Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-06-24


caused fire that destroyed the audi
which the Ohio Grand Army veterans
held their encampment in Newark.
The towns of Purdy and Monett in
Missouri were wrecked, and the sur
rounding country devastated by tor
nado. At least two were killed
The high federal court of Venezuela
has given a decision declaring uncon-
stitutional Castro's decrees of Janu-
airy. 1907, which annulled the salt and
match monopoly concessions. The
decision restores to the Ethelburga
syndicate limited, of London, all it's
rights.
John G. A. Leishman, the retiring
American ambassador to Turkey, has
left Constantinople for Rome.
Servants and former employees of
Mrs. Howard Gould told of seeing her
frequently intoxicated.
The Illinois supreme court declared
the states primary election law un-
constitutional.
Mother" Jones, who seeks a par
don for man who violated the neu-
trality laws, made an appeal to Pres
ident Taft in the prisoners behalf.
A report by department of agricul-
ture experts says tuberculosis among
hogs in the United States is increas-
ing
Senator Elkins declared his daugh-
ter, Miss Katherine, is going to Eu-
rope because of an affection of the
heart and not to meet the duke of
the AbruZzi as has been reported
Damage estimated at 100000 in the
piano factory of Hardman, Peck &
Co, in New York, was caused by fire.
The Augustana Synod of America,
meeting at Red Wing, Mimi, decided
to hold its next conference in Rock
Island, Ill.
The submarine boats, Graylng, Bo-
nito and Snapper were launched at
Quincy, Mass.
Celebration of the twentieth ami
versary of statehood was held in
Aberdeen, S. d.
Farmers near Taitsville Mo, after
two of their daughters had been shot
from ambush, carried rifles while they
worked in their fields,
An Erie passenger train was
wrecked at Waverly N. Y, and sew
eral passengers painfully injured
Edward Arnold, two years old was
playing in front of the house from
which deputy sheriffs were evicting
his parents in Far Rockaway, N. Y,
when he was killed by an ice wagon.
The German emperor and the
czar of Russia met on a royal yacht
and discussed a world policy
Wilbur and Orville Wright were
honored at big fete in their home
city, Dayton, o.
Fifty pupils of New York public
of the term were unable to speak, re-
cited poetry and gave orations in
clear voice before their parents in a
large hall.
Launches, instead of canoes, were
used at an Indian funeral on Lake Mich.
1gan, when Joseph Cornstalk was
buried The water procession was
from Beaver island to Garden island.
Five thousand Turner's from all
parts of the country went into camp
at Cincinnati, where the annual turn
fest of their national organization
opened
Ralph G. Brandreth, son of a mil
lionaire pill manufacturer, and Miss
Edith Armstrong were married in a
New York hospital proper up on pill
lows after being in an auto wreck
The hrihn would Of
the wedding postponed.
Mrs. Howard Gould covered her
face with her hands and sobbed when
witnesses at the trial of her separa-
ton suit told of her profanity and in
toXication.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland testified that
the story sold by Broughton Branden-
burg to the New York Times purport-
ing to have been written by her hus-
band was false and the signature
forged.
An attempt was made to burn the
home of Mayor Nevin of Bellefon-
taine, o., by throwing a bottle of baz-
ing kerosene through a window.
U. Sorenson, an amateur aviator of
Berwyn, Neb., fell $500 feet, landed
in sitting position and was not hurt
The United Norwegian Lutheran
church, in convention at Des Moines,
Ia. voted to raise $1,000,OOO for cele-
bration of their twenty-lifth anniver-
sary in 1914.
Burglars who were experts on silk
judging from their selections, robbed
the store of a Glanville drv goods
company in Iowa of $4,000 worth of
the fabric.
No news has been received from
the Roosevelt hunting party, which
left Naivasha, East Africa, for the
Sotik district ten days ago.
The secret service department has
discovered five dollar counterfeit
bill, said to be one of the crudest ever
put out.
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