Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-28


former premier This change resulted
from the odtcry over Revolutionist
Ferrer's execution
The American Ice Company of New
York is on trial in the criminal court
on the charge of violating the state
law preventing monopoly. The con-
Germ is charged with creating an arti-
fetal ice famine.
A dam at Lake Derkos, which sup
plies Constantinople with water, burst
and % persons were drowned.
Calcutta dispatches to London say
10000 people have perished in a ter
rife storm which swept the plains in
the delta OF the Ganges and Brahma-
putra, in Bengal India.
According to a report from United
States Consul General Grifiiths, at
London, the army of unemployed in
Great Britain has grown steadily and
has now reached proportions that are
causing the government great uneasi-
ness.
The grand jury at Chicago has
caused a stir by joining States Attor-
ney Wayman in his demand that the
| judges of Cook county courts clean
| out the county jury commission in
| such drastic manner as will prevent
any opportunity for jury tampering in
the future.
copy of book written in 1910
by Robert Fulton, inventor of the
steamboat, and entitled, Torpedo
War and Submarine Explosions" has
been sold at auction in New York for
| $50
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Whitlock of
East Orange. n. J., were so affected at
the prospect of losing" their two
| daughters by marriage that they went
to their country home to escape being
present at the double wedding They
| are said to be we'll pleased, never
| theless with their sons-in-law.
A fund to be known as the Charles
Eliot Norton memorial fund has been
endowed to the Archaeological Insti-
| tute of America in Washington by
! James Loeb, a retired banker of New
| York city
Army officers to the number of 80
started from Fort Meyer, Va, under
the lead of Gen Tasker II. Bliss, presi-
dent of the war college, for a 90-mile
| endurance test
1t is reported in Lisbon. Portugal,
that King Alfonso's mind is in serious
condition because OF fear of an upris-
| ing in Spain and of his own assassina-
! ton.
King Edward of England is much
exercised over the socialistic demon
strations in connection with Ferrer's
execution and is laboring hard to pre-
vent a general election on the budget,
fearing that owing to the highly fever
ish condition of public opinion the
house of lords would be in periled and
possibly abolished.
A typhoon of unusual severity swept
over the island of Luzon, washing out
railroad beds, cutting off telegraphic
communication and doing much other
damage.
President Taft had the time of his
| life on his brothers. ranch in Texas.
He rode a ballly cayuse, saw wild
steers roped by cowboys and wit
messed the rounding up of herd of
cattle, together with many other in
teresting things connected with ranch
life
The Minocqua (Wis.) bank was rob-
bed OF several thousand dollars by five
men who, after being rounded up at
small station near there by sheriff's
posse, turned on the latter with rifles
and made their escape.
The American Antiquarian society
laid the cornerstone of it's new build
ing in Worcester, Mass, in connection
with the opening of the organiza-
tion's annual convention.
Miss Eleanor Lorraine Beattie, who
was recently eXtradited from London
on charge of grand larceny and who
is now under bonds for trial. has ad-
vertised in New York for a position
as chauffeur. She is willing to wear
a uniform and pilot taxicab.
William Fason, blind negro, who
killed two men in Paterson On. j.
saloon, when he was denied a drink,
was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
w. r. Hearst won a strike" in the
New York political campaign Saturday
night when he threatened to retire
from the race for mayor and to leave
the fusion ticket to its fate unless his
fellow nominees appeared on the
stage with him.
Two schooners, with II persons
aboard are missing off the Newfound-
| land coast and are believed to have
foundered in the gale last week
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Womans Christian Temperance
union opened in Omaha with about
500 delegates in attendance. National
President Lillian NJ. N. Stevens deliv-
cred her yearly address.
Illinois cities and towns celebrated
the second arbor and bird day of the
year with exercises in the public