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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
YOUNG LAD KIDNAPPED
A RANSOM OF $4,000 DEMANDED
FOR BOYS RETURN.
THREAT MADE TO KILL CHILD
Boy Was Attending and Said the
Lad Was Wanted by His Father

Sharon, Pa.-Ten thousand dollars
ransom is demanded for the re-
turn of William Whitla, Attorney
James p. Whitla's S-year-old son, who
was spirited away from school here
yesterday morning by an unknown
man, furnishing mystery which the
detectives of the country are being
asked to solve. Accompanying the de-
mand for ransom is a covert threat
that the boy will be killed unless the
money is produced. Hundreds of tele-
grams and telephone messages have
been sent to the police of various
cities asking their assistance in the
search for the boy and his abductors.
The Grst fruit of these came last
night when Chief of Police Grain, of
this city, received word that the rig in
which the lad was taken away had
been recovered at Warren o., with
the child's hat on the buggy seat.
Attorney and Mrs. Whitla are
among the towns leading residents.
The former is brotner-in-law of
Frank II. Bull, the multi-millonaire
steel man. At $50 o'clock yesterday
morning a stranger drove up to the
East Ward schoolhouse, where young
Whitla is a pupil in room No. 2, and
told the janitor, Wesley Sloss, the lad
was wanted at once at his fathers
Office. Sloss conveyed the message to
Mrs. Anna Lewis, the boys teacher,
who dismissed the child. The man in
the buggy had a dark complexion,
dark hair and a stubby mustache. He
was stockily built. He spoke excellent
ESglish and was evidently American
born. When Sloss appeared with the
boy the stranger smiled and helped
him up to the seat beside him. He
then drove off in the direction of Mr..
Whitla's office.
Warren, GA man said to an
swer the description of the one
wanted at Sharon, Pa, on a charge of
kidnapping the Whitla boy was ar
rested here last night.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
In MEMORY OF DEAD RULER
Tributes in Poem, Song and Speech
Rendered in Honor of Grover CIeve-
lands Seventy-second Birthday.

New York City.-Tributes in poem,
song and speech were rendered yes
terday in honor of the seventy-sec-
ond birthday anniversary of the late
President Grover Cleveland at memo
rial exercises in which President Taft.
Gov. Hughes, Chief Justice Fuller and
Mayor Mcclellan made addresses and
several hundred of New York's most
prominent citizens attended. Mrs.
Cleveland, with a party of friends, oc-
cupied box in Carnegie hail. where
the memorial was held.
President Taft was introduced by
Mayor Mcclellan, who called upon the
audience to rise and be presented to
the president Of the United States
The president spoke with unusual fer
vor in his eulogies of Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr.. Taft paid an earnest tribute to Mr..
Cleveland as a man who was as COM
pletely American in his character as
Lincoln. AS public official Mr.. Taft
praised Cleveland for his rugged hon
esty and for his adherence to prin-
ciples which he believed to be right.
In his fight to limit Legislative restric-
tion of executive discretion President
Taft declared that Cleveland had won
the everlasting thanks of the Ameri-
can people.
Chief Justice Fuller, who admin
istered the oath of office to Mr.. Cleve-
land on his Inauguration and to all hAs
successors, spoke of Mr.. Cleveland's
greatness and told of his power in the
nation. The audience frequently
cheered the chief justice as he de-
liyered his speech.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
REVIEW OF TRADE CONDITIONS
Reports from the Principal Cities in
the United States Are of Gen.
eral Hopeful Character.

New York City.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Most of the tests by which trade ac-
tivity is measured make favorable
records. Reports from the principal
cities are of generally hopeful char
acter, but the fact remains that there
is still lacking that buoyancy and
readiness to make long commitments
from unsettling uncertainties.
The week has witnessed the intro
duction of tariff bill making large
cuts in duties on iron and steel and
other products, but apparently less is
apprehended from this than from a
possible failure of congress to heed
the words of President Taft and get
through with the tariff business as
soon as possible. The coal trade is
confronted with a labor crisis. The
iron trade continues in the process of
price readjustment, though a slow re-
vival in structural lines is a rehectisSl
of increased activity in building. Cop
per has experienced further depres-
sion.
Much the more important feature of
the week in cotton goods has been the
resumption of export demand
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

When America, with it's S0,000000
people, found it's national expenses
amounting to a billion dollars a year,
there was a gasp of wonder AMI anxi-
ETY. at the extravaganza it seemed to
imply. Great Britain, which has only
half as many people as this country,
is rapidly approaching a two-hundred-
million-pound budget. This year
deficit of many million pounds is an
ticipated. Modern governments are
expensive machines, and as there is a
growing disposition among people all
over the world to require their govern
ments to engage in an increasing num-
ber of activities, billion-dollar con-
crosses and two-hundred-millio
budgets are not high-water mark; the
tide is still rising
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
Increasing Insanity.

Conditions local to Massachusetts
were recently cited by the state board
of lunacy in explanation of the in
creased number of patients in the in
sane asylums of this state, says the
Boston Herald. They cannot apply in
New York, but similar increase in in
sanity cases is reported by the authori-
ties of that state The number of new
cases last year was 600 greater than
in the year previous, and the lunacy
commission reports that "all the hos
pitfalls are oVercrowded and rapidly be-
coming more so" I'VE cant build hos
pitals fast enough to take care of the
APPALLING increase says one of the
state officials The increase is due, in
the opinion of this official, to the mod
ern method of living and the character
istic self-indulgence of the race. There
is general lapse from the old stand
ards of morality and responsibility"
he says, children of the growing gen
GRAFTON seeming to have no idea of
order. The average boy of to-day. if
he sees a sign of no splitting on the
sidewalk, will walk up and spit under
it. This shows dangerous intellec-
tual condition" The relation of law
lessness to mental deterioration is not
always realized. But lawlessness on
the part of the individual indicates a
lack of self-restraint and an inability
for self-government. If statute laws
are disregarded, moral and physical
laws will not receive greater respect.
Selfgratification excuses one form of
lawlessness as we'll as another. 1t
tends to fill the insane asylums as we'll
as the jails.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
TAFT'S MESSAGE
TO LAWMAKERS
REVISION OF THE DINGLEY TAR
IFF ACT URGED BY THE
PRESIDENT.
READJUSTMENT AND REVISION
The Present Tariff Act Does Not
Furnish Income Enough to
Pay the Authorized
Expenditures.

Washington, ID. C.-President Taft's s
message to congress is as follows:
ITO the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives
Il have convened the congress in
this extra session in order to enable
it to give Immediate consideration to
the revision of the Dingley tariff act.
Conditions affecting production, man
ufacture and business generally have
so changed in the last II years as to
require a readjustment and revision
of the import duties imposed by that
act. More than this, the present
tariff act, with the other sources of
government revenue, does not furnish
income enough to pay the authorized
expenditures. By July l next, the ex-
cess of expenses over receipts for the
current fiscal year will equal $780,
100000.
Pledged to Revision of Tariff.
The successful party in the late
election is pledged to a revision of
the tariff. The country, and the bust
ness community especially, expect it.
The prospect of a change in the rates
of import duties always causes a sus-
pension or halt in business because
of the uncertainty as to the changes
to be made and their effect. 1t is
therefore of the highest importance
that the new bill should be agreed
upon and passed with as much speed
as possible consistent with it's due
and thorough consideration. For
these reasons, l have deemed the
present to be an extraordinary occa-
sion, within the meaning of the con-
stitution, justifying and requiring the
calling of an extra session.
I'm my inaugural address, | stated
in summary way the principles upon
which, in my judgment, the revision
of the tariff should proceed, and indi-
Gated at least one new source of rev.
enue that might be properly resorted
to in order to avoid a future deficit.
1t is not necessary for me to repeat
what | then said.
Advocates Quick Work.
Il venture to suggest that the vital
business interests of the country re-
quire that the attention of the con-
gress in this session be chiefly de-
voted to the consideration of the new
tariff bill, and that the less time
given to other subjects of legislation
in this session, the better for the
country
(Signed) WILLIAM II. TAFT.
THE White House, March 16, 1909"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
MANN NOT GUILTY OF MURDER
The Freed Man Was Very Much At.
fected and Promised to be a
Honest Citizen.

Chicago, Iil.-Dramatic scenes ac.
companied the acquital here yester-
day of Luman G. Mann, charged with
the murder of Mrs. Frances Gilmor
Thompson, last July. The evidence
against Mann was circumstantial: his
defense an alibi. The jury took but
one ballot. With the words mot guilty"
from the lips of the foreman the scene
in Judge McSurleys court became one
of excitement bordering on hysteria.
I've been a bad man, but years from
now you will hear of me as an honest
citizen Mann said in thanking the
jury Tears were rolling down his
cheeks and his sobs made it almost i'm
possible for him to speak
Under cross-eXamination the de-
fendant was compelled to relate a sor-
ry story at which his mother hung her
head. He told Of drinking bouts dur
ing one of which he spent $1,000 in a
single night; of gambling and of low
associates.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
CASE OF MURDER AND SUICIDE
Husband and Wife Found in Home
With Rifle Bullets in Breasts
Neighbor's Head Blown Off.

Oil City, Pa.-The dead bodies
of Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Briggs,
with holes from Winchester rife
bullets in their breasts, were found
at their home, ten miles east of
Tionesta, Forest county, yesterday
The body of Amos Walton, neighbor,
was found in the house with his head
almost blown off. 1t is believed Wal
ton killed Briggs and his wife and
then committed suicide. Walton was
so years old and Mr.. and Mrs Briggs
each 50 years old.
Recently Walton beat a son of
Briggs. who made information against
him before a justice of the peace at
Marionville, charging assault and bat
terry. Walton was placed in the GUS
tody of a constable. The hearing was
to have taken place yesterday morn
ing. Walton asked permission of the
Unstable to return home that he
might secure witnesses and the re-
quest was granted He went to his
home, took a 48 calibre Winchester
rifle and was seen going to the Briggs
residence, arriving there about II
o'clock. The body of Briggs was
found near barn from which he was
evidently coming when killed Mrs
Briggs was killed in the kitchen of
her home and the body of Walton was
found on chair in another room.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
HEGEMAN MUST STAND TRIAL
President of Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Co. Charged with Perjury of
Alleged Misstatements.

Albany, N. Y.-The court of ap-
peals has decided in effect that
John r. Hegeman, president of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., must
stand trial on the charge of perjury in
connection with alleged misstate-
ments made in his annual report of
the Metropolitan Life filed with the
state superintendent of insurance on
January /, 1905.
Mr.. Hegeman was arrested in New
York in February, 1908, on warrants
charging perjury and forgery in con-
nection with his annual report of the
affairs of the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Co. The appellate division, first
department, held that there was no
foundation for the charges and direct
ed that the habeas corpus writ which
had been sued out by Mr.. Hegeman
when he was arrested on information
filed by District Attorney Jerome be
unheld and that the defendant be dis.
charged from custody.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

Few of the younger generation rea-
lie that it was not until after the civil
war that a transcontinental railroad
was built, and it became possible to go
by rail from New York to San Fran
cisco. Previously the journey was diff
ficult, but not quite so long or so haz-
ardous as that which a German lieu
tenant is making by automobile from
Dar-es-S -Salaam in German East Africa
to Swakopmunde in German Southwest
Africa. He started in August, 1907 and
in December of last year had reached
Johannesburg.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
WASH-0UT PIPE BLEW OUT
Four Persons Killed and go More or
Less Seriously Injured When a Pi-
lotless Train Smashes Into Depot.

Montreal, Que.-F'our persons are
dead and 80 others were more or
less seriously injured as the result\ \of
the blowing out of wash-out pipe on
the locomotive hauling the Boston ex-
press due at the Windsor Street sta
ton of the Canadian Pacific railway
yesterday morning, three miles out
from the station. Scalding steam filled
the cab and the engineer and fireman
were forced to jump. The train, with
out guiding hand at the throttle,
dasb'' into the station, through the
grT all into the women's waiting
then into the rotunda where
tn. tive, after demolshing one
massive ,ranite pillar, was brought to
standstill by another. The four per-
sons killed We're sitting in the wom-
ems waiting room.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

The declared purpose of the Cuban
national lottery bill is to increase the
national revenues. This is frank, any
way, says the Boston Herald The os-
tensible object of lotteries generally is
to give the participants chance to
win more than they invest, the real OBJ
ject, of course, being to make money
for the projectors by indulging the
gambling spirit Of the people. There
is no lack of that sort of thing in
Cuba. Turning the lottery wheel and
cock fighting are the favorite Cuban
cable as prize fighting and horse racing
are with us.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
AFTER THE FATAL AFRICAN FLY
Naturalist to Photograph Insect That
Causes Sleeping Sickness in
Dark Continent.

New York City.-James Ricalton.
well known faunal naturalist
and entomologist, sailed to-day for
Africa with all his plans laid to start
campaign that may result in re-
moving most of the terrors of the
sleeping sickness which causes so
many deaths in the Dark Continent
and is mystery to scientists. Mr..
Ricalton carries with him a camera
with a specially constructed lens and
shutter with which he hopes to OBJ
tain photographs of the fly that
spreads the dreaded pest. During the
Boer war Mr., Ricalton was in South
Africa and he has done much hunt.
ing in that country
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
TAFT AT YALE COLLEGE
SETS WITH BOARD TO ACT UPON
UNIVERSITY MATTERS.
CHEERED BY THE GRADUATES
The President Made Brief but Witty
Response on Demand for
Speech from Him.

New Haven, Conn.-As a fellow
of Yale corporation, President Will
liam H. Taft came to his alma
mater yesterday and for nearly three
hours sat with the board to act upon
university matters. When he left the
meeting and with President Hadley
of the university started to leave
Woodbridge hall to go to lunch he
found himself the objective of many
hundreds of Yale graduates whose
sharp cheer was followed by the de-
mand for a speech.
President Responds.
The president made a brief. witty
response, in which he told the
students how dear to his heart was
his Yale affiliation and the honor of
being a Fellow was too great for him
to voluntarily relinquish. The student
body greeted the speech with "brek-
ke-ke-kex, co-ax-oo-aX" which woke
the echoes of the new campus. Then
most of the student body trooped in
long irregular procession after Presi-
dent Taft and President Hadley as
they went to the latter's house for
lunch. A mid-afternoon train took
both presidents to New York.
Greeted by Former Graduates.
New York City.-With songs of
the football field and the boat race
course, with a deafening cheer and a
rousing chorus of Here's to Gopd Old
Yale, Drink Her Down" President
Taft was greeted last night as the
first Yale president of the United
States by more than 1,500 graduates
of the famous old New Haven univer-
sity. The graduates came from all
over the country. They ranged from
silvery haired old gentlemen whose
degrees bear the date of SO down to
the youths who left their alma mater
only last June. The dinner, one of the
largest ever given in New York, was
served at the Waldorf-Astoria.
The only speeches of the evening
were made by President Taft and
President Hadley.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

Advertisements are published at the rate OF
sne dollar per square for one insertion and fifty
esnts per square for each subsequent insertion.
! Rates by the year. or for six or three months,
are low and uniform, and will 0e furnished on
application.
Legal and Ocfcial Advertising per square,
three times or less, 20; each subsequent lnser-
zion 30 cents per square.
Local notices 10 cents per line for one inser-
sertion; 5 cents per line for each subsequent
eonSecutive insertion.
Obituary notices over five lines 10 cents per
line. Simple announcements OF births mar
riages and deaths will be inserted free.
Business cards. five lines or less, 10 per wear,
over i've lines, at the regular rates OF adYer-
t.sing.
No local inserted for less than rs cents per
issue
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

One OF the first Filipino women to
hold physicians degree will be a
young girl from Cavite, who is said to
have taken rank as the most brilliant
student in the Philadelphia Women's
Medical college. As a child at home,
she recalls being awakened by the roar
of Dewey's guns. SO were many of her
countrymen and women awakened in a
mental as well as a physical sense.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

Roll-top desks are said to be losing
their popularity result of the stead
lily accelerating pace of business life
consequent upon shortening hours and
improved methods. The inviting pigeon
holes offer too seductive a place for
business to slumber in The 6at-top
desk is franker and shows more read
lily how matters stand.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
Mining President Resians.

Duluth, Minn.-Thomas f.. Cole.
president of the Oliver Iron Mining
Co, subsidiary of the United States
Steel Corporation, has sent in his res
ignation. His successor, it is general
ly believed, will be w. j. Olcott.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
InauouraI Committees surnIus.

Washington, d. Cat final meet.
ing of the inaugural committee. it
was disclosed that the committee
had surplus, after the payment of all
bills and the return OF all guarantee
II about $4,000.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
Perhaps Fatally Injured.

Hazlehurst, Miss.-George w. Gov
ington, president of the Bank of
was injured, it is believed
fatally, and his wife severely hurt
when their automobile was struck by
passenger train of the Illinois Central
here.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

Washington.-Char Gratz, hunted
for six years on charge of horse
stealing, was arrested at the home of
his father, Joseph Gratz, near here,
and lodged in the county Jail. In 1908
Gratz is alleged to have stolen horse
and buggy owned by a rural mail car
rier. He was indicted, but disap-
peared.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
Warships TO Keen Peace.

Washington, ID. c. Because of
the unsettled conditions existing in
Central America it is the intention Of
the administration to keep three
United States war vessels stationed
in the waters on the western coast
for a time at least.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
New Assistant of Treasury

Washington, d. C.-The secretary
of the treasury has announced the
of Charles Dyer Nor
ton of Chicago as assistant secretary
of the treasury to succeed Louis 4.
Coolidge, resigned.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
Must Not Call Man liar

Atlanta, Cato call man =
liar in Georgia is breach of the
peace and means fight, accord
ing to the state court of appeals in
decision handed down.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
Keystone
State JOtS

Harrisburg. Superintendent of Pub
lie Printing Pomeroy has announced
that the contract for the. state print
ing for the next four years has been
awarded to G. e. Auginbaugh of this
city. He was the lowest bidder at
801s per cent off the schedule price.
He is a binder of this city.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
Southern Historian PASSES AWAY

Columbus, Ga--Dr. John William
Jones, who by his historical works
and close association with Gen.
Robert &. Lee and Gen. Stonewall
Jackson gained the title, Historian of
the Confederacy," is dead here.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
Havana Insurgents Surrender.

Havana, Sergeant Cortes, the
leader of the nsurrestionists and
his whole band, surrendered last night
to the civil authorities of Remedies, in
Santa Clara province.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

Butler.-Charged with felonious as
sault with intent to commit murder,
Ernest Genung was held for court by
Justice James n. McNally. Genung,
it is alleged, attacked ten street loiter-
ers who, he says, insulted his wife.
George Poline and Alexander Collins
were stabbed and the latter has just
left the hospital.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

Canonsburg.-Ge measles, epi-
demic here and in South Canonsburg,
is causing annoyance in the public
schools and Jefferson academy. In
South Canonsburg there are 500 cases,
with 125 of the $50 public school
pupils i'll. In Canonsburg there are
300 cases. The disease does not ap-
pear in a severe form.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25
JOB PRINTING.

The Job department OF the PRESS is complete
and affords facilities for doing the best class OF
work PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO LAW
PRINTING.
No paper will lie discontinued until arrear-
sges are paid, except at the option of the pub
Usher
Papers sent out OF the county must be paid
for in advance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-03-25

Harrisburg.-James w. Keller, a
graduate of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural college and for some time first
assistant chemist of the department
of agriculture, has been appointed
chief to succeed Prof. F. d. Fuller,
who goes to Washington to take
government position. Mr.. Keller was
formerly connected with the labora-
tories of Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and New Jersey. Fhe new first assist
ant is John S. Spicer, a graduate of
State college, and appointed from
Cameron county. Both are highly
qualified.