Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-11-25
GENERA. NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Two heroic men, R. Y Williams and
+. NJ. Morris, descended into the ST.
Paul mine at Cherry, ILL.,, and paved
the way for fight against the flames,
and it is confidently believed that the
entombed men dead or alive will
soon be reached They went down
through the air shaft and found that
the fire was raging at the foot of the
shaft but in other portions of the
mine the temperature was nearly
normal, this gave the stricken women
and children renewed hope.
John Mitchell, in a speech before
the American Federation of Labor, in
dorsed a report OF the committee on
boycott and declared that he Intended
while at liberty to declare for the
rights guaranteed him by the organic
law of his country.
The body Of Hedwig linda, the
young Polish girl who had been miss
ing several days, was found in an
abandoned office at Milwaukee. She
had been assaulted and murdered by
unknown fiends.
A whole family is dead as the result
of three-cornered duel that was
fought at Pioneer, La, between Clar-
ence Compton and Sylvester and Al
bert Owen. Compton, his wife and his
little daughter were all killed and
Sylvester Owen was slightly wounded.
After the killing he and his brother
surrendered to the sheriff The trou-
BILE grew out of an unkind remark
made by Compton to the boys sister.
Mrs. Compton with her child stepped
into the line of fire during the shoot
ing.
Rumors are current in New York
that the government will halt, temper
arily at least, the merger of the
Western Union Telegraph and Amer
lean Telephone & Telegraph Com
panies. and determine whether the
law prohibiting combinations in re-
straint of trade is not being infringed
upon.
Rev. j. c. Hathaway. rector of st.
Paul's Episcopal church, at Maryville,
Mo, committed suicide by hanging.
No reason can be assigned for the
deed
The National Association of Rail
way Commissioners have adopted a
uniform code of demurrage rules ap-
plicable alike to state and interstate
transportation.
John T. Mach. president of the AS
sociated Ohio Dailes, an organizations
of 116 Ohio newspapers, has sent to
President Taft and to the members
of the tariff board letter asking for
action on print-paper duty to avoid
trade war with Canada.
The laymen's missionary movement
for eNangelization of the world opened
its session in Baltimore.
Sir Thomas Upton will challenge
for a race for the Americas cup to
be sailed in 1911. Sir Thomas made
this statement just before sailing for
Europe on the steamer Lusitania.
Rev. Thomas j. Shahan, rector of
the Catholic University of America, at
Washington, has received from Rome
the papal brief creating him domes-
tic prelate of the pontifical court,
with the rank OF mOnsignor.
The appeal of the Ohio State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor from the revocation
of its charter was dismissed by the
American Federation of Labor in ses-
sion at Toronto. 1t was voted to rec
ognize only the newlyformed Ohio
federation.
Dowager Duchess Consuelo OF Man
chester. formerly Miss Consuelo
Yznaga of New York, who has been
seriously i'll for some time in London,
is in a critical condition.
Fifteen hundred hotels in Missouri
and Kansas lose $3.50 each every year
in bad bills, a total of $3.50 The
question of curbing this evil will be
discussed at the annual meeting of
the Kansas-Mssouri Hotel Mems as
sociation, which opened in Kansas
City
Secretary Wilson says 100000 will
be needed to administer the %, 100000
acres of public land added to the ma
tional forests by President Roosevelt
Josephine Chauvin, who is credited
with knowing OF a white slave syndi-
cate on the Pacific coast, is under ar
rest in San Francisco.
Attorney General Wickersham is
convinced he has sufficient evidence
in his possession to convict one or
more of the officers and several OF
the directors of the American Sugar
Refining Company of fraud in connec
tion with the weighing of sugar ut the
port of New York