The extensive Brandt-Chaey fac
tory, four miles from Susquehanna,
Ta., was burnod on Wednesday night
The loss Is $30,000. Sovcnty-flve men
are thrown out of work.
The official vote for Governor In
Iowa, 420,211, the largest ever cast la
the State. Boles' plurality Is 7,810.
Westfnll. Alliance, pot 11,018, and
Gibson, Prohibition, 003.
It Is reported that the contest re
garding the will of Lady Wood, Mrs.
Parnell's aunt, has been sottled on a
basis that gives Mrs. TarnoU $200,
000, or one-half of tho estate.
It Is reported that Oovernor Jack
son of Maryland will appoint Robert
F. Brntton to servo aa a successor of
the late Senator Wilson until a new
United States Senator Is chosen.
Col. Donn Flatt, tho veteran author,
Journalist and politician, died at his
lomo lu Mac-o-chee, Ohio., Thurs
day, aged seventy-two years. He was
born in Cincinnati, June 29, 1819.
Several New Hampshire men have
formed an association to establish in
North Conway an instituto for the
cure of tho liquor and opium habits
by tho Kcelcy bl-chlorldo of gold
treatment.
Leiuuol E. Demelen was sentonced
In the United .States Circuit Court,
Boston, to ono hour's lmprisoment
for interfering with an officer. It was
the shortest imprisonment ever given
In Massachusetts.
Ex-Congressman Glover of Mis
souri, died at his homo near Newark,
Mo., Wednesday, agod seventy-two
years. Ho was an unclo of John M.
Glover, recently a member of Con
gress from St. Louis.
' Tho Tcnnsyvanla World's Fair man
agers yesterday postponed action on
a vote urging the Sunday closing of
tho Chicago Fair, because it was con
sidered to bo bad policy to tako a
stand either way at this time.
I!. P. Hammond, J. C. Quinn, and
J. D. Kedding, appointed to secure
the National Republican and Domo
crtlc conventions for San Francisco,
left for Washington Thursday. So
far about 32,000 had subscribed.
Tho Council of Administration of
tho Grand Army of tho Republic, In
session at Washington, Thursday,
fixed upon September 20, as the date
for tho meeting of tho grand encamp
ment, at Washington next year.
Ellsworth Luce, who attempted to
wreck a train near West Newton, Ta.,
recently "just to see 'em pile up,"
was found guilty yesterday, and
sentencod to eight years and four
mouths imprisonment in the peni
tentiary. F. II. Smith & Co., ship brokers and
commission merchants at Nos. 17 and
10 William street, New York, made an
assignment Thursday to William W.
Goodrich. Their liabilities are stated
to be about $300,000 ; assets about the
same, as believed.
The Crystal Salt Works, three miles
north of Warsaw, N. Y., were burned
Thursday morning. These works
were built In 1888, after the old blocks
burned, and were the model works of
the district, costing about $120,000;
Insurance $90,000.
W. F. Reed, a wealthy retired farm
er living near Freehold, N. J., was
enticed into a low den In West Asbury
Park, N. J., Wednesday night, and, it
Is alleged, was drugged and robbed.
He was then thrown out into the road
way where he was found unconscious.
The Madera, Col., Bank has sus
pended and caused the collapse of tho
John Brown Colony. The bank had a
capital of $100,000, of which $23,000
was paid up. It has now failed for
$85,000, which means the complete
ruin of tho co-operative projects.
Mrs. Amy Grimos, whose daughter
was murdered two years ago by Eu
gene Emery, a hired man, because tho
latter could not marry her, ran away
Wednesday night from Medina, N. Y.,
with another hired man, named
Charles Beck, leaving her husband
and two small children behind.
Elomon H. Williams, the Colebrook
forger and embezzler, confined In
Jail in Lancaster, N. H., for a year
past, was brought into court Thurs
day, pleaded guilty, and was sen
tenced to live yoars and six months
in State prison. The amount of his
liabilities is suld to bo about $100,000.
Suturttuy, Nov. 14.
Fire in the business center of Silver
City, Iowa, did $100,000 damage Fri
day. The Cheyenne, Wyo., National bank
has suspended with liabilities of
$200,000.
T. T. Oardner has been re-elected
president of tho Kentucky Farmers'
Alliance.
Fire at Silver City, Idaho, on Thurs
day, destroyed property to the amount
of $100,000.
Routs' carriage factory at Lawrence
vllle, Pa., was destroyed by Are Fri
day. Loss, $75,000.
The Leland Hotel, in Chicago, has
been sold to a syndicate of Chicago
and Now York capitalists, for $930.
000. ,
Fivo persons were burned to death
in a tenement house fire in Columbus,
O., early Friday morning. Incen
diarism. Thomas Joseph and William Jones,
!ittle boys, found $800 in money, hid
den In tho woods, near Miner's Mills,
Pa., on Friday.
The plant of the Rnickerbocker
Brewing Comnnnv in New Ym-ir
sold at auction Friday for $710,000, to
satisfy a judgment.
Oils C. Pulmator, formerly deputy
clerk of Richmond county, Mo., has
been arrested at St. Louis, charged
with embezzling $14,000 of the county
funds.
Mrs. Gtelchen Lenzenbager, who
keeps a saloon In Chicago, was choked
and beaten to death, together with her
3on, George, fltteou, Thursday night
by robbers.
Suit has boon brought by tho State
of Iowa against theStato of Illinois to
ascertain in whose jurisdiction a strip
of territory along the Mississippi be
tween the States lies.
Allen O. Thurman celebrated his
seventy-eighth blrthdny at Columbus.
Ohio, yesterday. Owing to the recent
death of Mrs. Thurman thcro were no
public demonstrations.
Tho Allianeo Mutnnl Benefit Society
of Topeka, Ran., hns decldod to dis
continue business bocnuse of the fall
ing off In the Alliance membership.
That has dropped from 110,000 to 00,000.
Masked robbers entered tho store of
the Farmers' Trading Company at
Bpokano rails, Friday, and holding
tho employes at tho point of a pistol,
stolo $2,000 In monoy and valuable
jewelry.
Tho fact has become public that
W. F. Baird, until recently vice-president
and manager of the Bank of
Madera at Madera, Cal., is short in his
accounts to the amount of nearly
$100,000.
Ez-Governor Hoard of Wisconsin
stated Friday before the Iowa State
Grange Association at Waterloo,
Iowa, that he had proof thnt the His
cock Oleomargarine bill had failed to
pass the last Congress because certain
senators had been bribod.
Monday, Nov. 10,
The banking house of Bonner &
Bonner, of Tylor, Tex., has suspondod
with liabilities of about $500,000.
Ore found In borings under tho Mis
souri River, at Hannibal, has been as
sayed and found to yield $128 in gold
to the ton.
Depression in the market caused
George P. Kepler, a prominent oil pro
ducer of Titusville, Pa., to ehoot him
Bolf Saturday.
Two negroes were hanged with the
same rope near Brenham, Texas.
They had been mixed up in a fight at
a negro danco.
Michael nenrahnn, convicted at
Saratoga of killing Thomas Churchill,
nas been sentenced to Imprisonment
for nineteen years.
The Tost Office at Jersey Shoro,
Tenn., was entered by burglars Fri
day, night, and $400 in money and
stamps wero stolen.
The applo crop of Michigan this sea
son Is the largest known for years and
of unusually fine quality. Potatoes
are also very plentiful.
James Charleston, a workman on
the Chicago Masonic temple, fell nine
teen stories yesterday, and was
crushed into a shapeless mass.
United States officers have arrested
Amos Moyahan and Martin Healy, at
West Detroit, for rmuggllng Chinese
across the Canadian boundary.
Gov. Pattison ol Pennsylvania Is
sued his Thanksgiving proclamation
on Saturday, appointing November 26
as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer
in that State.
The difficulty between the Presi
dent and employes on the Southern
Pacific Railroad system is as far from
settlement as ever. A general strike
Is threatened.
At Kingston, N. M., William Huch
lnos and Richard Jay were Saturday
blown to atoms in the Brushboap mine
by the premature explosion of a quan
tity of powder.
Marie A. Stelling, wifo of actor M.
B. Curtis, has sold a hotel at North
Berkeiy, Cal., for $125,000, in order to
obtain money with which to defend
her husband against the charge of
killing a policeman.
Nine striking switchmen, who had
worked for the "Soo" Road, havo
been found guilty of conspiracy to In
timidate men employed In thoir
places. This is a new proceduro on
tho part of a railroad for suppressing
strikes.
Tho coal famine caused by the
strikes in the coal Holds is assuming
a very serious aspect for steamers on
the big lakes. There is not a pound
of coal to be had at Michigan City or
South Chicago, and some steamers
have been delayed twenty-four hours
waiting for fuel.
Rev. H. W. George of Leeds, N. Y.,
was convicted Saturday of man
slaughter in the first degree for caus
ing the death by a criminal operation
In January last of pretty Lotta Town
send, whom he had adopted as a
daughter. He was sentenced to fifteen
years in State Prison.
Tuonlay, Nor. IT.
A gale at Syracuse Monday night
blew down a large two-story frame
building, wrecking it completely.
Albert Church, postmaster of Mt.
Airy, Ga., was shot and killed by
some unknown person Sunday night.
Frank Almy, tho murderer of Chrys
tle Warden, was arraigned at Ply
mouth, N. H., Monday, and plendod
guilty.
James Sheridan and Joseph Colog
Insky were instantly killed in Clear
Spring Colliery at West Pittston, Pa.,
Monday afternoon by a fall of coal.
Tho Seymour, Conn., post-office
safe was blown open Sunday night
and about $200 In money and stamps
and some valuable papors wero stolen.
Tho American steamship Brigham,
from Philadelphia for Valesoe, with a
cargo of steel rails, has been wrecked
off Westorn Dry Rocks, Fla., and will
be a total loss.
Al Jackson, night operator at the
Pittsburg, Columbus and St. Louis
depot, was held up and robbed of
$165 by a masked man at C o'clock
Monday morning.
Mrs. Mary Jones struck Mrs. Jane
Leonard on the head with a shovel
Sunday night during a quarrel at
Poke Hollow, Pa., and broke her
skull. Mrs. Leonard will die.
The largo wholesale and retail store
of William H. Tehau, dealer In meats,
at Auburn, N. Y., was closed by the
sheriff last evening on confessed
judgments aggregating $45,000.
John II. Bonn, of Weehawken, N.
J., tho millionaire land ownor, died
suddenly at bis home on Gregory ave
nue Sunday morning. His body was
found In the bathtub shortly after
midnight.
Thomas Denning, a hired man, re
covered $3,800 damages from George
W flAllId nf VAn-tttiirllld Xfnaa IVf An
day in his suit for injuries received
uy mo careless lying or two inuuers
by Gould.
Charles n. Gross obtained In tho
ntipremo Court at Newburg, N. 1.,
Monday, a verdict against tho Central
way for $15,000 for Injuries sustained
wuuo an engineer on tno ronu.
Mrs. 1lnnr fXtnrfn llvlnrr n fov
miles south of Peru, Intl., gavo birth
io iour gin uauies unuay nigiu,
wolghing four pounds each. Ono has
since dioil. The mother Is forty years
old and has four other children.
The low water In tho Kennebec is
causing great distress in tho cities and
towns along Its bank. Mills are shut
ting down daily. The city of Augusta
Is in darkness, as tho low water has
caused tho electric company to shut
uown.
At Wilkesbarre, Ta., William Rud
dy, aged twenty-six, spoko angrily to
his mother, and she replied mocking
ly. In a fit of rago ho poured coul
oil over himself, and thrusting a hand
Into the tiro wim lnqfnntlv ilevnlnrtml
Inflames. Burning llesh dropped off
i i i . . . .
m aureus, ana no siineroa excruciat
ing agony during tho brief period be
fore death ensued.
George T. Chester, a wealthy mill
owner of Lockport, N. Y., contests
the forclosure of a $30,000 mortgago on
the Chester mills on tho ground that
tho money was given to liquidate a
eramblins debt. Hn Inst.
of money in wheat speculation a year
ago and usod the $30,000 in paying
commissions. Tho mortcacro was
mado to tho Buffalo Loan. Trust aud
Safo Deposit Company.
Wrcliiexluy, Nov. IS.
An "R.mtorn nlHtnntlirnnlDt na om
dowed Colorado College with a library
fund of $50,000.
Eessio Blossom, a pretty girl of
Genoa, Nov., hnsclopod with an In
dian of tho Wnshoe tribe.
Postmaster Winters, of Logan,
Iowa, has disappeared. His accounts
are supposed to be entangled.
Ten prisoners escaped from the now
jail nt Trinidad, Col., Monday night,
by cutting out a section of tho wall.
Tho largest receipts of cotton In the
history of New Orleans wero during
tho day ending at noon on Tuesday.
A terrific blizznrd raged in North
ern Wisconsin, Monday night. Much
apprehension Is felt for vessels on the
lakes.
Angelina Delutta, sixteen, disap
peared from her home in Boston,
Monday, with $1,303 belonging to her
mother.
Reports from Port Townsend, Wash.,
Tuesday presaged trouble In Alaska,
the people being tired of official prac
tices undor successive administra
tions. Three Yuma, Cal., Indians were
sentenced to death at Los Angeles
Tuesday for murdering an old modi
cine man who failed to bring rain
when told to do so.
Smallpox Is reported as raging at
Nlmrods, live miles from Dundee, N.
Y. Tho only doctor In the town is ill
and other physicians have been sum
moned by telegraph.
Bridget Barrett, whilo playing
Monday evening with some other
children near a bonfire at Archibald,
near Scranton, Pa., tripped and fell
Into the lire and was burned to a
crisp.
The plant and buildings of the Bir
mingham Safe and Lock Company,
located at Avondalo, a suburb of
Birmingham, Ala., burned Monday
night. The loss is $150,000 thought
to be fully Insured.
Rear Admiral George H. Cooper, U.
S. N., died at his home, in Brooklyn,
N. Y., Tuesday, of heart failure He
had been 111 but a short time. The
dead officer was in his seventy-first
year. He had lived in Brooklyn since
1876.
Charles Bott Ackerman Is in jail in
Chicago, charged with embezzling
$700 from tho Central Map Company.
He is said to have taken $2,200 from a
life insurance company while acting
as their agont in Brooklyn a few
months ago.
CLEVELAND SNOWBOUND.
A Fierce Norlhwetter and Henry Storm
ViiU In Danger.
Cleveland Ohio, Nov., 17. A ter
rific northwester has been raging here
nil day, and to-night all travel is im
peded by the falling snow. Vessol
men are anxious for their craft on the
the lake, and but little hope Is ontor
talnod that any vessels caught out
side will escape being wrecked.
Street car lines are having the utmost
difficulty in operating. The storm is
the worst November blow known in
years.
PALO ALTO 13 KING.
Senator Stanford' Urvut Blalllon Trotr
a Mile In W.OS 3-4.
Stockton, Cal. Nov. 17. Palo Alto,
United States Senator Stanford's peer
less stallion, Is king of the trotting
turf. To-day this greatest son of tho
world's greatest trotting sire, Eloo.
tioneer, trotted a mile here la 2.08,
equaling the record of the queen of
the trotters, Maud S., and going dan
gerously near to that of his recent
stable companion, Sunol.
Brakeman Burned to Death.
PiTTsnrno, Nov. 17. Brakeman
Hardy of this city was burned to death
and Engineer Thomas Whitesides of
Allegheny and Fireman John McFar
land of Cadiz, Ohio, were mortally
Injured In a rear-end collision between
two Pan Handle Railroad freight
trains near Bergettstown, twenty
miles west of this city, at about 4
o'clock yestorday afternoon.
Fourteen cars of porishable freight,
with the caboose and engine of the
second train, were burned. The loss
will reach $100,000.
EELUBLE
Comes to the front with the
LAMEST ASSORTMENT,
MAKING AND FITTING
.-.OF THE.'.
Beat, the HTetvaKt and iHost lowest in
JPrfcc; acnl to prove Ssilisfaclioii is
our Endeavor.
The best value for Money is tp buy your
Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Neckwear, Trunks and
Valises of
Corner of Main and Centre Streets, HLOOMSHURG, PA.
UNEXGEMiEB clothing made
TO QBBEB.J
Largest Clothing and
ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO.
DEALERS IN
Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, Fruits and Ixuts
SOLE AGENTS FOR
Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week.
FE3iTlT"5r GOOE3 -fi. SECIJLLT-Z-.
SOLE AGENTS FOR
F. F. Adams & Co's Fine
Bole agents for the
Henry Clay, Lor.dres, Normal, Indian Princess, Samson, Silver Asb.
Bloomsburgt Pa.
IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF
CARPET, MATTING,
or OIL CLOTH,
YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT
W. H. BMOWWS
2nd Door above Court House.
A large lot of Window Curtains in stock.
rwrw igg. m .
HOLIDAY
Now is the time tn plrr
is new and comolete. Gnn
and delivered when wanted
Hnest line of Hush and Tapestry Rocker fmm ,
$25.00 Ladies' Secretaries, Dressing Table Booker 5 l
etc al finishes and in great variety 0f attic So 2j&
We have the largest and most varied assortmoni r .
ture in the state, outside nf pkjuZyIE: assortmt of Furni-
There are no lower prices for
ed free within 100 miles.
VOOBHIS & MUSRAY. .utzt
1 V7ILKES-BAEAE.
g JW L ga IVck'K INVIhibi.k TUBUlAi Ikk
orthle.uooelulwhiT. Mlivmfdl..B Aii. Ill,
GHATEFUL COMFOKTINU.
EPPSS COCOA
BKEAKFA8T.
'By a tborouKh knowlodvo of tha nntnmi
wlilili (fovern Hie opeiuciuns of ai'stlon ami
imviiuuii, aim uj a luit'llll up MU'UUOl! (If til
ttne properties of well-Helectod (Hmsoii. Mr. Knns
has proviacdour brvukfast tulilcs with .1.. i
cutely flavored beverage wlilult may save ua
many heavy Uoetora' bills. It u by tbu Judicious
unDuiom-utiiHuraui uiat lunl li OOUtSllllltlOn
may be gradually built up until stronn enounh
to resist every tendency to illseuHo. Tinnitr..7..
of subllB malttrtlcH are noiitlliiK around us ready
to attack wherever there Is a weak point. Ve
may escape many a fatal shaft by koeptnir cur.
selves well foi litled with pure blood and a pion.
erly nourished trunw." Civil sn-vUti adviir
Made slinplv with bolllnu water or mill- u.,1,1
only lu half pouud tlus, by grocers, labelled
IAMFKfIH i CO. 1 Homoeopotm,;
C'Ucuilsts, London, Knylaua.
THE-
CLOTfill J)i
AND
Hat House in Columbia
Cut Chewing Tobacco
following brands of Cigars:
HiHHSJS"
FURNITURE.
ri-Icf, i , .. r
t- 1 e our stock
"uw wm 0e Pu aside
given qualities rA j 1.
K quaimes. Goods dehver-
German's Barred Recks.
A few choice cockerels for
sale about Oct. first, at l.oo
and 1.50 a piece. One choice
one, early hatched, price $2.50
if taken soon.
W. D. GEItMAN,
tf. 11111.111
fi'uvuie, i'a,
AGENTS rioVreuW "i"1"
to I100 MonlMy. TeSfhiT..S 7
W HOUSE
and Montour Counties.
THOMAS GORREY.
i:i mm.
Plans and Estimates on all
kinds of buildings. Repairing
and carpenter work prompt!)
attended to.
Dealer ia Euildsr's S.pjlisj,
Inside Hardwood finishes a
specialty.
Persons of limited means who
desire to build can pay part and
secur? balance by mortgages
IrartnihrirowralorAlliiM.whrfrv-vr tby will also fkirm
th Ituatl.inorriMt'loyniviit.ai whtrli jruuran wni Umi muni.
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