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

A full set of autographs of presi-
dents of the United States, from
Washington to Roosevelt, was sold in
New York for $4,000
That Mrs. jeanette Stewart Ford
shot and tried to kill Edgar s. Cooke
o. Chicago at New York several years
ago is asserted by Prosecutor Henry
Hunt of Gin cinnati, after an investiga-
tion in connection with the Warriner
embezzement case.
Secretary Dickinson, in his annual
report, recommends to the president
many sweeping changes and reforms
in the army, including the centraliza-
tion of troops in forts erected ada
cent to the principal cities of the Uni
ted States, the abolishment of the
Roosevelt physical tests for officers
and governmental control of wireless
telegraphy.
Robert r. Doherty, a prominent
Methodist who was one of the found
ers of the Epworth league, is dead of
pneumonia at his home in Jersey City.
lie was 62 years old.
One human being is killed every
hour and one injured every ten min.
utes of the day on American railroads,
according to a statement of w. l..
Park, general superintendent of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, at
the annual meeting of the New York
and New England Association of Rail
way Surgeons.
1t Is officially reported at Bluefields,
Nicaragua, that President Zelaya is
willing to resign and leave the selec.
tion of his successor to congress- The
proposition Is absurd, for the reason
that congress in reality does not exist
merely another instance of Central
American diplomacy.
The Rock Island and Frisco rail.
roads have dissolved the merger that
involved more than $500,O00,000 and
will operate separately hereafter.
The English house of lords rejected
the budget and have referred it to the
country for its judgment on the meas
ure.
1t is urged by the post-office depart
ment at Washington in an official cir
cular that persons rto contemplate
mailing Christmas packages for. deliv-
cry in rural communities post them
as early as possible to avoid conges-
tion and delay at post Offices supply
ing carriers on rural routes.
Hearing OF testimony offered by the
respondent in the custer suit OF the
| attorney general of Missouri against
the International Harvester Company
OF America was resumed at Jefferson
City, Mo. About fifty witnesses. all
agents CT dealers from the northern
half of the state, were present.
One miner WAS killed and 100 res.
cued with difficulty when gas exploded
in mine near Marion, Ill.
Mrs. Mary j. Wilhelm was placed on
trial at Newark, N. j., charged with
the murder of her husband Nicholas
s. Sica, indicted with her, will be
tried separately.
John A. Bruce, lumberman of Stra-
der, La. says 500,000,000 feet of lum-
Der was destroyed by recent tornadoes
in the south.
Fire in the $1.000.000 mansion of
| HOWARD WlilettS at Geoney larm, near
| White Plains. N. Y. did 100000 dam
age.
Tribute to the memory of the late
Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota
was paid by President Taft, Gov.
Hughes, former United States Sen.
ator Charles A Towne and others at
a meeting in New York city under the
auspices of the American -Scandina.
| Wan society.
When an auto struck a street car
squarely in the side in Portland, Ore
Mrs. A }. Olds of Weiser Idaho. had
her skull fractured She is not ex
pected to live.
Coroner Malm has begun an inquiry
into the causes OF the st. Paul mine
! disaster at Cherry, Iii,