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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
BOLD ROBBERY is SUSPECTED
REGISTERED MAIL POUCH NO.
WHERE TO BE FOU.ID.
Would Prove to be One of the Largest
Losses in the History of Post
office Department.

los Angeles, Cal-Reluctant ad-
three cities Wednesday confirm to
some extent the belief that the disap-
pearance of a registered mail pouch
somewhere within the jurisdiction of
the Kansas City postoffice last Satur-
day night will prove to be one of the
largest losses in the history of the
postofice department. From private
sources it was learned Wednesday that
. package of at least $4,000 in cur
rency was among the contents of the
pouch which carried, in addition, an
unusually large number of letters and
packages containing money and other
yaluables, the amount of which can
only be conjectured, but it may reach
. total of 100000.
The pouch was In transit from Los
Angeles to New York and the postal
inspectors, who have had the case in
charge for 4S hours, refuse any ex-
PLANTATION of the manner in which 1t
became lost to sight. That pouch of
safae has disappeared was admitted
Wednesday by the department at
Washington, by the postmaster at Los
Angeles and by the inspector, attached
TO the Kansas City postoffice who ap-
pears TO have the case for ilyestiga-
ton. The fact that the mail in
process of transfer at the Union sta
ton at Kansas City is handled in
temporary sub-station since the de-
struction of the regular branch Office
by fire several months ago, supports
the theory that advantage was taken
of conditions presumed to be more lax
than ordinarily.
There is reason to believe that the
package of currency was a shipment
made by a Los Angeles bank to its
New York correspondent. Postmaster
Flint of Los Angeles stated that it
would be impossible for any officer of
the department to estimate the total
contents of the missing pouch until the
holders of receipts issued on the day
OF shipment had made affidavits as to
the vaiuables mailed. The cashier Of
the Farmers and Merchants National
bank Wednesday night said:
According to our information a mail
pouch made up here on June and
leaving for New York on the following
morning, has disappeared. A conser-
vative valuation of the currency con-
tents. furnished by the other banks of
this city, will be $4,000. The total
amount is made up Of between 80 and
SO packages Our correspondent at
New York is the Chemical National
bank, to whom our portion of the ship
ment was consigned"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
BILLIK GRANTED A REPRlEvE
and His Guards Were Ready for
Death March to the ScaffoId.

Chicago, Ill-Herman Billik, the
clairvoyant condemned TO die at II
o'clock on Friday. was granted a re-
prieve as his neck was barred for the
moose and his guards were ready for
the death march TO the Scaffold
Judge Landis ordered stay of execu-
ton at 1l:10 oclock. thereby giving
Billik time to carry his case before
the supreme court of the United
States.
The incidents attending the stay of
execution were dramatic in the eX-
treme. Billik was snatched from
death almost at the foot of the seat
fold. He had received the right of
extreme JUNCTION. With Father OCal-
laghan he had uttered his last prayer
His neck had been barred for the
moose and the iailer was forming the
march to the scaTold.
Outside the Jail. Dearborn avenue.
Michigan and Illinois streets We're
packed from curb to curb with peo-
pie They could not see the hanging
and knew it, but they were attracted
hither by that morbid feeling that
would be satisfied only when the drop
fell. the sound OF which is usually dis
tinctly audible in the streets sur
rounding the jail.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
Life-Savinu Work.

The stars in their courses condemn
the idle woman. The quiet forces of
nature reproach almost as severely
the woman who voluntarily overworks,
and thus makes herself a bindrance
snstead Of help ia the busy world.
The keenest impression left by Prof.
Palmer's noble biography of his wife,
Alice Freeman Palmer, is that OF her
wonderful skill in adapting her work
10 her strength, and in finding
strength for all important work, says
the Youths Companion She always
scoffed at the idea of saving herself"
She saw clearly that a woman's yigor
is not like n cistern, containing SO
much water, but rather like a spring,
flowing for human need, and to be
guarded at its source, not at its mouth.
Says Prof. Palmer: IF there is any
one lesson which Mrs. Palmer's life
prominently teaches, IL is the life-pre-
serving influence of persistent, severe
and judiciously managed labor" She
experienced every sort of demand
which may be made on a woman, ex-
cept. perhaps, that of monotonous toll
at some long continued drudgery. Even
that, one can fancy, she would have
irradiated by her joy in every human
relation. In her varied and exacting
life she steadily built up her physical
strength. Her power of physical en-
durance, not great in girlhood, in
creased as her judgment ripened
she believed continuous work to be
conducive to health, and proved it so
by practice" her husband testifies.
She died of an acute disease, which
could not have been foreseen or pre-
vented, but her too short life is a glo-
rious witness TO the value of sound
mind in a sound body.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
Compromise Agreement.

The house and senate reached a
compromise agreement by which was
stricken from the pension appropria-
tion bill the house provision TO abolish
the Is pension agencies and consoli-
date the entire pension work in one
central agency at Washington. The
compromise leaves in the bill the en-
tire amount of money appropriated
for the conduct of the Is agencies, but
with provision that only so much Of
1t as is necessary in the opinion of
the president shall be used, the presi-
dent having the right to abolish such
of the agencies as in his judgment
may be wise.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
imports FalIinu Fast.

glance at the latest monthly sts-
tistlcs OF the foreign trade of the
United States shows that the sweep.
ing changes wrought by general econo.
mics since the panic last fall are still
IN full swing. In April, for exanpIe
the imports of merchandise were val
ued at only $S7 ,4S1 900 against $r2g..
o54.OO0 in the corresponding month OF
last year. The decrease of more than
S42,00O,000 means decline of So per
cent 1t far more than offset the Iose
Of $2i,OO0,000 in exports and left the
balance Of trade on the side OF rhe
American producer and shipper By al
most $46,000,O00 instead Of less than
S2S,0OO,00O in April, 1907.
This country is still paying Old
debts to Europe, still rolling up for
eign credits, still reducing the amount
of American securities held by old
world investors. The change is so
swift and steady that it must exert a
great effect upon the future of bust
ness.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
NEW THEORY AS TO LAW.
Method That Does Not Seem to WcfS
as Well as the Old.

Mr.. Bryan, being the Democratic
candidate for defeat, ratified by the
Republican preference of him in that
capacity. his ideas upon such sub
iect as the currency at this time are
important They seem similar 10 those
of Mr. Roosevelt regarding the anti
trust law. that is. that our currency
laws are bad. but that they should he
enforced. Thus, in his collCquy with
President Forgan at the Chicago din
ncr,as reported in various papers. he
declared that certain National bank Off
cials ought to he sent to jail, although.
ii the law had been enforced in New
York during the panic. the panic
would have been a great deal worse
That is the new fashion in legisln-
ton. The old theory used to be that
the laws embodied the best practice OF
the commercial community. The new
theory is that the commercial commu.
nifty, at its peril, shall adjust itself to
the happy thoughts of the Legislators.
1t is within the record that the new
method does not work as well az the
Oil In fact, it hardly works at all. AL
most nobody goes to Jail. and almost
no impression is made upon CONNER
cial practices which are sustained BY
public opinion and good merchant Gus
tom. The chief fact is that the law is
brought into disrepute and loses its
sanction as standard of good prar-
tice.
1t is obvious that if in fact the law
was capable of producing an alteration
of ancient and approved mercantile
practice we should have easy and fire..
quent commercial commissions. We. do
not have them, nor will Mr.. Bryan
have more success than Mr.. Roosevelt
in rallying the opinion which counts in
the last analysis to the support OF laws
discredited by universal rejection of
them because of tt faults of the laws
rather than because of the vices OF the
violators of the law The idea is gain
ing headway that the better way of
getting the law obeyed is to pass laws
deserving to be obeyed. rather than to
send good men 10 jail for breaking
laws incapable of being obeyeQ with
out disaster.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
CHANGES IN DINGIEY LAW.
Washington Star Sees Action TO Fob
low the Election.

While nothing will be done during
the campaign under the two tariff res
olutions adopted by congress the &C
tion taken is a good thing, declares
the Washington Star. 1t confirms to
the country the attitude of the party
in power on the tariff question, and is
notice to the business world, even il
advance of the deliverances Of the twC
national conventions, that revision Is
at last on the way.
There will be plenty OF time after
the campaign closes and before The
new congress meets in extra session
for the collection and classification OF
all the data necessary in the premises
The senate finance committee VIII be
assisted by experts selected by itself,
while the ways and meazss committee
will, if it so desires, turn in any avail
able quarter for information needed
Everything now is plain enough. so
far as the general proposition is con
cerned The Dingley law, having
served the purposes of its enactment.
is to be overhauled in the interests %
fairer adjustment of rates. BY
whom shall the work be done? by
those who believe in the spirit of tho
law and would preserve it in the new
legislation, or by those who opposed
the law when enacted. ON the score
that its spirit was bad, and who
would eliminate that spirit from the
economic policy OF the government
Mr.. Payne 8ay3-3nd speaks for his
party in the statement-that the new
law should be founded on protection
in 4 word, the Dingley laW must he
brought up to date. Just as the policy
of protection was followed in framing
a law for the conditions that existed
in 1897, it must be followed in the
framing of a new law TO meet the con
ditions that next year will confront rs.
Whether the times are bad or good,
protective tariff is necessary to- tue
we'll being of this country.
On the other hand, the Democratic
contention is that protection as dis
tinct object is an evil 1t is charac-
terized as the mother of trusts, and
the source of all our woes. We should
renounce it by formal declaration, we
are told, and proceed by liberaf de-
grees to get rid of it altogether by
legislation. AS rapidly as possible, all
tariff duties should be laid on the low
est lines, and the country brought to
the basis of a tariff for revenue only.
What say the people? The vote IN
November will turn largely on this
issue.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
DUN'S WEEKLY REPORT
Gains Outnumber Losses in CONNER
cial and Industrial World.

New York City-R. G.. Dun e.
Co s Weekly Review of Trade says:
Gains Cutnumber losses in reports Of
commercial and Industrial activity,
business being remarkably we'll main
tained considering the propinquity of
political conventions. to which was at
tributed the dull security market I'm
usually good duplicate orders are still
received from retailers who under
estimated current requirements. but
wholesale and jobbing departments are,
chiefly occupied in making prepara-
tions for fall and winter trade. about
which there is a feeling of confidence.
Full returns for May indicate that
building permits were only about 20
per cent less than in the same month
in 1907. the best comparison of any
month this year. and anthracite coal
production surpassed 5000, 900 tons
for the first time on record.
All other news regarding the iron
and steel industry is of little sig
nificance this week in comparison
with the lower prices for steel pro-
ducts named by the leading interests.
Thus far the better terms have
brought no increase in volume of busi-
ness, consumers deferrng operations
in the hope that still more attractive
prices will be fixed. About a third OF
the bar requirements of agricultural
makers have been filled at
the lower prices named last week
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
FAMOUS AGNEW-HART RACE
TRACK BILL PASSED BY
VOTE OF 2e TO rs.
INVALID SENATOR LEAVES BED
Kentucky May be Effected More Than
New York-"imprisonm in
County Jail or Penitentiary for
One Year" is Penalty.

Albany, n. Y.-After struggle,
the precise like of which no man
In or about the legislature has
ever seen, or expects to see again, the
famous Agnew-Hart anti-race track
gambling bills are now laws of the
state of New York Gov. Hughes, by
his signature affixed to each of the
bills at ABS Thursday afternoon
crowned legislative victory, the bril-
liancy of which equalled only by its
uneXpectedness, is conceded even by
those who fought him in the matter
to the last ditch and beyond.
Tho annals of legislation in this
state may be searched in vain for a
day like this. The decisive votes
which passed the bills, were cast by
Senator Otto G.. Foelker of the fourth
senate district of Brooklyn, who
crawled from a sick bed and made
60-mile railroad journey to do 1t, so
weak and distressed in mind and body
that he seemed on the verge of utter
collapse, and by new senator, Will
liam G. Wallace of Niagara Falls, who
was elected at a special election in the
campaign preceding which the gov
ernor himself toured the district
speaking In behalf of his election.
The bills which now constitute chap
ters SOC and 507 of the laws of 1908
in no way affect, so far as their face
provisions go, the state racing COM
mission in particular or horse racing
in general. They relate solely to the
penalties for gambling. pool selling
and book making, which as before, are
declared by the law to be "a public
nuisance" Chapter sos amends the
racing law by repeating that pro
vision under which an exclusive pen
atty of simply recovering at civil suit
of the amount wagered was incurred,
which has applied to gambling within
a race track enclosure. thus exempting
such gambling from the penalties
operative elsewhere in the state, and
it also provides that this general pen
atty shall be imprisonment in the
county jail or penltenuary Tor
period of not more than one year"
without alternative of fine.
Chapter 507 amends the penal code
in like manner and in addition charges
the grade of the crime from that of
felony. which any gambling was until
Thursday, TO that of a misdemeanor
thus bringing the offense within the
jurisdiction of the minor criminal
courts.
Kentucky probably will suffer to
greater extent by the passage of the
race track bills in New York than
will New York Many wealthy east
erners own large farms in the blue
grass region and operate hundreds
of breeding plants there. Millions of
dollars are invested in these plants,
and a small army of men is employed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
SOLDIERS SHOOT NIGHT RIDERS
TWO MEN ARE WOUNDED IN THE
OHIO TOBACCO FIELDS.
Two Prominent Farmers Arrested
Soldiers Are Given Orders to
"Shoot to Kill"

Ripley, O.-Lieut. Kennedy of Co.
A, who is in charge of the outpost
at Hiett, reported that his sol
diers Thursday night shot two night
riders. One man, whose name is sup
posed to be Miller, was shot through
the lung, 1t Is satd, and the other man.
whose name is not known. was shot
In the knee. The men were carried
away by their companions
Friday Major Becht and Marshal
Miller visited a number of families
named Miller, searching for the
wounded night rider as it was ru-
mored that he died Friday morning.
He was not found, but the search was.
renewed Friday night
Tip Martin, a farmer, who went to,
the aid of the soldiers fighting the
night riders, found a note tackled to
his barn door Friday morning which
reads: "You got two of us, but we
are coming back, and will get you and
five others David Maddox found
similar notice tackled on his ware
house. This is believed to eubstan-
tiate the gtory that two men werH
shot.
Newton Mann and William Frost.
prominent farmers, were arrested Fri.
day night for an attack on Bert
Hooks house. They we've releaaed on
$1,000 bail each.
Lieut. Kennedy was in Ripley Fri
day to get a supply of ammunition
and said he expected another battle
any night as the night riders in the.
vicinity of Hiett have become des-
perate and dare the soldiers to fire Oh
them.
Shoot to kill If you are molested."
These instructions were given to
three soldiers, members of the state
guard of Kentucky, who arrived in
Newport, KY, Friday morning with
rifles in their hands. The soldiers
were seated on a mammoth wagon in
which were several thousand pounds
of tobacco
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
TRIBUTE TO HANNA
LEADER DESERVED WELL OF HIS
COUNTRY.
In Twice Steering the Republican
Party to Victory His Service TO
the People Was a Very
Great One.

The addresses at the unveilng of
Mr.. Hanna's statue at Cleveland de-
scribed a worthy and most successful
man. We have not had in our affairs
politician superior within the same
lines to the leader who twice steered
the Republican party to victory. I'm
trained in statecraft, unread in politi-
cal history, his life until he neared the
60-year mark devoted to business pur-
suits, he came upon the scene at a
critical period for his party and for
the country, took charge of his partys
campaign and won the battle. Draw
Ing a senatorship as a reward for his
services, he at once became a leader
also in that field, and inveigled, as it
were, into discussion in the senate
one day he discovered to his own sur
prise that he possessed talents for de-
bate and from that hour was account
ed a strong force in the list of the SEN
ate's speakers. The record is as strik-
ing as unique.
1t is said of some historical person
| ages that they died at fortunate time
fer their famc. This is the judgment
in Mr., LincOln's case, and in Mr.. Nc.
kinley's. Is it true also in Mr.. Han
| mas case?
Mr.. Hanna aspirei to the presiden-
cy, and there were leaders in his party
who whetted his appetite for the of
flee. They thought his time had come
in 1904, and he was persuaded himself
that there was call for him. He be-
gan coquetting with New York infiu-
ences, and they began the spreading
of Hanna literature" over the coun-
try.
This, as Mr.. Hanna soon discovered,
was mistake. Mr.. Roosevelt was the
man of that hour, and in firm but
friendly way he put the matter up to
Mr.. Hanna, with the result that the
latter retired from the field. Then fol-
lowed, to the general regret. Mr.. Han
mas death.
Had Mr.. Hanna lived would his in
fiuence on public questions have in
creased or diminished during the past
four years? And would he to-day be a
quantity in the contest for the Chicago
| nomination? Who may answer these
two questions with confidence? Mr.
Hanna and Mr.. Roosevelt remained
friends to the end. But they differed
in, and about, many things, and the
time since Mr.. Hanna died has been
marked by controversies which would
have strained the relations of the two
men severely.
Mr.. Hanna died, therefore, with the
halo of his big achievements bright
about his head. The country was still
ringing with his praises. His one check
he had gracefully met. Had he lived
and received another, his bearing
might not have been so successful. He
might have passed from the scene a
disappointed man, and not unwilling
that the public should know his feel
ings and his party feel his resent.
| ment
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

Lawyers are not so prominent as
legislators in Great Britain as in this
country. Mr.. Asquith, the new pre-
mier, is the first eminent lawyer to
hold that office for almost a century.
Lord Melbourne, il is true, was called
to the bar, and Disraeli was a lawyers
clerk, but neither of them practiced.
Lord Salisbury and Mr.. Balfour were
landed proprietors and their profes-
sion, if any, was that of statesman
ship. Public life attracts men of
means in England, a large proportion
of whom regard ii as a duty to give
their time to the service of their coun-
try. Neither the members of the house
of lords nor of the house of commons
receive compensation for their serv-
ices, and although the Irish National
ist and members of the Labor party
are paid from funds privately sub
scribed, the amount they receive is
quite moderate. The ordinary English
lawyer is so busily occupied making a
living that he does not often seek an
election TO parliament until middle
life. In this country young lawyers
enter public life as means of making
themselves known and thus increasing
their clientage.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
Good Work on Panama Canal.

The Americans took hold of the
work of building the Panama canal in
the spring of 1904. At first their work
was merely exploratory and expert
mental. Then it suffered various de-
lays, practically all the men being
called off for some time in 1905 for
sanitary engineering work Neverthe-
less, in scarcely four years-three
years and IL months, down to May l g.
1908, they have eXcavated Il total of
50, lIG,60S cubic yards, or 43 per cent
of what ii took the French more than
23 years to eXcavate. Moreover. and
this is the most significant feature of
the case, of that amount 1886. 462
cubic yards were, lifted in these four
months of 1908 That is to say, in
four months our men have done Is
per cent. of what the French did in
PTS months-15 per cent. as much
work in only Ia per cent. as much
time.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
Porterhouse Steak 80 Cents a Pound.

New York City.-Beef is higher
than it has been since 1892 at this
time of the year and the cost of other
meats has risen in sympathy. Porter
house steak is retailing at 80 cents per
pound. Other steaks and beef cuts are
proportionately high. There can be
little relief, wholesalers say, until July
when the grass fed cattle are put on
the market. With this increase in
price the consumption of meat is grow.
ing less, people seeming to have found
a substitute
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

1t was in Germany that the fireless
cook-atove was perfected, and now
comes news from a special consular
agent that the Germans are making a
freless railroad locomotive. 1t is
equipped with boiler after the man.
ner of other locomotives, but the wa,
ter in it is heated to the necessary
temperature from a stationary plant
Enough power can be stored in it to
operate it for hours for switching pur.
poses in a railroad yard, and 1t does
not take more than Is minutes to
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