Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07

| a parade in Chicago last week saying
| the officer acted as an individual
| which he has a perfect right to do.
twenty-five thousand men were in
line and 100000 witnessed New
York's great military parade which
was the climax of the Hudson-Fulton
| celebration.
William Armstrong of Quincy, ILL.,.
was killed and his brother, Harold
| and Archie Johnson were seriously
| injured when their automobile in
which they were riding was hit by a
| train at Buda, ILL.,
The steamer Roosevelt, which car
ried Commander Peary to the arctic
regions, is in New York harbor and
will participate in the Hudson-Fulton
naval parade up the Hudson river.
State Supreme Justice w. J. Cay
nor was nominated by the Democrats
for mayor of Greater New York.
Two armed bandits looted the Citi-
zens' National bank of Glenwood
Springs, Col, of $4,000 in a most
spectacular manner and escaped to
the mountains.
New York had spectacular fire
when the Dunham chocolate plant in
Pearl street was damaged 100000
Rear Admiral Schley, retired, has
cancelled all his engagements in New
York on account of his health and
will return to Washington and seclu-
sion.
A torchlight procession of 5000 per-
sons was a feature of a demonstration
for Gen. Trevino given in Monterey,
Mexico.
Sam Yong Ping, an aged Malay and
one of the wealthiest fishermen on
the Louisiana coast, hanged himself
by his feet from a tree near his home
on Paratana bay. He is supposed to
have been craZed by the recent storm.
Passengers on some of the Omaha
street cars drove off the crews and
ran the cars themselves, when the
motormen refused to start after the
fares were collected. The crews sent
in riot call.
Another dissolution of the Finnish
senate is imminent as a result of the
clash over Finlands contribution to
the Russian defense fund. The Rus
sian cabinet asks $4,000,OO0 from Fin
land; the Films will contribute only
$2,000,000.
Gen. Grant, at Washington, declares
he will continue to lead parades that
stand for law and order until prohib
tied. This is in reply to criticisms for
his participation in Chicago's temper
ance parade.
Col. w. r. Morrison, former con-
gressman, is dead at his home in Wa
terloo, ILL.,, after a protracted illness.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook was given a
magnificent reception at Philadelphia,
at which city he delivered lecture.
Denunciation of the French school
system by the Catholic authorities is
said by Figaro of Paris to have been
the result of message sent by the
pope through Cardinal Satolli.
Thomas Gray, 19 years old, walked
the streets of New York two hours
after he had been shot near the heart,
fearing his father would not believe
his story He went to bed without
telling of his injury, but his mother
saw his blood-stained garments and
he was aroused and walked a mile to
Bellevue hospital with his father. The
shot may prove fatal.
A Paris jury decided that Edward
Baudin was justified in killing his
wife at her request to end her suf-
fering. The woman was a victim of
asthma and the disease was strangling
her.
Mrs Linda Baldwin, who says she
doesn't know how old she is, but who
is supposed to be over 100, is de-
tained at Ellis island New York. She
lived 60 years in Brooklyn and re-
turned from Ireland to look after
some property.
EX-Goy. McSweeney of South Caro-
lima, who had been under treatment
in private sanitarium at Baltimore,
Md, for several months, died there.
He was born in 1856 and rose from
newsboy to governor.
Taking of the testimony for the de-
fense in the suit of the state to oust
the International Harvester Company
for alleged violation of the Missouri
antitrust law began in st. Louis.
Hunter Harry Whitney, who has ar
rived at st. Johns, N. F., from Labra-
dor says he believes both Cook and
Peary reached the pole and sees no
reason why the latter should doubt
Cooks claim.
AT the International Dry-farming
at Billings, Mont, October
26-2S, prominent men from European
countries and Canada, as well as the
United States. will take part.
Eight stockmen from Montana were |
killed and IA other men injured at |
Chicago when the Panhandle flyer
crashed into the rear end of a stock |
train in the st. Paul yards.
After running amuck and attacking
the officers and hoSDital stewards of |