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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-10-13
QUEER SOLOMON OAKS.

A queer old fellow is Solomon oaks:
lie belongs to the good natured order of
folks:
lie sings and he whistles about the work
And nobody has ever known him 10
shirk
And ne makes you think with his blithe
good cheer.
OF the merry blackbrds when spring is
here
II they come to him with a doleful tale
OF neighbours Suits they a 1Rays fail
TO rouse attention TO what they tell
At such time he can't hear very we'll:
But II they praise up u neiEhbor--Lhcn
lie can hear as well as the best of men.
BY his friends of the living as well as the
dead.
II he's asked what lie thinks OF a man
gone wrong,
Hcil pause. perhaps, in his cheerful sopa
And say: I'm sorry, but there must be
Some good to his credit, II seems to me"
II haven't time to keep track" says he,
"Of the sad things and bad things that l
might see
II l was to look for them; so I try
70 shut nay eyes as l pass them by
And see only good things along the way
And l find lot of them every day.
by always having something TO do
/ keep out of trouble and mischief too.
/ stick to my business rs best 1 can,
And keep on good terms with my fellow
man
And the better | treat him. it seems to me,
The better my feilow-mau treats me-
A queer old fellow. this Solomon Oaks,
Wich his merry laugh and his pleasant
jokes.
And his faith in his fellows said or sung.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-10-13
Mosquito Bite Remedies

Not only in America, but in Europe
as well, have mosquitoes been excep-
tionally abundant this year. Ammonia
the remedy commonly used in tnis
country, is condemned by a German
physician, who says it does not pre-
vent the effect of bite from remain
ing several days. He recommends hold
ing the place bitten for a few seconds,
and repeatedly, in hot steam, which
he says, promptly relieves the itching
and pain. Another remedy superior to
ammonia is alum dissolved in alcohol
and rubbed in vigorously. To keep
mosquitoes away at night, rub the
face. neck and hands with lemon Juice.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-10-13
THE COST OF WAR.

Toxic, oct. Tn addressing the
members of the united clearing houses
of Toxic yesterday Count Okuma, the
leader Of the progressive party, warn
ed the people to prepare for a long
war. the date of the termination OF
which it was now impossible to fore
tell. He predicted that the cost to
Japan for a TWO years war, including
the loans which had been already
placed and the expenses consequent
upon the war at its termination would
total one billion dollars, which would
make the per capita share amount to
twenty dollars.
The count predicted that it would be
necessary for the Japanese govern
ment TO borrow $25O,0OO,0O0 next year
and added that if $7J, 100000 were Sc
cured abroad the country must face a
depreciation in the value of it's Sc
curities.
The Port Arthur blockading fleet
has captured junk laden with pro
visions. The junk was endeavoring to
enter the harbor. The statements Of
the crew and evidence found aboard
the junk indicate the existence of a
fleet of so junks. organized TO run the
blockade from the vicinity of Using
tau.
St. Petersburg, Oct. While the
admiralty claims to have no knowl-
edge OF the departure of the Port Ar
thur squadron, it is inferrable from
the way in which the report that such
an event had transpired has been re
ceived, that definite confirmation
would not create surprise. No direct
orders have been sent to Admiral
Wren to break through the blockad-
ing feet. but it is admitted that he
has discretionary powers to leave Port
Arthur should the situation de-
mand or conditions be propitious.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-10-13
The Hanna MausoIeunn.

Worcester, Mass, Oct. S.-The chill
dren Of the late Marcus A. Hanna are
TO erect u 100000 mausoleum in the
family lot at Lake View cemetery,
Cleveland. 10 contain IS catacombs for
the Hanna family. In the center will
lie two mammoth sarcophagi of pure
Norwegian marble. One win contain
the body OF Senator Hanna, the other
will be the final resting place of Mrs.
Hanna. With the exception OF the
sarGOphagi, the entire structure is to
be OF Troy white granite. II will be 10
feet long, % wide and "a high in the
simple style of the Greek temple. y
Worcester concern has been awarded
the contract
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-10-13
News FROM
WAR ARENA
JAPs SHOWED GREAT BRAVERY.

JAPS SHOWED GREAT BRAVERY.
London, Oct Ga news agency
here late last night sent out a dispatch
dated Toxic, October 5, saying: 1T is
reported that the Russian squadron
made a sortie from Port Arthur TO-
day and that great naval battle oc-
CURED" No details are given.
St Petersburg, Oct. G.-EmperOr
Nicholas has received Gen. StOessels
official report of the desperate four
days assault of the besiegers upon
Port Arthur from September 10 to
September 90, from which it appears
that the unofficial report from Che Foo
was by no means exaggerated. The
Japanese displayed frcnZied bravery
but they lost 10000 men and their only
success was the capture of two re
doubts guarding the waterwOrks. They
prepared for the assault by a general
bOmbardment and then launched their
attacks simultaneously from the north
and west. Night and day they fought
under cover OF a continual lombard
ment from their siege guns and finally
reached the redOubts Oh the north
side.
chiefly against the commanding posi-.
tion on High Mountain. which faces
Pigeon Bay, slightly south of Fort
Else. The mountain is 500 feet high
and if it had fallen it's possession
would have given the japanese a tre-
mendous lever against the chain of in
ner defences. The carnage there was
terrible and eliminated September %,
when the japanese succeeded in
reaching and occupying the Russian
armOred shelter trenches.
During the night Lieut.. PoggorslIy,
of the navy, at the head of a detach.
ment of volunteers, descended upon
the trenches and blew them up with
pyroXylin bombs, producing a panic
among the besiegers, who fed, leaving
the mountainside strewn with
dead. The Japanese then abandoned
further attempts.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-10-13
The Nebraska Is Launched.

Seattle, Wash, Oct. SIN the pres
cnce Of a multitude of onlookers and
christened by a daughter of the gov
ernor OF the state for which she is
named, Uncle Sans latest battleship
Nebraska. was launched from the
ways OF the Moran Brothers Co. yes
terday. Gov. Mickey, of Nebraska
and his party participated in the cere-
monies. The Nebraska is the first bat
tleship constructed on the Pacific
coast north of San Francisco.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-10-13

According to the Giornale d'Italia.
the pope has decided to purchase a
motor car for use in the shady groves
OF the vatican gardens in place Of the
traditional light carriage drawn by
slaereal-looFing horses.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-10-13
LITTLE INFORMATION.

London Oct. S.-No information
bearin on the military situation in
Manchuria is contained in Fridays
dispatches. TOXIC reports that four
Russian warships were damaged by
the fire OF the Japanese land batteries
during recent fighting at Port Arthur,
one OF the vessels being destroyed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

The Russian torpedo bost d Stfoyei
BszstrashEi was surrounded ~ tit
Japanese or Port Arthur and destroyed
IS members of the crew being killed
The battleship Pobieda struck a mine al
Port Arthur and was badly damaged.
A dispatch from Liaoyang say that thu
Russian entertainments on the Ysly
river have been completed.
The Russian government has given no
tice that newspaper correspondent:
using wireless telegraphy will be treated
as spies and shot.
Admiral Togo again bombarded Por.
Arthur for seven hours, but without re-
suit, except the killing of seven and
wounding eight.
The imperial palace In Seoul, Korea,
burned and all except one building Is
destroyed. The emperor Is guarded by
Japanese troops. An incendiary plot Is
rumored.
The London Times is not alarmed by
the Russian order against wireless te-
legraphy and it will continue It's news
service from the Yellow SEQ. y"
Gen. Kuropatkin counsels the car ia
evacuate Port Arthur. where his troops
are in great danger.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
PETER NEIDERMEIER MAKES
TWO DESPERATE ATTEMPTS
TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
EATS MATCH HEADS
AND CUTS ARTERIES
Leader Of the Car Barn Bandits Is in
a Precarious Condition-Tears OF
Dressings Of Wounds-A> Boastful
Letter Found.

Chicago, April 19.-Peter Nieder-
meier, the leader of the car-barn bandits.
condemned to die on the gallows next
Friday, made two desperate attempts at
suicide early Monday and his condition
was so precarious that it was feared he
would not survive Should he recover
or still be alive next Friday he will be
carried to the gallows and executed.
Niedermeier had planned his attempted
suicide carefully
1t was shortly after midnight that the
condemned man made the double at
tempt at. suicide. While Guard Roeder
sat in front of his cell, the prisoner pre-
tended to 60 to sleep. He drew his
blanket up over his head, and then swal-
lowed the heads from number of parlor
matches which he had secreted. Then,
with lead pencil he attempted to sever
the artery in his left wrist.
Endures Torture in Silence.
He jabbed the sharp lead point into
the wrist and struck the radial bone.
Then he pierced the skin at point four
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
is REACHED
Iowa Coal Miners and Operators Sign
Two Year Agreement at
Des Moines.

Des Moines, Ia, April 19.-The coal
operators and miners signed an agree
ment Monday under the terms of which
Iowa mines will be operated for the
two years dating from April last. The
scale was finally ratified by the miners
branch of the Joint conference by vote
of 1879 to 119.
The scale provides for reduction of
five cents on screened coal, three cents
on mine run coal, a minimum of 81 80 for
day laborers working on top and of 5.55
per cent. for all other grades of labor,
while the price of powder remains at
two dollars per key. The scale is signed
for two years and is the first biennial
scale to be made in Iowa. The miners
returned to. work Monday.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
FLAMES CAUSE A PANIC.
Fire Attacks Hospital at Indianapolis
and One Woman Loses
Her Life.

Indianapolis, Ind, April 19.-While
the city fire department, reinforced by
companies from the suburbs, was be-
ing taxed to it's utmost fighting the Oc-
cidental hotel fire Sunday morning, an
alarm was turned in from st. Vincent's
hospital. When tbs first fire company
arrived one life had been lost and sew
eral were seriously injured in the panic
that followed.
Harriet Leahy, an old employe of the
hospital, leaped from a window on the
fourth floor, and when picked up was
dead In the rear, men and women
were making ropes of bed clothing, by
which they escaped to the ground be-
low Katherine Beach, less fortunate
than the rest, lost her hold and fell
from the third floor and is now in u
critical condition from internal injuries
sustained.
Several other nurses and attendants
were more or less bruised in their en-
deavor to escape from what they
thought was instant death.
Owing to the fireproof construction,
the actual loss to the building will not
exceed $1,000.
There were no additional deaths from
the effect of the fire at St. Vincent's
hospital up to noon Monday, but several
of the patients who were carried out OF
the building and who had been operated
upon but few hours before, were in a
very serious condition.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22

Immense avalanches are being caused
1t Hornbroch, Cal, by the bursting OF
mountain lake and the Southern Pacific
tracks are covered with mud and rocks
for q great distance. The slide is con.
sidered the worst in recent history.
Louis Peasant, murderer Of Mrs. Mary
Spilka, was hanged at the county Jail
in Chicago.
It is officially announced at the
worlds fair in st. Louis that the total
number of employees may slightly ex-
coed 100000.
Fire in the smelling works at How
ard Station, Mo-, did 100000 damage
Railroad freight cars and adjoining
property suffered to the extent Of $780,
900.
The mixed high school at Kansas
City, Kan, may be closed permanently
as q result of the race feeling that has
grown out of the killing of Roy Martin
a white pupil. by a negro.
Sailors from United States war yes
sells fought police at Pensacola. Fla,
and one artilleryman who was in the
crowd was killed and several Others
wounded.
George Clauser, aged 40; Edith NJ
Metzler. aged IS, and Stella knaus
aged II, were struck and instantly
killed by a Reading railway passenger
train near their home near Macung1e
Pa
Mrs. Laura Rebrach was shot and
killed in the streets of Pittsburg, Pa,
by Mrs. Hugh Beninger, who had
found her strolling with Mr.. Beninger.
The husband was wounded, but not Sc
riously.
MeHing SHOWS have disclosed thou
sands of dead sheep on the ranges in
Montana Hundreds of men are skin
ming the sheep and burning the re-
mains to prevent an epidemic.
George H. Knaebel, treasurer of San
ia Fe county, N. NJ. has confessed to
being a defaulter in the sum of proba-
bly, 100000.
Thomas F. McGarry. a prominent
Grand Rapids, Mich, attorney, who
was convicted of bribing Former City
Attorney Liant K. Salisbury and turn
ing over to him the Doodle fund in the
Lake Michigan water deal. has been
sentenced to four years in the state
reformatory at Ionia, Mich.
William Seybold, president of the
Reed and Pipe Organ company, Elgin,
ILL.,, died at the telephone in Chicago
while talking to his wife.
One woman is dead and six more are
probably fatally hurt as a result OF
a fire panic in ST. Vincent's hospital at
Indianapolis. Rescue of the endangered
invalids was marked by many acts OF
herOism.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Adj. Gen. Bell has taken back his
threat to put Judge Stevens in Jail at
Telluride, COL, for criticising the gov
ernor and military, and says the court
is exempt while enforcing the law.
Members Of congress are excited
over the senate's decision to investi-
gate the post ONCE department. The
president declines to interfere.
In the Fourth Michigan district re-
publican convention Congressman Ed
ward L. Hamilton, of Niles, was re-
nominated by reclamation.
Congressman Amos L. Allen, Of AL.
fred, was renominated by the First
Maine district republican convention.
Andrew Carnegie has created a fund
of $5,O0O,O00 for the benefit of 1.-The de-
pendents of those losing their lives IN
heroic effort to save their fellow men,
or for the heroes themselves if injured
only"
The probate court in New Haven,
Conn, refused to remove William J.
Bryan as an executor of the Bennett
will
A bill designed to keep the Chinese
out of the country, in spite of the abro-
cation of the treaty by the Celestial
government, has been introduced in
the house.
Henry H. Smith, former journal
clerk Of the house of representatives
and recognized authority on parlia-
mentary practice, died in Savannah,
Ga.
Noodle manufacturers of the United
States will meet in Pittsburg April 10,
for the purpose, it is said, of forming
an amalgamation of interests and
making uniform price.
Lake navigation will open at least
month later than usual.
Congress will adjourn one week from
next Thursday unless something unex-
pected arises in the meantime to cause
republican leaders to amend their
plans.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
MINOR NEWS items.

Eubonic plague is spreading alarm
ingly along the west coast of South
America.
Porto Rico wants national recogni-
ton sufficient to make a bond issue Of
SO, 00O, 900 good.
that the Bible can be read in public
schools.
The first national congress of edu-
Gated Indian men and women is to DO
held in St. Louis during the worlds
fair
Irishmen appeal to their brethren in
the United States to help stop emigra-
|tion, for fear the result will be depopu-
lation
Announcement is made that the next
church will be held in Boston October
5 to 25.
The zinc ore output in the Missouri
field for the past three weeks has ex-
ceeded the demand. The district valu-
alton reaches over $3,O00,O0O.
A thousand Poles in Cleveland, O.,
many of whom are Roman catholics,
met to protest against the erection of q
monument to Kosciusko, the Polish
patriot.
Lucrecia mine, one Of the greatest gold
producers in Durango, Mexico, to- an
American company for $3,000,O00.
England and Russia may reach an
agreement through the endeavors of
King Edward and the car, limiting
the war burden of Europe.
Senators conferred over the Burton
case and decided that the convicted
Kansas senator may hold his seat If
his official behavior is proper. A court
Idecree does not make the seat vacant.
DR.. Charles j. Chamberlain, profess
sor of botany in the University Of Chi
|cago, has a rare fern IA feet high,
which flowers every five years. He
found it recently near Jalapa, Mexico.
An immense irrigation scheme is
about to be inaugurated in Utah by the
government. The plan contemplates
making a reservoir of Utah lake. The
cost will be about $5,O0O,OO0. 1t is es-
|timated that 100000 acres will be ir-
|rigated, adding $30,000,000 to the land
valuation of the state.
Scraps of tanned skin taken from
the body of Harry Egbert, a murderer
hanged in January at the penitentiary
in Oregon, were sold on the streeta in
Salem, Ore, as souvenirs.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
FOREISN.

The Russian battleship PetropavlovsN
was sunk off Port Arthur by mine or
torpedo, and 800 of her crew, including
Vice Admiral Makarofl, we're drowned
Grand Duke Cyril, in line to the Rus
sian throne, escaped death, but is re-
ported seriously injured. The Russian
fleet was being driven back by the Jap
anese squadron when the Petropavlovsk
was sunk
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Teazer grounded during maneuvers at
Portsmouth. The crew was saved. The
craft may be a total wreck.
The British parliament, by vote OF
270 to 81, sanctioned the use of Indian
troops in connection with the mission
to Tibet.
Russians believe the battleship Pc
tropavlovsk was sunk by a japanese
submarine boat purchased in Europe
Vice Admiral Skrydloff, commander
of the Black sea feet, has been ap.
pointed by the car to succeed the late
Vice Admiral Makaroff as commander
in-chief of the Russian naval forces in
the far east.
Vassili Verestchagin, the Russian
painter, was Vice Admiral Makaroff's
guest on the Petropavlovsk. 1t is re-
ported that he was lost with the ship.
Port Arthur was bottled up by the
Japanese fleet after the battle of April
Is, so report at St. Petersburg declares,
Twelve thousand japanese were am
pushed by Russian troops while at
tempting to land near WIFI and were
driven back to their ships with great
loss Of life and ammunition.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
DOMESTIC.

knights of Columbu presented a
check for $4,000 to Cardinal Gibbons to
endow chair of secular history at the
Catholic university in Washington.
Striking brass workers are suspect
ed of starting fire which destroyed
the plant of the White Manufacturing
company, Chicago, causing loss Of
$4,000.
Twenty-Five men were instantly
killed on the United States battleship
Missouri at target practice off Pensa-
cola, Fla, by an explosion of powder
in one of the turrets. Hasty firing is
believed by naval officers to have been
the cause of the explosion.
Payment OF service pensions as re-
Gently ordered is opposed by the mi
nority of the house committee on ap-
preparations, which reports against
allowing $1,50O,O00 asked by the pen
sion bureau.
The season. of the National and
American baseball leagues has opened.
Senator Dietrich has been exon
Grated from all blame in connection
with post Office patronage in Nebraska
by a special committee of the senate
which made an investigation of his
indictment.
Albert A. Ames, former mayor of
Minneapolis, was arrested on an in
dictment charging him with accepting
bride December Is, 1901. He pleaded
not guilty and his case was set for
trial May 2.
Later and more accurate reports Of
the catastrophe to the United States
battleship Missouri while at target
practice of Pensacola, Wednesday.
give the total number Of dead as 80, Of
whom five were ships officers.
The battleship Missouri and the 600
men on board were saved after the ex-
plosion by the heroism OF gunner's
mate, who, seeing the flames threaten
ing the powder magazine below decks,
jumped into the magazine and closed
the door. The dead now number 90.
Rena Johnson, the 12-year--old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles John
son, residents of Sioux Falls, S. D., is
dead as the result of a chunk of bologna
lodging in her windpipe,
Five members of the London police
force arrived in st. Louis to guard the
Jubilee presents belonging to the late
Queen Victoria, which are already here
and which will be exhibited during the
worlds fair.
lone man was killed, two girls were
dangerously burned and eight other per-
sons injured by an explosion in the dye
ing establishment of William Meister in
Brooklyn.
Martin Hammer. a laborer, was killed
and five other persons were injured in a
collision between an electric car and a
wagon in Minneapolis. MINI.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-04-22
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Daily Proceedings Of the Senate and
House Briefly Told.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Daily Proceedings Of the Senate and
House Briefly Told.

In the senate on the 18th considera-
ton of the bill for government OF the
Panama canal zone was taken up. In
an hour 219 pension bills were passed.
The house devoted the day to consider
alton of the Cooper bill amending the
law relating to the Philippine islands.
In the senate on the 14th the CON-
mittee on appropriations reported the
sundry civil bill. 1t carries $780,
400. The senate devoted the entire
day to consideration of the bill for
the government of the Panama canal
zone. The house passed the Philip
pine bill, and began consideration OF
the general deficiency bill.
In the senate on the 18th the Panama
canal bill was passed. The house de-
voted the day to discussion of the gen.
sral deficiency bill.
In the cenate on the 18th Senator
Morgan called up his resolution for the
discharge of the committee on inter-
oceanic canals from consideration OF a
resolution of inquiry concerning the
Panama canal, introduced recently, but
his resolution was voted down. Sena-
tor McCumber introduced bill provid-
ing for the appointment by the presi-
dent of a commission of three persons
to revise the pension laws and report
to the next session Of congress-. In
the house an amendment to the gen.
eral deficiency bill, providing $4,000
for the proper disposition of the re-
mains of the victims of the explosion
on the battleship Missouri was adopted.