Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-09

by the federal government ana 20
states, and vast quantity of COM
petitive entries made by grain raisers.
Representatives of many civic and
educational organizations met in New
| York TO devise means of co-ordinat-
ing civic activities and to plan more
effective methods of studying political
problems.
j. Pierpont Morgan has gained con-
troll of the Equitable Life Assurance
Company with its $472 100000 assets
through the purchase of stock held by
Thomas +. Ryan, the latter having
bought the interests formerly owned
by James Ii. Hyde.
Following the abrupt termination OF
diplomatic relations with Nicaragua
the government has dispatched the
cruiser Prairie from Philadelphia with
700 marines on board, the cruiser Al
bany and gunboat Yorktown to Cen
trail American waters and it is deter
mined that stable government shall
be established and maintained in the
war-riyen republic.
A delegation of Chicago business
men visited President Taft and made
plea for the suspension of the pro-
visions of the corporation tax law
The president gave them but little
encouragement, saying he would take
their petition under advisement.
Albert l. Patrick, the New York
lawyer under sentence of death for
Staying Millionaire Rice, has lost his
ninth fight for freedom through the
dismissal by the appellate court at
Brooklyn of the habeas corpus writ
secured by him to determine whether
he is being illegally retained by the
state.
Danger of violence in the switch
mems strike has caused the chief OF
police of st. Paul, Mimi, to require
all members of the day force to stay
on duty during a portion of the night
in order that any outbreaks in the
railroad yards may be promptly put
down.
The fight for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world between Jeffries
and Johnson will be held in the vi.
cinity of San Francisco on July 4,
1910 Rickard and Gleason's bid of
$101 900 and two-thirds of the moving
picture privileges to the contestants
has been formally accepted.
Woman suffrage advocates through
out New York state are raising fund
OF several thousand dollars to be used
for promoting the suffrage bill which
will be put before the Legislature of
| New York state this winter.
Vermont will erect memorial to
Champlain, the explorer, and will not
join New York in such an undertak-
ing.
The average temperature for No
vember in Kansas City, Mo-, was so
degrees, and the highest was so on
November g. This breaks all records
for the month since the weather bu-
reau was established there.
Contracts are to be placed for two
submarines for the Russian navy.
| They are planned TO cruise in COM
pany with battleship fleet.
In the trial of James F. Bendernagel
and five other former employees of the
American Sugar Refining Company on
the charge of defrauding the govern
ment by underweights testimony was
adduced showing that every ton of
sugar was 13 pounds short of weight
and the government stood to lose the
duty on $3.50 pounds every hour.
The National Society for the Pro
motion of Industrial Education met in
annual session in Milwaukee, dele
gates from more than twenty states
being present Eminent educators dis
cussed every phase of trade and cor
poration schools.
Every line of industry in the north
west dependent on the movement OF
supplies is seriously affected by the
strike of the railroad switchmen AL
ready 10000 men are idle and others
will soon be by the closing down OF
flour mills, mines and smelters.
man. believed to be insane. shot
| and seriously wounded Gen. Nerand
on the steps of the Hotel Continental,
Paris. just after President Fallieres
had left King Manuel of Portugal upon
whom he had been calling
The season of heavy gold receipts
at the United States assay office in
Seattle ended with a total of $11,733,-
489 for the six months beginning June
|. This is a falling off of $5,775,1 ,141,
compared with the same period in
1908
Twenty-three hundred switchmen
on 13 railroads between Lake Superior
and the Pacific coast have struck for
higher wages and better conditions.
Unless the strike is speedily settled
serious interruption in traffic is likely.
The Iowa Implement Dealers asso-
citation met in it's fourteenth annual
| session in Des Moines.
Combined resources of all the
banks of the United States reach
more than $21 1,000,000,0 900. or about
one-fifth of the entire wealth of the
country, according TO special reports
| ann1nilpI for tho nf the nnfinOal