Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-02-26
ct VITIIS'nhNcF Sure Cure, Circular; D.
SlssIlUO UHNUL Fenner, Fredonia N. Y
Current Comment.

comes along.
The Montana Legislature has voted
down measure providing for woman
sufferage in that state.
The opportunity of lifetime came
along, and Bowen had the courage to
grasp it-Americans usually have.
The coal miners are thinking of rails
ing $4,000 purse for John Mitchell.
John would probably appreciate it.
Rockefeller has withdrawn his offer
for a new stomach. He has been re.
ceiving too many calls from serious
bidders.
Tillman is afraid that he will not get
a fair trial He had fair trial with
his gun when he shot the well-known
editor.
The Mayor of Worcester, Mass, has
vetoed the bill increasing his salary
from 81, 500 20 $4,000. The people think
he is crazy.
Some kind of compromise should
be reached pretty soon on the state
hood bill. Thus far we have only heard
the wind blowing.
According to a dispatch from Lon
don, the first annual report of the I'M
perial Tobacco company shows a profit
of 81, 100000. Smoke up!
A reduction in the retail price of
anthracite to $3.50 ton has gone into
effect in the yards of the coal dealers
throughout New York City.
The legislatures of Oregon and Della
ware are still at work trying to agree
on Z. S. Senators, without having been
able to weaken the deadlock.
London has a new religious paper
which offers bottle of water from the
Jordan river to every person who will
see to it that six copies are sold.
An amendment to the federal bank
ruptcy act has just become law. 1t
stops some of the leaks in the present
law, and for one thing denies persons
the right of taking advantage of bank
ruptcy oftener than once in six years.
A Russian artillerist alleges that ex-
periments in the Russian army have
proved the use of yellow spectacles by
gunners and rifiemen enables them to
shoot more accurately by thirty per
cent. than when they use the naked
eye, especially in variable light.
Hobson has resigned from the navy
but he continues to lecture on the nee.
essity of larger navy. His work is
| telling, too. The New Jersey Legisla-
ture has just adopted resolution call
ing for large navy and other states
will soon follow her example.
A bill has been passed by both houses
providing for new building for the
| agricultural department, to cost not
more than $1,50O,OOO. The present
buildings are wholly inadequate for
the work now conducted by this de-
partment.
While the centre ofpopulation is not
far from Columbus, Ind, the centre of
manufactures in this country is COM
! puted to be 25 miles southeast of Mans
field, Ohio. 1t has moved west about
40 miles in ten years, or much more
than the centre of population.
The slump in the coal market has
come, and the prices are quite as likely
! to go down below the level of fair
profit as they were to arise to extor-
ton. Householders will soon be hold
| ing up their heads and demanding
coal at their own price. The great
coal "hold-up" is at an end.
In his annual report President Eliot
of Harvard University, created some
thing of sensation by what he said of
college men having so small families.
That set some people to looking up
President Eliot's record, with the re-
suit that they find he is-a bachelor
The navy department has awarded
contracts for two new ii, 500 ton armor-
ed cruisers, the Tennessee and the
Washington, 10 cost SI,033,0 900 each.
One will be built by the Cramps at
Philadelphia and the other by the New
York Shipbuilding company, at Cam
den, y. j.
a yOluminous protest against the
seating Of Hon. Reed Smoot, the new
Neglected senator from Utah, has been
received by the senate IL protests on
the ground that be- isa Mormon apostle
and that as such he Is bound 10 CON
slider his obligations to Mormonism