other body has not
been identified.
Two more dead bodies were taken
from the hotel, but at $3.50 had not
been identified.
At 4 o'clock Chief Croker, who had
been inside the building, said that he
believed that large number of dead
were inside in the halls and corridors.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
THE LAST ACT.
Final Ratification OF the Iaay-Paunee-
iOte Treaty.

Washington, Feb. 22.-Final rati-
tications of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty, giving England's assent to
the construction of a canal across
Central America by the United States
were exchanged at the state depart
ment Friday afternoon. There was
very little ceremony about the eX-
change.
Copies of the treaty had been pre-
pared, precisely similar, except in
the fact that the signatures were
inverted in one copy, and these were
formally exchanged between Lord
Pauncefote and Secretary Hay, pro-
tocol being signed, formally attest
ing to that fact, which will form part
of the records.
Lord Pauncefote was in the best of
humor of this outcome ol the labors
of himself and Secretary Hay, for ne
regarded the treaty as the most i'm
portant convention ever drawn be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain and one that will do much
to prevent friction in the future be-
tween the two peoples.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
FEARS OF FLOOD.
Ice Gorges i'm the Allegheny and Mo-
nOngaheIa Rivers May Cause Trouble
In the Advent of Warm weather.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 21.-A sleet
storm last night with rapidly moder-
ating weather and two days of rain
! predicted by the government weather
Office promises to bring about the
conditions feared for weeks past by
river men and citizens generally. The
| great danger apprehended is from
the immense gorges of ice in the
Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
The distractions are oI the most Sc
| rious character and liable to do al
most incalculable damage to river
craft moored between this point and
! Wheeling, and should the moderate
weather and rains bring down with
the ice the heavy SHOWS from up
river points, the food which win re-
suit is likely to be a record breaker.
The gorge in the Allegheny extends
almost without break from Pitts
burg fully 20 miles up the river, and,
varies in thickness from five to 16
feet. The ice is frozen to the bottom
of the river in many places and is
damming the water, with the result
that the river is rising above the
gorge, and this fact points out that
when the first waters OF the rise
come the water will be damned back
until the valley along the river would
be flooded, which would do a damage
not to be computed in money.
The gorge in the Monongahela is
not feared so much because the
numerous dams along its length will
serve to break the ice and make it
less dangerous than the Allegheny.
The situation was made worse yes
terday by the formation of a gorge
in the Youghiogheny at Versailles
and other points about McKeesport,
which threatens the barges removed
from the Allegheny to the Mononga-
hela and the other boats and barges
moored in the pools below McKees-
port
The coal companies are taking
every precaution for the protection
of their property along the rivers,
and all residents in the lowlands and
valleys are making ready for the ex-
pected food.
The river from Wheeling to Park
ersburg is gorged almost solid and
the river men fear this almost as
much as they do the gorge in the
Allegheny for the reason that many
boats are frozen to the bank at vari-
Gus places and these have no way to
protect themselves or their tows
from the flood.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
NEW CABINET PLACE.
It Will Be Called Department Of
Commerce and Labor.
President .ynshIngton's OmcinI Fam
lily Had Four Members, Presi-
dent RooseveIt's VIII Soon
Have Nine.

The passage by the senate of the bill
to create department of commerce
and labor, with its head to be a mem
Der of the cabinet, is interesting as a
historical development, as well as a
sociological fact. Only four officials
secretary of state, a secretary of the
treasury, a secretary of war and an
attorney general sat at the council
table of President Washington. The
head of the war department at that
time had charge of the political end of
the navy, as well as of the army. a de-
partment of the navy, however, was
created III 1898, during John Adams
administration, at u time that war
seemed to be imminent with France
on account of that country's assaults
on American commerce and outrage
GUS treatment of American ministers.
The fifth cabinet post thus appeared.
1T was not until the nineteenth CEN
tury had well advanced, says the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat, that another
cabinet department was established.
BY the time that Jackson entered Of
hce In 1929 the post office business OF
the country had grown to be so large
that the man in charge of it, who had
been mere bureau official be fore that
time, was advanced to cabinet rank,
and his field of work became one of
the great executive departments.
When William T. Barry, at the begin
ming of Jackson's first term, took of
flee, six persons belonged to the presi-
dents official family. The settlement
of the west and the growth in the gov
ernment's general activities rendered
the creation of the department of the
interior essential, and Thomas Ewing
took his place at its head in 1S49, at
the beginning of Taylor's term as
president. As recognition of the vast
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27

Horace G. Hutchinson's classifica-
tion of the more frequent dreams, in
his recently published volume on
"Dreams and Their Meanings" ia
fairly complete. lie says there are
seven common kinds: 1) the falling
dream-you are falling over preci-
pice or down the stairs; (2) the fly
ing dream-the dream that you can
fly; (3) the dream of more or less
inadequate clothing-that you are
not properly clothed; (4) the dream
of not being able to get away from
some beast, or injurious person or
thing, that is pursuing you; 90 the
dream of being drawn irresistibly to
some dangerous place, such as a fire;
(6) the dream that some darling
wish has been gratified; and (7) the
dream of being about to go on n
journey, and being unable to get
your things into your trunks, etc.
But, as he adds, mo doubt there are
a great many more"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
TWO BONANZAS.
A New Gold Field Is Found In Africa,
Also a Big Copper Deposit,

London, Feb. 20.-Reports from two
experts have been received in London
from different parts of Africa which,
if borne out by later developments,
are likely to have an important in
tiuence on the worlds gold and cop
per supply. One of the reports comes
from AsSinine, on the French Ivory
coast, and says that reef of quartz
gold eight feet wide and panning,
from two to eight ounces, has been
opened up on the Ivory coast.
From North Rhodesia, the British
Chartered South Africa Co. has re-
ceived news of the discovery of a cop
per field, estimated at 40 square
miles. The field is situated $50 miles
north of Victoria Falls, and runs
thence to the Congo Free State. In
the ancient mines dug by the natives
and reopened by engineers in the
employ of the Chartered Co., copper
assaying Al per cent. is now being
secured, besides a large percentage
of silver. So much Importance does
the Chartered Co. attach to this dis
covery that the Cape to Cairo rail-
road will be diverted in order to pass
through the copper field. Work on
this section of the road has been or
dered accelerated, and it is expected
that it will be completed early in
1903,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
BOLD ROBBERS.
Desperate Attempt 10 Rob a Bank in
MeNico CitY.

Mexico City, Feb. 21.-A daring and
foolhardy attempt was made yester-
day to rob the London and Mexico
bank, one of the strongest financial
organizations in the City of Mexico,
by an unknown robber, who, after
killing the cashier and seeing that
he would be captured, blew his own
brains out.
At an hour when business was
slack and when no one but employees
were in the bank the robber entered
the building and unobserved made his
way to the vault. He covered the
cashier with a pistol and demanded
that he give up the money in his GUS
tody. Upon the cashiers refusal the
robber fired, the bullet strIking the
cashier in the head, killing him in
st&ntlA Other employees made rush
for the robber, who fired three shots
at them without effect and as the
men continued to advance and seeing
that his capture was inevitable the
robber turned his pistol upon himself
and sent bulsnt through his brain
dying instantly in the bank.
The dead robber had no papers or
any article on his body that would
serve to identify him other than that
he was an American. He was well
dressed in a tailor made suit, wore
full beard, WILL trimmed, and was
about As wears of age
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
DmIIness in German Iron Trade.

Washington, Feb. 20.-After Eng
land, Germany is the most formidable
competitor of the United States in
the iron markets of the world, ac-
cording to report of United States
Consular Agent Harris at Eibenstock.
Mr. Harris says that the present out
look for the iron industry in Ger
many is not bright and manufacture
ers are not building new factories or
enlarging old ones. Even the ship
building industry, which flourished as
never before in 1900, now shows signs
of falling off, and it is only in the
navy yards that activity has contin-
ued unabated.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
DAY OF PRAYER.
I'd. n R. Ask Congress to Establish
One for Our MnrINred PrcsidenIs.

Washington, Feb. 22.-Less than
100 delegates were present when
Fridays session of the d. \. Il. con-
vention opened,
Mrs. Stratton, of Minnesota, of
fered the following resolution, which
was unanimously adopted: Re
solved, That we recommend to CON
grees that the Sunday following the
birthday of our late beloved Presi-
dent Mckinley, be set apart as a
day of prayer in memory of our mar
tyred presidents, Lincoln, as the mas
ter mind, the great-hearted emanci-
pator, whom we all revere; Garfield,
and particularly Mckinley, a man be-
loved by the people as possessing all
the virtues of heart and mind that
combine to make one good and great.
We suggest Sunday that the memory
of these men may year by year be
associated with thoughts of our duty
as citizens to live nobler and purer
lives"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-02-27
THE TWO ROUTES.
Col. Ernst Compares Those of Panama
and Nicaragua.

Washington, Feb. 19.-Col. O. III
Ernst, of the isthmian canal commits
sion, was before the senate commit
tee on inter-oceanic canals yesterday
I'm preliminary statement he said
the cuts in the Darien route before
the Tunnel was reached made that
route impracticable. While it had
not been examined carefully. he
thought it would take 20 years to CON
struct such Il canal and at a cost of
$500, 900, 900.
As q member of the commission he
was assigned to the Panama route
particularly, but went over the Mica
ragua route. In answer to questions
by Senator Hanna he said he would
have recommended the Panama route
in the first report of the commission
had the offer of the Panama canal to
sell for S40,0OO,0OO been made at that
time and gave the following reasons
for so doing:
The Panama route was shorter,
straighter, lower, having four locks,
as against eight for Nicaragua, and
cost 81 1,35O,OOO less per year to main
tain and operate. Col. Ernst said
there were difficulties on both routes.
The Bohio dam on the Panama route
was more difficult than the dam on
the Nicaragua route, but the clay
banks on the latter route were a diff
ficulty that would have to be over
come. The healthfulness of Nicara-
qua was better than Panama, but by
sanitary and police regulations the
conditions in Panama could be inn
proved.
Col. Ernst did not agree with other
witnesses that silt in the Chagres
river would ever be a serious men
ace to the Panama canal. The diff
ficulties in the construction of the
Bohio dam, he said, could be over
come.
Senator Morgan asked a series of
questions regarding the floods of the
Chagres river on the Panama route.
Col. Ernst said the water rose to 1913
feet above low water in 1879. In 50
years there had been four floods Of
over 80 feet. Such foods, he said,
would cause considerable risk in the
construction of the Bohio dam. Po-
lice and sanitary control of Panama
would be necessary, he said, should
the United States construct the canal.