Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-18
EDITORIAL nENTION.

NpCtI Nti ihC III thi y sum
going on and Il final settlement
seems to be as far off as ever.
Santa Claus will soon be in our
midst, and we hope he will come
well loaded with presents for the
little ones.
Presidential candidates are being
heard from now. There ary still
two towns to hear from, Princeton,
n. j., and Lincoln, Neb.
BY means of safety appliances on
railroads in our country decrease
of 6S per cent. in 10 years in the
number of employees killed is
proven.
If the fight against parlor matches
continue, the manufacturers will
have to go out of business, or give
their attention to some new kind
of fire producer.
Six strikers who were found
guilty of cutting telegraph wires,
beating non-union labors, etc. dur
ing the recent strike have received
sentences of imprisonment.
Congressman are freezing at the
National capital for the want Of
coal The operators will have to
act quickly or there will be a show
er of anthracite bills in the House.
1t is apparently better to be a
Jockey than President of the states.
Danny Maher has just returned
from England with $50, 900 as his
savings for one year. Let us all be
Jockeys.
Count Solstoi has given us new
book with the strange title of '"The
Corpse" In it he tells an interest
ing story Of tangled domestic life
and also devotes space to the rigid
and expensive divorce laws of
Russia.
An American concern, the Pitts
burg Plate Glass Company, has pur-
chased for 81, 600, 900 the immense
plate glass plant at Courcelles, Bel
GUM, the largest in Europe. The
present capacity of the plant is
to be doubled.
Government receipts for Nov
ember were S43, 100000, which left
q balance above expenditures of
about 100000. The surplus for
the 5 months of the fiscal year so
far is over S14, 200, 900.
If freports are true and we have
no reason to doubt them, the trusts
are better represented in Washing
ton this session than are the people.
Representatives are there in great
numbers prepared to fight any un-
desirable trust legislation that may
come up in the House or Senate.
For the first time since the ballot
was given to the negroes, there will
not be d negro in the South Caro-
lima legislature or in anystate office
next year. The disfranchisement
of the blacks as class by law and
the abandonment of them by the
Lilly White" Republicans acted to
keep them away from the polls.
The mayor and eleven council
men Of the city of Denver must
spend four months behind prison
bars. \ stern judge has SO order
ed. He recently enjoined them from
adopting an ordinance in favor of
the street railway company and
they paid no attention to the in
junction.
The National debt Nov. 80, after
crediting the available cash in the
treasury, was $938, ,097, $50. This
was a decrease for the month OF
$4,000. There is now in the
treasury 81, ,314, 900, but there are
notes and other claims of about one
billion dollars outstanding against
this.
The brilliant career of Thomas b.
Reed, eX-speaker of the House OF
Representative came to an end in
Washington early Sunday morning.
He was a great leader in political
Life for over twenty years, and the
famous Reed Rules were long ago
adopted by the factions of all par
ties. He won a high place in the
hearts OF the people ana all regret
that such men have to be taken
from us.