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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
FORAKER SAYS CALL IS ILLEGAL
HE ATTACKS METHOD FOR
STATE PRIMARY ELECTION.
He Claims that Il Conflicts with the
Law and Is Unfair in
Many Ways.

Cincinnati, GA fiat refusal to
be bound by the conditions of the call
made Thursday night at Columbus for
the republican state convention which
is to name a state ticket and select
delegates at large to the national con-
vention is the conclusion reached by
United States Senator Foraker and
announced in a statement given to the
press Friday night.
Primaries for selection of delegates
to the convention were provided for
in the official call issued by the ex-
ecutive committee by a vote of Ia to
T.. The method provided is sharply
criticized by Senator Foraker. The
statement in part follows;
Il am not sure that | understand
the call, although | have read it sew
eral times. If ! do it is another case
of asking for bread and getting a
stone. My idea in requiring primaries
was to have the election of delegates
brought home to the people, so that
in each ward, for instance, we could
select our immediate representatives
This call makes all that impossible.
I'm addition it prescribes require
ments not authorized by the statute
and not within the power of the state
central committee. Some OF the re-
quirementS are in direct conflict with
the statute. Some of them are very
burdensome. One, i'll particular, is
the requirement that before there can
be Taft ticket and a Foraker ticket
there must be petition signed By 20
times the number of candidates for
delegates and alternates. That would
mean in this county about 1900 sign
erS or petitioners.
"The unreasonableness of the re.
quirement that there shall be 1000 Pc
titioners to authorize a ticket is
shown not only by the fact that the
law makes no such requirement, but
that in cases where the law authoriz-
ed county and city officers to be nomi-
mated by petition, only 300 names are
necessary to nominate any county Of
ficer and only 80 names are necessary
to nominate any municipal officer
"If, in the contemplation of the law,
80 signers are enough to authorize
placing a mans name on the ticket
for mayor of Cincinnati or Cleveland,
certainly it is beyond anything con-
templated by the law that 1000 sigma
lures should be necessary to nominate
a lot of delegates and alternates
merely to attend the state conven-
ton"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
TWO MEN KILLED; IS INJURED.
AN EXPLOSION IN A STEEL
PLANT AT BRADDoCk, PA.
Molten Metal Sifted Through the Lin
ing of a Converter, Throwing is
Tons of Metal Into a Pit
Where Men Worked.

Pittsburg, Pa. 49, Two men were
killed and 13 others were seriously
injured by an explosion Wednesday in
Converter No. 3 of the Edgar Thorn
son plant of the United States Steel
Co. at North Braddock, about seven
miles east of here. The dead:
Paul kurisck, aged 80 years, Brad
dock.
Stephen Doviah, aged 50, Braddock.
Six of the injured We're Americans
and the others Slays. All were re-
moved to a hospital In this city
where it was said their injuries were
not serious.
No official statement of the cause of
the explosion has been issued, but old
converter mill men say the cause
could hardly be other than that some
of the molten metal sifted through
the soapstone lining of the converter
and came in contact with the steel
sheathing, which perhaps was damp.
When the explosion occurred the
bottom of the converter dropped out,
throwing 10 tons of molten metal into
the pit where 10 men were working
at the ladies'. There was no eXplo-
sion when the hot mass of steel
struck the bottom of the pit, but in
stead flames of burning gas were sent
up, which burned the men in the pit.
The two men who were killed had
been working under the converter and
their bodies were terribly mangled.
The force of the explosion blew the
sheet iron roof off of the converting
mill and caused two of the walls tC
collapse. besides breaking all of the
windows in buildings in the vicinity
and partially destroying the engine
house and warehouse near the con,
Yerting mill.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
LONG MISSING HEIR RETURNS.
Man Who Left Home II Years AGO
Comes Back to Get $4,000.

Lancaster, Pa. - Although offici-
ally declared dead years ago and
for years believed by his wife and
friends here to have died, George NJ
Gable appeared in the local court
Thursday to claim $4,000 from the
estate of his uncle, Jacob Gable. Sew
enteen years ago Gable disappeared,
leaving his wife and several small
children. All efforts to trace him
failed and his wife believing him
dead, remarked.
When Jacob Gable died in 1904
Gable, one of the heirs, was declared
dead by the court. The executors
however, refused to pay over the in
heritance to his widow and instituted
a search which resulted in the long
missing man being found in Sacra-
mento, Cal. Gable came east and
was identified in court by the wife he
left II years ago as the rightful
heir. The woman's second husband
has begun proceedings for divorce.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
CurtaiIment of Production Is General
in the Iron and Steel Industry
and Cotton Mills.

New York City.-R. G. Dun & Co. 8
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Business quieted down at the con-
clusion of holiday sales, as is custom
airy, and time was devoted to stock
taking, while manufacturing plants
were overhauled and repaired. Much
idle machinery resumed on January 2
and more mills will reopen next week
but in many leading industries there
will continue to be reduction in out
put until the outlook is more definite
This curtailment is general in the
iron and steel industry and at New
England cotton mills.
Clothing manufacturers have re-
ce1Ved numerous cancellations, and In
some lines buyers have asked delay
in shipments of spring goods until
the situation is more fully developed.
There is a better feeling as to mer-
camille collections
Many iron furnaces and steel mills
have resumed and others are to open
next week, but the curtailment of pro-
duction has been so general that not
over 90 per cent. of the capacity will
then be in operation.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
POLICE ARE BAFFLED.
Red" at Harrison, N. j., Is
Unsolved.

New York City-The mystery en-
veloping the murder of the woman
in red is seemingly as impenetrable
to-day as when the nude body was
first discovered on Christmas day par
TALLY concealed in the water and
slime of lonely pond near Harrison
n j. Thus far the detectives have
failed to find a single reliable clue to
the identity of the woman or her
slayer
The identifications of the dead wo-
man by Mrs. Hattie Hull and Detec-
tive Drabell, of Orange, n. j., have
completely collapsed and left the case
more puzzling than ever. Word was
received Wednesday from Philadel
phia that Agnes O'Keefe, whom De
tective Drabell believed the murdered
woman to be, had been found in that
city Mrs. Hull's Identification is not
credited by the police.
Acting Mayor DAILY, of Harrison, n.
j., announced Wednesday that the
city council would offer a reward of
$1,000 for the arrest and conviction
of the slayer of the woman.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09

Liberia has lately lost nominal con-
troll of part of the territory over which
the congress of the black republic was
supposed to exercise sovereignty. A
new treaty with France has been ne
gotiated, delimiting the boundaries of
the republics country to the advan-
tage of France. The French insist
that in view Of the ignorance of the
natives in the interior of the existence
of any independent government on the
coast, it is not encroachment on an in
dependent power for the French to
push their boundaries seaward. AS
Liberia is an Independent power, the
protection of it's territory is matter
for it's government, and not for out
siders. American friends of the coun-
try may regret that the experiment of
setting up negro republic has not
been more successful, but they must
face the facts.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
Prosperity and West Point.

The present shortage of 20 or more
in the authorized strength of the
cadet corps at West Point is not ex-
planned by the superintendent as due
entirely to the severity of the entrance
examinations. There has been in re-
cent years an increasing number of
appointees who have failed to report
at the academy for their examinations,
in this years new class the number
reaching 10. The average boys burn
ing desire to be a soldier, particularly
an officer, appears to have been cor
rupted by the "commercialism" of our
times, according to the army view, for
the superintendent of West Point re
marks: 1T is believed that the more
lucrative pursuits and greater fields
for promotion of private life are di-
verting young men from these careers
of small pay and slow promotion in
our coUntry's service" Thus pros
perity has hit both ends of the army
the academy and the recruiting Of
fee.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
OTHERS TO BE SENT FOR.

Shortly after two o'clock one bitter
winter morning a physician drove four
miles in answer to telephone call.
On his arrival the man who had sum-
moned him said:
Doctor, l amt in any particular
pain, but somehow or other I've got a
feeling that death is nigh"
The doctor felt the mans pulse and
listened to his heart Have you
made your will?" he asked, finally.
The man turned pale. why, no,
doctor. At my age-oh. doc, it amt
true. is it? 1t can't be true"
who's your lawyer"
"Higginbotham; but"
"Then you'd better send for him at
once"
The patient, white and trembling,
went to the telephone.
who's your pastor?" continued the
doctor
Rev. Kellogg M. Brown" mumbled
the patient. But, doctor, do you
think"
Send for him Immediately. Your
father, too, should be summoned; also
your"
Say, doctor, do you really think
I'm going to die?" The man began to
blubber softly.
The doctor looked at him hard. mo,
don't" he replied. There's nothing
at all the matter with you. But l hate
to be the only man you've made a fool
of on bitter cold morning like this. "
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
An American Consul Is Attacked.

Guatemala City Guatemala-The
American charge d'affaires, Will
lam f. Sands, has returned here from
Ocos, whittier he went to investigate
an alleged attack on the American
consul there by the Mexican consul.
1t is said the American consul fears
further attack and declares that the
Guatemalan authorities have refused
to protect him, alleging that Guate-
mala fears Mexico may misconstrue
any step taken against Mexican citi-
zens. The Mexican minister to Gau-
temala claims that If the United
States makes demands on Guatemala
they will serve as an excuse for
serious attack on Mexicans residing
at OcoS
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
Why He Didn,t Rise.

1t was married mems night at the
revival meeting. Let you husbands
who have troubles on your minds
stand up" shouted the emotional
preacher at the height of his spasm.
Instantly every man in the church
rose to his feet except one.
Aha" exclaimed the preacher
peering out at this lone sitter, who oc.
cupied chair near the door and apart
from the others. You are the one in
a million"
1T amt that" piped back this one
helplessly as the rest of the congre.
CATION turned to gaze suspiciously at
him. Il can't get up-Im paralyzed!"
Judge.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
WAS A MoToRMAN's WIFE.
Identity of Woman Murdered on the
Hackensack Meadows Established

Newark, y. J. After a half
dozen supposed identifcations had
been disproved the police were salts
fed Friday night that the woman
murdered on the flats that border the
Passiac river in Harrison was Helena
WhitmOre who, with her husband,
Theodore S. Whitmore, conducted
furnished room house at 235 Adams
street, BROOKLYN. The Identification
was made by the woman's sister, Mrs.
Susan Schmitter, of the Bronx, and
corroborated by Mrs. Schmitter's hus-
band, Frank Englert, a friend and
finally by the murdered woman's hus-
band.
Whitmore has been detained by the
police and summons was issued for
Englert The latter, who admitted an
intimate acquaintance with Mrs. Whit
more, was able to go into so minute
detail in his identification that the au-
thorities believe he will prove a valu-
able witness.
Whitmore told the police of his
struggle to live down an unpleasant
past and how faithless wife had
held over his head a threat of expos
ure-to make known to new acquain-
tances here what he now admitted,
that he was serving a sentence in
Dannemora prison for assaulting
man when pardoned by Gov. Black.
Bitter quarrels and as many reconcili-
ations marked their married life of 10
years. His wife, he said, had become
infatuated with a sailor.
Whitmore is a Brooklyn elevated
motorman, who ordinarily works
nights. He did not go to work Christ
mas night.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09

1t is The opinion of DR.. Hirsch that
children are entitled to fairy tales.
They are one of the pleasures of youth
which stern old people trying to raise
them by rules should not take from
them. The old people shouldn't be so
particular anyway. They like fairy
tales themselves. The young woman
who, tiring of her job of scrubbing the
back stairs, turns shoplifter and then
tells tale of a millionaire papa, will
keep the grown-ups open-mouthed and
calling for more, until some one tele-
graphs the sad news to pa and finds
that he doesn't exist or that if he does
he is paying teller in a livery stable
and has lost interest in his charming
daughter since she ran away with the
actor man. Can you blame the little
children for crying for marvels? Pa
wakes fat on them, taking them all
in and saying, What d pity that one
so fair and well raised should have
come to this"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09

The present first class of midship-
men at the Naval academy, who have
pledged themselves voluntarily against
a revival of hazing in any way, are to
be commended for their perception of
what is meant by their future as Off
GERS and gentlemen of the United
States navy. 1t is to be hoped that in
time higher standard will obtain in
all our colleges by which this element
of brutality and bullying will be made
a relic of the past.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
SOME ADVICE TO LEGISLATORS.
1t is Given by Gov. Hughes, of New
York, in His Annual Message.

Albany, n. Y.-The annual mes
sage of Gov Hughes, which was
sent to the legislature Wednesday,
contains many important recommen-
dations. Chief among these is a rec
ommendation regarding the amend.
ment of the law relating to banks and
trust companies. The governor urges
the legislature to adopt every practic-
able means ''to prevent a repetition
of reprehensible practices and TO as
sure the proper management of the
financial institutions chartered and
supervised by the state, upon whose
stability the interests of our people
largely depend
Another important recommends
ton has as its object the complete
suppression of race track gambling
throughout TIE state.
Direct nominations at primaries and
a simplifed form of ballot are urged
in the message, and recommendation
also are made for better provision for
the care and protection of emigrants
for the extension of the states forest
preserves; for careful revision of the
forest, fish and game law; for the en-
actment of a license law, providing
reasonable license fees for hunting;
for amendment of the constitution of
Greater New York to exclude from
the city's debt limit all bonds issued
for purposes which produce revenues
in excess of their maintenance
charges; and for the establishment of
a secondary agricultural school, which
would provide a suitable complement
to the work of the college at Ithaca
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
TAFT PROGRAM
IS ADOPTED
OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
TO BE HELD MARCH 8 AND d.
PRIMARIES ON FEBRUARY H..
Voters Will be Given a Chance to Ex-
press Their Choice for Presi-
dentiai Candidate at Primary
Central Committee Meets.

Columbus, O. - The republicans
of Ohio will be given an oppor-
tunity to express by direct vote their
choice for the partys candidate for
president at primaries to be held on
February II, when delegates and al
ternates to the republican state con-
vention will be elected. The conven-
tion will be held in Columbus on
March 3 and A, and will select in ad-
dition to four delegates at large to
the republican national convention,
candidates for governor and other
state officers.
The call for the primaries and con-
vention were adopted last evening by
the republican state central commit
tee after a protracted and lively ses-
sion. The friends OF William II. Taft,
secretary of war, and candidate for
the republican nomination for presi-
dent, were in control of the commit
tee, casting 4 votes 10 for the sup
porters OF Senator Foraker, also an
ayowed candidate for the presidency.
The vote stood ii to z or every
proposition which required a roll call
except the selection of temporary
chairman for the state convention.
OdlilN9 ~ pul iiNih, oNNl Ntolt VI INC III
terror, the choice of the Taft support
ers, receiving 13 votes to cast for
Harry NJ. Daugherty, of Columbus.
Richard McCloud, OF London, close
personal friend of Mr.. Daugherty, but
1att supporter, voted Tor MN as
against Mr.. Garfield.
The officers chosen for the state
convention are:
Chairman, James r. Garfield, Cleve-
land; secretary, r. NJ. SwitZer, Gal
lipolis; assistant secretary, Malcolm
Bennings, Athens, serSeant-at-arms,
Richard ellison, Steubenyille.
The state committee decided that it
had nothing to do with the selection
of national delegates in the congress
sional districts and declined to make
any suggestion in regard thereto
The committee met early in the af-
ternoon TO draft o call for the pri.
maries and convention. This com
mittee called upon Gov. Harris during
the recess to consult his wishes in re-
gard to the call A committee repre-
senting the Foraker supporters also
called on the governor and asked him
to permit his name to be presented
for chairman of the state committee,
but the governor declined.
The call reported by the sub-com-
mittee and adopted by the general
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
A Decrease in Gold Production.

Washington, d. c. - The produc-
tion of gold in the United States fell
off $4,753, ,4O1 in 1907 as against 1906,
whereas the amount of silver produc-
ed was increased by over 900, 600
ounces. Alaska's gold production
fell off little more than $4,000, 1000,
according to the preliminary report
of the director of the mint
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
Have You Noticed It2

Bacon-I see it said that the light
of the glow-worm and FREELY is entire.
ly unaccompanied by heat.
Egbert-That seems strange when
you consider that a wasp is accom-
panied by no light, and yet when it
sits down you may have had occasion
to notice that the operation is accom-
panied by considerable heat
Yonkers Statesman.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
Coke Workers, Wages are Cut.

Uniontown, Pa. - Announcement
is made by the II. c. Frick Coke
Co. of a decrease in wages affecting
all of it's coke plants in this region.
The decrease is about 7R per cent.
and places the wages slightly above
what they were prior to the increase
made in March, 1906.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09

The Japs say all they want is equal
privileges with citizens of the United
States. That's something citizens of
the United States can't always get
themselves.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
In the Rush Lunchroom.

did yeou hear that. Silas?" queried
Mrs. Ryetop, as she ate her pumpkin
pie with the sugar tongs. THE man
at this table called for floats and the
other man called for sinkers."
Floats and sinkers," echoed Mr..
Ryetop, in surprise. "By gosh,
reckon next they will call for fishing
lines. Chicago Daily News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09

Do not as brilliant workman ina
gine that you are the proprietor of the
establishment, for just when you feel
that you are Indispensable, then per-
haps the boss may ask your resigna-
tion and break the day dream of your
lofty Importance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09

Short-sighted citizens who in times
of untroubled prosperity are habitual
purchasers of gold bricks are the first
in times of stringency to hide their
savings in their socks and cripple the
nations Industries.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
Receivers Appointed for Big Railroad.

Richmond, Va. = The Seaboard
Air Line railroad system was put
into the hands of receivers here
Thursday through the action of Judge
Pritchard, of the United States cir
cult court, who appointed as receiv-
ers Lancaster Williams, of Richmond,
and Davis Warfield, of Baltimore.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09

Part of the gold we brought over
from Europe with so much trouble will
hurry back aagin with aliens who, hav,
ing made their piles, are going home
30 live in comfort
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
Harden Loses: Won MoItke Wins.

Berlin. - The notorious Harden
Won Moltke libel suit came to an
end last evening when Harden, the ac-
cused editor of Die Zukunft, was sem
fenced to four months imprisonment
and to pay the entire costs of both
the present and former trial
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
Death of a Noted Priest.

Washington, ID. C. - Rev. d. J..
Stafford, pastor of st. Patrick's Ro-
man Catholic church in this city, one
of the most noted divines in the coun-
try, died Friday at Providence hos
pital, following an operation last
Tuesday. He was AZ years old.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
Brewers are Refused an Injunction.

Atlanta, Ga. Judge Newman.
on Wednesday, refused to grant
temporary injunction requested by
the brewery interests to stop the en-
forcement of the prohibition law OF
Gee 81.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09
A Gain in Shipbuildino.

Washington, D. C. - During the
calendar year. 1907 the bureau of
navigation reports 1866 vessels of
520,50 gross tons built in the United
States, compared with 1,O45 vessels
of 393,291 tons in 1906.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-09

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