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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
STRANDED ON BREAKWATER
Boys Found Dead When Tugmaster
Leaped to Them - Battles With
Sea of Remarkable Fierceness.

Ashtabula Harbor, o. After bat
tlihg with sea of remarkable
fierceness and risking his life in a
daring jump from tug to breakwater,
Capt Whitney Carr reached two boys
he had hoped to rescue, but found
them dead.
The bodies, those of fisher lads,
were taken off the breakwater after
much difficulty They We're identified
as Nikola Nikolicichi, 1S, and Seynar
Roseberg, 16.
Stranded on the breakwater, the
boys had perished of exposure in the
high seas which had beaten over the
barricade all night.
When their boat was seen bobbing
in the waves Thursday morning, Carr,
local tugmaster for the Great Lakes
Towing Co., at once started to the
rescue in the tug Monarch.
When the boat was brought within
ten feet of the breakwater, Carr
leaped from it's deck, as it could not
be brought any closer.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
A New Precedent.

A new precedent in insanity cases
has been set by William H. Holmes of
Omaha, on trial for the embezzlement
of 500. Although insanity is his sole
defense, no alienists have been called,
no one has testified to hereditary
taints, and no mention has been made
of brainstorm or exaggerated ego. The
witnesses have all been ordinary citi-
2ens who have met him in everyday
life. Sam Hoff, eX-sheriff and member
of the Legislature, testifies that he be-
lieves Holmes insane because he
wants bath every day and is scTupu-
lous about his dress. George Stryker.
another ex-sheriff, says that Holmes
would have "a roaring toothache eve
nings, but would be all right morn
ings,' which, coupled with the fact
that he turned out his gas in Jail at
p. m. and went to sleep, though the
rules allowed him to have it going till
3, proved madness conclusively. The
only departure from the homemade
brand of evidence was when Holmes
attorney argued that, as all the mas
ters of music, art, literature and poll
ties had been more or less crazy,
Holmes must undoubtedly be so. One
telling argument was adduced-tha
prisoner ate breakfast foods, How
ever, remarks the New York Post. no
one thought to point out the most
conclusive proof of all, namely, that,
il he had not been insane, Holmes
never would have embezzled merely
S70G.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
Would Never Be Paid.

"The Republican program for tariff
revision is to revise it higher, by i'm
posing maximum tariff rates above the
present high rates, which will be
called the minimum rates. How the
trusts and combines must be laughing
in their sleeves, and how willingly
they will come down to carry out
such program. Macon News.
If the Georgia man knows anything
at all about the tariff he should know
that the maximum rate of duty would
never be paid. 1t would simply bar
out imports from countries refusing
to grant their minimum rates on i'm
ports from the United States. and we
should get the imports at the lower
rates from countries which treated us
fairly.-American Protectionist.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
REMAINS TO BE EXHUMED
Declare Poison to Be Cause of Detah-
Suspicion Directed to Young
Widow.

Chicago, III. - Suspicion similar to
that which preceded the arrest Of
Herman Billik for poisoning several
members of the Vrzal family caused
Coroner Hoffman Tuesday to procure
an order from Judge Kersten for ex.
animation of the body of Charles Stro
ner, 81, who died March g.
Questions raised by relations of the
dead man were directed at Mrs. Maria
Kara Stroner, whom he married Is
months ago and who is said to be a
fortune teller and seller of love po
tions.
The body will be removed from the
Bohemian National cemetery and an
analysis will be made of the contents
of the stonlachc to ascertain the ma
ture of white liuqid" administered
to Stroner for several weeks preced
ing his death.
A motive for the suspected crime
which was intimated by persons. who
requested the investigation was a for
tune of $4,000 which became the
property of Mrs. Maria Kara Stroner
and a son, John Kara, before Stro
ners death, although a stepson by a
former marriage contested the con
veyance in the courts.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
WILL NOT BE A SCAPEGOAT
Former Attorney General of New York
Threatens Expose in Bank Failure
Charged With Extortion.

New York City. - Sensational de-
velopments are predicted in the case
of Nathan Vidaver, former deputy at
torney general, under arrest on
charges of eXtorting $500, preferred
by William NJ. Montgomery, former
head of the Hamilton bank, to have
the newspapers called off" in connec-
ton with certain publications reflect
ing on the conduct of the defunct
bank.
When Vidaver appeared in court
Thursday he asked that his former
bond of $4,000 be discharged and he
be permitted to furnish a new one,
which he did.
Counsel for Vidaver declared the
case had been prejudiced by the pub
lie statements of certain persons for
merly associated with Vidaver. MY
client does not intend to be made
scapegoat for any men who desire to
clear their own skirts at his expense"
he said
The court denied the motion of At
torney General Jackson to expunge
from the records the presentment at
tacking his integrity recently returned
by the grand jury, and directed that
the presentment should be sent to the
governor and Legislature.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
The Elect of Peace.

While Admiral Evans fleet with
goOd-natured nonchalance is indulging
in target practice, riddling theoretical
hostile battleships in Magdalena bay,
the results of the first stage of its voy-
age around the world are becoming ap-
parent.
France, which is quite a naval pow
er itself, and has been habituated to
regard with scorn all ships that fly the
American flag, has been so impressed
that it is going to make a special study
of battleship construction as exempli-
fed in the Yankee fleet. England is
not talking much for publication, but
the achievement of our fleet has not
gone unnoticed in London, while in
every country of Europe the dignity
of the United States has been en-
hanced by the cruise which a few
weeks ago was denounced at home
and ridiculed abroad.
Those who attacked the sailing of
the fleet as a vainglorious move, and
one likely to offend a friendly pow.
err" find profitable lesson in the re-
suits thus far disclosed. Instead of
fostering war talk, the trip of the bat
tleships has dispelled the war clouds
over the Pacific. And the greater
voyage that remains to be made
around the world will be a mission Of
peace. Australia is preparing to vel.
come the steel-clad monsters as
friends, and at every port where they
put in they will strengthen the bonds
that bind Americans to all the peoples
of the world. Until human nature is
changed strength and prowess will
enhance the friendship between ma.
tions. The chronic critics of the ad.
ministration have been silenced again
by the wisdom of the course.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
CHASTITY HEAD
RIDES ON PILOT
STRANGER DELI8ERATELY LIES
DOWN ON TRACK AND is
DECAPITATED.
HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED
II Am Waiting for Train to Kill Me,".
He Says When Told to Move On
Brakeman Thought He Was
Only Joking.

Cleveland, o. - Placing his head
across a rail of the Wheeling & Lake
Erie tracks at East Forty-ninth street
IN front % an onrushing locomotive, g
well-dressed man who has not been
identified sought a horrible death
Thursday morning The mans head
was chopped off and carried upright
on the pilot for several blocks, a
CHASTITY spectacle.
The man had been lowering about
the tracks since dawn. He acted
queerly and a brakeman approached
him and told him to move along.
Il will not" he replied. 81 am wait
ing for the train to kill me-"
lie spoke so calmly that the brake
man thought he was only joking. How
ever, he insisted that the man leave
the tracks. When he refused he went
for a policeman. He met Lieut.. Jirele
and Patrolman Puiak on East Forty
ninth street He asked them TO take
charge of the stranger. Just as they
got near him a train loomed up. They
saw the man deliberately lie down in
front OF the locomotive. They made
rush for him, but before they could
reach the spot the train had passed
over the body.
The head was cut clean from the
trunk. 1t was tossed in the air and
alighted on the pilot bleeding, ter
rifying spectacle. There it rested un-
til the train stopped and the horrible
object was removed
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
TWO TRAINS COME TOGETHER
FIVE MEN ARE INJURED, THREE
SERIOUSLY.
Minister, With Dull Knife, Cuts or
Limb to Ward Off Death
Ohio Woman a Heroine.

st. Louis, Mo. - Five men were
injured, three seriously, in a rear end
collision Friday at Spanish Lake, ID
miles north of st. Louis, between a
freight train and a Burlington passen-
ger train.
]. A. McKittrIck, a stockman of
Brookfield, was pinioned under the
wreckage by his left leg, which was
nearly crushed off at the knee. Scald-
ing steam from the damaged passen--
ger locomotive was enveloping him
and to save McKittrick's life the Rev.
r. c. Allen, of Grove City. Pa. cut
off the leg with pocket knife
With the scalding steam pouring
upon him, McKittrick pulled out his
knife and handing it to Rev. Allen.
who with others was trying to drag
the pinioned man loose from the
wreckage, commanded the minister to
cut off the crushed leg and save him
from being scalded to death
Mrs. Emma Renner, trained nurse
from Cincinnati, a passenger, pressed
bottle OF whisky to McKittrck's
lips and told him to drink.
I'll try little Of it." said McEit-
trick, but ! haven's touched a drop
OF the stutl in five years" The 8team
from Lhe engine increased III guam
tity. Cut off that leg. | can't stay
here and die" shouted McKittrlck
Heroically the Rev. Nj. Allen began
cutting at the tendons. The knife was.
dun and McKitrick suffered intense.
agony Throw it away and get an
AK" he finally cried But Mr.. Allen
desperately continued and in few
minutes had severed the tendons and
McKittick was carried into car.
Mrs. Renner, the nurse, with her
veil stanohed the flow of blood and
then gave Mcg<ittrick morphine
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
RUN DOWN BY A CRUISER
During Maneuvers the Torpedo De
otrcyer Was Sunk and Many Lives
Are Reported Lost

Plymouth England -Thirty-one OF
the crew Of the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Tiger were drowned, it is
officially reported from the cruiser
Berwick, when the latter vessel ran
down and sank the destroyer during
maneuyers in the channel One died
Of injuries. twenty-five were rescued
Latest adyices are that Lieut. Mid
dletCn, commander of the destroyer,
was among the drowned. Tugs have
gone to the scene of the disaster and
are trying to recover the bodies OF the
drowned
The destroyer was cut completely
in two and went down almost imme-
diately, many of the men being una
bic to jump clear of the wreck. The
night was overcast and the task of
rescuing those left struggling in the
water was exceedingly difficult.
Four men We're rescued after an all
night struggle in the waves.
An officers misjudgment of dis
tance was the cause of the accident
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
Proceedings of the Senate and House
of representatives.

Washington.-The passage of a bill
authorizing the construction of dam
across the Snake river in the state of
Washington and the consideration of
measure for adjudicating the claims
Of states against the government on
account of the disposition OF the pro-
ceeds of public lands occupied nearly
the entire session of the senate on the
LIST. Debate on the agricultural bill
was resumed in the house.
Washington.-The legislative session
of the senate on the I'd was largely
consumed by discussion without pass
age of a bill to reorganize the public
school system of the District of Colum-
bia Carrying a total of 81 ,50S, &06.
the agricultural appropriation bill vas
passed by the house of representatives.
Washington.-The house on the 3d
considered the senate amendments to
the urgent deficiency bill and portions
of the District of Columbia appropria-
tion bill John Sharp Williams made
a speech against the tactics OF the
Republicans.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
WOULD LEAVE TARIFF ALONE.
New Haven Leader Sees Danger in
Disturbing Business.

The determination OF the Repub-
lican leaders in congress to permit
no kind of tariff legislation at this
session is politically and economically
wise
The business conditions of the coun-
try call for quieting treatment, where
as tariff agitation, even in the mild
form of a commission of investigation,
is disturbing
The tariff needs some readjustment,
but it should be readjusted to meet
normal conditions. The time for this
is when normal conditions prevail and
not during a period of financial de-
preston.
The manufacturers of the country
are divided on the question of revising
the present tariff Many of them deny
that there is any demonstrated neces-
sity for any revision. The country
has prospered under the Dingley act.
1t has proved itself one Of the best
tariff acts, if not the very best, the
country has ever had.
Then why change it? Why disturb
VIC Jus RSSo VI lle CpuHIiS ny even
agitatins its change? Would the cor
rection of the few incongruities and
imperfections which time has de
veloped in the Dingley law pay for the
disturbance incident to protective
tariff agitation? What guarantee is
there that the process of change would
limit itself to removing the defects il
the present tariff and not destroy sorl0
of its fundamental virtues?
These are vital questions and pre-
sent the gravity and danger of the re.
vision movement. The delegation Of
manufacturers which was in Washing
ton recently asking for the creation
of a tariff commission denied that
there is any danger to protection or
to the business of the country in an
investigation by an expert tariff com
mission
This delegation represented some
20 strong organizations and claimed to
speak for about so per cent of all the
manufacturers of the country The
ways and means committee in the
house and the senate finance commit
tee of the senate are composed ut
the present time of exceedingly com.
petent men, fully equal to the work
Of revising or reconstructing the tariff
when the necessity for it is demon
strated.-New Haven Leader.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
INDUSTRY STILL CURTAILEO
Coal Miners Strike SweIs Number OF
Idle Workers-Money Is Easy and
Borrowing Demand Light.

New York City.-Bradstreet' gives
out that trade is quiet the coun-
try over, industry is still curtailed,
stoppage of work by coal miners
swells the number OF idle workmeu
and collections are slow. and, al
though money is easy, bankers COM
plain that borrowing demand is light,
this latter being reflection of the
lack of new business and the absence
OF new enterprises.
The movement of crops to market
has been checked by farmers turning
their attention to the work of the APP
preaching season Retail buying.
which opened Wei last week, has not
held the gain throughout the week,
owing to the cold wave visitation and
the widespread effect of the coal min-
ers' stoppage of work in the central
west. Iron and steel are also re
ported rather less active for export, ow-
ing to quiet in industry abroad. 9th
er lines OF manufacturing industry
show little change.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
WEALTHY MEN INDICTED
Alleged Land Thieves Put on Trial for
Conspiracy to Defraud Un-
Gle Sam.

Washington, d. c. The trial OF
the land fraud case against Frederick
A. Hyde, John A Benson, Henry p.
Dimond and Joost H. Schneider, in.
volving an alleged conspiracy to de,
fraud the United States out of val.
liable lands in several western states.
was begun here Tuesday before JUS.
tice Stafford Upwards of 200 wit
nesses from IA states are here. This
case has been in the courts here and
in California for four years. An ap-
preparation of 100000 was made by
congress to cover the cost of the trial.
1t is believed the trial will continue
at least three months.
The indictments charge that these
men, operating through the names OF
fictitious persons, acquired thousands
of acres of school lands in Oregon
and California by false entries and
forged signatures, the entries later
being transferred with the help of in.
formation from subsidized clerks in
the general land Office.
Benson, San Francisco millionaire,
resisted eXtradiction, but the United
States supreme court decided against
him.
Binger Hermann, commissioner of
the general land office at that time
and later representative from Oregon,
sent special agents, Holsinger and
Magee, out west to investigate. The
report was submitted to Hermann,
who, it is alleged, held it up. Final
ly it was brought to the attention of
former Secretary of the Interior Hitch
cock by Magee.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
The Tariff ON Oil

The New York Evening Post states
the case truly when it says:
The oil tariff is not fairly open to
purely partisan attack. The Demo.
Gratis drafted the retaliatory clause,
and the Republicans in 1897 copied it
from the law of 1894"
Not so impartial, however. is the
assertion that the Democrats have
seen the error of their ways and
would like 10 take off the duties on
petroleum products, and that the Re
publicans have no logical excuse for
failure to cooperate" The Repub-
licans have all the logic of the situa-
tion. The oil tariff is automatic. i'm
posed because Russia tariffs imports
OF petroleum, and only for that reason.
If Russia were to take off her oil
tariff there would be no tariff on pc
troleum coming into the United
States. 1t is in pursuance of the coun-
teryailing duty principle that we main
tain tariff on ola principle which
is recognized in the tariff laws of
every nation. 1t is a sound principle.
and the Democrats would not be like
ly to abrogate it if they had the
power.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
NEEDED NAVAL BASE
NECESSITY FOR FORTlFYiNG
PEARL HARBOR.
Safety of Entire Pacific Coast Would
Be Menaced If an Unfriendly
Power Should Acquire and
Hold Hawaiian Islands.

The committee on naval affairs of
the house of representative reports
that every consideration of national
honor or policy demands that Pearl
harbor be made impregnable and
equipped as a naval base immedi-
ately"
Long before the annexation of Ha-
waii the United States was granted
the right to use Pearl harbor as a coal
ing station, but nothing was done to
utilize a valuable privilege. Since the
annexation of the islands congress has
been requested to improve Pearl
harbor so as to make it great naval
station, but it has been blind to the
Importance of the work.
1t was the avowed policy of the
United States long before the Ha-
waiian islands were American terri
tory that no foreign power should be-
come their master This was not be-
cause American missionaries had set
tied there and civilized the natives,
but because the safety of the entire
Pacific coast would have been menaced
if an unfriendly power held the is
lands. The menace would be even
greater today than il would have
been half a century ago.
The Hawaiian islands constitute the
outer line OF Notifications OF the Pa
cific coast, therefore it became the
paramount duty of the United States
the moment it became the owner of
the islands to make its position there
impregnable. 1t has had ten years
In which to do so and has done moth
ing, although it has been apparent all
the time that in the event of war with
a naval power it would strike at once
at the Hawaiian islands. The policy
OF hoping for the best and trusting to
luck has done no harm so far, but it is
too dangerous to be continued.
There has been similar neglect as
regards the Philippines One of the
first things which should have been
taken in hand was the creation of an
adequate naval station SO strongly
fortified as to be able to withstand an
assault by land or sea. Owing to a
difference of opinion as to the proper
site that matter has only just been
taken in hand. With one impregnable
naval station on the Philippines. an
other in the Hawaiian islands and an
other at the harbor of Pago Pago in
the Samoan group the United States
will hold three strategic points of in
finite Importance as far as the control
of the Pacific is concerned. OF these
Pearl harbor is in many respects of
the greatest Importance, and it should
be fortified without delay so that it
will be impossible to take the Ha-
waiian islands away from the United
States and make them the naval base
and coaling station of some foreign
fleet operating against the Pacific
coast.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
BY TROLLEY TO NEW YORK
Newspaper Man Reaches Cleveland
From Chicago by Electricity
Has Travelled $50 Miles.

Cleveland, o. Elliott Flower, a
Chicago newspaper man, arrived in
Cleveland Thursday on a trolley trip
from Chicago to New York He is try
ing to make the journey exclusively
by electric lines. He arrived here
from Toledo and started early Thurs
day with Ashtabula as his next stop.
Flower has travelled $50 miles so
far and the fare has been $1010. The
distance from Chicago to Cleveland by
railroad is 357 miles and Elliott has
had to go 232 miles out of his way
to keep on the trolley.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
Tho Man We Envv.

In one of his plays. Bernard Shaw
remarks that the man with the tooth
ache thinks everyone happy whose
teeth are sound, and the poverty
stricken man makes the same mistake
about the rich man" So it is with
most things. One always feels that
the thing one does not possess, or the
thing one cannot do. is the one thing
essential to happiness. The unsuc-
cessful think the successful must be
happy. The invalids think if they had
health nothing else would matter. The
laboring man thinks if he only had
leisure he would be content. But, for
tunately, happiness is not the preroga-
tive of any class of people or station
In life. No doubt some are gifted with
happier and more cheerful tempera.
ment than others, says the New YORK
Weekly, but ones point of view is
really largely a matter of habit, and
the thing to do is to try and get into
habit of letting ones thoughts dwell
On the pleasant things of life as much
as possible and forget its worries as
soon as may be.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

1t is inspiring to read that the Asso-
clation OF Master Plumbers is animat-
ed by the noble desire to mitigate hui
man suffering and lessen disease by
improving the standard of plumbing.
ihe enthusiasm with which the aver
age citizen greets this sentiment gets
something of jolt, however. with the
further announcement that by giving
the people sanitary plumbing the or
Eanization will be able to command
prices that will pay its members fo.
The good work they do. Dear. dear,
and most of us thought we had been
paying enough to secure that kind of
work all the time!