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

Prof. Jerome H. Raymond assumed
the presidency of the municipality
owned Toledo university, Toledo, O.,
and Prof. Harry B. Hutchins became
acting president of the University of
Michigan, the resignation of DR.. James
b. Angel going into effect.
President Taft visited the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle
Wash, and was the center of interest
for the great crowds at the fair.
In the Long Island automobile
derby, while running 65 miles an hour.
a 6O-horse power machine overturned.
Killing Mechanician James Bates and
seriously injuring Driver Herbert
Lytle.
President Taft preached a sermon
on amity between the people at the
Mormon tabernacle, Salt Lake City.
to large audience who cheered him
most enthusiastically
The south is honoring the memory
OF Admiral Raphael Semmes, the
naval hero of the confederacy, this
being the one hundredth anniversary
OF his birth
A romance in the wake of the Louis
lana storm became known. A young
woman of Leesville, La, lost her
trousseau in the storm, and appeared
at the altar in improvised attire, while
the groom met her barefooted, with
his garments misfts.
ID. j. Vent, one of the striking train
dispatchers of the Mexican National
railroad, who is now seeking employ
ment in the United States, has fallen
heir to 100000 in Scotland.
The SEVENTEEN session of the Rock
River conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church opened in Rockford,
ILL.,, with Bishop Goodsel of New York
presiding.
The National League of Veterans
and Sons, organized two years ago to
benefit men who have served in the
regular army or National Guard and
their sons, met in annual session at
Bay City, Mich.
President Taft, properly clothed, de-
scended 1900 feet into the famous
Leonard copper mine at Butte,
A'io'ie' 'iS CNPi SoSSN lllllloCil InuCu ue-
lighted with the experience.
One thousand children, terrified by
"Black Hand" stories, became panic
stricken in a Jersey City IN j.
parochial school when they heard fire.
works exploding on the outside One
child was fatally injured and 13
others more or less hurt.
Two million people viewed the big
Hudson-Fulton parade at New York
Twenty thousand men were in line.
The street car service in Omaha
and Council Bluffs was almost normal
following the strike. The Omaha city
council has by resolution urged the
car company to agree to arbitration.
President Taft in a speech at Spo-
kane declared he would ask congress
to authorize the issuance of S1O,OOO.-
900 in bonds to complete irrigation
projects already begun
United States District Attorney
Sims has unearthed evidence that
white slave trafIickers are operating
again on large scale in Chicago,
Raids and prosecutions are probable
Bush fires are raging in the Sas-
katcheWan districts and are threaten
ing the property of the settlers.
Consul General Lay, at Cape Town,
says large quantities of American goods
could be sold in South Africa if rep
resentatives were on the ground.
Public schools and coeducation are
denounced rs jeopardizing the faith of
children in pastoral letter issued bv
the French episcopate.
Wilbur Wright successfully circled
the statue of Liberty, New York har.
Dor, in his heavler-than-air aeroplane
An explosion in Office of the Colun.
bian Film building at Pittsburg. Pa
caused a panic and so to IS persons
were injured, many of them seriously
The monetary loss exceeds 100000. |