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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
5000 MEN OUT IN CANADA
MECHANICS OF THE CANADIAN
PACIFIC RAILWAY STRIKE.
Both the Officials of the Railway and
the Union Men Will Fight for What
They Think Are Their Rights.

Montreal, Quebec. - Returns re-
eeived by union leaders here We'd
nesday show that the strike order pro-
mulgated from this city by Bell Hardy,
chairman of the Federation of Me-
chanics of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way, was obeyed by the employees in
the mechanical department of the rail-
way in every shop from st. John, N.
B., to Vancouver, B. G.
1t Is estimated here that about 5000
men are out, though this estimate is
below that made at western points.
The Montreal shops alone account for
over 1000 idle men. The union lead
ers claimed that the strike would have
the effect of Gripping operations on
the whole railway system unless a set
tlement has been reached between the
company and it's employees. When this
settlement will come about is a mat
ter of conjecture. There have been
rumors of trouble for some months
and the mechanics are evidently well
organized and determined to fight
while the company is equally pre-
pared to stand on what it considers its
rights.
The officials of the Canadi; / Pacific
railway refused to make a state
ment beyond the declaration hat they
would stand by the award of the board
of arbitration and conciliatif appoint
ed under the Lemieux law to consider
the matters in dispute between the
company and their mechanics. There
is but slight probability of govern
ment Intervention.
The strike became effective at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning and stimuli
taneous in the shops at st. John, Hall
fax, Montreal, North Bay, Winnipeg
and other cities of Canada whistles
were blown by marshals appointed by
the central committee and work was
abandoned.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
The Abuse of Servants.

Bridget and Dinah and Katrina con-
tinue to receive the censure, not to
say abuse, of the public press and pri-
yate individuals for their alleged un-
satisfactory performances of their du
ties in the kitchen, in the laundry, in
the dining room-in short, upstairs,
downstairs and in their ladies' cham
bers." The abuse is sometimes ex
travagant and the censure undeserved.
Bridget and Dinah and Katrina often
do much better than the newspapers
and the mistresses would have us be-
lieve. But, conceding that, upon the
whole, household servants are not as
efficient as they might be, is it sur
prising? If you found a man who had
never driven plane or handled saw,
and set him to work at the frame of a
house, and presently began to berate
him because he was a poor carpenter
you would make yourself more ridicu-
lous than you would make him. If you
wanted coachman or a groom, you
would hardly engage one who mad
never seen a horse. If you did, and
your stock were badly cared for and
yourself run away with, you would be
laughed at if you blamed your incom-
petent retainers. Yet this is just what
is done by housekeepers in regard to
servants, says the New York Weekly.
1t is as unreasonable to expect women
to cook or do other housework before
learning how, as to expect man to
build a house or manage horses with
out any instruction or experience.
What is needed is a school for serv-
ants, or system OF apprenticeship, or
some other means of training them in
household work before they are called
upon to fill household positions.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
VORYS CHOSEN FOR CHAIRMAN
Will Preside at the Campaign Open
ing in Youngstown, o., on
September 5.

Cedar Point, O.-Arthur !. Vorys,
manager of the movement which
eliminated in William H. Taft's
nomination for the presidency, will
preside at the opening meeting of
the Republican campaign at Youngs-
town, September 5.
The orators of the day will be
Andrew l.. Harris, governor of Ohio,
who will speak on state issues, and
Gov. Charles E. Hughes of New
York and Senator Albert J. Bever-
idge of Indiana, who will devote their.
efforts to an explanation of national
issues.
Special invitations will be extended
to Ohio's United States senators, Jo-
seph B. Foraker and Charles Dick,
though their names will not be on
the program for addresses. Invita-
tions also will be sent to the Repub-
lican members of both houses of the
national congress and the Ohio gen
eral assembly, and to all Republican
county chairmen in this state.
The arrangements for the campaign
opening We're made Friday afternoon
at meeting of the sub-committe ap-
pointed for that purpose by the Re
publican state executive committee,
at the latter's recent session in Gin
cinnati
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
AGED WOMAN DIES WEALTHY
Girls Enter Into Compact in Youth
Which Nets Survivor Com
Portable Sum.

st. Louis, Mo. - Mrs Margaret
Castens. "a years of age, who
received $4,000 three years ago as
the result of unique compact en-
tered into by 65 girls in a German
convent school more than 10 years
ago, died at the home of her daughter
in this city Friday night. Seventy
five years ago Mrs. Castens was a
pupil in convent near Stuttgart,
Germany. The girls agreed just be-
fore they graduated to pay a certain
number of marks year into Berlin
bank and the entire amount was to
go to the last surviving member of
the class. Three years ago Mrs. Cas-
tens found herself the only one of the
class remaining. She wrote to the
bank, believing she would receive a
few thousand dollars. She received
more than $4,000
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
LIVED IN SWAMP ON BERRIES
Alleged Woman Foreer, who Escaped
from Sheriff on Saginaw Bay
Shore, Again Captured.

Bay City. Mich.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Barnett, alleged forger, who es,
capped from Sheriff Hartley three days
ago by plunging into swamps on the
Saginaw bay shore, again was taken
into custody at Crump, 20 miles north
of here, Thursday.
She was exhausted from privation
and fatigue, haven eaten little but
swamp berries until her arrival at
Estey, where she was given solid
food. She ate ravenously, swallowing
without chewing.
Her clothing was torn almost to
shreds, her form was emaciated
from hunger and privation, her thick
black hair was matted about her head
in mass stiffened by dust and rain,
and her features were almost black
from CRIME and exposure to the sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
BAD BLOOD BETWEEN RIVALS
Hotel Man Kills Man in Crowd al
Railway Station at Upper San
dusky, o.

Upper Sandusky, O.-James Good
love, proprietor of the Hotel Reber.
one of the city's most prominent men
Thursday evening shot and killed
Frank Mccormick, an employe of the
Hotel Gottfried. The crime occurred
at the Pennsylvania depot, in the
presence of so people, who were wait
ing the arrival of a train.
Goodlove Immediately drove to his
hotel, then started for saloon acros.
the street, where he was arrested. He
was taken to the mayors office, in
front of which a large crowd of i'm
dignant citizens assembled. When he
was led to the jail, there were cries
Of Mob him" and Lynch him"
McCormick's home was near Lon.
don o., and he had been in the EN-.
ploy of the Hotel Gottfried several
months, in which time he had made
himself popular. He acted as depot
man for the hotel, as did Good1ove
for his hotel, both hostelries running
cabs.
For some time there has been a
fight for position at the depot. Thurs
day evening Mccormick stepped up to
Goodlove and protested against the
position the latter had taken with his
cab. Goodlove replied by calling Nc
Cormick foul name, whereupon Nc
Cormick struck him. Goodlove drew
a revolver from his pocket and Nc
Cormick started to run.
Goodlove explained I'm going to
kill you," and fired twice, one bullet
striking Mccormick in the back The
latter ran ten feet, fell and expired.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
Characterization That Fits.

Long has the trinity of significant
initials &c. o. p" stood in impress
sive isolation. There has been moth
ing to counterbalance it descriptively
but Democratic party" A worthy,
symmetrical, euphonious characterize.
tion for the Jeffersonian opposition
has all these generations been cry
ing need Mr. William Randolph
Hearst, unconsciously, too, we believe,
has supplied the literary want. In
tent only upon reaching hands across
the sea" for the purpose of assas-
sinating politically Mr.. Bryan, Mr.
Hearst has cabled most happy
thought that at once sketches the
present status of the Democratic party
invokes its history and prophesies it's
future. Says Mr.. Hearst to Mr.. Bryan:
Il don't think the path of patriotism
lies in supporting a discredited and de-
cadent old party"
1t is eminently possible, of course,
thai "discredited old party" may refer
to Mr. Bryan specifically and directly
However, we much prefer to accept
the second adjective and adjust it to
its manifest sense. Hereafter it shall
be first &c. o. p" as counter-opposed
to d. o. P.-"decadent old party" as
Mr. Hearst and other less prominent
pessimsts behold it-under Organism.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
ELECTRICAL STORMS IN EAST
Great Damage Is Done by Heavy Rain
and Hail-Liehtning Strikes in
Many Places.

New York City.-Severe electrical
storms late on Wednesday accom-
panied by heavy rain and in some In
stances by damaging showers of hail
broke the heat wave that has been af
flicting New York state and the New
England states.
The storm brought great relief to
this city, for during the day ten deaths
and more than 20 prostrations were
caused by the heat and excessive
humidity. Even early in the day the
hospitals were caring for many pros
trated. The mercury stood at 80 de
grees at 2 o'clock and was still ascend
ing an hour later when the first cool
ing breeze came. In a few minutes
it had dropped ten degrees and by
nightfall there was little to complain
of in the way Of weather.
From all sections of New England
and New York came reports of dam
age done by the storm. Lightning
struck in many places, and at Green
Island, near Troy, N. Y, Mrs Thomas
McCabe was killed by bolt.
At jamestown, N. Y, the storm was
especially severe, driving several craft
ashore on Chautauqua lake.
Four Rhode Island churches were
struck by lightning and one of them
was icvelled to the ground at Provi-
dence, causing a total loss of more
than $4,000.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
THE CHANGE IN BRYAN.
Proof Not Forthcoming That Old Fall
Iacies Are Abandoned.

In Mr.. Bryan's extenuation it is put
forward that he has changed. They
whom resentment or indecision or the
desire to be placated move, represent
that the peerless one is not at all dan
gerous this time because what made
him so he has forsworn. Once he was
for free coinage-to that he has said
long farewell. Once he rallied at the
courts-now his roaring is gentle,
like that of a sucking dove. Once he
was for government ownership-that
he is trying as hard as possible to for
get Once he was an ardent free
trader-that, perchance, he may yet
disown and at any rate forbears to
emit a sound that might alarm the
most timid manufacturer.
Let us freely admit that all which
Bryan once believed he now disavows.
How long is it since infidelity to i'm
mortal principles and the mobile ad-
justment of ones views to the eXigen-
cies of the hour became a sure pass
port to the trust and confidence of the
American people? Are we to under
stand from the evidence that Bryan is
so great and Indispensable an execu-
tive that whether he has any views or
not becomes a negligible matter?
If Mr.. Bryan should be elected it
might be found that these ideas he
has for the nonce concealed are really
only subordinated until such time as
he can get into position to put them
into effect. And against such con-
tingency Lloyd's offers no insurance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
TO OPEN GRAVE OF
HYPNOTIC VICTIM
HUMANE OFFICERS VISIT GRAVE
OF GIRL WHO THEY CLAIM
WAS BURIED ALIVE.
GIRL WAS PLACED In COFFIN
Declares She Will Emerge from Sleep
in Perfect Condition-Carried on
Stretcher to Grave Which Had
Been Prepared.

Sandusky. O.-The Humane society
may go to law to release Flor
ence Jessie Gibson, aged 10, buried
five feet below the surface at Cedar
Point as a hypnotic experiment.
"a stop will be put to the exhibition
II any statute can be found under
which the society can proceed" de-
clared Mrs. Fannie Everett, humane
officer, after visit to the grave"
The girl was placed in a coffin and
lowered beneath the earth Saturday
night. She is to be resurrected, ac
cording to present plans. August 10,
after an Imprisonment of 10 days.
Bundha Kupparow, Hindu mystic
who put the girl in a state of cata.
lepsy and buried her, insists the Hu.
name society has no cause for action.
He declares that at the end of 10
days she will emerge from her sleep
in perfect condition, as did a young
man he buried in Washington in
June.
Immediately after the girl was hyp.
Noticed, she was carried on a stretcher
to the grave, already prepared. A
big crowd saw her lowered in her cof.
fin and the dirt thrown in.
The grave is on the amusement
circle at the resort. All can see that
the girl actually in in the grave, by
peering down long tube, through
which the face of the sleeper can be
seen by aid of little electric lamp
which bangles at the end of a wire
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
REVIEW OF TRADE CONDITIONS
BANK EXCHANGES IN LEADING
CITIES LESS THAN A YEAR AGO
Cotton Mills Still CurtaiIing Output
Steel Industry Is More Active
Country Merchants Place Orders.

New York City.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
Review of Trade says: Bank exchanges
this week at all leading cities in the
United States are $2,211, ,97S, ,665, 83
per cent. less than a year ago and 109
per cent. under the clearings of the
first week of August in 1906. The loss
continues quite large at Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Baltimore, New Orleans,
Minneapolis and San Francisco, clear
ly due to conditions affecting special
interests in those sections. St Louis
and Kansas City again report gain,
and at other leading cities losses are
small. Midsummer dullness affects
trade, and the volume of bank clear
ings, usually at the low point of the
year in August, is reduced, but it is
now materially above the amount in
the earlier months of the year, show
ing a marked improvement in that re-
spect.
Boston reports that cotton mills are
still curtailing output, but larger
sales of wool promise greater activity
in the wooden industry. Dry goods
jobbers are placing fail orders freely
and the situation will be improved by
the auction sales. Retail dry goods
trade is quiet at Philadelphia, but
wholesalers report more inquiries and
there is some improvement in collec-
tions, although payments are not yet
wholly satisfactory. The steel indus
try and building trades are more ac-
tive.
Recovery in business at Chicago
would be more rapid if the weather
were less excessively hot Country
merchants attend the wholesale and
jobbing markets in large numbers,
placing orders that compare favorably
with those of year ago. Wholesale
dry goods trade is active at Cincin-
natl, travelling statesmen are sending
in large orders and there is a good
personal attendance at jobbing
houses. Conditions improve steadily
at Cleveland, but shipping interests
are dull.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
MIR. Bryan's Convention.

A stale candidate, who is a fore
gone conclusion, makes a stale CON
vention, makes a stale campaign and
a stale campaign ends in an election
without enthusiasm and without hope.
All the accounts agree that as the
opening of the Denver convention ap-
preached interest seemed to ebb
away. The members who had ar
rived on the scene with some sense of
their individual Importance soon be-
gan to realize that the delegations
were at the end of strings and that
the strings ran into the study of GER
tain substantial citizen at Lincoln,
Neb.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
FIGHTING FOR HOME AND LIVES
Wind Turns to Gale and Drives
Flames Down Hill to Doomed
Town of Michel.

Vancouver, b. C.-For three days
the people of Michel have fought
for their homes with death al
the door. Wednesday afternoon they
were beaten at the game. The second
in size of the devasted district of East
Kootenai, started to burn in real
earnest at Dusk. Nothing can save il
from being a heap of ruins.
From a slight eastern breeze the
wind turned to a gale from the west
at 3 p. m. and the city in moment
was doomed The blaze came sweep
ing down the hill. At the edge of the
town 100000 feet of mine timbers,
owned by the coal company, caught
fire and four loaded railroad cars
standing on a side track were con.
sumed. Two Canadian Pacific locomo.
tives hitched onto train to carry the
fire fighters away to the west to
safety. By the time the train left
for the west the fire was spreading
all over the yards.
The train got only half mile on its
journey when it encountered a wall Of
flames. There was danger of it's being
hemmed in and being burned with
every body aboard so the locomotives
were reversed and run back with all
speed. By the time the train returned
all the houses on the fiat district back
of the Great Northern depot were
burning and the main town was likely
to catch at any moment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
When DR.. Billy James Clark. a youp,

When DR.. Billy James Clark, young
physician of Moreau, Saratoga county,
New York, organized a temperance
society in the village, in 1903, the
drinking habit was much more preva-
lent than it is to-day. The one hun
dredth anniversary of DR.. Clarks soci-
ETY. was celebrated last last month in
Saratoga by an international temper
ance convention, with delegates pres
ent representing % states as well as
half a dozen foreign countries. DR..
Clarks society is frequently de-
scribed as the first American temper
ance organization. The Sober society
of Allentown, n. j., however, ante
dates it by three years. Organized
temperance work on a large scale did
not begin here till 1926 when the
American Society for the Promotion
of Temperance was formed in the Park
street church in Boston. Excessive
drinking is so uncommon nowadays
that if the early temperance advocates
could come TO life and see the change
they would be astounded at the prog
Tess made. Men have learned by ex-
perience and observation that if they
would get on in the world they must
keep sober, and the restraint upon
them has been powerful agent in the
promotion of temperance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
END THIS ISLANDER
TIME TO PUT A STOF TO DEMO-
CRATIC FALSEHooD.
Assertion That American Voters Have
Been Corrupted by Republican
Party Is an Insult and Should
Be Repudiated.

The Keynote" speech of Tenn
porary Chairman Bell at the Demo
cratic national convention was charac-
teristically Bryanesque. 1t opened with
the customary denunciation of the Re-
publican party as the nurse Of "spe-
cial privilege" and monopoly" and as
the author of government by injunc-
ton"
Then Mr.. Bell proceeded to argue
for the substitution for the injunctions
of the courts, issued in due process of
law and for the protection of life and
property, of the injunctions of the
Gomperses and Sheas and other per-
sonal usurpers of governmental power
for the destruction of property and
waging of wars which spare not even
life.
The ideas of Mr.. Bell, which are
necessarily the ideas of Mr.. Bryan, of
constructive policy" for the Demo
cratic party seemed to be confined
chiefly to certain ends and leavings
from the congressional waste baskets
to those great reforms" for which
Hon. r. M. La Toilette of Wisconsin
stood sponsor in the Republican ma
tional convention-"popular election
of senator's" physical valuation of
railroads" publicity of campaign con-
tributions." On this latter point Mr.
Bell said:
"The corrupt use of large sums in
political campaigns is largely respon-
sible for the subversion of the peoples
will at the polls"
The assertion that they were beat
en- by purchase of voters who would
otherwise have supported them is fire.
quently made by defeated candidates.
1t is the easiest and the cheapest ex-
cuse of egotism which the people have
refused to take at its own valuation.
Mr.. Bryan offered it in 1896.
The grain of fact in this charge is
that sometimes in petty local con-
tests in communities where the moral
sense averages low or a certain kind
of ignorance prevails, victory goes to
the side of the longest purse. But
that such methods should win on any
large scale is physically impossible.
Let us consider the facts
There are about 100000 voters.
There is no evidence that the eXpendi-
lures of either great party in presi-
Dental year have been as much as one
dollar head Out of this is paid all
the expenses of printing, meetings,
speakers, and all the other apparatus
of the education process which a po-
litical campaign is and must be if free
and popular government is to exist.
Where did the money come from
with which were bought those mil
lions of venal voters that defeated
candidates and candidates that fear
defeas are always seeing? Where are
the venal voters? Let the average
American ask himself. He may sus-
pect that he knows one-possibly. But
does he know one?
The question answers itself And,
knowing the answer, Is it not time
that the resentment of the decent mil
lions of Americans should put an end
to this dirty slander and this down
right lie?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13

The town of Kipling has just bios.
somed out in Canada. where there is
only one town of Shakespeare. The
nearest the United States comes to
having a Shakespeare on the map is
the town of Shake in Oregon. For
some inscrutable reason the great
English dramatist was never popular
among the new town namers in North
America, although we have in the Uni.
ted States 30 Millions, three Gold
smiths, four Dickenses, 80 odd Scots.
20 Byrons, two Tennysons, and one
Thackeray. Notwithstanding all the
Browning clubs, there isin't a Brown
ing on the American map.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
That Anti-Inlunction Plank.

Those features of the Denver plat
form that have relation to sane issues
are for the most part either meaning
less or unsound. That relating to in
functions is partly one and partly the
other. Nobody denies that parties to
all judicial proceedings should be
treated with rigid impartiality," but
what does this mean: 'Injunctions
should not be issued in any cases in
which injunctions would not issue If
no industrial dispute were involved"
If Gompers is satisfied with that, 1t
must be because he thinks he sees
something in it that it does not con
tain. A possible sense may be extract
ed from the statement that trial by
jury should be provided in cases of
indirect contempt Of court, though a
defiance of injunction orders is suf
flciently direct to be promptly and sum-
marily punished if injuctions are to
have any effect. The so-called anti-in-
junction plank is simply rotten.--N. Y.
Journal of Commerce.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13

Some commodities ought to remain
high-priced. For example, few people
believe in cheap liquor licenses. Fewer
still will approve the economies of a
New Jersey justice who has reduced
the size of fines because times are
hard and sinners are poor. Marking
down the price of disorderly conduct
does not seem to be a wise way of
helping the needy.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-13
Gives Fortune to Cats.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Half a million
dollars out of an estate of $600.000 is
given to charity by the will of the
late Mrs. Annie L. Lowry of this city.
The WILL which was probated Friday,
directs that $4,000 be invested and
the income paid to Violet Peak a
cousin, for the care of cats and par
rots that belonged to Mrs. Lowry.