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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
COLOR LINE DRAWN.
A LaNVIcSs Gang Compefs IndIanoIa's
FOstmistress to Resign Her Position
The President Takes Action.

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Washington, Jan. 3.-The feature
of the cabinet meeting yesterday was
the decision to close permanently the
postoffice at Indianola, Miss, from
which the postmaster, Minnie NJ. Cox,
colored, resigned under compulsion a
few days ago, since which time the
office has been closen. The bondsmen
brought the matter to the attention
of the authorities here. The pOstmas-
er general investigated and became
satisfied that the woman was obliged
to resign under duress-in fact that
her life was endangered.
The president discussed with sew
eral members of the cabinet other
features of the case of Mrs. Cox,
Postmaster General Payne being in
the conference with the president
for an hour or more. 1t was decided
to issue a formal statement concern
ing the case. Secretary Cortelyou,
for the president, made public the
following:
'The postmaster at Indianola,
Miss, is Mrs. Minnie w. Cox, a col
ored woman. She served three years
as postmaster under President Har-
rison. When President Mckinley
came in she was again appointed, in
1897, nearly six years ago. Her char
acter and standing in the community
are endorsed by the best and most
respectable people in the town.
among those on her bond is the
present democratic state senator
from the district. together with the
10. I,,, L., 9 Ill
eX-state senator from the district,
also democrat. The postmaster and
her husband own from $4,000 to $15,-
600 worth of property in Sunfower
county. The reports of postoitice in
spectors, who have inyes stigated the
office from time to time, show that
she has given the utmost satisfaction
to all the patrons of the Office. that
she is at all times courteous, faith
full, competent and honest in the dis
charge of her duties.
"The postmaster recently forward
ed her rcsignat tion to take effect on
January 1, but the report of inspect
Ors and information received from
various reputable white citizens of
the town and neighborhood shows
the resignation was forced by a bru-
tai and lawless element purely upon
the ground of her color and was OBJ
tanned under terror of threats. The
mayor of the town and the sheriff
of the county both told the pOstoffice
inspector that if she refused to re-
sign they could not be answcrable
for her safety although at the same
time not one word was said against
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
RECORD BREAKER.
BradStreet'S Review of Business
for Past Year.
Enlargement of Output rs shown in
Every Branch - Enormous For
ci&n Trade The Wages Of
Great Army of Workers
Are Increased.

New York, Dec. 31.-Bradstreets'
review of the business year, to De is
sued Saturday next, will have the fol.
lowing:
'To say that 1902 was the best year
this country has ever experienced,
while truthful enough in the main,
does not suggest fully the enormous
strides which the United States took
in the year just closed. Practically
every branch of ordinary trade and
manufacture showed an increase
above the best of previous years, and
yet this immense enlargement of out
put was not sufficient of itself to sat
isfy the growing, it might even be
termed Unsuitable, demand for all
kinds of materials.
'In many cases the usual foreign
outlet for our products was neglect
ed by American producers. who con
fined their efforts to supplying insist
ent domestic demand, while in others
foreign production was called upon
to reinforce domestic output, with
the result that new currents and
channels were created in our for
eign trade. Our export trade there
fore, shrunk, while our imports eX-
panded to unprecedented figures.
THE railroads of the country, in
their efforts to handle the business
offered them, suffered as never be-
fore from con ~estion, and complaint
Of interference with production and
distribution Of the products of the
farm, the mine, the shop and the
loom was practically universal.
'Industrial unrest was naturally
marked, as it always is in times either
of prosperity or Of depression, and
serious disorganization of some of
the country'S basic Industries result
ed for a time. In many cases. how
ever, resort to extremes was avoided
or rendered unnecessary by liberal
recognition by employers of changes
in the standard of living, and it is
safe to say that two men obtained
higher wages or had their working
time reduced without resort to
strikes for every one who actually
quit work.
"SpecuIatlon felt the checks inn
posed upon it by conservatism, by
short crops in the preceding year and
last. but not least, by high rates for
money; but despite the fact that
stock market operations were only
about half those of 1901. bank clear
ings, those usually reliable guides of
business, showed aggregates practic-
ally equal to the hitherto unheard OF
totals of 1901
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
DUN'S WEEKLY STATEMENT.
"A Rosen;e Outlook for Every Industry
Is Noted on All Sides.

New York, Jan. 3.-R. G. Dun's
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Despite the interruption of holi-
day, taking of inventories and other
disturbing elements incidental to the
closing of the old year, the past
week has been far from dull. Con-
sumers were not perceptibly lessen
ing purchases, while the approach
of higher freight rates accelerated
shipment of goods. Transporting fa-
cilities continue utterly inadequate,
the pressing need for fuel diyerting
rolling stock from other classes Of
freight. New wage scales have be-
come effective, largely enhancing the
purchasing power of the people. The
new year opens with every prospect
of exceptional activity in all branches
OF business. Railway earnings thus
far available for December show .
gain of n per cent. over 1901.
The question of higher freight
rates complexities the situation re-
garding iron and steel, but new or
ders are constantly coming forward
and the activity of plants would equal
capacity were it not for the fuel
shortage.
Quotations of all products in this
industry are fully maintained, with
a tendency toward still higher prices
because of freights Snd fuel. The
first advance is expected to occur in
wire nails.
No new features have developed in
the footwear situation. Textile mills
are busy, with only hand to mouth
home demand for cotton goods, but
export buying for China continues
large. Farm products weakened as
visible supplies increased and reports
from the west indicate that much
more grain is offered for shipment
than the railroads will accept
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08

Philadelphia, Jan. 3.-Secret Ser
vice Agent Griffin, accompanied by
several operatives, yesterday raided
a counterfeiters' plant at Norristown,
about 16 miles from here. They cap
tured Tony Julian, Mary. his wife:
Domenica. his mother; Seatio Julian,
his cousin; Caprio and Casnio Farri,
all Italians. Julian resisted arrest
and attempted to stab Agent Griffin,
who escaped injury by Telling his as
sailant. Julian is said to be the ring
leader. lie conducted a small shoe
store and, it is believed, utilized the
shop as medium for distributing
spurfous dollars and 95 cent pieces
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
A Terribly Fatal EsrawI.

Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 3.-Seven
Italian pedHlcrs became involved in
a drunken brawl here Thursday night
and fought desperately with knives
and revolyers. Two of the men were
killed instantly, two died Friday in
the hospital, the fifth was fatally and
the sixth man seriously wounded.
The seventh man. who did most of
the killing. was not hurt. Thirty
shots were fired in two mingtcs.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
MINE CAVED IN.
Three-Story Hotel, n Store Build
ing. Double House and IL BARBER
shop Fell Into Pit II5 Feet Deep,
at OlIDhant, Pa.-No One Hurt.

at NO WIZ
Scranton, Pa, Jan. abandoned
workings of the Eddy Creek colliery
of the Delaware & Hudson Co., be-
meath the very heart of the town of
Olyphant, caved in Friday afternoon
and engulfed four frame buildings
covering an aggregate ground space
Of 5000 square feet.
The settling was gradual and pee
pie in the affected territory escaped
without being Immediately endan-
gered. \ gang of men and boys who
were at work in the mine beyond the
fall encountered a flooded dip" or
depression in vein in making their
way out by a circuitous route ana
had to swim from one rise to the
other. No one either above or below
ground, however, sustained an injury.
At o'clock the settling began. At
$3.50 it was no longer perceptible. In
the Intervening half hour, O'BrIcn's
three-story hotel. Mrs. Ann Evans
double dwelling, Mrs. Jane Aclierly's
double store building and one-story
barber shop were ground to debris
in the yawning pit with the upper
most part of the mound 40 feet be-
low the surface. O'Briens hotel,
which plunged first into the opening,
has entirely disappeared. \ few
houses are projecting over the edge
of the pit. The vein that caved in is
1l5 feet below the surface.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
Shot Three NIarshaIs.

McCurtain, L. r., Jan. 3-Three Uni
ted States deputy marshals, Samuel
Sorrels, of Kintail; Ralph Scargall,
Of McCurtain, and another whose
name has not been learned. were shot
by an unknown man who resisted ar
rest at Coal Creek yesterday. Dep
uty Sorrels was instantly killed and
the others seriously wounded. While
the deputies We're attempting to ar
rest the man he suddenly drew two
revoNers and opened fire. lie then
aScapp1
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
TOTALLY DESTROYED.
adventist Publishing Plant at Battle
Creek. Mich. Goes GP in Smoke -
LOA. ahnrIi .sAND- NON


Battle Creek, Mich, Dec. 31.--In the
total destruction last night Of the big
building occupied by the Review and
Herald Publishing Co.,. the Seventh
Day Adventist colony is brought face
to fQce with a second heavy loss by
fire within a year, the Adventist san
itarium having been burned down
only last February. Last nights loss
is estimated by officials of the Re
view and Herald Co. at S35O,00O, with
insurance amounting to $ljO,O00.
The fire was discovered at 1880 p.
m, when only p of the 315 employees
were at work. One of the p had not
been accounted for at late hour
last night, but the others got out by
way of fire escapes, the stairway
from the book room in which they
were working being already in flames
when their first warning came i'm the
form of choking clouds of smoke.
When the fire department arrived
the only thing that could be done
was to fight for the safety of adj
joining buildings, the one in which
the fire originated being evidently
doomed. Almost within an hour from
the first alarm. the Main street wall
fell in. j. II. Watson, Il billing clerk,
was seriously injured while saving
books and valuable papers in the Of
flee.
The fire is supposed to have origi-
mated In spontaneous combustion in
a pile Of rags in the press room.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
a plea forEarin Reductions.

Boston, Dec. 31.-At a meeting in
Faneuil hall yesterday called by the
American Free Trade league the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted:
"Whereas, The tariff duties upon beef
and coal, by assisting the cxtortions
OF monopoly or impeding relief from
them have proved serious hardship
for our people, and Whereas. Such
abundant evidence is easily accessible
to congress that investigation need
not cause delay in the removal of
this hardship; Resolved, That as
American citizens we ask that the
tariff duties on beef and coal be now
removed"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08

Shanghai, Dec. 31.--A military Off
ter has arrived here from Kan Su
province to procure munitions of war
and supplies for the commander of
the imperial forces. lie reports that
all the imperial troops enlisted in
Kan Su, together with a majority of
the Mohammedans there, are only
awaiting Tung Fuh Siang's signal To
march on Pcl>in, cXpcl the foreign
ers and uphold the dowagcr empress.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08

Springfield. Mass, Jan, 1.-One Of
the most impressive services ever held
in Springfield was that in Trinity
church last night when +. NJ. Mills.
secretary of the Twentieth Century
thank Offering commission, made the
announcement that the Methodists
of the country had raised more than
S2O,OOO.oOO in response to the move
ment inaugurated in Trinity church
by the board of bishops four years
auO
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08

New Orleans, Jan. 1.-Nndrcw Car
ncgie has given New Orleans S25O,O00
for a New Years gift The money is
to be devoted to a main library build
ing and three branches. The city is
to furnish the sites and pledge $4,000
year for support The condition
will undnnhtedIy be nccepted.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
TO SHARE PROFITS.
Steel Trusts Proposition to Its
Employees.
The Corporation Desires that the Men
Who are Working for 1t Shall Buy
Its StOck-DetaiIs of Scheme
Employees to be Divided
Into Six Glasses.

New York, Jan. I'm double cir
cular, one to the stockholders and the
other to the officers and employees,
the United States Steel Corporation
announces its intention to inaugu-
rate system whereby the humblest
workman on its rolls may, if he de-
sires, become a permanent stock
holder and share in the profits of the
corporation.
The circular says that at this time
there are about $1,000 stockholders,
who, it is believed, would feel q
greater sense of security in the COR
Poration's earning power if they knew
that officers and managers generally
were willing to enter into a contract
by which a part of their compensa-
tion shall be paid only after the real
ization of $SO,OOO,OOO of profits. This
represents interest on bonds, diyi-
dends on stock and reserve for sink
ing funds.
The plan inviting officers and en-
ployes to participate is divided into
two parts. Part one prescribes that
from the earnings of the corporation
during the year 1902 there will have
been set aside at least - 900, 900 and
as much more as is needed for the
purchase Of at least $4,000 shares of
preferred stock, which will be of
fered as follows to employees of the
corporation:
At present the corporation and sub
sidiary companies employ 16S,OOO
men, whom it is proposed to divide
into these six cIaSSeS.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
q Weak
StOma aCRa

Indigestion is often caused by over
eating. An eminent authority says
the harm done thus exceeds that from
the excessive use Of alcohol. Eat all
the good food you want but don't over
load the stomach. A weak stomach
may refuse to digest what you eat.
Then you need good digestant like
Kodol, which digests your food with
out the stomach's aid. This rest and
the wholesome tonics KodOl contains
soon restore health. Dieting unneces-
sary. Kodol quickly relieves the feel
ing of fulness aud bloating from
which some people suffer after meals.
Absolutely cures indigestion.
KOdol Nafure's : onfc.
Prepared only by Z. G. DEWITT & 90. Chicago
The 81. bottle contains IN times theS0c. size.
r. C., Dodson Emporium, Pa.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
For Sale in Emporium, by r. c. Dodson.-12

Our custom made Clothing is giving
satisfaction, as is attested by the increased
i'll this line. We guarantee tn
save you from 10 to 25% on your clothing
The Virginia enterprise., 1903-01-02
New Style OF Coon Hunting.

Some time ago a genius discovered Il
substitute for the ferret in hunting rab-
bits: 1t was to equip one end of thin
the whistle end into the rabbits burrow
and blow. The noise brought the rabbit
out at its best possible speed. A proto-
type of the rabbit hunter has been dis
covered in a Winsted coon hunter.
Time out of mind it has been the prac-
tice to chase coon to the top of a tree,
one Of the party climb to the limb where
the coon was perched and shake him
loose. The Winsted man fills his pockets
with Roman candles and carries a few
sky rockets. When the coon is treed
the hunter starts up pyrotechnic dis
play in the 'coon's direction, and it is q
case of immediate come down on the Dart
of the 'ringtail." oil City Derrick.
The Virginia enterprise., 1903-01-02
Copyright, 1892, by George Morris.

shoulder. "You will have to catch me
if fall," she smiled down on him.
He reached up and took her hand. "Be
CAREFUL he said, and closed a firm grasp
or: her fingers, which were trembling de-
spite herself.
She stepped up, swaying, on the arm:
he held the chair with his knee and
handed a sprig of holly to her. He had
forgotten the four years that had passed.
She Strengthened up slowly. "Oh. I
can't" she said, and fell back to him
again. Pm afraid you can't hold mc''
He came around to the other side of
her. "Put your hand on my shoulder -
he directed. It was the way they had
done it before, and he longed for the old
touch. When she stood up on the arm Of
the chair he put his arm about her and
held her there. She reached the branch
OF holly into it's place in the carving
slowly, and then slowly lowered her hand
to rest Oh his shoulder. She looked down
at him, smiling.
There were tears in his eyes. He took
her fingers and put them to his lips.
''Thanks," he said, huskily.
She slipped down to him in sudden
wave of weakness. "Oh, Burnside" she
whispered, "how-how you frightened
me-"
She was such little thing in his arms.
The blood choked in his throat. "Have
you forgiven me?" he asked quickly.
Her hand stole up, trembling, to flutter
touch of pity on his brown cheek. "For:
give your" she whispered. Il forgave
The Virginia enterprise., 1903-01-02

*'Get the holly then:' she ordered.
"We4 VI have to hurry. They'll be III on us
in a few minutes
He brought the branches e her AM!
they went to work together, putting
twigs of it among the bric-a- brac and in
the va PES, dropping clusters over the tops
of the pictures and twining them in the
chandeliers and electric brackets. She
chatted of the old days with an infec-
tious gaicty; and the work itself dissi-
pated his melancholy by taking his
thought from it. She saw him smile
with something of his old boyishness,
and was encouraged.
They s;ood in the center of the room at
last and looked around at their work.
II have one sprlg leit,'> he said. ''Whece
can 1 put it?''
There's not a corner left,' she said,
searching the walls with most innocent
eye: He could see none either -.
"Why:" she exclaimed, there's the old
place over the mantel.''
He looked up at the carving. Il can't
reach it without a ladder, even yet.
She measured his height with glance.
Stand on the arm of a chair
with my weight?" he laughed.
She studied the situation. "1'u do it
if you'll steady-thc chair"
He drew over a corpulcnt chair of
putfed upholstery. with an arm as broad
as a cushioned window seat She hoppet
into the ample seat of it with a show of
dainty slippers and put her hand on his
The Virginia enterprise., 1903-01-02

you the day you went away, and cried
all night for you to come back"
He gazed into eyes that were swim
ming in tenderness. "God bless you," he
said to them-"dearest"-to her lips.
The butler coughed in the hall. "The
mistletoe has come, Miss Frances" he
announced.
Bring it in;' she cried. "We'l have
some OH the chandelier"
"Alld q piece over the mantel," Burn
side suggested slyly.
She looked at him with a sidelong
slnile.-New York Commercial-Adver~
tiser.
The Virginia enterprise., 1903-01-02
A Sparrow1ess Spot.

1t may seem impossible to most read
hrs that there can be a single place in
the united kingdom where the sparrow
is never seen, and yet, on the authority
Of Prof. Newton, FRS, there is such a
spotIthe moorland village of Shepstor,
should shun this place is not explained.
but it is an indisputable fact that it
does. 1t is all the more remarkable be.
cause the sparrow, like trade, follows
the flag w herever the British 90 there
the sparrow is found. 1t has tendency
to gradually drive out all the native
birds of the country in which it chooses
to settle. Its pugnacity is we'll known.
and it multilplies rapidly, the progeny of
a single pair in ten years amounting to
no fewer than 275,OOO,OOO BIRDS
1ansas City Journal.
The Virginia enterprise., 1903-01-02
Without Aid of the MistIetoe

ohe Hdu written TO MIN: 1T will seem
quite like old times to have you with us
again at Christmas It seems much
longer thar tour years since you were
here, but I am sure things will appear
quite as usual to you. We make no
change in our yearly programme for
Christmas. It is really the children's
day, as it was when you and first spent
1t together. II hesitated when I went
to write how many years ago. 1t must
be eighteen.) But I think father and
n.other-and l-take quite as much in
terest in it as grown people do in the
circus-quite for the children's sake, of
course.
Il would ask you to dinner Immediate
y; on your arrival Christmas eve, but if
l dared to suggest the presence of an out
slider there would be hubbub among the
/ powers that rule the nursery, and-at
this, season-the entire household: I SIM
ply dare not say anything save that we
should like to have you come at pre-
cisely, so that we may have a little chat
before the arrival of our other guests -
And, indeed, as he walked up the ave-
nue., with His long prairie stride,> toward
Sevcn--th street Christmas cve'he was
depressed to find everything so little
changed from the. night, four years since,
when he had left New York for the West
to make over his life in new pattern
Of work and usefulness. There was the
same thin fall of snow that had melted
like tears on the panes of his carriage
as he drove to the station alone with his
bitterness. There was the same wind.
the same cold and wet rawness of the
New York air at Christmas inhos-
pitable wind. There were the same SOL
cmn rows of houses that had watched
him drive away to exile, indiferently. It
was all the same-the same. And despite
the cordiality of her letter, he felt that
he, too, must be the same to her; and he
walked along with his eyes on the pave
ment, his hands deep in the pockets of
his ulster, wishing that he had not come
back to his past-that past which he
thought he had outlived and forgotten.
Here was the familiar door and the cid
bronze dcorknob which had once been on
level with his eyes. And the old butler,
whom the Stantons had had for twenty
years, opened the door to him and an
swered his greeting with respectful
his Christian name as if he had called
only the evening before. But the remem-
tered hall was hidden in a mass of ever
green and holly, and the electric bulbs
glowed in their shades like huge berries
in the greencry; and here he seemed sud
denly q stranger, coming now on the old
Christmas spirit to which his absence had
made him an alien. It bewildered him; !;
it saddened him.
He entered the front drawing room and
saw the hem of skirt disappear through
the portieres which hung between that
and the second drawing room behind it.
Some one was placing a Christmas
wreath in the middle window, a woman's
figure. He did not know her. She turned
to greet him with an eager, "Why, Burn
side, I am SO glad to see you!" and
grasped his brown fingers with a warm
clasp of a white hand.
She was not of that girlish fragility
which he had remembered. She was the
elder sister of her old self; but in the
excitement and pleasure of seeing him her
The Virginia enterprise., 1903-01-02
A CABIN CHRISTMAS.

Outside my cabin-door de worl'
Is cole an wintry- white:
Inside de door, my worr Is warm
An sweet wild Christmas light:
Outside my door de worl' Is big
An lonesome-'way fun you;
Inside, it's heaben's border-land
"id you an 'possum-stew!
Den keep a-pilin' on de logs
An SEN de blazes higher,
Ill all de cabin walls grow red
Wid blood Of Christmas fire;
While some one takes de banjo down
An softly plays bar
10 start de hymn dat tells about
De shepherds an de Star!
Howard Weeden in Country Life in Ame,
lea, Christmas Annual.